Postoccupancy evaluation is a careful, systematic, and reliable process intended to ensure that findings can be applied to future buildings. Some of the important issues about postoccupancy evaluation are explored using questions that are often asked about this new component in the building delivery system. (MLF)

In a capstone course, graduate students from two universities participated in collaborative design in the architectural, engineering, and construction industries in multidisciplinary teams via the Internet. Students also developed process designs to integrate technology into multidisciplinary teamwork, combining active and reflective learning.…

The Multimedia Tool Box Talk is a web-based quick reference safety guide and training tool for construction personnel. An intended outcome of this effort was to provide an efficient and effective way to locate and interpret crucial safety information while at the job site. The tool includes information from the Occupational Safety and Health…

Describes Brigham Young University's technology teacher education program, detailing learning activities in the four clusters (communications, manufacturing, construction, transportation/power). Provides diagrams of the communication/power/energy lab and the advanced technology lab. (SK)

Examines how one college developed a partnership with the city's professional hockey team to build an ice rink that would benefit the team, the university, and the community. The construction process is briefly described, and other renovations that occurred as a result of the project are highlighted. (GR)

The use of corrugated cardboard in constructing stage scenery is discussed in this paper. In the first section, both the advantages and the problems associated with using the material are discussed, as are ways to avoid problems. The second section of the paper discusses general methods for preparing corrugated materials for set and prop…

It is proposed that the construction industry collaborate with educational practitioners and administrators to establish the objectives of construction engineering programs. Other recommendations are that the construction industry assume direct teaching responsibility for designated areas of instruction; provide program support, such as work…

Constructed and experienced by students engaged in an outdoor education class at East Stroudsburg State College in Pennsylvania, the "Owl Trail" is a self guided rope trail (600 yards in length) employing such devices as sensory corrals, bridges, and "go to" ropes (ropes attached to the main rope which provide side trip…

A number of rules that will aid in the decision making of the individual confronted with the need to purchase construction services, administer a construction contract, or be responsible for the performance of those construction services. (Author)

Drawing on Christopher Lasch's insights, this essay acknowledges the difficulty of applying building and renovation metaphors to educational administration. However, institutions are constantly being created and recreated. They are well served by administrators who function as "builders" and "renovators," leaving behind…

The construction of a market research questionnaire is recommended as one way a college can identify its applicant pool market. Included are an outline of information the applicant pool questionnaire might seek and basic criteria of question writing. (JT)

Describes the construction of a circuit which directly measures current in a coil of superconducting wire. (CP)

The recent experiences of North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University in the planning and construction of campus buildings are described as illustrations of the planning of space to meet the goals and needs of the institution in the future. At North Carolina State University, 780 additional acres were received from the state, and a…

The construction of an operational amplifier for use in a chemical instrumentation course is described. (CP)

A civil engineering professor would like to see civil engineers spend less time looking at broken structures and more time testing construction materials, and has founded a research center for that purpose. (MSE)