Teaching Interests and Activties

I am passionate about improving the sustainability of the built environment. For me, this means that buildings do more for their users – we make the best use possible of the energy, materials, and efforts that create a building – and that they are built productively and with environmental and social sensitivity. This can only happen if everybody involved in making and using a building participates when their input is most useful and if the whole process is managed well. Therefore, I am teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on how to design a building’s life cycle and how to manage projects using traditional and modern management approaches and information technologies.

My undergraduate class CEE100 Managing Sustainable Building Projects is part of the core curriculum for undergraduate students in Civil and Environmental Engineering and part of the required depth courses for students majoring in Architectural Design. It also fulfills the WIM (Writing in the Major) requirement for CEE students. CEE240 Design and Management of Construction Operations, and CEE241 Managing Fabrication and Construction are part of the curriculum for Master's students in Construction Engineering and Management and in Design-Construction Integration. Together with John Kunz I organize a seminar series on Integrated Facility Engineering (CEE320) and with Ben Schwegler, Chief Scientist and VP for R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering, I lead a project class on Engineering Response to Sea Level Rise (as a Sustainable Development Studio, CEE124/224A). I am the principal thesis advisor for 5 Engineer and 12 Ph.D. degree students, and I have served on the Green Dorm Committee since the start of the project and the Governance Board for the Program on Writing and Rhetoric since its inception.

Courses I am teaching in 2008-2009

Engineer Degree Advisees

Ph.D. Advisees

Ph.D Committee Membership

Post-Doctoral Students