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Miroslaw J Skibniewski
Professor of Civil Engineering
Division of Construction Engineering and Management
School of Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering Building 1245, Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1294, U.S.A.

Dr. Miroslaw J. Skibniewski is a Professor of Civil Engineering, Associate Provost, and Interim Dean of International Programs at Purdue University. He holds his M.Eng. degree from Warsaw University of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University, in civil engineering and project management. He has also received a Certificate from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Management Development Program.

As Purdue University's Associate Provost, Dr. Skibniewski is engaged in the matters of planning and policy formulation, administration of university funded research and development programs, faculty personnel policies, intellectual property and technology transfer, and budget analysis. As Interim Dean of International Programs, he is responsible for institutional planning, management and administration of educational, research and extension collaboration between Purdue University and institutions outside of the United States. He also represents Purdue on the Board of Directors of Midwest University Consortium for International Activities.

As a researcher and educator, Professor Skibniewski specializes in computer-aided decision support for the construction industry and in construction automation. Along with his graduate students at Purdue University, he developed one of the first construction automation programs in the United States. He collaborated with numerous industrial and government organizations both in the United States and overseas. While on sabbatical leave or away from his regular assignments at Purdue, Dr. Skibniewski worked as a Visiting Senior Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Melbourne, Australia, Visiting Research Professor with the Institute for Mechanized Construction and Rock Mining in Warsaw, Poland, Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Hong and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University in England. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a staff engineer with the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory in Pennsylvania where he was in engaged in forensic engineering and industrial safety issues.

Dr. Skibniewski serves on the National Academy of Engineering USA-Germany Frontiers in Engineering Committee, American Society of Engineers' Robotics and Field Sensing, Information Technology, and Intelligent Computing Committees, various technical committees of the Construction Industry Institute, and on the National Academy of Sciences Assessment Panel for construction automation and computer integrated construction programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors and the immediate past President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction. Dr. Skibniewski is also Editor of Automation in Construction, an international research journal published by Elsevier Science, and member of editorial boards of the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning, Journal of Construction Research, Construction Management and Economics, International Journal of Construction Management, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, International Journal of Advanced Technology, and Property Management (Real Estate Valuation and Management).
Professor Skibniewski received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1986), American Society for Engineering Education Best Paper Award (1991), American Society of Civil Engineers' Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (1998), and many grants from government and industry for support of his research. He is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who: American Men and Women in Science, Who's Who Online, and in other national and international biographical references. Dr. Skibniewski is an author or co-author of over 100 technical publications.