Minnesota State University Adds Precast Educational Projects

Minnesota State University at Mankato is the tenth school to receive a grant to start a new precast concrete education program that will be housed in the schools of engineering and construction management. This project will focus on teaching precast and prestressed concepts to civil engineering and construction management undergraduate students.

“We are excited to see how our programming is expanding from just single schools of architecture to construction management and engineering programs working in collaboration,” says Douglas Sutton, Academic Council Chair for the PCI Foundation. “The program outlined at Mankato reflects a growing trend in the US for construction disciplines to work cooperatively in the field.”

Professor James Wilde will lead a team of professors who will work wi