Career by Design: How I Found a Job During COVID-19
ASCE’s online community for younger civil engineers, Career by Design, gives you the tools, tips and resources you need to advance your career. Much of that is in real-life advice from young engineers.
Hala Abdo, EIT, A.M.ASCE, is a drainage and road engineer-in-training with FAM Construction LLC, working on the Transform 66 Outside the Beltway project...
It was a history-making week for ASCE with the Society’s first Virtual Technical Conference, Sept. 14-18.
The event, held entirely online, collected technical experts and speakers from different ASCE Institutes as well as the Aerospace Division.
“Great member value,” said ASCE President K.N. Gunalan, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE. “Going forward we should be able to bring the best each Institute has to offer in this setting...
The ASCE News Civil Engineering Roundtable showcases insights from a cross-section of ASCE members on a variety of industry topics.
Today’s roundtable draws from a recent ASCE Thursdays@3 webinar conversation, discussing the different ways the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of civil engineering leadership skills.
Question: Why are leadership skills more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Andrea DuMont
P.E., M.ASCE
Water resources engineer, Jacobs; industry blogger
“When...
K.N. Gunalan's year as ASCE president certainly has been unique among the annals of Society history. But Gunalan has guided the Society through the COVID-19 pandemic with strength and grace, and, as his presidential term winds down this fall, he shares this Member Voices article – a message of reassurance and resilience to civil engineering students around the world.
Hello!
I hope and trust that you’ve...
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 2: Transportation is a lot different in 2020 than it was in 2019, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The key question now is what changes wrought by the coronavirus will still be affecting transit systems next year and into the longer term?
Today's episode of ASCE Plot Points is devoted to answering those questions. A special expert panel, assembled by...
ASCE Plot Points Season 4 Episode 1: Work looks a little bit different these days.
Especially for those civil engineers who are balancing their jobs with their duties as parents, often working from home with their children one room over.
Kelly Farabee, Jesse Gormley, Rhonda Hurst, Tung Nguyen and Kate Osborn share their experiences juggling multiple roles this year during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the Changing the...
If the governor calls you at home on a Saturday night, you should probably pick up the phone.
Rhode Island civil engineering leader and longtime ASCE member Steven King did just that. In fact, you could say he answered the call both literally and figuratively.
King – assisted by his colleague and former ASCE Rhode Island Section president, Bill Young – led a drive this spring...
