Abstract: This article discusses several of the types of issues that are being encountered by nontraditional engineering and construction professionals such as women and underrepresented minorities (URMs). Research was undertaken ...

Abstract: During the 1980s U.S. engineering and construction firms have not been securing as many overseas contracts as they had been acquiring in the past. Ideas have developed during the past decade on what types of programs would ...

Abstract: During the past two decades the global marketplace has changed, and U.S. engineering and construction firms have had to deal with many new competitors. This has created a need for understanding global dynamics and competition, ...

Abstract: This article summarizes an investigation to determine which areas in the training of U.S. expatriate engineers and constructors are viewed by foreign engineers and construction personnel as inadequate, and to provide ...

Abstract: Communication within biological systems involves either or both of two kinds of channels, each with a different kind of signal. The two types of signals are: (a) nerve impulse, or (b) hormones. ...

Abstract: This article discusses a project that implemented several systemic educational reforms in order to determine whether they would increase the awareness of high school students of potential science, math, and engineering ...

Abstract: Computerized relational data‐base systems are developed containing quantifiable data on undergraduate‐ and graduate‐level constrution engineering and management programs. This paper introduces the results of the construction ...