How to Hire the Best
Small engineering firm owners talk to Civil Engineering about where they find the best and brightest employees and what qualities they look for when adding to their teams....
High Rise Express (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue only)
A new column system developed by the Canam Manac Group in Montreal offers the expediency of steel construction with the economy of concrete. The system is made entirely of lightweight...
Covered Bridge Connection (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue only)
A 145-year-old timber bridge in Downsville, New York, now rests on the longest glue-laminated wood beams ever produced in the United States. Six 53 m (174 ft) long chords were threaded...
Substructures Stack Up (Available in Structural Engineering Special Issue only)
As part of a 1997 research project sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, the University of Texas at Austin Center for Transportation...
Piracy Doesn't Pay
Engineering firms are the third most-frequently fined businesses for software license violations�right behind manufacturing and health care. Two executives who have learned about noncompliance...
Yesterday's Data�Tomorrow
Before the advent of computer-aided design (CAD) and geographic information systems (GIS), keeping documentation for future usage was no problem. All an engineer had to do was make sure...
Growing Pains
Most small firms want to increase their business, but there are hidden dangers that can dampen even the most encouraging outlook. Small engineering firm executives and business consultants...
The New Perspective on I.T.
In the last few years engineering firms have stopped seeing information technology as a support system and started looking at it as an opportunity to create new series. Through Web sites,...
Site Seeing
Project-specific Web sites (called project extranets) are used to communicate project information in a fast, cost effective and efficient manner. These Web sites act as a project's...
Materials and Construction
Exploring the Connection
This proceedings,
Structural Engineering in the 21st Century
This proceedings,
Order Amid Uncertainty (Available in Geoenvironmental special issue only)
Bayesian statistical methods allow engineers to deduce probabilities from incomplete information. If there is a theoretical or empirical reason why a particular probability distribution...
Program Management B.C.
Through a process of forensic analysis that applied modern-day technology to bridge the chasm of time, a team of construction managers with the international architecture/engineering/construction...
Friction Factor Choice in Hydraulic Simulation Models: Does It Matter?
(no paper) To model water distribution systems using computer hydraulic simulation, a user is required to select a form of head loss-flow relationship for each pipe in the network. The...
Interactive Flood Response Plans: Internet/Intranet Formats with National Implications
(No paper) An effective flood response plan takes into account the needs of and utility to the end user of that plan?namely the local emergency response community. A flood response plan...
Why the Latrines in Benin are so Few and Far Between: Implications for Improving Sanitation in Developing Countries
(No paper) This paper contributes to such an understanding with research about how consumers make their sanitation choices in developing countries from a case study of latrine adoption...
Bridge Safety and Reliability
Sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report covers a wide range of applications of modern structural safety and reliability...
Coastal Sediments
This proceedings,
Geo-Engineering for Underground Facilities
The papers collected in this proceedings
Holding the Advantage
Small firms are constantly under a number of business pressures, and competing for qualified engineers with both large and small engineering firms is just one more challenge to contend...
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