Dual Accreditation Ban Lifted in Vote - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Publication Date: 02 April , 2008
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Polytechnic U. Trustees OK Link With Bigger New York U. - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Despite concerns among school alumni and others, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, N.Y., propelled its planned merger with nearby New York University when trustees overwhelmingly approved of it on March 6.
Publication Date: 12 March , 2008
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Strong College and University Market Counters Slowdown in K-12 Projects - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 21 November , 2007
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As New Tool Lands on More Campuses, Students Seek 'A' in BIM - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Building Information Modeling, or BIM, is being talked up as the next big thing in the construction industry—spiffy 4D models of structures that are linked not only to project schedules but also to e
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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For Sustainability and Clean-Energy Majors, Global Warming Is Hot - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Both were once considered passé, but if Al Gore and atomic energy can resurge in the U.S., anything is possible. Mounting evidence of global warming’s impact has propelled the study of sustain
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Hard-Hit Civil Engineers Recall Fatal Day, But Virginia Tech Moves On - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Doughnuts in the engineering lab each Tuesday help. So do potluck dinner gatherings and gestures from other U.S. campuses. Six months after a deranged student with a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol wreaked
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Industry Mentoring Links Are Becoming Mutually Beneficial - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
It used to be that long-time employees and those just starting or planning their careers did not connect. But a tightening labor market and fears of losing institutional memory and competitive advantage to
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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On-Line Learning Will Help Construction Practitioners Teach - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At a time when industry practitioners already seem to work 25 hours a day, who has time to earn a graduate degree on the side? Four construction schools are using technology to ease that challenge and star
Publication Date: 17 October , 2007
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Masonry Trades Open First National Training Facility - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Union bricklayers from all parts of the U.S. and at all levels of expertise will be able to access more craft training at a $30-million complex inaugurated last month by the International Union o
Publication Date: 03 October , 2007
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Utility-Led Programs "Turn On" Students to Energy Careers - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Facing a national shortage of electrical workers, two Florida utilities have established innovative partnerships with public schools to “turn on” students to careers in energy construction, gen
Publication Date: 18 July , 2007
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Students Win Wastewater Treatment Design Competition - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
College engineering students spend a lot of time on number crunching and abstract theory, but eight university teams from across the U.S. and Canada recently had the chance to compete to design a solution
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Students Win Wastewater Treatment Design Competition - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
College engineering students spend a lot of time on number crunching and abstract theory, but eight university teams from across the U.S. and Canada recently had the chance to compete to design a solution
Publication Date: 23 May , 2007
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Virginia Tech Engineers Struggle for Normalcy - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
Virginia Tech’s civil and environmental engineering department and other programs at the Blacksburg, Va., university are slowly and painfully seeking to recover from the April 16 massacre of 32 stude
Publication Date: 25 April , 2007
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Virginia Tech Civil Engineering Measures Its Losses - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The April 16 massacre of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, Va., better known as Virginia Tech, took a heavy toll on the university’s civi
Publication Date: 19 April , 2007
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Virginia Tech Shootings Hit Civil Engineering Dept. Hard - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction
The April 16 massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, Va., better known as Virginia Tech, took a heavy toll on the university’s civil and environmental enginee
Publication Date: 18 April , 2007
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Olin College Trains New Engineers By Going Its Own Way - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Olin College, a nontraditional engineering school located in a very traditional bastion of higher education, doesn’t do what might be expected. The Needham, Mass., college is in the heart of the upsc
Publication Date: 30 October , 2006
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Internships Help Students and Employers Gain the Inside Track - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
With big demand for engineering and construction talent, the internship is morphing from a way for students to get their feet wet into an inside track to nail post-graduation employment. To attract the bes
Publication Date: 30 October , 2006
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Sides Gird for Engineering License Battle: 30 Credits Over Degree - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A recently approved educational change to be required for an engineering license in the U.S. won’t take effect until 2015, but the debate over its ramifications is already dividing practitioners and
Publication Date: 30 October , 2006
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Texas Program Puts High Schoolers on Engineering Express - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A trailblazing program in Texas could become a national model for recruiting the next generation of engineers. At two campuses of South Texas College, high school students will earn a college-level associa
Publication Date: 30 October , 2006
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With New Apprenticeship-College Links, Craft Training Gets More Credit - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
As the construction industry struggles to produce more skilled craft workers, apprenticeship programs are seeking new recognition for the high levels of technical proficiency they provide. That recognitio
Publication Date: 30 October , 2006
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Would-be Architects Learn To Think Inside the Box - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
At the New Jersey Institute of Technology, students interested in a future in architecture can gain experience while they're still in high school. The Summer Career Exploration Program in Architecture for
Publication Date: 08 August , 2006
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Wisconsin's Winning Legacy Continues in Canoe Contest - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 03 July , 2006
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Leaders of Tomorrow Design city of Future - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 14 June , 2006
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IT Partnerships Spawn New Tools - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Increased interactivity spawned by unconventional partnerships and a stepped-up online education program were highlights of this year’s BE Conference May 21-25 in Charlotte, N.C., the user conference
Publication Date: 05 June , 2006
