Filed of municipal engineering. Infrastructure, capital projects, financing, sustainability, disaster planning and response, and municipal plan review techniques.
Specific Course Objectives :
Analyze major issues and challenges facing public works or municipal engineering officials.
Analyze how a locality plans, finances, and builds adequate public infrastructure: roads, solid waste facilities, water and sewere systems, and other public facilities.
Research how local ordinances are used in public works.
Apply sustainability principles in the development of municipal projects.
Illustrate the role of public works officials and municipal engineers in the planning and response to natural disasters.
Employ municipal plan review techniques on actual sets of plans.
Critique articles published in public works, urban technology, planning and municipal engineering journals.