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EM486 Cost Engineering: Estimating, Budgeting, and Control
Credits: 3 (2,0,3) Prerequisites: EM327 Co-requisites: EM482
Cost engineering for construction organizations, projects, and operations. Construction financing;
break-even, profit, and cash flow analyses; capital budgeting. Equipment cost and procurement
decisions. Construction financial accounting, cost accounting, and cost control systems. Cost
breakdown, fixed and variable costs, direct and indirect costs, insurance and bond premiums, and
overhead and markup. Cost indices and conceptual estimates, parametric estimates, detailed
estimates, unit price proposals, measuring work and payment determination. Earned value
analysis.

EM492 Cooperative Education (Co-op)
Credits: 10 (10,0,0) Prerequisites: Completion of 128 Credit hours
The PSU COOP Education Program combines classroom learning with work experience to assist
students in applying their knowledge and skills to real life situations and building strong
partnerships between the PSU and the local business community, as well as enable our students
to create future quality career in response to the evolving of local economic and workforce
development needs. Students are expected to prepare and present a report of their work
experience.

EM495 Senior Design Project
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: ENG30 and Senior Level Standing
This course presents project groups deliver their products that have progressed through the
design, analysis, testing and evaluation stages. The project teams produce a polished professional
report that describes the design process, implementation and testing, verification and validation,
and a critical appraisal of the project. An oral presentation and graphic works are complementary
project deliverables.

EM496 Internship
Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Completion of 90 credit hours
This is an eight-weeks professional training course in Engineering Management. The program
combines classroom learning with work experience to assist students in applying their knowledge
and skills to real life situations and enable our students to create future quality career in response
to the evolving of local economic and workforce development needs. Students are expected to
present their work experience after finishing the four-weeks period.

ENG101 Intensive Writing
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: None
This first level college writing course is designed to train students in the basic skills necessary for
writing in general. It focuses on writing essays using various rhetorical methods and patterns such
as narration, argumentation, persuasion, description, comparison, contrast, problem, solution,
etc. Students are required to write essays both in and outside of the classroom.

ENG103 Research Writing Techniques
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisites: ENG101
This course starts with paraphrase and the synthesis of ideas from several different sources.
Library skills follow. Students are familiarized with the University's circulation and reference
sections; are schooled on how to locate printed materials using the library online catalog. Other
basic research skills taught: writing bibliographies and use of documentation. Students are also
instructed in narrowing a topic, annotating sources, formatting and writing a report.

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