I recently received an interesting question from a young civil engineer who said that his perception at this point in his career was that to advance quickly and increase his salary, he must move to a new company every few years.
Is this accurate?
I believe it is a perception shared by many civil engineers, that if you stay at the same company for too long,...
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...
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....
