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Academics

Engineering Technology - Construction Technology - Building and Highway Construction

Worried about spending your career sitting behind desk. There are another options. Consider the construction technology specialization.

Graduates with a construction technology specialization find employment with firms involved in construction, architectural and engineering, surveying, drafting and design shops, government agencies, pre-fabrication manufacturing.

First Semester

Principles of Engineering

DT-108 Credits 3

A project driven course that will introduce students to aspects of the different engineering technology fields, including mechanical, construction and civil engineering. Students will work in individual and group settings to complete a variety of projects including hands on activities that reinforce topics they are studying. Skills that will be used include: problem solving, 3D printing, robotics, teamwork, construction and design.

AutoCAD I

Computer Systems & Applications

English Composition

GS-130 Credits: 3

This course provides students with the rhetorical foundations required to become proficient writers in the academic and professional world. Students will learn and apply the principles of effective writing through extensive practice in creating drafts, revisions, and final essays in a variety of context. Class discussion and readings will focus on the function of literacy in professional and personal contexts

College Algebra

The construction technology workplace applies your knowledge in a hands-on kind of way. Shouldn’t education be based on hands-on instruction?

Internship

Add a summer (sometimes longer) internship to gain work experience. Internships can turn into job offers.

Second Semester

MicroStation

Materials & Methods

General Physics

Thinking Critically

Trigonometry

Third Semester

Surveying

Architectural CAD I

Engineering Mechanics

Industrial Psychology

GS-221 Credits: 3

Prerequisite: GS-130
An introduction to the study of human behavior in the workplace. Students will learn to apply knowledge of industrial/organizational psychology as it may affect them as employee, coworker, and/or supervisor. Areas of emphasis include: job analysis, employee selection and placement, organizational structure and communication, motivation, leadership/management styles, employee performance, and job satisfaction.

Principles of Technical Writing

Advanced Mathematics with Calculus

Engineering technology with a construction specialization shifts the focus to surveying, Soils and Materials Testing. Supported by instruction in Architectural CAD, AutoCAD, Microstation CAD, and Building Information Management (BIM). Instruction includes 2D and 3D tools and techniques.

Graduates with a construction specialization are employed in the fields of project inspection, materials inspection and testing, CAD operation, drafting, project design, preparation of project specifications, project supervision, technical sales, surveying, and project estimation.

Fourth Semester

Surveying II

CT-204 Credits: 4

Prerequisite: CT-101

Computation procedures involving latitude and departure, coordinate geometry, parcel areas, and traverse closures. The study of route design including factors affecting location; design and field layout of horizontal curves; and design of vertical curves and profile lines. Drafting projects include topographical maps and survey plats. Computations are done on computers and field work includes use of GPS equipment.

Soil Mechanics

Civil Survey CAD

Strength of Materials

Oral Communications

GS-239 Credits: 3

The purpose of this course is to instruct students in the principles of effective public speaking so that they will gain confidence, poise and proficiency in delivering speeches in a variety of situations. Students will be required to give impromptu, demonstration, persuasive, informative, and ceremonial speeches and a major business-style group oral presentations. Critical listening skills and ethical public speaking practices will be arranged by Department Coordinator.