ASCE Launches New Student Web site
The new ASCE student homepage is live, providing you with essential ASCE information, career enhancing opportunities, and updates on resources to help you maximize your membership. Find updates on ASCE competitions, new student benefits—like our partnership with Engineers Without Borders - USA—manage your membership, and coming soon, podcasts and blogs specifically geared toward student members.
>> Take a tour of the new student Web site today!
Oh the Places You’ll Go With Engineering 
In June, Ken Maschke, A.M.ASCE, an active ASCE member and incoming chair of the committee on pre-college outreach, embarked on a six-month externship to Denmark. The purpose of Ken’s externship is to gain some international exposure to structural engineering and to be an ambassador for his company in Chicago, The Thornton Tomasetti Group. In his blog, Six Months in Copenhagen—An Engineer’s Experience, readers will learn more about the experiences of a young civil engineer living and working abroad, and the exciting opportunities and challenges that civil engineers face in their careers.
Download a FREE Autodesk Student Edition of AutoCAD Civil 3D
Are you studying Civil Engineering? Why not download a Student Edition of AutoCAD Civil 3D from the Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community. Using AutoCAD Civil 3D software provides you with the tools to help you compete and succeed in civil engineering careers. Civil 3D is a powerful civil engineering application that uses a dynamic civil model to help you accelerate projects and maximize accuracy. Educators can easily integrate Civil 3D into engineering design classes using the AutoCAD Civil 3D Education Curriculum.
>>Download now by joining the Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community.
Find the Career Path that's Right for You
ASCE understands that the beginning of the school year is a busy time. But it's never too soon to think about lining up your next internship, and ASCE's Career Connections can help. Take these quick steps today to get you started down the right career path:
- Post your resume and cover letters online
- Search our robust internship bank, full of top civil engineering firms
- Put the Career Connections Job Agent to work for you by identifying the criteria for your dream internship/job - when your keywords are matched, you will receive an e-mail with the description and opportunity to apply
Bookmark Career Connections and gain the experience you need to jumpstart your civil engineering career.
Networking with Civil Engineers
By: Gregory J. Kuklinski, P.E., M.ASCE
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Eastern Geographic Member - Committee on Younger Members (CYM)
gkuklinski@benesch.com
I remember at the end of my freshman year at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA signing up for a college club called ASCE. The first meeting that I went to was similar to other organizations at Lehigh. There were students giving presentations in the front of the room and there was free food in the back ( I think the free food was the selling point for most of the students to get them to come). I didn’t realize until my sophomore year that ASCE was a national organization with more than 130,000 members at the time, including Sections, Branches, and Younger Members. I was one of the lucky students to have a mentor who was a professional engineer working in the area. Along with some of my classmates, we worked on a project to rehabilitate a playground in a downtown urban area for a public service project. We learned how to write specifications, create a cost estimate, and develop a set of plans for construction.
I mention my experience to show you that there is much more in ASCE beyond your student chapter. Every college and university is assigned up to two Practitioner Advisors (PA) from the local Section or Branch. The PA is one of the best people that you get can to know. They are your link to the outside world and a mentor to you before and after graduation. I charge all of you to get to know your PA. If you don’t know who they are, ask your Faculty Advisor or contact one of your local Section board members. To find a Section or Branch in your area, go to www.asce.org/local. It is very important to form a connection with those engineers working in the field as the networking possibilities are endless.
Don’t forget to register for the 2007 Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Orlando, FL. There will be some great opportunities for you to mingle with Younger Members and Students from around the country. There are some special Student Tours planned for Saturday, November 3, but space is limited! Check out the conference Web site at www.asceannualconference.org.
As the semester begins, try and make it a goal to attend a Younger Member or Section activity, introduce yourself and see what ASCE has to offer outside your campus. Students are always welcome and you are guaranteed to learn something and possibly even find a job opportunity during your summer vacation or post graduation.
The Younger Member Groups around the country are under the Committee on Younger Members (CYM), which is the national ASCE committee representing members age 35 and under.
Find out if your local Section or Branch has a Younger Member Group or contact Greg Kuklinski at gkuklinski@benesch.com.
Daniel W. Mead Prize Awarded
Rachel N. Howser, S.M.ASCE, earned the 2007 Daniel W. Mead prize for her paper, “Eminent Domain and the Engineer’s Ethical Responsibility.” The Mead Prize recognizes a student's outstanding paper on professional ethics. Howser will accept the award from her chapter in Indianapolis later this month. Are you the next Mead winner?
>>For complete information on the Mead Prize and all Society awards, please visit www.asce.org/awards.
ASCE’s 137th Annual Civil Engineering Conference
Where: Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Orlando, FL
When: November 1-3, 2007
The new school year is about to begin! Plan to attend this year’s Annual Conference in Orlando and participate in programs specifically designed for ASCE student members, including an interactive series of exercises aimed at improving your communication and team building skills. Plus, take the “Innovation in Action” tour – a behind the scenes look at Disney World – highlighting Walt Disney’s myriad accomplishments. Take this unforgettable journey to see how Disney makes its “magic.”
>> Plan your mid-semester break and make your reservation today!
Work Side by Side with Practicing Engineers at the 2007 Annual Conference Community Service Event!
When: Sunday, November 4, 2007, 7:30 a.m. — 5:00 p.m.
Contact: Alicia Karwoski
ASCE and Rebuilding Together® of Central Florida are partnering again to refurbish the Frontline Outreach Center in Orlando during the 2007 ASCE Annual Conference. Potential projects include rehabilitating the exterior parking area by performing a traffic flow study, constructing a trash dumpster enclosure, and interior painting.
>> Find out how you can give back to the Orlando community.
Student Robotics Competition - Space Elevator, Jr.
When: March 3-5, 2008
Where: Long Beach, CA
Contact: Dr. Ahad Nasab
Next floor: space! ASCE’s Technical Activities Committee is sponsoring a competition at the 2008 Earth & Science Conference, challenging students to design and build a climber able to move up a 30-foot vertical solely under radiative power received from a light source at the ribbon’s base.
>> Are you and your civil engineering peers up for the task?
EWRI Recognizes 2007 Participants, Plans for 2008
When: May 13-16, 2008
Where: Honolulu, Hawaii
Contact: Balu Bhayani or Dr. Katharine Leonard
EWRI’s Student and New Professionals Council (SANPAC) gathered students and Younger Members in the Tampa area in late May for The World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, where students competed in the Parsons Brinckerhoff Student Design Competition, the annual Student and Young Member Photography Competition, and the Student Paper Competition.
