Construction Management

Liang Y. Liu

Liang Y.
Liu

Associate Professor
William E. O'Neil Faculty Scholar

"Construction Engineering and Management challenges students to develop skills beyond their engineering training."

3129d Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

205 N. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

lliu1@illinois.edu
Phone: 
(217) 333-6951
Fax: 
(217) 333-9464

Prof. Liang Y. Liu holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering (Structures) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Construction Engineering and Management (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1992.

Prof. Liu teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Construction Productivity, Cost Estimating, Construction Management Information Systems, and Construction Case Studies.

A member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Computer Simulation, and American Society of Engineering Educators, Dr. Liu has been recognized several times for excellence in research, teaching and advising.  In 2001, he was named the W. E. O’Neil Faculty Research Scholar.  In 2003, he won the Teaching Excellence Award of the University of Illinois College of Engineering.  He also received the Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising in 2007.

Research Overview: 

Prof. Liu conducts both basic and applied research in construction engineering and management including project controls, productivity analysis and improvement, cost engineering, information technologies, facility life-cycle analysis, risk management, and computer simulation.

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Khaled El-Rayes

Khaled
El-Rayes

Associate Professor

"Our programs offer unique educational experiences that prepare our students to assume top leadership positions in industry and academia."

3112 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

205 N. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801

elrayes@illinois.edu
Phone: 
(217) 265-0557
Fax: 
(217) 265-8039
Research Website

Khaled El-Rayes holds a B.Sc. (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt 1987), M.Eng. (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1993) and a Ph.D. (Concordia University 1998), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2000. He has over 20 years of professional experience in both academia and the construction industry. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he served on the faculty of the departments of Civil Engineering at Concordia University and the University of Newfoundland in Canada.

Dr. El-Rayes has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of construction engineering and management including: construction planning and control, construction optimization and decision making, project management, project planning and control, construction equipment planning and methods, construction processes, engineering economics and management principles, building engineering systems, building economics, engineering design and technical engineering drawing. In recognition of his teaching effectiveness, Dr. El-Rayes has been repeatedly named to the “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students” at UIUC.

Dr. El-Rayes is an assistant specialty editor in the area of information technology for the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. He also served as the Chair of the ASCE Construction Research Council, which is widely recognized as the premier national forum for Construction Engineering and Management research and it includes in its membership more than 150 professors and scholars.

The research contributions of Dr. El-Rayes have been recognized nationally and internationally, receiving several research awards including the ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize in 2007, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2003, the Faculty of Engineering Doctoral Prize from Concordia University in 1998, and the Project Management Institute Excellence Award in 1993.

Research Overview: 

Dr. El-Rayes has research interests in construction optimization, decision support systems, information technologies, highway construction, and construction productivity. He has over 70 publications in these areas including more than 30 journal papers.

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