3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This course investigates the data sources and numerical tools required to assess the status of constructed facilities and to make informed decisions from the data. The course is oriented toward upper class and graduate students familiar with the delivery of capital construction projects (buildings, roads, bridges, earthworks, utilities, rail/transit, ports, and canals) and includes numerical analysis techniques. The course will focus on data sources, either direct or indirect, and analysis methods to identify the current condition or project future conditions of built infrastructure. Course format will be highly interactive with discussion about recent infrastructure projects in both instructor, guest speaker, and student-led discussions. Issues of sustainability, regulations, and other factors will be discussed and examined.
Learning Outcomes1Learn Identification of metrics for analysis.
2Learn data gathering techniques and tools.
3Learn management of infrastructure data.
4Learn techniques to resolve missing or non-existent data.
5Learn numerical methods, limitations and accuracy.
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