AE 481/482 Reflection

This year long Penn State Senior Thesis provided me with the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge obtained and maintained over the past 5 years studying Architectural Engineering. With permission from the Cleveland Clinic and the Project team, the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center was analyzed over the 2015-2016 school year. The main focus of the analysis was to scrutinize the construction process in order to identify potential budget, schedule, safety, or logistic considerations that could have been optimized that would be beneficial for the team, owner, project, industry, or any combination of the above. The fall 2015 semester focused on the existing circumstances of the structure and project as it is documented to be completed through the current project team. The 2016 Spring semester was more of an explorative semester, based on the information we have learned over our education, and allowed for redesign and reevaluations opportunities in the project to determine if the suggested changes would benefit or harm the current project circumstances. Many project attributes had the ability to both improve certain aspects of a construction implementation but would also provide additional challenges to the current project implementation. It was part of our task through this senior thesis to identify these positive and negative attributes and base our final alternative system analysis off of this analysis.

CPEP Reflection

CPEP was a different and educational way to compile the thesis project findings and extensive research into a concise and organized fashion for others to review. This web designing introduced me to site creation and allowed for opportunity to learn the capabilities of web designing.

ABET Outcome Survey

Important Note: These outcomes reflect a personal (student) assessment of the course, not the instructor's assessment. (Click on image for PDF)