2025 Engineering Project Organization Conference

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The overarching theme of EPOC 2025, 'Transcending boundaries for a resilient future’, is particularly significant in today's context. It builds on the primary themes of the EPO society and the EPO journal, focusing on the following:

• Disaster Resilience and Humanitarian Engineering
• Digital Transformation in Engineering and Construction
• Inclusion, Equity, and Social Justice in Engineering
• Development of Civil and Social Infrastructure
• Governance in Project and Program-Specific Organizations
• Inter- and Intra-Firm Coordination in Project Organizations
• International Project Organizations and Enterprises
• Sustainable Development and Adaptation to Shocks

Extended abstracts are required of everyone who wants to participate in EPOC 2025. Authors are expected to be faculty or PhD students who are nearly ready to defend. Researchers also have the opportunity to submit a conference-length paper (optional). Details about submissions are below. 

1. Extended Abstract. These are intended to be projects that are still in the data-gathering or exploration stage. Extended abstracts should include the following: Research Problem Statement or Purpose, Brief Research Methodology and Approach, Key Findings, and Implications. Extended abstracts should be between 1,000-2,000 words and authors are expected to make a presentation. 
2. Conference-Length Papers (Optional). These are intended to be traditional conference papers. Papers will be 3,000–5,000 words and authors are expected to make a presentation.

Extended abstracts and conference-length papers will be made available online in the conference proceedings. Authors will retain the copyright, but the papers can still be cited as a conference paper. 

The Engineering Project Organization Society is accepting applications from Ph.D. students for its EPOS Doctoral Consortium to be held in conjunction with the 2025 Engineering Project Organization Conference. The “Future Faculty 5K” Doctoral Consortium will be held on Monday-Tuesday, July 14-15, 2025, along with several events to occur during the Engineering Project Organization Conference from July 15-28, 2025.  

The content of this Doctoral Consortium will focus on providing Ph.D. candidates who are interested in becoming faculty members with information on interviewing for academic jobs, succeeding in an academic career, writing your first grants, preparing for your first classes, and contributing to the growth of the EPOS community.  The consortium will be led by a panel of faculty members with proven research, teaching and service records who will address key issues in academic life such as publishing in leading journals, teaching best practices, funding your research, contributing to the research community, subtleties of the tenure process, as well as networking and research collaboration.

The application deadline is December 9th, 2024.  To apply, please send the following information to John E. Taylor via email at jet@gatech.edu.

1. A current CV, and
2. A one-page statement with: (1) Your name/institutional affiliation/address/email, (2) How many years you have left before you anticipate graduating with your PhD, (3) The name/phone#/email address of your thesis advisor and one additional reference, and, (4) A 250-word abstract of your dissertation. 

Preference will be given to doctoral candidates at later stages of their PhD program.  Decisions will be made by a committee of EPOS members by mid-January 2025.  Late applications will not be considered.  Participation is limited to a small number of Ph.D. students.