Advancing Innovation Through Research
The discovery of new practices and the development of new ideas to improve the engineering-construction industry characterize the Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) program research objectives. The CEM program actively engages in a diverse research agenda providing graduate and undergraduate students unique opportunities to participate in leading-edge research efforts. Funding from sources including the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Energy, the Construction Industry Institute and private industry provide faculty and graduate students with continuous opportunities to explore the latest issues and challenges in the industry. The need to deliver projects with reduced budgets and schedules while ensuring quality, safety, and societal benefits is challenging. The trends of globalization, sustainability and the increased complexity of modernization has created the demand for new approaches to project delivery.
The following is a list of topics that are studied by Construction Engineering Management faculty. They are always seeking well-qualified graduate students to participate on research projects. Please feel free to contact individual faculty members to learn more about their research.
- Alternative Project Delivery Methods
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Cost Estimating and Management
- Safety in design
- Safety social networks
- Leading indicators of safety
- Predictive analytics
- Hazard recognition
- Situational awareness
- Safety on global projects
- Live demonstrations of injuries
- Risk perception and tolerance
- Contingent liability modeling
- Construction innovation
- Enterprise risk management
- Rural project management
- Safety on sustainable buildings
- Industry Productivity Measurement
- Productivity Improvement and Assessment
- Building Information Modelling
- Constructability and Lessons Learned in Construction
- Innovations in Construction
- Workforce Shortages and Strategies in Construction
- Construction Demographics
- Knowledge Mobilization
- Knowledge and Communication Networks (Social Networks)
- Disaster Recovery
- Social Sustainability of Infrastructure Projects
- Resource-limited communities
- International Development and Global Projects
- Management and Governance of Multi-national Organizations
- Diversity
- Boundaries and Boundary-Spanning
- Enterprise and Project Risk Management