printer friendly pageCEE 244A: Sustainable Banking Seminar
This seminar explores ideas for redesigning banks and the banking sector to achieve three goals: (1) keep the bank and its depositors safe, (2) keep the borrowers, communities, and societies affected by the bank's lending decisions safe, and (3) use bank transactions to improve the sustainability of natural ecosystems. Weekly speakers include bankers, bank regulators, and financial technology (fintech) innovators focused on sustainable banking.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Cahan, B. (PI)
;
Lepech, M. (PI)
CEE 246: Entrepreneurship in Civil & Environmental Engineering
CEE 246 is a team project-based course geared toward developing entrepreneurial businesses related to civil and environmental engineering. With support of industry mentors, students are guided through the process of identifying opportunities, developing business plans, and determining funding sources. The class culminates with presentations to industry experts and venture capitalists (VC) to mimic typical investor pitches. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge and network to realize their business idea.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
CEE 246A: Engineering Economy (CEE 146A)
Fundamentals of financial and economic analysis. Engineering Economy Principles. Interest rates, Present value, annual cash flow, internal rate of return, benefit-cost analysis. Economic Life, Life Cycle Costs. Replacement analysis. Project Selection - Mutually Exclusive Alternatives, Multiple Objective Criteria. Depreciation. Inflation and Taxes. Sensitivity and risk analysis. Uncertainty and Probability. Decision Trees. Capital Budgeting. For
CEE 146A: enrollment is limited to juniors and seniors. Attendance to the first class is mandatory (for both
CEE 146A and
CEE 246A).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Koen, N. (PI)
CEE 246B: Real Estate Finance Seminar
Real estate principles and process. Financial modeling. Feasibility analysis. Sources and uses of funds. Cash flow projections. Profit and loss reports. Financing issues for different types of real estate projects. Redevelopment projects. Financing green projects and technologies. Current challenges in financial markets. Group project and presentation. Limited enrollment with priority to CEM, DCI, and SDC students not enrolled in
CEE 248. Prerequisites:
CEE 246A or equivalent,
ENGR 60. Recommended: knowledge of spreadsheets.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Koen, N. (PI)
CEE 247: Cases in Personality, Leadership, and Negotiation (CEE 147)
Case studies target personality issues, risk willingness, and life skills essential for real world success. Failures, successes, and risk willingness in individual and group tasks based on the professor's experience as small business owner and construction engineer. Required full afternoon field trips to local sites. Application downloaded from coursework must be submitted before first class; mandatory first class attendance. No auditors.
Last offered: Spring 2010
CEE 247A: Network Governance
This course aims at providing students with insights, concepts and skills needed to understand the dynamics of multi-actor interaction processes in uncertain and often highly politicized contexts and to be able to cope with technological and strategic uncertainties and risks including the unpredictable behavior of actors. They will develop knowledge, skills and competences about how to manage divergent and conflicting interests of different actors including principles of integrative negotiation, communication and mediation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Dewulf, G. (PI)
;
McKinney, B. (TA)
CEE 248S: Introduction to Real Estate Development Seminar
This seminar will offer students an introduction to Real Estate Development. Senior Principals from Sares Regis, a regional commercial and residential real estate development company, will cover topics on all aspects of the development process. Guest speakers from the fields of architecture and engineering, finance and marketing will participate in some of the classes. They will offer the students a window into the world of how houses, apartments, office buildings and public facilities are conceived of, brought through the design and approval process, financed, marketed and then sold and/or rented. There will be five one-and-a-half-hour lectures (robust class discussion encouraged). Classes commence on April 9th and complete on May 7th. There will be one written project assignment due prior to class on April 23rd. No prior knowledge of real estate is required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Birdwell, J. (PI)
;
Kroll, M. (PI)
CEE 249: Labor and Industrial Relations: Negotiations, Strikes, and Dispute Resolution
Labor/management negotiations, content of a labor agreement, strikes, dispute resolution, contemporary issues affecting labor and management, and union versus open shop competitiveness in the marketplace. Case studies; presentations by union leaders, legal experts, and contractor principals. Simulated negotiation session with union officials and role play in an arbitration hearing.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Walton, M. (PI)
CEE 251: Negotiation (CEE 151, EARTHSCI 251)
Students learn to prepare for and conduct negotiations in a variety of arenas including getting a job, managing workplace conflict, negotiating transactions, and managing personal relationships. Interactive class. The internationally travelled instructor who has mediated cases in over 75 countries will require students to negotiate real life case studies and discuss their results in class. Application required before first day of class; see Coursework.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Christensen, S. (PI)
CEE 252P: Construction Engineering Practicum
Construction engineering is a series of technical activities to meet project objectives related to cost and schedule, safety, quality, and sustainability. These activities include: 1) designing temporary works and construction work processes; 2) providing the required temporary and permanent resources; and 3) integrating activities to consider construction during all project phases and between projects. The objectives of CEE252P are to learn about the technical fundamentals, resources, and field operations required to complete construction engineering activities and to develop a foundation for continued related learning. The course requires reviewing recorded presentations and other online resources, completing queries, participating in class sessions with guest speakers and in field trips, completing group exercises and projects, and preparing an individual final paper. The exercises, completed by all groups, include construction engineering activities for earthwork, concrete construction, and steel erection. Each group will also complete a project to analyze one of the following types of systems or facilities: building electrical systems, lighting systems, HVAC systems, control systems, solar photovoltaic power plant, solar thermal power plant, and wind turbine power plant.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Tatum, C. (PI)
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