It was supposed to be a standard speech at her alma mater. No need for stress, certainly not intense personal exploration. Yet here Jazzy Quinabo was, digging deep, at a loss for the answer to this seemingly simple prompt: Why did you choose to be a civil engineer? Five years into her career, she should probably have a handle on such a basic question, right?
As a doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine, Alexandre Martinez was surrounded by data. Climate data from the past. Climate data for future projections. But one word kept haunting his research: “useful.” How could he make this data transcend a mere spreadsheet? How could he make this data useful? He talked it over with a colleague, Tina Korani, professor of new media at
It’s not every day you find a civil engineer whose lifelong passion is writing. Then again, Anali Martinez Gonzalez is not your everyday civil engineer. Martinez Gonzalez started “The Nueva Latina” lifestyle blog more than six years ago to share her experiences as a Latina civil engineer living and working in the United States. “I think what motivated me was the lack of our story
Imagine. It’s your senior year of high school. You’ve got a spot on the varsity basketball team. A winter awaits, full of buzzer-beaters and hardcourt heroics. But instead you give it up for … civil engineering? Tony Kulesa did just that, passing on basketball season during his senior year in favor of a job-shadowing opportunity at a civil engineering firm in nearby Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Luis Duque has made it all look easy – balancing his civil engineering career success with family (second baby on the way this summer) and community service. But don’t be fooled. It might appear easy now, but getting to this point was no easy journey. Flash back four years ago. Duque graduated from South Dakota State University. But with rent due and no civil engineering
Why replace a whole bridge when you can rehabilitate and recycle it instead? The Big Lift: Macdonald Bridge Superstructure Replacement, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been honored by ASCE as a 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Honor Award recipient. All 10 Honor Award projects will be showcased at ASCE’s 2020 OPAL Gala, March 13, in Washington, D.C., with two runners-up and the OCEA winner
Bayonne Bridge: Replacement of Main Span Roadway and Approach Structures has been honored by ASCE as a 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Honor Award recipient. All 10 Honor Award projects will be showcased at ASCE’s 2020 OPAL Gala, March 13, in Washington, D.C., with two runners-up and the OCEA winner announced at the event. The bridge connects Bayonne, New Jersey, with Staten Island, in New
ASCE has honored the writing team of Daniel Valero and Daniel Bung with the 2020 Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize for the paper “Vectrino Profiler Spatial Filtering for Shear Flows Based on the Mean Velocity Gradient Equation,” published in the July 2018 issue of Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. In this article, the authors provide a new method to filter ADV Vectrino profiler velocity estimations in
ASCE has honored the writing team of S. C. Chen; Y. T. Sheu; Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, Hon.D.WRE, F.EWRI, Dist.M.ASCE; Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE; and Jimmy Chih-Ming Kao, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Rudolph Hering Medal for the paper “Application of Microbial Transformation to Remediate Hg-Contaminated Water: Strain Isolation and Laboratory Microcosm Study,” published in the July
