Construction Management
Department of Built Environment (BE)
The Construction Management program offers exciting educational experiences that prepare you for a career as a professional constructor. You will receive education and course work in all aspects of construction from planning and scheduling to materials and structures. The program will provide you with theoretical and practical learning experiences in both classroom and laboratory environments. Graduates are competent in planning, scheduling, estimating, project management and many other skills necessary for a construction professional.
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Programs in construction management:
Indiana State University’s Construction Management major provides instruction on:
- Theories of forces in building structures
- Use of tapes, levels and transits to layout structures, determine elevations, and locate boundaries
- Principles of quality concrete and the proper techniques used in the field
- Study of building design and planning
- Management of a project including construction costs, budgets, bids, critical path scheduling, inspection, manpower utilization, and cost control
- Environmental control systems.
Course work leads to a Bachelor of Science degree.
Program Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes
>>Link to Program Academic Quality Plan
What makes us Different?
The Construction Management program offers flexibility and a variety of options. Your instruction will be by full-time professors who have actual work experience in the field. The department offers small class sizes, which allow for individual attention, as well as modern laboratories for a variety of hands-on experiences.
You will gain real-world experience through the department’s cooperative education agreements with industry. Participation in the co-op/internship program, which combines on-campus study with actual work experience off campus, will enhance your education. Students are often offered full-time employment by the partnership company after graduation.
Core courses include:
- Computer applications
- Computer drawing applications
- Architectural drawing
- Statics
- Strength of building materials
- Design of temporary structures
- Construction scheduling
- Estimating and cost analysis
- Construction safety
- Construction methods and materials
- Plane surveying
- Environmental and mechanical systems for buildings
- Electrical construction
- Construction inspections and quality
- Soil analysis and testing
- Construction management
- Construction specifications and contract documents
- Supervision
Enrich your experience through student involvement
Student chapters of the Associated General Contractors of America, The Home Builders Association, and the Construction Club are involved in a number of activities including field trips to construction sites and attendance at professional meetings and seminars. These groups also sponsor guest speakers for local student chapter meetings and make available a number of competitive scholarships.
Be Prepared for the Future:
As a graduate of the Construction Management program you will find career opportunities in entry-level management positions in the areas of field supervision, estimating, planning, scheduling, expediting, quality control, and project administration. The typical placement rate of graduates is 100 percent within one month of graduation, with more than half receiving multiple job offers. The average starting salary for graduates with a bachelor’s degree in construction management is $45,000 (based on a five-year average of starting salaries as reported to the University’s Career Center and the department between 1999 and 2003).
Typical Positions
- Superintendent -Scheduler
- Estimator
- Safety manager
- Project engineer
- Project manager
Typical Employers
- ARA Construction Co., Inc.
- CDI, Inc.
- C.H. Garmong & Sons, Inc.
- C.P. Morgan
- Centex Homes, Inc.
- F.A. Wilhelm Construction
- Hannig Construction, Inc.
- Hunt Construction Group, Inc.
- Milestone Contractors
- R. Jenkins Construction
- Shiel Sexton
- TolTest, Inc.
- Turner Construction
- Walsh Construction
- Weddle Brothers Construction Co
- White Construction
