I apologize for the brevity of this post, but things have been a bit hectic this weekend.
CM Department News In case you're living under a rock, the Sac State CM Healthcare team went to Chicago and put a beating on some pretty large schools. For more, click here. Job Leads Check out the list from last week's post--those jobs are still open. If you sent me an e-mail about interest in any of those jobs, follow up with me (I'm buried in unread e-mail messages). The only new job to report is... Flint Builders: The position is part-time and starts immediately, and is based in our Roseville office, working remotely for a jobsite near Arcata. For more info, contact: Megan Actkinson, Marketing Coordinator, LEED BD+C Flint Builders 401 Derek Place, Roseville CA 95678 l (916) 757-1000 office l (916) 825-2388 mobile l www.flintbuilders.com What's Going On in Classes CM 121: Exam on Tuesday! EXAM ON TUESDAY!!! Structural steel and miscellaneous metals on Thursday. Not exactly sure about lab this week. I may call an audible so that we can condense masonry and structural steel together. CM 124: Site visit to the railyards project. Gareth will have details. CM 126: Monday's presentations will be from Alex Campbell (JIT deliveries) and Kristian Lyssand (superintendent-site logistics). Wednesday's presentations will be Alyssa Zayas (managing DFH subs) and Chris Harrington (ordering and tracking). I'm falling way behind in terms of developing cases, so there won't be one this week. I hope to resume them next week. I will fill in the gaps with some lecture material.
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This week, I get the honor of joining Alyssa Zayas, Kim Braga, Mark Oliveira, Nate Boyer, Rob Clark and Preston Tziouvaras (I spelled that without looking it up, a first for me) to Chicago for the ASC Region 3 Healthcare competition. The team has been working tirelessly to prepare for the competition in a tradition that's customary to Sac State CM. In case you didn't hear, another Sac State CM team, consisting of Alyssa, Nick Staykow, Javier Mederos and Neil Devlin won the Western Pacific Division of the DBIA competition. They're off in a few weeks to compete for the national championship. Sac State CM is already a western powerhouse. Soon, we'll be a national powerhouse. That benefits all of us. Wish both teams luck! Job Leads Overaa: Overaa is looking for interns for the Water Treatment Plant that is right next to Sac State (probably the easiest commute you'll ever have). For more on Overaa, click here. For more on the position, talk to me or Mike Anderson. Firms Hiring CM Grads Coming to Campus: hiring season is still in full effect. For more info on interviews at Sac State, click here. A summary of upcoming campus visits is below:
Steve P. Rados: This just came hot off the presses from Sac State alum Russell "Big Cat" Bonnifield. Rados, a heavy civil company, is looking for interns. For more info on Rados, click here. Send resumes to Russell at rbonnifield@radoscompanies.com. You gotta love the Sac State CM network! Director of Field Operations: This position is for a more experienced person looking to for something not strictly construction management. I have a former student that is the VP of Operations at Sungevity. Sungevity, a residential solar sales and installation program looking for Director of Field Ops to oversee our installation and service operations. Solar installs closely mirror construction in how it requires multiple phases, permits, roof construction. Let me know if you are interested or know someone who is. Capital Commercial Flooring Inc.: CCF is a commercial flooring company based in Sacramento with annual sales over $10 million with over 50 installers. They are looking for an intern to help with submittals, LEED information, safety, takeoffs/estimating, writing proposals purchasing materials and scheduling. This is a great opportunity to work with a specialty subcontractor and you will experience many aspect of managing construction work. If interested, contact me. What's Going On In Classes CM 121: This week, you're free of me. That said, there's a lot to do. I have posted an assignment to SacCT. It's a spreadsheet that I want you to fill out with estimate data from Goodyear. MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. It's due for both lab section on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. When you're done with the lab assignment, start studying for the exam on October 22. CM 126: We only have class on Monday. Our presenters are Nik Brenich and Vitaliy Leshchik. I will round out the rest of the class with some of the most valuable information you will ever learn. Either that or I'll rant about how much I hate the Red Sox. Either way, you'll be entertained. Job Leads
