/news-archive/tag/anne-turner/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:19:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2022/06/16/senior-design-project/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:19:02 +0000 /news/?p=81641 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Seniors Weigh Pros and Cons of Designing Medical Facilities in Guam, Puerto Rico]]> During their senior design project, eight students from the Civil and Construction Engineering and Architectural and Construction Engineering programs were tasked with providing the structural design, construction cost estimate, and building schedule for hypothetical new medical facilities in the remote locations of Guam and Puerto Rico. Team Eiffel (Guam) consisted of Taylor Finley, Lizbeth Ortiz, Alexander Silva, and Benjamin Whiting. Meanwhile, Team Watt (Puerto Rico) included Parker Addison, Christopher Heredia, Mark St. Pierre, and Garrett Wallace. Industry sponsors from Cromwell Architects Engineers and CDI Contractors created the design challenge for the seniors. Participating Cromwell members included Mike Callahan, director of structures, and Paul Timko, structural engineer. Daniel Bowen, director of preconstruction, and David Cooan, senior project manager, joined the team from CDI Contractors. 鈥淭he industry sponsors typically choose a building that one of them has designed or done the construction on in the past,鈥� said Anne Turner, assistant professor and coordinator of the Civil and Construction Engineering Program. 鈥淧reviously, we鈥檝e varied by building use, such as a school in Memphis or a police station in Florida. This time, the students had the same building in different locations. It鈥檚 always interesting to see how the location affects the environment and building costs.鈥� A senior design project is a requirement for accreditation by the ABET, a nonprofit, non-governmental agency that accredits programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 senior design project is unique in that its industry partners from Cromwell Architects Engineers and CDI Contracting have been involved ever since the Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering was created, showing just how dedicated industry partners are to making sure the students have a successful education. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a unique partnership where the students meet with industry sponsors 16 times in their senior year,鈥� Turner said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a great experience for our students to learn from experts who are in the industry themselves.鈥� Team Eiffel (Guam) came in with a final bid of $20,321,057 for their hospital, while Team Watt (Puerto Rico) came in with a final bid of $20,996,354. The teams noted that one of the major differences in the final bid was the fact that Guam had a tax of 2 percent while Puerto Rico had a tax of more than 10 percent. 鈥淚 enjoyed it because it was a real-world application rather than just sitting in a classroom,鈥� said Taylor Finley, who works as a project engineer at Nabholz Construction. 鈥淚t gave us a glimpse into our futures as engineers. I would say the hardest part was taking issues related to our locations, as far as Guam and Puerto Rico. We learned we needed to account for taxes, travel, seismic design, earthquakes, and hurricanes, which affected our construction schedule, estimate, and complete design.鈥漖]> /news-archive/2022/03/09/women-in-construction-anne-turner/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:13:26 +0000 /news/?p=81157 ... Women in Construction Week: Anne Turner]]> 鈥淭here was a project in fifth grade where we had to design a house, and I thought I wanted to be an architect,鈥� Turner said. 鈥淭hen I realized I liked the math and science part more than the art part. I came home and told my family I was going to study engineering, and my parents were like, 鈥榙uh.鈥欌�� She went on to earn a bachelor鈥檚 degree in civil engineering from Purdue University and master鈥檚 degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech. She started her career working at Simpson, Gumpertz, and Heger, Inc., in Waltham, Massachusetts. 鈥淚 worked for five years at a structural engineering consulting firm, where I did a lot of seismic analysis of nuclear power plants,鈥� Turner said. 鈥淎s we all learned in 2011, when earthquakes and nuclear power plants are involved, you want them to be as safe as possible. It wasn鈥檛 until Fukushima happened that everyone knew what my job was.鈥� Turner is referring to the Fukushima Daaichi Accident that happened on March 11, 2011, in Japan. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, a 15-meter tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident that was rated level 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. There have been no deaths or cases of radiation sickness from the nuclear accident, but more than 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a preventative measure. She later spent six months in 2008 working on site at the Idaho National Laboratory overseeing construction of a nuclear power facility. 鈥淚t may seem intimidating to be a woman on the construction site, but you should know that you have the knowledge and the expertise to be there,鈥� Turner said. 鈥淲hen I first went to Idaho to be on the construction site, I was 26 years old in a pink coat surrounded by all men. I remembered I was the representative of the owner out there making sure things were built correctly, and I had to be assertive and understand that I deserved to be there.鈥� In 2018, Turner joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock as an assistant professor. Her courses include Reinforced Concrete Design, Structural Steel Design, Structural Analysis, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, and the Professional Engineering Seminar and Senior Design. She鈥檚 also the coordinator of the Civil and Construction Engineering Program, which has about 80 students. Up until this school year, Turner was the only full-time female faculty member in the Department of Construction Management and Civil and Construction Engineering. 鈥淚鈥檝e been in the minority since I started college, so it鈥檚 not out of the ordinary for me anymore,鈥� Turner said. 鈥淎t work, I鈥檝e realized I’ve often been the only woman in the room. I think women need to be assertive. I understand that I know what I am talking about, I have expertise, and my ideas are worth being discussed.鈥� In addition to work and school, Turner has also served on the Faculty Senate and is the faculty advisor for the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and is a member of the board of directors for the Arkansas Chapter of the American Concrete Institute. She鈥檚 also earning her Ph.D. in civil engineering and is expected to graduate this year from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.]]>