Student Learning Outcomes
Program Objectives
Vision #1: to become an academic incubator nurturing the next-generation believers to become essential assets to the community and serve the world.
Objective #1: Program Stability
The program will maintain and improve program enrollment in collaboration with the College of Engineering (COE) leadership and the CBU Career Center.
Objective #2: Industry Community Engagement
The program will create and maintain partnerships with the peer institutions, local industry, and community to benefit student learning and career development.
Vision #2: to provide a unique learning environment where students enjoy their time with the faculty and find their learning fun and fruitful.
Objective #3: Scholarly Activities
The program will provide an atmosphere where faculty can be committed to quality education, research, and professional development and offer students with guidance to become life-long learners in construction management fields.
Objective #4: Continuous quality education
The program will maintain quality education in construction management and help students understand Christian’s role in fulfilling the Great Commission in the built environment.
Student Learning Outcomes
Student outcomes describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the knowledge, skills and behaviors that students acquire as they progress through the program. The outcomes prepare graduates to attain the program educational objectives.
CBU graduates are expected to:
- Create written communications appropriate to the construction discipline.
- Create oral presentations appropriate to the construction discipline.
- Create a construction project safety plan.
- Create construction project cost estimates.
- Create construction project schedules.
- Analyze professional decisions based on ethical principles.
- Analyze methods, materials, and equipment used to construct projects.
- Apply electronic-based technology to manage the construction process.
- Apply basic surveying techniques for construction layout and control.
- Understand different methods of project delivery and the roles of and responsibilities of all constituencies involved in the design and construction process.
- Understand construction accounting and cost control.
- Understand construction quality assurance and control.
- Understand construction project control processes.
- Understand the legal implications of contract, common, and regulatory law to manage a construction project.
- Understand basic principles of sustainable construction.
- Understand the basic principles of structural behavior.
- Understand the basic principles of HVAC, electrical and plumbing systems.