2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
    Dec 11, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog and Student Handbook
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CONS 185B - Lean Construction


Credits: 3
Description
This course is designed to advance the students’ understanding of lean fundamentals and the impact it will have in the construction industry.

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify paradigms and change management.
  2. Compare traditional organizational culture and lean organizational culture.
  3. Value lean techniques and their significance in construction.
  4. Identify appropriate tools and concepts for improvement.
  5. Explain Plan/Do/Check/Act and root cause analysis to solve problems.
  6. Define value-added and non-value-added from the customer’s perspective.
  7. Employ foundational lean techniques (S5, visual controls, quality at the source, standardized work, workforce and management practices, one-piece flow, pull systems, and total productive maintenance).
  8. Analyze Value Stream Mapping and Process Mapping for improvement.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Graded: Letter Grade



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