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Offered by: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Administrative Contact: CE Undergraduate Major Coordinator, 221 Hollister Hall, 607 255-3412. www.cee.cornell.edu
Eligibility: Students in all Majors may participate in this minor. (CEE students may not use courses to fulfill the minor requirement and simultaneously as a Major Approved Elective or as a Design course.)
Educational Objectives:  This minor focuses on giving engineering students a basic understanding of engineering economics, accounting, statistics, project management methods, and analysis tools necessary to manage technical operations and projects effectively. The minor provides an important set of collateral skills for students in any engineering discipline.

Requirements
At least six (6) courses (minimum of 18 credits), chosen as follows:

I. Required Courses (3)

CEE 323 or	Engineering Economics and Management
OR&IE 451	Economic Analysis of Engineering Systems
OR&IE 3501	Financial and Managerial Accounting
and
CEE 3042	Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering
or ENGRD 270	Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics
or ECE 310	Introduction to Probability and Random Signals

 
II. Additional Courses—Choose any three3

CEE 406	Civil Infrastructure Systems
CEE 490	Management Practice in Project Engineering
CEE 492	Engineers for a Sustainable World
CEE 5934	Engineering Management Methods: Data, Information, and Modeling
CEE 5944	Economic Methods for Engineering and Management
CEE 595	Construction Planning and Operations
CEE 596	Management Issues in Forensic Engineering
CEE 597	Risk Analysis and Management
CEE 598	Introduction to Decision Analysis
NBA 507 (formerly NBA 401)	Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers
or M&AE/ENGRG 461/OR&IE 452	Entrepreneurship for Engineers
or BEE 489	Engineering Entrepreneurship, Management, and Ethics

 
Academic Standards
At least C in each course in the minor.

1OR&IE students must substitute NCC 556 or NBA 500 for OR&IE 350.
2T&AM 310 cannot be substituted for CEE 304.
3Other courses approved by petition in advance.
4This course is not accepted for OR&IE students.

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