Construction Engineering and Management

 

Construction engineers manage and direct construction operations. Labor, materials, and equipment are analyzed for each job to determine the proper quantity of each, ensuring availability at the appropriate time and place. Construction engineers are experts in many areas because they deal with the different aspects of civil engineering.

In the Construction program, students learn about the capabilities of people, materials, and machinery, and they translate the details of design specifications into an operation such as drilling deep into the ground for a foundation or placing the cable over the saddle at the top of a suspension bridge tower. Of particular value to the construction engineer in the decision-making process is the use of information technology tools in planning, scheduling, fiscal control, inventory, estimating, and production rate forecasting.

 

Degrees Offered

•B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management)

•M.S. Degree in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management)

•Global Leaders Program (5-year BS + MS degrees, UIUC undergraduate students only)

•Dual M.S. Degrees in Civil Engineering (Construction) and Architecture

•Dual M.S. Degrees in Civil Engineering (Construction) and MBA

•Ph.D. Degree in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management)

 

Courses

·          CEE320 Introduction to Construction Engineering and Management

·          CEE420 Construction Productivity

·          CEE421 Construction Planning

·          CEE422 Construction Cost Estimating

·          CEE598CS Construction Case Studies

·          CEE598CDM Construction Data and Process Modeling

·          CEE598CCR Construction Conflict Resolution

·          CEE598CEL Construction Engineering and Laws

·          CEE598COD Construction Optimization and Decision Making

 

Faculty and Research

• Carlos Arboleda, Ph.D.  Visiting Assistant Professor 

Prof. Arboleda has research interests in vulnerability assessment of civil infrastructure systems, engineering applications in the health care industry, construction safety, application of econometric methods in construction, construction conflict resolution, and financial risk analysis of BOT projects.

• Frank Boukamp, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor

Prof. Boukamp's research focus is directed towards information management, including building information modeling issues and issues pertaining to the effective and efficient usage of building information models.

• Khaled El-Rayes, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor

Prof. El-Rayes’ research focuses on creating new knowledge and models to support multi-objective optimization of resource utilization during the construction and rehabilitation of critical infrastructure systems.

• Liang Liu, Ph.D.  Associate Professor

Prof. Liu's research areas include construction project controls, productivity assessment and improvement, facility life-cycle management, information technology applications, and computer simulation. 

• Feniosky Peña-Mora, Ph.D.  Professor

Prof. Peña-Mora's current research interests are information technology support for collaboration in preparedness, response, and recovery during disasters involving critical physical infrastructures; in addition to, change management, conflict resolution, and process integration during design and development of large-scale civil engineering systems.

• Le Boyer, Ph.D.  Professor Emeritus

Prof. Boyer's research includes construction cost analysis, productivity, safety, and computer integration.