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CMCET 133. Construction Graphics. 3 hours. (1 hour lecture; 4 hours laboratory). Graphic representation as used in the construction industry including blueprint reading, structural drafting, mechanical and electrical systems diagrams. Manual and CAD methods.
CMCET 234. The Construction Industry. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Overview of the construction industry including types of construction, professional organizations, and contract delivery systems. Construction as a profession. Utilization of software in construction.
CMCET 235. Methods of Construction-Light Frame and Finishes. 2 hours (2 hours lecture; laboratory experience required). Light framing, thermal and moisture protection, doors and windows, and finishes. Materials and methods of construction. Review of drawings and specifications. Identification and quantification of labor and material units for productivity and cost determination.
CMCET 330. Mechanical Systems. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Design, installation and operation of materials and equipment in HVAC and plumbing systems in residential and commercial construction. Includes design projects, blueprint reading and quantification of labor and material units for productivity and cost estimation. Prerequisites: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics and a "C" or better in MATH 113 College Algebra or equivalent.
CMCET 331. Electrical Systems. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Design, installation and operation of materials and equipment in electrical power and lighting systems in residential and commercial construction. Includes design projects, blueprint reading, and quantification of labor and material units for productivity and cost estimation. Prerequisites: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics and a "C" or better in MATH 113 College Algebra or equivalent.
CMCET 332. Residential Design. 3 hours. (1 hour lecture, 4 hours laboratory). Space utilization, circulation, structural design, energy efficient design, building costs, architect-owner-contractor relationship, exterior design, electrical/mechanical considerations and techniques for preparing architectural residential drawings using CAD. Prerequisite: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics, CMCET 330 Mechanical Systems, and CMCET 331 Electrical Systems.
CMCET 333. Theory of Structures. 3 hours. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Fundamentals of static design, forces acting on structural systems and components, stresses in members. Not open to Engineering Technology majors. Prerequisites: MATH 122 Plane Trigonometry, MATH 126 Pre-Calculus, or MATH 150 Calculus I.
CMCET 334. Methods of Construction-Site work and Steel. 3 hours (3 hours lecture; laboratory experience required). Steel construction, site construction, and construction equipment. Materials, methods, Constructability, equipment, drawings, and specifications. Estimation of labor, material, and equipment. Prerequisite: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics, CMCET 234 The Construction Industry and "C" or better in MATH 113 College Algebra or equivalent.
CMCET 335. Methods of Construction-Concrete and Masonry. 3 hours (3 hours lecture; laboratory experience required). Concrete and masonry construction. Materials, methods, Constructability, equipment, drawings, and specifications. Concrete mix design, form work design, placing, and finishing. CMU, brick, and stone masonry, mortar, and masonry design fundamentals. Estimation of labor, material, and equipment. Prerequisite: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics, CMCET 234 The Construction Industry and "C" or better in MATH 113 College Algebra or equivalent.
CMCET 337. Construction Materials Testing and Inspection. 2 hours. (1 hour lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Construction materials testing and inspection procedures in laboratory and field situations using standard testing equipment, methods and field inspection techniques. Testing concrete, steel, wood, soils, aggregate, asphalt and masonry materials and samples relative to ASTM testing standards, laboratory reports, computer analysis, data collection and simulated field inspections. ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician - Grade I examination required. Prerequisites: CMCET 334 Methods of Construction-Site work and Steel, and a "C" or better in MATH 113 College Algebra or equivalent or credit in MATH 122 Plane Trigonometry, MATH 126 Pre-Calculus, or MATH 150 Calculus I.
CMCET 431. Structural Design-Loads. 1 hour. Code requirements for structural loading, vertical loads and lateral forces, in addition to other codes used in the construction industry. Prerequisite or Corequisite: MECET 220 Statics or equivalent.
CMCET 434. Civil Construction. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Terminology, processes, equipment, materials, construction, and testing in the construction of water and waste water plants, utilities, highways, and bridges. Prerequisites: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics, MATH 113 College Algebra or equivalent
CMCET 536. Temporary Structures. 2 hours. (2 hours lecture). Design and construction of necessary temporary structures used in the construction industry to facilitate building of permanent structures. Includes shoring, false work, scaffolding, work platforms, retention structures, cofferdams, etc. Prerequisites or Corequisites: MECET 423 Mechanics of Materials and CMCET 431 Structural Design-Loads. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 537. Construction Surveying I. 3 hours. (1 hour lecture, 4 hours laboratory). Theory, principles, practices of surveying applied to construction and engineering instrumentation, computations, and site layout. Prerequisite: CMCET 133 Construction Graphics and "C" or better in MATH 122 Plane Trigonometry.
