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portrait image Gunnar Lucko is Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the Construction Engineering and Management Program at CUA. He received his doctoral and Master of Science degrees in civil engineering from the Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). He also holds a German civil engineering diploma with specializations in structural and environmental engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at CUA he worked in an engineering firm, performing structural analyses and various construction management functions. His research interest include the mathematical modeling, simulation, and analysis of project schedules and their relationship with other aspects, e.g. costs, construction equipment operations and economics, optimization methods, and engineering education.

A newly funded research grant (CMMI-0927455) by the National Science Foundation continues his investigation into applying singularity functions to various fundamental problems in construction project management, in particular financial management. A previous research grant (CMMI-0654318) by the National Science Foundation created a novel method of modeling and analyzing linear schedules using singularity functions, which originate in structural engineering. A research grant by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (3090-05) in collaboration with structural and earthquake engineering developed a student-centered initiative for low-cost sustainable solutions in earthquake-resistant design for simple residential structures in developing regions.

In 2005 he was elected to the Construction Research Council, the premier association of North American construction researchers, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the Project Management Institute. In other research projects he has examined the statistical analysis and economic modeling of owning and operating cost for construction equipment and the constructability of cast-in-place segmental bridges.