丹尼尔·威尔逊

2022年11月30日

In 1972, Don McLean’s “American Pie” was making music lovers smile, NASA was launching its space shuttle program, and Atari’s Pong video game was bouncing into arcades.

在博彩平台，学生们纷纷进入一个全新的建筑管理（CM）项目，建立自己的职业生涯。

该项目是土木工程的一部分，直到2012年才成为工程与计算机科学学院的一个独立部门。 到21世纪初，它仍然相对较小，每年只有大约130名学生和几名教师。

今年是该项目成立50周年，该项目每年平均招收约400名学生，拥有7名教师和20至30名兼职教师。

“We have 100% job placement due to how well-prepared our graduates are for their career.” -- Mikael Anderson, Construction Management department chair

该项目与建筑行业之间的紧密联系是其成功的重要原因。 It’s a marriage that has grown exponentially stronger over the program's five decades.

“One of the things that I value most, since the very beginning of my tenure, is that we only hire people with very practical-oriented experience because this is a hands-on program,” said Mikael Anderson, CM department chair, who recently invited alumni, faculty, and staff to a 50^th anniversary celebration where he gave out dozens of recognition awards.

“The industry-experienced faculty and instructors bring that very real knowledge to the classroom, and our students appreciate that aspect of our curriculum.”

西部工程承包商公司（Western Engineering Contractors, 公司。）的总裁唐•卡罗尔（Don Carroll）是该校的校友，他在1982年创办了该公司，其建筑项目包括体育场馆、学校设施和购物中心。

“They had a curriculum, they had a program put together … but it was more of an offshoot (of Engineering and Civil Engineering), and a lot of the classes were pretty old,” Carroll said.

When Dick Nichols retired from the industry and took over 囊状态’s program, however, it began to take its modern shape, said Carroll, who was part of the first group to complete the full program in 1977. 尼科尔斯重新安排了课程，更新了课程，并增加了商科辅修要求。

“I was very thankful that he did because he was very hands-on. He knew construction,” Carroll said. “He basically was the architect of the program as we know it today.”

Carroll also serves on the board of the 萨克拉门托建筑管理教育基金会 (SCMEF), a nonprofit established in 2004 to support CM faculty, staff, and students. 安德森说，SCMEF是CM项目的关键组成部分。

“SCMEF has been extremely impactful to our department and to me in my leadership,” he said. “We wouldn’t be here today without them volunteering hundreds of hours each year.”

安德森表示，商业元素是CM帮助学生在该领域取得成功的方式之一。

“At the end of the day, yes, you’re doing construction, but you’re really managing people, you’re managing work, you’re managing a business,” Anderson said. “We feel a business degree is essential to our graduates’ success in the industry.”

此外，学生可以在学期中参加兼职实习，在夏季全职工作，安德森说。

“Other CM programs offer full-time internships in the summers but often are not able to offer part-time internships during the academic year due to their remote locations,” Anderson said. “Our CM program is located in the heart of urban 萨克拉门托, with many construction companies within 15 to 30 minutes of campus, allowing our students to work between classes.”

囊状态’s partnership with industry also translates to concrete job opportunities.

“We have 100% job placement due to how well-prepared our graduates are for their career,” Anderson said. “Employers tell us that our graduates are ready to hit the ground running.”

Natane Rogers-Engle, a 2009 graduate, said 囊状态’s CM classes set her up for a strong future.

“That program as a whole makes a big impact,” said Rogers-Engle, who recently became president and a co-owner of SR Diversified, LLC, which provides construction and other services for federal, state, and local agencies and public utilities. “It prepared me as much as I think any program could for doing my job.”

安德森说，该部门引以为豪的是每年在内华达州举行的全国竞赛，自20世纪80年代以来，萨克州立大学一直参加这项赛事。 每年约有2000名学生参加比赛，其中约有70名来自萨克州立大学。

六名学生组成的小组有24小时的时间对项目建议的要求做出回应，其中包括建筑成本、日程安排和其他重要信息。 参赛队伍口头向行业评审小组提交他们的提案。 活动的高潮是在内华达州斯帕克斯举行的颁奖典礼和参与者专属的招聘会。

“The level of competition has risen a lot in 20 years – it used to be easier to win competitions. Now it’s a little bit hard because everybody’s kind of doing a similar approach to us,” Anderson said. “Our formula for success was bringing in our industry coaches.”

Anderson has tracked 囊状态’s performance in the event since 2003. 在此期间，学生获得了79个奖项：第一名31个，第二名27个，第三名21个。

“Most schools are lucky enough to get one podium appearance,” Anderson said. “We’re one of a handful of schools that get two or three every year, sometimes more.”

卡罗尔说，他和其他拥有企业的校友在毕业后很长一段时间里都在参与管理硕士项目。 许多学校提供实习、奖学金和工作机会，然后回国任教。 Some businesses, including Carroll’s, reimburse students’ tuitions as part of permanent job placement offers.

“Although I am not an alumnus from this program, I’m very invested and passionate after 20 years of teaching,” Anderson said. “I love this program. 我再也无法想象另一条职业道路。 It’s the best decision I have made in my engineering profession.”