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About ASCE Contributors ASCE Home About ASCE Contributors ASCE Home Featured Post Society News -- Civil Engineering Special Coverage: COVID-19 April 9, 2020 THROUGHOUT April and May, Civil Engineering magazine will offer online coverage of how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the civil engineering and construction professions. The practice of civil engineering and the construction and maintenance of Read more >> BY Laurie A. Shuster ASCE Releases Roadmap for the Future of Civil Engineering Education July 9, 2020 The 2019 ASCE Education Summit, held in Dallas last May, included a mission statement of sorts as its subtitle: “Mapping the Future of Civil Engineering Education.” A year later, ASCE has released that map. The… Read More >> BY  Ben Walpole -- BY Ben Walpole Get to Know ASCE 2021 President-Elect Dennis Truax July 8, 2020 Elected by ASCE members in May, 2021 President-Elect Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE, will assume his duties in October. Truax has spent four decades on the civil engineering faculty at Mississippi… Read More >> BY  Ben Walpole -- BY Ben Walpole Past ASCE Innovation Contest Winner RoadBotics Fulfills Its Promise July 2, 2020 Five years in, the ASCE Innovation Contest has produced a remarkable legacy of bright ideas and infrastructure solutions. Among the most successful of success stories is RoadBotics, a Pittsburgh-based company that uses smartphone and artificial… Read More >> BY  Ben Walpole -- BY Ben Walpole New ASCE Fellows – June 2020 June 30, 2020 ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives. Just 3 percent of Society members hold this prestigious honor. The most recent members elevated to Fellow… Read More >> BY  Staff -- BY Staff Ask Anthony: How Can I Get My Manager to Take My Ideas Seriously? June 29, 2020 In a recent session of our people skills course for engineers, I received the following question from one of our participants and thought was perfect for this column: Do you have some advice on how… Read More >> BY  Anthony Fasano -- BY Anthony Fasano Connecting the DOTs: Inside the Need for Immediate State Revenue Relief June 25, 2020 The scenes this spring along highways cutting through Seattle were something out of a “Twilight Zone” episode. Morning commute, midday, 5 p.m. rush hour – it didn’t matter. There were barely any cars on the… Read More >> BY  Ben Walpole -- BY Ben Walpole All News Save America's Infrastructure FY21 Appropriations Bills Pass Out of House Commerce, Justice, Science and as Labor, HHS, Education Subcommittees July 09, 2020 Two more Appropriations bills have joined the rush of FY 2021 funding bills working their way through the House Appropriations Committee. The Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies and the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies both completed work on their respective funding bills this week and each... Read More >> House FY21 Homeland Security, Interior & Environment, and Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bills on the Move July 08, 2020 This week, several subcommittees within the House Committee on Appropriations marked up Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations bills. All 12 appropriations bills must pass both chambers of Congress and be signed into law by September 30, 2020 in order to avoid a government shutdown. In recent years, Congress has not been able to pass the appropriations... Read More >> House Appropriators Markup FY2021 Transportation Spending Bill July 08, 2020 On the heels of the House passing the Moving Forward Act last week, Chairman David Price (D-NC4) and the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies marked up and passed their spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2021. The legislation provides $75.9 billion in total discretionary spending – a... Read More >> Civil Engineers respond to House passage of $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan, Moving Forward Act; continues call for bipartisanship July 01, 2020 The following is a statement by K.N. Gunalan “Guna,” Ph.D., P.E., President, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in response to the House passage of H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act: Today, the House of Representatives prioritized modern, resilient, and sustainable infrastructure as part of America’s recovery. We commend the House for making infrastructure investment a... Read More >> All Save America's Infrastructure Posts Categories Podcasts Society News Careers & Leadership Perspectives Promote the Profession Save America's Infrastructure Sustainable Engineering Technical Notes Archives Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) represents more than 150,000 members worldwide and is America's oldest national engineering society. ASCE Home Privacy Policy Policies and Disclaimers © 2020...