Who’s in Charge Here? Profile of Construction Management Program Leaders

This study investigates the impact of faculty education and industry experience on the work readiness of Construction Management (CM) graduates within their first three years’ post-graduation. This research hypothesized that the educational background and industry experience of CM faculty significantly influence graduates’ preparedness for the construction industry. Employing a mixed-methods approach, this study surveyed 465 full-time faculty members across 30 ACCE-accredited CM programs, evaluating their degrees and relevant industry experience. Recent graduates and industry leaders were surveyed to assess perceived readiness to work. The demographic findings revealed only 7% of faculty hold doctoral degrees in CM and 47% lack work experience in the field. The results also indicated that there is a linear relationship between programs with higher levels of industry experienced faculty and doctoral degrees in CM with enhanced career preparedness. The study proposes the Construction Faculty Qualifications (CFQ) Score, a metric combining academic and industry experience to evaluate and improve faculty qualifications comprehensively. The CFQ Score aims to drive accreditation requirements toward a more balanced combination of academic achievement and practical experience. This research underscores the necessity for CM-specific educational backgrounds and significant industry experience to enhance the quality and effectiveness of CM education.

Boyd C. Paulson Jr., the Charles H. Leavell Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford University and an international leader in construction education, died on December 1, 2005. Paulson’s father was a heavy-construction project manager whose work caused regular family moves to projects around the world. From the time of his birth in Providence, R.I., on March 1, 1946, Paulson was exposed to the world of construction. He earned three degrees in civil engineering from Stanford: B.S. in 1967, M.S. in 1969, and Ph.D. in 1971. After earning his doctorate, he moved to the University of Illinois as an assistant professor of civil engineering 1972 to 1974 , but Stanford soon lured him back to its graduate Construction Engineering and Management Program faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. During his years at Stanford, he also served as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo 1978 , the Technical University of Munich 1983 , the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland 1990–1991 , and the University of Hawaii 1998 , and as a Visiting Eminent Scholar at the Del E. Webb School of Construction, Arizona State University 1996 . In 1995, he volunteered to oversee construction of Peninsula Habitat for Humanity’s $2 million, 24-unit condominium project for low-income residents in East Palo Alto, Calif. He eventually joined the organization’s board of directors. Paulson was a member of the Construction Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, and served as chairman of the Construction Division the predecessor to the Construction Institute in 1986–1987. He chaired the ASCE Committee on Professional Construction Management from 1974 to 1977 and the National Science Foundation’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Division Advisory Committee from 1983 to 1989. He also served as vice chair of the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology from 1986 to 1989 . Paulson was awarded ASCE’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize in 1980, the Construction Management Award in 1984, and the Peurifoy Construction Research Award in 1993. Additionally, he was elected to the National Academy of Construction in 2001. To many of us who had the opportunity to know and work with Boyd personally, the awards represent only a small token of appreciation to a man who did so much for our profession and who took the time to mentor so many of us. Requiescat in pace

On behalf of ASCE Journal Publications and the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (JCEM) Editorial Board, I would like to thank Dr. Xiangyu Wang from Curtin University in Australia for his steady, tireless, and unselfish service to this journal as an Assistant Specialty Editor in the Project Planning and Design Area. We look forward to his continued participation as an author and reviewer. I take great pleasure in announcing the appointment of three new Assistant Specialty Editors in the Project Planning and Design Area led by Dr. SangHyun Lee. We welcome you to the JCEM Editorial Board and look forward to your many contributions! Dr. Changbum Ahn is an Assistant Professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he leads the Smart and Sustainable Construction Research Group. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in architectural engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea and his M.S. in earth and environmental engineering from Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 2012. His main research interest is to investigate and develop data-driven techniques for transforming traditional project delivery processes into integrated, sustainable practices. He is particularly interested in utilizing smart sensing technologies— small-sized and low-cost sensors that can be easily employed in today’s construction environment—to capture activity-assessment and operational-assessment information in order to contribute to project planning, design, and control. By reappropriating widespread technologies to investigate opportunities for improved environmental, economic, and social sustainability, his research seeks to facilitate the immediate implementation of improved construction practices. Dr. Ahn has been actively involved in several academic and professional organizations, including three committees of the ASCE Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology and the ASCE Construction Research Council. He also serves as a peer reviewer in various journals. Dr. Fei Dai is currently an Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering and Management in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of West Virginia University, where he is leading the development of the construction program and the Integrated Construction Informatics Laboratory. Prior to joining West Virginia University in August 2012, he received his postdoctoral training at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and M.S. in civil engineering from Tsinghua University, China. He also holds a B.Eng. degree in transportation and civil engineering from Hefei University of Technology, China. His research primarily involves development and application of advanced sensing and computing techniques in the areas of construction planning, control and automation, and automated jobsite safety and health monitoring. He is particularly interested in integrating visual sensing, discrete-event simulation, and evolutionary optimization techniques to enhance the productivity, safety, and efficiency of construction processes. Dr. Carol C. Menassa is an Assistant Professor and a John L. Tishman Faculty Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at UM, she was the M. A. Mortenson Company Assistant Professor of Construction Engineering and Management at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for four years. She received her Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering and M.S. in finance from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and her M.S. and B.E. in civil and environmental engineering from the American University of Beirut. Carol directs the Intelligent and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure Systems Laboratory at UM. Her current research focuses on sustainability of building infrastructure systems. She is using building automation systems and other sensor devices to understand and model the impact of occupant energy use characteristics on energy consumption in buildings and develop cost-effective solutions to achieve energy efficiency and conservation. She is also involved in several research projects focused on international construction, integrated project delivery, and quantitative assessment of project manager competencies. Her research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Construction Industry Institute, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and the Wisconsin Energy Research Consortium. Carol has more than eight years of industry experience as a project engineer with Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners), a leading consulting firm, working on large-scale projects across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. She also was a summer associate with CRA International in their Boston, Massachusetts, office for three years, where she worked with their capital projects group. Carol is an active member of the Construction Research Congress (CRC) and the Academic Committee of the Construction Industry Institute (CII), and is a member of the ASCE Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology (TCCIT), the Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation (VIMS) Committee, the Data Sensing and Analysis Committee, and the Education Committee.

