The ASCE New Orleans Branch organized a program this summer to match member donations to certain organizations supporting those most affected by COVID-19.
The four organizations include UNO First Student Support Fund, Second Harvest Food Bank, Gayle Benson Community Assitance Fund and the Gig Workers Relief Fund.
Treasurer Kyle Galloway brought the idea to the Branch Board, and they immediately supported it.
"We thought it sounded like...
If the governor calls you at home on a Saturday night, you should probably pick up the phone.
Rhode Island civil engineering leader and longtime ASCE member Steven King did just that. In fact, you could say he answered the call both literally and figuratively.
King – assisted by his colleague and former ASCE Rhode Island Section president, Bill Young – led a drive this spring...
ASCE presents nearly 100 Society awards every year, recognizing civil engineers who advance the profession either through achievement or published papers.
The most recent Society awards are:
• Gongkang Fu, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure
• Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award
• Brock E. Barry, Ph.D.,...
Arun Kumar, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a civil engineer specializing in water resources and hydropower engineering, and a founding scientist of the Department of Hydro and Renewable Energy (HRED), IITR, India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Kumar has been an integral part of HRED since its inception, and served as its head from 1998 to 2011. His vision and leadership grew...
Make no mistake, Jacob Ward works the technology beat.
He is an NBC News technology correspondent, the former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine and an author.
But for him, staying on top of the latest technology trends doesn’t just mean gadgets and gizmos. Ward is most interested in the human behavior and ethical conundrums those tech trends reveal.
So when he talks about the disruptive technologies that...
ASCE has honored Sarah S. McEwen, P.E., M.ASCE; Mario Ricozzi, P.E., F.ASCE; and Camilla M. Saviz, Ph.D., P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, with the 2020 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award.
McEwen is recognized for her commitment to saving the Mississippi River Basin Model, initiating and enlisting help to clean up the Model to use it as a tool to inspire excitement in children for...
If ever there was a year that proved the value of future scenario-planning research, 2020 is it.
The coronavirus pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we work and live, which means the ramifications for the civil engineering industry and the way we consider infrastructure have been huge as well.
In many ways, COVID-19 is exactly the kind of epic disruption that ASCE’s Future World Vision project...
ASCE has honored William E. Kelly, Ph.D., P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, and Ryan Kobbe, P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2020 President’s Medal.
Kelly is recognized for his tireless efforts to advance sustainability globally, particularly through implementation of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals, and for his ongoing commitment to share his knowledge of sustainability through education.
Kelly is Adjunct Faculty, Sustainability at George Mason University. He serves as...
Ray King Chalfant Jr., a civil and structural engineer in Atlanta whose active ASCE involvement extended back decades, has died. He was 99.
Chalfant, P.E., F.ASCE, served as Georgia Section president from 1983-84. He also served from 1988 to 1990 on the Society’s national Board of Direction, representing what was then District 10.
Born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1920, Chalfant graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology...
Peter Alastair Dickson, an international geologist and water resources engineer who worked for more than 40 years for an employee-owned consulting company based in Chicago, has died. He was 70.
With a worldly intellect and an aptitude for languages, his overseas work came naturally. Dickson, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, was born in Grootfontein, Namibia, to a nurse and a mining engineer. He followed a lifelong interest in...
