The world is rapidly changing. There are exciting new opportunities and difficult challenges ahead for civil engineers: alternative energy, autonomous vehicles, climate change, smart cities, high-tech construction and advanced materials, and policy and funding are just a few.
To educate our members and spark dialogue on the latest and future practices in the civil engineering field, ASCE’s Future World Vision will be highlighted at the...
If civil engineering were a stock, the analysts would be shouting, “Buy!”
ASCE’s new "2019 Civil Engineering Salary Report" reveals a median pretax annual salary of $109,000 in 2018, continuing an upward compensation trend in the industry.
Civil engineers’ base salaries have risen at a rate of 4 to 6 percent each year since 2016.
“Civil engineers design, build and maintain the infrastructure systems we use each...
In response to a growing demand for performance-based wind design guidance, ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute has issued a prestandard that supplements ASCE 7's prescriptive methods.
The “ASCE/SEI Prestandard for Performance-Based Wind Design” includes nonlinear dynamic analysis for wind design, system-based performance criteria and enhanced design criteria for the building envelope. It also aims to smooth out conflicts when applying performance-based approaches to seismic design.
“This research...
Take a look in your backyard (figuratively).
You might be surprised what you find (literally).
Underserved communities across the United States are in need of civil engineering solutions. That’s where the Community Engineering Corps comes in, and, with its new “What’s in My Backyard?” campaign, lays out how to help, step by step.
CECorps – an alliance between ASCE, the American Water Works Association and Engineers Without...
Jerry R. Bayless, a longtime civil, architectural and environmental engineering professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology who was such an institution there, he was known as "Mr. S&T," has died at 81.
Bayless, P.E., F.ASCE, earned his bachelor of science in 1959 from what was then known as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, and essentially never left, hired the day of...
John Sansalone, president of the ASCE Mid-Hudson Branch in 2017-18, and a New York state environmental engineer with a passion for water safety and quality, has died at 67.
Over a 37-year career with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Sansalone, P.E., M.ASCE, oversaw permit drafting and the inspection and compliance of water resource recovery utilities. He was known as a consummate sanitary engineer who...
Charles Virgil “Tom” Gibbs, of Seattle, a clean water advocate whose passion for protecting the environment through engineering dated to the early 1950s, notably overseeing many water and wastewater projects for CH2M Hill, has died at 87.
Milwaukee and Seattle were the main beneficiaries of his dedicated work in environmental sustainability. Gibbs received a commendation from President Nixon for exceptional service to environmental protection in 1971.
Gibbs,...
The year is 2070. Imagine that sea-level rise has so altered coastal infrastructure that floodwaters have forced cities offshore, to developments that float on top of the ocean.
Life comes at you fast after graduation.
Fortunately, ASCE’s Construction Institute Student Days program helps prepare aspiring construction engineers for that transition.
The annual five-day event – held this year in late July in Arlington, Virginia – combines competition with networking, advice from professionals and real-world experience.
“It honestly was a big highlight of my college career and it really tested what I knew of construction so...
ASCE is a founding member of the Alliance for Responsible Professional Licensing, a new coalition of national associations representing highly complex, technical professions and their national licensing boards.
ARPL has been created to give advanced professions a unified voice in the growing debate around the appropriate level of licensure for professions and occupations.
“Attacks on professional licensing have risen in frequency and scope over the last...
