Press Release
Western Carolina University Construction Management Program Releases An Interactive eBook
By Bradford Sims
Nov 29, 2003 - 8:21:00 AM
One of Western Carolina University's fastest growing Bachelor of Science programs is its new Construction Management Program. Students are able to learn the technical and management skills to be successful leaders in any area of the construction industry.
In an effort to provide information on the Construction Management program that goes beyond basic paper brochures mailed to interested parties, a new fun interactive eBook can be downloaded from their website www.WCU-CM.org. While eBooks have be around a couple of years, they have been rarely used in university marketing and maybe never for any other University Construction Management Program.
This fun interactive eBook turns its pages just like a book on your computer monitor and contains hotlinks inside the eBook to related internet websites, video clips, and adobe pdf files. When viewing the eBook, the user can pop-up windows that will load these websites, video clips, and adobe pdf files while keeping the eBook running. Parties interested in learning more about construction education have found this new eBook an exciting and interesting tool that keeps there attention. The eBook contains not only text and hotlinks but is also embellish with many color images. Visit www.WCU-CM.org to view this exciting new eBook and the Construction Management Program at Western Carolina University.
Dr. Bradford L. Sims
Associate Professor & CM Director
Ph.D., Purdue University
M.S.B.C., University of Florida
B.S., Purdue University
Email: bsims@wcu.edu
Belk 224
828.227.2175
Associate Professor & CM Program Director
Dr. Bradford L. Sims has either worked in or in support of the Construction Industry since receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree from Purdue University's Building Construction Program in May of 1990. Dr. Sims is an Associate Professor and the Construction Management Program Director in the Engineering Technology department at Western Carolina University. Prior to joining the leadership team at Western Carolina, Dr. Sims was on a leave of absence from the University of Florida's Building Construction Program working in The Netherlands for the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building Construction (CIB) as their Assistant Secretary General. There he was involved with organizations from all over the world and would travel to support over 50 commissions of experts performing research into all aspects of building and construction.
Dr. Sims has been an Assistant Professor in the University of Florida's Building Construction program where he performed research into Lean Construction and worked closely with the American Council of Construction Education (ACCE), was an Educator-at-Large member of the Certified Professional Constructor's (CPC) National Commission, and a regional director for the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC). Before the University of Florida, he was both on the faculty and was a graduate student in Purdue University's Building Construction Program. There he worked on improving Construction Continuing Education Programs and created his website called ConstructionEducation.com that maintains a wealth of construction information. He has been a co-author or author of numerous refereed articles during his time at both universities.
Dr. Sims has also worked for three different construction companies. The last was Cherne Contracting Corporation where he was involved in Industrial Construction day-to-day field activities at the ARCO refinery in Southern California. He also worked for Raytheon Engineers in Massachusetts where he focused on the cost issues of ongoing global projects in Industrial Construction and worked for Westinghouse Savannah River Site in South Carolina on waste and environmental construction projects where he focused on scheduling issues. He has also consulted on special issues such as Lean Construction with Graycor Construction Corporation in Chicago, Illinois.
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