Construction Engineering Conference: Opportunity and Vision for Education, Practice and Research; Blacksburg, Virginia; 30 September through 2 October, 2010

这次会议提供了一个独特的场所，汇集了一群专注的建筑从业者，以启发大学教育工作者和研究人员关于建筑工程的挑战和机遇。其目标是向年轻教师和大学决策者提供建筑工程领域的机会；为这个领域设想一条令人振奋的前进道路；确定行业从业者、建筑教育工作者和研究人员之间的互利接口；并建立一个全面的研究和教育议程，以支持21世纪的建筑工程需求。建筑工程是贯穿项目交付过程的一系列技术活动，这些活动影响设计，支持施工手段和方法的决策，创造安全和生产的施工环境，并寻求避免和解决与项目交付相关的工程问题。设想的聚会在两天的时间内包含两个相互交错的部分：研讨会：调查建筑工程的功能，因为它与各种项目类型（垂直和重型土木）有关，设备和方法的问题，工程决策的经济学，以及建筑工程师的教育（1.5天）；工作坊：向年轻教师介绍建筑工程研究的机会，并确定优先事项（0.5天）。本次会议的独特之处在于(1)提出了未来前沿的建筑工程主题，(2)研究部分与研讨会部分的交织性质，以及(3)a ？前进道路?将与ASCE建筑工程教育委员会共同制定的议程。会议的形式是，在研讨会期间，学者和实践者之间的讨论将产生研究课题，包括ASCE建筑工程教育委员会，他们将推进研究议程。本次研讨会和研究工作坊的知识价值在于了解建筑工程在提供具有挑战性的基础设施项目以改善建筑环境的可持续性方面所起的关键作用。更广泛的影响涉及到开发下一代建筑工程教育者、研究人员和实践者的方法。让年轻学者接触建筑专业的经验，将突出教学过程的重要性，强调对问题的分析、综合和评估，而不是得出单一的解决方案。将通过电子会议记录和在ASCE建筑工程与管理杂志特刊上发表论文来广泛传播研究结果。

This conference provides a unique venue that brings together a focused group of construction practitioners to enlighten university educators and researchers as to the challenges and opportunities of construction engineering. The goal is to promote opportunities in the area of construction engineering to young faculty and university decision makers; envision a stimulating path forward for this field; identify mutually beneficial interfaces between industry practitioners, construction educators and researchers; and establish a holistic research and education agenda to support the construction engineering needs of the 21st century. Construction engineering is the series of technical activities throughout the project delivery process that influence design, support construction means and methods decisions, create a safe and productive construction environment, and seek to avoid and solve the engineering issues associated with project delivery. The envisioned gathering contains two interlaced parts over a two day period of time:Symposium: To investigate the function of construction engineering as it pertains to various project types (vertical and heavy civil), the issues of equipment and methods, the economics of engineering decisions, and the education of construction engineers (1.5 days); Workshop: to introduce young faculty to the opportunities in construction engineering research and to establish priorities (0.5 days). What makes this conference unique is (1) the future frontier construction engineering topics presented, (2) the interwoven nature of the research component with the symposium portion, and (3) a ?path forward? agenda that will be established with the ASCE Construction Engineering Education Committee. The conference format is set up such that research topics will be generated as a result of discussion between the academics and practitioners during the symposium, including the ASCE Construction Engineering Education Committee who will carry forward a the research agenda. The intellectual merit of this symposium and research workshop involves an understanding of the critical role construction engineering plays in delivering challenging infrastructure projects for improving the sustainability of the built environment. The broader impacts relate to a methodology for developing the next generation of construction engineering educators, researchers, and practitioners. The exposure of young academics to the experience of construction professions will highlight the importance of teaching processes with emphasis on analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of problems more than on deriving a single solution. Wide dissemination of results will be through electronic proceedings and publication of papers in a special issue of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.