CMCET 631. Construction Estimating I. 3 hours. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Estimating techniques and methods pertaining to residential, commercial, industrial, and civil construction. Quantity take offs, unit pricing, estimate development, blueprint reading, resource pricing, and bidding procedures. Prerequisites: CMCET 334 Methods of Construction-Site work and Steel; and CMCET 335 Methods of Construction-Concrete and Masonry. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 632. Structural Design—Steel and Wood. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Analysis and design of steel and wood structural components incorporating requirements of current specifications and codes with procedures of practical construction. Includes fundamental structural members as well as shear wall and shear diaphragm design. Prerequisites or corequisites: MECET 423 Mechanics of Materials and CMCET 431 Structural Design-Loads. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 633. Structural Design--Concrete. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Analysis and design of concrete structural members incorporating requirements of current specifications and codes with procedures of practical construction, form work and scaffolding. Written and oral reports. Computer applications. Prerequisites or corequisites: MECET 423 Mechanics of Materials and CMCET 431 Structural Design-Loads. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 634. Construction Management. 3 hours. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Construction management principles, practices and decisions relative to project and construction site management, project organization, project planning, scheduling, control, safety, resource allocation and quality control. Case studies and computer applications of scheduling. Prerequisites or corequisite: CMCET 631 Construction Estimating I. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 635. Contract Administration. 3 hours. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Administration of construction contracts, contract documents, contract law, contract negotiation, taxes, insurance and bonds, labor relations and case studies. Prerequisite or corequisite: CMCET 631 Construction Estimating I and senior standing. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 637. Construction Surveying II. 3 hours. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Theory and supervised field practice of field work in layout of engineering and construction projects, utilizing extensive surveying principles, applied science, mathematics, legal implications and computer applications. Prerequisite: CMCET 537 Construction Surveying I.
CMCET 638. Foundation and Soil Mechanics. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Classification and properties of soils. Subsurface soil exploration. Design of piling, caissons, spread footings, and walls. Prerequisites or corequisites: CMCET 633 Structural Design--Concrete and CMCET 337 Construction Materials Testing and Inspection. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 639. Construction Estimating II. 2 hours. (2 hours lecture). An advanced study of estimating and bidding procedures for building, civil, and industrial construction. Includes unit price estimating, conceptual estimating, detailed estimating, overhead allocation, profit determination, bidding strategies, and bid formulation. Project oriented. Prerequisite: CMCET 631 Construction Estimating I. May be taken for honors.
CMCET 690. Professional Construction Certification Seminar. 1 hour (2 hours laboratory). Preparation for professional certification in the construction industry. Registration for and participation in the American Institute of Constructors CQE Level I (Associate Constructor) examination is required during the semester of enrollment. Prerequisite: Senior standing. Permission of instructor is required.
CMCET 691. Senior Project. 3 hours. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory). Capstone experience utilizing construction design, methods, cost analysis, specifications, contracts and organization in a construction project. The course employs computer applications for design, drafting and control. Prerequisites: Senior standing. Permission of instructor is required.
Safety, Health and Environmental Management
EST 205. Individual and Consumer Safety. 3 hours. A basic overview course dealing with safety awareness designed to promote good safe practices, to save lives, reduce injuries, and improve our way of life for a better society.
EST 301. Laboratory Safety. 2 hours. Basic laboratory and skills application safety course. Areas covered: safety issues, safe work habits, MSDS, OSHA, KDHR, CFR's, fire safety, moving parts, machinery, electrical, personal protective equipment, record keeping, and emergency safety procedures.
EST 326. Basic Electrical Safety. 3 hours. This course is designed to analyze and evaluate electrical standards and determine the likelihood of incidents. The course content will use current NFPA technology to better design or modify existing electrical applications with the intent to reduce risk. EST 393. Introduction to Industrial Safety. 3 hours. An overview of topics contained within OSHA Title 1910 general industry standards. Includes a basic description of compliance issues. Ten-hour OSHA voluntary compliance cards are available to students who qualify.
EST 396. Introduction to Construction Safety. 3 hours. Overview of basic safety principles and hazards relative to the construction workplace. Includes topics contained within OSHA Title 1926 standards. Ten-hour OSHA voluntary compliance cards are available to students who qualify.
EST 512. Risk Analysis. 3 hours. Accident causation and prevention in home, traffic, public and work environments.
EST 514. Controlling the Industrial Environment. 3 hours. Problems of industrial pollution and systematic methods of improving the environment.
EST 516. Handling of Products and Hazardous Materials. 3 hours. Manual and mechanical handling of products and materials, and storage of hazardous materials.
EST 600. Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene. 1-4 hours. Overview of the basic principles and practices of occupational safety and industrial hygiene. Regulatory requirements and lab projects will be included. Prerequisites: EST 393 Introduction to Industrial Safety or EST 603 Industrial Safety and appropriate science courses, or by permission of instructor.
EST 603. Industrial Safety. 3 hours. An in-depth study of the organization of accident prevention programs, job hazards, analysis, accident cost control, inspections, reports, records, and safety standards as established by the federal and state governments. Thirty-hour OSHA voluntary compliance cards are available for students who qualify. Prerequisite: EST 393 Introduction to Industrial Safety, or permission of instructor.
EST 604. Occupational Health and Safety. 3 hours. This course reviews the OSHA requirements, paperwork and resources for safety professionals. Areas covered are the OSHA standards for OSHA certification, voluntary compliance industrial standards, welding safety, ladders, scaffolding, platforms steps/stairs, confined space lock out, tag out, respiratory, blood borne pathogen, rules, regulations, history, record keeping, citations, compliance requirements, elevated platforms, trips, and falls.
EST 605. Special Problems (___). 1-3 hours. Individual study in safety. May be repeated if subject matter is different for a maximum of six hours to be applied towards a degree program. May be taken as graded or pass-fail.
EST 610. Seminar (___). 1-3 hours. Study of a particular topic, problem, or issue in the safety profession. May be repeated if subject matter is different with a maximum of six hours to be applied towards a degree program.
EST 621. Industrial Ergonomics. 3 hours. Ergonomic principles that include human machine systems, design systems, and the fundamentals of biomechanics and associated problems and disorders.
EST 627. Modern Transportation Safety. 3 hours. Basic transportation requirements for land forms of transportation and their safety and environmental issues. Prerequisite: EST 393 Introduction to Industrial Safety or EST 603 Industrial Safety.
EST 628. Fire Safety. 3 hours. Study of problems associated with fire prevention and to meet OSHA and local code requirements necessary to make a safer home or workplace, being able to assess the fire hazards, develop a fire safety plan, and coordinate with necessary officials.
EST 629. Legal Issues in Environmental Health and Safety. 3 hours. Legal issues are exchanged and their relationship to business, industry and the individual liabilities, the law, history of the law, purpose of the safety requirements, hazard, responsibilities, record keeping, safe work environments, citations, time frames, and employee rights and responsibilities.
EST 630. Safety Management. 3 hours. Applications and processes of management to create a safety culture within the workplace. Emphasis is put on effectively designing, implementing, and assessing a safety program. Prerequisite: At least one safety course.
EST 696. Construction Safety. 3 hours Recognize, avoid and prevent work conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to workers in the construction industry. Federal safety standards related to construction. Thirty-hour OSHA voluntary compliance cards are available for students who qualify. Prerequisite: EST 396 Introduction to Construction Safety.
Technical Support Classes
CMCET 200. Cooperative Education (___). 1-6 hours. A cooperative college-industry, college-business, or college-government work experience. The student is interviewed and employed by an industrial, business or government organization, then a work program is outlined. Supervision of the work experience is conducted by the employer and the college coordinator. May be repeated if subject matter is different. Written permission of department chairperson required. Offered on a Pass-Fail basis only.
CMCET 300. Cooperative Education (___). 3-6 hours. A cooperative college-industry, college-business, or college-government work experience. The student is interviewed and employed by an industrial, business or government organization, then a work program is outlined. Supervision of the work experience is conducted by the employer and the college coordinator. May be repeated if subject matter is different. Written permission of department chairperson required. Offered on a Pass-Fail basis only.
CMCET 400. Cooperative Education (___). 3-6 hours. A cooperative college-industry, college-business, or college-government work experience. The student is interviewed and employed by an industrial, business or government organization, then a work program is outlined. Supervision of the work experience is conducted by the employer and the college coordinator. May be repeated if subject matter is different. Written permission of department required. Offered on a Pass-Fail basis only.
CMCET 401. Investigations in Technology (___). 1-4 hours. Special studies in technology to provide for the individual requirements of the student desiring supplemental work in the student’s field of special interest. Prerequisite: Written permission of department. May be repeated if subject matter is different.
ETECH 502. Engineering Economy. 2-3 hours. (2-3 hours lecture). Analysis of engineering proposals utilizing time value of money and related factors. Includes depreciation and after-tax consequences, feasibility and optimum life comparisons. Additional topics for three hours of credit are manufacturing cost studies, estimating, sources of costs, allocation of costs and justifications. Students should register for either two or three hours, based on specific program requirements.
