Every summer, ASCE highlights “beach reads” for civil engineers to take on vacation with them. But with the coronavirus pandemic altering how the world works, it seemed useful to put together a similar list this spring – if not to enjoy at the beach, reading material for the civil engineer who is isolating at home, staying healthy and seeking to stay informed. Here are seven
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 26 considers the ongoing ASCE work (even during a pandemic) to grade America’s infrastructure. Jacob Forrester talks about his work chairing
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 25 closes our mini-series talking with young civil engineers working in Los Angeles. Mario Martinez is a field engineer for the
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 24 continues our City of Dreams mini-series, talking to three young civil engineers working in Los Angeles. Jeena Jayamon is a
In civil engineering design, sustainability is too important to merely be implied or suggested. So, ASCE’s Committee on Sustainability is creating a performance-based, life-cycle sustainable infrastructure standard. The committee’s Standards Executive Committee has been developing “Standard Requirements for Sustainable Infrastructure” for nearly a year, aiming to have an innovative and essential industry standard ready for use in 2021. “As we move toward a civil engineering
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 23 begins a mini-series within the series, reaching out to three young engineers working in the Los Angeles area. Today we
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 22 goes to David Totman, past-president of ASCE’s Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute. He’s the vice president of asset management for
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 21 goes to Joe DiPompeo, president-elect of ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute. DiPompeo founded Structural Workshop LLC in 2004 – a structural
ASCE has honored Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Ph.D., NAE, with the 2020 Theodore von Karman Medal for his lasting scientific contributions to diverse fluid dynamical topics, from cryogenics to solar convection, especially the dynamics and mixing of turbulence in laboratory, computational and terrestrial flows, and his vast impact on scholarship, scientific development and education in many countries. Sreenivasan has contributed profusely to the fundamental understanding of
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession. Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Community Call 20 goes to Chicago, where Adam Blumstein is a staff civil engineer for Burns & McDonnell. He and his team have