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Reasons for including failure case studies within the undergraduate engineering curriculum have been made by various authors. Typically, specific cases have been integrated into the syllabi of engineering mechanics, structural analysis, and structural design courses. The case studies used generally include catastrophic structural failures, where failure can be defined as a structural collapse, often with significant loss of life. Many civil engineering undergraduate programs include a course in construction planning and management. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK) for the 21th Century, Second Edition emphasizes a need for Civil Engineers to understand not only the technical areas of analysis and design, but also more of the project management issues that enable a project to go from design to fruition. Hence, it is likely that more programs will include construction management courses. This paper deals with the integration of failure case studies into a construction management course. In addition to structural failures, this course looks at the definition of failure from an engineering/construction perspective. It explains that failure includes the inability of an engineered facility to perform as designed. It further explains how failure to be constructed within reasonable time and budgetary constraints falls within the definition of failure. While most students may have the pre-conceived notion that failures are only caused by design deficiencies and perhaps natural hazards, the examples used in this course emphasize how many failures are caused by deficiencies in the design and/or construction process itself. In addition to the use of more typical and catastrophic failure case studies, such as the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse (Kansas City, Missouri), and the L'Ambiance Plaza Collapse (Bridgeport, Connecticut), the course makes extensive use of the Montreal Olympic Facility design and construction to demonstrate how deficiencies in the design and construction process can lead to extreme constructability problems and exorbitant cost overruns. The author also shows how the inclusion of the case studies addresses some of the more difficult areas to address in the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) evaluation criteria, such as the understanding of the impact of civil and environmental engineering solutions in a global and social context.

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This study builds on Taivalkoski-Shilov’s (2015b) work on the reception of Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité in Finland, as translated by Kaisa Sivenius in 1998. It examines how two non-interdependent factors that proved central to the reception of Sivenius’s translation in Taivalkoski-Shilov’s study – paratexts and readers’ academic background – affect how readers react to a translated academic text. Our empirical study on Finnish university students reading Sivenius’s translation consisted of two parts: an eye-tracking study followed by short interviews and a reading task given to some participants with a request to write a narrative report. The participants were divided into five different groups with six to eight participants. We studied the effect of paratexts on three groups in an eye-tracking study, prior to which each group read a different paratext. The effect of academic background was studied by an analysis of narrative reports that two groups with different academic backgrounds (translator students and non-translator students) wrote about their reading experience. The analysis of the eye-tracking data gives some evidence that the paratexts read prior to reading the text sample influenced the participants’ perspective in regard to the translation. The narrative reports indicate that the participants’ academic background affected the way they reacted to Sivenius’s translation. Consequently, this study suggests that voices that surround both texts and their readers influence how these readers respond to translated academic texts.

Two experiments were used to investigate how the academic backgrounds of users may influence their interaction with information systems. Sixty students with academic backgrounds in either philosophy or psychology read two articles on interdisciplinary topics and then answered questions in a simulated information retrieval task. Responses were analyzed to determine how academic background influenced the vocabulary used to describe the information need. Results showed that academic background can affect vocabulary selection, although other influences can intervene. The effect of academic background was visible in responses to open questions but not in responses to structural or bibliographic questions.

