Teaching

Whenever someone asks me what I do for a living, I’m proud to tell them that I teach at CU Boulder.  While my job title is Professor, I believe there is no greater job than being a teacher, let it be teaching elementary, middle school, high school, or university.  Being a teacher provides you the opportunity of being a mentor to others, which is a tremendous responsibility and privilege. 

I teach Introduction to Construction and Construction Equipment and Methods, which are two courses at the undergraduate level and Building Information Modelling and Design of Construction Operations, which are two additional courses at the graduate level.  
More information on my teaching background and philosophy can be found on my interview page.

CVEN 3246: Introduction to Construction

Course Description: An overview of the architecture, engineering, and construction industry (A/E/C) and focuses on construction engineering and management fundamentals. Students will be introduced to the professional competencies required to effectively deliver capital projects including estimating, scheduling, contracts, planning, project controls, safety, productivity, and engineering economics. Special attention will be paid to ethics, emerging technologies, and sustainability as applied to construction engineering and management practices. Students will develop the core competencies that serve as the foundation for subsequent coursework.

CVEN 3256. Construction Equipment and Methods 

Course Description: Integrated study of construction equipment, methods, and economics. Topics include equipment productivity, equipment selection, and construction engineering design within economic constraints. Examples include earthmoving, concrete formwork, and temporary construction.

CVEN 5285. Design of Construction Operations (Fall)

Course Description: Design of construction operation: pre-project planning; construction labor relations; productivity management. The course will emphasize construction productivity improvement by group field studies and discrete event simulation modeling. In-depth study of the way overtime, changes, weather, and staffing levels influence productivity. Industrial engineering techniques are applied to the construction environment to improve the use of equipment and human and material resources. Sample of Student Work.

CVEN 5386. Building Information Modeling for Construction (Spring)

Course Description: The course focuses on advanced information systems used to control and predict project performance (cost and schedule) in construction. Building Information Modeling is examined as a systems approach of integrating design and construction for the benefit of developing construction work packages, 4D simulations, clash detection, and status visualization of material availability and system installation.