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U.S. News Momentum: Business, Education and Engineering Boast Rising Programs
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Each of the three graduate academic disciplines U.S. News & World Report ranked this week — business, education and engineering — allows the University of Maryland to claim steady progress in its drive to be one of the nation’s top research institutions.
The Robert H. Smith School of Business had five disciplines ranked among the nation’s top 25, with advances across the board: information systems No. 5, No. 6 last year; supply chain/logistics No. 13, No. 15 last year; production/operations No. 23, not ranked in 2010; entrepreneurship No. 20, No. 26 last year. The fifth top 25 is the Part-time MBA at No. 17. The Smith School was No. 45 overall among U.S. schools.
The College of Education jumped two places in the overall ranking, from No. 25 to No. 23. Historically the top producer of Top 25 rankings on campus, education was headed by its perennially ranked No. 1 program, counseling/personnel services. Overall, education had nine disciplines in the top 25, four of which advanced over last year: special education No. 9, No. 11 last year; elementary education No. 13, No. 14 last year; secondary teacher education No. 14, No. 22 last year; and curriculum and instruction No. 15, No. 19 last year. Other education top 25 programs: educational psychology No. 7, No. 6 last year; higher ed administration repeats as No. 10; education policy repeats at No. 13; and administration and supervision repeats as No. 16.
The A. James Clark School of Engineering maintained its ranking at No. 22 among U.S. schools. Nine individual disciplines were ranked: Aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering repeats at No. 9; electrical/electronic/communications engineering repeats at No. 14; computer engineering No. 17, not ranked last year; mechanical engineering repeats as No. 21; biological agriculture engineering No. 26 (not ranked before); civil engineering repeats as No. 27; materials engineering repeats as No. 31; biomedical/bioengineering No. 37; chemical engineering No. 41.
Maryland has a cumulative 73 top 25 U.S. News programs and 32 top ten programs.
ERDC-CERL: COBie is National Inst. of Building Sci. Approved
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ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s (CERL) COBie is National Institute of Building Sciences Approved
23 Dec. 2011, CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) recently received word that the National Institute of Building Sciences has approved the Construction-Operation Building information exchange (COBie) as part of the U.S. National Building Information Model (NBIMS-US) standard.
A CERL developed approach, COBie is an internationally recognized data exchange standard that delivers life-cycle building asset information from design through construction.
Nearly all of the information needed to operate and maintain a building, such as a facility at a military installation, is created at some point during a project’s design and construction phases. COBie helps in facilitating open building standards as part of a major national effort to revolutionize the facility delivery process. By using BIM information and COBie’s open standards, designers, builders and installation facility managers will have open interchange using powerful computer tools used in the architectural-engineering-construction industry. The Corps has been using COBie for all military construction projects. It is an enormous enhancement for designing, constructing, managing and providing maintenance for military facilities.
“COBie can be implemented to provide quality control on design BIM model deliverables and to replace current paper-based construction handover specifications. The adoption of COBie is starting in the U.S., but also well underway internationally. For example, starting in 2013 COBie is mandated on all major public projects in the United Kingdom,” said Dr. Bill East, CERL research civil engineer and senior project manager, and project coordinator, buildingSMART alliance.
Read more about COBie at:
www.erdc.usace.army.mil/pls/erdcpub/www_org_info.show_pag... or www.wbdg.org/resources/cobie.php.
Learn more about COBie with online training, “COBie 101: Introduction to COBie,” developed by COBie Chair Bill East at
www.nibs.org/index.php/fmoc/news/Entry/cobie-training-ava…, also available directly on YouTube at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKdjdc2IxfE&lr=1.
(23 Dec. 2011)
(U.S. Army: ERDC)
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