This historic initiative is designed not only to generate the resources necessary to ensure the success of numerous public awareness programs planned in conjunction with ASCE's 150th anniversary, but also to build an Innovation Fund for CERF to expedite the movement of innovation into practice for the civil engineering, construction, and environmental community worldwide.

The ASCE Foundation has established a minimum campaign goal of $6 million for 2002: Building The Future to be raised over two years culminating at ASCE's 150th anniversary in November 2002. Resources are being sought from across the engineering, construction, and environmental community, including corporations, foundations, ASCE members, and other friends and supporters of the Society and CERF. The ASCE Foundation invites all who care about the future of civil engineering to support 2002: Building The Future.

ASCE's 150th Anniversary Programs

As a major initiative of its 150th anniversary celebration in 2002, ASCE and its members are conducting a wide spectrum of national and community activities designed to promote and extend the legacy that is our Society, its members, and the profession. Not only will ASCE recognize its own rich heritage, but it will work especially to elevate the public's understanding and appreciation of the entire profession's contributions to the world we know today. The anniversary programs emphasize three goals:

     1. Increasing the public's awareness and understanding of civil engineering by

• Sponsoring a five-part PBS television series on the wonder of monumental civil engineering structures. As a sponsor of Building Big^TM, [link to Building Big site] ASCE is actively involved in the accompanying educational outreach initiative directed toward middle school-aged students.
• Circulating a major museum exhibit in key cities across the nation that will relate the contributions of civil engineering to the daily lives of everyday people.
• Organizing National Engineers Week 2002. Working with a consortium of more than 100 engineering, scientific, and education societies, and major corporations, ASCE will work to increase public awareness and appreciation of the engineering profession.
• Hosting the 2002 Civil Engineering Conference and Exposition in Washington, D.C.
• Conducting public service projects in hundreds of communities demonstrating how civil engineers serve their communities and their neighbors.

     2. Inspiring young people to become civil engineers by

• Sponsoring the West Point Bicentennial Engineering Design Contest (www.usma.edu/bridgecontest). This Internet-based contest is designed to bring engineering concepts and applications into highschool classrooms through extensive educational outreach culminating in bridge design entries and competitions in 2002.
• Conducting the first National Civil Engineering Student Convention, including the National Finals for the Concrete Canoe Competition, and the National Steel Bridge Design Competition.

     3. Preserving and promoting the history of civil engineering by

• Circulating exhibitions on the past achievements and future challenges of civil engineering through state capitals, schools, libraries, and other important venues across the country.
• Establishing a postage cancellation celebrating 150 years of civil engineering.
• Developing a Heritage Knowledge Base to position significant civil engineering information on the Internet.
• Designating key civil engineering works as National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.

With members, professional colleagues, and the public supporting and participating in these anniversary activities, ASCE is poised to create a public forum for understanding how civil engineers have built the very foundation of our modern society. With this support, ASCE can work to build a better future by meeting the needs and demands of 21st century society.

CERF: Moving Innovation Into Practice

As we cross the threshold into the third millennium, globalization of our planet has become a reality. Clients everywhere are demanding construction solutions that are better, cheaper, faster, and easier to maintain. In response, CERF has quickly become a major force for moving innovation into practice for the benefit and advancement of the civil engineering, construction, and environmental industry.

With institutional credibility and collaborative linkages to industry stakeholders, CERF has demonstrated an ability to identify essential industry needs while facilitating crosscutting partnering and collaboration activities. Following are but a few examples of CERF's products and services that provide value to all segments of the civil engineering, construction, and environmental industry.

• A web-based practitioner's guidebook on how to move innovation into the marketplace, and CERF's Innovative Technology Tradeshow to showcase technologies globally;
• Opportunities for manufacturers to penetrate the global markets through unified technical evaluations of manufactured products in Innovation Centers operated by CERF in the areas of highways (HITEC), public works (CEitec), the environment (EvTEC), buildings (NES-BIC), in addition to its founding role in the World Federation of Technical Assessment Organizations (WFTAO);
• Opportunities for the industry to assist in capacity building, market development, and meeting sustainable energy and infrastructure needs through CERF's network of regional offices in developing countries;
• Opportunities for senior industry executives to participate in CERF's Corporate Advisory Board which serves as a forum for planning and demonstrating technologies and for providing insights into information technology and knowledge management for use in promoting new technologies;
• Developing Internet-based communication mechanisms and clearinghouses to expand CERF's role in fostering collaborations between the research community and the private sector to enable the commercialization of technology;
• Expanding CERF's "benchmarking service" beyond the U.S. to include the global marketplace and to support world trade; and
• Using energy efficiency standards and renewable energy markets developed by CERF's affiliate, the International Institute for Energy Conservation to promote environmentally and economically sound development.

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