BSGU Online Professional Practice Course

BGSU Arcitecture Program Announces Online Professional Practice Course.
Bowling Green State University’s Architecture Program will be offeringa 3 semester-hour course entitled“Fundamentals of Architectural Practice for Architects and ConstructionManagers” as an online course in summer 2006.The class, open to both undergraduate and graduate students, isdesigned to provide an overview of professional practice issues andwill cover a wide range of topics including Architectural Firm/Practice models, traditional and alternative project delivery models, an overview of building codes-project delivery issues, construction document standards, legal and contractual standards in architectural practice (including AIA and AGC contracts), and project delivery budgeting. The class will approach these topics from an interdisciplinary perspective that will include commentary from architects, consulting engineers, and contractors. The class will be taught entirely on-line by two architecture faculty at BGSU, both who have extensive professional practice experience: Dr. Stan Guidera and Scot MacPherson. For more information regarding course content, fees.schedule, and course equivalencies please contact:
Dr. Stan Guidera
BGSU Architecture/Environmental Design StudiesCollege of Technology
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
43403419-372-9885
guidera@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Dr. Stan Guidera in the UK!!

Dr. Stan Guidera, Architect and program leader of the Architecture/Environmental Design Program at BGSU has received approval for the 2006 offering of “Field Experience in the United Kingdom”, a short-term study abroad course for architecture majors. This 23 day program is centered in London, England. It provides students an opportunity to experience an architecturally rich environment that offers a unique juxtaposition of historically significant buildings and critically acclaimed, cutting-edge contemporary works while being immersed in the daily life of one of the worlds leading urban capitals. A key class activity is a week long work-assignment during which students experience the operations of a London architectural firm first-hand, which is structured to provide students with a unique learning opportunity while fulfilling a cooperative education course requirement. The class includes a variety of tours of important works, museums, and public spaces, as well as day-trips to Oxford, Windsor, and Greenwich.
BGSU Architecture students on the Hungerford Bridge over the Thames




















BGSU Architecture students on the Thames South Bank















BGSU Architecture students at the RIBA Exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum

NEW ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT TEXAS A&M!!!

Architectural Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville
CONTACT: Hector Estrada, hector.estrada@tamuk.edu or 361-593-2269

A new bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville has been given final approval by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and is up and running this fall. The new program will be housed in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering within the Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering, and will be chaired by Dr. Hector Estrada, Associate Professor. This new program is particularly important since there is only one baccalaureate program in architectural engineering accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in Texas, which is offered at the University of Texas at Austin.
The program got off to a good start with 10 students enrolled for the fall semester. Several other interested students have enrolled in other disciplines while official approval of the program was pending; these students will now transfer to architectural engineering to bring the total enrollment to approximately 15, well over the initial goal of 10 for the first semester. This goal was achieved basically by word of mouth because no formal advertisement prior to official approval was allowed. Now that the program has been approved, we will promote the new degree and attract more students. It is anticipated that the enrollment of the program over the next four to five years will be approximately 100, graduating 15 to 20 students per year.
The department is offering one of the freshman courses this fall, Computer Based Graphics and Design, which is being taught by a visiting professor with specialty in Architecture. Three new faculty members with terminal degrees in architectural engineering will be added over the next three years. The contributions of these new faculty members will include teaching new architectural engineering courses, and developing laboratory facilities for teaching and conducting research. Additionally, six current full-time civil engineering faculty members will be directly involved in teaching fundamentals and cross-listed courses.
The mission of the bachelor’s degree program in architectural engineering is to prepare students to assume the necessary design experience in the building industry to become registered engineers with a specialization in Building Architectural Engineering, and to instill in them the importance of lifelong learning, including pursuing advanced studies leading to graduate degrees.
The program will develop engineering graduates with the necessary engineering skills to engage in lifelong careers as practicing professional architectural engineers who are ethical and socially responsible. It will also develop engineering graduates with a broad understanding of the problem-solving and design skills necessary to operate in the interdisciplinary arena of architectural engineering. Finally, it will provide candidates with the knowledge and skills of mathematics, science and engineering necessary to pursue graduate studies.
The program will be a traditional four-year engineering degree program requiring 131 semester credit hours of coursework sufficient to satisfy all the accreditation requirements of ABET. The proposed curriculum includes coursework in general education (communications, social science, and humanities), mathematics and science, engineering fundamentals, and architectural engineering. Students will choose six hours of prescribed elective courses from structural engineering, construction engineering, and project management or services engineering.

