ASCE PLOT POINTS SEASON 4 EPISODE 12:

Nothing provides optimism quite like the next generation of civil engineers.

So today we hear from a few of the best and brightest students in the civil engineering campus universe: Hunter Kimmel, a civil engineering student at Fresno State, and Ayla Dvoretzky, a civil engineering student at UCLA.

And the ASCE Student Ambassadors drop by to talk about what sustainability means to them.

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Wanting to help save the world is an admirable goal. Figuring out just how you can plug that mission into your career path is the first step.

Marjorie Bedessem is a senior engineer for Tri Hydro and the vice-president of ASCE’s Environmental and Water Resources Institute. And she’s excellent case study in navigating different career tracks to maximize her ability to contribute.

She talks with ASCE EWRI Environmental, Health, and Water Quality Committee leaders Tara Kulkarni and Brianne Duncan.

In “Changing the World,” Salvador Bentolila talks about his love for water solutions.

And we hear from ASCE’s Student Ambassadors, discussing what they would’ve been had they not chosen civil engineering career paths.

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We also hear from ASCE’s Student Ambassadors about how they’ve used civil engineering to make a difference in the world.

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Erica Fischer is doing just that in the field of structural fire engineering design.

Fischer, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, is an assistant professor of structural engineering at Oregon State University. She’s working on the upcoming ASCE Structural Engineering Institute performance-based prestandard for structural fire engineering, while also leading an effort to develop new structural fire engineering curriculum for undergraduates in collaboration with the members of the Educational Subcommittee of the ASCE Fire Protection Committee.

We also hear from the ASCE Student Ambassadors about some creative civil engineering costume ideas just in time for Halloween.

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It’s a simple question with a complicated answer.

Or maybe it’s a complicated question with a simple answer.

Either way, Emily Grubert, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, makes sense of the chaos on today’s episode.

And our ASCE Student Ambassadors play guest DJ, curating a playlist of songs that sum up what it’s like to be a civil engineering student.

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But is cybersecurity something civil engineers need to concern themselves with?

Brad Allenby says yes, 100-percent yes.

Allenby is the president’s professor of sustainable engineering, and the Lincoln professor of engineering and ethics at Arizona State University. Previously hes worked as a senior attorney and as an executive at AT&T. He talks today about an ASCE News article, “In the Impending Cyberwar, Engineers Must Be on the Front Lines,” he wrote with colleague and fellow ASCE leader, Mike Chester.

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But by day, she’s the president and CEO of Bridges to Prosperity, an organization that collaborates with industry partners and local communities to design, build and maintain bridges that provide crucial lifelines to people in some of the most remote locations in the world.

That work has gotten more complicated in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

But also even more important.

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He works as a structural project manager for DCI Engineers. He’s also started a YouTube channel called the Structural Engineering Life, posting his own videos where he discusses or explains structural engineering issues and concepts. “A Day in the Life of a Civil Structural Engineer” has half a million views.

Meanwhile, he also hosts the Structural Engineering Channel podcast, which is part of Anthony Fasano’s Engineering Management Institute network of podcasts.

He talks about his passion for communicating with others about structural engineering.

Gabreele Gonzalez shares her civil engineering origin story. And in Student Ambassadors, we hear how students pick their civil engineering discipline.

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Fischer talks about the novel, why it was something she spent 25 years working on and how it’s helped make her a better civil engineer.

And in Student Ambassadors, we get a rundown on some favorite ASCE memories.

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And as circumstance would have it, four years in, that culture features an interesting dynamic: all six S&C staff members are women.

Newland and S&C intern Natalie Palmquist (a former ASCE New Face of Civil Engineering college honoree) talk about the resulting workplace culture and how the industry is changing.

And the ASCE Student Ambassadors offer tips for thriving in the virtual-learning life.

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The key question now is what changes wrought by the coronavirus will still be affecting transit systems next year and into the longer term?

Today’s episode of ASCE Plot Points is devoted to answering those questions. A special expert panel, assembled by the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute, discusses “COVID-19 Impacts on Future Planning, Design and Operations Choices for Transit Systems.”

Dan Becker, who runs his own consulting firm in Washington State, with more than 40 years of experience working in the private sector and with public agencies developing projects all across the West.

Marsha Anderson Bomar, the assistant general manager for capital programs delivery for MARTA (the Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority). She is also a member of the ASCE Board of Direction as a director of the Technical Regional Board of Governors and a former president of T&DI.

And Robert “Buz” Paaswell, Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at City College of New York and Director of the CUNY Institute for Urban Systems. Paaswell served as CEO of the Chicago Transit Authority, is active, globally, in transit issues and has been elected a Distinguished Member of ASCE.

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Especially for those civil engineers who are balancing their jobs with their duties as parents, often working from home with their children one room over.

