Skibniewski Joins Civil Engineering

Miroslaw Skibniewski has joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a professor and has been named the A. James Clark Chair in Construction Engineering and Management.

Skibniewski had been a visiting professor in the department. He came to the University of Maryland from Purdue University.

Skibniewski is a past NSF President Young Investigator, past president of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, and current editor of Automation in Construction journal published by Elsevier. He has won research awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, the Fulbright Commission and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

His research focuses on construction engineering and management, construction project management, automation and robotics, e-commerce and decision support tools for project management. He also is a faculty member in the Clark School's new project management program.

Published November 18, 2005