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Career Development

My eventful, insightful summer at a North Carolina engineering firm

Internships provide invaluable experiences for civil engineering students and firms.

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Codes and Standards

Clear, truthful bylines protect the Society's technical content

An ASCE member complains someone is crediting his work: his former professor.

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Construction Engineering & Management

Measurement miscommunication lands glass supplier in costly liability

In construction, even the smallest dimensions mean money.

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Environmental Engineering

China supports biodiversity through bird-watching project

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Coasts, Oceans, Ports & Waterways Engineering

New Jersey project inspires AI model for wind farming

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Career Development

Public speaking is a critical skill civil engineers need to learn

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The urgent need for energy infrastructure improvements

The energy ecosystem must work to expand its capacities and meet needs.

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Space shuttle Endeavour stands tall in California Science Center display

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From the archives

Sepia-toned photograph shows a tunnel being built with its timber supports.

San Francisco’s hidden engineering feat: How a tunnel helped rebuild a city

Building the sewer required innovative technologies.

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The Mountain Dell Dam in Salt Lake City turned around an engineer’s career

Building it helped John S. Eastwood prove an engineering concept — and himself.

Photograph of a long concrete bridge over water that has many arches.

Pennsylvania’s Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge has endured for 95 years

It was once the world’s longest multiple-arch reinforced-concrete highway bridge.

Image shows a four-lane parkway. Autumn-colored trees dot the landscape in the background.

New York City parkway showcased beautiful, nature-like leisure spaces

The Bronx River Parkway provided a model for future traffic development.

Image shows a rooftop facility consisting of a multistory building, two domed structures, and housing. A road leads to the top of the mountain.

San Jose’s Lick Observatory took telescopes to new heights

Getting the main refracting telescope to the facility was an uphill battle.

Photo shows a steel bridge with concrete piers. The bridge spans a river.

Huey P. Long Bridge in New Orleans solved a big transportation problem

Completed in December 1935, the bridge combines a highway and railroad tracks.

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Engineers and steel took Seattle’s Space Needle skyward

1962 World’s Fair attraction turned catalogue-ordered beams into a 600 ft icon.

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The first New York City subway delivers speed

Innovative construction brought the rail to life.

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Ingenious design helps California’s Crystal Springs Dam stand strong

Its interlocking concrete block system enhances concrete’s structural stability.

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New explosives, pneumatic drills aid decadeslong tunnel construction

It took nearly 25 years to cut a railroad tunnel through the Hoosac Range.

Long reads that dig deep

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How Florida’s Babcock Ranch survived Hurricane Ian

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New computationally efficient model will ‘tame’ fire

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