Giant Irrigation Projects: What Effect on Rural Development
The success of large-scale irrigation/agriculture projects in the developing world is dependent on good engineering, good management and good planning. The benefits of the first two are...
Reliability and Limit States Approaches to Design
Increasingly, designers of structures and other civil engineering projects will be designing in these ways. What is the reliability approach? It is based in part on the fact that the magnitude...
Modern Concrete Structures Survive Romanian Earthquake
On March 4, 1977, 35 buildings collapsed during a severe earthquake (7.2 on the Richter scale) in Bucharest, Romania. Thirty-two of the 35 were older structures, erected before World War...
How New York City Can Be Restored to Economic Health
To be restored to economic and fiscal health, New York City will have to make some fundamental reforms. The overall strategy is to obtain slack resources, then to invest these resources...
Dominance of Special Interests Dashes NYC Hopes for Recovery
How well is New York City doing now? Is it really on the way to recovery? Since the landmark report by the Temporary Commission on City Finances was released over a year ago, very little...
Single Additive for Recycling Asphalt Pavements
A design concept for recycling deteriorated asphalt pavements using a single reclaiming agent has been developed. The article established guidelines to help engineers determine the physical...
Civil Engineers are People
Historians have failed to recognize the giants among history's engineers as among our civilization's great men. Instead, great generals, politicians and artists...
Planning, Engineering and Constructing the Superprojects
Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Research Conference held at Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California, April 30 May 5, 1978. Sponsored by the American Society of...
Transforming a Meeting from Confrontation to Cooperation
Public meetings are frequently prescribed as part of major public works projects; unfortunately, they often become scenes of massive confrontation, rather than cooperation. What can be...
The Field Engineer: Political and Legal Scapegoat�
The publicly-employed engineer can be in a vulnerable legal position. A case history is described in which a field engineer was indicted on criminal charges after a bridge collapse (during...
The Engineer: What Role in the Development of Civilization?
Two brilliant social philosophers underscored the crucial role played by the engineer in history. Karl Marx saw society as consisting of a basic structure and a superstructure. The basic...
Harnessed Water Power Spawns First Great Industrial City
Lowell, Mass. was founded in 1822 at a site on the Merrimack River. The city's developers brought together some of the most advanced ideas of the day in the areas of power...
The Extraordinary Genius of Arthur E. Morgan
When he died at 97, on Nov.16, 1975, Arthur E. Morgan, Hon.M.ASCE, left an unprecedented legacy in engineering, history, education, sociology, and many other subjects. In 1913, already...
Robert Moses: Great Builder of the 20th Century
In building the first major U.S. public work �- the Erie Canal �- the engineering challenge was to cross hundreds of miles of farmland and forests with technologies relatively new to the...
How Will the U.S. Finance Its Pressing Transportation Needs�
The U.S. public is yet unaware that the country is on the verge of a full-scale transportation crisis. The basic problem: funding requirements for each of the transportation modes are...
The extraordinary genius of Arthur E. Morgan
He saw himself as lamentably ordinary and sought to make his mark in some socially significant way. Early in the century he engineered the Miami Conservancy District-the first flood control...
Interstate Highway System
Eventually to cost nearly $90 billion, the Interstate Highway System will connect all U.S. cities of 50,000 and larger, eventually carry 25% of all highway traffic. The article traces...
Robert Moses: Great Builder of the 20th Century
In building the first major U.S. public work -- the Erie Canal -- the engineering challenge was to cross hundreds of miles of farmland and forests with technologies relatively new to the...
The engineer: what role in the development of civilization?
The engineering profession today is in a state of psychological depression, born out of lost pride in itself. Scoffing at the profession is a dangerous game. For soon, engineers will be...
The Human Potential Movement
The Human Potential Movement represents a new direction in psychology and psychiatry. Starting from the basis of mental health rather than of illness, the movement includes diverse points...
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