2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

There are few studies which expand upon construction management pedagogical content to guide professors, especially new professors, in the creation and development of hands-on labs. This paper is a case study adding to the construction management body of knowledge to show engineering and construction management educators a framework on how laboratory exercises for making, curing, capping and testing concrete compression cylinders, based on the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) procedures, were developed and incorporated into a senior level construction management course. Included is the course history, a description of the laboratory space and equipment and a discussion of how the laboratory exercises relate to student learning. Numerical and graphical results of testing concrete cylinders at four different water-to-cement ratios are presented and discussed. Also, future opportunities for similar hands-on student laboratory exercises are identified and discussed.