CEAS-CAECM Students Triumph Gold, Silver and Bronze Honors
The Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management (CAECM) students are all members of the Construction Competition Club, a subgroup of the Construction Student Association.
At the 2015 ASC Estimating Competition, students divide amongst four competition categories, including: 1) Heavy Highway Regional, 2) Commercial Construction Regional, 3) Electrical National, and 4) Preconstruction National. Each category is assigned a real corporate sponsor who provides information on a real-world construction project located around the country. From there, the teams have 24 hours to devise a plan, submit a project proposal and present their final product to a panel of judges.
UCs commercial construction teams captainsenior construction management student, Matt Morgannkept the teams morale high as they prospered through the fast-paced competition. The teams corporate sponsor, The Walsh Group, assigned this categorys teams with the task of developing a proposal for a real-world senior living facility.
Morgann proves his knack for time management and leadership skills under time constraints, a crucial skill in the construction management industry. He reflects, Before we arrived in Chicago, the team and I strategized our areas of strengths and divided up our individual roles. Luckily, many of the team members had prior experience in developing proposals through our co-op rotations.
Their team name, Kenobi Construction, was created on behalf of their corporate sponsors theme for the yearStar Wars. UCs team was assigned to the infamous character Obi Won Kenobi. Hence, Kenobi Construction was born and experienced real-world construction proposal skills at this years ASC Estimating Competition.
Aside from the 24-hour competition, CAECM students took advantage of the small career fair on day one (Oct. 14) which exhibited all of the corporate sponsors. On the last day (Oct. 17) the students participated in the awards ceremony.;
Congratulations to these 24 CAECM civil engineering and construction management students who collectively placed top honors:
Aside from the 24-hour competition, CAECM students took advantage of the small career fair on day one (Oct. 14) which exhibited all of the corporate sponsors. On the last day (Oct. 17) the students participated in the awards ceremony.
Congratulations to these 24 CAECM civil engineering and construction management students who collectively placed top honors:
1st Place Heavy Highway Regional Estimating Competition
Joe Kaufman (Team Captain)
Josh Nichols
Alex Altstaetter
Blake Cauldwell
David Griffith
Seth Roberts
1st Place Commercial Construction Regional Estimating Competition
Matt Morgann (Team Captain)
Brian Beiting
Ryan Hoying
Alex Buchholz
Todd Schroeder
Dan Rechlin
3rd Place Electrical National Estimating Competition
Marc Werner (Team Captain)
Rob Mullen
Shane Fagan
Andy McCalla
Julian Mueller
Matt Baker
3rd Place Preconstruction National Estimating Competition
Austin Erney (Team Captain)
Christian Sexton
Trey Hemmer
James Simon
Kevin Mullins
Elliott Ice
On behalf of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, congratulations to the University of Cincinnati Associated Schools of Construction Estimating teams and their faculty advisor, Amanda Albrecht, for leading them to success!
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