Conference Session

Sustainability in Construction Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Korman, California Polytechnic State University; Lonny Simonian, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

unique personnel and equipment utilizationissues faced by specialty contractors.The integrated curriculum model described by Hauck and Jackson3 provides tremendousopportunities to engage teaching strategies far beyond the common lecture approach typicallyutilized in many single subject courses. Various methodologies such as cooperative learning and theuse of interactive learning stations can easily be utilized in an integrated learning lab environment.The integrated approach to construction management education requires students to be activeparticipants in their own education, students learn far more by doing something active than bysimply watching and listening2. Therefore, to take advantage of the studio-laboratory format of thecourse proposed