Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 3
The nature and scale of energy infrastructure projects requires the implementation of modern technologies to map and model the surface of the Earth. This course provides an overview of basic techniques for location measurements using traditional surveying techniques, recently developed technologies for surface creation, and data management and analysis using GIS.

Instructors: Tim Larson and Joe Mahoney
Credits: 3
This course explores the site selection, permitting, design, construction and maintenance of energy infrastructure. It includes electrical production facilities and transmission, with a focus on the permitting and construction of renewable energy facilities, especially wind, solar and geothermal.

Instructor: Varies
Credits: 3
This course explores different methods used in the procurement and delivery of projects in the construction industry, including lump sum, unit price, cost-plus, design-build and construction management contracts.

Instructor: Stephen Muench       
Credits: 1       
This course will introduce you to statistical concepts that are relevant to construction and materials decision-making. You'll learn about basic descriptive statistics, data distributions and hypothesis testing. While the field of construction does not require expertise in statistics, this course will help you understand what relevant statistics mean and how to ask the right questions. 

Instructor: Joe Mahoney
Credits: 1
This course provides an overview of methods used to design and construct pavement structures. The types of pavements range from gravel surface to bituminous surface roads and parking lots, and includes a focus on energy infrastructure applications. The course is offered as credit/no-credit only.

Instructor: Varies
Credits: 3
This course focuses on legal issues arising from design and construction services, with an emphasis on risk management and liability awareness. You’ll explore basic legal doctrines, the design professional/client relationship, contractor selection, the construction process and professional practice problems.

Instructor: Tim Larson
Credits: 3
This course covers the basics of traditional air pollution control as applied to the energy sector, with an emphasis on construction and operating permits and management of large vehicle fleets. It complements CEE 588: Energy Infrastructure & the Environment, which discusses the energy sector more broadly, including both traditional and renewable technologies.

Instructor: Mohammad Malakoutian
Credits: 3
This course introduces construction-oriented financial management and why it’s different from financial management in other industries. We’ll look at how to account for a company’s financial resources and how to build the company’s accounting system. The course also examines managing the costs and profits of a construction company at both the project and company level, managing a company’s cash flow, evaluating different sources of funding and ways to quantitatively analyze financial decisions. This course includes a mandatory online, real-time class meeting one hour per week.

Instructor: Julian Yamaura
Credits: 3

Introduces engineered lift techniques and development of support structures needed to assemble infrastructure projects on site. Major topics include determination of loads, environmental and site considerations, crane picks and rigging, use of temporary structures, and software involved in these tasks.

Instructor: Bart Nijssen
Credits: 1
This course provides an overview of the advantages and challenges associated with the integration of variable sources of generation into the electric grid and distribution systems. We’ll cover weather-driven renewables such as wind, solar and hydropower, which make up a rapidly increasing share of generation. We’ll also discuss the variability of these energy sources and how it affects grid operation, as well as strategies for adapting to this variability. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Andrea Nesbitt
Credits: 1
This course delves into the operation and maintenance associated with a wind and solar project owned and operated by Puget Sound Energy. We’ll undertake an overview of the project and examine how it is managed and major maintenance issues. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructors: Tim Larson
Credits: 1
This course features an overview of energy infrastructure fundamentals and focuses on basic principles associated with power plant steam and combined cycles, heat transfer, and economics. It also delivers an overview of a selection of power plant operating principles and costs. The course is offered as credit/no-credit only.

Instructor: Andrew Wolfe
Credits: 1
In this course, students will build a core understanding of cybersecurity concepts and risks that are critical to success in today's network-dependent world. This course will focus specifically upon the cybersecurity risks prevalent in the construction and energy industries. This course will use lectures, selected readings from business and news sources on cybersecurity topics, and discussions to understand the risks and challenges in construction and energy infrastructure.

Instructor: Mark Kirschenbaum
Credits: 3
This course offers an introduction to power plant operations and a detailed understanding of the operational issues raised by the growth and availability of green power. We’ll explore plant operating principles, regulatory permitting, maintenance requirements, and plant design and upgrades.

Instructor: TBA
Credits: 3
Overview of statistical measures used in various construction and materials decision-making processes. Subjects include data distributions, hypothesis tests (making decisions with statistics), regression analysis, sampling, quality control and assurance, and experimental design. Uses construction data to illustrate these measures.

