The U-M Construction Industry Alliance Program (UMCIAP) is an exciting new initiative that lets you – our industry partners – interact on many levels with graduate students in the Tishman Construction Management Program (TCMP).

This collaboration provides students with hands-on practice experience through research projects and internships. Likewise, members benefit by building close working relationships with these highly motivated students. Members also may guest-lecture, provide input on the curriculum and help define research projects in order to solve specific practice-related problems. UMCIAP members have the distinct advantage of recruiting students they work with through the program.

Our objectives for the UMCIAP include:

• Enabling TCMP faculty and student researchers and you – industry stakeholders – to work together
• Creating opportunities for our industry partners to interact with the brightest students in our TCMP program
• Providing the chance for you to participate in curriculum development and shape students’ educational experiences
• Increasing competitiveness by helping partner companies leverage and utilize the state-of-the-art and practice-related research activities undertaken by TCMP students and faculty

Through the UMCIAP, we aim to:

• Solve practice-oriented problems identified by our construction industry partners
• Ensure our curriculum best reflects industry needs in order to continue to offer the best training for students
• Provide practical learning opportunities for U-M undergraduate and graduate students
• Help the industry recruit highly qualified, well-trained professionals
• Apply the knowledge and technologies obtained from the TCMP’s state-of-the-art research activities to real construction projects

We are excited to be undertaking this initiative, and we look forward to working closely with you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. SangHyun Lee (Director: shdpm(at)umich(dot)edu) or Prof. Vineet Kamat (Associate Director: vkamat@umich.edu).