Civil engineers are essential to solving the significant issues facing the planet, both today and tomorrow. They serve as systems integrators and work on complex projects with diverse global teams. They must be competent, collaborative and ethical. They must be innovators, environmental stewards, managers of risk and active in public policy. And ultimately, civil engineers must be effective leaders.
ASCE introduced iLead this year with...
Raymond Dow “RD” Odell, a design engineer, past president of the ASCE North Carolina Section and current Region 4 governor, has died. He was 61.
As the Society's at-large Region 4 governor, Odell, P.E., M.ASCE, was serving a term that began in 2017. He was senior design engineer with the engineering, management and development firm Louis Berger in its Raleigh, North Carolina, office.
Odell had more...
Richard N. “Dick” Wright III, a structural engineering researcher who was highly respected within ASCE and throughout civil engineering for encouraging adoption of sustainability, has died at 87.
A native of Syracuse, New York, Wright, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Syracuse University. By the time he earned his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...
And here we thought the future of engineering was smart technology.
Perhaps there is merit in the art of being dumb. Technically speaking, at least.
The Emerald Tutu earned the Overall Grand Challenge Award, Thursday, during the 2019 ASCE Innovation Contest celebration event at ASCE Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The Emerald Tutu’s lead developer, Gabriel Cira, himself refers to the project as dumb tech rather than...
Guillermo Díaz-Fañas started Qu-AKE – the Queer Advocacy Knowledge Exchange – a nonprofit serving and supporting LGBTQ+ professionals who work in the built environment.
ASCE has honored S. P. Anusha, Ph.D.; Lelitha Vanajakshi, Ph.D.; Shankar Subramanian, Ph.D.; and Laurence Rilett, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Wellington Prize for their paper “Cycle-by-Cycle Analysis of Signalized Intersections for Varying Traffic Conditions with Erroneous Detector Data,” Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, August 2017.
Traffic congestion at signalized intersections on urban arterials is a major issue faced by system...
ASCE has honored Jordan Aaron, Ph.D.; Oldrich Hungr, Ph.D.; Timothy Stark, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, and Ahmed Baghdady, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Norman Medal for their paper “Oso, Washington, Landslide of March 22, 2014: Dynamic Analysis,” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, September 2017.
This paper provides a means for predicting the runout distance of future landslides with similar topography and failure mechanism by...
ASCE has honored Don Nguyen, P.E., M.ASCE; Noe Santos, P.E., M.ASCE; and Siavash Zamiran, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, with the 2019 Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement. They are cited for professional achievement in service to the advancement of the profession, evidence of technical competence, high character and integrity, and contributions to public service.
Nguyen is a leader in the Society and in the...
ASCE has honored Bilal M. Ayyub, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE, with the 2019 Le Val Lund Award for Practicing Lifeline Risk Reduction for his contributions to resilience enhancement and risk reduction for lifeline-networked systems through measurement science and associated economics toward informing policy and decision-making practices.
Ayyub’s work is highly aligned with the intent of this award. It covers many aspects of risk analysis and...
ASCE has honored the writing team of Juan Delgado, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; Liam Butler, Ph.D., P.Eng.; Ioannis Brilakis, Ph.D., M.ASCE; Mohammed Elshafie, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, and Campbell Middleton with the 2019 Croes Medal for their paper “Structural Performance Monitoring Using a Dynamic Data-Driven BIM Environment,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, May 2018.
From the Abstract:
Structural health monitoring data has not been fully leveraged to support asset...
