ASCE Pittsburgh Section

Welcome to Engineers Week 2021! Please join us in congratulating this year’s ASCE #Pittsburgh Section Student Awards Foundation Honorees (L-R)! AMERICAN BRIDGE LEADERSHIP AWARD: ISABEL LEE, Junior at University of Pittsburgh majoring in Civil Engineering. ITALY V. (ODY) MACKIN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: GRETA MARKEY, Junior at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring CEE / Engineering & Public Policy... ASCE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: ANDREW THOMPSON, Junior at Carnegie Mellon University majoring in CEE / Engineering &Public Policy. To see more honorees and the nomination qualifications for each of the awards, visit: http://asce-pgh.org/awards.htm #CivilEngineer #EWeek2021 #2020ASCEPghAwards #ThisisASCE #ASCEMadeMe @ASCETweets

Welcome to Engineers Week 2021! Please join us in congratulating this year’s ASCE #Pittsburgh Section Awardees! 2020 MICHAEL A. GROSS MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO THE PITTSBURGH SECTION: ANGELA MAYER, E.I.T.! Angela has been actively involved with ASCE for several years: Initially as a WVU student chapter member and then through leadership roles with the Pittsburgh Section Younger Member Forum and Board of Direction. She continues to serve our Section at a national level as Regio...n 2 Governor. Her ASCE HIGHLIGHTS & AWARDS: YMF Outreach Committee Chair (2009-2012), YMF Executive Board (2012-2015), Pittsburgh Section Board of Directors (2013-2016), Pittsburgh Section, 100th Year Celebration (2016-2018), Region 2 Younger Member Rep. (2018-2019), Region 2 Board of Directors Governor (2019-present), Region 2 Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year (2018), ERYMC Outstanding Young CE in the Private Sector (2016, 2018), ASCE Daniel W. Mead Prize (2017), ASCE Edmund Friedman Young Eng. Award (2016), Pittsburgh Section Outstanding Younger Member (2015), To see more honorees and the nomination qualifications for each of the awards, visit: http://asce-pgh.org/awards.htm/ #CivilEngineer #EWeek2021 #2020ASCEPghAwards #ThisisASCE #ASCEMadeMe @ASCETweets @PGH_ASCE_YMF

The Geo-Institute is proud to present our annual Terzaghi Lecture. Join us for this fascinating webinar featuring Dr. Edward Cording, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Observing and Controlling Ground Behavior During Tunneling, on November 19, from 12:00 pm 1:00 pm. For details and registration visit: http://asce-pgh.org//November%202020%20GI%20Meeting%20Flye

"This year continues to present challenges and test our resilience." #ASCEPGH President Jonathan Shimko talks Autumn leaves, #Voting, celebrating #LifeMembers, attending #ASCEconference, and passing PE exams. He reminds us, "Don't sit this one out." Read more about it and check out his October video message, too, at: http://www.asce-pgh.org/PresMessage #happyfallyall #votingmatters #ASCETweets #pittsburgh

"...it can be so easy to get caught up in the membership numbers, or attendee counts for events, that we lose sight of our purpose for coming together as civil engineering professionals." Read President-Elect Erin Feichtner's take-a-ways from the 2020 Presidents and Governor's Forum to learn more! http://www.asce-pgh.org/Blog/9289290 #ascepgh

What do Doc Brown’s DeLorean, a Game Show, Shimko In Wonderland and William Penn have in common? Who famously said, "Time is what we want most but what we use worst"? Don't be late! Go back to the future to the your Sep2020 President’s Message now to find out! http://www.asce-pgh.org/PresMessage

As Americans stayed at home due to the pandemic, state budgets and transportation revenues have seen serious declines in gas tax receipts. Revenue from the federal Highway Trust fund dropped 49% percent in May 2020 when compared to May 2019, while state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are projecting, on average, a 30% revenue decline over the next 18 months. What can be done? Check out https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/covid-status-repo/