Starting a Construction Engineering Program at Marquette University

Marquette University decided to start a Construction Engineering and Management program during the 2007 academic year. An endowed chair, titled the McShane Chair in Construction Engineering and Management, was funded by Jim and Kelly McShane to run the program. After a national search, Mark Federle, an executive with a large construction firm and previous academic experience at Iowa State University, was hired to start the program. The first class of students were enrolled in the fall of 2008. This paper will present the opportunities/challenges in starting a Construction Engineering and Management program. Lessons learned, comparisons to other programs, and other pertinent information will be shared. The program will be undergoing an ABET evaluation during the fall of 2012, if successful it will result in Marquette University having one of less than 15 such programs across the country. To this time, there have been twelve graduates from the program

\u3ci\u3eThe Orthoptera of Michigan– Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets\u3c/i\u3e by Roger G. Bland, 2003.

(excerpt) Michigan has a long history of entomologists interested in the Orthoptera fauna of the state, and T.H. Hubbell and I.J. Cantrall had published several papers on the Orthoptera of various parts of the state, as well as state-wide lists. Later on, R.D. Alexander contributed a paper on the singing insects (primarily Orthoptera)

Bibliographic Guide to the Terrestrial Arthropods of Michigan

Papers dealing with distribution, faunal extensions, and identification of Michigan insects and other terrestrial arthropods are listed by order, and cover the period of 1878 through 1982

Beetles of Eastern North America. Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton &University Press, 560 pp., 8x10 paperback. ISBN:9780691133041. Price: 35.00.

(excerpt) My early interests in entomology were augmented with How to Know the Beetles by H.E. Jacques (1951), and the Peterson Guide - A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America by Richard E. White (1983). In addition, Dillon and Dillon’s (1972) A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America was extremely helpful to a beginning collector trying to identify his catches

Biology and Distribution of \u3ci\u3eTachysphex Aethiops\u3c/i\u3e in Michigan (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Larrinae)

Tachysphex aethiops is a primarily western species that also occurs in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Females nest in mossy, sand slopes and utilize pre-existing burrows of other insects. One shallow, five-celled nest contained a single, third-instar nymph of Spharagemon sp., probably bolli, in each cell. Three prey were parasitized by miltogrammine flies

Butterflies and Skippers of Ohio. David. C. Iftner, John A. Shuey & John V. Calhoun. Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin 9(1). 1992; 212 pp. $40.00 (paper, 8.5 x 11). ISSN 0078-3994, ISBN 0-86727-107-8. Ohio Biolog- ical Survey, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212-1192; phone: 614-292-9645.

(excerpt) It is rare that a publication this complete and well-illustrated is issued on the fauna of a state, and even rarer still, that such a publication is made possible by a collaborative effort of many individuals and several agencies. The Butterflies and Skippers of Ohio is a volume made possible by the efforts of the Ohio Lepidopterists and the Ohio Biological Survey. The Ohio Lepidopterists are for the most part, a number of serious amateurs and professional entomologists that have long desired to provide a check-list of the Ohio Butterfly fauna

Distribution and Biology of the Sphecine Wasps of Michigan (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Sphecinae)

Biological information and distribution maps are provided for the 26 species of thread-waisted wasps that occur in Michigan. Podium luctuosum is a new state record. Sixty percent of the eastern North America sphecine fauna is represented in Michigan