Assistant Professor
Dept. of Construction Management
University of Washington
120 Architecture Hall, Box 351610
Seattle, WA 98195-1610
USA
Phone: 206.616.1915
Fax: 206.685.1976
E-mail:
Research Interest
Construction Safety, Knowledge Management, Data Mining, Information Systems and Technologies, Innovative Construction Education and Training, and Project Sustainability
Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
(For a complete publication list, please see my resume. )
Lin, K.Y., Son, J.W., and Rojas, E., (2011) "Safety Director: A 3D Game Environment for Construction Safety Education", Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITCON), accepted for publication in the January 2011 special issue "Use of Gaming and Virtual World technology in Architecture, Engineering and Construction".
H.T. Lin, S.H. Hsieh, K.W. Chou and K.Y. Lin , (available online Sep. 2010) "A Statistical Method for Constructing Engineering Domain Ontology through Extraction of Knowledge from Domain Handbooks", Advanced Engineering Informatics, 25(2), April 2011, pp. 288-296.
Projects in Progress
1. An Innovative iPad Application for Construction Site Safety Audit (click here to see our promotional video on Youtube).
2. Developing Fall Protection Training Materials for Non-English Speaking and Illiterate Construction Workers
3. Assessing the potential of Safety Director, an innovative educational video game for construction safety
Information For Prospective Students
(Guidelines for CM master students who want to take their research paper credits CM600 under my supervision)
Recommendation Letter Policy
I will be happy to provide recommendation letters to students (1) who were under my supervision for their research work and have delivered high quality research products, or (2) who were the top 20% in my class(es). To request a letter, please e-mail me at least one week ahead of time. Please be aware that I do NOT honor any unexpected recommendation letter requests from online graduate study application systems.
Tools Available for Download
Safety Audit Tool (the 2009 version in Excel)
Cash Flow Charting Tool (the 2009 version in Excel)
Website last updated: 11.04.2011