CMCET 795. Special Topics in CMCET (___). 1-3 hours. Selected topics in construction engineering technology. Regularly scheduled classroom and laboratory study pertaining to a distinct body of technical knowledge. May be repeated if subject matter is different. Written permission of department is required.
Master of Engineering Technology
ETECH 804. Quality: Management and Control. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). The use of management “tools” to help with quality issues. Including: Total Quality Management (TQM), Benchmarking, ISO 9000-14000, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Design of Experiments (DOE), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis and Statistical Process Control.
ETECH 805. Current Issues in Engineering Technology. 3 hours. Study of specific activities/topics/trends impacting the various engineering technology disciplines. Case studies and current innovation emphasis. May be repeated.
ETECH 807. Systems Engineering and Analysis. 3 hours. A systems approach to product/project design. System design process from needs identification through conceptual and detail design, product/project development, systems testing and evaluation. Operational and economic feasibility, reliability, maintainability, supportability. Consideration of various project/product design aspects (mechanical, thermal, electrical/electronic, aesthetic, safety, etc.).
ETECH 809. Engineering Management. 3 hours. The design and control of technologically based projects. Considering theoretical and practical aspects of systems models, organizational development, project planning and control, resource allocation, team development, quantitative and qualitative decision making, financial and legal issues.
ETECH 810. Collaborative Projects for Engineering Technology. 3 hours. Multidisciplinary capstone course incorporating aspects of design, project/product management, value engineering, quality control, current technologies and specific engineering/technology techniques to develop/design/improve products or processes. Collaboration of multidisciplinary backgrounds to address technical issues of varying duration and magnitude. Prerequisite: Should be taken as one of the last graduate courses in program. Permission of instructor.
ETECH 831. Value Engineering. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Value engineering concepts, function analysis system techniques (FAST) diagramming, creativity, matrix evaluation, design-to-cost, life cycle costing, human relations and strategies for organizing, performing and implementing value engineering work.
CMCET 832. Land Development. 3 hours. Development of land for commercialization/improvement. Introduction to land development design, governmental planning and regulations, project approvals, site analysis, environmental considerations, development patterns and principles, site development, utility integration, property surveying and law. Use of case studies.
CMCET 833. Estimating and Bidding Strategy. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Strategy of contracting to maximize profit through overhead distribution, break even analysis, probability and statistical technique, a realistic risk and uncertainty objective, and bid analysis both in theory and in practice. Prerequisites: CMCET 631 Construction Estimating I and 639 Construction Estimating II or equivalent, graduate standing.
CMCET 834. Advanced Construction Management. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Existing and emerging systems for designing, planning, and construction of projects. Changing roles, relationships, and responsibilities of the parties involved. Time-cost relationships for various construction operations.
CMCET 835. Advanced Construction Structures. 3 hours. (3 hours lecture). Methods of analysis for framed structures, trusses, rigid frames, statically indeterminate structures, composite materials. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional finite element analysis.
ETECH 888. Design of Experiments. 3 hours. Inferential statistics, DOE Language and Concepts, Experimentation using One-Way and Multi-Way Classifications using ANOVA, Linear Regression, Two-Level Factorial Experiments and Fractional Factorial Experiments. Software applications. Prerequisite: Statistics course.
CMCET 895. Advanced Topics in Engineering Technology (___). 1-6 hours. Selected topics in construction engineering technology. Study pertains to a distinct body of technical knowledge. May be repeated if subject matter is different. Research paper and presentation to CMCET faculty required. Written permission of instructor if required.
Safety, Health and Environmental Management Graduate
EST 822. Risk Management. 3 hours. An investigation into the magnitude of safety related problems in the broad categories of home, motor vehicle, public work environments, and an exploration of solutions to these problems.
EST 827. Safety Issues in Transportation. 3 hours. Advanced course looking at all forms of transportation, their issues and effects on environmental health and safety. Prerequisite: EST 393 Introduction to Industrial Safety or EST 603 Industrial Safety.
EST 828. Fire Prevention. 3 hours. This course looks at the Code requirements and problems associated with fire prevention in the home and workplace.
EST 829. Environmental Health and Safety Law. 3 hours. Legal aspects of environmental health and safety issues are exchanged and their relationships to business, industry and the individual.
EST 830. Safety Administration. 3 hours. To develop new technical management and behavioral management skills that all safety professionals can utilize in business and industry. Prerequisite: At least six hours of approved safety courses.
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