Course

Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop a sustainable and affordable single-family residential design that complies with applicable codes and requirements, uses universal design features, and meets the needs of the client.
• Facilitate an effective team environment to promote successful goal attainment.
• Create building designs that successfully address and reflect the building’s intended function, location, community, and desired aesthetic presentation.
• Create a commercial building design incorporating sustainable building practices that complies with applicable codes and requirements.
• Select appropriate beam sections to safely support design loads for a given simply supported commercial beam application.
• Understand the educational, professional, and technical skills required for professional engineering practice.
• Describe and distinguish among the sub-disciplines of civil engineering and architecture.
• Communicate effectively with an audience based on audience characteristics.
• Exhibit an engineering mindset by demonstrating independent thinking and self-direction in pursuit of accomplishing a goal.
• Generate multiple potential solution concepts.
• Select a solution path from many options to successfully address a problem or opportunity.
• Use Architectural 3D modeling software to document the design and specify the construction of a building project.
• Accurately determine an estimated cost of a small building project.
• Apply computational thinking to generalize and solve a problem using a computer.
• Develop a site plan for a commercial facility that complies with building codes and incorporates Low Impact Development techniques.
• Determine building design loads and predict the transfer of those loads through a building structure.
• Size and locate new utility service connections for a building project.

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