Natural disasters threaten civil engineers’ duty to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. So how can engineers safeguard infrastructure and protect communities from these crises
How can you model extreme events and predict them before they happen? One of the world’s foremost experts in probabilistic mechanics and stochastic mechanics plans to show you at the upcoming Engineering Mechanics Institute conference
Reuben Hull’s Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the week when the final link in the Baltimore Beltway is completed with the opening of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Peter C. Ten Kate, P.E., F.ASCE, vice president of Municipal Engineering Services for Boswell Engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction
Joe Grubbs, P.E., F.ASCE, senior professional associate at HDR and a civil engineer with over 30 years’ experience in airfield design, construction, and construction management, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction
Gusset plates connect weight-bearing beams and girders to columns on bridges, buildings and other structures. To minimize failure of this important connection, the connections to the beam and column must be stronger than the braces themselves
ASCE has honored Hai Yang, Ph.D., C.Eng, M.ASCE, with the Francis C. Turner Award for leadership in the fields of transportation network modeling and transportation economics, and for his extraordinary record in both research and mentoring
Dan D. Koo, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, associate professor, interim director of Construction Management, and founding director of the Smart Infrastructure Laboratory in the Purdue School of Engineering Technology at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction
