ASCE 2019 Past President Kristina Swallow, P.E., ENV SP, Pres.18.ASCE, has been appointed director of the Nevada Department of Transportation. In announcing the appointment, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak emphasized that Swallow’s distinguished career as a civil engineer and public servant made her the ideal choice to guide the state’s transportation infrastructure. “I’m looking forward to serving in this role,” Swallow said. “We have a really
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has been a staple of teacher training for decades, providing a guideline for working with young students. But what if you took the theory and applied it to what a community needs to reach its full potential? In a sense, that’s what civil engineers do every day. On today’s episode, we hear from Logan Johnson, the Neighborhood Development Project Management
Everything purposeful about the new United States Courthouse is right there in its shape. Resembling a floating, translucent cube, it might give the statement “see you in court” a whole new meaning. Meeting ambitious energy goals, matching function to form, and harnessing the strong sunlight of Southern California, the Courthouse, in downtown Los Angeles, has been honored by ASCE as a finalist for the 2019
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: • John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2020 Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture • Rao S. Govindaraju, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2019 Ven Te Chow Award • Barbara Ellen
If Board meetings had themes, this one would be “the future.” Early on the agenda for the recent ASCE Board of Direction meeting, held Jan. 24 in Orlando, FL, was the reveal of a new, future-focused name and logo for ASCE’s key educational initiative. Formerly known as “Raise the Bar,” the initiative is now entitled “Engineer Tomorrow: Knowledge for a Changing World.” The rebranding reflects
Her story begins in Nicaragua, but follow closely, because the plot moves all over the map from there. Madeley Arriola Guerrero, A.M.ASCE, an associate engineer for Chen Moore and Associates in West Palm Beach, FL, holds a remarkably world-wise perspective early in her career thanks to a decade of global education and engineering work. ASCE has honored her as a 2019 New Face of Civil
Salvador Bentolila has traveled the world, engineering and implementing water solutions. But it was a trip to Kenya last summer that really drove home the importance of his work. “I had read about and seen images of how communities in Kenya lived and knew about all their issues with water, but it really made an impact on me when I went there and saw it
So, what exactly do engineers do when they go to work each day? Andrea DuMont thought she knew. After all, she grew up in a family of engineers. She aced her math and science classes. President of the robotics club in high school. Good grades in college. Civil engineering major. And yet … “I grew up thinking I would just sit in a cubicle, do
It’s finals week at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Ashley Morales-Cartagena is working late again. Eight-hour days easily turn into 12-hour days. Tonight, it’s been more like 15. Which is fine. Morales-Cartagena always has time for her students. As the youngest female director of a civil engineering department in the Dominican Republic, she knows her position as a role
Monica Morales grew up in Reno, the daughter of parents who each work at casinos. So it was probably inevitable that her career path would come down to a game of chance. As a senior in high school, Morales was excited to be headed for college. The only question was what to study. Everything from medicine to fashion design was under consideration. Then one day,
