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Total credits for MBE Program: 18
Course Descriptions
Core Courses (List 1)
MEM 602: Project Management
This course provides an overview of the discipline of project management. It is done from both a technical
perspective (use of CPM, PERT, work breakdown structure, advanced use of Microsoft Project) and from the
perspective of the practice of project management (project planning, estimating costs and activities length,
human resource planning and on site management, practical role of an effective project manager, project
management vs. quantity surveying, project knowledge management, etc.). This class will also explore the
different types of project organizations (IT, for innovation, for change, construction, etc.).
MEM 603: Statistics and Decision Analysis
The course introduces the students to statistics, the development of a basic theory of decision making under
uncertainty. Other topics include rationales of decision makers, utility, the concept of the value of perfect
information, the Bayesian approach to decision making; pre-posterior analysis and optimal fixed-sized analysis for
random processes, decision analysis with multiple objective, structuring the problem, multi-attributed utility
functions. The course also includes case studies and a project.
MBE 616: Advanced Surveying Engineering
This course provides students with advanced experience and practical training in surveying as related to building
construction. A review of the basic fundamental concepts in surveying will be presented including distance
measurements and corrections, leveling, traverse and angles computations. Basic statistics as applied to surveying,
error estimation, error propagation, basic matrix algebra, level network analysis, 3-D traverse analysis, and GPS
vector network analysis will be introduced. The course will also cover topics related to geodetic horizontal and
vertical datums, plane projection systems, localization of projection coordinates, datum transformations,
astronomic observations, cadastral surveying, creation of survey products in a computer-aided drafting
environment, and engineering related photogrammetry.
Building Structures Core Courses (List 2)
MBE 612: Matrix Analysis of Structures
A review of the basic concepts in structural analysis and matrix algebra is presented, and show how the latter
provides an excellent mathematical framework for the former. Then it will be shown that, through many
examples, how matrix methods can be applied to linear static analysis of skeletal structures (beams, plane trusses,
frames, grids, space trusses and frames) by the stiffness method. The flexibility method is also discussed.
MBE 614: Introduction to Earthquake Engineering
Earthquakes: causes, seismic waves, scales, regionalization – Experiences from past earthquakes – Aseismic
design of RC buildings – Regulations and codes for aseismic design – Evaluation of Existing buildings –
Retrofitting of buildings.
MBE 615: Advanced Foundation Engineering
Advanced treatment of topics in foundation engineering, including analysis and design of shallow and deep
foundations, including drilled piers and driven piles, earth pressure theories, design of earth retaining structures,
bearing capacity, ground improvement for foundation support.
Construction Management Core Courses (List 3)
MBE 601: Advanced Engineering Economy
Development of economic performance measures of interest to developers, owners, contractors and users: Sources
of finance and the determinants of the cost of money. Elementary estimating; cost indices; forecasting
techniques; value of money; economic comparison techniques; evaluation of projects in private and public sectors;
tax regulations; inflation; life-cycle costing; risk analysis; non- economic attributes. Case studies of economic
analysis of projects, single building and building components.
MBE 605: Construction Contract Administration
Principles of construction contracts administration, project delivery approaches, contract pricing formats, bidding
procedures, construction documents, specification writing approaches, drawings, bonds and insurance,
subcontracting, variations and change orders, measurement and payment, construction contract claims, delay
analysis, alternative methods of dispute resolution, FIDIC conditions of contract for construction, and innovative
contracting methods.
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