The recent decades, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has witnessed rapid development and massive growth in the construction and building industry. This, evidently, has raised the need for development of the local Saudi expertise, the scientific and technical capabilities in the highly specialized and pertinent engineering areas of the construction industry. The holistic and comprehensive conception of the processes of building design, construction, management and maintenance ensures efficient building design and operation with evident economic advantages.
The Construction Engineering Management program offers the scientific methods that can be applied to manage problems to find or choose optimal solutions, to exercise control and to assist in the decisions making during a construction project’s life cycle
The program is designed to provide breadth in the managerial, technological, economic and environmental aspects of construction. The program is also designed to provide depth through systems approach encompassing construction management, estimation, planning and scheduling, project control, finance and economic analysis, business management, and green buildings. In this major, students will have the opportunity to focus on different topics of construction management including:
- Construction Project Management
- Cost Estimating, Financing, and Accounting, Building Economics
- Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control
- Construction Processes, Productivity, and Simulation of construction operations
- Project Contracting, Claims, Disputes, and Closure
- Information system and computer applications
- Value Engineering and Lean Construction
- Risk Management, bonds, and insurance
- Sustainability in the Built Environment
- Building Performance and Asset Management
- Advanced Building materials and systems
- Organization theory application for projects and enterprises
- Quality Management
Mission
The mission of the Master of Construction Engineering Management program at IAU is to serve the community by accomplishing the following:
- Provide graduates with both advanced knowledge and real work experience in order to prepare professionals to work in the construction industry and related domains in compliance with all sustainable practices.
- Conduct scientific research to participate in advancing knowledge and keep the institution at the state-of-the-art of applications.
Objectives
- Advanced teaching and learning.
- Enhanced research, innovation, and consultancy.
- Effective industrial collaboration and community service.
- Contribution to the national sustainable development goals.
- National and international accreditations.
- College
- College of Architecture and Planning
- Campus
- Dammam
- Track
- Engineering
- Level
- Postgraduate
- Degree
- MPH
- Gender
- Male
- Years of study
- 2
- Credit hours
- 30
Program Learning Outcomes
Knowledge & Understanding
- Define the key aspects of construction management, such as planning, scheduling, contracting, procurement, monitoring, control, and delivery systems.
- Recall the common construction management processes such as engineering economic analysis, accounting techniques, and financial methods and management.
- Recognize modern digital tools and techniques for effective construction management.
- Recognize specialized methods and tools for research in the field of construction engineering management, and principles and rules of technical writing.
Skills
- Apply advanced and specialized principles of construction engineering management to solve complex problems and make timely decisions at various stages of planning and execution of a project.
- Conduct innovative research in the domain of construction engineering management by using appropriate methods, tools, and techniques.
- Employ appropriate methods, processes, tools and techniques for various tasks such as planning, scheduling, controlling, contracting, economic analysis, and financial management, to ensure successful delivery of real projects.
- Communicate ideas, proposals, research findings, and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences effectively by written, graphical, data representation and oral presentation modes.
- Use information technology, artificial intelligence, and other modern digital tools wherever applicable for effective construction management.
Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility
- Demonstrate effective collaboration in a project team, leadership, management of assigned tasks with high autonomy, and responsibility for life-long learning and professional growth.
- Demonstrate a high level of adherence to integrity and professional values and passion to serve the community.
Program Graduate Attributes
- Updated knowledge of concepts and applications of construction engineering and management.
- Problem-solving and decision-making abilities as a construction engineering manager.
- Ability to choose and employ the right numerical and information technology tools for construction engineering management.
- Commitment to values, ethics, and responsibility in construction engineering management.
- Strong interpersonal skills and managerial abilities
