WP079: Management and Leadership Education for Civil Engineers: Teaching Virtual Design and Construction for Sustainability

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Abstract: We assert that the critical leadership role for Civil Engineers now is to develop and apply meaningful metrics and processes for creation, use and stewardship of the built environment, in a way that is sustainable across space and time. We set out a broad definition of sustainability, and describe a novel design process for creation of engineered systems using integrated, multi-disciplinary computer-based virtual models. The big idea in this paper is that Civil Engineering educators should teach leadership in sustainable development of the built environment using new integrated, multi-disciplinary computer-based virtual performance models of engineered systems, using a pedagogical method and curriculum that emphasize: multi-disciplinary theory, work with real projects as part of the university laboratory and studio teaching experience, explicitly recognize the interrelated methods of science, engineering design and policy, and use multiple and integrated computer models, simulations and visualization tools.

Type of resource	text
Date created	September 2003

Subject	CIFE
Subject	Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Subject	Stanford University
Subject	Education
Subject	Extreme Collaboration
Subject	Leadership
Subject	Management
Subject	Sustainability
Subject	VDC
Subject	Virtual Design and Construction
Genre	Technical report

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/vq141qm4960

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Preferred Citation: Kunz, John and Levitt, Raymond and Fischer, Martin. (2003). WP079: Management and Leadership Education for Civil Engineers: Teaching Virtual Design and Construction for Sustainability. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/vq141qm4960

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