SUNY Erie Community College

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY

Program Competencies

Upon graduation with an Associate in Applied Science degree in Construction Management Engineering Technology, the graduate will be able to:

• Utilize modern instruments, methods and techniques to implement construction contracts documents and codes
• Evaluate materials and methods for construction projects
• Utilize modern surveying methods for construction layout
• Determine forces and stresses in elementary structural systems
• Estimate material quantities and costs
• Employ productivity software to solve technical problems
• Draw and interpret basic construction working drawings
• Supervise, inspect and evaluate the erection of wood, steel, masonry and concrete systems in relation to residential, commercial and industrial structures
• Manage, document and coordinate a basic building construction project
• Identify, locate and use a wide range of information resources including subject experts, library references, electronic data bases, on-line services and Internet sites to solve or explain construction related issues
• Ability to generate construction, civil drawings either manually or by CAD
• Analyze and prepare reports