Casie Venable had a simple wish as a kid.
She wanted to help people.
She didn’t know what form that would take. She couldn’t know how her life would play out. But she did know she wanted to make a positive contribution to the lives of others.
Ten years later, she’s stayed remarkably true to that instinct.
Venable has made several service trips around the world and is...
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...
It was just after midnight. Guillermo Díaz-Fañas, 14, awoke to a buzzing in his ears.
He sat up and looked around. Surely, this was some kind of dream. The walls appeared to bend; everything was shaking. His immediate thought was of protecting his 12-year-old brother.
“All I could think was, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’” Díaz-Fañas remembered. “I sheltered him with my...
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...
Each year, ASCE recognizes 10 remarkable college students – young engineers in training whose early achievements mark them for greatness as professionals and point toward an optimistic future for civil engineering.
Here is the class of 2018 ASCE New Faces of Civil Engineering – College:
• Kofi Afriyie, Civil Engineering major, Morgan State University
• Danielle Berman, Civil Engineering major, Penn State University
• Eric Bianchi, Civil and...
It’s an ASCE tradition. As the calendar turns to the new year, ASCE identifies an exceptional group of rising talents as the New Faces of Civil Engineering, shining spotlights on 10 outstanding young professionals and 10 college students who exemplify the future of the profession.
Here are the 10 young professionals named New Faces for 2018:
• Jaffer Almosawy, ENV SP, EIT, EI, A.M.ASCE, Engineering Intern...
Annually since 2003, the ASCE New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional program has selected a group of civil engineers under 30 already accomplishing great things. These civil engineers don’t excel in merely one aspect of their job or one area of life. They are the best and brightest in virtually everything they do.
A look at the New Faces of past years reveals what...
Some people take an evening walk to clear their minds. Zheng Yang does the opposite.
He goes for a stroll to fill his mind with ideas.
“When I walk along the streets of big cities and I see those high-rise buildings around me, I think of how much data I can collect from them and how much energy I can save for them” Yang said.
“I know...
Good luck finding Don Nguyen at home.
The junior bridge engineer for COWI in Seattle works all day and volunteers all night.
“I’m surprised if there’s a week where I don’t have any events, but it’s fun,” Nguyen said. “It’s not like I feel obligated. I think I’ve always been someone who wanted to be involved in the community.”
Nguyen, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE, has been selected...
It was not your typical freshman realization.
“I really miss calculus,” Natalie Mills told her advisor.
Mills, an 18-year-old from Winter Park, FL, was pursuing her lifelong dream to be on Broadway, studying theater at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts when pesky little civil engineering intervened.
“I realized that my whole life I loved math and science classes and used art and performing...
