Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice: Recent submissions
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Liquidated Damages: Review of Current State of the Practice
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Liquidated damages (LDs) are contractually specified damages that provide restitution for additional owner costs incurred from contractor delayed completion. Established legal precedence requires owners to specify rates ... -
Payment Problems and Regulatory Responses in the Construction Industry: Mainland China Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Payment problems have continually raised grave concerns in construction industries throughout the world. The Chinese construction industry is just recovering, with reported success, from an era of serious payment problems, ... -
Problem-Centered Approach in a Numerical Methods Course
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)This paper is an illustration of using a problem-centered approach in an undergraduate course in numerical methods. The problem used in the course was first encountered in a research project that related to the assembly ... -
Ten Years on: Review of Adjudication in the United Kingdom
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 introduced statutory based adjudication into the United Kingdom. Since then there has been a volume of case law regarding enforcement of adjudication decisions and ... -
Adjudication outside Construction, Adjudication for Consumer Disputes
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Adjudication is increasingly seen as the preferred means of resolving many construction and consumer disputes. As one party in dispute observed in a personal communication to the writer “It is a forum to finally express ... -
Assessing Construction Engineering-Related Delays: Egyptian Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The sources of construction delays include engineering, construction, financial/economic, management/administrative, and force majeure. This paper presents a knowledge-based expert system dedicated to engineering-related ... -
Virtual Reality Learning System for Digital Terrain Model Surveying Practice
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)This research builds a virtual reality learning system for the digital terrain model surveying practice based on the triangular irregular network (TIN). The proposed system offers students an interactive, individual, ... -
Adjudication: Temporary Binding and Tiered Dispute Resolution in Construction and Engineering: Hong Kong Experience
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Hong Kong (under the “One Country Two Systems” Policy, Hong Kong, although an administrative region of the PRC operates a separate legal system, whose roots lie in the English common law system) has a justified reputation ... -
Developing Construction Professionals of the 21st Century: Renewed Vision for Leadership
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The construction industry faces several technical, social, financial, political, and cultural challenges. Developments such as the growing volume of activity, increasing number of active stakeholders, advancement in ... -
Problem-Based Learning in Structural Engineering Education
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Structural engineering education has been based historically on specialization within the framework of a four-year undergraduate degree in civil engineering. Many practitioners, however, are concerned that modern civil ... -
Adjudication in the United Kingdom: Constitutional Implications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Good ideas are often overtaken by great events. That happened to adjudication. Originally envisaged as a single concept applying across the United Kingdom, it has been overtaken by more significant constitutional change. ... -
Use of Case Studies in Engineering Education: Assessment of Changes in Cognitive Skills
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Industry, educational institutions, government bodies, and academic accreditation entities have all stressed the need to incorporate sound assessment techniques into educational programs. However, many of the items listed ... -
Judicial Intervention and Its Key Battleground: Natural Justice
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)This paper explores what has been the most successful attempt to date to introduce an “escape hatch” into the adjudication process for those on the wrong end of decisions: the area of natural justice. The decisions of the ... -
Best Paper Award 2007
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Industrially Sponsored Senior Capstone Experience: Program Implementation and Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) 2000 requires that students participate in a major design experience prior to graduation. A well-planned senior design capstone program will satisfy this criterion ... -
Strategies Adopted by International Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Firms in Southeast Asia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)There are many business opportunities for international architectural, engineering, and construction firms to work in Southeast Asia (SEA) due to its high volume of construction demand and its growing economy. Before ... -
Adjudication: Singapore Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Adjudication was introduced into Singapore under the -
Education and Development of the Structural Engineer in Nigeria: Some Gaps in the System
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Dispute Resolution in the Construction Industry in Ireland: A Move to Adjudication?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)Dispute resolution in the construction industry in Ireland is about to change radically with the introduction of the new Public Works forms of contract. Traditionally, Ireland has had an image of being able to resolve ... -
The Manhattan Bridge: A Clash of Titans
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)The Manhattan Bridge is one of the first examples of an urban bridge whose design was impacted by partisan politics and a desire for a more, in the eyes of some, esthetically pleasing suspension bridge. It was the third ...