Instructor: Ann Rendahl
Credits: 1
This course offers an overview of a state utility commission and how it interacts with other organizations, including the Bonneville Power Administration, the North American Reliability Corporation and more. We’ll also look at the role a utility commission plays in grid management and permitting new projects, and how the Energy Imbalance Market works on the West Coast. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Matt Cramer
Credits: 1
This course explores wind turbine analysis, which involves the deployment of a variety of tools during a test to accumulate wind turbine loading and performance data. The tools deployed in the test include a data acquisition system made up of sensor hardware, analog-to-digital data conversion and transmission hardware, and data processing and storage hardware. Data accumulated during a test may be used by energy producers, turbine manufacturers and others to validate turbine design, improve turbine or farm performance, analyze site quality, diagnose mechanical or site-driven problems, and document performance problems, along with many other applications intended to improve industry-wide energy extraction from wind. The course is offered as credit/no credit only. 

Instructor: Matt Richards
Credits: 1
This course provides an overview of the high-voltage electric transmission system and how this infrastructure is constructed. We'll focus on project planning, substation construction, transmission line construction, quality control, quality assurance, operations and safety. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 1
In this course, you’ll learn how to apply concepts of geometric design to the construction and operation of infrastructure projects, with a special focus on haul, access and within-project roads. We’ll discuss environmental and other factors for project-based road design, United States and international geometric design requirements, road classifications, low-volume road geometric design, plan and profile drawings, the selection of road locations and project-specific design elements, including sight distances, intersections, horizontal and vertical curves, side clearances around curves, gradients and parking planning.

Instructor: TBA
Credits: 1 

Data science includes a range of processes, methods, and tools that can be used to convert data to information, knowledge, and eventually informed decisions. Among these tools are statistical methods, data visualization, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) all of which have been used for civil/infrastructure engineering applications. Some of these applications include construction safety, groundwater forecasting, construction quality control, traffic control, assessment of the impact of natural hazards on the built environment, and social media data mining/analysis for infrastructure management. This course will be used to respond to this need by specifically providing fundamental knowledge on concepts and applications of these specific tools/methods: statistical methods, data visualization, ML and AI for civil/infrastructure engineers.

Instructor: TBA
Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of energy demand and capacity for buildings in the United States, with a specific emphasis on commercial buildings. You'll examine electric power delivery to buildings either through distribution and transmission systems, or distributed energy resources, or a combination of both.

Instructor: Varies
Credits: 3
In this course, we’ll examine the materials, methods and techniques associated with construction of major utility systems, including water, sewer, communications, natural gas and electrical. We’ll also explore the construction of central utility plants as well as major distribution and collection systems.

Instructor: Tom Le
Credits: 1
AutoTURN software is a standard productivity tool for determining the minimum standards associated with vehicle logistical operations. We’ll examine how this program is used to analyze road and site design projects, including issues with vertical and horizontal curves, intersections and haul roads that involve vehicle clearances and turning maneuvers. This course is not intended for experienced AutoTURN users. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 1
In this course, you’ll learn how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D to efficiently handle construction design drawings for energy infrastructure projects. You’ll learn how to navigate, edit, modify and red-ink remarks on construction design drawings. We’ll discuss building information modeling (BMI) within Civil 3D and explore infrastructure-specific drawings. You’ll learn how to handle traditional 2D construction drawings, generate and visualize surfaces, verify submitted volumes of earthworks and produce a profile along the center line of pipelines, transmission lines and roads.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 1
This course will introduce you to GIS theory and practice so that you can recognize GIS file formats and perform basic GIS operations. You’ll develop an understanding of the limitations, requirements and capabilities of GIS, and how this tool can help you organize large amounts of data, manage projects and make decisions. We’ll discuss GIS data formats, sources and data structure. You’ll learn GIS operations such as the classification of data, merging, how to select based on location and attributes, buffering and overlay. You’ll learn how to use GIS for multi-criteria analysis and to evaluate choices among alternatives.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 3
The nature and scale of energy infrastructure projects requires the implementation of modern technologies to map and model the surface of the Earth. This course provides an overview of basic techniques for location measurements using traditional surveying techniques, recently developed technologies for surface creation, and data management and analysis using GIS.

