Dr Arnold Yuan teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. From time to time, he also offers industrial training courses in industrial statistics and risk and reliability analysis.
Undergraduate Courses
- CVL609 Civil Engineering System (regularly)
Systems concept, general process of civil engineering projects, linear programming, integer programming, network programming, multiple-objective decision making, data analysis and statistical modeling, decision making under uncertainty, Monte Carlo simulation, probabilistic design, life-cycle infrastructure management
- CVL742 Project Management (occasionally)
Basic framework of PMBOK, project delivery systems, construction contracts, budget and cost estimation, project planning, scheduling, budgeting and controlling, resource management, CPM, PERT, EVA, project risk management, quality, health and safety
- CVL312 Computer-Aided Structural Analysis (no longer teaching)
Force and displacement methods, matrix method for 1-D structures, beam, truss, frame, and composite structures, introduction to plane stress and strain problems, formulation of triangular elements
Graduate Courses
- CVL8102 Advanced Construction Management (occasionally)
Review of PMBOK framework, review of critical path method, resource-constrained scheduling, project risk management, game theory and its application to bidding and contract administration, contingency management, project evaluation
- CV8110 Infrastructure Asset Management (Fall in odd-number year)
Infrastructure system analysis, life cycle costing, decision making under uncertainty, demand forecasting, performance measure and monitoring, inspection technologies, condition assessment, deterioration modeling and lifetime prediction, maintenance and rehabilitation optimization, prioritization and programming, innovative project delivery, project and program management, and case studies on provincial and municipal infrastructure asset management
- CV8311 Risk and Reliability for Engineers (Fall in even-number year)
Basic notions of risk and reliability, review of probability concepts and statistical techniques, structural reliability methods, reliability data analysis, deterioration modeling, system safety and reliability analysis, decision theory, life-cycle infrastructure management