Host a Local West Point Bridge Design Contest at Your School
This Month in Your Civil Engineering magazine
Is somebody working to find you a job? ASCE Will
Geo-Denver 2007 - Call for Graduate and Undergraduate Papers
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December 2006
Happy Holidays from ASCE
Campus Commons
Discover rewarding ASCE member benefits and resources here. From dues discounts after graduation to networking opportunities with industry professionals, let us be the hook-up for your career in civil engineering.
We've Made Our Holiday List. Check out five things you can do over your Holiday break with ASCE:
- Renew your 2007 membership if you haven't yet. Sure, you pay nothing, but all students are required to renew each year by Jan. 1. Renew online at www.asce.org/renewal or call (800) 548-2723.
- Network with fellow ASCE members at the local Section, Branch, and Younger Member Group meeting near you.
- Shop for the civil engineer in your life, or yourself, at ASCE's online Gift Store. Plus enjoy 10 percent off for the rest of 2006.
- Catch up on your reading, outside of your textbooks, with exciting new titles from ASCE Publications.
- Beef up your resume by visiting ASCE's Career Connections - May Grads can search for their first job, or line up that summer internship.
Announcements
Host a Local West Point Bridge Design Contest at Your School
What inspired you to major in civil engineering? Help the next generation of young engineers find their inspiration by participating in The West Point Bridge Design Contest’s Internet-based competition. Your Student Chapter or Club can host a Local Contest for high school and middle school kids in the area that introduces them to civil engineering in a realistic and fun environment, and allows your school to build its community presence and the future of the profession. For more details, visit http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/local.htm
This Month in your Civil Engineering magazine:
Your online membership gives you instant access to the profession's latest innovations, remarkable projects and the expertise of your colleagues. See what's new in this month's CE.
Career Resources
Is Somebody Working to Find You a Job? ASCE Will
One of the worst parts of job hunting is trying to find the position that meets all your criteria. Don't worry - ASCE has the solution for you. With the Career Connections Job Agent, it's like having a personal headhunter do the looking for you.
- Start at careers.asce.org/search/agent/index.cfm
- Highlight the criteria that matches your needs
- Put your agent to work
You'll receive e-mail alerts when new jobs meet your criteria. Plus, you can apply for it right there.
Let Career Connections be the only place you go for your civil engineering job and internship needs.
Younger Member News
ASCE Younger Members are your gateway to the civil engineering profession and a powerful networking community following graduation.
You Control Your Career Path
By Eric Fisher, P.E., M.ASCE
Central Geographic Member – Committee on Younger Members
efisher@browngay.com
My parents once told me that time goes by faster as you get older. I’m proving this theory to be true as each day passes. Opportunities for personal growth lurk at each fork in the road. You may ask how many forks in the road exist, and this will depend on how much you “eat.”
Civil engineers are hungry for knowledge by nature. This knowledge is applied to solve issues that affect the safety and welfare of the public. Avenues to obtain knowledge include reading and watching the news, but the best way to learn is hands-on. Knowing how to figure the forces acting on a beam will help design the beam, but you always need to see how this beam transfers energy through the entire structure.
The same theory applies to your career path. Early in your career, you will be given assignments to solve individual tasks of a given project. How you handle the early design tasks shows your supervisor how you may be able to handle increased responsibility on bigger projects.
To accelerate your career path, take time to involve yourself in professional societies. Professional societies such as ASCE offer opportunities to enhance your management skills. You will be given opportunities to organize events, hold meetings, give presentations, and network. I’m lucky to have friends all across the U.S. as a result of my involvement with ASCE’s Committee on Younger Members (CYM).
You control your career path. The more involvement you have in your projects at work and professional organizations after work will expedite your career growth. If you can learn how to motivate volunteers to reach goals in their free time, you can motivate anyone receiving a paycheck.
Younger Members are those ASCE members who are 35-years-old and younger. Your local ASCE Branch or Section probably has an active Younger Member Group. Younger Member Groups across the country participate in community service events, technical seminars, and social activities. Getting involved with your local group while still a student will help you to make contacts that could help you with getting an internship or job after 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.
Not sure if your local Branch or Section has a Younger Member Group, check out the following Web site, www.asce.org/inside/cym_contacts.cfm#online. Still not sure, feel free to contact Loreen Choate at asceymf@earthlink.net.
Conferences, Competitions & Publications
Shake hands with industry colleagues, open doors to new professional opportunities, exchange ideas with fellow students, and stay on the cutting-edge of industry trends. ASCE conferences and publications are more than your gateway to specialty technical information.
Consider attending or contributing to these upcoming conferences:
Geo-Denver 2007 - Call for Graduate and Undergraduate Papers
When: Feb. 18-21, 2007
Where: Denver, CO, Adam's Mark Hotel
Details: content.asce.org/conferences/geodenver07/students.html
Submissions: Design papers are due Jan. 12, 2007
Design and build miniature reinforced-soil retaining walls inside plywood forms, using sand with paper affixed to a posterboard wall facing as reinforcement. To participate, student teams must meet the guidelines and submit a design paper. Design papers will be reviewed by a geotechnical panel and ranked - top ranked teams will be awarded a $2,000 travel grant and complimentary conference registrations for team members and their faculty advisor. Only one team per school will be allowed to compete.
Join us for the major Geo-Institute event of the year. Watch for the preliminary program and details about a variety of student activities such as GeoJeopardy, a Job Fair and Poster Sessions.
These civil engineering titles provide a unique gift opportunity for family and friends—or for your own reading enjoyment. Happy Holidays from ASCE Publications!
Don't Throw This Away! The Civil Engineering Life
Member Price $31.50
Softcover, 160 pp., Stock# 40888
Engineering Your Future, Second Edition
Member Price $33.75
Softcover, 528 pp., Stock# 40489
Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers
Member Price $49
Hardcover, 232 pp., Stock# 40841
