Earning your license is an important step in becoming a professional civil engineer. As in all aspects of your career, ASCE wants to see you succeed. With the fall P.E. and S.E. exam dates nearing, we know that many of you are focused on studying. To help you prepare, the Society is offering live exam review courses.
These courses are designed to maximize your study...
It usually starts with a daydream.
“What if instead of working for my boss, I was the boss? What if I was the one making all the decisions? Maybe I could start my own company.”
For 99 percent of civil engineers, the daydream remains just that – the stuff of imagination.
Mike Howell, on the other hand, turned that dream into reality. After nearly 15 years of...
The ASCE News Civil Engineering Roundtable showcases insights from a cross section of ASCE members on a variety of industry topics.
Today’s roundtable considers the increasing importance of expanding your workplace collaboration not just beyond your own discipline but beyond the boundaries of your entire field.
When managing a multidisciplinary team, is there a difference between how you manage nonengineer and engineer project specialists?
Tony Kulesa
P.E., ENV...
April 2020 is not a month anyone will forget anytime soon, as the coronavirus pandemic emptied city streets and shuttered many businesses.
The ASCE Plot Points podcast’s COVID-19 Community Calls series featured 33 phone calls in 33 days – April 1 through May 3 – talking to 33 different civil engineers about how the pandemic changed their jobs, their communities and their lives.
Taken as a...
OLDER, EXPERIENCED engineers have likely been through at least one economic downturn before the one currently being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the most recent significant recession having taken place just a little more than a decade ago. So they know what to expect and how to keep their focus on recovery.
But younger engineers—those hired after the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009—have...
Thank you for rejoining me in our series on Design Thinking. In the first article, we explored with Seth Godin the overarching themes of design thinking and the foundation of the methodology – empathy. Today, we are joined by Carly Foster to explore the application of design thinking in the world of resilience. Foster’s expertise and work lend to the direct application of DT...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected seemingly every aspect of society this spring.
Along with that, the cycle of civil engineering exams for professional licensure has changed, leaving would-be test-takers with questions.
Tim Miller, director of exam services for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, talked with ASCE News, hoping to provide some clarity during these challenging times.
ASCE News: Is there any possibility of...
Every day in April, ASCE Plot Points is calling a different civil engineer from around the world to find out how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their life, their community, their work and the civil engineering profession.
Thirty days. Thirty phone calls.
Community Call 8 reaches out to Anthony Fasano to talk about professional development during the coronavirus pandemic. Fasano is the founder of the Engineering...
Engineers are trained to effectively design and build infrastructure to meet safety and other regulatory requirements.
But what about designing infrastructure to make users, like pedestrians and cyclists, actually feel safe?
Or how about making it fun for the users? If we asked ourselves how to delight the end users, how would our design process look different?
Integrating empathy in problem-solving is at the core of the...
