Introduction

On this section of our website you will find information about the education CME is involved in. Furthermore, information for students about the master thesis is presented.

Teaching Program

The group functions as part of the Civil Engineering Faculty in order to provide the construction industry with qualified graduates in the area of Construction Engineering & Management. Construction management is a practical subject; therefore, the group attaches great importance to its relations with the construction industry. As part of the 5-year program that leads to a master’s degree, the group’s teaching program is established to satisfy the following objectives:

1.	To be familiar with the important principles, theories, processes, procedures, techniques and tools available in the field in order to use for improvement of the construction process;

2.	To understand how the interaction mechanisms between design and engineering, technology and management in construction organizations work and how the production in these organizations is planned and managed;

3.	To be able to identify and diagnose bottlenecks within the construction processes;

4.	To be able to solve and design solutions for organizational, production related, and managerial problems within construction and also to be able to defend and verify these solutions scientifically;

5.	To be able to integrate and apply the various specialized knowledge learned within the various courses in the analysis of the problems and their solutions;

6.	To be able to scientifically formulate design problems and to bring about creative structural solutions to solve them.

The graduate will acquire the specific skills intended by the program and that are required in order to achieve the above objectives. These skills include:

·	Problem-solving abilities;

·	Implementation of change;

·	Understanding the relationships between the different professional disciplines;

·	The ability to gather, sort and analyse information;

·	The ability to think critically, laterally and independently;

·	Verbal and interactive skills;

·	Presentation skills;

·	Ability to lead and manage projects;

·	Ability to motivate and stimulate people;

·	Profession and commercial skills.

The teaching programme focuses on the analysis, design and control of the integral construction process, the functioning of the construction process organizations and the coordination of the activities and roles of parties involved. “Integral” here means all the various sub-processes that constitute the total construction process, from conception to demolition.

For the reasons stated above, our graduates are expected to fulfil various functions within various departments in a construction organisation, such as planning and design departments, as well as fulfilling managerial functions within governmental departments, client organizations, consultancy offices and construction firms.

Also, in order to achieve the objectives outlined earlier, all students pursuing the Master programme Civil Engineering & Management are required to follow five cornerstone modules addressing five fundamental attention areas:

Attention area 1: Research methodology and academic skills;

Attention area 2: Process management;

Attention area 3: Project management;

Attention area 4: Collaborative Design & Engineering;

Attention area 5: Legal & Governance aspects;

All the other modules offered within the programme are selective courses which the students can choose from in order to pursue certain learning tracks. These tracks lead towards integrative final projects and are linked to integrative research themes whereby the link between the main research areas of Market & Organisation, Planning & Development and Design Processes & Engineering becomes apparent.

In the design learning track for example, the two modules Collaborative Design & engineering and Supply Chain Management & ICT form the basis for more in-depth specialization modules to be followed. These modules are:

·	Geo Risk Management;

·	Sustainable Building;

·	Industrialisation in engineering & construction.

The total list of the modules offered by our group can be found on the Courses page.

In the academic year 2007-2008 an international master programme is started. The Master’s programme in Construction Management & Engineering converts individual technical approaches into processes in which governance issues, societal trends and management methodologies are integrated with technology. The broad 2-year 3-TU master’s programme was developed in close association with the construction industry and the University of Delft and Eindhoven and is process- and design oriented as well as project based. The course outline starts with five cornerstones modules as mentioned before. These five modules are offered at the same time and same level in all three Technical Universities of the Netherlands, University of Twente, Delft University and University of Eindhoven. Subsequently students can continue the master programme in one of the three Universities.