ABOUT THE AUTHOR
About The Author
Momcilo Savovic
Momcilo Savovic, known as Momo, built a 35-year career in engineering and construction by staying curious about how things work and how they could work better. He started in consulting engineering and moved through roles that included undergraduate and graduate teaching, infrastructure evaluation and assessment, project management, organizational facilitation, planning, design, and construction management. His work has taken him across the United States and to projects internationally, giving him perspective on how different places approach the same engineering challenges.
Momo is a Registered Professional Engineer in California, Washington, and Alberta, Canada. He earned board certification as an environmental engineer from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and certification as a Certified Construction Manager from the Construction Management Association of America. He speaks English, German, and Serbian fluently, skills that have helped him work on international projects and communicate across cultures. He has lived in San Marcos, California, since 2000 with his family and recently celebrated becoming a grandfather when his daughter married and relocated to Oklahoma City.
As Principal and CEO of S&A, Inc., a California-based infrastructure corporation, Momo manages projects while staying connected to education. Since 2014, he has taught part time at the New School of Architecture & Design in San Diego, focusing on Building Information Modeling and heavy civil construction. Teaching keeps him engaged with the next generation of engineers and forces him to explain concepts clearly rather than hide behind jargon.
His research focuses on AI applications in engineering, specifically how AI can improve construction processes. He has spent years studying how AI tools work, where they help, and where they fall short. Rather than viewing AI as a replacement for human expertise, he sees it as a tool that makes existing expertise more effective. His approach to teaching AI is practical: he shows students and professionals how to use these tools in real situations, not just in theory.
Momo writes and teaches because he believes people in construction, management, and education need to understand AI now, not later. The technology is already changing how projects are planned, managed, and built. His goal is to make that technology accessible to people who may not have computer science backgrounds but need to use AI tools effectively in their work. He mentors students and professionals, translating complex concepts into language that makes sense and showing applications that solve real problems rather than theoretical ones.