James Kaklamanos knows how important his role as a civil engineering educator is because it wasn’t so long ago that he was a civil engineering student.
“Absolutely, if it weren’t for some of the professors whom I had the privilege of learning from, I don’t think I would’ve pursued engineering in the first place,” said Kaklamanos, who is in his fifth year as an assistant...
Sabrina Rivera has a question for you.
Do you know where your water comes from?
“I can talk to students and intelligent people, and the common thread to the responses is that people just don’t know,” Rivera said. “But it’s not something you learn in school. That’s something I want to push more in the future, teaching people that there is this complex net of pipes...
In no way is Muhammad Elgammal a civil engineering outsider.
He hails from a family of engineers (five to be exact). He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
But Elgammal has also made a conscious effort to develop and maintain an outsider’s perspective to his work.
“I think that’s what’s made me an effective communicator,” Elgammal said. “I’ve...
Not yet 30 years old, Marilisa Stigliano is already a leader among leaders.
A project controls manager for AECOM in New York City, Stigliano devotes time each week as lead of a team of deputy project managers that advises project managers around the metropolitan area.
“It’s been an incredible experience for me,” said Stigliano. “I love being a mentor for the deputy project managers.”
“It’s incredible how...
Jonathan Brower’s official title with the ASCE Texas Section’s Dallas Branch is Civil Engineering Club Champion – emphasis on “champion.”
Brower has been mentoring students and scheduling an array of civil engineering lectures at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas since 2013. That’s nearly four years of service for juniors and seniors in the civil engineering and architectural design classes.
Almost every Friday. For four years....
Not many civil engineers have an apprenticeship like this one.
Erica Mullen, known to everyone in her life as Sunny, spent much of her childhood in the gym, honing her gymnastics skills on the balance beam and tumbling mat. She went on to earn All-American honors at Rutgers University, after placing third on the uneven bars at the 2010 USA Gymnastics Nationals.
All the while –...
They say no one knows you like you do. Chad Norvell’s career validates the cliche.
He began college studying architecture, and he enjoyed it, but he couldn’t help feeling that his true talents lay elsewhere.
“I was interested in the details and the mechanics that made structures work,” Norvell said. “I wanted to do work that produced something physical and tangible.”
He switched majors to civil engineering, and...
Their high-rise building started shaking around 3 a.m.
“We woke up, and I remember my mom pulling us out of the apartment,” said Menzer Pehlivan. “And I’m 13 years old, so I’m like, ‘What is going on?’”
Pehlivan and her family were living in Ankara, Turkey, when a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook the country on Aug. 19, 1999. They were about 200 miles from the Izmit epicenter,...
Elizabeth Ruedas is working to make her name in the civil engineering field. She already has an audience lined up.
Ruedas, EIT, ENV SP, A.M.ASCE, is a design engineer for CNC Engineering Inc. in the City of Industry, CA, a YouTube star – with 70,000 followers and more than 8 million views on her channel – and selected by ASCE as one of the 2016...
Matthew McCarty claims he’s an introvert. The resume says otherwise.
Through his work with ASCE and the Structural Engineering Institute, he has helped build a sense of community within Baltimore engineering circles by championing a series of hands-on site tours.
“I would say I am by nature an introvert. That’s something I’ve worked very hard on over the last few years,” said McCarty, S.E., P.E., named...