Overaa: Overaa is looking for interns for the Water Treatment Plant that is right next to Sac State (probably the easiest commute you'll ever have). For more on Overaa, click here. For more on the position, talk to me or Mike Anderson. Firms Hiring CM Grads Coming to Campus: from Cici Mattuzi, the following firms are coming to campus. Time to get those resumes looking spiffy. For more info, click here. A summary of the campus visits is below:
Steve P. Rados: This just came hot off the presses from Sac State alum Russell "Big Cat" Bonnifield. Rados, a heavy civil company, is looking for interns. For more info on Rados, click here. Send resumes to Russell at rbonnifield@radoscompanies.com. You gotta love the Sac State CM network! Construction Assistant: This position is for a local building developer that also acts as a general contractor. If you're interested in learning both sides of building (owner and contractor), come see me. This is a unique position and I'm trying to fill this position for a friend. It's a great opportunity for someone with the right fit. What's Going On In Classes CM 121: BRING YOUR GOODYEAR PLANS TO CLASS AND LAB. This week, we be covering the cost of materials in Tuesday's lecture and estimating concrete in Thursday's lecture. In lab we will be estimating the cost of select site utilities for Goodyear. CM 126: Slight deviation from the syllabus. I will not be assigning a case for Monday or on Monday. I will assign one on Wednesday that will be due the following week. In other words, Case #5 will be assigned on Wednesday, Oct. 2 and will be due on Oct. 9. I'm going to slow the pace of cases until I can get caught up on grading. Assignments associated with Case #3 and Case #4 are due this week (Monday and Wednesday respectively). See SacCT for details. Lastly, Monday's student presentations are by Nick Staykow and Mohamed Shammet. Wednesday's are Manuel Moya and Jeremiah Thixton. General News
School has been in session for a few weeks, so it's time to restart the "For CM Students" section of this webpage. I do this to make sure we're all on the same page. It's simply a run down of the things coming up. I hope it helps. CM News and Events Reno Applications Due: They should have been turned in on Friday. If you haven't submitted one (and want to), do so ASAP! SRBX Scholarship Applications Due: They are due Monday. This is really a reminder for those that have started their applications. If you haven't started yet, you probably should bother. If you have, good luck! Job Leads Overaa: Overaa is looking for interns for the Water Treatment Plant that is right next to Sac State (probably the easiest commute you'll ever have). For more on Overaa, click here. For more on the position, talk to me or Mike Anderson. Safework: Safework, an agency CM firm, is looking for an intern looking to provide administrative support for their CM operations. According to Amy Day, Safeway's Director of Business Development, they are looking for someone to work 10-15 flexible hours per week in their office. The duties include invoice preparation, proposal support, client database development, and recruitment database development. According to Amy, it's a casual office and a great opportunity to learn about construction management. For basic info on Safework, click here. For more info on the job or to apply, see me or contact Amy directly at: Amy Day | Director, Business Development | 1104 Corporate Way | Sacramento, CA 95831 T 916 361 7900 | M 916 475 5023| F 916 361 8400 Construction Inspection | Construction Management Support | Safety and Risk Management LOS ANGELES | NEW YORK | SACRAMENTO | SAN FRANCISCO Firms Hiring CM Grads Coming to Campus: from Cici Mattuzi, the following firms are coming to campus. Time to get those resumes looking spiffy. For more info, click here. A summary of the campus visits is below:
Construction Assistant: This position is for a local building developer that also acts as a general contractor. If you're interested in learning both sides of building (owner and contractor), come see me. This is a unique position and I'm trying to fill this position for a friend. It's a great opportunity for someone with the right fit. What's Going On In Classes CM 121: BRING YOUR GOODYEAR PLANS TO CLASS AND LAB. We will be estimating portions of Goodyear for the next several weeks. We will also discuss parts of it during the lecture. Specifically this week, we be covering Earthwork in Tuesday's lecture and Site Utilities in Thursday's lecture. In lab we will be estimating the cost of select earth moving operations for Goodyear. CM 126: We will be covering two cases this week: 1) Case #3 - Scope Coverage and 2) Case #4 - Site Contamination. I apologize for the late-minute posting of Case #3. Be sure to complete the quiz associated with Case #3. I'll try to post Case #4 by Tuesday. Assignments associated with Case #1 and Case #2 are due this week (Monday and Wednesday respectively). See SacCT for details. Lastly, Monday's student presentations are by Kurt Young and Thang Nguyen. Wednesday's are Steven Sleek and Dane McDonald. TWO WEEKS OF CLASSES LEFT (in case you weren't keeping track...)