Kelly Farabee, Jesse Gormley, Rhonda Hurst, Tung Nguyen and Kate Osborn share their experiences juggling multiple roles this year during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the Changing the World segment, Los Angeles Departement of Water and Power civil engineering associate Chloe Gharios explains the message behind her #StompingOutStereotypes hashtag.

And we hear some jokes from ASCE’s Student Ambassadors.

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Today we hear from Frederick Paige, Ph.D., EIT, A.M.ASCE, associate professor at Virginia Tech. He talks about his journey through the civil engineering profession, as well as his identity as an African-American civil engineer.

Music courtesy of Timothy Triplett and Frederick Paige.

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Today we talk about unconscious bias with Kim Parker Brown, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior program manager for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Washington, D.C.

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Today we talk with Sidney May, P.E., M.ASCE, past president of ASCE’s Alabama Section Birmingham Branch. After more than a decade of work in the private and public sectors, Sidney struck out on her own in 2019 and is now the lead engineer for her own firm Sidney H. May, P.E., LLC. She also has been active volunteering in local schools and mentoring students.

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Birdel Franklin Jackson III, P.E., M.ASCE, lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, enjoying retirment after a long and successful civil engineering career. In today’s episode, he reflects on his life and career, from segregated Memphis to the ASCE Student Chapter at the University of Toledo and the Jackson-Davis Foundation the organization he named after his parents to give scholarships to African-American civil engineering students.

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Yvette E. Pearson, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, is the associate dean for accreditation, assessment and strategic initiatives at Rice University in Houston. She has been an active member of ASCE for two decades, and she talks today about her work with ASCE’s MOSAIC, her new podcast, Engineering Change, and why this moment is the right moment for positive change.

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Thirty days. Thirty phone calls. Plus an extra three.

Community Call 33 closes the series, and fittingly it features ASCE President K.N. “Guna” Gunalan. The president discusses his philosophical view on the coronavirus pandemic and why he remains optimistic for ASCE, the profession and the world.

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Community Call 32 reaches out to David Wieller, president of ASCE’s Lehigh Valley Section and the water and municipal regional leader for Borton-Lawson, based in Bethlehem, Pennsylania. He talks about how innovation and technology have helped him keep his civil engineering work moving forward.

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Community Call 31 goes to Camilla Saviz, a professor and chair of civil engineering at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Califormnia. She talks about how she’s adapted her classes on the fly to finish the semester with an online-only model.

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Community Call 30 takes us into non-lockdown mode in Nebraska. Marie Stamm, P.E., M.ASCE, is a civil engineer for Schemmer Associates in Omaha, and she talks about how the coronavirus has changed nearly every aspect of her life.

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Community Call 29 brings us to the northern part of Italy, battered by the coronavirus in March and still very much in recovery mode. ASCE Fellow Fabio Biondini is a professor of structural engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where he serves as the chair of the degree programs in civil engineering. He talks about working to keep his community resilient and his students learning, in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Community Call 28 takes us to Georgia, one of the states moving to start reopening certain parts of its economy. Kelly Farabee is a project manager I with CHA in Savannah as part of the traffic and ITS team, and she is the director of the ASCE Georgia Section’s Savannah Branch.

She talks about what she’s seeing in Georgia right now, and what this entire pandemic experience has been like.

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Community Call 27 goes to Seattle, one of the first areas in the United States to grapple with a coronavirus outbreak. Geotechincal engineer

Romulos Ragudos Jr. talks about what life and work have been like in the city he’s called home all his life.

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Community Call 26 considers the ongoing ASCE work (even during a pandemic) to grade America’s infrastructure. Jacob Forrester talks about his work chairing the “2020 Report Card for Mississippi’s Infrastructure.”

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Community Call 25 closes our mini-series talking with young civil engineers working in Los Angeles. Mario Martinez is a field engineer for the LINX team (LAX Integrated Express Solutions), working on a new automated people mover there at the Los Angeles International Airport.

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Community Call 24 continues our City of Dreams mini-series, talking to three young civil engineers working in Los Angeles. Jeena Jayamon is a project engineer for John A. Martin and Associates in L.A., where her specialty is earthquake engineering. The coronavirus, though, is presenting a very different kind of disaster for her community.

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Community Call 23 begins a mini-series within the series, reaching out to three young engineers working in the Los Angeles area. Today we talk to Maryam Takla, a field engineer for Turner Construction. She recently started working on SoFi Stadium; a dream assignment under normal circumstances, made a bit more complicated by the COVID-19.

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Community Call 22 goes to David Totman, past-president of ASCE’s Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute. He’s the vice president of asset management for Innovyze, a software company serving water professionals, so he sits uniquely positioned to understand the needs of different sectors across the industry.

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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 and building firm, based in Parsippany, New Jersey – just outside New York City. They have two offices and about 10 employees, so he certainly has an interesting perspective on how the last six weeks have changed the civil engineering landscape.

