Outreach
IOPT-4 Team Members at CI & CRC Joint Conference 2024!
Dr. Meltem Duva presented her research at CI & CRC Conference 2024.
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IOPT-4 Team Members at CI & CRC Joint Conference 2024!
Hasan Bayhan presented his research at CI & CRC Conference 2024.
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IOPT-4 Team Members at CI & CRC Joint Conference 2024!
Dr. Faizan Shafique presented his research at CI & CRC Conference 2024.
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Women in Construction Week
Dr. Sinem and MSU Professional Women Builders got together with the Girl Scouts for this year’s STEM Career Exploration.
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Convening of the MSU Future of Work Initiative
Dr. Sinem was a panelist relating to human technology partnership in the Convening of the MSU Future of Work Initiative on March 8, 2024.
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Convening of the MSU Future of Work Initiative
IOPT-4 team member Hasan Bayhan presented his research at the Convening of the MSU Future of Work Initiative.
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NSF Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Principal Investigators Meeting was held from August 31-September 1, 2023, in Boston.
Dr. Meltem Duva attended the 2023 NSF Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Principal Investigators Meeting representing the I-OPT4 Research Team and presented a research poster.
She was also a panelist in the "Perspectives on Research Convergence" session and shared her ideas about the Future of Work program.
Dr. Sinem Presented at Purdue University
Dr. Sinem presented at the CE-Construction Spring 2022 Seminar Series at Purdue University on April 29, 2022 on Social Network Interventions in Project Teams.
Spartans at the American Society of Civil Engineers' CI & CRC Joint Conference 2022!
IOPT-4 team members, Meltem Duva and Hasan Bayhan, presented their research at CI & CRC Conference 2022.
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Spartans Taking Over ACCE Mid-Year Conference
Dr. Sinem and MSU Construction Management team attended the American Council for Construction Education mid-year conference 2022, in Irving, TX. They also received and celebrated our program’s reaccreditation.
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Future of Work Project Team Work Sessions are in Place!
A diverse group of students from different programs (Construction Management, Engineering, Economy, Computer Science) and various levels of education (undergraduate to Ph.D.) are working together on processing, cleaning, and analyzing student and authentic Architecture, Engineering, and Construction project teams data. The students are supervised by Dr. Hanzhe Zhang (Assistant Professor of Economics) and Dr. Sinem Mollaoglu (Professor of Construction Management).
"It has been a challenge to facilitate the team integration in the last year due to the pandemic. Despite continuous efforts over zoom, we learned that nothing replaces the in-person experience. I feel like we started to restore some much-needed team spirit via our once-a-week in person teamwork sessions this semester." said Dr. Sinem.
"We are valuing in-person meetings much more than before the pandemic. Emails and Zoom lacked efficient and higher-quality responses and interactions that in-person meetings provided. In addition, in-person meetings help us get to know each other better and build personal bonds and trust in each other that will help our long-term team spirits and productivity." said Dr. Zhang.
Professerror Podcast: Dr. Sinem Discusses Her Experiences
Dr. Sinem joins Bryan Franz and Steven Ayer to discuss her experiences and challenges in building, sustaining, and growing industry collaborations to support her research.
4 of IOPT-4 Team Members Presented at EPOC and Meltem Duva Won the 1st Place!
4 of IOPT-4 team members, Hasan Gokberk Bayhan, Meltem Duva, Nishchay Pidiha and Nishchhal Nihal Pandey, presented their research in 3 Minute Thesis Competition at Engineering Project Organization Conference, 2020 and Meltem Duva, a PhD candidate in Construction Management program, won the first place.
The students were expected to describe their research within three minutes to a general audience using one slide, and judged by a panel of four faculty members from different universities.
Webinar: Collaborative Partnering in Airport Projects
TRB hosted a webinar on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 to explore collaborative partnering concept for airport construction projects. Dr. Sinem introduced the concept, presented its benefits, described ways to measure success, and discussed how to implement a collaborative partnership. Moreover ways to improve organizational readiness to use partnering were shared.
Dr. Angelo Garcia and Harsh Kalbhor from I-OPT4 worked alongside Dr. Sinem for the project.
Kendal Albrecht, undergraduate student of I-OPT4 research team, presented her research poster in Mid-SURE, 2020.
Kendal is an undergraduate student of anthropology from Michigan State University. During Summer 2020, she was mentored by Dr. Mollaoglu, PhD candidate Meltem Duva, Dr. Frank and Dr. Zhao and prepared a research poster named "Project Workflow and Resolution Analysis in AEC Projects". She collected data in one of I-OPT4 research team's on-going NSF projects.
Due to Covid-19, the 2020 Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE) was held on August 10 at the virtual format.
Please click here to watch the voice-over PowerPoint of her poster presentation.
We wish her best of luck in her path ahead.
Jackeline Benitez, SROP undergraduate student of I-OPT4 research team, presented her results in July 2019
Jackline is an undergraduate student of psychology from California State University, Fullerton planning to apply for graduate school. During Summer 2019, she was mentored by Dr.s Mollaoglu, Zhao, Frank, Garcia and PhD student Meltem Duva under Summer Research Opportunities (SROP) program at Michigan State University. She worked in one of I-OPT4 research team's on-going NSF projects during this time.
On 7/22, Jackline presented her research results to SROP participants.
On 7/24, she presented her research poster at Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences, where 406 students from more than 100 different institutions participated.
During Summer 2019, she developed a paper on her research and contributed to a conference paper as a co-author with her mentors.
We wish her best of luck in her path ahead in graduate studies!
Construction Dream Team Showcases a Podcast with Dr. Sinem
Sue Dyer of "Construction Dream Team" (https://constructiondreamteam.com) interviewed Dr. Sinem Mollaoglu in Summer, 2019. Podcast - Episode 32 presents many insights to Dr. Sinem's professional journey, her research projects in Project Partnering, and the recently published ACRP guidebook for Partnering in Airports.
I-OPT4 Team received NSF grant for "Research Experiences for Undergraduates"
I-OPT team received $16K award from NSF as Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement to their project "Social Network Interventions to Develop Routines for Inter-Organizational Project Systems" in accordance with the program solicitation: NSF 13‐542.
I-OPT4 Team Members Carolyn and Patty presented at the University Undergraduate Research & Arts Forum and received 1st place Award!
On April 5, 2019, Carolyn Whiting and Patty Girardot presented their research project at MSU's Undergraduate Research & Arts Forum (UUAF). Their project titled 'Identifying Communications in Construction Projects through Social Networks ' attempts to better understand the connections formed during the AEC project process and to discover those connections that have potentials to improve communication in the organization. This study is mentored by Dr. Zhao, Dr. Sinem & Dr. Frank.
MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction participated in the Design & Build Day!
On Oct. 13, the SPDC participated in the Design & Build Day at Impression 5 Science Museum. This was the second year that HBA of Greater Lansing and Impression 5 organized this event, and this year, SPDC was one of the 11 participating facilitators.
MSU’s CM Program at the Great Lakes Builders’ Show!
MSU’s CM Program attended the Great Lakes Builders’ Show as an exhibitor on 14th and 15th of February, 2018!