Construction Education for Engineers and Technical Professionals

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Construction Education for Engineers and
Technical Professionals

• 26 November 2007

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• ESM status and support
• ESM and MBA
• Civil and Construction Engineering
• Construction Management
• Graduate Certificates
• Current Plan
• Need Advice and Support

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Construction Management

• Demand for construction managers
• Many new programs
• Demand for construction management education
• How does that relate to UAF?
• CEE?
• ESM?

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Engineering Management at UAF - History

• Founded at UAF in 1959
• 6th Engineering Management Program in U.S.
• John Hilpert ( Larry Bennett, 1971)
• Started Anchorage courses 1961
• UAF faculty flew
• Added Science Management in 1960s
• What is Engineering Management? Engineering
  Management is the art and science of planning,
  organizing, allocating resources, and directing
  and controlling activities which have a
  technological component. ASEM

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1966 Hilpert Memo to Dean

• The Engineering Management Program was designed
  for graduate engineers who have sufficient
  experience to be ready for supervisory and
  managerial assignments.
• To prepare engineers in Alaska for more
  responsible jobs.
• To improve management of engineering operations
  in the State.

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2002 Graduate Comment

• The ESM program was great for me, because it
  filled in all the nooks and crannies that an
  undergrad engineering program typically doesnt
  have time to cover, such as legal principles,
  accounting, a strong focus on project management,
  etc. One obviously has to have a solid
  engineering background, but you cant succeed in
  an engineering firm without these other skills to
  round out your knowledge.

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Dilberts take
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• 1961-1999, Combined UAF, UAA, NTU, two to four
  faculty, plus some admin
• 560 masters degrees, 14.3 grads/yr
• 1990-1999, UAF, one full-time faculty
• 5.2 grads/yr
• 2000 first Ph.D.
• Lt. Col. Jim Buckingham
• 2001-2007, one half full-time faculty
• 3.3 graduates per year

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Chicken or Egg?

• Short of faculty leads to fewer students
• Fewer students leads to fewer faculty
• Consider engineering MSs
• General employment situation of engineers is good
  sellers market
• Full-time MS does not pay for US Citizen
  engineers
• Evening courses are demanding
• Lack one-to-one correspondence with

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Contrast ESM with MBA

• ESM and SoM have great relationship at UAF
• Engineers with MBA do well compared with EM degree

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Courses, typical
EM MBA
Human Element Similar Similar
Finance and Accounting -
Project Management -
Statistics, OR Similar Similar
Non-mgt. Electives -
Marketing -
Capstone Project Similar Similar
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Construction

• Major industry in Alaska
• Non-exportable
• About 1/3 CE graduates go into directly
• Most the rest are involved

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Civil and Construction Engineering

• Both ABET curricula
• CE must teach four major CE sub-disciplines
• Structural
• Geotechnical
• Environmental/Sanitary
• Transportation
• Hydraulics/Hydrology/Water Resources
• Surveying/Measurements
• Construction

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Construction Engineering

• proficiency in engineering design in a
  construction engineering specialty field
• construction processes, communications, methods,
  materials, systems, equipment, planning,
  scheduling, safety, cost analysis, and cost
  control
• economics, business, accounting, law,
  statistics, ethics, leadership, decision and
  optimization methods, process analysis and
  design, engineering economics, engineering
  management, safety, and cost engineering

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Design Specialty?

• College One requires four steel and concrete
  design courses plus surveying
• College Two requires one course each in
  structures, geotech, transportation,
  environmental
• College Three requires structures and surveying

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CE and Const E Overlap

• Construction Engineers will obtain PE as Civils
• Academically, most Construction engineering is
  part of CE department
• All Construction Engineers will study some (CE)
  design
• Some programs there is no real difference, Con E
  is just elective in CE program

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CE with two electives

• CEE 481 Civil Engineering Project
  ManagementCivil engineering project management
  and administration, planning and scheduling, cost
  estimating and bidding strategies, financial
  management, quality control and safety, and
  computer applications.
• CON 496 Construction Contract AdministrationSurve
  ys administrative procedures of general and
  subcontractors. Studies documentation, claims,
  arbitration, litigation, bonding, insurance, and
  indemnification. Discusses ethical practices.

