CONST 460 Construction Management Capstone (5 credits)

1. Integrate construction management theory on a project.
2. Apply business and management skills for a construction project.
3. Apply construction process techniques (Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling) in order to manage a construction project.
4. Articulate the factors that impact projects, including leadership, the organization, team dynamics and power.
5. Present a construction project for a selection process.
6. Apply construction industry technologies to a construction project.
7. Articulate the ethical responsibilities of the construction manager.

• Professionalism: Model professionalism in the construction industry through ethics and advocacy; team building; leadership; and mentorship in the construction industry.
• Safety and Accident Prevention: Evaluate the importance of jobsite safety and research strategies that can be used to build a culture of safety.
• Communication: Compose, implement, and assess the efficacy of communications tools used in the construction industry to disseminate technical and professional business information to a diverse audience.
• Analysis and Problem Solving: Analyze projects through the application of mathematics, logic, and technology to solve problems in construction documents; materials and methods; estimating; budgets; and scheduling.
• Planning and Organization: Research, implement, and evaluate construction processes using project planning methods and tools.
• Sustainability: Assess concepts related to running sustainable projects in order to build sustainable business processes.

Core Abilities

• Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
• Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
• Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
• Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.