The ASCE Foundation provides grants to Student Chapters, Younger Member Groups, Sections, and Branches attending the annual Multi-Region Leadership Conferences. Applicants must show how they will use the money and build compelling cases for why they should be selected.
This year, the applications were so impressive the ASCE Foundation gave three grants at each MRLC.
Orlando MRLC Winners
First place: Indiana Section for programming to provide professional...
The only thing more stressful than making a plan is not making a plan. Especially when it comes to your career.
On today's ASCE Plot Points, Kelly Doyle Keselica explains how mapping out your own personal vision can provide a guideline for your life (1:06).
In this week's Civil Engineers Are Not Boring segment, ASCE Past-President Kristina Swallow details her unique, daring, and definitely not boring hobby (12:02).
And finally, ASCE's 2019 New...
Every generation sees the world through a different lens.
But has the smartphone revolution made the current generation gap more difficult to navigate than previous changes?
On today's episode, Muhammad Elgammal discusses the situation from his unique perspective: young professional in the field/wise teacher in the classroom (2:33).
In the Career Minded segment, Maria Lehman, business development director for Parsons' New York region, talks about the skills...
It would be foolish to think that one person, or even one profession, could alone solve the challenges of climate change and sustainability.
Old thoughts die hard, though.
“There’s a perception that engineers work in their own space,” said Cris Liban, P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, executive officer of environment and sustainability for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “That’s so not the case anymore.
“I’m not...
Her story begins in Nicaragua, but follow closely, because the plot moves all over the map from there.
Madeley Arriola Guerrero, A.M.ASCE, an associate engineer for Chen Moore and Associates in West Palm Beach, FL, holds a remarkably world-wise perspective early in her career thanks to a decade of global education and engineering work. ASCE has honored her as a 2019 New Face of Civil...
Salvador Bentolila has traveled the world, engineering and implementing water solutions.
But it was a trip to Kenya last summer that really drove home the importance of his work.
“I had read about and seen images of how communities in Kenya lived and knew about all their issues with water, but it really made an impact on me when I went there and saw it with...
So, what exactly do engineers do when they go to work each day?
Andrea DuMont thought she knew.
After all, she grew up in a family of engineers. She aced her math and science classes. President of the robotics club in high school. Good grades in college. Civil engineering major.
And yet …
“I grew up thinking I would just sit in a cubicle, do some math, do...
It’s finals week at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Ashley Morales-Cartagena is working late again. Eight-hour days easily turn into 12-hour days. Tonight, it’s been more like 15.
Which is fine. Morales-Cartagena always has time for her students. As the youngest female director of a civil engineering department in the Dominican Republic, she knows her position as a role...
Mariah Peart’s career in civil engineering has been a little bit like building a house.
And, listen, we’re not employing metaphor here to create some kind of literary effect. It’s the literal truth.
Peart’s parents’ desire to design and build their own house goes back a decade. Middle-school aged Mariah, growing up in Brunswick, GA, took note.
“I loved to look at home design books and blueprints...
Siddhartha Roy came to the United States in 2012 for a graduate degree that would put him in position to someday use civil engineering to, as he put it, “reduce avoidable human suffering and help people.”
Little did he know just how soon that “someday” would turn out to be.
As a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Roy joined a team of researchers led by Tech...
