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Jim Roberts, President & Chief Executive Officer, Granite

James H. Roberts is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Granite Construction Incorporated.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a BS and MS in Civil Engineering and an MBA from the University of Southern California, Mr. Roberts began working with Granite Construction as an Estimator in 1981. He has since held the positions of: Project Engineer; Project Superintendent; Project Manager; Reno Branch Manager; Nevada Operations Branch Manager; President and CEO of Pozzolan Products Company (GARCO), Intermountain Slurry Seal, and Bear River Contractors (acquisitions of Granite); Nevada/Utah Regional Manager; Vice President and Assistant Branch Division Manager; Senior Vice President and Branch Division Manager; Senior Vice President, Granite West; and Chief Operating Officer. In his current role as President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Roberts is responsible for all of Granite’s business, operations and construction activities which currently exceed $2 billion in revenue annually.

Mr. Roberts’ affiliations include having served as Chair of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), President of the Nevada Chapter of the Associated General Contractors, and a member of the Nevada Chapter of the Young President’s Organization. He is currently a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Trustee Emeritus of the University of Nevada, Reno Foundation, a member of the UNR College of Engineering Advisory Board, and the Boy Scouts of America Monterey Bay Area Council Friends of Scouting Chairman.

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John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University

Jim Sullivan, University of Florida

ASC's Subject Matter Expert (SME) Program Demonstration
One of the main purposes of the ASC Education Committee is to promote the improvement of construction education by facilitating exchange of ideas, curriculum and course information among members.  To this end, the committee has developed a web-based forum that will serve as a central organizing structure to share expertise and curricular materials.  This presentation will introduce the forum and provide information on how ASC members can contribute.  We will demonstrate how information can be added to the forum in real-time drawing from audience expertise.

The forum can be found at http://ascweb.org/asc-sme

Fred Davis, Utah Valley University

Changing the Building Codes
I will be attending the Final Action Hearings of the International Code Council at the end of October in Portland, Oregon and would like to give a presentation to the ASC members about the Code Change cycle and how to be involved in it. All of us are involved in construction but few seem to be aware of how to go about submitting code changes and how to influence the code writing process.

Dr. Allan Chasey, Arizona State University

Arundhati Ghosh, Arizona State University

Integrating BIM in the Construction Management Curriculum
Since 2008, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been adopted and integrated as a component of the undergraduate Construction Management curriculum, at the Del E. Webb School of Construction (DEWSC), Arizona State University (ASU). Over the years, the curriculum has adapted with the evolving complexities in processes and tools. While we have found success in improving the level of understanding and employability of our students by adding this skill, there have been several challenges arising from inconsistency in skill levels, various construction specialties, existing methods of teaching and the continually developing BIM software application market. All these issues coupled with the incomplete understanding of the concept, add to the stress of learning and the increased need for introducing new philosophies of teaching. The current effort at DEWSC is being directed in three directions - introducing BIM as a fundamental concept and process in various subject areas where applicable, teaching BIM tools in a software class, and encouraging innovation by creating an environment for collaboration. These concepts are being strategically integrated into the curriculum through a stepped process. An additional layer of collaborative learning is added with the introduction of vertical integration between the different years, strengthening the fundamental concepts of the subject and increasing the retention of knowledge. By adopting these two ideas of a stepped BIM curriculum and vertical integration, we hope to provide students with a holistic understanding of BIM.

