Construction Project Management

Civil Engineering M.S. Program in Engineering and Construction Project Management 

Description:

Designed to assist the development of professionals knowledgeable in the design/construction engineering processes, labor and legal relations, and the organization and use of capital.  The program includes two required courses: CE 580 and MG 501. MG 501 can be substituted by an equivalent 3 credit hour course approved by department. It must also include any three of the following courses: CE 581, CE 582, CE 583, CE 584, CE 585, CE 586. The remaining courses in the students program includes a balanced choice  from other civil engineering and management courses to be approved by the advisor. Courses from other engineering disciplines and computer science may also be chosen as electives.  Active areas of research include Integration of Design and Construction, Models and Information Technology, Cooperative Agreements, and International Construction.

Admission:

Admission to this program requires an ABET-accredited B.S. degree in civil engineering (or another acceptable engineering field). Refer to the MS Admission page for details.

Interdisciplinary M.S. Program in Construction Project Management

Description:

Combines offerings from several disciplines including civil engineering, management science, business and economics. Requirements for the degree are similar to those listed above for the master of science engineering and construction management program.

Admission:

Admission to this program does not require an ABET-accredited B.S. degree in engineering. Students with a degree in architecture, civil engineering technology, management engineering, etc. are normally accepted to this program. Management engineering students may be required to complete up to one year of undergraduate civil engineering courses before working on the M.S.

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Construction Project Management Classes

Construction Project Management Research

Students and faculty are actively involved in research in the Engineering and Construction Project Management areas. Below is a sampling of the thesis work of our Master's students, showing the breadth and depth of topics explored in our program.

Faculty

Guillermo F. Salazar - Integration of Design and Construction (Design and Construction; Value Engineering; Constructability), Models and Information Technology (Computer Simulation; Intelligent Systems; Database Models; Web-Based Models; CAD-Based Models; Probabilistic Models; Multi-Attribute Decision-Making & Operations Research; Project Management), Cooperative Agreements (The Cost-Trust Relationship in the Construction Industry) salazar@wpi.edu +1-508-831-5262

Leonard D. Albano - Tools and methods to support the teaching and practice of design as applied to constructed facilities; the integration of design and construction and the concept of performance-based design. ldalbano@wpi.edu +1-508-831-5492

Roberto Pietroforte - Construction engineering and management; Organization and economics of the construction industry; Prefabricated building systems and building design; International construction. roberto@wpi.edu +1-508-831-5295

Robert W. Fitzgerald - Shear Strength Characteristics of Soils Subjected to Frost Action; Long Term Mitigation of Frost Deterioration of Existing Roadways; Enhancement of In-Situ Soil Flushing For Heavy Metals; Use of Probability Theory in Applied Geotechnical Engineering, Geosynthetics. rfitz@wpi.edu  +1-508-831-5530

P. Jayachandran - Structural Engineering. jayachan@wpi.edu +1-508-831-5298

Construction Project Management Facilities

The Civil and Environmental Engineering department has extensive computing facilities for students and faculty. The facilities in Kaven Hall (rooms 202 and 207) contain over 50 Pentium computers connected to the network system. Kaven 202 has Dell Optiplex Gx400 Computers with Pentium 4 processors, 18 GB hard drives and CD writers. This room also has large group tables with hook-up jacks to network connections for laptop computers. In addition to a suite of software installed on each computer (Microsoft software, AutoCAD, etc.), the rooms have complete presentation systems (computer projector, VCR, sound system). The rooms are used for classes as well as project and thesis work.

In addition, the department maintains a Graduate Research Computing Laboratory, located in Kaven Hall Room 203. This laboratory contains both single and dual-processor Pentium computers, a printer, scanner, plotter and digitizer pad.

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