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Teaching
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1. COURSES TAUGHT AT WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
2. Courses taught at Purdue University
3. OTHER TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITIES
1. COURSES TAUGHT AT WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
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ET 233
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Building Codes
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ET 281
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Statics and Strength of Materials
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ET 236
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Construction Measurements and Layout
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ET 337
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Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems
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ET 382
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Structural Theory and Design
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ET 433
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Specifications and Estimates
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ET 435
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Commercial Construction Methods
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ET 437
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Advanced Bidding and Estimating
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ET 439
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Project Scheduling
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2. Courses taught at Purdue University
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Course No.
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Course Title
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CE 220/CE 221/CEM 201
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Construction Management/Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Constructed Facilities
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CE 221
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Construction Plans and Estimates
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CE 426
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Construction Cost Control Concepts
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CE 427
CE 527
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Design of Construction Operations
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CE 520
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Construction Project Control Systems
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CE 597C
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Trenchless Technology for Underground Infrastructure Renewal
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CE 49700-013/ CEM 49700-001 |
Engineering & Management of Constructed Facility Life Cycle |
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CE 59700-060 |
Water Resource Assessment and Management – A Global Perspective |
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EPICS |
HFH Projects – Disaster Resistant Housing in Haiti; Sustainable House in Reynolds, Indiana |
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CE 49700-013 / CEM 49700-006 |
Life Cycle Engineering and Management of Constructed Facilities |
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CE 49700 / SA 105005
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Olympic Gold: London 2012 Facilities and Infrastructure Engineering |
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EPICS 101/201/304/401/402-020 |
HFH – Engineering Projects in Community Service – Habitat for Humanity |
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EPICS 101/201/301/401/402-024 |
BGI – Engineering Projects in Community Service – Boiler Green Initiative |
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CE 497/CE 597 |
Sustainable Waste Management through Engagement, Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Education
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Guest lectures
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CE 498 (Senior Design Project)
Other teaching assignments
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ENGR 100 (Freshman Engineering Seminar – Construction Engineering Week)
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ENGR 105H (Freshman Engineering Honors Seminar – Construction Engineering Week)
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CE 290 (Civil Engineering Seminar – Construction Engineering Week)
3. OTHER TEACHING RELATED ACTIVITIES
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Recipient of grant from the Faculty Development Services at Western Michigan University to attend the Timberline Estimating Educators' Workshop, Portland, Oregon, May 1992.
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Coordinator, Lyles Computer Lab Coordinator, Division of Construction Engineering and Management, Purdue University (1993-1995).
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Beta Tau Construction Engineering Honorary Outstanding Professor Award (1996, 2001, 2006, 2007). The awardee is selected annually by the students in the Division of Construction Engineering and Management as the outstanding teacher in the Division.
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In January 1997 and August 1998, Dr. Abraham attended the Classroom Climate Workshops, developed by the Schools of Engineering and the Women in Engineering programs. These workshops provided guidelines for maintaining gender equality and providing responses concerning cultural awareness, respectively, in classroom activities.
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Co-principal investigator and co-author of the School of Civil Engineering's GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) proposal to the Department of Education (PI: E. Blatchley, Co-PIs and co-authors: R. Whitford, D. M. Abraham, J. Bethel, P. Fox, J. Ramirez, S. Peeta). The proposal was funded in May 1998 for $ 472,890 ($ 378,330 from the Department of Education and cost sharing of $ 94,560 from Purdue University), and provides 6 fellowships over a three-year period for U.S. students to pursue their Ph.D.s, in the broadly defined area of environmental engineering.
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Recipient of the Beta Tau Construction Engineering Honorary Outstanding Professor Award – 1997, 2001
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Inducted into the Purdue Book of Great Teachers – August 2003
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Mentor in the Teaching Academy Faculty Mentoring Network since Fall 2003
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