Robert D. Logcher
Warning: Being retired, I am as much out sailing as I am around M.I.T.
MIT Room 1-376
77 Mass. Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel.No. (617) 253-7129 FAX: (617) 253-6324
Internet: logcher@mit.edu
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, 1958
- Master of Science, Civil Engineering, 1960
- Doctor of Science, Civil Engineering, September 1962
- Thesis: A Method for the Study of Failure Mechanism in Cylindrical Rock Cavities Due to the Diffraction of a Pressure Wave
PRINCIPAL FIELDS OF INTEREST
- Construction Engineering and Management
- Computer Aided Design of Civil Engineering Facilities
- Management and Engineering Information Systems
- Knowledge Based Expert Systems
- Engineering and Construction Productivity
- Computer-oriented Combinations of the Above
SUBJECTS TAUGHT IN 1994-6, prior to retirement
- 1.00 Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving - Undergraduate
- 1.432 Project Control - Graduate
- 1.40 Project Management - Undergraduate
MAJOR RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
HONORS
- NSF Graduate Cooperative Fellow, 1959-1961
- NSF Graduate Fellow, 1961-1962
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 1962-1964
- Moisseiff Award, ASCE, 1974
- Society of the Sigma Xi
- Tau Beta Pi
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS WITH COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- Massachusetts Society of Professional Engineers
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
- Professional Engineer - State of New York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
PUBLICATIONS
Collaborative Agent-Based Architecture: Issues in Control, Communication, and Coordination - U.S. Army Construction Engineering Reseach Laboratory - 1994 - present