Life for Garit Poire falls into two boxes. There are the days before Nov. 16, 2014, and those that have followed.
And that day in the middle, the line of demarcation?
On Nov. 16, 2014, Garit, then a civil engineering student at Florida State University, was visiting Atlanta for his mom’s birthday. He didn’t feel well. He thought perhaps he’d accidentally eaten some gluten and triggered...
It’s been almost two years since Dream Big: Engineering Our World began amazing kids and adults alike on big screens at museums and theaters across the world.
Since then, the film – presented by Bechtel and produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with ASCE – has enjoyed quite a ride of success, smashing attendance goals, scoring big with critics, inspiring ASCE outreach events all...
It was an exciting ASCE 2018.
From the year’s first Multi-Region Leadership Conference in Las Vegas in January to the ASCE 2018 Convention in Denver in October, Society members bonded and worked together to help lead the civil engineering industry forward.
Dream Big went from the big screen to the classroom.
Kristina Swallow inspired civil engineers all over the globe as ASCE president.
Here’s a look at some...
Alexa Ducioame was one of only two women in most of her civil engineering classes in college.
She’s working now to make sure that the women of future generations don’t find themselves in the same position.
“We have an informal women engineers group here. I think we all realize it’s important,” said Ducioame, a project engineer for Moore Engineering, Inc. in West Fargo, ND.
“We want to...
Being a role model wasn’t really a choice for Aziza Amiri. It was a job she was born into.
“I have so many little cousins, I’ve lost count,” Amiri laughed. “I’m one of almost 20 grandchildren, and I’m the oldest, so I’ve always been around young kids my entire life.”
Amiri isn’t complaining. She loves serving as a role model – for both her family and...
From putting civil engineering on IMAX screens around the world to sending home a report card grading America’s infrastructure, ASCE had a big year.
This week, ASCE News is taking a look back at 2017, highlighting the members and moments that made the year memorable.
Here is a look at the Society's year through the most quotable of quotes.
On Dream Big: Engineering Our World:
"I don’t know...
From putting civil engineering on IMAX screens around the world to sending home a report card grading America's infrastructure, ASCE had a big year.
This week, ASCE News is taking a look back at 2017, highlighting the members and moments that made the year memorable.
We begin with a look through the lens of social media. Here is the story of ASCE's 2017 told in 17...
It was near the end of the evening. Near the end of the film’s second screening.
As the long, glorious night that was the world premiere of Dream Big: Engineering Our World at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, wound down, at the base of the theater – hidden in darkness just out of the audience’s sight – Avery Bang and...
