Civil engineering graduates, rejoice. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is on your side.
The 2016-17 Occupational Outlook Handbook projects an 8 percent increase in civil engineering employment from 2014 to 2024.
“As infrastructure continues to age, civil engineers will be needed to manage projects to rebuild bridges, repair roads, and upgrade levees and dams as well as airports and buildings,” according to the handbook.
Meanwhile, the...
Omer Franklin Poorman, P.E., L.S., F.ASCE, an Army veteran of World War II who dedicated his career to the Texas Highway Department as a district engineer, died Feb. 5. He was 92.
Poorman served with valor during World War II with the U.S. Army in northern France. Upon his return, he earned a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the University of Houston in...
James H. “Jim” Kleinfelder, P.E., M.ASCE, an ASCE Life Member who launched one of the first major engineering firms to delve into environmental services, died March 5. He was 82.
Shortly after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Kleinfelder began working for the city of Stockton as a resident engineer. In 1961, he invested his life savings in a construction-materials engineering and testing firm,...
Cornelis "Neil" Geldof Jr., former director of engineering and planning for the Metropolitan District Commission serving the Hartford, CT, area, and a former president of the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers Section, died March 25. He was 70.
Geldof, P.E., grew up in Yonkers, NY, and studied civil engineering at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY. After graduating in 1969, he was hired by the Connecticut...
Consider it the Hall of Fame of civil engineering. The best of the best.
Distinguished Member status is reserved for the most eminent of civil engineers in the Society. There are only 228 Distinguished Members among the Society’s current membership of over 150,000 people.
Meet the Class of 2017 Distinguished Members, as recently elected by ASCE’s Board of Direction:
• Bilal M. Ayyub, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE; University...
Imagine you could go back in time and meet yourself at 22 years old.
What would you say to your younger self?
What career advice would you offer, given all you’ve learned since?
What nuggets of civil engineering wisdom would you bestow?
We asked our members. Here’s what they said:
Jaffer Almosawy
Jaffer Almosawy, EI, ENV SP, A.M.ASCE, Engineering Intern I – GCW Inc. – Las Vegas, NV:
“Be assertive, take...
Gordon A. Walhood Sr., an ASCE Fellow who helped design New Mexico’s Cochiti Dan during a career spent with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, died on Jan. 18. He was 96.
A longtime resident of Albuquerque, NM, Walhood, P.E., F.ASCE, received his B.S. in civil engineering from North Dakota Agricultural College (now NDSU) in 1941, and was a member of Sigma Phi Delta.
Upon graduation,...
Jerry Lee Anderson, active on a number of Environmental and Water Resources Institute committees and a civil engineering professor for over 39 years, died Feb. 26 at 72.
Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE (Ret.), F.EWRI, retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a colonel in 1997. For nearly four decades he taught civil engineering at the University of Memphis, retiring in 2011. In his...
Time and money are two of the most valuable things in your life.
A lack of investment in our nation’s infrastructure is costing you both.
ASCE’s recently released 2017 Infrastructure Report Card graded the nation’s infrastructure with a cumulative D-plus, the same grade issued in the 2013 Report Card. The poor grades are largely attributed to a lack of infrastructure investment.
The Report Card suggests that to...
Sustainability extends beyond infrastructure. The concept also applies to ASCE as an organization, as the Society pursues enhanced benefits and opportunities aimed to attract and empower more students and young professionals.
To that end, ASCE’s Board of Direction voted to approve the desired outcomes for a strategy roadmap for student transition and Younger Member retention at its quarterly meeting, March 17-18, in Arlington, VA.
Attracting, retaining,...
