AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS

The 'American Society of Civil Engineers' ('ASCE') is a professional body, founded in 1852, to represent members of the civil engineering profession worldwide. It is the oldest national engineering society in the United States.
Its world headquarters is in Reston, Virginia.

Contents

Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

Monuments of the Millennium

World Wonders

Publications

Awards

Wesley W. Horner Award

Competitions

External links

Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

The ASCE designates national and international Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.

Monuments of the Millennium

The society canvassed its members in 1999 to identify the ten civil engineering achievements that had the greatest positive impact on life in the 20th century. They chose to recognize broad categories of achievements rather than individual projects[1]:

★ Airport design and development, as exemplified by the Kansai International Airport

★ Dams, as exemplified by Hoover Dam

★ The Interstate highway system

★ Long-span bridges, as exemplified by the Golden Gate Bridge

★ Rail transportation, as exemplified by the Eurotunnel rail system

★ Sanitary landfills and solid waste disposal

★ Skyscrapers, as exemplified by the Empire State Building

★ Wastewater treatment, as exemplified by the Chicago wastewater system

★ Water supply and distribution, as exemplified by the California State Water Project, the subject of California Water Wars

★ Water transportation

World Wonders

Similarly, in an effort to recognize a contemporary equivalent to the heralded ancient Seven Wonders of the World, the ASCE has designated the following Seven Wonders of the Modern World [2]:

★ The Empire State Building (New York, NY, USA)

★ The Itaipu Dam (Brazil and Paraguay)

★ The CN Tower (Toronto, Canada)

★ The Panama Canal (Panama)

★ The Channel Tunnel (United Kingdom and France)

★ The Delta Works, North Sea protection works (The Netherlands)

★ The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, USA)
Other prominent candidates include:

★ The Statue of Liberty (New York, NY, USA)

★ The Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)

★ The Forth Bridge (Scotland, UK)

★ The Kremlin and Red Square (Moscow, Russia)

★ Mamayev Kurgan (Volgograd, Russia)

★ Life Insurance Corporation Building (Chennai, India)

★ The Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia)

★ The Petronas Twin Towers (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Publications

ASCE sponsors a large number of civil engineering related professional publications in the United States.
A list of journals published by ASCE include:

★ Journal of Environmental Engineering

★ Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

★ Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management

Awards

ASCE sponsors numerous awards for outstanding work in various areas of civil engineering, some of which are based on papers submitted to its many journals.

Wesley W. Horner Award

Initially created in 1968 by ASCE's Sanitary Engineering Division, the award is named after former ASCE President Wesley W. Horner. The award is given to a recently peer reviewed published paper in the fields of hydrology, urban drainage, or sewerage. Special consideration is given to private practice engineering work that is recognized as a valuable contribution to the field of environmental engineering.[3]

Competitions

ASCE also sponsors competitions for student chapters. Each regional conference determines the events. Two major national competitions include:

★ Concrete Canoe Official Site

★ Steel Bridge (Co-sponsored with AISC) Official Site

External links

★ ASCE official website

★ Video about the Seven Wonders of the Modern World according to the ASCE. A virtual satellite tour made with Google Earth (02:38)