Vision 2025 & The Roadmap to Achieve the Vision    The publication "The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025" and the recently released "Achieving the Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025: A Roadmap for the Profession" mark the culmination of almost eight years of ASCE's effort to redefine what it will mean to be a civil engineer in the world of the future. The original Vision 2025 report drew on the collective wisdom of more than 60 experts from around the world to create an appeal for civil engineers to take on an enhanced leadership role in society, one that improves the quality of life while creating a more sustainable world. Vision 2025 calls on civil engineers to control their own destiny, rather than letting events control it for them, and the new Roadmap shows the way. Source: http://content.asce.org/vision2025

ASCE Develops Critical Infrastructure Guiding Principles ASCE sponsored an industry summit on December 8-10, 2008 at Lansdowne Resort, to identify content for a guidance document outlining key attributes required for successful, safe, resilient, and sustainable critical infrastructure systems. The document will assist in proactively preventing infrastructure catastrophes such as the levee failures in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina or the collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis. The summit fostered meaningful discussions and insights from experts with wide-ranging roles in critical infrastructure: financiers, elected officials, civil servants, infrastructure advocacy group members, news media, engineers, and others. Summit participants were actively engaged in discussions focused on developing and sustaining resilient infrastructure systems. In support of the overarching guiding principle to protect public health, safety, and welfare, four fundamental guiding principles were developed: Quantifying, communicating, and managing risk. Exercising sound leadership, management, and stewardship in decision-making processes. Employing an integrated systems approach. Adapting critical infrastructure in response to dynamic conditions and practice. These guiding principles are fully interrelated. No one principle is more important than the others and all are required to protect public safety, health, and welfare. Source: http://content.asce.org/ilc/summit.html

 

2009 Report Card's D Grade Discover the specifics behind the grades at the official 2009 Report Card for America's Infrastructure site at http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/

ASCE Continuing Education Seminars/ Onsite Training/ Webinars/ Distance Learning View the Fall/Winter 2010-2011 Continuing Education Catalog in PDF format - Click here!