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 15 reaches out to Gabrielle Grompone, incoming chair of the ASCE Construction Institute’s Young Professionals Council and a project engineer at J....
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 12 brings us to New Jersey by way of Seattle and Louisville. Sophie Lipomanis, one of ASCE's inaugural class of student ambassadors,...
SEEMINGLY in the blink of an eye the unimaginable occurred in the United States in March: Hospitals became overwhelmed, medical supplies went scarce, grocery shelves went bare, and airports turned into ghost towns. In addition, the market crashed, and public panic set in. Like a whipsaw, a domino effect of closures began grinding the U.S. and global economies to a halt, impacting every facet...
ASCE’s Civil Engineering magazine published the feature article “Best Places for Civil Engineers 2020,” which appears in the April issue, before the widespread outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequently declared pandemic in the United States. Since then, the health and safety of civil engineers and their families; the conditions at engineering firm offices, public agencies, and jobsites; and the overall market for civil works...
ASCE has honored Clifford J. Schexnayder, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Construction Management Award for innovation and research aimed at improving construction around the globe.
Schexnayder is an international construction equipment, methods and techniques authority. He has blended a career of practical heavy construction knowledge with academic teaching and research. A registered professional engineer in five states, Schexnayder has extensive military engineering experience, having...
Douglas D. Gransberg, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, founder and president of Active Continuing Education Systems LLC, and a consultant and academic, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Gransberg has made significant contributions to civil, military and construction engineering as well as construction engineering education and research over his 45-year career.
As president of Gransberg & Associates Inc., a construction management / project...
Ted Craddock, P.E., M.ASCE, acting deputy director of the State Water Project with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), and recent project manager for the emergency recovery of the spillways at the nation’s tallest dam, has been honored by ASCE as the 2020 Outstanding Projects And Leaders award winner in construction.
The ASCE OPAL awards honor outstanding civil engineering leaders for their lifetime accomplishments....
Biman Gati Gupta, Ph.D., C.Eng., F.ASCE, a civil engineer who has over 38 years in industrial design, construction and consultancy services and six more in research, publication and academic activity, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Gupta’s experience with construction of mega-thermal power plants began when he was made a senior engineer with the National Thermal Power Corporation and with...
John Gambatese, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Gambatese has worked in industry as a structural engineer in San Francisco and as a project engineer for a construction management firm in Seattle. He started his current position at OSU in 2000 following three...
Life comes at you fast after graduation.
Fortunately, ASCE’s Construction Institute Student Days program helps prepare aspiring construction engineers for that transition.
The annual five-day event – held this year in late July in Arlington, Virginia – combines competition with networking, advice from professionals and real-world experience.
“It honestly was a big highlight of my college career and it really tested what I knew of construction so...