PHOTOS FROM ASEE CONFERENCE DINNER: PORTLAND 2005

Joe Betz, Charles Bissey and Gouranga Banik: Award Winners

Group Photo: New Executive Committee: 2005

Stan Guidera (Best Paper)

Jan Cowan (Best Presentation)

ASEE CONFERENCE: PORTLAND,OREGON June14, 2005

Columbia Gorge and Mount Hood: Photos Courtesy: Suining Ding: IPFW

ASEE 2005 / Architectural Engineering Division Dinner Meeting
MINUTES OF MEETING
Scribe: John J. Phillips, P.E. Oklahoma State University
June 14, 2005
Conference Center Portland, Oregon 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Present: Refer to attached list of attendees, along with email addresses.

Gouranga: Acknowledged and thanked Joe Betz for his hard work as the AE Division Chair for this years conference.

Charles Bissey: On membership in ASEE, majority of members in AE division come from civil engineering technology and architecture technology, with only a minority being AE faculty, and also 2 high school teachers.

The AE division – On national level, demand for doctorate in Architectural Engineering exists (Penn St. currently has a program), and the AE division should band together to establish AE doctorate programs, as currently many students with AE degrees have problems getting into doctorate programs. One possibility discussed is establishing a set of guidelines that AE students must have upon graduation with a degree that could be a standard for review by admissions offices to graduate programs. Also, increased awareness of Architectural Engineering is needed. Additionally, issue of green design can be promoted positively through the AE division, and should be in the future.

Awards: Two awards for the AE division were awarded at the dinner:
1) Best paper of AE division - Stan Guidera
2) Best presenter of AE division - Jan Cowan
In addition, two other awards were presented:
1) Award to Joe Betz for his outstanding accomplishments as the
Architectural Engineering Program Chair the past two years.
2) Award to Gouranga Banik for his leadership as Division Head the past two years.

Officers: Officers for the next two years are:
Division Head: Joseph Betz
Program Chair: John Phillips
Secretary: Stan Guidera
Treasurer: Hector Estrada
Newsletter Editor : Jan Cowan
Execution Committee Member: Suining Ding

Awards/Business Meeting Attendees:
Gouranga Banik Southern Polytech State University gbanik@spsu.edu
Joseph Betz S.U.N.Y. Farmingdale betzja@farmingdale.edu
Charles Bissey Kansas State Universtity(Emeritus) crbissey@sbcglobal.net
Jan Cowan IUPUI jancowa@iupui.edu
Daniel Davis University of Hartford https://www.exchange.iu.edu/jancowa/Inbox/RE:%20ASEE%20Newsletter.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_AE_MTG_MINUTES.doc/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/ddavis@hartford.edu
Suining Ding IPFW https://www.exchange.iu.edu/jancowa/Inbox/RE:%20ASEE%20Newsletter.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_AE_MTG_MINUTES.doc/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/dings@ipfw.edu
Hector Estrada Texas A&M University – Kingsville hector.estrada@tamuk.edu
Stan Guidera Bowling Green State University guidera@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Eric Hansberry Northeastern University https://www.exchange.iu.edu/jancowa/Inbox/RE:%20ASEE%20Newsletter.EML/1_multipart_xF8FF_2_AE_MTG_MINUTES.doc/C58EA28C-18C0-4a97-9AF2-036E93DDAFB3/ewh@coe.neu.edu
John Phillips Oklahoma State University jjp@okstate.edu