Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Phase I Environmental Site Assessment 

      Candace Watkins (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • Editor's Letter 

      Jeffrey S. Russell (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • Capital Planning System Applied to Municipal Infrastructure 

      Michael J. Garvin; Stephen C. Wooldridge; John B. Miller; The Honorable Michael J. McGlynn (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Public owners are challenged by limited and constrained capital sources for acquiring and sustaining infrastructure facilities. They also generally lack supporting automation tools and techniques for analyzing capital ...

    • Survey of TQM in Construction Industry in Upper Midwest 

      Charles McIntyre; Merlin Kirschenman (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      The acceptance of total quality management (TQM) within the construction industry is an issue that is difficult to quantify. A survey of construction firms in the upper Midwestern United States was conducted in order to ...

    • On the Wrong Side of the Trade Dress Divide 

      Eric W. Guttag (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • Walking in the Meadow 

      Brian J. Lewis (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • A Long-Term Strategy for Latin America 

      Murat F. Tasar (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Latin American countries are developing at a healthy pace, and the major ones like Brazil and Argentina seem to have achieved a stability that is worthy of the trust of international finance institutions and the private ...

    • Innovations to Manage Disputes: DRB and NEC 

      Roxene M. Thompson; Michael C. Vorster; James P. Groton (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      How do we reduce conflict and litigation in the construction process? On one hand, some industry leaders focus their efforts on improving alternative dispute resolution mechanisms to resolve disputes. For instance, the ...

    • Measuring Systematic Unity in a Learning Organization 

      Bill French; Carl E. DeVilbiss, P.E. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      A simple approach to implementing a measurement process is presented. In addition to providing a complete, systematic way to collect information about any business function, the model provides a vehicle to practice learning ...

    • Simple Services, Inc.: A Case Study in Ownership Transition 

      John V. Farr; Eugene J. LeBoeuf (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Because of the competitive nature of the engineering profession, combined with the approaching retirement age of many owners, transition of ownership for small-to-medium-sized consulting firms is an important issue within ...

    • Building Learning Organizations in Engineering Cultures: Case Study 

      David N. Ford; John J. Voyer; Janet M. Gould Wilkinson (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      The ability of organizations to learn is critical for success. Implementing organizational learning in engineering cultures can be difficult due to a focus on technology instead of people and imbalances among cultures ...

    • Are the Big Six Firms Looming in Our Future? 

      Brian J. Lewis (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • Removing a Hazard from the Internet Freeway: The 1999 Anticybersquatter Law 

      Eric W. Guttag (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • Running a Profitable Construction Company: Revisited Break-Even Analysis 

      Joon H. Paek (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Many companies have a tendency to spread out their operations into branches and/or separate corporations. The construction industry is a good example. With work being slow in some areas, it is sometimes more profitable to ...

    • Improved Subcontractor Selection Employing Partnering Principles 

      Mohan M. Kumaraswamy; Jason D. Matthews (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Despite the increasing extent of subcontracting in construction, the importance of subcontractor selection is frequently underestimated. While the subcontracting element needs more attention in contractor selection itself, ...

    • Beyond ‘Six Sigma’ 

      Frederick D. Buggie (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      If your firm has reached its optimum production cycle but you need work done better and faster. What do you do? You might try a fresh perspective. Most approaches to increasing productivity, including six sigma, aim at ...

    • Breadth of Experience a Must 

      Stuart G. Walesh (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)

    • Partnering Is the Foundation of a Learning Organization 

      Carl E. DeVilbiss; Patricia Leonard (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      A simple model of an implementation strategy for cultivating a Learning Organization culture is “Transformational Leadership + Group Process = Learning Organization.” This article presents the four key dimensions of ...

    • Engineering Your Strategy: Focusing Your Marketing Effort on High–Payoff Actions 

      Robert E. Heightchew Jr. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Being good is not good enough. Today‘s competitive marketplace requires that we be good and visibly good. This paper shows how to find the strategies to stay at top of your client‘s mind by asking strategic questions like: ...

    • Toward a New Paradigm: Simultaneous Use of Multiple Project Delivery Methods 

      John B. Miller; Michael J. Garvin; C. William Ibbs; Stephen E. Mahoney (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2000)
      Since World War II, the American Strategy for infrastructure procurement has evolved to rely primarily upon a single delivery method, design/bid/build. While this strategy was used to implement massive federal investment ...