Engineering and Project Management Courses

Undergraduate Courses

• CE 165 Concrete Materials and Construction:
  Consideration of the broad aspects of use of concrete in construction; technical requirements; selection of materials; control of quality; types of concretes and construction methods used for buildings, highways, airfields, bridges, dams, and other hydraulic structures. Laboratory demonstration on concrete testing and evaluation methods, field trip to construction sites. Group and individual projects on concrete construction.
• CE 166 Construction Engineering:
  Introduction to construction engineering and field operations. The construction industry, construction methods and practice, productivity improvement, equipment selection, site layout, formwork, erection of steel and concrete structures. Labs demonstrate the concepts covered. Field trips to local construction projects.
• CE 167 Engineering Project Management:
  Principles of economics, decision making, and law applied to company and project management. Business ownership, liability and insurance, cash flow analysis, and financial management. Project life-cycle, design-construction interface, contracts, estimating, scheduling, cost control.
• CE 169A Web-based Systems for Engineering and Management (1 unit):
  Web design, use and programming in engineering and management research and practice. The course is a combination of lectures, readings, hands-on exercises, homework assignments and a project. The project is an opportunity for students to develop a web-based application suitable to their own interests.
• CE 169B Database Systems for Engineering and Management (1 unit):
  Theory, design and applications of databases and database management systems in engineering and management research and practice. Programming in SQL. Programming using standard productivity software. The course is a combination of lectures, readings, hands-on exercises, homework assignments and a project. The project is an opportunity for students to design and implement a database application suitable to their own interests.
• CE 169C Visualization and Simulation for Engineering and Management (1 unit):
  Representation and modeling, visualization, use of different graphic formats, and simulation in engineering and management research and practice. The course is a combination of lectures, readings, hands-on exercises, homework assignments and a project. The project is an opportunity for students to design and implement a visualization application suitable to their own interests.
• CE 180 Construction, Maintenance, and Design of Civil and Environmental Engineered Systems:
  Procedures, equipment, and techniques to design, construct, maintain, and decommission civil and environmental engineered systems. Management, quality assurance, and control of these activities. Class team projects address the life-cycle and system aspects of contemporary civil and environmental engineered systems. Class teams are aided by experienced engineers and consultants. Teams construct a physical model of the system or a critical part of the system that they elect to study, develop a formal report on their project, and present project reports and models to a panel of judges at the end of the semester.

