MEAC Scores Another Hit With 7th Faculty Boot Camp
The Mechanical-Electrical Academic Consortium (MEAC), an organization of faculty members who teach construction management courses at universities around the country, held its seventh Faculty Training Conference last week in Omaha, NE. The program, funded with a grant from the Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation (MCERF), covered the basics about mechanical and plumbing systems and processes over a three-day period for 15 faculty members who teach these courses, but who may have only limited knowledge of the subject matter. This year's program covered mechanical systems and properties, BIM, air conditioning systems and components, duct sizing, isometric drawings, estimating, high performance contracting, testing and balancing, temperature controls, system conditioning, plumbing systems and codes and much more. Featured speakers included MCAA 2008 President Jack Wilhelmi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Prof. Tim Wentz, Prof. Shannon Nicklaus of Pittsburg State University, Prof. Tom Logan of Kansas State University, Rick Blackledge and Nick Doht of Waldinger Corporation and Prof. Daryl Orth of Northern Kentucky University. Tours were of the mechanical laboratories and Rosken's Hall at the University of Nebraksa-Omaha and Morrisey Engineering's offices in Omaha, a certified LEED Platinum building. Orth and Prof. Jack Patterson of Western Carolina University organized the program.