Being uninformed about construction management as a result of deficiencies in civil engineering and architecture educational programs has negative effects on the quality and cost of construction projects. Therefore, this study attempts to determine the failures of civil engineers and architects as they relate to the sources of their insufficient management knowledge in construction management. A questionnaire survey method was used to collect data. Data representing civil engineers and architects in Turkey were collected from 1555 architects and civil engineers mainly employed in construction-related activities. The study found that, according to the surveyed engineers and architects, construction management courses were rarely included in undergraduate civil engineering and architecture programs in Turkey. A large number of participants stated that construction management course offerings were not sufficient during their education. A lack of construction management knowledge creates serious problems that affect the success of construction-related activities during these architects’ and civil engineers’ careers. Most civil engineers and architects wish they had taken courses on cost and time management, contract management, health and safety and quality management.

Construction management is considered a very important field in civil engineering. A lot of tracks had in civil engineering that achieve construction management, such as risk, time, material and labour. One of the best tracks that achieve construction is risk management in modern civil applications. Moreover, this vital track is connected directly with labour life for this it is a very important issue. Hence, the main cause of death and injuries of labour during working is decline safety measures and sometimes building control management has been utilising traditional risk monitoring. It is considered a major concern of civil engineers. In this paper, a new labour safety system in construction management is proposed to provide a safe environment. However, risk management is designed that based on the fall detection approach of labour during working or walking at high-rise buildings. In other words, online monitoring risk is proposed to support and enhance construction management in civil engineering. The proposed system will play an important role by notifying the console panel on time that helps to reduce the death rate. However, the detection system is heavily based on real pictures received from the cameras. These cameras will be distributed randomly in the building area. These pictures will be analysed at the control panel in construction management for civil engineering. In other words, the decision-maker is strongly dependent on received pictures from these cameras. According to the experimental results, outstanding results is achieved from risk monitoring in construction management.

African American political scientists are not tenured at the same rate as European Americans, nor do they hold similar rates of full professorships. This study examines data from the 1991-92 Departmental Survey of the American Political Science Association, as reported by chairs of 1,288 political science departments nationwide. The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to measure the disparities in political science faculty rank and rates of tenure by race after controlling for likely intervening factors such as age, gender, and type of institution; and (b) to examine other factors that may explain these disparities. The results reveal that race remains the single strongest significant explanation for the difference in rank among African American and European American political scientists. INTRODUCTION The rewards of academe seem elusive to African American political scientists. Although African Americans are receiving the doctorate (Ph.D) degree in political science, achieving tenure track positions in political science departments, and developing successful research agendas, they are not achieving tenure and moving into the rank of full professor at the same rate as other political scientists. The reward of a tenured position for meeting the requirements of outstanding research, teaching, and service in the profession is not bestowed upon African American political scientists in representative numbers. The plight of African American political scientists must be examined in the context of overall African American doctoral production in American institutions of higher learning. In addition, the production of African American Ph.Ds must be viewed from a historical perspective, for only within the past century have African Americans made strides in obtaining the Ph.D degree. Nonetheless, those who have obtained the Ph.D in political science are few in number. African American Doctoral Production The production of African American Ph.Ds has fluctuated over the past century-anda-half. Although data on the early years are inconclusive, some information does exist. Between 1876 and 1930, sixty-three African Americans received Ph.Ds, followed by 316 between 1930 and 1942. These numbers increased until the late 1970s, with 1,056 doctorate degrees awarded in 1979. During the following decade, the numbers declined until 1987 when only 767 degrees were awarded, nearly a one-third decrease in one decade. Since then, data reveal an upward swing that reached an all-time high in 1995, when 1,287 African Americans received Ph.Ds, the most since 1975. Increasing the number of scholars with a doctorate degree is a long-term process, with median total time from entrance to completion of the degree across all fields ranging from as long as 13 years for African American scholars compared to 10 or 11 years for European American scholars (Ries & Thurgood, 1993). However, increases in the number of African American students entering doctoral programs in the present decade are encouraging. In 1996, ninety-five African American students began doctoral study in political science compared to 68 in 1984. Nevertheless, it will be a number of years before these developments will be reflected in increased numbers of Ph.D holders and political science faculty positions (Brintnall, 1995). Researchers have considered several factors in the upward, downward, and now upward-again swing in the number of African Americans pursuing the Ph.D, including (a) the precarious financial assistance available for graduate study (Exum,1983); (b) market forces that ebb and flow in careers not requiring a doctorate degree (Rafky, 1972); and (c) the climate minority faculty and students encounter in graduate programs (Anderson et al., 1978; Blackwell, 1981, 1988; Exum, 1983). Although all these factors may play some role in the fluctuations revealed by the data, the present study examines only the climate for African American faculty, which will be proxied by examining how faculty are faring within the academy. …

Construction management has become a vital aspect of the construction process over the years. This paper reviews the Master’s programs in construction engineering and management (CEM) offered by departments of civil engineering in the United States. The findings indicate that only 20% of the American educational institutions, which offer accredited civil engineering programs, offer Master’s programs in CEM. Most of the Master’s programs in CEM constitute an effort to convey information to students on mainly six categories, namely, contract administration, project management, scheduling, equipment management, construction technology, and CEM research. It seems that the Master’s programs in CEM do not differ much from program to program in terms of content. When the trends in course offerings are compared in 1982, 1996, and 2008, there seems to be minimal change except for the number of courses in project management that went up significantly while the number of courses in cost estimating went down. The tre...

