Aug 02, 2025 - Moving from Fresno to Miami!
🌍"A full life is a book of chapters," 🌍 a good colleague told me. After 5 years, I am leaving Fresno with my heart full of gratitude.💚 - ▶️Thank you, California State University, Fresno, Provost Fu, and all colleagues involved for recognizing my work over these years by granting me ✨️"Early Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor", ✨️that would have been effective this Fall 2025. - ▶️Thank you, Lyles College of Engineering, Ram Nunna, Bradley Hyatt , for being always forward thinking and for providing great opportunities for students and faculty. - ▶️Thank you, Fresno State Construction Management , ALL the amazing faculty in this department, and (specially) Wei Wu and Robin McNeill for all your support and encouragement over the years🤗. - ▶️Thank you, all the students that I had the privilege to teach, learn from and work with. Just to name a few: Lesly Lopez , Frances Yu , Ronald Shrestha, FE, CMIT , Avantika Dixit ,Jasman Jamarei, PMP® , Farid Orya, MSCM, PMI-SP ,Chahat Mirdha , Kiet Duong , Evilio Osorio ,Alejandro Quezada Vera, Guadalupe Cervantes- Laurean , and many, many others! 👏👏👏 And last, but not least, - ▶️Thank you to all industry partners that are always willing to work with us to enrich our students' learning experiences.🏗 Specially, my heavy civil team:✨️ Dustin Donahoo , Alex Salcedo , Valentin Ibarra,Jorge Quezada, MBA (He.Him.His) , Brent Broyles, and The Beavers Association.✨️ Also, Julianita Jauregui , Jordan Wolf, QISP and WTS- Central California Chapter, Luz Gonzalez , Laura Gromis, Ana Karina Pano ✨️and many others!! 💚One little piece of the Central Valley, and the BullDog spirit comes with me to the next chapter in South Florida!💚

May 31, 2025 - The Beavers Day! A great success!

It was not a short ride, but more than 30 students from California State University, Fresno visited last Friday the Mosquito Road Bridge construction in El Dorado County. The bridge in construction is a 1,200 foot long cast-in-place balanced cantilever bridge with approximately 300 feet over the South Fork American River near Placerville, CA. Thanks to @The Beavers Association, the students not only had the opportunity to learn firsthand the means, methods, and challenges faced during the construction of this project, but they also networked with other universities' students and senior management from renowned heavy civil construction firms. I hope this experience sparks their curiosity for the fascinating world of heavy civil construction!! Shimmick Corporation, Teichert, Kiewit, Fresno State Construction Management

Lean Approach to minimize Cost Overruns in Transportation Projects. Article Published! Feb 10, 2025 - Lean Approach to minimize Cost Overruns in Transportation Projects. Article Published!
I am very excited to see the work of my former master's student, Chahat Mirdha, published in the Lean Construction Journal. 😊 Chahat explored what lean techniques might be more suitable to address pre-construction processes that, if not performed effectively, could lead to cost overruns in transportation projects. Check more details on the link below. 👇 Before finishing his Master's in Construction Management at California State University, Fresno, Chahat was also awarded the California State University, Fresno Graduate Research And Creative Activities Award. 🏆 Congratulations Chahat Mirdha. It was not an easy journey, but you did it! Fresno State Construction Management, Lean Construction Institute (US)   CHECK HERE the article: https://leanconstruction.org/lean-construction-journal/doi-info-2025-31-44-copy/

Building Information Modeling for Infrastructures–Report published! Jan 31, 2025 - Building Information Modeling for Infrastructures–Report published!
I am excited to see published the work completed with my colleagues Nigel Blampied (CSU San Jose), Elhami Nasr, and Tariq Shehab (CSU Long Beach) about BIM implementation in infrastructure projects!! If you want to learn more, please check this link: https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/2453-Building-Information-Modeling-Infrastructure

Presenting our research on BIM4I at the 2025 TRB! Jan 06, 2025 - Presenting our research on BIM4I at the 2025 TRB!
It is a pleasure to share our findings at the 2025 TRB Annual Meeting!  

Delays in Infrastructure Projects: Article published! Dec 13, 2024 - Delays in Infrastructure Projects: Article published!
I am very proud of my former Master's Student, Farid Orya! The work he developed in this independent study has been published in the SAGE Journal of Public Works Management and Policy. In this research, Farid explored the reasons for delays in different stages of infrastructure projects' lifecycle! Check the abstract here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1087724X241308310

Webinar on Performance-Based Maintenance Contracts Nov 20, 2024 - Webinar on Performance-Based Maintenance Contracts
Honored to host Mr. Pekka Pakkala to present about Performance-Based Contracting and the Finnish Experience. Several California Local Agencies are attending!!

Learning about Quality–Guest Speakers from High-Speed Rail Project Oct 24, 2024 - Learning about Quality–Guest Speakers from High-Speed Rail Project
Today, we are pleased to invite Mr. Qudratullah, a Quality Assurance Engineer, and our CM Master Student, Saiteja Vattikuti, a Quality intern. Both are working at DFJV-Dragados-USA on the High-Speed Rail Project. Students learned the main concepts to consider when managing quality in constructing a complex infrastructure project!  

7th International Conference on Women and Gender in Transportation Sep 11, 2024 - 7th International Conference on Women and Gender in Transportation

I am inspired and energized by all the great people, research, and shared experiences at the Transportation Research Board's 7th International Conference on Women and Gender in Transportation this week! On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to present our research led by @Alejandra Valencia-Vasquez & Gustavo Garcia Melero on "Sexual Crimes and Harassment in Public Transportation in Chile. How Safe Are We?" This generated a great discussion with my fellow panelist Pearl Liu and the audience. On Wednesday, it was my pleasure to share the work that Gustavo Garcia Melero, Frances Yu, and I are currently working on: "Attraction, retention, barriers for women working in engineering and construction of infrastructure projects." It is very exciting to see how all the panelists in the session contributed amazing research and experiences!! Megan E. Peterson, EdD, @Nicole Tyler, Julia Leone, Ph.D., Jodi Godfrey

Creativity in the Classroom! Aug 30, 2024 - Creativity in the Classroom!
The start of the new semester is very exciting! Last week, I had my first-course session and used some of what I learned from Cyndi Burnett, Ed. D., in the course she taught this summer about infusing creativity in higher education! (thank you, California State University, Fresno, for providing these enriching professional development opportunities) I brought pictures as a starting point for a brainstorming activity (promoting divergent thinking) to start connecting the ideas students already have in their minds with the contents that will be covered in the course! I enjoyed the session (I hope the students too!)

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