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Moles Sponsor Students At Ground Zero Site - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
“An intensified program of encouraging young men--students, junior engineers and young job employees…to participate in heavy construction will be carried on by The Moles in the coming year…&rdq
Publication Date: 16 May , 2006
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Notre Dame Team Wins M&E Prize - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Jury duty would be an enjoyable experience, instead of a major pain, if it were designed by engineers. I had a great time serving on a jury last week. Our role was not to determine guilt or innocence, nor
Publication Date: 15 May , 2006
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Tulane Engineering Cuts Weigh On Alumni and Community - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The decision last month by New Orleans-based Tulane University to close down nearly all of its engineering departments as a post-Katrina cost-cutting measure has sparked upset—inside and outside the s
Publication Date: 09 January , 2006
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Education Report - Cal Poly and Wentworth Institute Teach It Like It Is - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Two universities–one on the East Coast, one on the West Coast–are looking at construction education in a new, real world way. Integrating disciplines may be a no-brainer on progressive construct
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Education Report - Dancer Turned Engineering Educator Keeps Creative Juices Flowing - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
While Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Seattle, Wash., are not that far apart in miles, the distance for Carrie (Sturts) Dossick is huge in terms of career path traveled. Still, the dancer-turned-engineering
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Education Report - Demolition Management Program Is Building The Wrecking Crew - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Construction demolition hasn’t exactly been a field that attracts new blood. Made up mostly of family businesses and entrepreneurships doing less-than-glamorous work, it sports few big name players an
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Education Report - Industry Demand Pushes Schools To Keep the Numbers Up - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"There is a lot of concern in industry for both civil and construction management firms," says Ken Williamson, department chair at Oregon State University’s college of engineering, in Corvallis. "Companies want to have a litt
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Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Education Report - With Katrina-Hit Schools Set To Open, It Is Spring Fever on Campus - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Even as they still patch their wounds and round up students and staff, industry-related programs at long-closed New Orleans universities eagerly await the start of the spring semester next month. Hurricane
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Education Report -Cash-Strapped Schools Rely on Industry Stepping Up - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In his 1994 bestseller First Things First, management guru Steven R. Covey exhorts business leaders to "leave a legacy." It looks like more construction industry leaders are taking that kind of a
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Education Report -With Industry-Focused Business Degree, Managers Train To Stay - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Technical professionals who seek upward mobility with an MBA degree may please construction industry employers who see more value in their expanded capability. But a broad MBA may not add to industry knowl
Publication Date: 12 December , 2005
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Booming District's Construction Program Earns Good Grades - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The district’s 10-year, $3.5-billion bond program is backed by hotel and property taxes. Since its approval by voters in 1998, development on the Strip and skyrocketing land values have helped boost funding levels to $4 billion. Although th
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Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Displaced Students Relaunch Academic Careers Elsewhere - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
"I realized there was no way that Tulane would be able to salvage the semester," says Stein, who enrolled at the University of Florida, Gainesville, the next day, along with three fellow civil engineering students, David Strickland, Na
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Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Displaced Students Relaunch Academic Careers Elsewhere - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Amy Stein, a 21-year-old civil engineering student from Palm Harbor, Fla., looked forward to her senior year at Tulane University in New Orleans. She had just finished an internship in San Francisco, moved
Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Rapidly Growing and Underserved Districts Feel The Pinch For Many More Facilities - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Fueled by aging and inadequate facilities, the "baby boom echo," immigration and relocation, the K-12 construction market is providing a steady stream of work for contractors and design firms. I
Publication Date: 19 September, 2005
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Students Learn Life Lessons In College Building Contests
College-level engineering contests are more than an opportunity for students to socialize. Participants in the recent National Concrete Canoe Competition and the National Student Steel Bridge Competition r
Publication Date: 18 July , 2005
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Young Scientist's Work on Bangladesh's Water Woes Wins Her Trip to Sweden
A 15-year-old Portland, Ore., student may have found a solution to Bangladesh's chronic arsenic problem with its drinking water. Kathryn VanderWeele, a freshman from Oregon Episcopal School, was recently
Publication Date: 15 July , 2005
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Engineering Group Pushes Change in College-Level Study
NAE’s report, issued June 23, is a follow-on to a 2004 academy study outlining "the engineer of 2020." The new report calls for changes that will prompt students to earn graduate degrees before they practice professionally, but al
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Publication Date: 04 July , 2005
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California Colleges and Utilities Look to Cut Power Costs
A unique partnership between California’s public universities and the investor-owned utilities will spend $150 million to $300 million to achieve energy reduction on all 33 campuses in the four utilit
Publication Date: 14 March , 2005
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After 9/11, Overseas Students Find Foreigners Need Not Apply
Yew Choe (Joe) Wong was lucky. The Malaysian civil engineering student’s months-long wait for a visa in 2002 only cost him his first semester at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. But the long
Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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As Tuition Prices Soar, Scholarships Are Keeping Costs in Check
Yaye-Mah Boye, a senior civil engineering major at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., left her family behind in Senegal, Africa, a few years ago to study in the U.S. The 25-year-old’s decision
Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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Educators and Practitioners Struggle To Reach Beyond the Technical
Civil engineers have long been called on to fix what’s physically broken in the world or to design elegant new solutions for unmet global needs. But now they are tackling a bigger challenge–how t
Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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More Adjunct Faculty on Campus Show Those Who Can, Teach
Engineering and construction students aren’t having to wait until their first job to have a one-on-one relationship with an industry practitioner. More practitioners are coming to them–in class.
Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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Wildly Successful Outreach Program Soothes Growing Pains To Come
ACE was formed in 1994 to introduce inner-city youth to careers in architecture, construction and engineering (ACE). In 2001, ENR’s Award of Excellence winner for championing ACE, Charles H. Thornton Jr., predicted there would be 15 or 20 s
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Publication Date: 06 December , 2004
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Immigrant Estimator Opens Doors for a New Generation
Ella Bereznitsky had a five-year structural engineering degree from a top Soviet technical university and a decade of cost estimating management experience at one of Ukraine’s largest building contrac
Publication Date: 23 February , 2004
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Demographics Drive Market Kids Keep School Work Going Strong
School construction, spurred on by a surge in student enrollments, has been one of the industry’s strongest markets over the last decade. While state fiscal problems are expected to slow the double-di
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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Museum, District Collaborate To Build An Unusual Hybrid
In South Central Los Angeles, an area long plagued by overcrowded schools, the offspring of a partnership between the district and a state-owned science museum is taking shape. The progeny of the collabora
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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New Jersey Officials Focus on Bringing In New Blood
Perth Amboy may be a typical old-line industrial town in New Jersey, but town officials are hardly using a traditional approach to build a new $100-million high school. Eager to move away from the status q
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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To Help Save Time, Structural Engineer Wears Harder Hat
Washington’s Tacoma Public School District has become a reluctant pioneer in the slow-but-steady paradigm shift toward computer-aided design and construction, thanks to a convincing argument from the
Publication Date: 02 February , 2004
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McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR - Education Features Archives
Publication Date: 01 January , 2004
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Courses Are Expanding to Meet Gradually Growing Goals
Observers say the growth in the number of states with continuing education requirements has slowed from a peak in the middle of the last decade. However, implementation of these requirements is still "clearly a trend," says Arthur Schw
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Publication Date: 27 October , 2003
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Alaskan Firms in Competition For Small Pool of Graduates
Ted Trueblood, president of Anchorage, Alaska-based engineering firm Tryck Nyman & Hayes Inc., has a problem: He can't hire enough young engineers. The firm has only hired two college graduates this ye
Publication Date: 30 June , 2003
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Engineering Student Killed in War To Earn Posthumous Degree
Drexel University was set to award on June 14 a rare posthumous B.S. degree to Lance Cpl. Joseph B. Maglione, a senior architectural and civil engineering major, athlete and Marine reservist, who was kille
Publication Date: 16 June , 2003
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Class Of 2003 Finds Jobs Tight But More Interest In Engineers Grads
Some larger firms, such as Kellogg Brown & Root, Houston, are cutting back on hiring. Dawn McRea, a KBR human resources staffer, says the number of recent graduates being hired now is "definitely lower than it’s been." But she notes tha
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Publication Date: 09 June , 2003
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Award of Excellence Winner: Kathi Littmann
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the U.S. with 750,000 students, had literally run out of space and couldn't figure out how to accommodate its exploding school-age population. The symbol of the district's failure wa
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Publication Date: 07 April , 2003
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Biz-Savvy Graduates Fast-Tracked
Aiming to expedite development of business-savvy engineers, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is launching a new program that will offer graduates an engineering bachelor's and a graduate business d
Publication Date: 16 December , 2002
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U.S. ARCHITECTURE SCHOOLS
One size does not fit all could be the motto for professional architectural education. Students who want to become architects have two choices: Immediately following high school, students can enter a five-
Publication Date: 21 October , 2002
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