How can you model extreme events and predict them before they happen? One of the world’s foremost experts in probabilistic mechanics and stochastic mechanics plans to show you at the upcoming Engineering Mechanics Institute conference.
Reuben Hull's Civil Engineering Almanac travels back to the week when the final link in the Baltimore Beltway is completed with the opening of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Peter C. Ten Kate, P.E., F.ASCE, vice president of Municipal Engineering Services for Boswell Engineering, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Joe Grubbs, P.E., F.ASCE, senior professional associate at HDR and a civil engineer with over 30 years’ experience in airfield design, construction, and construction management, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
ASCE has honored Hai Yang, Ph.D., C.Eng, M.ASCE, with the Francis C. Turner Award for leadership in the fields of transportation network modeling and transportation economics, and for his extraordinary record in both research and mentoring.
Dan D. Koo, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, associate professor, interim director of Construction Management, and founding director of the Smart Infrastructure Laboratory in the Purdue School of Engineering Technology at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., Ph.D., Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, retired chairman and CEO of Bechtel, who led the company through massive expansion from the 1960s through the '80s, and was a lifelong philanthropist who championed production of ASCE's 2017 IMAX movie Dream Big: Engineering Our World, has died at 95.
ASCE has honored the writing team of Ashtad Javanmardi, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; S. Alireza Abbasian-Hosseini, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; Min Liu, A.M.ASCE; and Simon M. Hsiang, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE,with the 2021 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for the paper “Improving Effectiveness of Constraints Removal in Construction Planning Meetings: Information-Theoretic Approach,” published in the April 2020 issue of Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
