RWU SECCM News - Fall 2023

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SECCM NEWS THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTING, AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

FALL 2023

WELCOME! Welcome to the fall 2023 newsletter of the School of Engineering, Computing, and Construction Management (SECCM) at Roger Williams University (RWU)!

Dean Griffin with the 2023 SECCM graduates at commencement.

The spring 2023 semester ended with one of my favorite events of the year — commencement! While bittersweet, the celebratory day was filled with joy and pride as we recognized the accomplishments of the Class of 2023. As members of the second class that graduated during my tenure as dean, these newest alumni will always be special to me.

Congratulations and best wishes to our most recent graduates! Let us celebrate their achievements and wish them all the success in their future endeavors.

In this edition, you’ll learn about current happenings in the School as well as some of the achievements of our SECCM faculty members during the spring semester and summer of 2023. You’ll also get to know more about one of our Engineering faculty members, a Computer Science alumnus, and three of our current undergraduate students. As we continue to celebrate the 2020 opening of the Bready Applied Learning Laboratory, this edition of our newsletter also shines a spotlight on the new Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. We also highlight a recently renovated computer laboratory in the original SECCM building.

I also hope you enjoy reading about the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and their activities.

As the father of a female high school senior who is keenly interested in STEM fields, I personally understand the importance of organizations such as SWE and Women in Construction (WIC) that aid in the development of our future engineers, scientists, and construction managers. Kudos to our SWE and WIC students and their advisors, Drs. Baldwin, Jeznach, Anderson, and Lee! As I write this message, I reflect on a very eventful summer and early fall filled with a lot of disheartening news — political divisions, tornadoes in Massachusetts, ongoing geopolitical conflicts across the globe, horrific fires in Hawaii...

It is easy to become quite discouraged. However, it is precisely during these times that I am reminded of our mission — To prepare our students to be ethical and technically proficient leaders who can make an impact on our world. Every day, I have the privilege of engaging with bright and motivated students, supportive and dedicated staff and colleagues, and caring and creative faculty, as well as committed alumni and industry partners. As a united community, I am more than optimistic — I am confident that we are not only bettering SECCM and RWU but also contributing to a brighter future for all.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or comments — I’m always available by phone or electronic mail (401-254-3498, rgriffin@rwu.edu).

I hope this finds you and yours safe and well.

Rob November 2023

RECENT NEWS The spring semester and summer of 2023 were busy for the students, faculty members, and staff of SECCM. While continuing our day-to-day delivery of courses and activities, we focused on several different aspects of our operations.

FACULTY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT — Summer saw the continued expansion of our faculty — including Shay Kurzinski, a tenure-track assistant professor in Construction Management; Chris Cortese, a visiting assistant professor in Computer Science; Dilhani Jayathilake, a new adjunct professor in Engineering; and Mary Santoro, a superb staff member in the Center for Career and Professional Development who is instructing the Engineering Senior Seminar focused on career readiness. Welcome one and all to SECCM! As of July 1, 2023, four SECCM faculty members were promoted after undergoing the RWU faculty evaluation process. Maija Benitz (Engineering) was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor, and Anne Anderson (Construction Management) was granted tenure. Michael Emmer (Construction Management) and Bill Palm (Engineering) were both promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations — they all are worthy of this recognition!

Lily Jeznach (Engineering) was recognized for her excellence in the classroom and as an advisor with the RWU Excellence in Teaching award. This award was bestowed upon Lily at the main commencement ceremony in May. It is an honor that is very well deserved.

RESEARCH — SECCM faculty continued working — in collaboration with students — on existing projects (with funding from RI DOT, NASA, NSF, and the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program) and submitting proposals for external funding of new research activities. This is in addition to internal proposals to RWU’s Foundation to Support Teaching and Scholarship. An increasing number of undergraduate students are pursuing scholarly research under faculty guidance.

Over a dozen students spent summer 2023 performing this work!

Dr. Lee, James Vigar, and David Ras For example, Jung Hyun Lee led a crossdisciplinary research project that brought together construction management and architecture students to investigate post-COVID-19 construction technology trends. Their Spring 2023 work included an extensive review of construction technology.

