The Home Page of Erik Backus

 

 

Welcome to the Backus home on the Web. Hopefully this little corner of the Internet will be seen by a few of you. I have included a few links things I like to do, and find interest in. Feel free to surf around.

 

 

Personal Links:

Professional Links:

One Picture of Me / Another Picture of Me

Clarkson University - My Undergraduate School and Where I Teach Now

My Resume/Curriculum Vitae

University of Missouri - Rolla/Missouri S&T - My Graduate School

My Wife/My Wife’s Company Profile

George Mason University - Where I was PM/Engineering Planner and Taught

My Blog: Backus’ Thoughts

 

 

US Army Links:

Ongoing Projects and Research Efforts:

955th Engineer Company - The Company I Commanded

Clarkson CEM Consulting Group:  A Service/Group I Manage

Fort Leonard Wood - Where I served for 7 years

Sustainable Holistic Planning Systems in Non-Urban Contexts: A research

Joint Base Myer - Henderson Hall - Where I served as Chief Engineer

group I am leading

Army Knowledge Online

Clarkson Civil and Environmental Engineering Capstone Design:  The process

AKO Email

and results of the students that I teach

Army HRC

 

MyPay - DFAS

Fun Organizations:

Military Enterprise Email

Omega Lamda Tau - My Greek Org.

Military Records Portal

Realm of Utopian Dreams - A Multi User Domain (MUD) that I helped run

 

 

 

Interests:

Convenient Links:

Articles I’ve Written:

My Church

Hotmail

Sola Deo - A Lutheran Explanation of Reformation Solas

Current Favorite Hobby

Clarkson Email

Recruiting Construction Leaders and Managers for the Future - A technical article on the future of construction leadership

Another Hobby

GMU Webmail

Old Hobby

MSN Website

Field Force and Facility Engineer Training - An article on the key elements of Facility Engineer Training

Bank of America

HSBC Bank

True Sustainability: A Rubric for Evaluating Infrastructure Rating Systems and Resiliency - An Article on Rating Systems and Resiliency

Google

 

Yahoo

A Decision-Guided Energy Framework for Optimal Power, Heating, and Cooling Capacity Investment - A Co-written paper on Energy Investment

 

 

APPA Facilities Informatics Maturity Matrix Technical Report - A technical report where I am the primary author

Podcasts and Interviews:

CONEXPO-CON/AGG Radio – Episode 19

Code Talkers: Informatics Moving Forward - An article on the work above and the overall effort regarding Facility Informatics

Clarkson Ignite Podcast Interview

Yale Climate Connections Interview

Getting the Most out of APPA’s FPI Survey and Report Tool—And a Preview

of What’s to Come – An article regarding the applications of my research in facility informatics

 

 

Presentations/Videos:

Technology, Trends, and How to Not be Swept Away – A popular literature article on the impact on technology in construction.

Our Smart Campus: Where the Internet of Things Is Taking Us

Tearing Down the Great Wall of Data: the Promise of Facilities Informatics

Last Lecture to the Class of 2016

 

Mason West Campus Connector/Campus Drive

 

TIM Talk on Sustainability/Caring for Creation

 

Temple Talk on Stewardship at Hope Lutheran Church

 

 

 

 

Feel Free to drop in any time.