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CONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS CURRICULUM

Available Fall 2025
(see https://app.ce.berkeley.edu/courses/sections/2025/ Fall for specifics)

Planned for Spring 2026
(The specifics of Spring 2026 courses are not yet available, but will be posted on classes.berkeley.edu in mid-October)

Core Courses

CE268A Lean Construction Concepts and Methods, Tommelein, 3 units
CE180 CEE Systems Design, Tuholski/Nguyen, 4 units (TBD if offered in Spring 2026)
CE268H Advanced Project Planning and Control, Disney, 3 units
CE268D Law for Engineers, Shumway, 3 units
CE278 Infrastructure Sensing and Modeling, Soga/Zekkos, 3 units
CE268G Ground Construction, Zekkos, 3 units

Focus Area: Engineering and Project Management

CE167 Engineering Project Management, Tommelein, 3 units
CE166 Construction Engineering, Shami, 3 units
 
CE268B Lean Construction and Supply Chain Management, Tommelein, 3 units

Focus Area: Civil Systems/Transportation

CE112 Water & Wastewater Systems Design and Operation, Soga, 3 units
CE191 CEE Systems Analysis, Sengupta, 3 units
CE290I Civil Systems: Control and Information Management, Sengupta, 3 units
CE291D Data-driven Control Methods for Civil Engineering, Delle Monache, 3 units

Focus Area: Geo Systems

CE270 Advanced Geomechanics, Zekkos, 3 units
CE175 Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Athanasopoulos Zekkos, 3 units
CE275 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Bray, 3 units
CE272 Numerical Modelling in Geomechanics, Soga, 3 units (pre-reqs CE270, CE175, or equivalent)
CE281 Engineering Geology, Kayen, 3 units
CE277 Advanced Foundation Engineering, Bray, 3 units (pre-reqs CE270, CE175, or equivalent)

Focus Area: Structural Engineering and Mechanics of Materials (SEMM)

CE220 Structural Analysis Theory and Applications, Konstantinidis, 3 units
CE222 Finite Element Methods, 3 units
CE244 Reinforced Concrete Structures, Opabola, 3 units
 
CE247 Design of Steel and Composite Structures, INSTRUCTOR, 3 units
 
CE249 Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering, Mosalam, 3 units
 

RECOMMENDED ELECTIVES

Note: 

  • Check classes.berkeley.edu to determine if the courses below are offered this Academic Year and in which semester.
  • Courses numbered less than 100 will not count towards your degree. (Data 8, CE 88, etc.)

College of Environmental Design (CED) - Architecture

  • ARCH229 – Special Topics in Digital Design Theories and Methods - Gutierrez
  • ARCH252 – Form and Structure - Schleicher
  • ARCH258 – Robotic Fabrication and Construction  - Schleicher

School of Information

  • INFO25 – Applied Machine Learning
  • INFO288 – Big Data and Development

Electrical Engineering

  • EE127A/227A – Optimization Models in Engineering
  • EE227BT – Convex Optimization
  • EEC220A – Advanced Control Systems I
  • EE221A – Linear Systems Theory
  • EE222 – Nonlinear Systems

Computer Science

  • CS61A – Introduction to Programming
  • CS/Data 100 – Principles & Techniques of Data Science
  • CS289A – Introduction to Machine Learning
  • CS194-5 – Internet of Everyday Things
  • CS294-112 – Reinforcement Learning

Data Science

  • Data 8 – Foundation of Data Science
  • CS/Data 100 – Principles & Techniques of Data Science
  • Stat 140 – Probability for Data Science
  • CE88 – Data Science for Smart Cities
  • CE88B – Time Series Analysis: Sea Level Rise & Coastal Flooding
  • ESPM88A – Exploring Geospatial Data

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

  • INDENG262A – Mathematical Programming
  • IEOR135 – Applied Data Science w/ Venture Applications
  • IEOR142 – Intro to Machine Learning & Data Analytics
  • IEOR165 – Engineering Statistics, Quality Control, and Forecasting
  • IEOR242 – Applications in Data Analysis

 

Last updated 2025-07-06