Engineering Policy and Design

Catalog description

Why and how the works that civil engineers do are the results of specific policy decisions. Introduction to policy. Infrastructure policy. Policy examples and constraints such as sustainability and resilience. Policy analysis, implementation and evaluation. Students will prepare discussion briefs drawn from policy issues of the day for which an engineering analysis is necessary, and design and report on a policy topic of interest. Course may be used by CE students who transfer into the SOE with Math 20200 to fulfill the ENGR 10100 requirement.