Sveučilište u Splitu - Fakultet građevinarstva, arhitekture i geodezije University of Split - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy

Academic staff:

• Nives Ostojić-Škomrlj Ph.D., Full Professor - Head of Department
• Nikša Jajac Ph.D., Full Professor
• Katarina Rogulj Ph.D., Assistant Professor
• Martina Milat, Ph.D., Senior Assistant

Learning outcomes: 

Undergraduate University Study of Civil Engineering
Construction Operations and Equipment - a student will be able to:
- analyse and comment specific aspects of construction production and usage of technology in construction processes;
- plan to efficiently manage construction processes;
- analyse and organise a use of machinery and formwork systems in construction processes;
- organise and plan production in construction plants;
- plan an efficient and cost-effective usage of different machinery in construction processes.

Construction Management - a student will be able to:
- organise a construction site;
- calculate unit prices for rough construction works;
- plan construction works and control an execution of construction works;
- estimate the most economical (cost-effective) building method;
- handle a part of documentation at the construction site (construction diary, building book).

Basics of Business Economy - a student will be able to:
- identify and distinguish functions of enterprises and entrepreneurs;
- estimate position of the company with respect to the structure of the market in which it operates;
- evaluate the relationship between supply and demand in the market (equilibrium and price);
- identify, distinguish and comment on sources and distribution of funds of enterprises;
- identify, distinguish and comment on costs of a company;
- evaluate the performance of companies.

Graduate University Study of Civil Engineering
Operational Research in Civil Engineering - a student will be able to:
- recognise and differentiate characteristics of civil engineering systems;
- apply mathematical programming to civil engineering problems;
- apply simulation and other models (game theory, queuing theory, stock management) to the concrete civil engineering problems;
- analyse production processes and model certain production segments using OR;
- apply information theory models to decision processes in civil engineering.

Business and Investments in Civil Engineering - a student will be able to:
- assess production upon conventional indicators;
- recognise, structure and analyse costs, asses a company upon its balance sheet and control a production;
- create and assess cash-flow and feasibility study;
- value and compare investments;
- make and advice financing model for state investments using public-private partnership model.

Decision Systems in Civil Engineering - a student will be able to:
- recognise and differentiate characteristics of system analysis, decision theory and IT in the decision processes and management in civil engineering;
- generate different concepts of decision support systems;
- model decision support by applying multicriteria analysis;
- integrate geographical information systems (GIS) into decision support processes in civil engineering;
- recognise and differentiate characteristics of information systems and expert systems;
- evaluate and follow the development of software and information systems for civil engineering.

Project Management (Civil Engineering) - a student will be able to:
- plan a life-cycle of civil engineering project and resources usage in constrained situations;
- optimise project processes and evaluate simulation models;
- validate and assess a success of project management;
- control a usage of project resources;
- manage project risks and multi-project systems.

Postgraduate Doctoral Study of Civil Engineering
System Engineering in Project Management - a student will be able to:
- apply system analysis to system modelling, i.e. project management;
- plan and manage projects by using models and techniques of system engineering;
- optimise project processes, especially in conditions of limited resources;
- apply models of operational research and expert systems in project management;
- select and rank projects;
- implement TQM in project management.

Decision Support Systems - a student will be able to:
- connect the basic principles of decision-making theory with specific problem;
- select the most appropriate method of multi-criteria analysis;
- integrate certain system constituents for decision-making support;
- evaluate the efficiency of certain systems in civil engineering practice.

System Theory - student will be able to:
- confirm the general system theory;
- recognise and analyse system entropy; analyse systems and propose improvements;
- create organisational structure of cybernetic systems;
- propose organisational solutions of automated system management.

Undergaduate University Study of Architecture and Urban Planning
Construction Planning and Management - a student will be able to:
- present key elements of construction project’s phases;
- distinguish and separate into elements types of construction work;
- connect stakeholders during construction work;
- distinguish documentation at construction site.

Graduate University Study of Architecture and Urban Planning
Project Management - a student will be able to:
- comment basic elements of project management;
- make static and dynamic plan, as well as estimate project costs;
- make resources plan;
- identify and comment risk causes;
- analyse multi-project systems.

Construction Investments Planning - a student will be able to:
- identify and comment basic elements of economy with special emphasis on planning;
- comment and assess costs and income as well as to control related procedures;
- comment financial surroundings of an organization within construction industry;
- present  and comment investment projects and plans of capital investments in construction;
- differentiate and comment financial analysis (methods and results) and sources of funding;
- differentiate the possible mutual relations of participants within construction investments.

Undergraduate University Study of Geodesy and Geoinformatics
Business Communication - a student will be able to:
- understanding the basics of business communication in context of engineer profession;
- planning, writing and finalising massages, reports and proposals;  
- creating and performing oral and online presentations;
- managing business meetings;
- effective usage of IT in business communications.

Introduction to Management - a student will be able to:
- prepare, analyse, control and comment on business-financial documentation of an geodetic company;
- choose a staff and lead teams;
- organize the structure and operations of geodetic company;
- control the processes within an geodetic company;
- carry out the managerial functions in large and/or small private and/or public geodetic companies.

Undergraduate Professional Study of Civil Engineering
Construction Technology - a student will be able to:
- comment specific aspects of construction production and usage of technology in construction processes;
- plan to efficiently manage construction processes;
- organise a use of machinery and formwork systems in construction processes;
- organise and plan production in construction plants;
- plan an efficient and cost-effective usage of different machinery in construction processes.

Construction Management I - a student will be able to:
- differentiate participants in the construction process;
- create a bill of quantities;
- calculate the consumption of materials on the construction site;
- calculate the duration of construction activities;
- organise a small construction site.

Basics of Entrepreneurship - a student will be able to:
- interpret basic principles and types of organisations related to entrepreneurship in construction;
- identify and analyse investment structure with emphasis on funding possibilities;
- produce and assess basic accounting reports  and business metrics

Construction Management II - a student will be able to:
- compose a cost estimate of a small object/structure;
- calculate of unit prices for rough construction works:
- plan the works and control the execution of construction works:
- handle a part of documentation at the construction site (construction diary, building book).

Basics of Business Economy - a student will be able to:
- identify and distinguish functions of enterprises and entrepreneurs;
- estimate position of the company with respect to the structure of the market in which it operates;
- evaluate the relationship between supply and demand in the market (equilibrium and price);
- identify, distinguish and comment on sources and distribution of funds of enterprises;
- identify, distinguish and comment on costs of a company;
- evaluate the performance of companies.

Internship - a student will be able to:
- differentiate and control managerial function related to construction works (at construction site and in plant);
- organise a construction site;
- plan construction works and control an execution of construction works;
- prepare and manage a documentation at the construction site.