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...
Even if your job or role at work isn't explicitly to consider big-picture planning, it's still probably a good idea to stay aware of a larger context beyond just your desk.
We're here to help you improve your big-picture thinking skills by asking civil engineering leaders how they manage the big picture in their work.
Today, we talk with Roger Millar, the secretary of transportation for...
Effective communication is more essential to civil engineering than ever.
The great irony, one you've likely recognized, is that as technology and social media make communicating with other people easier than ever, the ability to truly connect with someone only gets more difficult.
Jaffer Almosawy, a civil engineer for GCW Inc. in Las Vegas and a 2018 ASCE New Face of Civil Engineering, navigates the...
When you were a little kid, everybody asked you, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
And your answer truly could be whatever you wanted it to be. Baseball player? Sure. Firefighter? Yep. Ballerina. Why not?
The more ambitious your dream, the more creative your hopes, the better.
So now that you're an adult, why stop approaching your career with the same dream-chasing wonder?
Today,...
At its core, civil engineering is a service-driven profession.
So it shouldn't be surprising that so many young civil engineers enter the profession motivated to help their communities, near and far.
On today's episode of ASCE Plot Points, we look at that culture of kindness. The executive director of Engineering Without Borders USA, Cathy Leslie, talks about her work, about EWB-USA, and what she sees in...
It's the perfect New Year's resolution.
It improves your physical fitness. Saves you money. Helps the environment.
What activity could do all of these things?
Riding your bike more often, of course.
Jeremy Chrzan can help. He's the multimodal design practice lead for the Toole Design Group in Silver Spring, MD, and on today's episode of ASCE Plot Points, he talks about his work connecting the community to the...
Pull out your career roadmap and you probably won't see very many straight lines. Most people's paths go up and down and back around.
And that's OK. It's to be expected.
On today's episode of ASCE Plot Points, Reza Sheykhi walks us through his career journey from Iran to Miami, Florida, where he is Florida International University's strategy manager and an active member of ASCE's Miami-Dade...
Humans have long had a love-fear relationship with technology.
Building information modeling revolutionary David Odeh, an ASCE Technical Region Director, says forget the fear and focus on all that technology can do to help you find civil engineering solutions (2:46).
In Civil Engineers Are Not Boring, we meet Assunta Daprano, whose passion for railroads is both a hobby and a career (13:03).
In Member Memos, David Gamez,...
Visualize life as an infinite circle of giving. Someone does something nice for you? Do something nice for someone else, and pay it forward.
On today's episode of ASCE Plot Points, we meet civil engineers who have taken this philosophy to heart.
Jose Aguilar, who works for Psomas in Tucson, AZ, talks about how he made his idea for an inspiring student competition a reality (2:01).
In...
It's been 15 months since Hurricane Harvey pelted Southeastern Texas with historic levels of rain.
The resilience efforts continue, led by civil engineers like Carol Haddock.
Haddock, the director of public works in Houston, gives us an update on the progress made in her hometown since Harvey .
In this week's Changing the World segment, University of Central Florida student Zachary Loeb talks about how his love...
