Conference Session

Construction Session 4: Outside of the Construction Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Dylan John, Georgia Southern University; Marcel Maghiar, Georgia Southern University; Clint D. Martin, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Maghiar, Georgia Southern University Marcel Maghiar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University teaches Construction Man- agement courses at junior and senior level in the Civil Engineering and Construction Management de- partment. His research experience includes development of computer syntaxes to unequivocally describe construction activities and development of a consistent methodology to explicitly classify and quantify construction methods (emerging taxonomy of construction methods). Marcel’s main expertise is in com- puter modeling of construction processes. His doctoral work allows the profiling of each journeyman’s affinity for productivity, quality and safety. By analyzing the behavior of

Conference Session

Construction Session 4: Outside of the Construction Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William P Manion, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

photos, video and stories, the author canprovide current industry perspective with credibility from actually being there. Developingexample project scenarios to teach plan reading, estimating, work breakdown structures, methodsand management for the laboratory and classroom has been much easier when based on directexperiences. For example, a set of modified airport standard specifications from a real projecthas been used to stimulate discussion about the importance of reading construction specificationsthoroughly, and how they can be misleading. The essence of the disputed language was how toquantify fill materials with different unit prices. With only a few pages, the students quicklyrealize the importance of wording, as opposed to just working