A 100% experiential curriculum that replicates the real world.

No lectures. No textbooks.
Completely experiential.

2,000+ hours doing

Students spend over 2,000 hours across an entire year working on professional-grade projects in teams under real-world conditions.

2,000+ hours working on almost a dozen different construction projects facilitates the level of repetition and the variety of experiences needed for students to achieve technical mastery.

Reps + variety = Technical mastery

Soft skills too

Students spend all year with their classmates and a variety of AI-agent colleagues, so they graduate fully professionalized.

AI-first approach

Students learn to do their job with an AI-first mindset to make themselves 10x more productive and effective.

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Project Engineer Cut Sheet

In building our curriculum, we started by creating a cut sheet that detailed the skills, competencies, and experiences of the ideal experienced Project Engineer.

This is who every pega6 student will be when they graduate.

pega6 Project Engineer — Cut Sheet
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White-Collar Trade Schools
Doc No. PE-001
Revision v0.3
Program 12 months
Project Engineer I
Model: AI-Native Project Engineer
Entry-level field / project engineering
Application: General Contractor · Commercial & Mission Critical
Performance Data
2,000+
Supervised project hours
8
Projects delivered
50
Skills at mastery level
38
Skills at proficiency level
Capabilities (what they can do)
✓Read a multi-discipline plan set and identify sheet-to-sheet conflicts before the field does
✓Produce a quantity takeoff, AI-assisted and manually verified, within 5% of the reviewed quantity
✓Draft an RFI the design engineer can answer without a follow-up question
✓Assemble and route a complete submittal package and keep the log current
✓Build a procurement log from the specs and schedule, then chase deliveries against it
✓Turn a day of field conditions (photos, readings, tickets) into same-day documentation a PM acts on without clarification
✓Run a subcontractor coordination meeting: agenda, minutes, action items, follow-through
✓Maintain a 3-week look-ahead and run a pull plan with the trades
✓Track self-perform crew hours against budget and flag a productivity problem before it compounds
✓Quantify, document, and communicate the impact of a mid-project scope change
✓Carry 3+ concurrent workfront assignments with no dropped deadline
✓Take redlines on any deliverable and return it corrected without repeating the noted errors
✓Identify when an AI output is wrong and correct it before it ships
Deliverables (what they can produce)
Daily field reportDaily
Field notes & photo documentationDaily
RFI (draft + log management)Weekly
Submittal package & logWeekly
Quantity takeoffWeekly
Layout verificationWeekly
Meeting minutes & action itemsWeekly
Look-ahead schedule (2-3 week)Weekly
Quality / inspection checklistWeekly
Procurement & delivery logWeekly
Labor productivity reportWeekly
Quantity tracking vs. estimateBiweekly
Change-order supportMonthly
Engineering memo / calc packageMonthly
Closeout package (punch, as-builts, O&M)Per phase
Competencies & Skills Schedule
Engineering Fundamentals5 skills
Surveying & measurement · Geotechnical basics · Soil mechanics · Statics & mechanics · Structural analysis basics
Civil & Site Literacy7 skills
Erosion & sediment control · Site grading · Site layout & geometry · Drainage & stormwater · Pavement & hardscape · Site utilities · Detention & water quality
Building Systems Literacy11 skills
Cast-in-place concrete · MEP coordination · Structural steel · Building envelope · Electrical & switchgear · Fire protection & life safety · Interior finishes · Mechanical & cooling systems · Mission-critical redundancy · Roofing & waterproofing · Vertical transportation
Construction & Field Engineering11 skills
Construction sequencing · Layout & control · Punch list & closeout · Quantity takeoffs · RFIs & field questions · Shop drawing review · Site inspection & QA/QC · As-builts & O&M turnover · Commissioning & startup · Construction safety · Materials testing
Self-Perform & Productivity6 skills
Crew sizing & manpower · Labor productivity tracking · Unit rates & production goals · Cost coding & labor hours · Self-perform carpentry ops · Self-perform concrete ops
Project Delivery10 skills
Lean & pull planning · Procurement & buyout · Site-report documentation · Subcontractor coordination · Cost estimating · Owner & client communication · Permitting & inspections · Project scheduling (CPM) · Scope & change management · Stakeholder negotiation
Practices8 skills
Field verification · Plan set reading · Quantity documentation · Redlines & markups · Code & standards · Model & CAD navigation · Specifications · Technical report writing
Soft Skills9 skills
Clarifying questions early · Coachability · Communication · Ownership & follow-through · Professionalism · Teamwork · Escalation judgment · Grit · Time management
AI Fluency3 skills
AI output verification · Agent orchestration · Agentic workflows
Tools & Software12 skills
Bluebeam Revu · Claude · Excel · Procore · AutoCAD · Civil 3D · MS Project & Primavera P6 · Navisworks · Revit · Autodesk Build / ACC · Point-cloud & reality capture · Power BI & dashboards
Bold = mastery · plain = proficiency · grey = familiarity
pega6 certifies this Project Engineer has been reviewed against all of these specifications and is optimized for entry-level field/project engineering work at your company.
APPROVED
pega6 · Reviewed to spec
Cohort 2027
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Once we created the cut sheet for the perfect Project Engineer, we worked backward to build an experiential curriculum that would result in every pega6 grad possessing those characteristics. (You can mouse over each project to see the skills that you’ll learn and/or exercise.)

Our curriculum

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Designed Chaos

We incorporate numerous additional real-world elements into each project to further optimize graduates for the workplace.

During their projects, students will experience weather delays, scope changes, site conditions that don't match the drawings, unexpected utilities, permit revisions, inspector holds, subcontractor performance problems, budget pressure on a change order, and so much more that will make their projects messy . . . just like in the real world.

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Continuous failure creates problem solvers.

We employ a “continuous failure” pedagogy where students are given minimal instruction and must navigate challenges independently until they’ve hit a truly insurmountable roadblock.

Only then does a pega6 project manager intervene to provide enough guidance and support to get them “unstuck.”

This approach ensures that our graduates are highly adept at autonomous problem solving .

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