Why civil engineering students should make things

The benefit of making things for younger children in STEM education has been widely supported. But what about the civil engineering students in college-level courses?

Latest news

Annual Construction Institute Student Days presents real-world challenges, opportunities

For the first time, the annual Construction Institute’s CI Student Days heavy civil engineering team challenge was held as an online event this summer. The real-world lessons and opportunities afforded by the competition, however, remained the same.

ASCE members celebrate Senate infrastructure bill as ‘giant leap forward’

ASCE’s long-term advocacy efforts scored a huge victory this week when the Senate passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill in a 69-30 bipartisan vote.

Steel bridge returns to roster of ASCE student competitions

ASCE has renewed its partnership with the American Institute of Steel Construction for the student steel bridge competition, starting with the 2021-2022 school year.

5 things you didn’t know about the Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Pennsylvania Turnpike was designated an ASCE landmark in 1988.
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Obituaries

Texas Section Leader, Dedicated Corpus Christi Engineer Wuensche Dies

Vernon Allen Wuensche, 66, active in the Texas Section and its Corpus Christi Branch, and a project designer for the city for more than...

Nationally Acclaimed Hydrologist, Distinguished Member Mariño Dies

Distinguished Member Miguel A. Mariño, U.S. representative to the International Association of Hydrological Sciences from 2003 through 2008 and a prolific groundwater hydrology researcher,...

Distinguished Member Whose Projects Enhanced Texas Dies at 92

James Richard “Jim” Nichols, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, longtime leader of the Freese and Nichols consulting firm in Fort Worth, TX, has died at 92. Nichols joined...

Texas water resources engineer dies at 61

Michael Joseph Dellies, director of water resources at Teague Nall and Perkins Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas, has died. He was 61.

Awards

Society Honors Heidi Nepf With Rouse

ASCE has honored Heidi M. Nepf, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award for fundamental contributions to environmental fluid mechanics and...

Moffatt-Nichol Award given to Yeh

ASCE has honored Harry Hsiu-Jen Yeh, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2021 John G. Moffatt–Frank E. Nichol Harbor and Coastal Engineering Award for broad and interdisciplinary laboratory knowledge of coastal effects of tsunami to the general public.

Pecori Honored With OPAL Award in Management

Sergio A. Pecori, P.E., F.ASCE, chairman and CEO of Hanson Professional Services Inc., has been honored by ASCE as the 2020 Outstanding Projects And...

Spelman and Sansalone Earn Hering Medal

ASCE has honored the writing team of David W. Spelman, Ph.D., EI, A.M.ASCE, and John J. Sansalone, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Rudolph...

New Fellows

Miami Research Leader and Faculty Now Fellow

Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a civil and environmental engineer specializing in water quality and the processes that affect contaminant fate and transport,...

Society welcomes Tripp as new fellow

Russell E. Tripp, P.E., F.ASCE, senior aviation engineer at CH2M Hill (now part of Jacobs), has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.

Researcher, Organizer Elseifi Now Fellow

Mostafa Elseifi, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Louisiana State University, has been named a Fellow...

WSSC’s La Plante Tabbed as Fellow

Rosanna La Plante, P.E., F.ASCE, a division manager with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC), Regulatory Services Division, has been named a Fellow by...

ASCE student conferences, competitions embrace the virtual

Yes, the ASCE student conferences are a little different this spring, but they're succeeding in the new virtual format.