UMD Risk Expert Contributes to National Academies Report on National Drone Policy
Originally Published June 13, 2018 by Anjanette Riley at eng.umd.edu. University of Maryland (UMD) Professor Gregory Baecher is one of 14 authors of a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to update its methods of authorizing drone operations. Released June 11, 2018, the report was mandated by Congress and sponsored by FAA. Baecher and the other committee members found that the administration’s current safety regulations are hindering the spread of commercial drones by overestimating the likelihood and severity of the risks posed by their operations. FAA risk assessment techniques, originally developed for manned aviation,
. . . continue reading 2018 Project Management Symposium Draws Record Crowd
Project management professionals from as near as D.C. and as far as Australia came together May 10-11 to share best practices, discuss lessons learned, and discover the latest advances in the field at the University of Maryland (UMD) Project Management Symposium. More than 400 people were in attendance, the largest number in the event’s five-year history. Hosted by the Project Management Center for Excellence in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), the Project Management Symposium featured over 50 technical sessions on a broad range of topics: people in projects, construction management, federal programs, agile/IT, integrated project management, risk
. . . continue reading PM Graduate Student Participates in PMDoS
For the first time since its inception, a project management student from the University of Maryland (UMD) participated in the Project Management Day of Service (POMDoS) which has been held at the Stamp Student Union and hosted by the Project Management Center for Excellence at the University of Maryland for the last three years. Developed and organized by Project Management for Change, the PMDoS is held each year on Martin Luther King Jr. day and provides project management professionals the opportunity to give back to the community by assisting nonprofit organizations. Using project management best practices, project management volunteers guide
. . . continue reading Experiential Learning: Bringing Classroom Concepts to Life
A construction site is not traditionally what you would consider a standard classroom environment for a university undergraduate course. However, if you understand the concept of experiential learning, then the setting is absolutely perfect. Approximately 50 University of Maryland (UMD) undergraduate students visited the site of the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation that is currently under construction on the UMD College Park campus. The students went to “experience” construction management, courtesy of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. The visit marked one of several the Introduction to Construction Project Management class will take over the course of the semester
. . . continue reading PM Graduate and Faculty Win ARCOM Emerald Research Methodology Award
The UMD Project Management Center for Excellence is pleased to announce that a paper entitled “Happiness for Project Managers: Framework and Empirical Analysis” won the Emerald Research Methodology Award at the Annual Conference of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) in September 2017 in Cambridge, U.K.. Authors of the paper include Clara Cheung PhD, Qingbin Cui PhD and Jocelyn Davis. Dr. Cheung is on faculty at the University of Manchester, U.K. and a May 2016 PhD graduate from the Project Management Center for Excellence at the University of Maryland. Dr. Qingbin Cui is associate faculty and Jocelyn S. Davis is adjunct faculty
. . . continue reading Fourth Annual Project Management SymposiumMay 4-5, 2017 at UMD’s College Park Campus in Adel H. Stamp Student Union
The University of Maryland Project Management Center for Excellence is proud to deliver its fourth annual Project Management Symposium, taking place May 4-5 at the University of Maryland College Park campus. Last year’s Symposium drew a record breaking crowd of over 260 project management professionals from the Baltimore-Washington region and around the world that joined forces to tackle challenges impacting the project management field at large. The two-day May 2017 event will feature five keynote speakers and over 50 technical sessions spread across five concurrent tracks. Symposium attendees can customize their event experience by choosing to attend speaker sessions on
. . . continue reading D.C.-Area Nonprofits Tap Into Local Project Management ExpertiseUMD's Project Manamanet Center for Excellence Hosts 2017 Project Management Day of Service
Representatives from 45 nonprofits teamed up with 220 project management experts January 16 to write and codify strategic goals, create fundraising plans, or take additional steps towards boosting worthy projects. Hosted by the Project Management Center for Excellence at the University of Maryland (UMD), the 2017 Project Management Day of Service (PMDoS™) provided an estimated $550,000 value to D.C.-area nonprofits. Paul Oyelakin consults Brainy Camps Association on marketing for fundraising “The impact is not just that my job is easier,” said Adrienne Fikes, executive director of the Parent Leadership Training Institute of Alexandria), who worked with a team of volunteer
. . . continue reading The Wharf at Southwest WaterfrontCatriona Winter
As a Project Executive for The Clark Construction Group on the District Wharf Project in Washington DC, Catriona Winter led the design partners through an accelerated design period on its half-billion mixed-use waterfront project. The District Wharf project in Washington DC, is the result of the client, Hoffman-Madison Waterfront’s commitment to revitalizing the Southwest waterfront. Watch Catriona Winter’s Presentation In Winter’s presentation at the 2016 Project Management Symposium, “The District Wharf at Southwestern Waterfront, Washington, DC,” Winter discussed the development and execution of The Wharf, which is scheduled to open in 2017. Located along the historic Waterfront Channel, The District Wharf project aims to
. . . continue reading Jocelyn Davis: Happiness Works-Rethinking Competitive Advantage
When it comes down to successful organizations, keynote speaker Jocelyn S. Davis, emphasized the importance of creating an environment for people to flourish so that their organization thrives. In her 2015 symposium presentation, “Happiness Works-Rethinking Competitive Advantage,” Davis focused on the essentials of happiness in the workplace as a competitive strategy. Davis offered a new strategic paradigm to create and sustain successful organization: profitability or financial mission results in nonprofit or public sectors, people and purpose. Traditional financial and operational metrics are insufficient to sustain competitive advantage over time. Rather, organizations in all sectors must focus on establishing work
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