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Engineering and Construction Management

• Construction Management is not ABET
• Gradient between Engineering and Construction
  Management, no definite standards.
• If the CM program is close to engineering, the
  fewer construction-related specialized courses
• Some are essentially liberal arts with some
  little math and science, but construction-related
  courses

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Undergraduate CM Classes

• 35-45 cr. General requirements
• 15-21 cr. Math, computer, and science
• 12-18 cr. General business
• 20-30 cr. Technical construction
• 3-6 cr. Estimating
• 9-12 cr. Technical management

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Technical not management

• Methods of building construction
• Civil technology
• Structural technology
• Safety
• Cost estimating
• Mechanical and electrical technology
• Codes and standards

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General business

• Business law
• Economics, macro and micro
• Financial and managerial accounting
• Real estate and finance

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Technical Management

• Construction Project Management
• Project Planning and Scheduling
• Construction Equipment Management
• Principles of Construction Management
• Leadership and Foundations of Construction
• Construction Modeling and Data Structures
• Law, Contracts and Specifications
• Construction Documents and Quality Control

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Graduate CM degrees MS

• Quite varied
• Three good schools
• One only has three required courses
• Construction Productivity
• Project Management
• Construction Company Financial Control

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Second has more general

• Construction Operations,
• Managing Fabrication,
• Construction, estimating,
• Sustainable development,
• Organizational design,
• Managing engineering and construction companies,
  leadership
• Real estate.

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Third has more technical

• CE 798 Selected Topics in Construction seminar
• CE 825 Project Management for Construction CE
  826 Construction Cost Estimating CE 827
  Contracts and Specifications CE 828 Risk
  Analysis CE 829 Construction Operation Analysis
  - scientific study of operations, modeling,
  productivity, work-motion CE 830 Information
  Systems in Project Management CE 831 Engineering
  for Construction I Methods and Technologies MG
  601 Organizational Behavior

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ESM CM
Human Element
Finance and Accounting
Project Management
Quantitative Decision Making
Non-mgt. (Engineering/Technical) Electives Large
Estimating
Construction Management Electives Large
Capstone Project None
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So Far

• ESM is not MBA. CBNC
• Leverage synergy
• CM is not CE or Const E, usually
• CM is not design
• ESM is not CM
• ESM lacks technical construction
• Less technical management

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CM possibilities

• Have associates degree in CM
• Could add Construction Engineering to Civil BS,
  would not be a large leap
• But no advantage for students
• Would need resources to start CM MS
• Smallest would be one full-time, if ESM was fully
  staffed and with SoM.
• Might not get the students to justify

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Graduate Certificates

• Growth industry in engineering education
• Typically 12 to 15 graduate credits
• Generally acceptable towards MS
• Rolla indicates 11 of 29 departments have
  certificate programs

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U. M. Rolla

• Admission Requirements
• at least one year of post-BS professional
  engineering experience
• satisfaction of the prerequisites for any course
  taken in the program
• Program Requirements
• Each individual certificate program consists of
  four courses. To receive a graduate certificate,
  a student must earn a cumulative grade point
  average of 3.0 or better in the program.
• The Option to Continue
• Certificate program students will have
  non-matriculated status. If, however, a student
  completes each of the four courses with a grade
  of B or better, the student can be admitted to a
  corresponding master's degree program. In this
  case, the certificate courses the student has
  taken will count towards the chosen master's
  program.

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Stevens Tech, 21 certificates

• Graduate Certificate programs are generally four
  course, 12 credit programs geared
  to students who
• Are interested in improving their current skills.
  
• Are considering new career paths within industry.
  
• Have been out of school for sometime, and want to
  resume their studies without committing to a full
  30 credit Master's Degree program.
• Already hold an advanced degree, but wish to
  continue their studies in a new or related area.

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Certificates Sell

• (Many private universities are marketing)
• Focused on narrow area
• Get credential faster
• Often marketed to industry, i.e.,
• Design of Pharmaceutical Facilities
• Value Chain Enterprise Systems
• Pharmaceutical Process Engineering
• Often distance delivered
• Often dont need MS to complete BS degree

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Negatives ?

• Not research orientated
• Commercial rather than academic
• Does not fit academic mold/mould
• Extension School material
• (All these are only negative from academics)

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AK DOT Classes

• Asked UAF to offer some construction management
  classes last spring
• UAF generated preliminary information
• Met with AK DOT to refine
• Gary Tyndall took plan to contractors, owners,
  AGC, etc.

