| Northwestern University Civil Engineering Department
Special Course Announcement - Winter Quarter 1996
Public Infrastructure Management
Civil Engineering C-95
[course number changed 1997 to C-38]
Course announcement | Course charrette | Course outline
The course explores the management of public infrastructure in all its complexity -- including streets, highways, and sidewalks; public transportation; street lighting and traffic control systems; potable water; wastewater and drainage; parks, recreation facilities, and other public open spaces; communications systems, public buildings, solid waste handling and disposal, and others. It presents a five-part model of infrastructure management, including planning and programming, facility design, construction, operations and maintenance, and monitoring and evaluation, Each step in the process is discussed, together with its relationship to the others. The course provides sufficient detail to allow the student to gain a practical grasp of contemporary public infrastructure management policies and practices. A one-day charrette allows students working in teams to develop infrastructure management responses to challenging infrastructure crisis scenarios.
This course will be offered in the winter of 1996 meeting on Mondays 6:15-9:15p.m.. It will be taught by David Schulz, Director of Northwestern's Infrastructure Technology Institute. Mr. Schulz has a BSCE from Purdue and a Master's in Public Management from NU's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also studied urban transportation engineering at NU. He has over twenty years of experience n infrastructure at public works departments, metropolitan transportation planning agencies, local government budget offices, a parks department, and as Milwaukee County Executive.
27 students completed the course last winter, including undergraduates and graduate students in civil and other engineering fields, management student in public and not-for-profit management and related areas, and practicing public works and transportation professionals. Students gave the course an "overall instructor grade" of 3.7 out of 4.0. For more information, contact Mr. Schulz at (847) 491-8165 or e-mail dschulz@northwestern.edu.
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