Caroline M. Clevenger, Ph.D., Colorado State University

Mehmet E. Ozbek, Ph.D., Colorado State University

Teaching Sustainability through Service-learning in Construction Education
Under the umbrella of a departmental initiative called CM Cares, faculty from Colorado State University collaborate with local design professionals and local high school teachers to offer a service-learning course that engages at-risk teens within the local community through completion of a hands-on, sustainable construction project, and to empower construction management university students to be leaders, stewards and mentors by managing small community-based construction projects. In the course, university students work with local, alternative high school students in their building trades shop class to construct projects for the community such as dog houses for a Great Dane Rescue Mission, music stands for a local elementary school, and wheel chair swings for local families. The course has met with significant success and several participants have received university awards. This presentation provides the course as a case study to examine successful strategies and barriers to implementing service-learning in construction education to teach sustainability. Assessment of such engagement is based on reflections, informal interviews, pre- and post- course surveys, and concept maps. The construction management course offering demonstrates that service-learning has the potential to meaningfully engage both university and at-risk high school students, and to increase interest in and knowledge of sustainability and community action.

Chris Soelberg, Weber State University

Anna Fontana, Colorado State University

Brad Hyatt, California State University, Fresno

Internship Outcomes
Panel Discussion. How to teach and document outcomes for internships.

The primary objective of an ASC school's Internship program is to provide the student with a well-rounded education that is responsive to the needs of the construction industry. The student has the opportunity to work in the construction industry as well as attend the University and is typically paid a salary during the internship period. Work assignments can vary depending on the student’s academic background and experience base. Typical assignments might include field engineering, safety, quality control or assistant superintendent on the jobsite; estimating, scheduling, cost control or assistant project manager in the office; contract administration for public or private organizations; or sales engineer/manufacturer’s representative with a construction equipment or material supplier.

In light of providing outcomes for accreditation purposes the round table discussion seeks discussion on how ASC schools are documenting the internship experience. The presenters will provide ideas of how they are documenting the Internship Experience and the main purpose is to seek discussion within ASC faculty on means and methods of improving this process.

The Construction Academy at the McWhorter School of Building Science

Higher education has operated on the premise that the location of knowledge and presence of teachers are limited.  With the growth of the internet, technological tools, and expansion of education providers, knowledge has become available on demand.  Students demand flexibility, shun textbooks, and request more active learning in the classroom.  In response to these trends, the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn University developed an online learning academy focused on seven to ten minute introductory videos for various construction topics.  The concept was simple: use the videos to replace some text/introductory lecture, provide the videos free online, and use the videos to generate more time in the classroom for active learning.  This discussion introduces the online learning academy in its current state.  Group discussion will focus on how to motivate engagement of academia in the existing Academy and how the existing system could be leveraged to provide a platform that could be used by construction management students on an international basis. Steve Williams is the Director of the Center for Construction Innovation and Collaboration at the McWhorter School of Building Science at Auburn University.

Raymond "Paul" Giroux, M.ASCE
Kiewit

Abstract:  The early twentieth century was the golden age of long-span suspension bridges, yet the spanning of the Golden Gate Strait was thought to be impossible by many.  Working in the shadow of the Great Depression, the builders of the bridge had to overcome daunting political, financial, and technical challenges to construct the longest bridge in the world in one of the harshest marine environments in the world.  Eager to meet these challenges, extraordinary engineers and construction workers would converge on San Francisco in the early days of 1933 to span the Gate. 

Utilizing a combination of historic photographs and dynamic animation techniques, Paul Giroux brings the construction of the bridge to life providing a unique learning opportunity.

http://www.prism-magazine.org/sept12/refractions.cfm

Bio:  Paul received his BS in Construction Engineering from Iowa State University in 1979. Since then, Paul has been with Kiewit Corporation for the past 33 years working on a wide variety of heavy civil engineering mega projects throughout the United States including Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, several projects on the Big Dig in Boston including the new Zakim / Bunker Hill Bridge, and most recently, the new San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge East Span.   He is currently the District Quality Manager and ERP Deployment Manager for Northern California.

He is member of the Iowa State University Civil Engineering Advisory Board, the Transportation Research Board, and is a Corresponding Member of the American Society of Civil Engineering History and Heritage Committee. 

See above for locations. Times for individual schools are posted outside presentation rooms. Badges required for entry into rooms. Registered attendees please stop by the registration desk located in the Rose Foyer to obtain a badge.

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