Representatives from Allan Myers.
During the week of October 1st there was an invasion in the Construction Management classrooms. It was not a hostile invasion, but a take-over by Allan Myers employees. The curriculum take-over is a collaboration between the Construction Management Program and Allan Myers to present to our students field applications of the material they are learning in the classroom. The Allan Myers employees worked with each instructor to develop a classroom session that would engage the students by presenting information from a field perspective.
Teams of Allan Myers employees taught a variety of heavy/civil focused materials in over six different classes throughout the week. Domenic Marino (a CMGT alumni) and Kean Quick (a Civil Engineering student and Allan Myers co-op) presented about the heavy/civil construction discipline to Dr. Short’s Introduction to Construction Management course as well as assisting the students in her Understanding Construction Drawings class in reading heavy/civil and site work drawings. Sam Cowan and Josh Loser (a CMGT student and Allan Myers co-op) shared with Dr. Sand’s IT in Construction course the way that Allan Myers uses 3-D modeling to help bring their construction projects to live prior tobuilding them in the field.
The endurance award goes to the team of Rich Dungan and Keith Thompson, (both Civil Engineering Alumni) who taught four class sessions on a marathon Wednesday. The team presented various situations and challenges associated with construction contracts associated with the infrastructure and transportation work that they perform to Dr. Cook’s two session of Contracts and Specifications I. They then moved to the topic of estimating where Keith discussed strategies for completing improved estimates focusing on the heavy civil side of the industry to Dr. Beard’s Estimating I class. To finish out the day they presented to Dr. Fiori’s Construction Control Techniques class the real challenges contractors face completing work for owners like the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the BWI airport.
The students enjoyed the interaction with the Allan Myers employees and the faculty liked the way the material presented helped to support the content of their courses. We are looking forward to the next Allan Myers classroom take-over.