Accomplishments of SDCET graduates during the first five years after graduation:

• Graduates possess skills necessary to enter careers in construction, operation, and/or maintenance of the built environment and global infrastructure.
• Graduates will have strengths in the building, testing, operation, and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure with abilities to utilize basic construction documents to participate in construction activities.
• Graduates will be capable of specifying project methods and materials, perform cost estimates and analysis, and manage construction activities.

• An appropriate mastery and ability to apply current knowledge, techniques, skills, and modern professional engineering tools and adapt to emerging applications of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology.
• An ability to identify, formulate, analyze, and apply basic technical concepts to solve technical, construction problems involving hydraulics and hydrology, geotechnics, structures, construction scheduling, and management, and construction safety.
• The capability of utilizing modern instruments, methods and techniques to implement construction contracts, documents, and codes.
• The capability of utilizing modern surveying methods for construction layout.
• The capability of determining forces and stresses in elementary structural systems.
• The capability of estimating material quantities and costs.
• The capability of employing productivity software to solve technical problems.
• The capability of performing economic analyses and cost estimates related to design, construction, and maintenance of systems in the construction technical specialties.
• The capability of selecting appropriate construction materials and practices.
• An ability to conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze, interpret and apply experimental results to improve processes.
• An ability to apply creativity in structural design engineering of systems, components, or processes appropriate to program objectives.