Elected by ASCE members in May, 2021 President-Elect Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE, will assume his duties in October. Truax has spent four decades on the civil engineering faculty at Mississippi State University. Since 2006, he’s served as the James T. White Endowed Chair and Department Head.
And, as has become tradition, ASCE News greeted the incoming president-elect with a series...
Dennis D. Truax has been elected ASCE’s 2021 president-elect by a majority of Society members.
Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE, has spent four decades on the civil engineering faculty at Mississippi State University. Since 2006, he’s served as the James T. White Endowed Chair and Department Head.
He has also worked as a consulting engineer or managing principal of several firms. In addition, he...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Plus an extra three.
Community Call 33 closes the series, and fittingly it features ASCE President K.N. "Guna" Gunalan. The president discusses his philosophical...
The election for the 2021 ASCE President-Elect and Society Directors and Region Governors opens Friday, May 1, with votes accepted through 6 p.m. EDT, June 1.
The membership will also vote on amendments to the Society’s Constitution, including an amendment to give Affiliate Members the right to vote. The proposed amendments are available to review here.
Members at the grade of Associate and above are eligible...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.
Community Call 16 goes to Region 10 Director Elias Boutros Sayah. Based in the United Arab Emirates, he was visiting the United States in...
OVER CENTURIES, natural disasters have brought people together. When Hurricane Michael battered the Gulf Coast in 2018, first responders and local organizations across the United States rallied in support of those affected. When wildfires recently raged through Australia, more than 3,700 firefighters from around the world rushed to help battle the flames. It’s in these moments that humanity comes together as one. But when...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the United States to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.
Community Call 4 goes to Robin Kemper, ASCE's past president, living and working in New Jersey, one of the country's hardest hit coronavirus...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the United States to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.
Community Call 3 goes to Tony Cioffi, whose work as assistant resident engineer for the Kew Gardens Interchange Phase 4 project in New...
There will be more votes to count and boxes to check in the coming year, but the move toward allowing student members to vote in ASCE elections has begun.
The Board of Direction, at its quarterly meeting March 14-15 in Washington, D.C. (with some directors attending virtually because of the coronavirus), voted to approve a recommendation that the Governing Documents Committee prepare an amendment to the...
The ASCE Board of Direction has given its input; now it’s time for Society membership to have its say – and vote.
The Board discussed, edited and voted to approve a second reading of a series of ASCE Constitutional amendments at its quarterly meeting, Jan. 9 in Detroit.
The Constitutional changes, first proposed by the Governing Documents Committee last fall, include:
• Giving Affiliate members the right...
