Conference Activities
Member of the Conference
Advisory Committee, 12th International
Conference on Inspection, Appraisal, Repairs & Maintenance of Structures
and the 6th International Specialty Conference on Fiber Reinforced Materials, Yantai, China, April 23-25, 2010.
Member
of the Scientific Advisory Committee, 5th Construction Management
Congress, Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers, Eskisehir, Turkey, October 22-23,
2009.
Member
of the Scientific Committee, International Conference on Managing Construction
for Tomorrow, MC4T, Istanbul, Turkey, October 7-9, 2009.
Member of the
Scientific Committee, CIB W78 Conference on Managing IT in Construction,
Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-3, 2009.
Member of the
Scientific Committee, CIB International Symposium on Transformation through
Construction, Dubai, UAE, November, 15-17, 2008.
Invited delegate,
International Workshop of Performance-Based Infrastructure Asset Management,
Istanbul, Turkey, July 7-9, 2008.
Member
of the Scientific Committee, 5th International Conference on
Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Antalya, Turkey,
23-25 June 2008.
Member of
the Conference Advisory Committee, 11th International Conference on
Inspection, Appraisal, repairs and Maintenance of Structures, Kyrenia, North
Cyprus, 14-17 November, 2007.
Member of the International Scientific and
Technical Committee. 4th International
Structural Engineering and Construction Conference ISEC-4, Melbourne,
Australia, September 26-28, 2007.
Member of
the Program Committee, 2007 ASCE Construction Research Congress, Grand Bahama
Island, Bahamas, May 6-8, 2007.
Member of
the Scientific Committee, First International Congress on Engineering Sciences,
Istanbul, Turkey, October 25-27, 2007.
Member of
the Advisory Committee, Workshop on Reforming Civil and Environmental
Engineering Education Given the Societal Changes Related to Infrastructures,
eduCEE’06, sponsored by NSF and TUBITAK, Istanbul, Turkey, October 4-7,
2006.
Member of
the Scientific Committee, Third Construction Management Congress, Izmir,
Turkey, September 29 – October 1, 2005.
Member of
the International Scientific and Technical Committee, Third International
Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, Tokuyama, Shunan, Japan,
September 20-23, 2005.
Panel
Moderator, Meeting of the Chicago Chapter of the Construction Management
Association of America on Graduate Construction Education, Chicago, IL, April
20, 2004.
Member of the Scientific Committee, Fifth International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, Istanbul,
Turkey, September 25-27, 2002.
Session Chair at the Fifth International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, Istanbul,
Turkey, September 25-27, 2002.
International Advisor, International
Conference on Advancement in Design, Construction, Construction Management and
Maintenance of Building Structures, Bali, Indonesia, March 27-28, 2002.
Member of the International Technical
Committee for the Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference – New Frontiers
and Challenges, Bangkok, Thailand, November 8-12, 1999.
Conference
Chair of the Third Semi-Annual Graduate Research Conference, Department of
Civil and Architectural Engineering, IIT, Chicago, IL, April 9, 1999.
Member of the Technical Committee for the CIB
W92 Procurement Systems Symposium, Chiang Mai, Thailand, January 25-28, 1999.
Conference Chair of the Second Semi-Annual
Graduate Research Conference, Department of Civil and Architectural
Engineering, IIT, Chicago, IL, November 20, 1998.
Conference Chair of the First Semi-Annual
Graduate Research Conference, Department of Civil and Architectural
Engineering, IIT, Chicago, IL, April 10, 1998.
Member of the International Advisory Committee
for the International Conference on Urban Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand,
November 1996.
Member of the International Advisory Committee
for the Fourth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and
Construction to be held in Seoul, South Korea, September 1993.
Conference Chair of the Construction Management
Seminar Series No. 1 on Construction Claims Management - Avoidance and
Resolution, sponsored by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA), the Engineering Institute of Thailand,
the Consulting Engineers Association of Thailand, and the Thai Contractors
Association, Bangkok, Thailand, September 1991.
Conference Chair of the Mini Conference of
Expert System Applications in Construction Contract Law, sponsored by AIT and
CIDA, Bangkok, Thailand, June 1991.
Conference Chair of the Construction
Management Seminar Series No. 2 on Selecting Software for Construction
Scheduling and Construction Cost Estimating, sponsored by the Asian Institute of
Technology (AIT), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the
Engineering Institute of Thailand, the Consulting Engineers Association of
Thailand, and the Thai Contractors Association, Bangkok, Thailand, May 1991.
Session Chairman at the third East
Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Shanghai,
China, April 23-26, 1991.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of
the PMI '87 Seminar/Symposium on Reaching Goals with Project Management,
Milwaukee, WI, October 2-7, 1987.
Conference Chairman of the Third Annual
Construction Management Forum sponsored by CMAA and IIT, and organized in
association with A/E Systems' Computer Hardware and Software Exhibit at
McCormick Place, June 23-24, 1986.
Coordinator and Chairman of the panel on
"Computer Assisted Construction Management" at the Fourth Annual
Conference of CMAA, Hilton-Head, SC, 1985.
Member of the Organizing Committee for the
First Annual Construction Management Forum sponsored by CMAA and University of
Wisconsin-Extension, Madison, WI, 1984.
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Coordinator of Case Study Sessions
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Chairman of the panel on "How to Make Scheduling Work"
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Chairman of the session on "Research Work on CM"
Member
of the Organizing Committee for the Education Sessions in the Second Annual
Convention of CMAA, New-Orleans, LA, 1983.
Member of the Organizing Committee for a short
course on "Managing the Construction Process" sponsored by IIT, Chicago,
IL, 1982.
Member of the Organizing Committee for the
National Housing Conference sponsored by the Turkish Chamber of Civil
Engineers, Ankara, Turkey, 1981.
Chairman of a session on
"Scheduling" at the Fifth INTERNET Congress, Birmingham, UK, 1976.
Co-chairman of the session on "Project
Management" at the Second National OR Congress, Ankara, Turkey, 1976.
