The standard-setting co-founder and first president of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Howard Simpson has died at 97. Guided by Simpson’s expertise, SGH fast became one of the nation’s best for solving complex engineering problems in structural mechanics.
Simpson, P.E., F.ASCE, launched SGH in 1956 along with two of his academic colleagues. His know-how in engineering mechanics and precision structures – such as radars, antennas, and radio...
Every year in February, Engineers Week recognizes the amazing contributions made by engineers around the world.
It's a great chance for ASCE members to take a step back, take stock of their work and then take a bow.
The funny thing about ASCE members, though, is that Engineers Week – the week set aside to honor them – often finds them working harder than ever, doing...
Every spring, ASCE shines a ray of sunlight on the future of the profession.
It’s the collegiate edition of the New Faces of Civil Engineering – 10 students whose early accomplishments are matched only by their remarkable maturity.
This year’s class of 2020 honorees demonstrates astounding focus, ambition and dedication to helping others.
Get to know the 2020 New Faces of Civil Engineering, Collegiate Edition:
Abby Cowser
Penn State...
Maylinn Rosales, past-president of the Nevada Section, has been working on issues of infrastructure advocacy for her entire professional life. She’s attended the last seven ASCE Legislative Fly-Ins in Washington, D.C. and played a key role in the “2018 Report Card on Nevada’s Infrastructure.”
But this year’s work is different. This year is special.
Rosales, who emigrated from Nicaragua to the United States in 1999, received...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Lewis N. Lloyd; G. Michael Fitch; Tony S. Singh, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; and James A. Smith, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Wesley W. Horner Award for the paper “Characterization of Environmental Pollutants in Sediment Collected During Street Sweeping Operations to Evaluate Its Potential for Reuse,” published in the February 2019 issue of the Journal of...
ASCE has honored Avi Ostfeld, Ph.D., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Julian Hinds Award for exceptional leadership and distinguished research advancing the design, operation and management of water distribution systems, particularly network reliability, network security, water quality and optimization methodologies, as well as contributions to surface water modeling and water resources management.
Ostfeld’s research in water systems has contributed advanced solution techniques based on...
On the Ohio River near the village of Olmsted, Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed one of its largest civil works projects since construction of the Panama Canal. This achievement, of what the Corps classifies as a megaproject, has now eliminated economically significant and unpredictable bottlenecks from the hub of the nation’s inland waterways transportation system.
In recognition of that accomplishment, Olmsted...
Spillways, Oroville Emergency Recovery has been honored by ASCE as a 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Honor Award recipient.
All 10 Honor Award projects will be showcased at ASCE’s 2020 OPAL Gala, March 13, in Washington, D.C., with two runners-up and the OCEA winner announced at the event.
It began in February 2017 when Lake Oroville’s main spillway was compromised after heavy rain and rapid snowmelt....
ASCE has honored Clifford J. Schexnayder, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2020 Construction Management Award for innovation and research aimed at improving construction around the globe.
Schexnayder is an international construction equipment, methods and techniques authority. He has blended a career of practical heavy construction knowledge with academic teaching and research. A registered professional engineer in five states, Schexnayder has extensive military engineering experience, having...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Mongkolaya Rungvetvuthivitaya, Aff.M.ASCE; Rengao Song; Mark Campbell, A.M.ASCE; Eric Zhu; Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE; and Chittaranjan Ray, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Samuel Arnold Greeley Award for the paper “Decay Kinetics of Chlorite Under Simulated Distribution System Conditions,” in the April 2019 issue of Journal of Environmental Engineering.
In the selected work, the...
