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...
The ASCE News Civil Engineering Roundtable showcases insights from a cross section of ASCE members on a variety of industry topics.
New Year’s Day might be the best of all holidays.
Optimism abounds as everyone resets their hopes and dreams with the calendar.
And at ASCE News, we strive to showcase that positivity with the annual collection of civil engineering New Year’s resolutions.
This year is even more...
It was a rich and rewarding year at ASCE in 2019.
So rich and so rewarding that mere words can’t do it justice.
Here is ASCE’s 2019 Year in Photos:
In May, ASCE launched Future World Vision, a bold, comprehensive project to anticipate, reimagine and prepare for the future.
Using data-driven, in-depth, scenario-planning analysis, Future World Vision puts civil engineers in position to lead, not just today but...
In what has been an intentional and consistent focus for more than a year now, the ASCE Board of Direction continued its work to improve the member experience, Oct. 14-15 at its quarterly meeting in Miami.
From increasingly aligned Society groups and programs to an improved user experience in ASCE’s digital platforms, the Board emphasized the member point of view.
“The Board has made our major...
What if? Why not?
Four short words; one entirely new mindset.
It’s the essence of ASCE’s Future World Vision project, simultaneously open to and questioning of the civil engineering possibilities that will shape the way infrastructure works and society lives decades into the future.
“We’ve got to have more people thinking this way,” said Lenor Bromberg, P.E., F.ASCE, deputy director of community development for the City of...
Robert P. Wadell, P.E., MCSE, F.ASCE, was just 25 years old when ASCE appointed him to a national committee.
The group was charged with exploring the possibility of creating the Engineering Management Division, and Wadell, at the beginning of his career, got the chance to rub elbows and compare notes with industry stalwarts.
“So, there I was one of four people on the committee and certainly...
For the first time in nearly 50 years, ASCE is pursuing a wholesale review of its Code of Ethics.
The time is right, ASCE President Robin A. Kemper said, to ensure that the code reflects the cultural shifts in society and technological changes in the industry.
“Through time, the Code of Ethics has been reworked, things have been added, maybe things have been taken out, but...
Civil engineers are essential to solving the significant issues facing the planet, both today and tomorrow. They serve as systems integrators and work on complex projects with diverse global teams. They must be competent, collaborative and ethical. They must be innovators, environmental stewards, managers of risk and active in public policy. And ultimately, civil engineers must be effective leaders.
ASCE introduced iLead this year with...
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...