As part of Dr. Lee’s research project, David Ras (CM), a rising sophomore, interned over the summer, while James Vigar (Architecture) played a pivotal role in developing a comprehensive survey questionnaire and drafting the introductory section of their forthcoming ASC conference paper, which they plan to submit in November. This collaborative effort merges scholarly research with real-world applications, contributing to advancements in post-pandemic construction technology.

LEFT: The microplastics measurement group presenting their work during the Engineering senior design showcase.

RIGHT: The microplastics collection group deploying their design in the field.

COURSES — The spring and summer saw the implementation of a new general education curriculum for students starting in the current academic year. The domain-based program is replacing the CORE curriculum. Domains focus on broad subject areas including Systems Thinking, Creativity and the Arts, Social Inquiry, Global Perspectives, and Quantitative Reasoning. The program is structured to enhance curricular flexibility, allowing courses from majors to also fulfill certain general education requirements.

This empowers our students to accomplish even more remarkable feats!

We continue to break down barriers between our programs. For example, Construction Management faculty act as clients for Computer Science senior design projects. One particular area on which we have been focusing is the overlap between Civil Engineering and Construction Management. Through the creativity of and collaboration between faculty members in these two areas, the graduating class of 2023 included our first students whose major was Engineering with a Civil Specialization and who had a minor in Construction Management. We are working on getting this opportunity for our students officially ‘on the books.’

The inaugural Blue Tech Challenge was held during the 2022-2023 academic year. In this program, teams of students (with a faculty mentor) proposed solutions to issues related to the Blue Economy.

The teams received support for prototyping their designs and developing a business plan through collaboration with the Gabelli School of Business. Two Engineering teams participated through their capstone design projects — the first focused on a device used to collect microplastics in atmospheric particles, and the second focused on a technology to measure the concentration of similar microplastics in aqueous samples. SECCM is proud to report that the measurement team won first place and that the collection team won second place in the public presentation of their solutions! Congratulations!

NEW FELLOWSHIP — In Spring 2023, the D.F. Pray Scholars Program was established through the generosity of the general contracting firm D.F. Pray. The aim of this new program is to retain a cohort of female and underrepresented students within the CM program through provision of a scholarship during the academic year and a paid summer internship. After a competitive application process, CM student Joey Rozbora was named the first D.F. Pray Scholar. D.F. Pray representatives report being thrilled with Joey’s performance during the summer internship, and Joey loved every minute of the summer and is incredibly grateful to D.F. Pray, as are we all.

Inaugural Pray Fellow Joey Rozbora

KIDWIND. Professor Maija Benitz (Engineering) and Professor Li-Ling Yang (RWU Education), together with their engineering and education students, welcomed nearly 250 fourth graders from the Bristol-Warren Regional School District to campus in April for a day-long celebration of their participation in the 2023 KidWind Community Engagement Project. The KidWind project is affiliated with Dr. Benitz’s elective engineering course focused on wind energy; in this course, Engineering students partner with Education students to deliver curriculum to fourth grade students in the local school district. The semester culminates with the event on campus in which the students test mini-wind turbines, interact with local wind energy professionals, and learn about the engineering design process. What a remarkable event that brought positive media exposure to SECCM and RWU. Congratulations, Dr. Benitz!

KidWind in action!

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ACCREDITATION EFFORTS — SECCM is quite proud that all three of our Bachelor of Science programs are accredited by external agencies. In the case of Construction Management, the agency is the American Council for Construction Education (ACCE); for both Engineering and Computer Science, it is the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Our faculty worked diligently through the spring to prepare self-study reports and collect required documentation that shows the continuous assessment and improvement efforts we make in every course. Many thanks to the faculty for all of their effort. Accreditation teams visited campus in October for all our programs — expect an update on our results in the next newsletter.

FACULTY NEWS Our faculty members continue to shine in their various endeavors. Read on for a brief overview of some of their accomplishments during the spring semester and summer of 2023.

Ahmet Akosman (ENGR) received a grant from RI-INBRE PUI entitled Early detection of breast cancer via specialty THz fiber sensor designs.

Anne Anderson (CNST) received an AGC Fellowship to spend eight weeks this summer as a faculty resident with BOND Building Construction, working at various jobsites throughout Massachusetts including Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Smith College.

