ASCE PLOT POINTS SEASON 4 EPISODE 11
Wanting to help save the world is an admirable goal. Figuring out just how you can plug that mission into your career path is the first step.
Marjorie Bedessem is a senior engineer for Tri Hydro and the vice-president of ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute. And she's excellent case study in navigating different career tracks to maximize her...
After examining each of its 12 districts in terms of their vulnerabilities to climate change, the California Department of Transportation is looking to integrate the findings into its long-range efforts to address the anticipated effects of extreme weather on its state highway system. In July, Caltrans announced it had wrapped up the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Reports for District 1 (Eureka) and District 5...
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 8: Are civil engineers doing enough to combat climate change?
It's a simple question with a complicated answer.
Or maybe it's a complicated question with a simple answer.
Either way, Emily Grubert, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, makes sense of the chaos on today's episode.
And our ASCE Student Ambassadors play guest DJ,...
Kate Simonen favors a metaphor about the moon when she talks about her work as director of the Carbon Leadership Forum. It goes something like “If you want to land on the moon, there’s no sense in aiming halfway.”
It’s an apt comparison, because her organization’s goal of decarbonizing the built environment is certainly universal in its scope. And the CLF is not aiming halfway...
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 23 begins a mini-series within the series, reaching out to three young engineers working in the Los Angeles area. Today we talk...
ASCE has honored Constantine Samaras, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Harland Bartholomew Award for contributions to urban infrastructure resiliency design and alternative fueled, automated and connect vehicle planning.
Samaras has made substantive contributions to three areas of critical importance for urban planning and development in the civil engineering domain:
Systems and infrastructure impacts of the transition to autonomous vehicles.
Transition to low-carbon energy systems.
Civil...
As a doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine, Alexandre Martinez was surrounded by data.
Climate data from the past. Climate data for future projections.
But one word kept haunting his research: “useful.”
How could he make this data transcend a mere spreadsheet? How could he make this data useful?
He talked it over with a colleague, Tina Korani, professor of new media at San Jose State...
