With an online bachelors degree in construction management and critical infrastructure, you'll bring a unique skill set and understanding to your role in the construction industry. You'll graduate prepared to manage a variety of construction projects, from the field or home office. At the same time, your enhanced IT skills in cybersecurity make you uniquely qualified to handle the nation's critical infrastructure. Protecting physical buildings, industrial plants, transportation – as well as the computer networks that remotely operate these facilities – is crucial to our society and the way we live. Finally, you’ll complete an unmanned systems course. You can also add a minor in unmanned systems, which makes you able to obtain your FAA Part 107 license to operate commercial uses of drones weighing less than 55 pounds.

1. Online BS in Construction Management and
Critical Infrastructure at Capitol Tech
Dr. Brad Sims
www.CapTechU.edu
Educate. Innovate. Inspire.

2. Background working in Industrial
Construction Projects, knowledge of
IT, and moved into Higher Education
Curriculum Design

3. Capitol Tech
Private- Non Profit - Accredited
Capitol Technology University was founded in
Washington, D.C., as the Capitol Radio
Engineering Institute (CREI) in 1927 by Eugene
H. Rietzke. A Navy veteran and radio operator,
Rietzke saw the need for an advanced school that
would produce talented radio and electronics
technicians.
Capitol Technology University is fully accredited
by the Commission on Higher Education of the
Middles States Association of Colleges and
Schools

4. Construction Industry

5. Projects

6. Indoor/Outdoor Profession

7. Software Tools
• Takeoff - measure paper blueprints or digital files (e.g.,
CAD drawings or PDFs).
• Estimating - Calculate material and labor costs based on
your takeoff and create a bid proposal from those
estimates.
• Bid management - Manages procurement, purchasing and
contract management processes.
• Project scheduling - Helps managers schedule people,
resources and equipment for various projects.
• Project management - Helps managers track project
costs, manage important documentation and collaborate
with all parties involved on a project.
• Accounting & job costing - Handles the core accounting
and job costing needs of contractors. Job costing allows
accounting to allocate costs by the job.
• Building information modeling (BIM) - is a process
supported by tools, technologies and contracts involving
the generation and management of digital representations
of physical and functional characteristics of places.

8. First in the Nation Degree
• Project Management
• Cybersecurity
• Critical Infrastructure
• Construction
This degree blends all these
areas into one degree

9. Core Construction Project
Management Courses
Construction Graphics and Plan Reading
Construction Methods and Materials
Estimating
Legal Issues in Construction
Statics and Strengths of Materials
Safety Management
Construction Project Management
Cost Estimating and Bidding
Construction Planning and Scheduling
Mechanical and Electrical Systems
Environmental Systems
Management of Field Operations

10. Critical Infrastructure 16 Sectors

11. Built Facilities that Use
Operational Technology (OT)
Some Types of Facilities that use
Operational Technology Include:
- Refineries
- Power Plants
- Waste Water Treatment Facilities
- Dams
- Electrical
- Chemical
*OT Keeps the Production Going*

12. Understanding OT and IT
While IT focuses on information, as
designated in its name, OT centers around
processes and the operation of those
processes. An IT system will protect data
first while an OT system prioritizes
uninterrupted operation of processes. For
example, IT would allow a system to be
restarted to install updates which prevent
data loss, but OT will allow data to be lost
as long as the program continues to run

13. Operational Technology
(OT): Defined
Operational Technology (OT) refers to computing systems
that are used to manage industrial operations as opposed
to administrative operations. Operational systems include
production line management, mining operations control,
oil & gas monitoring etc.
IT encompasses computer systems that house
information
OT encompasses the computer systems of the physical
assets
Components of OT
• Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
• Human machine interface (HMI)
• Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
• Distributed control system (DCS)
• Programmable logic controller (PLC)

14. OT Operates the Equipment
in the Facility
Valves are common types of
equipment in industrial
facilities that are operated via
Industrial control system
(ICS) which is a collective
term used to describe
different types of control
systems and associated
instrumentation, which
include the devices, systems,
networks, and controls used
to operate and/or automate
industrial processes. OT
operates the ICS on the
equipment.

15. History of OT Part 1
 Facilities operated many years
before OT and had little need to
worry about cybersecurity
 Equipment was first operated
manually and then the ICS was
operated by pneumatics
Pneumatics is a branch of engineering that makes
use of gas or pressurized air. Pneumatic systems
used in industry are commonly powered by
compressed air or compressed inert gases. A
centrally located and electrically powered
compressor powers cylinders, air motors, and other
pneumatic devices.

16. History of OT Part 2
• Operational Technology (OT) is a
category of hardware and software
that monitors and controls how
physical devices perform
Characteristics:
• Were not networked or connected
• Controls were often mechanical
• Designed for longevity and
reliability

17. Control Systems
Purpose of Control Systems
• Efficiency, Automation, Control,
Uptime, Safety
Now Control Systems Use IT and OT
• Dependent, Data, Sharing,
Opened, Connected
Newer OT Vulnerabilities
• Appliances, Vendors, Internet,
BYOD, Cloud
*Automating controls create
vulnerabilities which will increase*

18. Vulnerabilities Risks in
Industrial Operations
• Explosions
• Health & Safety
• Extended Shutdowns
• Stolen Data
• Equipment Damage
• Financial Damage
• Environmental Damage
• Reputation Damage
• Impact on Population Needs

19. Petrochemical Plant Attack
• Triton is malware first discovered at a Saudi Arabian
petrochemical plant in 2017. It can disable safety
instrumented systems, which can then contribute to a plant
disaster. It has been called "the world's most murderous
malware."
• In December 2017, it was reported that the safety systems of
an unidentified power station, believed to be in Saudi Arabia,
were compromised when the Triconex industrial safety
technology made by Schneider Electric SE was targeted in
what is believed to have been a state sponsored attack. The
computer security company Symantec claimed that the
malware, known as "Triton", exploited a vulnerability in
computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
ICS Cyber
Attacks will
continue to
Increase
from foreign
agents

20. Project Management
IT & Cybersecurity
Careers in the Construction Industry:
With the Construction Management Focus:
• Superintendent
• Project Manager
• Estimator
• Construction Manager
• Safety Director
• Risk Manger
With the IT and Cybersecurity Focus:
• BIM/CAD Manager
• Network Administrator
• Programmer/Analyst
• IT Director
• MIS Director
• Information Security Manager
With the UAS (Unmanned Autonomous Systems) Focus:
• Pilot
• Construction Inspector
• Field Technology Manager

21. Salary

22. Links
Video on a new construction
management graduate
https://youtu.be/jNgsSdRqsh0
Website:
https://www.constructioneducation.com/
University:
www.CapTechU.edu
WomenCI.org

23. A Great Industry
Bsims@CapTechU.edu - Questions