Chunyan Bai (COMSC) participated in College Board AP Computer Science A exam reading and problem writing during the summer of 2023.

Janet Baldwin (ENGR) and students from her water and wastewater treatment course were guests of Barletta Heavy Division, Inc., to tour the Pawtucket Combined Sewer Overflow tunnel project. The tunnel is a 30-ft diameter, 2.2-mile long tunnel designed to hold excess water during rainstorms. RWU engineering alum Brian Hann (’17) led the tour deep into the tunnel to observe the innovative tunnel boring machine in action. The project utilizes a precast segmented lining, which is watertight to keep groundwater from leaking into the tunnel. The journey down the tunnel via an electric people mover — designed to expedite worker transit to the boring location — was awe-inspiring, as was being 200 feet below ground level to see the extraordinary work being done to help protect the water quality in Narragansett Bay.

Maija Benitz (ENGR) published and presented a paper titled “Strengthening Undergraduates’ Appreciation of Engineering Ethics through a Simulated Stakeholder Meeting on Offshore Wind Energy Development” at the American Society of Engineering Education’s (ASEE) 2023 Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD in June. She was also elected to a 2-year term as the Program Chair for the Ocean and Marine Engineering Division (OMED) of ASEE. Amine Ghanem (CNST) mentored senior student Alec Kalogeropoulos to his first-place award in the national Allhands Essay Competition sponsored by the Associated General Contractors of America.

Lillian Jeznach (ENGR) was honored to receive the University “Excellence in Teaching” award in the spring!

During the summer, her research student teams worked on projects analyzing microplastic inputs to the Narragansett Bay and how climate change may alter algae growth in a local drinking water reservoir.

Pamela Judge (ENGR) worked on a research project with two students; one engineer and one environmental scientist.

The project consisted of investigating environmentally benign means of preventing soil erosion using a 3D printer.

The project was funded by the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program (NBEP) and the RWU Foundation to Promote Scholarship and Teaching (FPST).

Shay Kurzinski (CNST) published a paper entitled “Evaluating the Effect of Inner Layer Grain Orientation on Dimensional Stability in Hybrid Species Cross-and Diagonal-Cross-laminated Timber (DCLT)” in Mass Timber Construction Journal.

Jung Hyun Lee (CNST) recently published the final chapter of her Ph.D. thesis, titled: “Project Chief Engineer: An Industry Review of a New Position on Design–Build Teams for Major Transportation Projects,” in the ASCE Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction.

Allison Marn (ENGR) began research on skin cancer detection using Terahertz imaging funded by the Rhode Island Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence.

On this research project, she mentored three engineering undergraduates who presented their work at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium at URI. Nicole Martino (ENGR) finalized her latest research project with the RIDOT. Her team now has a complete set of tools, including Matlab codes, that will automatically identify locations of deficiencies in concrete subbase with high-speed ground-penetrating radar.

William Palm (ENGR) and his colleagues on the NSF-funded RISE Scholars Program were proud to see the first full cohort of RISE Scholars, including one Engineering major and one Computer Science major, graduate in May. To date, the program has retained 100% of its participants in STEM majors and placed them all into STEM careers or graduate school.

Anthony Ruocco (COMSC) participated in the Blackburn Challenge, a 20-mile long open-water row around Cape Ann, MA in July.

Matthew Stein (ENGR) directed graduating seniors Callum Robbins and Keith Sherry as co-authors of the research paper “Sensorized Manipulation Challenge Kit for Benchmarking Robotic Manipulation” presented at the RSS 2023 Workshop Experiment-oriented Locomotion and Manipulation Research July 10, 2023 in Daegu, South Korea. The work was supported as part of an Office of Naval Research grant.

Gordon Stewart (ENGR) had a presentation (“The Convergence of Floating Wind Farm Fatigue Loads due to Simulation Length“) accepted by the North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA) WindTech Conference to be held in Denver, CO. Charles Thomas (ENGR) recognizes that rubbing a wet finger on the rim of a wind glass can make the glass sing.

