Patrick Borges Rodrigues

Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Education
Ph.D.; University of Southern California (USC); Civil Engineering; 2025
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Advanced Design and Construction Technologies (ADCT); University of Southern California (USC); Civil Engineering, Advanced Design and Construction Technologies (ADCT); 2024
M.Sc. in Computer Science; University of Southern California (USC); Computer Science; 2024
M.Sc. in Construction Management; State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF); Construction Management; 2020
B.S.; State University of Santa Cruz (UESC); Civil Engineering; 2018
Non-Matriculated Undergraduate ; Syracuse University (SU); Civil Engineering; 2016
Office Hours
Tuesdays 11 am - 12 pm
2026 Fall Courses
CE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CE 414 - ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTION
Past Courses
CE 414: ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTION
CE 485: ST: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
CE 702: ST: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
Conference Proceeding
"Design of a Sensory-Enhanced Workstation Prototype with a Multimodal Interface for Teleoperated Demolition"
August, 2026.
"Teleoperation Interfaces for Compact Demolition Robots: Results of a Pilot Study with Construction Workers"
European Council for Computing in Construction, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2026.
"Virtual Environment for Studying the Effects of Operational and Environmental Sounds on Teleoperated Demolition"
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2024.
"Semi-Automatic Pipe Network Reconstruction Using Point Cloud Data"
March, 2022.
"BIM implementation and training: the experience of the physical plant at the State University of Santa Cruz, Brazil"
Academic Interoperability Coalition, Inc, March, 2021.
"Flipping the classroom: the application of the circuit as an objective evaluation action in Foundation Design"
Gráfica UFG, March, 2019.
Journal Article
Patrick Borges Rodrigues, Gale M. Lucas, Yiyang Fang, Zihao Wang, Shawn C. Roll, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Lucio Soibelman. 2025. "Understanding Operators’ Sensory Needs for Human–Robot Interaction in Teleoperated Demolition." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, vol. 151, no. 12.
Zihao Wang, Patrick Borges Rodrigues, Yiyang Fang, Lucio Soibelman, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Shawn C. Roll, Gale M Lucas. 2025. "Understanding Potential Challenges in Demolition Robot Teleoperation to Inform Interface Design: Insights from Industry Professionals." CIB Conferences, vol. 1, no. 1.
Patrick Borges Rodrigues, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Lucio Soibelman, Gale M. Lucas, Shawn C. Roll. 2025. "Impact of selective environmental sound attenuation on operator performance, stress, attention, and task engagement in teleoperated demolition." Automation in Construction, vol. 169, pp. 105876.
Patrick Borges Rodrigues, Rashmi Singh, Mert Oytun, Pooya Adami, Peter J. Woods, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Lucio Soibelman, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Gale M. Lucas. 2023. "A multidimensional taxonomy for human-robot interaction in construction." Automation in Construction, vol. 150, pp. 104845.
Pooya Adami, Rashmi Singh, Patrick Borges Rodrigues, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Lucio Soibelman, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Gale Lucas. 2023. "Participants matter: Effectiveness of VR-based training on the knowledge, trust in the robot, and self-efficacy of construction workers and university students." Advanced Engineering Informatics, vol. 55, pp. 101837.
Pooya Adami, Patrick Borges Rodrigues, Peter J. Woods, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Lucio Soibelman, Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Gale Lucas. 2022. "Impact of VR-Based Training on Human–Robot Interaction for Remote Operating Construction Robots." Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, vol. 36, no. 3.
Conference Paper
"Determinação dos tempos de retorno associados a eventos de precipitações mínimas extremas em Ilhéus-BA "
Associação Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2019.