Garold Oberlender - Project Management for Engineering and Construction: A Life-Cycle Approach

Garold D. Oberlenderis professor emeritus in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he served as coordinator of the graduate program in construction engineering and project management. In addition to his teaching and research, he maintained a consulting engineering practice for engineering and construction projects in the petrochemical and electrical power industries. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering.

In addition to authoring this book Dr. Oberlender is also coauthor with Robert. L. Peurifoy of Estimating Construction Costs, 6th ed. and Formwork for Concrete Structures, 4th ed. These books are widely adopted by universities in the United States and internationally and widely used by practicing civil engineers throughout the world. Previous editions of Project Management for Engineering and Constructionhave been translated into Korean and Chinese.

Dr. Oberlender is a fellow member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and has been inducted into the National Academy of Construction (NAC). He is also a fellow member of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). He has also served as Chairman of the Construction Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Currently, he is a writer of construction engineering PE examination questions for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). Professor Oberlender is a registered professional engineer in Oklahoma and Texas and a member of numerous honorary societies, including Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Gary R. Spencerretired as a staff risk engineer in project development for a major petrochemical process company providing cost and schedule risk assessments for projects in the project initiation phases of the project lifecycle. Dr. Spencer has been in project controls for more than 30 years where he worked in project management, cost controls, scheduling, risk management, document controls, and contract administration. He has overseen mega pipeline projects and enterprise-wide cost and schedule control endeavors. Dr. Spencer is a former professor of construction management and construction engineering, and he has taught courses in planning, scheduling and control, construction estimating, contract administration, and resource management. He has also conducted workshops and seminars on project management in the United States and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Dr. Spencer was the project controls manager for multiple natural gas and liquid pipeline system expansion projects in the United States. He was the project contracts administrator and project controls lead on several hydroelectric power plant projects in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Dominican Republic, and Indonesia. Dr. Spencer has also provided scheduling and cost control activities on numerous other domestic and international facilities projects providing both design and construction.

Dr. Spencer has a B.S. in civil engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering construction management from Oklahoma State University. He is a licensed professional engineer in Oklahoma, and was a certified cost engineer, a project scheduling professional and a decision and risk management professional by AACEI until his retirement. He was also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI for over 25 years. Dr. Spencer is currently a writer of construction engineering PE examination questions for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).

Rose Mary Lewisis a retired vice president of engineering and construction for a Fortune 500 company operating in the Oil and Gas Industry. She spent the majority of her 26 years in the Oil and Gas Industry in project management. She was responsible for managing projects, project portfolios, and leading engineering organizations in the design and construction of facilities. Before working in the private sector, Ms. Lewis worked in the public sector for a state department of transportation and for a federal water resources agency planning and designing large infrastructure projects. She is a board member of a company using space-age technology to advance the blasting and construction industries. Ms. Lewis has frequently been asked to speak on project and portfolio management.

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