USACE Partners with NYU Graduate Students on USMMA Seawall Rehabilitation Project

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, has partnered with New York University Tandon School of Engineering to provide graduate students with real-world project management experience through the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s (USMMA) Seawall Rehabilitation Project, one of the Academy’s highest-priority infrastructure initiatives. On Friday Dec.5, members of the District’s Project Delivery Team (PDT) presented an in-depth project overview to a cohort of NYU construction management graduate students completing their final capstone course, “Leadership, Ethics, and Project Execution.” As part of the semester-long collaboration, the students are developing pre-construction management plans in response to a mock Request for Proposals centered on the USMMA seawall. Their work mirrors the real processes used by industry partners, federal agencies, and construction managers on major capital projects.