New year, new Board, new energy.
The ASCE Board of Direction convened its first quarterly meeting of the year, Jan. 11, in Las Vegas, with a renewed emphasis on communication and collaboration that will inform future decisions.
“We took the opportunity to bring in different groups, different stakeholders to have some different conversations,” said 2018 ASCE President Kristina Swallow. “I think doing that gave the Board...
The heavy lifting of 2017 will make for a much lighter load in 2018.
That’s the hope, as the ASCE Board of Direction approved six goal statements for the Society during its final quarterly meeting of the year, Oct. 7-8, in New Orleans.
“When we go out to the public, we can say this is what we do. This is what ASCE does. This is what...
The picture is starting to come into focus.
The ASCE Board of Direction spent a good portion of its quarterly meeting, July 28-29 in Baltimore, honing its strategic plan, a process that began in January with vision, goals, and measurables set to coalesce at the October meeting.
The Board broke into focus groups to discuss and refine six goal statements. They then ranked several potential strategies...
The ASCE Board of Direction voted unanimously at its July meeting to adopt new language in the Society’s Code of Ethics that expresses a professional obligation to provide fair and equal treatment for all.
The ASCE Code of Ethics, adopted in 1914, lays out the model for professional conduct for ASCE members. The newly adopted canon – Canon 8 in the Code of Ethics –...
Sustainability extends beyond infrastructure. The concept also applies to ASCE as an organization, as the Society pursues enhanced benefits and opportunities aimed to attract and empower more students and young professionals.
To that end, ASCE’s Board of Direction voted to approve the desired outcomes for a strategy roadmap for student transition and Younger Member retention at its quarterly meeting, March 17-18, in Arlington, VA.
Attracting, retaining,...
With diversity a key theme at the ASCE 2016 Convention in Portland, OR, it was fitting that the Board of Direction meeting, at the outset of Convention week, welcomed the most diverse Board in Society history.
The Board’s fall meeting marked the final gathering of the outgoing 2016 members whose terms expire this year, and an unofficial first meeting of incoming 2017 Board members who...
The ASCE Board of Direction has endorsed updated strategies to improve the state of America’s infrastructure, transform the profession so that civil infrastructure is more sustainable, and reduce the life-cycle cost of infrastructure by 50 percent by 2025 and foster the optimization of infrastructure investments for society.
At its July 8-9 meeting in San Diego, the Board held strategic discussions on the Society’s Sustainable Infrastructure...
One of ASCE’s longest tenured members has died, a professional who continued giving of his engineering abilities to projects in Alabama long after retirement.
Richard Shaul Woodruff, who joined ASCE in 1937 as a student at the University of Alabama College of Engineering, died in Birmingham at the age of 103.
He achieved ASCE Life Member status in 1978, before the oldest of today’s Younger Members...
