Everything purposeful about the new United States Courthouse is right there in its shape. Resembling a floating, translucent cube, it might give the statement “see you in court” a whole new meaning.
Meeting ambitious energy goals, matching function to form, and harnessing the strong sunlight of Southern California, the Courthouse, in downtown Los Angeles, has been honored by ASCE as a finalist for the 2019...
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:
• John C. Crittenden, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, NAE, with the 2020 Simon W. Freese Environmental Engineering Award and Lecture
• Rao S. Govindaraju, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, with the 2019 Ven Te Chow Award
• Barbara Ellen Spang Minsker, Ph.D.,...
If Board meetings had themes, this one would be “the future.”
Early on the agenda for the recent ASCE Board of Direction meeting, held Jan. 24 in Orlando, FL, was the reveal of a new, future-focused name and logo for ASCE’s key educational initiative. Formerly known as “Raise the Bar,” the initiative is now entitled “Engineer Tomorrow: Knowledge for a Changing World.” The rebranding reflects...
Her story begins in Nicaragua, but follow closely, because the plot moves all over the map from there.
Madeley Arriola Guerrero, A.M.ASCE, an associate engineer for Chen Moore and Associates in West Palm Beach, FL, holds a remarkably world-wise perspective early in her career thanks to a decade of global education and engineering work. ASCE has honored her as a 2019 New Face of Civil...
Salvador Bentolila has traveled the world, engineering and implementing water solutions.
But it was a trip to Kenya last summer that really drove home the importance of his work.
“I had read about and seen images of how communities in Kenya lived and knew about all their issues with water, but it really made an impact on me when I went there and saw it with...
So, what exactly do engineers do when they go to work each day?
Andrea DuMont thought she knew.
After all, she grew up in a family of engineers. She aced her math and science classes. President of the robotics club in high school. Good grades in college. Civil engineering major.
And yet …
“I grew up thinking I would just sit in a cubicle, do some math, do...
It’s finals week at Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Ashley Morales-Cartagena is working late again. Eight-hour days easily turn into 12-hour days. Tonight, it’s been more like 15.
Which is fine. Morales-Cartagena always has time for her students. As the youngest female director of a civil engineering department in the Dominican Republic, she knows her position as a role...
Monica Morales grew up in Reno, the daughter of parents who each work at casinos. So it was probably inevitable that her career path would come down to a game of chance.
As a senior in high school, Morales was excited to be headed for college. The only question was what to study. Everything from medicine to fashion design was under consideration.
Then one day, a...
Mariah Peart’s career in civil engineering has been a little bit like building a house.
And, listen, we’re not employing metaphor here to create some kind of literary effect. It’s the literal truth.
Peart’s parents’ desire to design and build their own house goes back a decade. Middle-school aged Mariah, growing up in Brunswick, GA, took note.
“I loved to look at home design books and blueprints...
Siddhartha Roy came to the United States in 2012 for a graduate degree that would put him in position to someday use civil engineering to, as he put it, “reduce avoidable human suffering and help people.”
Little did he know just how soon that “someday” would turn out to be.
As a graduate student at Virginia Tech, Roy joined a team of researchers led by Tech...
