Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the United States 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 2 goes to Vivian Chong, a senior civil engineering student at UCLA. She talks about how the final quarter of
ASCE has honored Ares J. Rosakis, Ph.D., M.ASCE, NAE, with the 2020 Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention for his groundbreaking contributions to earthquake mechanics, specifically for inventing laboratory earthquakes, which have transformed our understanding of failure and damage processes in the earth and have proven central to infrastructure damage prevention. Rosakis has made pioneering contributions to our fundamental understanding of materials
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the United States 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 1 goes to Mike Paddock, a deputy director with Engineers Without Borders. Also the author of the ASCE News “Engineering
More companies across the civil engineering industry are implementing flatter management structures. Thus, the ability to influence others without relying on positional authority is an important skill for managers to learn. Outsourcing and virtual teams further challenge those tapped to lead projects. But how do you lead people whom you have no formal authority over? In this episode of “ASCE Interchange,” Carol Martsolf, vice president
ASCE presents nearly 100 Society awards every year, recognizing civil engineers who advance the profession either through achievement or published papers. The most recent Society awards are: • Peter J. Vickery, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Jack E. Cermak Medal • Burcu H. Akinci, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Computing in Civil Engineering Award • Brent Sherwood, A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Columbia Medal
The two most recent additions to ASCE’s National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks would seem to be polar opposites – one honoring a failure, the other an incredible success – yet the lessons each has taught the profession make them deserving landmarks. In December 1967, a bridge collapse so stunned the nation that it transformed the whole means of how bridges are inspected. The Silver Bridge
ASCE has honored David F. Garber, P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Surveying and Mapping Award for significant contributions to the advancement of the Surveying and Geomatics Division, including lengthy service as chair and in key leadership roles that led to the Division joining the Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute. Garber has practiced land surveying and civil engineering for over 40 years, and during that time
ASCE has honored the writing team of Ibrahim S. Abotaleb, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE, and Islam El-adaway, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, with the 2020 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for the paper “First Attempt Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Interdependent Rippled Impacts Associated With Out-of-Sequence Work in Construction Projects: System Dynamics Modeling Approach,” published in the September 2018 issue of Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. Out-of-sequence
ASCE has honored the writing team of Yan Liu, Ph.D., and Dan M. Frangopol, Sc.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for their paper “Utility and Information Analysis for Optimum Inspection of Fatigue-Sensitive Structures,” published in the February 2019 issue of the Journal of Structural Engineering. This paper makes a significant contribution to the design of an optimum decision-making framework that
ASCE has honored Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D., M.ASCE, with this year’s Peurifoy Construction Research Award for his groundbreaking research in construction automation, robotics, augmented reality, real-time monitoring and visual simulation, as well as for his significant impact on the construction engineering and management profession. Kamat’s record as a faculty member and as an exemplary leader in the ASCE Construction Institute’s professional activities has been exemplary.
