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University center aids industry
Executives share experience, solutions
By ATLANTIS TILLMAN
Editor of THE BATTALION
The Center for Construction
Education, in its partnership
with the in
dustry, offers
more than a
typical class
room educa
tion to execu
tives with
their Con
struction Ex
ecutive Pro
gram (CEP).
The Center, Smith
a branch of the
Department of Civil Engineering
, began the CEP program for
professional development seven
years ago. Sixty construc
tion companies, such as Bechtel,
TU Electric and Fluor Daniel,
Inc., work along with a faculty
advisory committee to develop
and approve the curriculum,
said Johna Smith, assistant direc
tor for marketing and implemen
tation.
The program has three goals:
• to provide participants with
executive-level techniques for
management of construction-re
lated activities,
• to provide a forum for par
ticipants and instructors to share
experiences, and
• to build a network of con
tacts within the industry to im
prove communications between
companies and individuals.
Dennis Braasch, vice presi
dent of Project Controls at Fluor
Daniel, Inc., attended CEP in
January 1991 and said he has re
ferred to his CEP manuals on the
job for everyday business.
"The financial reviews and
strategic planning contain for
mats and thought processes that
I use every day," Braasch said.
Companies like Fluor Daniel
send their employees to the pro
gram every year.
"Two-tnirds to three-quarters
of our business is repeat busi
ness," Smith said.
The 400 participants of CEP
are usually senior engineers or
executives that are here for the
training for the step into their
next position. Smith said.
Strategic planning, human
behavior, project management,
contract administration, and a
new case study offer approaches
to the daily activities of the con
struction executive.
Participants learn other com
panies' cultures and how they
deal with similar problems.
Smith said. They drop the corpo
rate barriers and solve problems
together.
"Most folks will never again
get this close to their peers in
their careers," Smith said. "They
will never get this chance to re
bond."
CEP also serves as a bridge
between competing companies.
Representatives work together
in solving problems common to
each other in order to weather
the harshly realistic case study in
the last week of the program.
Braasch said the corporate
identity, even between competi
tors, has to be dropped while
participating in the course.
"You always want to repre
sent your company well,"
Braasch said, "but nere we estab
lish our credibility as a group,
not letting our companies be the
focal point."
CEP adds reality to course
By ATLANTIS TILLMAN
Editor of THE BATTALION
Graduates of The Construction Executive Program(CEP), spon
sored by The Center for Construction Education, returned to Col
lege Station to test a joint-venture case study to be added to the cur
riculum in January.
The fourth and final week of the program will be devoted to a
case study to test topics discussed in the first three weeks. Four
modules focus on the setup, planning, opportunities and solutions
involved in a joint venture, said Johna Smith, assistant director for
marketing ana implementation.
"The case-study method is probably the most successful method
of teaching," Smith said. "They take these real life situations and go
back to their companies with what they've participated in and
learned here."
Former participants from 20 companies volunteered to help in
the preparation and to give their comments.
John Dittmar, a construction supervisor for TU Electric in Dallas,
said the strength of the program was its realism.
"New problems with the venture kept coming in, real problems
that could easily happen in this industry," Dittmar said.
"People go away thinking about it."
Researchers use tank to evaluate oil rig safety
By ANGIE PAYNE
Special to THE BATTALION
With a compass rose on its floor, a five-ton
capacity overhead traveling crane, and robotic-
looking machinery everywhere, the three-story
room looks like a science-fiction movie set.
But it's really a giant wave tank.
Inside the 150-foot by 100-foot wave tank,
the Offshore Technology Research Center
(OTRC) creates wave conditions that test the
safety of oil drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Our biggest concern is the safety of the
deep water drilling rigs," Peter Johnson,
facility manager and engineer for the OTRC
said.
Before safety experiments can begin, he
said, scale models of drilling rigs are
constructed and lowered into the tank by the
crane.
Technicians use the crane to align the model
on the compass rose so they can observe and
record the effects of different wave angles on
the structure.
Inside the wave tank, 48 computer-
controlled, 10-foot-tall hinged waveboards
move in different sequences and motions to
reproduce the waves of the Gulf of Mexico.
Technicians monitor and record things like
waves' run-up and load on the structure's
columns and motions like sway, heave, pitch
and roll.
"Our mission," Johnson said, "is to conduct
research of engineering in deep water. We
want to be solving tomorrow's problems" of
the safety of deep ocean drilling rigs.
Solving these problems, the OTRC believes,
begins when new ways to determine forces on
floating structures and new techniques and
materials to secure them at sea are developed.
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