General News I moved "news" items to the Blog section of my web page. Check it out. And not because I wrote the entries there, but because it summarizes the news that impacts your chosen industry. Besides, you'll sound smart when you're talking to a construction executive and you can say "wow, the housing market is starting get turn for the better, but the industrial/commercial market needs to get better before i'm done worrying." Or something like that. Anyway, get informed. CM News and Events Fall Student Welcome: On Monday, November 26 (tomorrow night), the Fall Student Welcome will be held at the Firehouse Restaurant (1112 2nd Street) from 5:30 to 8:00. In return for wearing nicer clothes than you normally do, you will get the opportunity to mingle with the construction industry's big ballers and have free food (and possibly free drink, but bring your wallets just in case). The University's President and Provost will be there, so act accordingly. Besides, it's Monday, so drinking too much will be a sign of much bigger problems. Just sayin'... WCIECA Scholarship: There is a $1,000 scholarship available through the Western Chapter of the International Erosion Control Association. If interested, contact Cyndi Brinkhurst at (530) 272-2407 or westernchapter@gmail.com. This scholarship will likely not draw a lot of interest, so those that put some effort into applying for it will likely have a good chance. I'm not sure about the deadline for this, but I bet Cyndi does, so e-mail her. Job Leads DeSilva Gates: DGC is looking for PE's and Estimators. Contact Pete Davos at 925.829.9220 or pdavos@desilvagates.com. They do heavy-civil/earthmoving, in case you were wondering. College of Engineering Job Seeker Website: If you haven't already checked this out, you can search through all the jobs that Cici Mattuzi (the College of Engineering's Career Coordinator) posts quickly here. I did a quick search and found that Sprig Electric in San Jose (which is run by a really good group of people) and McClone Construction are hiring. I'm sure there's more than that. Check it out: http://career.ecs.csus.edu/jetx4/ What's Going On In Classes CM 10: Sorry, another week without a guest lecturer, so you get me (#winning). I'll come up with something to dazzle you with. ***Reminder: you should be working on your reflection paper, which is the last assignment for the class. CM 121: This week we start the McKinley Park Tennis Courts lab. You will have the next two weeks to work on it, but that doesn't mean you should slack off this week and make the work up next week. You will need all of the next two lab periods to get ready for BID DAY! You may work in teams of up to three (3) people. I recommend building a team with smart people, but that's just my $0.02. Also this week, we're having Exam #2. We'll have a short lecture on Tuesday and an even shorter exam review. The exam will be on Thursday. I have actually already written it. Yeah, while you were stuffing your face with turkey, I was writing an exam. Awesome. I also graded some labs, but I want to finish all of them before returning grades to the entire class (I'm hoping to have most of Goodyear graded this week). The comments you will receive will be limited due to time. But if you want more detailed feedback, ask me during lab and I'll go through your labs with you. That's a part of my stellar customer service program. CM 126: Busy week ahead. On Monday, we have two toolbox meetings (John Vogt on steel erection fall protection and Matt Obregon on helicopter safety) and Sean Davis and Tom Salazar will be giving their presentation on PlanGrid. Also, I will be revealing the winners of the 2012 CM 126 Hand Turkey Drawing Competition. My kids selected the winners and graded your quizzes. And apparently I'm raising really mean kids. We will also go over some of the recent homework assignments (remember those?). We can go over them because I ACTUALLY GOT AROUND TO GRADING THEM! Instead of watching "Elf" for the 10,000 time, I graded homework on Friday. Not that I don't like "Elf", I just felt liked I owed it to you. The grades are posted, but I have a feedback sheet for each of you that I might try to e-mail tomorrow morning. On Wednesday, we have two toolboxes (Anna Wilks TBD and Bijan Yavari on CPR) and two presentations (Trace McCown and Denny Wilson on Paving Operations and Rich Orlando and Forest "Fire" Podva on tilt-up construction). We will also have at least one more assignment, so that will be assigned. It involves earthmoving This is the first of back-to-back short weeks. The next two weeks will be fairly relaxed, and then we'll hit it full speed until the end of the semester.
