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In this edition of ASCE...
The new ASCE Infrastructure Report Card got the conversation started last week.
This week, ASCE members from around the country took that talk straight to Capitol Hill in Washington as participants in the Society’s annual Legislative Fly-In.
“The timing of the Report Card being at the forefront of everybody’s minds definitely helps get a foot in the door, makes the conversation a little bit easier,” said...
ASCE’s 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, released Thursday, offers the nation both bad news and good news.
The bad is the average grade, D-plus, has not changed since the last Report Card four years ago, reflecting a continued dire need of overhaul.
The good news is the Report Card says such an overhaul is still attainable, and offers suggested solutions that can make that overhaul happen.
“There are reasons...
John Olin Norton, an engineer who spent a career with the U.S. Army, beginning in World War II and ending as a civilian with Army Missile Command, has died. A founding member of ASCE’s Huntsville Branch, Norton was 92.
Norton, P.E., M.ASCE, had spent a year at Mississippi State when the Army called him to service in 1942. After duties that included Allied occupation of...
ASCE Distinguished Member Edward Cohen, who oversaw the creation of ASCE 7 and shared in ASCE’s 1987 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award for restoration of the Statue of Liberty, has died at 96.
Cohen, P.E., NAE, Dist.M.ASCE, was CEO of Ammann & Whitney in New York City from 1977 through 1996, where he spent the majority of his career, rising from associate engineer starting in...
Distinguished Member Omer W. Blodgett, whose books on design for welding are considered to form the foundation of the entire field, died Jan. 11 at 99.
Blodgett, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, was a design consultant and mechanical engineer at Lincoln Electric Co., in Cleveland, for more than 60 years. He was known internationally as an expert in the design of welded connections and was influential in development...
It was near the end of the evening. Near the end of the film’s second screening.
As the long, glorious night that was the world premiere of Dream Big: Engineering Our World at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, wound down, at the base of the theater – hidden in darkness just out of the audience’s sight – Avery Bang and...
Now more than ever, our power infrastructure is at risk. Significant power outages have risen from 76 in 2007 to 307 in 2011 largely due to aging and underfunded infrastructure equipment and systems.
ASCE’s Report Card for America’s Infrastructure in 2013 gave the United States a D+ in energy due to the nation’s reliance on an aging electrical grid and pipeline distribution system, some of...
Annually since 2003, the ASCE New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional program has selected a group of civil engineers under 30 already accomplishing great things. These civil engineers don’t excel in merely one aspect of their job or one area of life. They are the best and brightest in virtually everything they do.
A look at the New Faces of past years reveals what...
Some people take an evening walk to clear their minds. Zheng Yang does the opposite.
He goes for a stroll to fill his mind with ideas.
“When I walk along the streets of big cities and I see those high-rise buildings around me, I think of how much data I can collect from them and how much energy I can save for them” Yang said.
“I know...
