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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Course Catalog
Construction Science, Ph.D.
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The Doctor of Philosophy in Construction Science is designed to meet the demands of the highest skilled professionals to become the leaders who support, advance, and expand construction science on both large and small scales. This program provides a path for professionals in the construction field to explore new ground, as the industry faces changes in competitive local, national, and global markets. Graduates will contribute to the construction science field through the creation of new ideas in response to the impact of increasing technology. Students who complete the program can expect to fill executive and senior-level management positions in commercial construction, military construction, civil construction, and construction technology.
All required courses are offered exclusively online in an 16-week asynchronous format.
Student Outcomes
Upon graduation, graduates will be able to
- Integrate and synthesize alternate, divergent, or contradictory perspectives or ideas fully within the field of Construction Science.
- Critically analyze existing theories in Construction Science to draw datasupported conclusions to move the field forward and support the attainment of desired outcomes.
- Conceptualize, apply and integrate effective qualitative and quantitative research strategies in Construction Science and to develop new information effectively.
- Take a leadership role in a field of Construction Science while employing the highest levels of ethics, analytics, decision analysis, and data visualization.
- Present scholarly work on Construction Science via appropriate communication channels.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge and competencies in Construction Science.
- Execute a plan to complete a significant piece of scholarly research in Construction Science.
- Evaluate how construction affects the regions though pollution, noise, logistics, safety and environment simultaneously in the local and extended community.
- Address the need for sustainability and Green Building within Construction Science.
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Course Requirements
Doctor of Philosophy 60 Credits
Notes
- This program may be completed with a minimum of 60 credit hours, but may require additional credit hours, depending on the time required to complete the dissertation/publication research. Students who are not prepared to defend after completion of the 60 credits will be required to enroll in RSC-899, a one-credit, eight-week continuation course.
- Students are required to be continuously enrolled/registered in the RSC-899 course until they successfully complete their dissertation defense/exegesis.
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