Maintenance management of bridges, pavements, residential housing, equipment, and automobile parking. Selection of softwares. Future directions in computerized construction and maintenance research. A term paper which covers the Design and Development of an MIS in Construction and Maintenance Management. The research question, hypotheses, constructs and their operationalization, research design, internal and external validities of research findings, measurements and their reliability, data collection techniques, basic elements of the research proposal.
Grades are pass or fail.
The student has to undertake and complete a research topic under the supervision of a graduate faculty member in order to probe in-depth a specific problem in Construction Engineering and Management.