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9 unusual facts about American Society of Civil Engineers


Eagle Ridge Mall

The publication of American Society of Civil Engineers in October 1999 contained a study detailing how these sinkholes were fixed.

Edward Bartow

As a member of the American Public Health Association, he was chairman of its laboratory section and supervised several editions of its Standard Methods of Water Analysis. Qualified through his consulting work, he became a member of the sanitary engineering division of American Society of Civil Engineers, served on its executive committee for five years and was its chairman for two years.

High Bridge, Kentucky

The American Society of Civil Engineers has designated it a National Engineering Landmark.

Johnson Siding, South Dakota

Johnson's Mill was also the head of the Hisega Flume, a wooden waterway constructed high on the south cliffs of the Rapid Creek canyon to supply a small hydroelectric plant at Big Bend near present-day Thunderhead Falls in the early 1900s, one of several National Engineering Landmarks in the Black Hills, which is now a popular bed and breakfast.

M.E. Norman

On May 8, 1925, M.E. Norman was one of two ships used to provide a sightseeing tour for attendees and families of the Mid-South convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers in Memphis, Tennessee.

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin

In 1993, the blimp hangars were designated National Civil Engineering Landmarks by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Schiers

Designed by Robert Maillart and completed in 1930, in 1991 it was the first bridge to be designated an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Steel bridge competition

The ASCE/AISC steel bridge competition is a student contest that tests the knowledge and practicality of teams of university students from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapters in the field of structural engineering.

The competition is principally sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Construction with additional sponsorship by the American Iron and Steel Institute, the National Steel Bridge Alliance, Nucor Corporation, and The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation.


Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives

Among the organizations that are members (as of November 15, 2006) include the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, American Oil Chemists' Society, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Society for Quality, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Institute of Food Technologists, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the National Academy of Engineering, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.

Craigellachie Bridge

The bridge has been given Category A listed status by Historic Scotland and has been designated a civil engineering landmark by the Institution of Civil Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers.

George Bugliarello

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Engineering Education, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Biomedical Engineering Society, and a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Joseph A. Ahearn

During his career, Ahearn became affiliated with the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of American Military Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Public Works Association.

Prithvi Singh Kandhal

Kandhal has served as chairman of the US Transportation Research Board Committee on Asphalt Mixtures (6 years); chairman of the ASTM International D04 Committee on Road and Paving Materials (2 years) which is responsible for over 200 standards used worldwide; president of the Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, which has members in all continents of the world; and chairman of the American Society of Civil Engineers Subcommittee on Asphalt.

Society

Some academic, professional, and scientific associations describe themselves as societies (for example, the American Mathematical Society, the American Society of Civil Engineers, or the Royal Society).

TCNJ School of Engineering

Student-run organizations within the School of Engineering include the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the Society of Women Engineers, among others.

Walter Katte

Katte led design and construction of Eads Bridge at St. Louis, Park Avenue Viaduct, and construction of the Weehawken Tunnel in New Jersey, was Chief Engineer of the New York Central Railroad company, founding member of Western Society of Engineers and one of early members and director of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

William Milnor Roberts

As a young civil engineer involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge, the chief engineer of Northern Pacific Railroad, America's second transcontinental railroad, and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers scarcely two decades after its founding, Roberts was one of the most prolific and prominent civil engineer of his generation in the United States.


see also

Gilbert T. Rude

Captain Rude was a member of several engineering and scientific societies, including the American Society of Civil Engineers, Philosophical Society of Washington, the Association of American Geographers, the Society of American Military Engineers, the International Aeroarctic Society, and others.

St. Francis Dam

The Santa Clara River Protective Association employed the geologist and Stanford University professor emeritus, Dr. Bailey Willis, and eminent San Francisco Civil Engineer and past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Carl E. Grunsky.

Thomas Kierans

While at MUN he worked with Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro on the 1975 attempt at a hydropower only crossing of the Strait of Belle Isle, chaired the Environmental Committee on Brinco’s Kitts-Michelin uranium project, and was on the Editorial Board of the American Society Of Civil Engineers’ Manual on Nuclear Structures And Materials.