TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Temple University is to provide students with a high quality, affordable undergraduate and graduate civil and environmental engineering education.

Basic mathematics, physical and engineering sciences, communication skills, and the humanities are the basis for specializing in advanced civil engineering courses and developing solutions to complex engineering design problems.

The Department offers advanced education in a variety of Civil and Environmental Engineering disciplines that provides a range of skills necessary to prepare for professional practice and licensing and to pursue graduate studies and research.

The Department prepares graduates to provide leadership in a modern, complex society, and to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life while supporting an educational environment that upholds the value of human diversity, cooperation through teamwork, technological innovation, and lifelong learning.

Construction Management Technology Program

Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology (BSET)

Program Education Objectives (PEO’s)

The CMT program should produce graduates who:

1. Are employed in the industries, government or institution as a practitioner in the area of construction management.  Graduates are qualified for jobs as structural designers and detailers, construction field supervisors, estimators, expediters, construction cost analysts, schedulers, plan examiners for government agencies that control construction, and liaison personnel in plant engineering departments of large manufacturing organizations.

2. Can communicate effectively in oral, written and electronic media and have the necessary teamwork and leadership skills to work and participate effectively in a team environment. Graduates will have professional growth and life-long learning skills that graduate engineering technologists need to succeed in both the workplace and the society in general.

3. Can contribute to the development and improvement of the economic, technical, social and educational development of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the country and the world.