CE 501 Construction Management (3,0)3
Fundamental principles of construction management: contract systems and types of construction contracts. Management processes and techniques. Review of typical organizational structures for construction companies and projects. Planning and scheduling, resource analyses and leveling, management of resources. Survey of main activities and procedures for starting a new project. Communication basics and communication in construction sites. The leadership role of the manager in a construction organization. Monitoring and control systems. Procedures and formalities for project completion.
CE 502 Project Scheduling & Control (3,0)3
Importance of time in project management. Planning and scheduling of the contract work. Development of comprehensive project schedule, including bar charts, networks, cost profiles, resource profiles, and contingency analysis. Coordination among stakeholders and appropriate control measurements.
CE 503 Total Quality Management (3,0)3
Total Quality Management as an organizational assessment process to improve performance. Link between assessment and high performance. The assessment criteria and assessment cycle for driving continuous improvement and change throughout an organization. The assessment methodology and tools.
CE 505 Construction Estimating (3,0)3
Procedures used in developing the estimate of a construction project during the planning stages, and updating the estimate throughout the project life-cycle; tools and techniques used in monitoring, managing, and controlling the cost of the building systems; procedures used in managing the construction project resources in order to minimize the cost of the project.
MAN 501 Management and Organizations (3,0)3
Nature of management. Management theories and perspectives. Organizational environment. Social responsibility and ethic. Planning: decision making, organizational goals, strategic management and implementation. Organizing: organizational structure, organizational design, change and innovation. Management and motivation, leadership in organizations, groups in organizations, management and communications. Controlling: Foundation of management control. Quality, productivity and customer satisfaction.
MAN 502 Contemporary Management (3,0)3
The future of work and careers in contemporary organizations, theories of choice and change. How individuals are affected by, and can influence change; changing and developing organizational structure, strategies, cultures, jobs and technologies. Contemporary issues in business management. Discussions, cases and presentations.
MAN 505 Marketing Management (3,0)3
The scope of marketing management. Organizing the marketing function. Establishing marketing objectives. Buyer behavior and market segmentation. Environmental analysis and marketing strategies. Marketing research and marketing information systems. Advertising and sales promotion.
CE 520 Term Project (non-credit)
A substantial seminar project in the relevant area of interest submitted after the completion of ten courses. Term project is graded on success or fail basis.
CE 522 Seminar (non-credit)
Seminar in the related area of interest after the completion of courses. Seminar is graded on success or fail basis.
CE 530 Thesis (non-credit)
The thesis must be original and reveal the student's ability in investigation and analysis and have a practical application in the civil engineering. The thesis should be on a subject decided upon both by adviser and student. The thesis is required to be defended by the candidate in front of jury. Thesis is graded on success of fail basis.
CE 504 Cost Engineering and Control (3,0)3
Cost engineering as the application of scientific and engineering principles and techniques to problems of cost estimation, cost control, business planning and management science. Problems of profitability analysis, project management, and planning and scheduling of major engineering projects. The application of cost engineering for construction companies and projects. Estimating from Concept to Completion.,
E 506 Construction Contracts and Bidding (3,0)3
Overview of the construction contracts. Using the contract as a guide during the project life-cycle for partial payments, additional payments, and resolution of unusual occurrences. Elements of the bidding process; procedures used in developing the bid based on the estimate and on the market conditions.
CE 508 Construction Marketing (3,0)3
Methods of construction marketing and business development. Innovative computer applications, verbal skills development, professional strategies, market segmentation, and buyer behavior.
CE 510 Engineering Project Management (3,0)3
Overview of the project management processes: project integration and scope management. Developing of the project schedule during the planning stages, and updating the schedule during the project life-cycle. Monitoring, managing, and controlling the duration of the project. Managing the balance between the cost, duration, and quality of the project; evaluation and management of project risks. The role and qualities of the project manager. Case studies including the appropriate application of the project management by various construction companies.
CE 512 Technology & Design Management (3,0)3
Combination of the management of the design, technology development and innovation with the economic utilization of the output. Technological innovation as a process and management's role in technology utilization. Catalysts and barriers to the utilization of technology, data and information required to manage and use technology: tracking technology, technology transfer mechanisms. Innovation case studies.
