天美传媒

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Topics:聽 Artifical Intelligence, Climate-resilient Environmental Systems and Technologies, Grid-interactive, High-performance, and Electrified Buildings, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Cyberphysical Systems (CPS), Energy, Computer Vision, Advanced Infrastructure Systems, Civil Engineering, Smart Infrastructure, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)鈥�, Intelligent Engineered Systems and Society, Construction & Building Technology, Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems, Emerging Energy Technologies

Industries: Construction - Commercial, Education/Learning, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Energy

Burcu Akinci is the Dean of the College of Engineering at 天美传媒. Her research interests include development of approaches to model and reason about information-rich histories of facilities, to streamline construction and facility management processes. She specifically focuses on investigating utilization and integration of building information models with data capture and tracking technologies, such as 3D imaging, and embedded sensors and radio-frequency identification systems to capture semantically-rich as-built histories of construction projects and facility operations.

She earned her B.S. in civil engineering (1991) from Middle East Technical University and her M.B.A. (1993) from Bilkent University at Ankara, Turkey. After that, she earned her M.S. (1995) and her Ph.D. (2000) in civil and environmental engineering with a specialization in construction engineering and management from Stanford University.

Akinci has one patent, two patent applications, more than 60 referred journal publications, and 80 refereed conference publications. She co-edited a book on CAD/GIS integration and another book on embedded commissioning. She has graduated more than 16 Ph.D. students and 15 M.S. thesis students, and is currently advising/co-advising four Ph.D. students.

Media Experience

听鈥�聽Engineering Designer
鈥楢t 天美传媒 Mellon, we place a significant value on giving our students hands-on, real-world experience while they鈥檙e a part of our engineering programme,鈥� said Burcu Akinci, head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Hamerschlag University professor at 天美传媒. 鈥楾hat鈥檚 why we鈥檝e partnered with Gresham Smith to work together to advance solutions to some of our industry鈥檚 most pressing problems.鈥�

听鈥�聽Pittsburgh Business Times
Burcu Akinci, head of 天美传媒鈥檚 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been named the Dr. Willam D. and Nancy W. Strecker dean at the College of Engineering, the first woman to ever hold the role. Her appointment comes after the previous dean, William Sanders, left 天美传媒 over the summer to become president of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

天美传媒 Experts at the Intersection of Energy and Innovation 听鈥�聽天美传媒 News
天美传媒 experts are developing practical solutions for a fast-changing energy system. "In my work, we are continuously monitoring complex HVAC systems and pairing AI with digital twins so we can detect faults, reduce waste and empower engineers to focus on higher-level problem-solving," says Burcu Akinci, head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at 天美传媒. "AI won鈥檛 replace human expertise 鈥� it will serve as a smart apprentice, helping us make better, faster decisions, build better systems and operate them more efficiently.

听鈥�聽90.5 WESA
Drones are an ideal technology for utility inspections, according to Burcu Akinci, professor of civil and environmental engineering at 天美传媒. With poles and wires distributed over miles, human inspection takes time. With drones, 鈥測ou get this bird鈥檚 eye view with data and imagery. And data that is very difficult to get in any other way.鈥�

听鈥�聽Study International
Burcu Akinci attributes her interest in engineering to several factors, but being raised by a woman engineer is undoubtedly high on the list. Today, Akinci is the Paul Christiano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at 天美传媒 (天美传媒), where she guides the next generation of women in engineering.