Thanks to a crowd-sourced data collection effort, students who were in ENGR 437, Acoustics, learned how the frequency of the tone generated by this action depends on the height of liquid (water in this case) in the glass.

Collecting data for many heights of water is time consuming, so students each picked a few heights (as well as the empty glass) and shared their data. The larger lesson here is: how does the resonant frequency of a system like this one change when adding mass? Do you think the frequency went down or up with increasing water height (i.e., mass)?

Gökhan Çelik (Associate Dean) published a paper in Decision Analytics Journal entitled “Digital Twin: Benefits, use cases, challenges, and opportunities.”

Rob Griffin (Dean) published a paper (in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques) with a former graduate student focused on use of machine learning models in the analysis of air pollution time series collected on a mobile platform.

FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

DR. PAM JUDGE We continue our faculty spotlight segment with a focus on Dr. Pam Judge from the Engineering program, who has been at RWU since 2018.

WHERE DID YOU GROW UP?

Long Island, New York. I graduated from Brentwood High School.

WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR DEGREES?

B.S. Geological Engineering (Colorado School of Mines), M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of California Berkeley), Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

WHAT OTHER JOBS HAVE YOU HELD?

Senior Staff Engineer and Project Engineer for Schnabel Engineering near Washington DC for six years.

WHAT’S THE LAST BOOK YOU READ FOR FUN?

Dr. Pam Judge at an event at Six Flags New England to promote females in STEM.

“In the Blood” by Charles Barber. It was a fantastic read that I couldn’t put down this summer. It really shows how science in real life is sometimes even more fascinating than fiction!.. and I just started “Is Math Real?” by Eugenia Cheng

WHAT’S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU?

I love ballroom dancing and dance competitively. I am award-winning in Tango. Once, while in graduate school, I was even a background dancer for a commercial.

WHY DID YOU WANT TO BE A PROFESSOR?

While working in industry, I found the geotechnical engineering projects interesting. However, I felt I was missing something from my career. I wanted a career that centered more around education, outreach and community service.

I have always loved science and engineering education. So, I returned to graduate school to earn my PhD to retool my career in the trajectory of education. I am very glad I made the switch. I tell students not to worry if they don’t know exactly what they want to do for the rest of their life. Change can be a good thing; it’s an opportunity for new experiences, personal growth, and meeting lots of interesting and inspiring people along the way.

WHY RWU?

I really like that RWU is small enough that I can get to know my students. On the other hand, RWU is robust enough that I can engage in research. It also helped greatly that the RWU campus is in New England, which allowed me to remain close to my parents and sister.

WHAT CLASSES ARE YOU TEACHING?

For the Fall 2023 semester, I am teaching Soil Mechanics Lecture and Lab (a personal favorite!) and Engineering Economic Analysis (a first time for me). Looking ahead to Spring 2024, I plan to teach Transportation Engineering and Foundation Design, among others. And I often mentor a senior design team as well!

WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON (IN ADDITION TO YOUR ALREADY HEAVY TEACHING LOAD!)?

I am currently the Principal Investigator for a research project supported by the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program.

My research team is investigating potentially environmentally benign ways of minimizing soil erosion.

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

JASON GIROUX ’20

If you have news to share or would like to be featured in our alumni news section, contact Dean Griffin.

Here, we spotlight Jason Giroux, Computer Science, class of 2020, who has flourished since graduating from RWU.

WHAT WAS YOUR SPECIALIZATION?

I specialized in mathematics, which has been a great compliment to my computer science major.

DID YOU HAVE A MINOR/CORE?

2020 COMSC alumnus Jason Giroux (with some furry friends).

I minored in cyber security and mathematics.

WERE YOU A PART OF ANY EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, BOTH RELATED TO SECCM AND NOT?

I primarily focused on my classes and work. For the majority of my junior and senior year, I worked part time as a remote software engineer or QA Automation engineer intern. I also partook in personal projects, which is how I discovered my love for full stack development, mentoring, and public speaking.

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE COURSE AND WHY?

My favorite course was my senior year software design class with Dr. Ruocco. This was where we could apply all of our other computer science and mathematics courses into one cohesive project working with stakeholders, other students and professors. My group worked with cutting-edge technology that allowed us to create a project that tracked a user’s body and recognized customized gestures to control the computer — similar to VR without the remotes or headset.

WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT POSITION?

I am an E2 full stack developer at a Boston-based financial technology company that focuses on home equity investment. I am also a mentor for hack.diversity and build.org, where I work with primarily undergraduate fellows looking to get involved in the STEM fields but may not have the available resources to do so or may need some guidance.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF YOUR JOB?

I do a lot day-to-day from collaborating with my teammates to coding and testing, but I would say my favorite part of my job is when I get to see all of my team’s and my efforts come together. Every other week we present our progress, and watching our work fit together like a puzzle is always the highlight of my sprint. We recently presented a feature that took several weeks to complete — seeing the reactions of our stakeholders and product owners makes all the work worthwhile.

WHAT ARE YOUR CAREER GOALS?

Long term, I want to found and run my own tech startup, but short term I want to absorb as much information as possible while also taking on additional both technical and interpersonal responsibilities. As a software engineer you will always be learning. There are new languages, frameworks, and publications every day, and it’s important to stay on top of new advancements in your field.

WHY DID YOU CHOOSE RWU?

I originally chose RWU because of the professors. When I attended two open houses, I got to meet the cyber security and the computer science professors, and they were the most passionate out of all the college open houses I attended. The location and campus was the second reason.

ANY OTHER INTERESTING BITS OF INFORMATION YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE?

I switched majors three times at Roger Williams University, but the university gave me the opportunity to explore and understand topics from Cyber Security to Software Engineering. Switching majors gave me the opportunity to make lifelong friends and kept me constantly curious about what I could see myself doing in the distant future. I don’t know if I would be in the position I am in today if it wasn’t for RWU — I wouldn’t have found out how much I enjoyed coding, but because of Roger Williams University, I have passion in my work and will continue to as innovation is happening around us every day.

MEET SOME OF OUR FANTASTIC STUDENTS Get to know some of our top-notch students!

MAJOR: Computer Science with Mathematics Specialization MINOR: Mathematics YEAR: Senior HOMETOWN: Coventry, RI MOST IMPORTANT EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Neurodiverse Network (NDN) vice president and my WQRI radio show Afro Station

Computer Science Matthew Davidson

FINISH THE QUOTE: I CHOSE RWU BECAUSE… All of the computer science professors here have such talented backgrounds. Additionally, the smaller classes make sure students get the attention they deserve.

MAJOR: Construction Management CORE CONCENTRATION: Economics YEAR: Senior HOMETOWN: Utica, NY MOST IMPORTANT EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: My most important extracurricular activities include being the President of the Habitat for Humanity RWU Campus Chapter, the Vice President of Women in Construction, and the Head Resident Assistant for North Campus Residence Hall.

FINISH THE QUOTE: I CHOSE RWU BECAUSE… of the program, people, and location.

When I toured the campus during my senior year of high school, I was given a tour of the SECCM facilities where I was able to ask program-specific questions to a current Construction Management student. That helped cement RWU’s CM program as my #1 choice. The program is praised by alumni of Roger and the ACCE Accreditation is a huge bonus. Also, who can pass up on the awesome views from campus? They remind me daily why I chose RWU. It has been a great experience, and I am grateful for all the help I have gotten from RWU. Construction Management Gabriella Cruz

MAJOR: Electrical and Computer Engineering MINOR: Mathematics YEAR: Senior HOMETOWN: North Providence, RI MOST IMPORTANT EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Multicultural STEM Alliance (Vice President); Women of Color Club (WOCC); IEEE Engineering Viannely Francisco

FINISH THE QUOTE: I CHOSE RWU BECAUSE… it provided me with a healthy and motivating environment to grow both as an intellectual and as a person.

SPACES Those of you who graduated in 2019 or earlier and have been back to campus likely noticed the new (opened in January 2020) Richard Bready Applied Learning Laboratories (or SECCM Labs Building-SELB).

One of the gems of campus, SELB houses teaching and research facilities for all SECCM programs. Many thanks to the generous donors who supported the design and construction of the SELB. In case you have been unable to visit in person, we would like to give you some insight into some specific aspects of the building. Last time, we highlighted the Construction Management Methods and Materials Laboratory; here we highlight SELB 200, the space in which Fluid Mechanics laboratory is taught.