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Owners Wanted

• Focus on industry-identified needs
• Concentrate on human interactions, not design
  skills
• Avoid overlapping existing courses, such as TVC
  and AGC

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Details

• emphasize management skills, more than technical
  skills.
• orient the program towards individuals who have
  engineering or technical bachelors degrees, and
  who have several (say 5 to 10) years of
  subsequent work experience.
• offer training sessions in short, concentrated
  modules, which can be completed and applied
  quickly.
• offer the training at times and locations that
  are convenient for individuals who are working
  regular, full time jobs, and during seasons that
  minimize conflict with construction activities.

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UAF wants

• (I think)
• High academic standards
• Credit production
• No extra resources needed
• Not interfere with research
• Suspend the laws of thermodynamics
• Perpetual Motion Machine

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Student/employees Want

• Skills
• Advancement
• Confidence
• Money
• Sheepskin

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First, Early, Draft of Certificate Program

• Had Four Discipline Area
• Human interactions and communications (4-6
  credits)
• Construction project management (4-6 credits)
• Construction contract administration (4-6
  credits)
• Other Areas (3-4 credits total)

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1.) Human interactions and communications (4-6
credits)

• Ethics and professional responsibility
• Human resources laws and practice
• Incentive, recognition, and reward systems
• Labor relations
• Training and development programs
• Recruiting, selection, performance appraisal
• Leadership
• Delegation
• Written communications
• Oral communications
• Visual communications
• Negotiations
• Proposal writing
• Public involvement
• Public/media relations
• Personal skills/time management

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2.) Construction project management (4-6 credits)

• Project life cycle
• Construction project delivery systems
• Project organizations
• Project control, work breakdown structure
• Project scheduling, CPM, programs
• Controls systems
• Managing (vs. preventing) changes, changes
  affecting professional seals and code
  requirements
• Project initiation, coordination matrix,
  integration management
• Project/regulatory interaction, inspections by
  others Stakeholders
• Project termination
• Project selection
• Project Risk analysis and control

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3.) Construction contract administration (4-6
credits)

• General law
• Contract law
• Public procurement law
• Changes and substitutions
• Claims
• General estimating
• Methods
• strategies
• Record-keeping, accounting management, and work
  acceptance
• Construction equipment management and accounting
  methods
• Financial statements and bonding
• Insurance
• Contract Administration, including
• Contractor Payments, Change Orders, Force
  Accounts, Claims Management, Project closeout,
  Specifications, Office procedures, Project safety
  issues, workers comp and record-keeping,
  Inspections and Quality Control

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Other (3-4 credits total)

1. Asset and maintenance management
2. Project economics and life cycle costing
3. Risk analysis
4. Emergency response
5. Environmental law and permits/EIS
6. Project Development and Envir. Documentation
7. Business practices including financial statements

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This Spring

• Offer six one-credit courses
• AK DOT will sponsor three of them
• All meet either Mon-Wed or Tue-Thru
• 300 to 515 for six meetings
• At CDE Conference Room
• Old Bowers Building

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• The AK DOT courses are
• The Big Picture, systems thinking and
  organizational dynamics (Dr. Herman)
• Scheduling for Construction Administration (Dr.
  Bennett)
• Managing Risk (Dr. Perkins)
• The non-sponsored courses are
• Overview of Environmental Laws, Regulations, and
  Permitting (Dr. Perkins)
• Power and politics, effect on motivation (Dr.
  Herman)
• Construction Claims Case Studies (Dr. Bennett)

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Distance

• Three of the classes will be delivered to Nome
• CDE direct to Nome campus
• No parking problem
• Still looking for Anchorage anchor for other
  three
• Need audio conference room
• Could be other location

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Administration

• UA Corporate Programs can collect from companies
• UAF Center for Distance Education can collect
  from individuals
• Plan to charge regular tuition to individuals
• Have a Workforce Development grant

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Academics

• Approved special topics courses.
• Slides under radar

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Questions to you

• Is this a one-time venture?
• Start of something new?
• Graduate Certificate in Construction Mgt.
• Other certificates?
• Pre-construction engineering
• Transportation engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Others

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Issues?

• Cant find Ph.D.s with construction experience
• Hard to hire non-Ph.D. for full-time appointment
• Dont have faculty for ESM
• Adjunct funding is first to be cut
• Need sufficient students
• Need employer support

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• Need Board of Regents approval for new degree
• Split zone between
• Three credit course that is clearly academic
• CEU-type class that is clearly not.