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ProTrack: The options keep getting better!

ProTrackFlorida Tech's ProTrack Co-op program incorporates professional work experience and online course work into its College of Engineering degree programs, allowing participants to graduate in four years with the equivalent of a year of career experience. Plus, this traditional combined degree/co-op programs only take five years!

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What is a Construction Management degree?

Whether you want to be a construction manager or an entrepreneurial contractor, you can get there with construction management degree from Florida Tech. Here, you'll develop a strong background in engineering and get hands-on experience in business and project planning.

Designed in cooperation with the university's Construction Industry Advisory Board (CIAB) to meet the high demand for construction professionals in Florida and beyond, the program prepares undergraduates to enter the rapidly expanding field of construction as competent and confident construction managers.

Our construction management degree program is dynamic and focused. You'll get started right away, taking core courses like CAD Applications and Construction Plans and Introduction to Civil Engineering as a freshman. Guided by highly accomplished faculty who care about your success, you'll hone your strengths and begin specializing as early as sophomore year.

Advantages

Why Florida Tech:

  • Booming, active construction industry
  • Extensive and accessible professional network
  • Learning is practical, hands-on and dynamic
  • High-tech environment creates unique opportunities for innovation
  • Resume-building internships abound and students earning a construction management degree are in high demand
  • Classes are taught by professors, not graduate students

Learning

Internships and Cooperative Learning: The College of Engineering works closely and maintains relationships with many local engineering and construction companies. Many of these companies also serve on the Construction Industry Advisory Board. As a result, students have access to a large network that provides a wealth of resources and internship opportunities.

Companies and organizations providing internships to students earning a construction management degree include but are not limited to:

  • Bechtel
  • Brown and Root
  • BRPH Architects & Engineers, Inc.
  • Camp, Dresser, & McKee
  • Carter & Burges
  • Creech Engineers, Inc.
  • Edward J. Maeck Landscape Architects
  • Excel Construction
  • Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport
  • Jones Edmonds Engineering
  • Kimley, Horn & Associates
  • Lane Construction Corp.
  • Mead Construction Inc.
  • NASA
  • PBS&J Construction Services Inc.
  • Trauner Consulting
  • Turner Construction
  • Woodruff Construction Company

Future Outcomes

Outcomes - Grad School: In the College of Engineering, nearly 100% of our graduates enter graduate school or find a job within six months of graduation.

Outcomes - Career and Salary: Students graduating from the construction management degree program will be well positioned to enter the field of construction with little to no additional on-the-job training, prepared to start their careers as managers and/or entrepreneurs. Currently, about 80% of seniors from the College of Engineering receive job offers prior to graduation.