Construction Engineering & Management
Construction Engineering & Management
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. Topics of research include:
- Injury prevention
- Construction productivity
- Labor demographics
- Project delivery
- Risk
- Natural disaster preparedness and response
- Organizational management
- Globalization
- Cognitive processing of construction information
- Advanced contracting methods.
Our research funding includes the National Science Foundation, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Energy, Construction Industry Institute, and private industry.