Seeking Truth:

The Luminous Power of Serious Games & Simulations

Zofia Rybkowski

Dr. Zofia Rybkowski’s research experience includes Integrated Project Delivery, productivity analysis and lean construction, serious game and simulation development and testing, target value design, life cycle cost analysis, sustainable design, evidence-based design, and large- scale 3D-printing. She has extensive experience as a construction, architectural, and engineering researcher and consultant. She has consulted for firms in Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo and Hong Kong, and has offered Lean and Target Value Design workshops to such varied organizations as Penrose/St. Francis Healthcare and Walt Disney Imagineering. Dr. Rybkowski holds degrees in: Biology from Stanford (BS) and Brown Universities (MS); Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MArch); Civil Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Technology (MPhil); and Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (MS and PhD). Dr. Rybkowski teaches Lean-IPD to advanced construction science students at Texas A&M University. She is a Fellow at the Center for Health Systems and Design and at the Institute for Applied Creativity. She is also the recipient of the 2018 J.Thomas Regan Interdisciplinary Faculty Prize, and has been named a 2019 Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is a legacy LEED AP.