CE 514 Transportation Systems Planning and Management(3,0)3
Development of transportation demand and supply models. Analysis of cost functions, cost estimating methods and some general cost functions. Merging supply and demand models for network equilibration. Simulation and optimizing approaches for equilibrium. Management of alternative transportation systems. Transport regulation in an inefficient or in an excessive competitive environment. Cost and demand conditions of a regulated industry.
CE 516 Environmental Management (3,0)3
Environmental management role in an industrial engineering or governmental setting. Roles and responsibilities of project managers in respect to environmental issues. Treatment of previously created environmental problems, responding to current requirements, and anticipating of future needs. Integration of the managerial, regulatory, and technical aspects of environmental management in practice.
CE 518 Hazardous Waste Management (3,0)3
Identification and classification of hazardous wastes. Regulatory framework. Risk assessment. Control and disposal technologies. Environmental audits. Site assessment and remediation.
CE 524 International Construction (3,0)3
Organization of the global construction industry. International construction market. Construction in the developing countries. International trade in construction services and materials. Future trends in world markets. International construction project management: a comparison of best practice: Europe, USA and Japan.
CE 526 Geographic Information Systems (3,0)3
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies as a variety of geospatial data including remotely sensed imagery from the satellites. The basic concepts, software used and available data types used by GIS. Exploration of geospatial data and the construction of cartographic products. Opportunities with a new levels of analysis, education, and communication. Geo-information as a necessary component for effective decision-making across local, regional, and global scales.
CE 528 Production Engineering (3,0)3
Advanced topics in production engineering, including manufacturing systems, production integration, cellular manufacturing, group technology, intelligent manufacturing, concurrent engineering, and life-cycle product design engineering.
CE 532 Environmental Impact Evaluation (3,0)3
Methods for evaluating impacts of engineering projects on environmental quality. Environmental legislation and environmental quality indices. Concentration on problems, conflicts or natural resource constraints that could affect the viability of the project. The ways to minimize the problems and to improve the project’s suitability for its proposed environment.
CE 534 Environmental Engineering Design (3,0)3
Decision-making in selection and implementation of environmental control measures. Water supply and wastewater management: quantities, transportation systems, treatment processes, solid waste management.
CE 538 Marketing for Engineers (3,0)3
The key aspects of marketing technical products, focusing on principle components of the marketing process: customers, products, and marketing channels. Emphasis on special marketing considerations affecting technical products. Importance of market-based information, competitive nature of existing business segments and new opportunities for the market development.
CE 540 Negotiations (3,0)3
The theory and process of negotiation. Intellectual and pragmatic understanding of the central concepts in negotiation. The costs and benefits of alternatives. Development of analytical and interpersonal skills using a variety of analytic frameworks. Analysis of the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in both competitive and cooperative situations.
CE 542 Project Leadership (3,0)3
Project team leadership, relationship building, and problem solving to enhance cooperation across organizational and contractual boundaries.
CE 544 Corporate Strategy (3,0)3
Business success in construction organizations, the organizational, economic and social factors which influence the performance of a construction firm. Strategic management, corporate decision-making, marketing, business planning, competitive advantage in a global market.
CE 546 Real Estate Management (3,0)3
A broad overview of the strategic planning and analysis associated with the development of a commercial real estate. Strategy and practice of real estate management. Real estate as a financial asset. Business systems to integrate real estate and management. Corporate real estate within dynamic organizations.
CE 548 Construction Law (3,0)3
Principles of the law of contract, negligence in the construction context, procurement methods and the allocation of risk, civil liability for building defects, remedies for breach of contract, arbitration and litigation. Health and legislation and employment law. Contractual abuse. Case study and analysis of reported appellate decisions on common construction law issues.
CE 550 Intelligent Buildings (3,0)3
Advanced knowledge of intelligent buildings: the technologies involved, economic, social and technical issues, which underpin an effective decision- making approach for design, construction and management processes. Latest technical innovations applicable to buildings and the technology needed in order to design, construct and maintain buildings which are responsive to human requirements; consume minimum energy; emit minimum CO2; are healthy and enhance the well-being of building occupants.
MAN 503 Accounting & Control (3,0)3
Accounting concepts and principles. The accounting process, transactions, the accounting cycle, preparation of financial statement. Importance of GAAP. Nature, concepts and classification of cost. Product cost accumulation systems. Analysis of real company financial reports. Financial planning and control.
