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Molenaar, Keith Robert

Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science

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Research

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  • Dr. Molenaar's research focuses on alternative project delivery strategies, cost estimating and risk analysis for constructed facilities and infrastructure.

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  • Project delivery, cost estimating and risk analysis

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Teaching

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  • COEN 1500 - CEAS First Year Seminar
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    The CEAS First Year Seminar is a small, discussion-based course designed to provide incoming first-year students a foundation to thrive as university scholars, meeting with them from their first day of classes through getting back the results of their first round of midterms. The seminar is a combination of a common curriculum (40% ) exploring texts concerning creating an engineering identity, the purpose of an engineering education and the larger values of the college community (mattering, belonging, agency, ownership, inclusivity and service) and a unique curriculum (60%) in which faculty members cultivate these values through their own areas of expertise and interest. This seminar represents the commitment of dedicated faculty to help incoming first-year students become an active and contributing part of the intellectual, inclusive, healthy, inquisitive, diverse, sustainable and socially engaged culture of the College of Engineering.
  • COEN 1830 - Special Topics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Explores topics of interest in engineering. Content varies by instructor and semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
  • CVEN 5276 - Engineering Risk and Decision Analysis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
    Acquaints students with the fundamental principles and techniques of risk and decision analysis. Oriented toward project-level decisions in which risk or uncertainty plays a central role. Introduces students to Monte Carlo analyses, and various types of multicriteria decision analyses. Culminates in a larger term project. Recommended prerequisite: CVEN 3227 and graduate standing or instructor consent required.
  • CVEN 5836 - Special Topics for Seniors/Grads
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
    Supervised study of special topics of interest to students under instructor guidance. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required.
  • CVEN 6956 - Master's Thesis
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019

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