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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED Or Equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

36 Hours

Course Duration

6 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

6

Courses Offered In UNDERGRADUATE DIPLOMA

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Construction Management

  • Construction management is a course that helps in managing the production of construction work. The range of work includes new build, refurbishment, maintenance, and increasingly, design. In addition to the core themes of management and technology this professional role requires a range of management skills including team working and effective communication. 

  • 6 Credits

  • Surveying

  • The construction industry is one of the largest industries in the world. This course covers the surveying activity in construction management and is delivering graduates with the concepts of different surveying techniques in Construction surveying and Land surveying.

  • 6 Credits

  • Construction Estimation

  • In this course, you will learn how to develop an estimate to be used for the competitive bidding of projects. It provides you with the entire Overview of the Estimating and Bidding Process along with different technologies that can be used in this process.

  • 6 Credits

  • Construction Materials

  • This course provides an introductory overview of the various materials used in construction. After receiving an introduction into fundamental principles of structural, physical and long-term performance, you would be able to learn about material and product manufacturing techniques and how they relate to mechanical and non-mechanical properties of the various materials.

  • 6 Credits

  • Construction Accounting

  • This course which will cover managerial accounting applications including financial statement analysis, project/job cost analysis and cash flow analysis, internal accounting controls, that will most definitely enhance and further develop your construction management skills set.

  • 6 Credits

  • Computer-Aided Drawing

  • This course is an introductory-level 2D and 3D Computer Aided Drawing class. CAD course is used to create, edit, annotate, and document drawings used in architecture, engineering, and construction. This is a course where you would learn to represent objects graphically and communicate this information using accepted drafting techniques, and practices.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to Construction Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Overview
    Structural properties of areas
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Stress and strain
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Shear and moment
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Flexural stresses
    Shearing stresses
    Deflection and indeterminate beams
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Beam design and framing
    Elastic buckling of columns
    Trusses

Surveying

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Surveying fundamentals
    Distance measurement
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Leveling
    Angles and theodolites
    Total stations
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Traverse surveys and computations
    An introduction to geomatics
    Satellite positioning
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Horizontal control surveys
    Modern construction surveying practices
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Highway curves
    Highway construction surveys
    Municipal street construction surveys
    Pipeline and tunnel construction surveys
    Culvert and bridge construction surveys
    Building construction surveys
    Quantity and final surveys

Construction Estimation

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The art of estimating
    Overview of the estimating and bidding process
    Introduction to excel
    Fundamentals of the quantity takeoff
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Concrete
    Masonry
    Metals
    Woods, plastics, and composites
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Thermal and moisture protection
    Openings
    Finishes
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fire suppression
    Plumbing
    Hvac
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Electrical
    Earthwork
    Exterior improvements
    Utilities
    Material pricing
    Labor productivity and hours
    Labor rates
    Equipment costs
    Crew rates
    Subcontract pricing
    Markups
    Pricing extensions

Construction Materials

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Basic concepts
    Resultant of concurrent forces in a plane
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Equilibrium of concurrent forces in a plane
    Resultant of nonconcurrent forces in a plane
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Equilibrium of a rigid body
    Force analysis of structures and machines
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Friction
    Center of gravity, centroids, and moments of inertia of areas
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Internal reactions; stress for axial loads
    Strain for axial loads: hooke and rsquo;s law
    Shear stresses and strains; torsion
    Shear forces and bending moments in beams
    Bending and shearing stresses in beams

Construction Accounting

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Construction financial management.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Construction accounting systems.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Accounting transactions.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    More construction accounting.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Depreciation.

Computer-Aided Drawing

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The components and interface of civil 3d
    A civil 3d jumpstart project
    The simple, but time honored point
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Civil 3d, the modern curvilinead
    Advanced digital terrain models
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Advanced profiles and sections
    Advanced corridor development
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Advanced site grading and virtual site designtm
    Piping for storm sewers and drainage
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Civil 3ds visualization capabilities
    Surveying