Mariah Peart’s career in civil engineering has been a little bit like building a house. And, listen, we’re not employing metaphor here to create some kind of literary effect. It’s the literal truth. Peart’s parents’ desire to design and build their own house goes back a decade. Middle-school aged Mariah, growing up in Brunswick, GA, took note. “I loved to look at home design books
Siddhartha Roy came to the United States in 2012 for a graduate degree that would put him in position to someday use civil engineering to, as he put it, “reduce avoidable human suffering and help people.” Little did he know just how soon that “someday” would turn out to be. As a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Roy joined a team of researchers led by
Life for Garit Poire falls into two boxes. There are the days before Nov. 16, 2014, and those that have followed. And that day in the middle, the line of demarcation? On Nov. 16, 2014, Garit, then a civil engineering student at Florida State University, was visiting Atlanta for his mom’s birthday. He didn’t feel well. He thought perhaps he’d accidentally eaten some gluten and
It’s a telling character trait. Some people run away from problems. Others seek out problems so that they can help solve them. When it comes to climate change, Paul Lee falls definitively into the latter category. “In college, I really wanted to do sustainability. And it was around the time that climate change issues were starting to become a big deal, and people were feeling
Jose Aguilar had an idea. A transportation engineer at Psomas in Tucson, AZ, he wanted to inspire the students in his hometown with a civil-engineering competition similar to the STEM activities and competitions that he loved when he was a teenager. It was a nice idea, a good idea. But for the time being, just a concept. And this is where most people usually stop
It’s been almost two years since Dream Big: Engineering Our World began amazing kids and adults alike on big screens at museums and theaters across the world. Since then, the film – presented by Bechtel and produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with ASCE – has enjoyed quite a ride of success, smashing attendance goals, scoring big with critics, inspiring ASCE outreach events all
Every year, ASCE honors its New Faces of Civil Engineering – 10 college students and 10 young professionals whose early-career accomplishments mark them as the profession’s future stars. The 2019 class of professionals includes a remarkable range of talents and accomplishments, particularly from engineers who are still just 30 and younger. Self-starting, globetrotting, groundbreaking, risk-taking, world-saving … you name it, they’re doing it. Here are
It being Valentine’s Day week, it seemed like a good time to find out how civil engineering won your heart. In today’s ASCE Plot Points, we hear Origin Stories of true love from five civil engineers: Molly Bennett, a senior staff engineer for the City of Cheyenne, WY (2:24); Sam Hovde, a civil engineering student at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (4:44); Elyssa Dixon, an environmental
This is a question that I get from civil engineering students almost daily. Should they seek full-time employment immediately after completing their undergraduate studies or pursue a master’s degree? Let me preface my answer with two statements. First, graduate school and professional engineering licensure are invaluable tools for any civil engineer – as noted in ASCE’s Engineer Tomorrow initiative – but, as with any career, it’s more
What if you could build a bridge that could not just stand up to an earthquake but flex back into shape after the shaking stopped? That’s the promise of a new bridge in Seattle, Washington, built with the help of new super-elastic materials. It represents a seismic step forward in bridge construction. The SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement South Access–Northbound Off-Ramp has been honored