국내 대다수의 토목 CM을 포함해 특히 도로부문 CM은 근 10여 년 간 다양한 시범 사업을 수행하고 있으나, 현재 건설시장의 안착에 상당한 어려움을 겪고 있으며 감독, 감리, CM이 과도기적으로 운영되는 여건 속에서 다양한 문제점에 노출되어 있다. 이러한 상황 속에서 부실시공 및 안전문제 등으로 대변되어 온 건설 산업에 대한 부정적인 시각을 극복하고 건설 산업 전반에 걸친 비용절감 및 품질향상을 이룩하여야 하는 당면과제는 필수적이다. 이를 위해 각 주체와 효율적으로 융화될 수 있는 CM의 정착은 매우 중요하다고 볼 수 있으며, 현재까지 다양한 분야에서 토목 CM의 정착화 방안에 대한 검증을 추진 중에 있다. 하지만 아직까지 수행성과에 대한 정확한 측정이 이루어지지 않고 있는 실정이며, 발주자를 위해 CM에 대한 객관적인 이해를 돕는 문헌이 매우 부족하다고 판단된다. 본 연구는 이러한 문제를 해결하고 발주처의 관점에서 바라본 CM 제도 활성화를 추진하기 위해 현재 수행되고 있는 다양한 CM의 업무 및 제도분석을 실시하였으며, 이를 통해 빈번하게 발생되는 문제점의 해결방안을 다각도로 제시하였다. 또한 발주처를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하여 발주처의 관점에서 바라본 CM 제도 활성화 방안을 다양한 측면에서 제시 하였다. 이를 통해 얻어진 연구 결과는 향후 CM의 제도적 정립에 있어 중요한 기여를 할 것으로 판단된다. Exemplary contracts of construction management (CM) including highway projects have been carried out in the civil engineering area over the past ten years. However, practical and administrative challenges as transitional circumstances have been revealed in the different participants of supervision, inspection and construction management. Thus, it is important to internally overcome problems and negative perception encountered in civil engineering, and to promote the efficiencies in construction cost and quality. In addition, external efforts should be put to market opening, globalization, and technology development for competitiveness and high value industry. While it is critical to establish the concrete CM system by collaborating with various participants, proven architecture and system have not been provided because of incorrect measurement of CM accomplishment, overlap of responsibility between CM and supervision, and slow deployment in construction field. This paper analyzed the current CM practices and business environments, and presented the possible solutions for strategy improvement of CM in the owner's view point.

This study was informed by the lack of country-specific studies that established the knowledge level in geosynthetics among fresh graduates with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or allied programmes in developing countries. Thus, this study seeks to establish the knowledge level of fresh graduates with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or allied programmes in Ghana on the types and primary functions of geosynthetics. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and analysed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and one sample t-test. The analysis revealed an overall mean score of 2.06 and 1.74 regarding the knowledge level among fresh graduates on the types and primary functions of geosynthetics respectively. Thus, compared with the hypothesized mean of 3.5 for the study, there was generally a low knowledge level regarding the types and primary functions of geosynthetics among fresh graduates with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or allied programmes in Ghana. However, Ghana’s case was of great concern as the fresh graduates were only knowledgeable in 3 out of the 9 types of geosynthetics and 4 out of the 10 primary functions of geosynthetics. The uniqueness of the study lies in the fact that it empirically established the knowledge level of fresh graduates in civil engineering, building technology, and construction technology and management programmes at the bachelor’s level on the types and primary functions of geosynthetics which hitherto was not in existence. It recommends the review of the existing curriculum for building technology, civil engineering, and construction technology and management programmes at the bachelor’s level to include adequate content on geosynthetics as a soil improvement technology. Again, the study contributes to the existing literature on geosynthetics and forms the basis for future studies in geosynthetics.

This paper reviews the most common textbooks used in courses covering Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing systems in construction science and management programs accredited by the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE) in US institutions. The review provides a comparison of the textbook’s topics and subject areas covered, and their relation to the MEP and specialty contractor skills and knowledge required by construction management graduates in order to perform their jobs, whether in a general contractor or a specialty contractor firm. The paper also highlights the achievements, as well as the shortcomings of the reviewed MEP textbooks in supporting the learning objectives of traditional construction management courses such as print reading, estimating, scheduling and other related subjects.