Media
UBC campaigns for women in engineering; silent about lack of men elsewhere
The Vancouver Sun, March 22, 2014Online
The University of B.C. recently sent out a news release lamenting that only 22 per cent of its engineering students are female. Arguing that engineering programs need the “best and brightest,” UBC engineering professor and women’s activist Sheryl Staub-French and other officials pledged to “promote diversity” by making sure females in five years comprise 50 per cent of all engineering students. With 6,300 students in engineering, UBC officials said the affirmative action program will be boosted by a $500,000 donation from the multi-national Goldcorp mining company, which it highly praised for its “responsibility.” UBC does not say if engineering will attain its goal by expanding enrolment or cutting male students.
Record number of female students enroll in UBC Engineering program
Global News, February 23, 2015Online
More women than ever are enrolled in the University of British Columbia’s first-year engineering program. Nearly one out of every three of the university’s first-year engineering students is female compared to 2010 when that number was only one in five. The university chalks up the increase to its concentrated efforts to get female students interested in applied science.
Searching for value: construction strategy exploration and linear planning
Published by Management and Economics
2014 Examined is how contractor or construction manager decision making and judgment in response to client objectives and project constraints can be aided by a structured approach to construction strategy selection and assessment using time-space project process and ...
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01446193.2013.808354
Querying a building information model for construction-specific spatial information
Published by Advanced Engineering Informatics
2012 The design and construction community has shown increasing interest in adopting building information models (BIMs). The richness of information provided by BIMs has the potential to streamline the design and construction processes by enabling enhanced communication, ...
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474034612000778
Rethinking the cost estimating process through 5D BIM: A case study
Published by Challenges in a Flat World
2012 This paper presents a comparative study of commercially available BIM-based estimating software, and an investigation of the changes in work practices and workflows incurred by the adoption of such software by a construction company. Due to the fragmentation of the ...
Comparative visualization of construction schedules
Published by Automation in Construction
2013 Managing change in project schedules is a complex problem in construction management. To effectively manage, analyze, and revise schedules, planners need to identify when and how activities and constraints can be changed, develop various schedule alternatives, ...
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580512001458
Creating flexible mappings between Building Information Models and cost information
Published by Automation in Construction
2014 During the early design stages of construction projects, accurate and timely cost feedback is critical to design decision making. This is particularly challenging for cost estimators, as they must quickly and accurately estimate the cost of the building when the ...
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580514001174
Biography
Dr. Staub-French is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia. An active proponent of the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM)—a digital process for modeling the spatial, functional, and contextual dimensions of a construction project— Staub-French researches and develops tools and techniques to better support multi-disciplinary decision processes in the increasingly complex field of construction coordination. Over the past 15 years she has contributed more than 50 papers in leading journals and conferences in BIM and topics related to the technological and organizational issues associated with its implementation. She is also the inaugural holder of the Goldcorp Professorship for Women in Engineering and Director of the eng•cite program (www.engcite.ca), which develops and delivers a targeted recruitment strategy for UBC Engineering that aims to increase the number of women enrolled in its programs to 50% by 2020.
Recognition/Reconnaissance
Goldcorp Professorship | Professional
Goldcorp Professorship for Women in Engineering