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Preparing Cost Engineers For Today's Construction Industry Challenges, Kenneth Robson, Douglas D. Gransberg

Douglas D. Gransberg

Today's cost engineer must be comfortable working in the world of performance criteria rather than yesterday's legalistic prescriptive specifications. This requires a better understanding of the owner's requirements and a more responsive business approach. While these skills are certainly being acquired on the job by today's practicing cost engineers, it is incumbent upon university construction education programs to adjust the curriculum and ensure that entry-level cost engineers arc entering the industry with the educational background to quickly assimilate into this new, faster-paced environment. Thus, the purpose of this article is to describe how the University of Oklahoma's Construction Science program …