Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career , by Anthony Fasano, P.E., is a book that provides...
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
One thing I have learned in my short time in the field of engineering is that all successful engineers and innovators have incorporated thes...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Brian Skelcher, a civil engineer from Hamden, CT, has put together an interesting documentary about his 15-day visit to Abheypur, India with...
Monday, March 5, 2012
For those of you who are interested in tunnel construction, at this point in time, this is one of the major projects being undertaken in Mia...
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Tensar International Corporation, Inc. has released a paper presenting the results of full-scale testing on geogrid-reinforced roadways per...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Well this is some great news for us Civil Engineers! U.S. News has ranked Civil Engineering jobs as No. 26 in the Best Jobs of 2012 list. Th...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The Fort Steuben Bridge, which is one of the few bridges that crossed the Ohio River, was imploded on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. This 83-ye...
Friday, February 17, 2012
Engineers in Florida have saved a substantial amount of time and money in a project that required the construction of embankments at the app...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Politics aside, it seems like President Obama has been hard at work trying to get funding for civil engineering related projects. One of his...
Friday, February 10, 2012
Failures due to soil liquefaction have been a known problem for some time. Fortunately, a new technology developed by Boise State University...
Thursday, February 9, 2012
There are great programs to encourage the participation of small businesses owned and managed by socially and economically disadvantaged ind...
On a previous post , I started to discuss what exactly is the field of Geotechnical Engineering, but did not go into too much depth. Well, w...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Finally, after much opposition from local residents, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Broward County officials have broke groun...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Ask anyone who an architect is and what they do and they'll most likely tell you something along the lines of designing buildings. It is...
Friday, January 27, 2012
The road to getting a project usually starts with a firm preparing a bid package in response to the Owner’s invitation to bid. It is importa...
So, you've landed a job as a Geotechnical Engineer. What now? We all know that before performing any site investigation it is prudent to...
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Today at work I attended an ASCE luncheon at the 94 th Aero Squadron in Miami International Airport for a presentation honoring the ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Last week a few friends approached me and asked if I wanted to get season tickets to the inaugural season of the Florida (sorry... Miami) Ma...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
They say bigger is always better right? Well, the Chinese certainly think so. The worlds largest piles (in terms of diameter) have been succ...
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