Degree
Programs
 The
Graduate Division of the University
of California, Berkeley,
offers Master's and Doctoral degree program options. A student's
long-term goals and previous academic degrees determine the appropriate
degree program. Students enter into a one-year Master of Science
or a two-year Master of Engineering degree program.
Students who have successfully completed one or more semesters of
Master's degree study and who have demonstrated the capacity to undertake
creative and scholarly research may enter the Doctoral program leading to the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Areas
of Study Emphasis
Teaching and research are organized around the following areas of
emphasis:
- Project and Corporate Management
- Engineering Management
- Construction Management
- Project-based Production
Systems
- Lean Construction
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Design-Construction-Operation-Maintenance
Integration
- Green Design, Engineering
and Management: Quantitativestudy
of life-cycle engineering and management methods and tools of
materials, processes, and services to achieve sustainable development.
- Management of Technology:
Studies the engineering and management aspects of integrating
high technology products into civil and environmental engineering,
from strategic planning to operational implementation.
- Project Finance
- Construction Disputes and
Claims Resolution
Examples from residential, commercial building, industrial,
heavy/civil, underground, and marine/ocean construction are used throughout the
curriculum.
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Example Research Projects
- Exploration of Opportunities to Reduce Lead Times for Engineered-to-Order
Products
- Distributed Planning and Coordination to Support
Lean Construction
- Product-Process Development Simulation to Support
Specialty Contractor Involvement in Design
- CasePlan: A Case-Based Planner
and Scheduler for Construction using Product Modeling
- CIPROS: Knowledge-Based Construction Integrated Project and Process Planning
Simulation System
- MoveSchedule: A Planning Tool
for Scheduling Space Use on Construction Sites
- Construction Debris Recycling in the U.S.
and Germany
- Decision Support System for Infrastructure Management
- Improving Life-Cycle Information Management through Documentation of Project
Objectives and Design Rationale
- Marine Infrastructure Rejuvenation Engineering Fatigue and Fracture of Critical
Structural Details
- Methodology For Project Risk Control: Work Package-Based Approach Using
Historical Cost Control
- Probabilistic Screening Methodology for use in Assessment and Requalification
of Steel, Template-Type Offshore Platforms
- Project Performance Modeling: A Methodology for Evaluating Project Execution
Strategies
- Reengineering Construction Planning Systems
- Systematic Approach to Evaluate Quantitative
Impacts of Project Management (PM)
Also see
our list of Technical Reports and individual EPM faculty web pages.
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Interdisciplinary Programs
Flexible degree requirements make it possible for students to gain
breadth or depth in areas outside of the traditional construction
arena. Recent graduates have combined construction studies with
work in areas such as:
- environmental engineering
- marine engineering
- geotechnical engineering
- structural engineering
- transportation engineering
- computer science
- industrial engineering and operations research
- city and regional planning
- architecture
- law
- business
- nuclear engineering
The Management
of Technology Program, offered jointly by the College
of Engineering and the
Walter A. Haas School of Business, allows students wishing to specialize
in the management of technology field to obtain a certificate in
addition to their disciplinary Master's or Ph.D. degree.
Similarly, students interested in logistics may wish
to combine courses in Industrial Engineering and Operation Research
and in Transportation Engineering with their Construction Engineering
and Manamagement curriculum and obtain
a Certificate
in Logistics.
By choosing their Master's program electives judiciously,
students can earn these certificates without having to take additional courses
beyond the MS requirements.
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