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Community Call 20 goes to Chicago, where Adam Blumstein is a staff civil engineer for Burns & McDonnell. He and his team have quickly mastered the art of remote communication.

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Community Call 19 finds us talking with Chad Morrison, president-elect of the ASCE Rhode Island Section. Morrison has a heavy workload, with the Section centennial and state’s Infrastructure Report Card approaching. He discusses balancing workload with safety as civil engineers continue to navigate the coronavirus crisis.

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Community Call 18 goes to Alfredo Falcon, a project manager for the LUSEO Group in Miami and the Structural Engineering Institute chair for the ASCE Miami-Dade Branch. He talks about how his work has changed and the different ways he’s keeping colleagues connected and optimistic.

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Community Call 17 reaches out to ASCE’s 2018 president Kristina Swallow, now serving as the director of the Nevada Department of Transportation, to discuss how the pandemic has altered her state’s transportation usage, planning and work.

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Community Call 16 goes to Region 10 Director Elias Boutros Sayah. Based in the United Arab Emirates, he was visiting the United States in March when coronavirus-related travel restrictions began. So now he enters a second month of bridging his family across two continents, hoping for the best.

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Community Call 15 reaches out to Gabrielle Grompone, incoming chair of the ASCE Construction Institute’s Young Professionals Council and a project engineer at J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc. in New Jersey. She says work continues smoothly, but she can’t help but miss the simple joys of working every day with her colleagues on the construction site.

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Community Call 14 features a unique spin on educational outreach courtesy of Jonathan Brower. The Dallas-based structural engineer has been organizing and running civil engineering clubs at area high schools for the last eight years, and not even a global pandemic is stopping his work.

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Community Call 13 considers the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, specifically to the smaller civil engineering firms. Mike Howell started Arrow Engineering, a structural engineering firm based in Morgantown, West Virginia, last fall. He talks about the different challenges and opportunities presented by this new normal.

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Community Call 12 brings us to New Jersey by way of Seattle and Louisville. Sophie Lipomanis, one of ASCE’s inaugural class of student ambassadors, started her first job co-op in January in King County, Washington, just as the coronavirus was starting to spread there. She talks about how the pandemic changed her plans and how it’s affecting her fellow engineering students at the University of Louisville.

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Community Call 11 takes us to South Carolina, where civil engineers are famililar with staying resilient in the face of hurricanes. The coronavirus, though, is presenting a new set of challenges. Jarred Jones, executive director of the North Charleston Sewer District explains how his team is continuing to serve the community through this crisis.

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Community Call 10 concerns the intersection of civil engineering and public policy. We talk to Peyton Gibson, who recently chaired the committee that authored the Colorado Infrastructure Report Card, about what the future might look like.

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Community Call 9 goes to Distinguished Member Tony Bartolomeo, the former CEO and president of Pennoni. Bartolomeo’s leadership experience gives him a unique perspective from which to view the coronavirus crisis.

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Community Call 8 reaches out to Anthony Fasano to talk about professional development during the coronavirus pandemic. Fasano is the founder  of the Engineering Management Institute, he hosts the Civil Engineering Podcast and he has written the regular “Ask Anthony” careers and leadership serise for ASCE News for nearly five years.

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Community Call 7 takes us to St. Louis, but in fact, it takes us all the way to New Zealand. Marsia Geldert-Murphey, a construction leader in the St. Louis area and recent director on the ASCE Board of Direction, talks about the stressful (and ultimately successful) process of helping her daughter return home from a college research trip overseas just as the coronavirus was beginning to spread in the United States.

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Community Call 6 finds us talking to Mel Butcher, the private sector group midwest lead at Carollo Engineers, specializing in industrial water treatment, water risk and sustainability. She facilitates a career support group for women in male-dominated fields called CollabSuite, produces and hosts The Empowering Women Podcast and writes a monthly ASCE News series called Design Thinking.

She talks about how those design thinking concepts might help civil engineers during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Community Call 5 looks for happier news amid the stress. Cherylyn Henry, a structural engineer in Charlotte, North Carolina, and longtime active leader in ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute, has found a way to keep the running group that traditionally meets every spring at the ASCE Structures Congresss going strong this year in a virtual forum.

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Community Call 4 goes to Robin Kemper, ASCE’s past president, living and working in New Jersey, one of the country’s hardest hit coronavirus areas.

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Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.

Community Call 3 goes to Tony Cioffi, whose work as assistant resident engineer for the Kew Gardens Interchange Phase 4 project in New York City continues.

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Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.

Community Call 2 goes to Vivian Chong, a senior civil engineering student at UCLA. She talks about how the final quarter of her college experience has changed quite suddenly and what her post-graduation job plans look like.

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Community Call 1 goes to Mike Paddock, a deputy director with Engineers Without Borders. Also the author of the ASCE News “Engineering With Heart” series, Paddock has a unique perspective on the pandemic and how civil engineers can help.

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