General News I'm moving the general news to the Blog section of my web page. I hope to update it more frequently with news from the places that interest me (construction + economics + technology). CM New and Events Evening with Industry: I hope you have been seeing the e-mails Sean Davis has been sending out. This Wednesday (November 14) is the Evening with Industry. It starts at 5:30 (I think) and is being held at the Boldt Sutter Hospital project in midtown. Since this event is being held at a construction site, dress appropriately (hard hat, boots, vest, eye protection). This is a great chance to tour a cool project and meet some great people from industry. A lot of current students and alumni work on this project, so it will be nice to support them and you will get to experience the craziness of an OSHPD project. Student Fall Welcome: On the Monday when we get back from Thanksgiving break (November 26), the Fall Student Welcome will be held at The Firehouse Restaurant (1112 2nd Street) from 5:30 to 8:00. Wear nicer clothes (clean ironed dress shirt, nice pair of pants, etc. for the gents, ladies should wear their equivalent to that). Our industry sponsors put this event on and some big industry and academic ballers show up (Sac State's President and Provost are coming). We will be celebrating our becoming a department and will be having two alumni presenting on one of their projects. This is a fun event and this year there is a lot to celebrate. WCIECA Scholarship: There is a $1,000 scholarship available through the Western Chapter of the International Erosion Control Association. If interested, contact Cyndi Brinkhurst at (530) 272-2407 or westernchapter@gmail.com. This scholarship will likely not draw a lot of interest, so those that put some effort into applying for it will likely have a good chance. Job Leads Mike has a couple of internship opportunities that he has cycled around. I don't have any details, so hit him up here for more info. What's Going On In Classes CM 10: I will be lecturing this week. Your memos for Bill Hansen are due this week. Next week (week of Thanksgiving), we WILL NOT be having class. CM 121: THERE WILL BE NO LAB THIS WEEK OR NEXT (***except for the Monday section, which will meet next Monday***). However, we are essentially done with Goodyear, so all outstanding Goodyear lab assignments will be due the week we return from Thanksgiving class. After Thanksgiving, we start our next project, which is McKinley Park Tennis Courts. In lecture, we will be doing a data dump from the first 5 weeks of Goodyear and then covering subcontracting on Tuesday and discussing overhead and insurance on Thursday. CM 126: On Wednesday, we will be having a guest speaker from Rosendin Electric coming to class. Please show some respect and show up for class. Introduce yourself--these guys are looking to hire. Even if you're not interested in working in the electrical, it's good to understand that side of the business. Actually, let me restate that: it's incredibly good to understand the electrical business. I promise to try to grade something this week. "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Get the hell out and vote on Tuesday. Even if you feel that, as a Californian, your vote won't count in the presidential election due to the electoral college process (if what you're reading doesn't make sense, click here), there are several California initiatives on the ballot that you should look into. Pay particular attention to Propositions 30 and 38 because they apply to funding schools (including the CSU system). General News Hurricane Sandy creates havoc on a construction site. Check out pix of this damaged tower crane. Nonresidential building construction spending slumped in August after gaining in July. So the news is mixed, but the market is still tough. Check out which sectors are doing better that others (or less bad than others) here. CM News and Events Accreditation: I cannot report anything specific about the accreditation visit other than that it is over and I think we've survived to fight another day. Evening with Industry: Evening with Industry will be on November 14 (5:30 to 7:30, I believe). We are being hosted by Boldt Construction at their Sutter Hospital project in midtown. Sign up on the list near Margaret's desk. Job Leads None this week. What's Going on In Classes CM 10: No guest lecture this week, so you're stuck with me. Not sure what I'll discuss, but we will likely talk about some of the things brought up by past guest speakers. CM 121: We will be discussing finishes and the (very) basics of MEP trades. In lab we will be covering wood framing in the partitions and doors, frames & hardware. Don't be sad, but this will be our last week of labs until after the week of Thanksgiving (except for the Monday section, which will meet on November 19 as a make-up for a previous missed lab date). CM 126: On Monday, the superintendents from Swinerton (formerly HMH), Rob Stratton and Steve Harless will be giving a guest lecture. This will be cool because we rarely get superintendents to come to campus to talk about what's important to them. Please be on time. I don't remember exactly what's going on Wednesday (probably because I stupidly forgot to post the presentations schedule like I said I was going to do...). I know Chip Becker will be doing his toolbox on heat exhaustion and