An interdisciplinary team of researchers based in Colorado has developed a type of brick that, through a process of biomineralization, is able to replicate and grow multiple generations of itself.
Joe DiPompeo starts work these days with a new morning routine.
“I walk into the office every single morning with a disinfectant wipe in my hand,” said DiPompeo, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, president-elect of ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute, and founder and president of Structural Workshop LLC, a structural engineering and building firm in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.
“I wipe the doorknob and then work my way through...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.
Community Call 21 goes to Joe DiPompeo, president-elect of ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute. DiPompeo founded Structural Workshop LLC in 2004 – a structural engineering...
It usually starts with a daydream.
“What if instead of working for my boss, I was the boss? What if I was the one making all the decisions? Maybe I could start my own company.”
For 99 percent of civil engineers, the daydream remains just that – the stuff of imagination.
Mike Howell, on the other hand, turned that dream into reality. After nearly 15 years of...
Luis Duque has made it all look easy – balancing his civil engineering career success with family (second baby on the way this summer) and community service.
But don’t be fooled. It might appear easy now, but getting to this point was no easy journey.
Flash back four years ago. Duque graduated from South Dakota State University. But with rent due and no civil engineering firms...
Riadh S. Al-Mahaidi, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a professor of structural engineering and director of the Smart Structures Laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Prior to joining Swinburne in 2010, he was the head of the Structures Group at Monash University. Over the past 20 years, Al-Mahaidi has focused his research and practice...
Margarita Kruyff is not a civil engineer.
But she works with civil engineers every day in her job as the assistant director of the Environment and Sustainability Department for the City of Miami Beach and also serves as chair of the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute Miami-Dade Chapter.
So she is uniquely positioned to provide insights on what it's like to work and communicate with...
Bradford Russell, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, an architect, structural engineer, and the director of BR Architects & Engineers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Russell, after spacing his engineering education with experience at some of the most prominent architectural and engineering firms in Dallas, began studies in the subject of force mitigation of extreme events on...
In the early morning of June 14, 2017, a simple kitchen fire spread quickly across the Grenfell Tower, a 24-story residential building in West London, consuming the structure and killing 71 people.
The tragedy sent shockwaves throughout the construction industry not just in England but around the world.
“It’s certainly been a wakeup call,” said Alastair Soane, Ph.D., C.Eng, director of Structural Safety UK. “Some of...
ASCE has honored Erica C. Fischer, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Collingwood Prize for the paper “Experimental Evaluation of Single-Bolted Lap Joints at Elevated Temperatures,” Journal of Structural Engineering, January 2018.
The mentioned paper summarizes a series of tests performed at Purdue University that measured the axial force–displacement–temperature relationship of lap splice joints. The field of structural fire engineering consists of designing and analyzing...
