Luis Duque has made it all look easy – balancing his civil engineering career success with family (second baby on the way this summer) and community service.
But don’t be fooled. It might appear easy now, but getting to this point was no easy journey.
Flash back four years ago. Duque graduated from South Dakota State University. But with rent due and no civil engineering firms...
Why replace a whole bridge when you can rehabilitate and recycle it instead?
The Big Lift: Macdonald Bridge Superstructure Replacement, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 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...
Bayonne Bridge: Replacement of Main Span Roadway and Approach Structures 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.
The bridge connects Bayonne, New Jersey, with Staten Island, in New York...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Daniel Valero and Daniel Bung with the 2020 Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize for the paper “Vectrino Profiler Spatial Filtering for Shear Flows Based on the Mean Velocity Gradient Equation,” published in the July 2018 issue of Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.
In this article, the authors provide a new method to filter ADV Vectrino profiler velocity estimations in...
ASCE has honored the writing team of S. C. Chen; Y. T. Sheu; Rao Y. Surampalli, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, Hon.D.WRE, F.EWRI, Dist.M.ASCE; Tian C. Zhang, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE; and Jimmy Chih-Ming Kao, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2020 Rudolph Hering Medal for the paper “Application of Microbial Transformation to Remediate Hg-Contaminated Water: Strain Isolation and Laboratory Microcosm Study,” published in the...
ASCE has honored Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2021 Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture for his extraordinary accomplishments in using fundamental scientific principles and current research findings to solve the most challenging environmental problems.
As an outstanding administrator/researcher/educator, Alvarez has made significant contributions to our professional society. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in environmental...
ASCE has honored Hai Yang, Ph.D., C.Eng, M.ASCE, with the 2020 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award for his leadership in the fields of transportation network modeling and transportation economics and for his extraordinary record in both research and mentoring.
Yang’s career has been exceptional in terms of its impact. He is universally acknowledged as one of the most influential transportation researchers in the world....
It was three years ago this month that ASCE got into the movie business.
“Dream Big: Engineering Our World” debuted on IMAX and other giant screens in museums and theaters around the world in February 2017.
The film, presented by Bechtel and produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with ASCE, showcases engineering in a colorful, dynamic and diverse way, forever changing how a generation of...
Deepankar Choudhury, Ph.D., F.ASCE, an Institute Chair Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, in Mumbai, India, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Choudhury’s major research areas are geotechnical earthquake engineering, computational geomechanics, foundation engineering and soil dynamics. His video lectures through NPTEL, Government of India, on “Soil Dynamics” and “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” and his...
Riadh S. Al-Mahaidi, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a professor of structural engineering and director of the Smart Structures Laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Prior to joining Swinburne in 2010, he was the head of the Structures Group at Monash University. Over the past 20 years, Al-Mahaidi has focused his research and practice...
