How to Staff Your Practice for the 21st Century? Make It Diverse

Learn to serve your community more effectively and successfully in the years ahead by hiring professionals that reflect its diversity. Pick up a copy of ASCE's newly released guide Diversity by Design: Guide to Fostering Diversity in the U.S. Civil Engineering Workforce, containing practical, hands-on ways to foster, improve, and maintain a diverse and thriving civil engineering practice. Gain a better understanding of diversity so you can recruit, retain, mentor and manage a diverse workforce. The guide was developed in association with ASCE's Committee on Diversity and Women in Civil Engineering (CDWCE).

Get a FREE sneak peek at the diversity guide. Click here to see the table of contents and read the executive summary.

To order the guide, click here.

Special Diversity Issue of Leadership and Management in Engineering (LME) Journal

CDWCE member Dr. James H. Johnson, Jr., F.ASCE served as Guest Editor of the January 2008 Special Diversity Issue of the Leadership and Management in Engineering (LME) Journal. See articles below:

• Introduction to the Special Issue on Diversity
• LGBT-Friendly Workplaces in Engineering
• Pit Stops and Scenic Routes: How to Aid Women to Stay on Track in Their Careers
• Special Issue on Diversity
• Diversity Is Key to a World-Class Organization
• Diversity in Engineering Education: An African American Female Professor's Perspective

Webinar on Career Off-ramping (Access slides now!)

On May 28, 2008 the CDWCE sponsored a live, online webinar entitled Luring Off-ramped Talent Back into the Engineering Workforce that explored effective policies and procedures companies can implement to accommodate a variety of non-traditional work-life arrangements for male and female employees. The webinar examined gender differences in attitudes toward career "off-ramping," offered strategies and solutions for companies to lure "off ramped" talent back to the workforce and presented ways to keep flexible work policies free from stigmas to ensure that talented employees do not avoid non-standard work arrangements.

2007 Structures Congress - Diversity Workshop: Mentoring for Success in Structural Engineering

Co-facilitators: C. Gary Kellogg, P.E., S.E., Vice President, Professional Services Delon Hampton & Associates, Chartered (Washington, DC) and Jeff Dingle, P.E., Vice President, Southern Region Delon Hampton & Associates, Chartered (Atlanta, Georgia) will lead the Mentoring for Success in Structural Engineering workshop at the 2007 Structures Congress on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 5:30pm - 7:00pm (Reception will follow).

»Click here for a full workshop description, date and time.

ASCE Members on Diversity Workshop

At ASCE's 2006 Annual Conference, the Committee on Diversity and Women in Civil Engineering (CDWCE) hosted the session "ASCE Members on Diversity" to explore how issues of diversity impact the engineering profession. Special guest Michael D. Smith, D.Eng. of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Kim Parker Brown, Corresponding Member of the CDWCE, weigh in on the discussion.