According to Professor Charlie Thomas, who typically is the main instructor of the course, students actually use the building itself for two of the exercises. For one, students measure and record the flow rate of water from various plumbing fixtures in the building and connect those flow rates to various aspects of the location where the sample was collected. The data (from each year that the exercise has and will be done) are stored in a shared Google spreadsheet so that all students use all the data to reach conclusions. Part of the work is teaching students how to deal with the large amount of data. An additional benefit of this work is that it forces students to think about gender while doing engineering work — for example, a group of male students will generally not measure flow rates in a women’s bathroom.

In the second case, students measure the flow rate (of air) in one of the ventilation units in the fluids laboratory, something that is normally in the background for students. Students comfortable doing so measure inlet flow rates and exit flow rates, safely while on ladders. They also use a hot wire anemometer to investigate the velocity flow profile inside one of the ducts.

Other specific ways the new space makes an impact include: • Multiple Armfield laboratory benches allow a more dynamic rotation of laboratory exercises • Students have space to collaborate on post-laboratory analysis and report writing • The whiteboards allow for on-the-fly mini-lectures to explain laboratory procedures and deepen students’ understanding of fluids phenomena.

• New equipment (e.g., wind tunnel) allows for further physical demonstration of course material.

(According to Dr. Thomas, “If they did not use the equipment, they would be at the mercy of trusting the instructor or some other expert!”)

SECCM Labs Building-SELB 200

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RENOVATED COMPUTER LAB — With a generous grant from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation, SE 206 (the computer laboratory in the original School of Engineering building) has been renovated into the new E. L. Wiegand Foundation Data and Modeling Studio. The new space increases our teaching and research capacities in areas such as data structures, engineering graphics and design, resource management, and geographic information systems. The space is designed to keep up with advancing technology while preparing students across the university for careers within and beyond STEM that require increasing fluency in computer and information science. Additional break-out rooms provide space for student collaboration and virtual reality projects in support of group project learning, capstone projects, and clubs.

The new SE 206!

STUDENT CLUB SPOTLIGHT

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS

Our students are involved in many extra- and co-curricular activities across campus — from athletics to the arts to service and beyond. We host a large number (14!) of SECCM-specific clubs that focus generally on the professional development of and opportunities for our student body. Specific clubs focus on increasing the sense of belonging and inclusion of some segments of our community — for example, Women in Construction and the Society of Women Engineers. These organizations provide excellent support, community, growth, and fun for students. Here we spotlight SWE. SWE focuses on the professional development and networking for engineers who identify as female.

RWU’s chapter events include a Women of SECCM Mixer, talks with various professionals, a faculty research presentation, and many other fun events. Interested alumni can contact Dean Griffin to connect with SWE members.

SWE Members during a girl scout event held on campus last academic year.

“I think SWE is an important club to be involved with because it enables me to be part of an empowering group of women within a male dominated field. I joined in order to make new friends that had similar interests as me, as well as for all of the opportunities it provides its members. It was a way for me to connect with upperclassmen within engineering that were able to guide me through my time here at Roger Williams. I wanted to become president because I looked up to the past Eboard members and wanted to help out the younger members like they did.”

— Abby Gambrell, current president

SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY We invite you to follow us on X — @DeanRobGriffin and @Go_khan, as well as the X of RWU and the Construction Management program: @myRWU and @RWUCM. Connect with us on LinkedIn, too. Keep an eye on our webpage for new format and content coming soon!

OPPORTUNITIES Are you looking for more ways to support SECCM? In addition to the traditional ‘annual fund gift,’ there are numerous opportunities to contribute to SECCM. Consider hiring our students for internships, externships, or full-time employment, presenting to one of our student clubs or courses, or becoming a mentor. Sponsoring a field trip, research project or a student competition team, or joining one of our Professional Advisory Boards are also impactful ways to contribute.

If you’re unsure where to begin, please contact Dean Griffin.

Your continued support and engagement are integral to SECCM’s ongoing success and innovation.

Thank you for being part of our vibrant community!