Courses & research | Construction Management and Engineering

During your Master’s in Civil Engineering & Management (CEM), you will collect a total of 120 EC within two years. You will follow (elective) courses related to the specialisation in Construction Management & Engineering and you will end your Master’s by writing your master’s thesis.

What your curriculum will look like exactly, depends on the choices you make within this specialisation. At the start of your programme, you will compose a set of courses that match your interests and ambitions. There is plenty of elective space!

Construction Management & Engineering

	Number of EC
Specialisation courses You need to choose at least ten* of the specialisation-related courses.*	50 EC	Building Information Modelling (BIM) Construction Supply Chains and Digitization Planning and Process Management Structural Health Monitoring for Smart Infrastructure Legal & Governance Aspects Civil Engineering Challenges Digital Twinning in Infrastructure Circular Design & Deconstruction Culture in International Construction Transitions in Civil Engineering Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate Value Management Construction Project & Programme Management Machine Learning Applications in Civil Engineering Infrastructure Asset Management Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Subsurface Infrastructure Engineering & Data Management Value Driven Procurement & Organising
CEM electives You can choose three courses of other specialisations within the Master’s in Civil Engineering & Management/Construction Management & Engineering. Of course, you can also choose more of the specialisation courses listed above.	15 EC	Examples of electives that perfectly fit this specialisation: Sustainable Engineering Geotechnical Modelling Geo Risk Assessment
Free elective courses	15 EC	You can fill up the rest of your elective space with courses that match your interests and ambitions. There is a wide range of courses you can choose from, both from the Master’s in CEM and other master’s at UT, or at another partner university in the Netherlands or abroad.
Master’s thesis	40 EC	You will finish your Master’s in CEM with your master’s thesis (30 EC). In order to prepare for your thesis, you will follow the courses Academic Research Skills (5 EC) and Preparation master’s thesis (5 EC).
Total EC	120 EC

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MASTER’S THESIS

You will end your Master’s with your master’s thesis. The choice of your graduation subject is largely up to you – and the courses you have chosen. Most students complete their graduation project at an external organisation, either in the Netherlands or abroad. This is a highly recommended option since it is a great opportunity to combine your academic skills with experience in the professional field.

Your master’s thesis could involve undertaking projects such as:

Using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to automate environmental impact assessments on infrastructure design, in order to determine the degree of sustainability of an infrastructure project.
Optimising the design of wind turbine foundations by building a machine learning model that can predict the performance of different design alternatives.
Coming up with a documentation strategy for engineering firms in order to work in a transparent and traceable way, something that is increasingly required in today’s world.

Career perspectives

MASTER’S THESIS

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