Mark Campbell and Doug Shirk will giving their presentation on project controls. I think there is another presentation or toolbox, but I cannot remember off the top of my head. If you think it's you and want me to confirm, send me an e-mail. The faculty of the CM Department spent this morning giving tours of the facilities to the ACCE accreditation team. Students may not appreciate them, but we actually have some great facilities at Sac State. Our CM 9, 40 and 135 labs are among the best in the CM universe. Mike asked all the faculty to show up to walk the team through the labs in which we operate. We didn't need to be there, but it looked really good that we all showed up. But the best part of the morning was when Henry Meier showed up. Most of you know Henry, but if you don't, he's the President of SCMEF and is serving as the Member of the CM Department Industrial Advisory Board's representative to meet with the accreditation team. He also basically serves as the "athletic director" of all our Reno teams and is a CM alumni. So stating the obvious, he gives a lot to the Department. Henry certainly didn't need to be there today, but he was. And he stayed all day and is having dinner with the accreditation team as well. I should also say that Henry is a PX for Swinerton and has a family. In other words, he's a busy guy. But he didn't hesitate to volunteer a full Sunday to serve as the the Department's industry bridge to the accreditation team. We all owe Henry a huge "thanks", so when you see him (and at some point, you will all meet him), tell him you appreciate his efforts.
Quotes of the Week Based on Henry's service... "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth." -- Muhammad Ali "Your life and mine should be valued not by what we take, but by what we give." -- Edgar Allen, founder of Easter Seals General News I found two articles on-line that I thought were pretty interesting. First, there is this article (click here) regarding billing rates for architects. Billing rates are considered a forecast for the construction industry because the more architects are billing, the more buildings will ultimately be constructed. Second, I just read this article on the historical mission and funding sources for the University of California and California State University systems (click here). It's from a left-leaning publication, so it's definitely trying to make a point. But that aside, it does a pretty good job of telling how the public university system in California has gone from a taxpayer subsidized institutions to tuition driven institutions (and hence why your tuition has gone up dramatically) and how Governor Reagan and Proposition 13 were at the genesis of this change. It's a worthy read if you have 10 minutes and care about higher education in California. CM News and Events The Q&A session with the accreditation team is tomorrow afternoon in 4003 Riverside. If you have time, stop by and participate. Job Leads None this week What's Going On In Classes CM 10: This week's guest lecture will be your classmate Nick Hansen's dad, Bill. Bill is a superintendent with R.M. Harris. This could be the best Show-and-Tell session ever because it's rare for superintendents to come to Sac State. Be sure to pay attention and ask a lot of questions. Some of you may ultimately choose to pursue the superintendent route. CM 121: My goal is to grade the exam tonight and tomorrow so we can have a recap on Tuesday. Thursday's lecture will continue on rough carpentry/wood framing, focusing on partitions. Lab this week will be the rough framing on the roof and possibly some roofing. I'm going to try to get some Goodyear labs graded this week so you get some feedback. CM 126: It's a big week for Joe Perez-Windmiller. He will be giving his toolbox presentation on Monday (fire emergency) and he and Chip will giving their team presentation on Wednesday (pick plan and crane coordination). Wednesday will also have two toolbox presentations (DougyFresh Shirk on shoring systems and Marky Mark Campbell on unconscious person first aid), so it will be a busy day. I hope to get a homework assignment or two graded this week as well. I'm in a great mood as I write this. Awesome Halloween party Saturday night. First pheasant hunt of the season Sunday morning and I had to clear out my sewer line Sunday afternoon. "What, you're happy about having had to clean your sewer line?" you're likely asking yourself. Well, not really. But I'm stoked that I didn't have to call a plumber. Instead I called Stan. You see, my buddy Stan is the MacGuyver of my crew. He has every tool known to mankind and can fix anything. So when I was bummed about having to buy a 50' snake, I stopped off at Stan's house to see if he had one. Not only did he have one, but it was one of the industrial-sized motorized ones (his aunt and uncle used to own hotels. I had to ask). So he set me up big time. But that was just the half of it. Later, he stopped by to see if I needed help. And yes, I really did. The contractor I hired to put in a clean out in my sewer line put in a 90 degree bend that was hard to get the snake into. With an extra set of hands and Stan's ingenuity, we figured it out. It still took awhile to get the clog out, but it finally did and I will be forever shocked to see the garbage my wife and kids flush. Seriously, I'm amazed and completely grossed out.
