Graduates of the CEM programme will be equipped with the technical, leadership and managerial skills they need to play a transformative role in the construction sector.
The key learning objectives are to:
- Understand the main factors governing national policies in construction.
- Learn how the construction industry must and will change to accommodate the legally binding targets for sustainability and CO2 reduction.
- Identify technological advances that will enhance the construction process.
- Understand the range of financial instruments and constraints on managing large-scale construction projects.
- Gain a broad knowledge of the construction sector.
- Gain an insight into good research practice and ethics.
- Understand business practice and tools in the areas of technology management, technology transfer and exploitation.
Intellectual skills:
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Application of generic skills in modelling, simulating and experimentally evaluating construction projects.
- Critical evaluation of technical problems.
- Holistic thinking in solving problems to manage technological, environmental, ethical, economic and public policy considerations.
- Ability to act as a change agent within an organisation, manage change effectively and respond to changing demands.
- Ability to solve complex research issues.
- Understanding of commercial exploitation routes for construction-based technologies and evaluation of options for technology transfer and/or implementation.
- Plan, conduct and evaluate an original and individual research dissertation.
Transferable Skills:
- Preparing formal reports in a range of styles.
- Creative thinking, critical reasoning and exercising independent thought.
- Managing time and deadlines.
- Effective independent and group work.
- Communication and collaboration.
