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CIVE 5123 The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Engineering Prerequisites: Graduate standing or admission to CIVE professional school required. Description: The U.S. and Oklahoma court systems. Tort law and labor law having an impact on engineering and construction. Union organization and activities. Government contracting and the laws governing it. Discussions of the Occupation Safety and Health Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. In-Depth look at environmental policy, laws, and regulations affecting engineering, including NEPA, CWA, SDWA, RCRA, CERCLA and CAA Water law. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5133 Construction Contracts and Specifications Prerequisites: Graduate standing or admission to CIVE professional school required. Description: The nature of contracts. Contract documents. Master format. Principles of specification writing. Contract types. Bonds and insurance. Bidding. Subcontracting. Disputes and disputes resolution. Additional flat fee of 10.00 applies. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5143 Project Engineering and Management Prerequisites: Graduate standing or admission to CIVE professional school required. Description: Management of the design and construction of civil engineering projects. Topics include owner's study, formation of project teams, design coordination, construction, and project closeout. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5153 Contract Administration Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Methods and techniques of tracking and control of construction projects. Description: Evaluation of current research findings to contract implementation. May not be used for degree credit with CIVE 4153. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5163 Construction Equipment Management Prerequisites: Graduate standing or admission to CIVE professional school required. Description: Analysis of construction equipment. Performance under various operating conditions. Application of engineering fundamentals to construction methods. Selection and costs of equipment, prediction of equipment production rates, and unit costs of work in place. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng

CIVE 5183 Construction Estimating Prerequisites: Graduate standing and CIVE major.

Description: The construction industry, its makeup, operation, estimating, and bidding procedures. Theory and practice of estimating, materials, labor, equipment, and overhead costs for various types of construction. Emphasis on preliminary cost estimates during the conceptual design phase of a construction project. May not be used for degree credit with CIVE 4183. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5193 BIM for Constructions Prerequisites: CIVE major and graduate standing. Description: The course focuses on advanced information systems used to control and predict project performance (cost and schedule) in construction. Building information modeling is examined as a systems approach of integrating design and construction for the benefit of developing construction work packages, 4D simulations, clash detection, and the process of implementing BIM on an enterprise to project level. May not be used for degree credit with CIVE 4193. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5203 Pavement Rehabilitation, Management and Safety Prerequisites: Graduate standing or senior standing with instructor approval. Description: Understand and perform pavement evaluations of function, structure, surface condition, and surface safety and learn various types of equipment for evaluating pavement function, structure, and surface condition and safety. Describe techniques for rehabilitation of flexible and rigid pavements, and overall objectives and major components of a pavement management system. Understand and explain the basic techniques of safety analysis based on pavement surface data. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng CIVE 5243 Use and Design of Geosynthetics Prerequisites: Graduate standing or admission to CIVE professional school required and CIVE 3714. Description: Description of types of geosynthetics available for engineering uses. Pertinent engineering properties required to design for various functions, basic design methodology for geosynthetics for various functions, and construction and performance considerations. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Civil & Environ. Eng