The First Year program’s mission is to equip future professionals with knowledge, tools, and strategies to lead in sustainable, data-driven asset management. Through a curriculum grounded in asset-based planning, students learn to develop and implement Resource Management Plans (RMPs) that promote Total Resource Management. Our goal is to raise the standard of excellence in resource stewardship, empowering graduates to make more efficient decisions that extend asset life, enhance service delivery, increase safety, and ensure long-term sustainability across all sectors.

Goals

• Students graduate with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to independently develop a complete, defensible Resource Management Plan (RMP) from start to finish.

• Provide a clear understanding of Resource Management and its importance in sustaining the physical assets of any resource system.

• Emphasize a flexible, methodology-based approach to resource management that can be customized and applied across various industries and organizational types, whether managing parks, facilities, utility infrastructure, or contracted services.

• Students leave with a new perspective on their organization’s work, equipped with a risk-aware mindset that informs every aspect of resource management planning, from asset inventory to budgeting, with the goal of proactively identifying and mitigating potential risk