• CE 205B Load Engineering:
  Processes and procedures to determine loadings to construct, design, or requalify structure and foundation systems, including bridges, buildings, transportation, harbor, coastal, and offshore structures. Sources of loadings, load processes, loading effects. Design codes, reliability, probability, economic, and social considerations. Operating, accidental, and environmental loadings including those due to wind, current and wave, and earthquakes.
• CE 268A Lean Construction Concepts and Methods:
  Inspired by the "lean" revolution in manufacturing, production management concepts and methods are woven into a lean project delivery system. Key concepts include flow, value, variability, and waste. Key methods include production system design, target costing, value stream mapping, and work flow control. Student teams apply concepts and methods in field studies of real project management processes and construction operations. The course includes a tour of the NUMMI auto assembly plant in Fremont. (Ballard - Fall)
• CE 268B Lean Construction and Supply Chain Management:
  Principles and practices of "lean" production are applied to project delivery in the AEC industry. Case studies illustrate "lean" concepts. Project delivery is viewed holistically with a focus on work structuring and supply chain management. Topics include systems dynamics, uncertainty, and variation; materials management; logistics; e-commerce; building information modeling (BIM); and integrated product and process design. Students use process simulation to assess performance of different system configurations and develop a case study applying concepts on a real project. (Tommelein - Spring)
• CE 268D Law for Engineers:
  Engineering involves many parties with diverse interests. Legal principles form the framework for their interaction. Contracts for engineering services establish both risk allocation and reciprocal liabilities. Issues of contract formation, performance, breach, and remedy are covered in detail. Standard of care and professional negligence are emphasized during the discussion of tort law. Other topics include regulation, legal relationships, litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.
• CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment:
  Methods and tools for economic and environmental analysis of civil engineering systems. Focus on construction, transportation, and operation and maintenance of the built infrastructure. Life-cycle planning, design, costing, financing, and environmental assessment. Industrial ecology, design for environment, pollution prevention, external costs. Models and software tools for life-cycle economic and environmental inventory, impact, and improvement analysis of civil engineering systems.
• CE 268F Management of Technology: Engineering Leadership and Teamwork:
  Teamwork, leadership, and management are three of the essential ingredients required in the management of technology. This course provides knowledge and techniques to allow engineers to be a systematic force for helping transform the human element and organizations to achieve excellence in their performance. The objective of this course is to provide engineering and non-engineering students with fundamental knowledge about how to understand and address individual, team, project and organization change, the principles of leadership and management, and organizational behavior and change.
• CE 268G High-Tech Building and Industrial Construction:
  Introduce technologies incl. mechanical and electrical systems that define functionality and affect life-cycle costs of facilities. Focus on 'smart' buildings and 'high-tech' industrial projects. Describe terminology, engineering design characteristics, components, and materials. Perform design calculations. Stress construction and installation methods. Discuss contractual relationships and coordination requirements between owners, design firms, and general as well as specialty contractors.
• CE 268H Advanced Project Planning & Control:
  All aspects of project cost analysis and estimating including lifecycle cost analysis, economic feasibility considerations and financial aspects. Cost estimating principles for heavy, commercial building and industrial segments of the construction industry. Types of estimates used in the design-construct process, the information needed to prepare them and associated levels of accuracy.
• CE 268I Business Fundamentals for Engineering:
  This course will provide a broad survey of management practices critical to starting and managing a business in the engineering and construction industries. Topics that are covered include the entrepreneurial process: organizing and staffing; establishing and applying production control systems; means or protecting products and services from competitive threat and financial management.
• CE 268K Human and Organization Factors: Risk Assessment and Management of Engineered Systems:
  Characterizations of quality (serviceability, durability, safety, compatibility) in the life-cycle reliability of engineered systems. Human and organizational factors (HOF) and considerations. Proactive, reactive, and interactive strategies for improving HOF during the design, construction, maintenance, and operations of engineered systems. Proactive strategies include work with the Safety Management Assessment System (SMAS) and System Risk Analysis Software (SYRAS) developed at Berkeley. Reactive strategies include development of accident and near-miss and life-cycle system integrity information systems that utilize advanced information and communications technologies. Interactive strategies include quality assurance and quality control activities based on SMAS and SYRAS and crisis management processes.
• CE 290E Construction, Maintenance, and Design of Engineered Systems:
  Background, understanding, and working knowledge of the life-cycle (design, construction, operation, maintenance, decommissioning), system (engineering, management, operations, construction, political, economics, risk, environmental, legal), and quality (serviceability, compatibility, durability, safety) aspects of civil and environmental engineered systems. Procedures, equipment, and techniques to design, construct, and maintain civil and environmental engineered systems. Management, quality assurance, and control of these activities. Class team projects address the life-cycle and system aspects of contemporary civil and environmental engineered systems.
• CE 290P Strategic Issues of the Engineering Construction Industry-Management of Complex Projects:
  This course provides an overview of the present practices of managing engineering, procurement and construction. The course has five principal subject areas: strategic issues of the engineering construction industry, fundamentals of business and marketing, project development process execution of project plans and people-management issues.
• CE 290Q Managing the Improvement Process in Engineering-Driven Organizations:
  Discussion of competing theories of management and alternative approaches to integrating work execution and improvement. The focus will be on engineering-driven organizations and sectors, such as electronics and the engineering/construction industries.
• CE292A Technologies for Sustainable Societies (1 unit):
  Exploration of selected important technologies that serve major societal needs, such as shelter, water, food, energy, and transportation, and waste management. How specific technologies or technological systems do or do not contribute to a move toward sustainability. Specific topics vary from year to year according to student and faculty interests.
• CE 293A Technology and Sustainability:
  Assessment of the consequences and opportunities of various technological systems (such as energy, buildings, transportation, materials, waste management) for sustainable development of society. Political and economic structures of societal decision making. Environmental consequences of various technologies. Metrics and measures. Specific topics vary from year to year according to student and faculty interests. Course meetings include a mix of faculty lectures and student-led seminar presentations. Also listed as Energy and Resources Group C293A.
• CE 298 Graduate Research Seminar:
  Engineering and project management practitioners present case studies and industry trends. Students and faculty discuss ongoing research in engineering and project management.
• CE 299 Individual Research or Investigation in Selected Advanced Topics:
  These individual projects emphasize the development of a professional approach to engineering and project management-related operations and problems.