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Construction Management
| Courses Code | Courses Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA-031 | Introduction to business | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-064 | Marketing Essentials | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-226 | Business communication | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-375 | Fundamentals of accounting | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-608 | Introduction to finance | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-686 | Management & administration | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-707 | E-business | 6 Credits | View Details |
| BA-785 | Human resources | 6 Credits | View Details |
| Courses Code | Courses Name | Credit Hours | Course Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| COM-095 | Introduction to Construction Management | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COM-261 | Surveying | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COM-320 | Construction Estimation | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COM-435 | Construction Materials | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COM-805 | Construction Accounting | 6 Credits | View Details |
| COM-879 | Computer-Aided Drawing | 6 Credits | View Details |
Introduction to business
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Understanding the u.s. business system.
- Understanding the environments of business.
- Conducting business ethically and responsibly.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Understanding entrepreneurship and new ventures.
- Understanding the global context of business.
- Managing the business enterprise
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Organizing the business enterprise
- Managing human resources and labor relations.
- Motivating and leading employees.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Understanding marketing processes and consumer behavior.
- Developing and pricing products.
- Distributing products.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Promoting products.
- Producing goods and services.
- Managing for productivity and quality
- Managing information systems and communication technology.
- Understanding principles of accounting.
- Understanding money and banking.
- Understanding securities and investments.
- Understanding financial and risk management.
Marketing Essentials
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Marketing: managing profitable customer relationships
- Company and marketing strategy: partnering to build customer relationships
- The marketing environment
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Managing marketing information
- Consumer markets and consumer buyer behavior
- Business markets and business buyer behavior
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Customer-driven marketing strategy: creativing value for target customers
- Product, services, and branding strategies
- New-product development and life-cycle strategies
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Pricing products: understanding and capturing customer value
- Pricing products: pricing strategies
- Marketing channels and supply chain management
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Retailing and wholesaling
- Communicating customer value: integrated marketing communication strategy
- Advertising and public relations
- Personal selling and sales promotion
- Direct and online marketing: building direct customer relationships
- Creating competitive advantage
- The global marketplace
- Marketing ethics and social responsibility
Business communication
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Understanding business communication in todays workplace
- Communicating in teams and mastering listening and nonverbal communication
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Planning business messages
- Writing business messages
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Completing business messages
- Choosing and using media for brief messages
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Writing routine and positive messages
- Writing negative messages
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Writing persuasive messages
- Understanding and planning reports and proposals
- Writing and completing reports and proposals
- Preparing and giving oral presentations
- Building careers and writing rsums
- Applying and interviewing for employment
Fundamentals of accounting
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Accounting and the business environment
- Recording business transactions
- The adjusting process
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Completing the accounting cycle
- Accounting for a retail business
- Internal control and cash
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Receivables
- Inventory
- Long-term assets: plant assets and intangibles
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Current liabilities and payroll
- Corporations and stockholders' equity
- Long-term liabilities
- The statement of cash flows
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Financial statement analysis.
- Introduction to management accounting
- Job order costing
- Process costing
- Cost-volume-profit analysis
- The master budget and responsibility accounting
- Flexible budgets and standard costs
- Special business decisions and capital budgeting
Introduction to finance
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- An introduction to the foundations of financial management - the ties that bind
- The financial markets and interest rates
- Understanding financial statements and cash flows
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Evaluating a firm's financial performance
- The time value of money
- Risk and return
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Bond valuation
- Stock valuation
- Capital-budgeting techniques and practice
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Cash flows and other topics in capital budgeting
- Cost of capital
- Determining the financing mix
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Dividend policy and internal financing
- Short-term financial planning
- Working-capital management
- Current asset management
- International business finance
Management & administration
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introduction to management and organizations.
- Management yesterday and today.
- Organizational culture and environment: the constraints.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Managing in a global environment.
- Social responsibility and managerial ethics.
- Decision-making: the essence of the manager's job.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Foundations of planning.
- Strategic management.
- Planning tools and techniques.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Organizational structure and design
- Communication and information technology.
- Human resource management.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Managing change and innovation.
- Foundations of behavior.
- Understanding groups and teams.
- Motivating employees.
- Leadership.
- Foundations of control.
- Operations and value chain management
E-business
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Overview of ec.
- E-commerce market mechanisms.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Reatailing in e-commerce: products and services.
- Consumer behavior, customer service, and advertising
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Company-centric b2b and collaborative commerce.
- Public b2b exchanges.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Intrabusiness, e-government, c2c, e-learning, and more.
- Mobile commerce.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Laws, ethics, and cyber crime.
- Payments and order fulfillment.
- E-strategy, internet communities, and global ec.
- Infrastructure and application development.
Human resources
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Introducing hrm
- Human resource strategy and planning
- Recruitment
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Selection: shortlisting and interviews
- The employment relationship
- Introduction to the learning process
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Learning and development programmes
- Performance appraisal and performance management
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Payment systems
- Managing employee welfare
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Health and safety
- Partnership, employee involvement and high performance working
- Discipline and grievance
- Dismissal, redundancy and outplacement
Introduction to Construction Management
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Overview
- Structural properties of areas
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Stress and strain
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Stress and strain
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Stress and strain
- Shearing stresses
- Deflection and indeterminate beams
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Beam design and framing
- Elastic buckling of columns
- Trusses
Surveying
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Surveying fundamentals
- Distance measurement
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Leveling
- Angles and theodolites
- Total stations
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Traverse surveys and computations
- An introduction to geomatics
- Satellite positioning
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Horizontal control surveys
- Modern construction surveying practices
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Highway curves
- Highway construction surveys
- Municipal street construction surveys
- Pipeline and tunnel construction surveys
- Culvert and bridge construction surveys
- Building construction surveys
- Quantity and final surveys
Construction Estimation
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The art of estimating
- Overview of the estimating and bidding process
- Introduction to excel
- Fundamentals of the quantity takeoff
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Concrete
- Masonry
- Metals
- Woods, plastics, and composites
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Thermal and moisture protection
- Openings
- Finishes
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Fire suppression
- Plumbing
- Hvac
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Electrical
- Earthwork
- Exterior improvement
- Utilities
- Material pricing
- Labor productivity and hours
- Labor rates
- Equipment costs
- Crew rates
- Subcontract pricing
- Markups
- Pricing extensions
Construction Materials
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Basic concepts
- Resultant of concurrent forces in a plane
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Equilibrium of concurrent forces in a plane
- Resultant of nonconcurrent forces in a plane
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Equilibrium of a rigid body
- Force analysis of structures and machines
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Friction
- Center of gravity, centroids, and moments of inertia of areas
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Internal reactions; stress for axial loads
- Strain for axial loads: hooke and rsquo;s law
- Shear stresses and strains; torsion
- Shear forces and bending moments in beams
- Bending and shearing stresses in beams
Construction Accounting
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Construction financial management.
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Construction accounting systems.
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Accounting transactions.
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- More construction accounting.
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Depreciation.
Computer-Aided Drawing
Topics Covered in This Course:
- In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
- The components and interface of civil 3d
- A civil 3d jumpstart project
- The simple, but time honored point
- In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Civil 3d, the modern curvilinead
- Advanced digital terrain models
- In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
- Advanced profiles and sections
- Advanced corridor development
- In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics
- Advanced site grading and virtual site designtm
- Piping for storm sewers and drainage
- In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
- Civil 3ds visualization capabilities
- Surveying
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