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Construction Management MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MOORHEAD
SPRING 2014 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Student ASC Competition......................... 1 Joe Egan, Board member, Teaching Capstone.................................... 1 13 Pass the AIC Test................................... 2 Meet Scott Kluver...................................... 2 MSUM Budget Update.............................. 2 Fulfilling our Promise................................ 2
IN THE NEWS: MSUM Administration presents deficit reduction plan to faculty on December 5th. More to come December 20th. Enrollment summary, 4 year program • 118 – 2012 • 100 – 2013 Job Fairs – 2 major job fairs attended by MSUM faculty and students. This continues to be a great way to market students and develop relationships with key company recruiters. MSUM students competed again at Construction Management Quiz Bowl. The MSUM team made it to the semifinals, but were defeated by the team from University of Minnesota that eventually won 1st place. The event occurs annually, this year the event was held October 4th. CM 425 Equipment Productivity and Analysis was offered online for the first time in 2012.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: February 4-6 | NAHB February 7-8 | AIC Exam Committee February 19-22 | ACCE March 4-8 | Con Expo Las Vegas March 5-8 | AGC Las Vegas April 14-16 | AIC May | Potential Alumni Event May 16th | Spring Commencement
Construction Management Team Wins ASC Student Competition Students from the MSU Moorhead Construction Management program won the Heavy Civil Division of the Region IV Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) CM student competition in Nebraska City, NE. held from October 23-25, 2013. Region IV ASC participants include construction schools from Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri. The project scope of work this year included constructing an entire 4-lane Interstate bridge adjacent to its final location at Pecos Street and I-70 in Denver, then working with the Colorado DOT to shut down the I-70 Interstate for 50 hours to demo the old bridge and install the new one. The new bridge had to be jacked up on rollers, moved, and set on pre-poured bridge abutments after the old bridge was taken down. The new bridge weighed several hundred thousand pounds, so this was no easy task. The winning team was within $600,000 of the actual bid of $19.7 million. Team members included Cody Wegner, Steve Meidinger, Paul Nolden, Mitch Egge, Gabriel Nah. The team was coached by Scott Seltveit.
Joe Egan Teaching Capstone 496 at NHCC Advisory board member Joe Egan will be teaching the capstone 496 class at NHCC spring semester. Joe Egan brings a unique perspective to this senior year class. His wealth of industry experience, combined with a critical eye and challenging wit, gives you a unique perspective of what will be encountered in the world of construction. This course will develop a higher level of comprehensive understanding of the interrelationships between designs, estimates, schedules, and contracts. Success in the construction industry requires the skill and practice of both left brain brick and mortar and right brain emotional relationships. This course will balance both the logical side of the industry involving quantities, square footage, weights, plans, specifications, etc., along with emotional intelligence involving relationship skills, persuasion techniques and the key emotions that drive customer loyalty as well as the negative emotions that drive relationship destruction.