Anyway, I am so stoked about Stan's overly cool act of kindness, that, despite not getting my Sunday-day-after-going-hard-recovery-nap, I'm in a fantastic mood. If you're in CM 10 or CM 121, you had better hope this feeling lasts. And if it lasts until I write your exams, you all owe Stan a beer (He's a Pliny guy, if you're wondering. I'll make sure he gets it). Quote of the Week "I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen." -- Former major league player and manager Bob Lemon This quote is appropriate for two reasons. Obviously because of the MLB playoffs, but also because of the story up above. Take care of your friends. CM News and Events There are no student events this week that I know of. However, this is the week the CM Department goes through its evaluation for accreditation. I have a ton of stuff to pull together to prove that I actually teach you something (yeah, I'm still figuring out how I'm going to pull that rabbit out of a hat...), so if I'm more absent-minded that usual, you have my apologies. Also, be cool to Mike this week and try not to burden him with unnecessary issues. He's likely developing a minivan-sized ulcer right now. Job Leads Nothing this week. But if you haven't heard, it's job huntin' season for you graduating seniors. Other students, the internship hiring season typically come later. If you haven't done so yet, polish your resume. And a word to the wise: unless you're looking for a job as a PX (and you're not), keep your resume to one page. No one in our department, including faculty, can justify a resume longer than one page. If you cannot say it in one page, you will lose your audience. What's Going On In Classes CM 10: Exam this week. It will cover all of the classes and guest speakers we have had (Nick Parker (Turner Construction), Heman Chand (Whiting-Turner), Tim Murchison (URS), Ruzaw Cooper & Bill Schmazel (Cooper Oates Air Conditioning), and John Nunan & Scott Maxwell (Unger Construction), as well as my lecture on the Reno teams. Test will be true/false. CM 121: Exam on Tuesday. True/false, multiple choice, and one or two problems to be solved (as we discussed in class). Thursday we will start discussing timber construction. We will start the timber estimate for Goodyear this week and will spend two weeks on it. CM 126: I'll be honest--I don't have the list of speakers on me, so I'm going to wing this. Please confirm with me tomorrow morning if there is some confusion. Two toolbox presentations on Tuesday: Maria Gutierrez (safety awareness/red tape) and Tom Salazar (lock-out/tag out). I'm hoping for a "what not to do" demonstration from one of those presentations, but I won't say which... I'll present something on quality control. Ironically I'm guessing it will be low quality given that I haven't started it yet and I have a two hour Department meeting tomorrow. And unlike some of you, I don't use my laptop when others are speaking. It's rude. And yes, I just passive-aggressively nagged you just like m On Thursday, Sean Davis will cover crane safety in his toolbox. Then Cliff Allison and Dan Mello will give their team presentation on managing labor. Assignment 6 is due on Wednesday. I hope to have it graded by Thanksgiving. 2013. Last Friday, ten CM students visited the San Francisco Transbay Terminal project (where Justin Burke, CM '10 and Stacy Wilson, CM '12 work for Turner Construction, which is the agency CM on the project). Involving six blocks in a heavily congested city, it's needless to say that this project is unbelievably complex. The terminal portion is just over $1 billion, with the excavation (just the excavation!) being $200 million (and trending more). If you ever get a chance to visit this project, make the effort to go. If you're going to San Francisco anytime soon, just walk in the vicinity of the project so that you can get a feeling for the magnitude of the project. One other thing: if you walk any construction site, be sure to wear pants and sturdy shoes. Which means definitely don't wear shorts and mountain biking shoes. On Saturday, the Sac State Construction Alumni Chapter held it's 3rd annual Sporting Clays Shoot at Camanche Hills. It was a fantastic event*. THANK YOU to all the CM