My name is Dan McAuliffe and I'm an
instructor in the Construction
Management Certificate program at UCLA
Extension. The Construction Management
program at UCLA Extension is unique in
that it offers all of the curriculum a
student needs who wants to study
construction management with very
flexible class delivery methods, whether
it's online, hybrid, or in in the
classroom, with classes offered
year-round.
My name is Evan Nishizu.
I teach Reading Construction Blueprints at
UCLA Extension. I seen that my students
might come back in the next class and
say, "Hey, I used what we learned
last week in my job today," and everyone's impressed.
So a student or working
professional who wants to change career
paths and get into construction has the
opportunity to complete the program at a
pretty quick speed if they like and to
really learn the core competencies that
you need to be a project engineer or
field engineer on a job site.
Students that take electrical design and
construction come from a multitude of
backgrounds. Some more professionals
already in the industry that really
never had a background in electrical and
they want to learn more about the
specialty trade. Others are just breaking
into it. Some of them just want to learn
it as a career change, and the
UCLA Extension Construction Management
program certainly offers that.
My name is Brian Roberts and I am a certificate
graduate of the UCLA Extension
Construction Management program.
I decided to do the program at UCLA
Extension because I was actually in
between jobs and I really wanted to go
back to school and learn a different
craft. Several days after completing my
certificate program at UCLA Extension, I
actually received a position for an
entertainment company for facilities
management as well as construction
management for the various build outs
and projects that they had in their
facility.
Why we are unique in
construction management? Because we have
special attributes. We manage unique
projects. You know, it's not a typical
project that you keep repeating. Projects
could have unique locations, unique
challenges, a unique schedule
requirements, a unique risk level. Each
project is different in its entirety.
That's why construction management is a
slightly different science than the
regular project management. I think UCLA
Extension Program is by far probably the
number one and in the area here.
There's a lot of construction jobs out there, as anyone
can see driving around town, there's
tower cranes all over the place. What a
student gets out of the program is the
confidence and the ability to walk into
a job site trailer and be a field
engineer or an intern or project
engineer and really set them up for that
career in construction management.
