Abstract
"Efficiency in any project is an admirable attribute. It is even more than admirable in an undertaking designed for the spending of the taxpayer's money in which the lack of this trait is so liable to be interpretated [sic] as graft. It is necessary. After some eight years of connection with highway construction, a familiarity with inefficiency in the management of high projects under state construction is sufficient excuse, we believe, to warrant a dissertation of the opportunities for the practice of efficiency by those in direct charge of these project - the Project Engineers or the Resident Engineers, as they are titled by different states. This is written not in a spirit of criticism of existing systems. We believe that most of the highway officials with whom our experience has thrown us in contact have been primarily interested in getting the work done as expeditiously and inexpensively as the individual cases warranted. It is, rather, a resume of causes of inefficiency on the part of the engineer directly in charge of field operations which more long-sighted and broader vision by high officials would make unnecessary"--Introduction, page iv-v.
Advisor(s)
Butler, Joe Beaty, 1895-1955
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Degree Name
Professional Degree in Civil Engineering
Publisher
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
Publication Date
1934
Pagination
v, 82 pages
Rights
© 1934 Jean Paul Bryan, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Highway engineering -- Decision makingHighway engineering -- Management
Thesis Number
T 633
Print OCLC #
5964364
Electronic OCLC #
642352871
Recommended Citation
Bryan, Jean Paul, "Efficient management of highway projects under state administration, from the point of view of the project or resident engineer" (1934). Professional Degree Theses. 80.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/80