Instructors: Tim Larson and Joe Mahoney
Credits: 3
This course explores the site selection, permitting, design, construction and maintenance of energy infrastructure. It includes electrical production facilities and transmission, with a focus on the permitting and construction of renewable energy facilities, especially wind, solar and geothermal.

Instructor: Fady Masoud
Credits: 3
Information technology plays an important role in construction management and cost estimating. This course covers computerized construction, fundamentals of computer hardware, construction management software tools, web publishing, GPS application and construction data management.

Instructor: Varies
Credits: 3
This course explores different methods used in the procurement and delivery of projects in the construction industry, including lump sum, unit price, cost-plus, design-build and construction management contracts.

Instructor: Joe Mahoney
Credits: 1
This course provides an overview of methods used to design and construct pavement structures. The types of pavements range from gravel surface to bituminous surface roads and parking lots, and includes a focus on energy infrastructure applications. The course is offered as credit/no-credit only.

Instructor: TBA
Credits: 1 

Data science includes a range of processes, methods, and tools that can be used to convert data to information, knowledge, and eventually informed decisions. Among these tools are statistical methods, data visualization, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) all of which have been used for civil/infrastructure engineering applications. Some of these applications include construction safety, groundwater forecasting, construction quality control, traffic control, assessment of the impact of natural hazards on the built environment, and social media data mining/analysis for infrastructure management. This course will be used to respond to this need by specifically providing fundamental knowledge on concepts and applications of these specific tools/methods: statistical methods, data visualization, ML and AI for civil/infrastructure engineers.

Instructors: Tom Le and Julian Yamaura
Credits: 1
This course explores the AutoCAD and Bluebeam software programs. It includes engineering drafting and graphical communication, the application of drafting standards and structure, reading and creating civil and environmental engineering plan sets, and creating and modifying basic drawings in AutoCAD. It also covers the basic features of Bluebeam software, a program that aids PDF creation, markup, editing and collaboration capabilities. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Varies
Credits: 3
This course focuses on legal issues arising from design and construction services, with an emphasis on risk management and liability awareness. You’ll explore basic legal doctrines, the design professional/client relationship, contractor selection, the construction process and professional practice problems.

Instructor: Tim Larson
Credits: 3
This course covers the basics of traditional air pollution control as applied to the energy sector, with an emphasis on construction and operating permits and management of large vehicle fleets. It complements CEE 588: Energy Infrastructure & the Environment, which discusses the energy sector more broadly, including both traditional and renewable technologies.

Instructor: Mohammad Malakoutian
Credits: 3
This course introduces construction-oriented financial management and why it’s different from financial management in other industries. We’ll look at how to account for a company’s financial resources and how to build the company’s accounting system. The course also examines managing the costs and profits of a construction company at both the project and company level, managing a company’s cash flow, evaluating different sources of funding and ways to quantitatively analyze financial decisions. This course includes a mandatory online, real-time class meeting one hour per week.

Instructor: Bart Nijssen
Credits: 1
This course provides an overview of the advantages and challenges associated with the integration of variable sources of generation into the electric grid and distribution systems. We’ll cover weather-driven renewables such as wind, solar and hydropower, which make up a rapidly increasing share of generation. We’ll also discuss the variability of these energy sources and how it affects grid operation, as well as strategies for adapting to this variability. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Andrea Nesbitt
Credits: 1
This course delves into the operation and maintenance associated with a wind and solar project owned and operated by Puget Sound Energy. We’ll undertake an overview of the project and examine how it is managed and major maintenance issues. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructors: Tim Larson
Credits: 1
This course features an overview of energy infrastructure fundamentals and focuses on basic principles associated with power plant steam and combined cycles, heat transfer, and economics. It also delivers an overview of a selection of power plant operating principles and costs. The course is offered as credit/no-credit only.

Instructor: Andrew Wolfe
Credits: 1
In this course, students will build a core understanding of cybersecurity concepts and risks that are critical to success in today's network-dependent world. This course will focus specifically upon the cybersecurity risks prevalent in the construction and energy industries. This course will use lectures, selected readings from business and news sources on cybersecurity topics, and discussions to understand the risks and challenges in construction and energy infrastructure.

