Good luck finding Don Nguyen at home.
The junior bridge engineer for COWI in Seattle works all day and volunteers all night.
“I’m surprised if there’s a week where I don’t have any events, but it’s fun,” Nguyen said. “It’s not like I feel obligated. I think I’ve always been someone who wanted to be involved in the community.”
Nguyen, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE, has been selected...
It was not your typical freshman realization.
“I really miss calculus,” Natalie Mills told her advisor.
Mills, an 18-year-old from Winter Park, FL, was pursuing her lifelong dream to be on Broadway, studying theater at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts when pesky little civil engineering intervened.
“I realized that my whole life I loved math and science classes and used art and performing...
James Kaklamanos knows how important his role as a civil engineering educator is because it wasn’t so long ago that he was a civil engineering student.
“Absolutely, if it weren’t for some of the professors whom I had the privilege of learning from, I don’t think I would’ve pursued engineering in the first place,” said Kaklamanos, who is in his fifth year as an assistant...
Sabrina Rivera has a question for you.
Do you know where your water comes from?
“I can talk to students and intelligent people, and the common thread to the responses is that people just don’t know,” Rivera said. “But it’s not something you learn in school. That’s something I want to push more in the future, teaching people that there is this complex net of pipes...
In no way is Muhammad Elgammal a civil engineering outsider.
He hails from a family of engineers (five to be exact). He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
But Elgammal has also made a conscious effort to develop and maintain an outsider’s perspective to his work.
“I think that’s what’s made me an effective communicator,” Elgammal said. “I’ve...
Not yet 30 years old, Marilisa Stigliano is already a leader among leaders.
A project controls manager for AECOM in New York City, Stigliano devotes time each week as lead of a team of deputy project managers that advises project managers around the metropolitan area.
“It’s been an incredible experience for me,” said Stigliano. “I love being a mentor for the deputy project managers.”
“It’s incredible how...
Jonathan Brower’s official title with the ASCE Texas Section’s Dallas Branch is Civil Engineering Club Champion – emphasis on “champion.”
Brower has been mentoring students and scheduling an array of civil engineering lectures at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas since 2013. That’s nearly four years of service for juniors and seniors in the civil engineering and architectural design classes.
Almost every Friday. For four years....
Not many civil engineers have an apprenticeship like this one.
Erica Mullen, known to everyone in her life as Sunny, spent much of her childhood in the gym, honing her gymnastics skills on the balance beam and tumbling mat. She went on to earn All-American honors at Rutgers University, after placing third on the uneven bars at the 2010 USA Gymnastics Nationals.
All the while –...
They say no one knows you like you do. Chad Norvell’s career validates the cliche.
He began college studying architecture, and he enjoyed it, but he couldn’t help feeling that his true talents lay elsewhere.
“I was interested in the details and the mechanics that made structures work,” Norvell said. “I wanted to do work that produced something physical and tangible.”
He switched majors to civil engineering, and...
Vernon Allen Wuensche, 66, active in the Texas Section and its Corpus Christi Branch, and a project designer for the city for more than three decades, died Dec. 25 at his home.
Wuensche, P.E., M.ASCE, began his career with the engineering consulting firm of Ogletree & Gunn of Corpus Christi and was next employed by Urban Engineering, where he worked on utility and wastewater management...
