Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice: Recent submissions
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Preventing Disputes with Empathy
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The engineer can prevent future disputes and failed engineering projects by employing a design strategy that incorporates empathy in all professional matters. The empathetic view can prevent disputes by considering the ... -
Economic Loss Rule Bars Subcontractor Claim in Colorado
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Developing Knowledge Landscapes through Project-Based Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The traditional civil engineering-based approach to construction engineering and management education focuses significant attention on core subjects such as scheduling, estimating, and contracts. This paper introduces an ... -
Corridor Protection through NEPA
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The addition of interchanges, traffic signals, or unsignalized driveways to an arterial corridor increases crash risk and decreases travel speeds. As adjacent vacant land is developed, however, private landowners often ... -
Engineering Experience and Competitions Implement ABET Criteria
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) has adopted a revised set of criteria for accrediting engineering programs. Nevertheless, as in the past, civil engineering departments will be required to ... -
<i>Soils Magic</i>: Bringing Civil Engineering to the K–12 Classroom
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)An investigation was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a series of kindergarten through 12th grade (K–12) educational outreach activities related to civil engineering. In particular, a program called -
Public Procurement Law in Turkey
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This Land is Your Land, It’s Right by My Land
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The Philosophy of Reasonability in Law
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Development of New Faculty: Summary of the NSF-CMS WEE Workshop
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The National Science Foundation-Civil and Mechanical Systems (NSF-CMS) Workshop on the Advancement and Retention of Underrepresented and Minority Engineering Educators (WEE) 2003 brought together approximately 75 future, ... -
Avoiding and Minimizing Construction Delay Claim Disputes in Relational Contracting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Delays on construction projects, and the claims which emanate from such delays, are an integral part of the modern construction process. The overwhelming amount of time, energy, and cost devoted to delay claims does not ... -
Design and Construction of the Longest Rope-Stayed Newspaper Foot-Bridge
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Subconsultant Not Liable to Owner for Retaining Wall Failure
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Students Teach Students with the West Point Bridge Designer
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Characteristics of Contractor’s Liabilities for Defects and Defective Work in Korean Public Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)Modern buildings and civil structures are complex undertakings and involve the use of a great variety of engineering methods and processes. Therefore most projects face the possibility of defects and defective work, which ... -
Alliancing in Australia—No-Litigation Contracts: A Tautology?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)A project alliance is a business strategy whereby client and commercial participants’ objectives are aligned. This paper takes an alliance project between public and private organizations in Queensland, Australia as a case ... -
The Assessment of Teaching
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Differences between Experts and Novices in the Review of Engineering Journal Papers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)This paper reports on a controlled experiment carried out to investigate the differences between novices and experts during the review of papers for engineering journals. A total of 17 young faculty members with PhD degrees ... -
Contractual Management in PPP Projects: Evaluation of Legal versus Relational Contracting for Service Delivery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)The paper explores the extent to which effective relationships and legal factors are used to determine performance outcomes in public–private-partnership (PPP) procurement in the United Kingdom. The purpose is to demonstrate ... -
How Relational are Construction Contracts?
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006)For many years, the construction industry has relied on formal contracts to define and enforce the obligations and rights of contracting parties. Legal scholars have suggested that, based on their transaction characteristics, ...