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Faculty Position Opening in Construction Engineering and Management

2009-10-02T23:23:00.002-04:00

The CEE Department at the University of Michigan is searching for a faculty candidate in the general area of Construction Engineering and Management, with an emphasis on bridging with other disciplines. As part of its initiative on sustainable, high-performance, and inter-connected civil infrastructure systems, the department is looking to fill the tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. However, exceptional candidates will be considered at the rank of full Professor. Applicants should have a doctorate in civil engineering or a related field of study, and those applying for an Associate Professor or Professor position must have a well-established academic record, including scholarly publications and an externally funded research program.

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UM CEE Faculty attend NSF CMMI Grantees Conference

2009-09-02T22:41:00.001-04:00

UM-CEE faculty and students attended the 2009 NSF CMMI Grantees Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, organized by the US National Science Foundation (NSF). In addition to attending conference sessions and activities, some of them also found time to get together and hike up Diamond Head. According to locals, early seafaring visitors saw the hill glinting in the sun, as if studded with numerous diamonds. Eager explorers were disappointed to find that the scintillations were caused by reflections off a worthless mineral, nevertheless the name stuck.

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Amir Behzadan receives FIATECH CETI Outstanding Student Researcher Award

2009-09-02T22:15:00.006-04:00

Amir Behzadan (Ph.D., August, 2008) received the FIATECH CETI Outstanding Student Researcher Award for 2008 in recognition of his work on, “ARVISCOPE: Geo-referenced Visualization of Dynamic Construction Processes in 3D Outdoor Augmented Reality.” An alternate approach of visualizing simulated operations was developed in this research, in which Augmented Reality (AR) is used to create mixed views by combining real existing jobsite features with virtual 3D CAD models of construction resources. The designed AR-based visualization methodology is comprised of two primary components: 1) ARVISCOPE, a general purpose AR animation authoring language; and 2) ROVER, a mobile computing AR hardware framework. When used together, ARVISCOPE and ROVER can create 3D AR animations of any length and complexity from the results of running simulation models of engineering operations (e.g. construction, manufacturing, aviation, etc.). ARVISCOPE takes advantage of advanced Global Positioning System (GPS) and orientation tracking technologies to accurately track a user’s spatial context, and geo-references superimposed 3D graphics in an augmented environment. This research concluded that the addition of contextual, computer-generated information spatially located relative to the user has significant potential of improving the performance of several scientific and engineering tasks.

FIATECH is an industry consortium of leading capital project industry owners, engineering construction contractors and technology suppliers. FIATECH established the CETI Award - Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation - in 2006 to promote and showcase innovative construction-related technologies that benefit the capital projects industry.

The award was presented in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2009 (see photo). Amir Behzadan is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida.