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MBE 606: Construction Planning and Control
Principles of planning, monitoring, and controlling construction projects. Developing schedules using bar charts,
critical path method, precedence diagrams, program evaluation and review techniques (PERT), and linear
scheduling methods. The course covers also resource histograms and s-curves, resource allocation and resource
leveling, schedule constraints, project control and earned value concept, short-interval schedules.
Elective Courses (List 4)
MBE 620: Seismic Design of Buildings
Architectural considerations - Seismic design of buildings: reinforced concrete, steel and masonry - Geotechnical
and foundation design considerations – Design of nonstructural systems and components.
MBE 622: Structural Systems for Buildings
Specialized topics in structural design and structural engineering related to construction processes. Emphasis
on understanding behavior of structural systems rather than individual components. Topics may include:
structural bracing during construction, special considerations in long span structures, selection of structural
system layouts and other unique subjects.
MBE 624: Analysis and Design of Tall Buildings
Introduces design strategies for tall buildings. Covers the following topics: selection of the structural systems for
tall buildings, modeling of gravity, wind, and earthquake loads using relevant codes, structural modeling and static
and dynamic analysis of tall buildings.
MBE 626: Advanced Reinforced Concrete
Topics include design of continuous beams, short columns under biaxial bending, slender columns, and torsion
in beams. Direct design and equivalent frame method for two-way slabs, and flat slabs. Behavior and design of
brackets, beam-column joints, shear walls and foundations.
MBE 628: Advanced Steel Design
Bolted and welded connections, Building Connections, Rigid Steel frames, elastic and plastic design methods,
supports of rigid frames, composite design.
MBE 602: Construction Estimating
Application of scientific principles to costs and estimates of costs in construction engineering; concepts and
statistical measurements of the factors involved in cost estimating; and the fundamentals of cost recording accounts
and cost controls, risk and uncertainty, range estimating, types of cost estimating, estimating materials cost,
estimating labor costs, estimating equipment costs, overhead and contingencies, cost markups and profits, detailed
cost estimating, cost of concrete structures, time/cost trade-off analysis, bidding strategies, cash flow analysis,
value engineering and project life cycle costing.
MGT 611: Managing Human Resources
This course will examine Human Resources from a strategic perspective, emphasizing the contribution of HR
decisions to the development of a high performance organization. The course will emphasize those topics, such as
reward systems, performance management and the selection and retention of high performance employees,
which confront managers in a variety of organizational roles. Emphasis will be given to the identification,
evaluation and solution of specific HR problems facing managers with these responsibilities.
MGT 652: Entrepreneurship
The course will discuss all basic needs an entrepreneur should have for starting up the new small business.
The course will also discuss the types of start-up business, including the franchise opportunities. The goal is to
develop entrepreneurial skills, managerial skills, and creative thinking in order to become a successful
entrepreneur.
MBE 603: Construction Equipment and Operations
Study of construction operations as dynamic production processes. The course covers a wide range of equipment
utilization in various construction operations such as; earthmoving operations, excavating and lifting, loading and
hauling, compaction and finishing, tunneling, and asphalt paving and surface treatment operations. Also it covers
estimating and measuring equipment productivity, work improvement techniques, construction equipment
economics, maintenance management of equipment, and night time construction operations.
MEM 614: Topics in Engineering Management
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