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CEE professor C. William Ibbs received a B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering
from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973 and 1975, respectively.
He received a Ph.D. in civil engineering focusing on construction
risk in 1980 from Berkeley. From 1981 to 1987 he was an assistant
and associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. He’s the recipient of a Presidential Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, and
his research interests include strategic trends and strategic
planning in the construction industry, project control and
management systems.
(Peg Skorpinski photo)
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Professor Minute with CEE professor C. William Ibbs
What first inspired
you to go into engineering?
A summer job working as a carpenter, building concrete formwork on
a construction project.
To date, what has been
the most memorable moment in your career?
Having a consulting client tell me I “hit a homerun” when
helping him.
If you had a few extra
hours, what would you do?
Go to a Pittsburgh Steelers football game.
What should engineering
students make sure they do at Berkeley before they graduate?
Figure out what they want to do with their lives, write a plan to achieve
such and then do it.
What are you currently reading?
His Excellency, a biography of George Washington by Joseph Ellis.
What is one thing you would like to learn how to do?
Spend more time traveling the “blue highways” of
America.
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