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Robert Hoeksema explores Holland's unique challenges in water control and management across the centuries and highlights related landmarks of interest to engineers.

This book contains 29 selected papers dealing with urban water resources selected from more than 40 years of materials prepared by the Urban Water Resources Research Council.

Wright takes readers on a tour of Tipon's canals, plazas, aqueducts, and fountains—infrastructure that transformed a remote mountainside into a true engineering marvel.

Richard Weingardt provides a unique view into the history and progress of 32 great American civil engineers, from the 1700s to the present.

This collection contains 17 papers presented at the Fifth National History and Heritage Congress at the 2004 ASCE Annual Conference and Exposition, held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 20-23, 2004.

This collection contains 31 historical papers presented at history and heritage sessions at the Environmental and Water Resources Congress, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 27-July 1, 2004.

This collection contains 22 papers presented at the Fourth National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage at the 2002 ASCE Civil Engineering Conference and Exposition, held in Washington, D.C., November 2-6, 2002.

This collection contains 22 papers presented at sessions on the ASCE 150th Anniversary at the 2002 ASCE Civil Engineering Conference and Exposition, held in Washington, D.C., November 3-7, 2002.

This collection contains 20 peer-reviewed papers presented at a symposium to honor Henry Philibert Caspard Darcy, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 23-26, 2003.

Dean Herrin has created a visual sampler of America's nineteenth-century engineering and technology that illuminates the scope and variety of America's industrial transformation.