Instructor: Mark Kirschenbaum
Credits: 3
This course offers an introduction to power plant operations and a detailed understanding of the operational issues raised by the growth and availability of green power. We’ll explore plant operating principles, regulatory permitting, maintenance requirements, and plant design and upgrades.

Instructor: Julian Yamaura
Credits: 3

Introduces engineered lift techniques and development of support structures needed to assemble infrastructure projects on site. Major topics include determination of loads, environmental and site considerations, crane picks and rigging, use of temporary structures, and software involved in these tasks.

Instructor: TBA
Credits: 3
Overview of statistical measures used in various construction and materials decision-making processes. Subjects include data distributions, hypothesis tests (making decisions with statistics), regression analysis, sampling, quality control and assurance, and experimental design. Uses construction data to illustrate these measures.

Instructor: Ann Rendahl
Credits: 1
This course offers an overview of a state utility commission and how it interacts with other organizations, including the Bonneville Power Administration, the North American Reliability Corporation and more. We’ll also look at the role a utility commission plays in grid management and permitting new projects, and how the Energy Imbalance Market works on the West Coast. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Matt Cramer
Credits: 1
This course explores wind turbine analysis, which involves the deployment of a variety of tools during a test to accumulate wind turbine loading and performance data. The tools deployed in the test include a data acquisition system made up of sensor hardware, analog-to-digital data conversion and transmission hardware, and data processing and storage hardware. Data accumulated during a test may be used by energy producers, turbine manufacturers and others to validate turbine design, improve turbine or farm performance, analyze site quality, diagnose mechanical or site-driven problems, and document performance problems, along with many other applications intended to improve industry-wide energy extraction from wind. The course is offered as credit/no credit only. 

Instructor: Matt Richards
Credits: 1
This course provides an overview of the high-voltage electric transmission system and how this infrastructure is constructed. We'll focus on project planning, substation construction, transmission line construction, quality control, quality assurance, operations and safety. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 1
In this course, you’ll learn how to apply concepts of geometric design to the construction and operation of infrastructure projects, with a special focus on haul, access and within-project roads. We’ll discuss environmental and other factors for project-based road design, United States and international geometric design requirements, road classifications, low-volume road geometric design, plan and profile drawings, the selection of road locations and project-specific design elements, including sight distances, intersections, horizontal and vertical curves, side clearances around curves, gradients and parking planning.

Instructor: TBA
Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of energy demand and capacity for buildings in the United States, with a specific emphasis on commercial buildings. You'll examine electric power delivery to buildings either through distribution and transmission systems, or distributed energy resources, or a combination of both.

Instructor: Varies
Credits: 3
In this course, we’ll examine the materials, methods and techniques associated with construction of major utility systems, including water, sewer, communications, natural gas and electrical. We’ll also explore the construction of central utility plants as well as major distribution and collection systems.

Instructor: Tom Le
Credits: 1
AutoTURN software is a standard productivity tool for determining the minimum standards associated with vehicle logistical operations. We’ll examine how this program is used to analyze road and site design projects, including issues with vertical and horizontal curves, intersections and haul roads that involve vehicle clearances and turning maneuvers. This course is not intended for experienced AutoTURN users. The course is offered as credit/no credit only.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 1
In this course, you’ll learn how to use AutoCAD Civil 3D to efficiently handle construction design drawings for energy infrastructure projects. You’ll learn how to navigate, edit, modify and red-ink remarks on construction design drawings. We’ll discuss building information modeling (BMI) within Civil 3D and explore infrastructure-specific drawings. You’ll learn how to handle traditional 2D construction drawings, generate and visualize surfaces, verify submitted volumes of earthworks and produce a profile along the center line of pipelines, transmission lines and roads.

Instructor: Kamal Ahmed
Credits: 1
This course will introduce you to GIS theory and practice so that you can recognize GIS file formats and perform basic GIS operations. You’ll develop an understanding of the limitations, requirements and capabilities of GIS, and how this tool can help you organize large amounts of data, manage projects and make decisions. We’ll discuss GIS data formats, sources and data structure. You’ll learn GIS operations such as the classification of data, merging, how to select based on location and attributes, buffering and overlay. You’ll learn how to use GIS for multi-criteria analysis and to evaluate choices among alternatives.