students that gave up a beautiful Saturday to volunteer. If you're on a Reno team and did not volunteer, thank your teammates that did. The proceeds go to the Reno effort. Every dollar made from the event means a dollar you don't have to raise. You should be grateful that the alumni like you. I don't know the final dollar amount raised, but I'm sure it was a good chunk of change. Combine that with the $20k raised at the Tricorp Hearn/TMCS golf tournament (and THANK YOU for the students that volunteered at that event as well), and the CM program is getting a lot of love from the construction industry. I wish I could have stayed for the raffle and the peach cobbler. *My only gripe about the event was that my team was callously robbed of first place. We didn't have five shooters, but we were able to get the best score, in a perfectly reasonable way, with only four shooters. Not that I'm bitter. I'm not. Well maybe a little. OK, a lot. But hey, it's for charity, right? Quote of the Week
"If you're not in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" -- T.S. Eliot I love that quote--it's possibly my favorite. This is the time of year when things start getting busy (really busy in some cases). Just remember, everything you're going through is a test of your character. The more work you're juggling, the more character you're building. CM News and Events October 12: The American Society for Professional Estimators is hosting Dr. Jim Adrian of Bradley University to Sac State. ASPE has graciously covered the cost ($100) for 22 students! It's all filled, but if you want to be added to the wait list, shoot me an e-mail. October 12-14: CMSA Camping Trip. I'm not sure what happens at the camping trip (not sure I want to know), but I hear it's fun. Just don't let Tommy feed chili and hot dogs to random dogs. Job Leads Gilbane Building Company: Gilbane will be on campus for an info session on October 16 and ill be conducting interview on October 17. They are looking for interns. Several Sac State CM students have interned for them and have great things to say. What's Going On in Classes CM 10: NO CLASS THIS WEEK! I think we have a guest speaker the next week (John and Scott of Unger). If not, we will have the first exam. I will clarify this in next week's update. CM 121: More on Goodyear. Monday's lab section will be working on footings, while Tuesday and Thursday will be working on the slab(Monday will work on the slab next week). If I get my act together, we will also have Homework #2 assigned this week. Remember in the first lab session I said that I'm pretty relaxed about lab but I expect everyone to make an strong effort to complete as much of each weekly lab assignment in lab? Well, that lasted about a week. Already people show up for lab and leave 30 minutes later. There will be some labs that you will be left up to you own devices, but for now, I want people to work in lab. So this week, your labs will be due at the end of lab. Plan on putting in a full lab session. REMEMBER: name your files "Week 6 <last name>.xlsx CM 126: I cannot recall off the top of my head who is responsible for the Tool Box presentation(s) on Monday, but hopefully they remember. We will have a presentation after the Tool Box(es). On Wednesday, CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELED! The presentations for that day will be rescheduled. I'll try to e-mail you the revised schedule. By the way, a homework assignment was posted on Wednesday that is due this Wednesday to SacCT. I was going to make you ask me how many people could work together, but I'm not sure I want to get 20 e-mails, so I'll just tell you that you can work in pairs (that means no more than 2 per group. If you cannot find a partner, you can easily finish the assignment by yourself. In fact, the only reason I'm allowing people to work in pairs is because I'm behind in grading and don't want to create more work that I can handle. Even though that's the case, don't try to convince me that it's smart to allow groups of 10 because it will reduce my work load even more. I'm cool with groups of two). Also, remember to put you name(s) in the files you upload. |
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