MAN 504 Financial Management (3,0)3
Time value of money, interest, present value future value, annuities; financial analysis, planning and control; ratio analysis cash flow and fund flow analysis, profit planning, financial forecasting; capital budgeting, short-time & long-term financing; working capital management; financial policies regarding the acquisition of funds and their allocation to competing assets within the firm.
MAN 507 Business Economics (3,0)3
Microeconomic environment of business: The working of competitive markets. Demand and supply. Products, markets cost and revenue. Profit maximization under perfect and imperfect competition. The firm in the factor market. Government, firm and market. Macroeconomic environment of business: national income, employment and inflation, international trade, the balance of payments, exchange rates, money and interest, economic ideas. Keynesian and monetarist expiations of business activity.
MAN 508 Operations Management (3,0)3
Advanced techniques in the design of the product. Production systems and production control systems. The machine assignment problem, scheduling and sequencing, line balancing, location-allocation of new facilities, JIT management, logistics, purchasing, total quality management, services and manufacturing operations management.
MAN 511 E-Business (3,0)3
Managing information technology. Electronic communications and linking. Electronic customer and supplier relationships. Internet applications. Practice of electronic commerce. New issues in e-business.
MAN 514 Human Resources Management (3,0)3
The policies, procedures and practices, the recruitment, selection, training, promotion, remuneration and working condition of the people employed by the organization. Productivity, motivation, quality of work life and industrial relations.
MAN 516 Sales Management (3,0)3
The concept to sales management. Sales planning and budgeting. Estimating market potential and forecasting sales. Organizing, recruiting, selecting and training the sales force. Time and territory management. Sales quotas; compensation; motivating and leading the sales force. Analysis of sales; measuring and evaluating sales force performance; ethics, social responsibility and legal environment.
MAN 517 Law & Business (3,0)3
Legal environment and business. Managerial approach to help successfully confront and deal with social and legal issues into the new millennium. Business and social, legal and political responsiveness. Ethics, consumer welfare, workers, social and environmental issues.
MAN 519 Entrepreneurship & Small Business (3,0)3
The concept of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial management and small business. Planning, organizing leading and controlling small firms. Entrepreneurs of small firms and economic development.
COMP506 Expert Systems (3,0)3
Expert systems provide a software methodology for capturing and applying the knowledge needed to solve highly specialized problems. An expert system is essentially a set of individual rules that analyzes the input from the user and either suggests a course of action for solving the problem at hand, provides advice, or presents a diagnosis. This course presents the underlying theory of expert systems and the issues involved in building practical applications. This course mainly uses CLIPS as the implementation language. General topics covered in this course are knowledge representation, inference methods, reasoning under uncertainty, and inexact reasoning.
COMP509 Computer Aided Design (3,0)3
Automating development through Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE). Trade-offs. Adoption. Upper CASE, Lower CASE, cross life cycle, CASE repository. Form and Generator tools, Analysis tools, code generators, project initiation and planning tools.
COMP 528 Advanced Information Systems (3,0)3
Lifecycle of the information systems. Effective human communications. Common tools for information gathering. Organizational structure and personnel for information systems. Computer systems evaluation and selection. Modeling and simulation. Methodology for development of information systems in order to improve delivery of information and to increase the productivity.
COMP532 Operations Research (3,0)3
Introduction to OR, formulating mathematical methods, Properties of convex polyhedrons, The linear programming model, Primal simplex method, revised simplex method, Duality theorem and sensitivity analysis, Assignment and Transportation problems, Game theory, Introduction to nonlinear programming modules, Methods of line search, Convex Programming, Kuhn-Tucker conditions, The method of feasible directions, Introduction to integer programming models, Branch-and-Bound method.
ARCH 515 Housing And Environmental Studies (3,0)3
This course is divided into several components enabling students to study contemporary issues affecting the development of housing within the built environment worldwide. Global environmental issues, urban and rural housing issues, housing delivery systems, rural community planning and development, energy conservation and the exploitation of natural sources of energy, especially solar energy, form the content of course components. Special emphasis will be given to the development needs of the TRNC, by examining its current urban and rural housing problems, by studying future development plans, and by comparing the country to other developing countries experiencing similar problems.
ARCH 526 Research Methods (3,0)3
The course is organized to provide students with the theoretical and practical support needed to write their final dissertation. For that purpose the course will start with a quick review of the relevant research tools and will follow all the way through with specific individual tutorials related to each individual dissertation.