Dr. Lee specializes in analyzing productivity loss and cumulative impact claims. For her doctoral research, Dr. Lee critiqued and evaluated current methods for assessing labor productivity losses during construction, integrated all methods researched under a framework, and developed general guidelines for selecting appropriate impact quantification approaches and methods. As part of the research product, she compared the productivity data of various industry indices and discrete studies, drew and discussed overall trends, and evaluated reliability, applicability, strengths, and limitations of each method.
Prior to Exponent, Dr. Lee was a graduate student researcher for the Pavement Research Center of UC Berkeley, where she took part in developing a general framework to assist a state transportation agency in determining appropriate contracting methods for highway construction/rehabilitation projects. Dr. Lee also was a graduate student instructor for the UC Civil and Environmental Engineering Department on topics such as advanced project planning and control and business fundamentals for engineering.
Lee S. Understanding and quantifying the impact of changes on construction labor productivity: Integration of productivity factors and quantification methods. University of California at Berkeley, Dissertation, December 2007.
Ibbs W, Nguyen LD, Lee S. Quantified impact of project change. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, Vol. 133, No. 1, pp. 45–52, January 2007.