Construction Management B.S.

The Construction Management Program prepares graduates for professional careers and leadership roles in construction and construction-related industries. The Construction Curriculum focuses on Professionalism, Leadership, Ethics, and Autonomy. Students are expected to participate in Service Learning and Community Service during their academic career at The University of Texas at Tyler. The Department of Construction Management offers a plan of study leading to Bachelor of Science in Construction Management.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Graduates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become construction and project management leaders assuming responsibility for multidisciplinary construction project teams, client focused construction, asset management; and ethical decision making in construction management practice.
2. Graduates continue to grow intellectually and professionally through participation in professional society activities, continuing construction manager education, graduate studies, and/or self-study during their professional career.
3. Graduates demonstrate effective oral, written, and graphical communication skills to meet increasing professional demands.
4. Graduates achieve professional level recognition in construction or project management.

Student Outcomes

Graduates can:

1. Apply knowledge of traditional mathematics, science, and engineering skills, and use modern tools to solve construction problems.
2. Design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data in construction.
3. Design systems, components, and processes and recognize the strengths and areas for possible improvement of their creative designs within realistic constraints such as economic, political, social, constructability, sustainability, public health and safety, environmental, and ethical.
4. Work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary design team.
5. Identify, formulate, solve, and evaluate construction design problems using models in the discipline of construction management.
6. Analyze a situation and make appropriate professional and ethical decisions.
7. Demonstrate effective oral, written, and graphical communication skills.
8. Demonstrate a commitment to learning and continued professional development outside the classroom, incorporate contemporary issues.

Graduation Requirements

During a student’s first semester in the Construction Management program, a program faculty member is assigned as the student’s academic advisor to work with the student in planning a program of study to complete degree requirements. Students are encouraged to meet with their advisor throughout the semester and are required to meet with their advisor prior to registering for the next semester or summer session.

To graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management degree, a student must

1. earn a grade of "C" or better in all courses used to meet degree requirements,
2. complete the general baccalaureate degree requirements of the University, and
3. complete the Construction Management curriculum requirements specified in the following sections.