The following journal(s) have issued a call for papers:
Special Issue: Teaching Law on Engineering and Construction Programmes
Law constitutes a significant element of most engineering and construction programmes. This is wholly appropriate; the problems which challenge construction professionals in practice tend to have both legal and technical dimensions, each of which require resolution. Yet the natural inclination, predilection and, in some cases, aptitude of engineering and construction students is generally geared towards their core construction discipline rather than law. This places particularly high demands on the educators of such students, especially in terms of learner motivation and the acquisition by the learner of a deep understanding of legal principles. Moreover, differences in pedagogic tradition and expectation between law and non-law disciplines can give rise to additional complexities in the educational context. At the same time, academic consideration of higher education which explores and assesses innovative inter-disciplinary approaches has perhaps never flourished as abundantly as presently.
This special issue of the Legal Affairs Section of ASCE therefore seeks to provide a forum to examine current thinking as to best practice in teaching law on engineering and construction programmes. Papers may include the following global topics:
• Case studies on experiences while teaching law to construction students
• Comparative studies of law teaching between disciplines
• Research into student attitudes to law teaching
• Innovative approaches to law teaching
• Problem based law teaching in non law disciplines
• Effective assessment in law for non-law students
• Facilitating deep legal learning in large non-law cohorts
High quality original papers are invited that address the above theme.
For manuscript requirements, please refer to the following web site http://www.pubs.asce.org/authors/index.html. Submit a copy of your full manuscript as a Word or LaTex file (if sending LaTex, please also send a PDF copy) as well as a cover letter listing suggested reviewers and specifying the special issue title to ASCE at journal-submissions@asce.org by July 14, 2008.
--Guest editor: Mr B McAdam, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford, Maxwell Building, Salford, M5 4WT, UK Tel: +44(0)161 295 2857, Fax: +44(0)161 295 5011, E-Mail: w.b.mcadam@salford.ac.uk
Legal Affairs Section
The American Society of Civil Engineers offers a Legal Affairs Section within the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice (JPIEEP). The Legal Affairs Section is peer-reviewed and submissions to it are expected to be of the highest scholastic and literary standard. JPIEEP presents issues of broad professional interest and diverse views of engineering education and professional practice. Papers examine relationships between civil engineering and other disciplines, with emphasis on the engineer's obligations and responsibilities.
The legal affairs section of JPIEEP accepts papers and articles of the following four types:
- Scholarly papers on law related to, but not limited to, the following areas pertaining to civil engineering: Contract law and interpretation; professional responsibility and negligence; bidding law; negotiation, mediation, and alternate dispute resolution; arbitration; torts and insurance law; environmental law; environmental compliance; hazardous waste law; coastal and ocean law; real estate development and construction law; product liability laws; labor law; employment law; administrative law; government contract law; company reorganization and bankruptcy; corporation law; corporation tax law; subcontracting laws; claims analysis and presentations in all areas of civil engineering; land-use law related to getting projects designed and approved; and ADA law and regulations. The scholarly papers should ideally be 4000-9000 words in length and be adequately referenced. Use of endnotes are encouraged.
- Synopsis/snippets of court verdicts (800-2400 words)
- Reviews of books related to construction law (1000-2000 words)
- Forum/Viewpoint articles (1500-3500 words)
Submission guidelines for JPIEEP and resources for writing and preparing your article are available elsewhere on this Web site.
Special Issue on Graphical 3D Visualization in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction
Guest Editor: Vineet R. Kamat, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (vkamat@umich.edu)
Three-dimensional visualization offers considerable potential benefits in all stages of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) process, from initial planning and conceptual design to facility management and operations. It is a particularly useful communication, planning, and analysis tool for designers, engineers, and constructors who are challenged with ever-increasing complexities involved in designing a structure or piece of civil infrastructure, and then transforming that design into a completed facility.
Visualization of architectural and engineering designs has traditionally been the primary driving force for developments in three-dimensional visualization in the AEC industry. Three-dimensional visualization allows architects and engineers to clearly communicate their ideas and plans, and gain a better understanding of the physical space that is being designed. In relatively recent times, three-dimensional visualization is also being used to model and study the construction process at various levels of detail in an effort to efficiently transform designs into completed facilities. In fact, in their document titled “Vision 2020”, the Construction Industry Institute (CII) envisions that in the foreseeable future, an increasing number of facilities will be designed and constructed virtually before expending any real resources.
This exciting vision elicits several interesting questions:
- How far is the AEC industry from realizing this vision?
- What are the available enabling technologies that can be used to realize this vision and what is their range of capabilities?
- What new technologies, that do not currently exist, still need to be developed?
- What are the technological barriers and research frontiers that merit immediate investigation?
The purpose of this special issue of the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering is to address questions like the above and present a group of ground-breaking research papers that define the state-of-the-art in the field of three-dimensional visualization in AEC. The objective is to produce an archival snapshot of the state of knowledge in this field as we approach the end of the millennium’s first decade and formulate strategies for future research directions.
Authors wishing to submit papers should contact Vineet R. Kamat, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (vkamat@umich.edu) for information and submission guidelines. Manuscripts may be submitted beginning immediately.
Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Response of Aerospace Structures
Guest Editor: Robert K. Goldberg and Wieslaw K. Binienda
This special issue will expand on a recently completed symposium on Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Analysis of Aerospace Structures, which was held in conjunction with the Earth and Space ’08 Conference. For this special issue, we are looking for papers with a combination of fundamental studies and practical applications of the subject technology by researchers in academia, government and industry.
Specific topics of interest include discussions of coupon level tests and ballistic impact studies to determine the high strain rate deformation and failure response of aerospace materials and structures, including metallic materials and polymer composite materials. In addition, constitutive models and finite element techniques developed to analyze the impact response of metallic and composite materials are of interest. Applications of interest include aeronautical applications such as the development of aircraft engine fan containment systems and crashworthy rotorcraft structures, and space applications such as impact analyses of the Space Shuttle and the development of airbag landing systems for NASA’s new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle.
For manuscript requirements, please refer to the following web site http://www.pubs.asce.org/authors/index.html. Submit a copy of your full manuscript as a Word or LaTex file (if sending LaTex, please also send a PDF copy) as well as a cover letter listing suggested reviewers and specifying the special issue title to ASCE at journal-submissions@asce.org by July 1, 2008.
Thank you for your interest in this special issue.
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