You never know where life will take you.
And that uncertainty seems to only multiply when you’re a civil engineer.
The possibilities are infinite. Ask Pete Loucks.
Loucks remembers once taking a systems analysis assignment through UNESCO, evaluating the financial viability of different water delivery options in Libya. The next thing he knew he was wielding a racquet on the squash courts of Benghazi, hoping to parlay...
Earth is the foundation upon which civil engineers build thriving communities, improving the quality of life for people everywhere.
April 22 marks Earth Day, the world’s largest environmental campaign, celebrated in more than 193 countries. Millions around the globe give a voice to environmental issues and remind us that we too must do our part.
Civil engineers are entrusted to harmonize the built and natural environments...
Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a civil and environmental engineer specializing in water quality and the processes that affect contaminant fate and transport, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Solo-Gabriele is a professor at the University of Miami College of Engineering (UM CoE) in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, where she has served as faculty member...
Auroop Ratan Ganguly, Ph.D., F.ASCE, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Ganguly has 20+ years of professional experience spanning academia, government, and private sector in the U.S. He also has affiliate professor positions in Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Science, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Political Science, Public Policy and...
ASCE has honored James L. Fouss, Ph.D, P.E., D.WRE (Ret.), M.ASCE, with the 2019 Royce J. Tipton Award for significant contributions to the advancement of agricultural drainage and water management through research, technology transfer, and service.
Fouss had a distinguished 46-year career with USDA-ARS as an agricultural engineer and research leader, retiring in 2011.
He is recognized as a world leader in agricultural drainage. From 1960...
ASCE has honored Heidi M. Nepf, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award for fundamental contributions to environmental fluid mechanics and her world-renowned work on the impact of vegetation on flow, transport in rivers, wetlands, lakes, and coastal zones, and her efforts toward public education in science and the mentoring of students and young researchers.
Nepf’s contributions to hydraulic education at undergraduate,...
ASCE has honored the writing team of David W. Spelman, Ph.D., EI, A.M.ASCE, and John J. Sansalone, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Rudolph Hering Medal for the paper “Is the Treatment Response of Manufactured BMPs to Urban Drainage PM Loads Portable?” published in the April 2018 issue of the Journal of Environmental Engineering.
Hydrodynamic separators (HS) and basins/tanks such as rectangular clarifiers (RC), as...
Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, F.ASCE, an associate professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Mississippi State University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Gude has over 18 years of academic, industry, and research experience in the environmental engineering field, including six years with Du Pont Singapore and a startup company in Seattle....
Deborah H. Lee, P.E., P.H., D.WRE, F.ASCE, SES, director of NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
As director of GLERL, and a member of the federal Senior Executive Service, Lee serves as the laboratory’s leader, providing guidance through conceptual development, implementation, and management of integrated, interdisciplinary scientific research and communications programs.
With a staff...
Infrastructure is good. Sustainable infrastructure is better.
Rapid urbanization is a growing reality in infrastructure development. According to the Global Environment Facility, it’s estimated that more than two billion additional people will be living in cities by 2050. The need for sustainable infrastructure is more critical than ever.
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, an organization cofounded by ASCE in 2011, has made it easier for civil...
