Career by Design: How I Found a Job During COVID-19
ASCE’s online community for younger civil engineers, Career by Design, gives you the tools, tips and resources you need to advance your career. Much of that is in real-life advice from young engineers.
Hala Abdo, EIT, A.M.ASCE, is a drainage and road engineer-in-training with FAM Construction LLC, working on the Transform 66 Outside the Beltway project...
ASCE has honored the Philadelphia Younger Member Forum (large groups) and Mississippi Section Younger Member Group (small groups) with the Younger Member Group Award for outstanding professional, technical, social, outreach and community service activities.
The Mississippi Section YMG has been working to bridge the gap between students and professionals with various events ranging from community service to social events, presentations, award ceremonies and conference...
The ASCE News Civil Engineering Roundtable showcases insights from a cross-section of ASCE members on a variety of industry topics.
Today’s roundtable draws from a recent ASCE Thursdays@3 webinar conversation, discussing the different ways the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of civil engineering leadership skills.
Question: Why are leadership skills more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Andrea DuMont
P.E., M.ASCE
Water resources engineer, Jacobs; industry blogger
“When...
In a recent session of our people skills course for engineers, I received the following question from one of our participants and thought was perfect for this column:
Do you have some advice on how to present ideas as a young engineer to those who are older and more experienced? I sometimes notice ideas get dismissed or given less weight just for the mere fact...
Abby Cowser has one last assignment to complete as a college student.
She needs to figure out what she wants for graduation dinner.
“My mom said she’ll cook me whatever I want, so that’s a plus,” Cowser said. “I might pick chicken parm – that’s one of my favorites. Or maybe something to go with cheesy potatoes.”
Cowser, A.M.ASCE, graduates from Penn State University on Saturday, May...
The future of environmental and civil engineering could well be shaped by two young engineers who grew up in the same household.
The Gibson sisters – Peyton and Devon – will celebrate National Siblings Day this year on opposite sides of the country from each other but maintaining a shared love of family and engineering.
“We have pretty differing personalities, but we share very similar worldviews...
More than 1,200 current and rising civil engineering leaders from ASCE Regions, Sections, Branches, Institutes, Younger Member Groups and Student Chapters gathered at the 2020 ASCE Multi-Region Leadership Conferences in January, hosted in Philadelphia, Detroit and San Francisco, for an opportunity to develop and enhance their leadership skills, receive greater exposure to the Society programs and resources.
The three MRLCs included workshops for Section, Branch...
Every year in February, Engineers Week recognizes the amazing contributions made by engineers around the world.
It's a great chance for ASCE members to take a step back, take stock of their work and then take a bow.
The funny thing about ASCE members, though, is that Engineers Week – the week set aside to honor them – often finds them working harder than ever, doing...