Awareness: What the San Diego Section of ASCE is Doing
The need for increased infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation is now well documented at all levels of government. However, obtaining the funding necessary to remedy known and anticipated...
Computers Aren't Infallible
Blindly accepting answers just because they are computer-generated does not make for good engineering. Wrong answers may result from software, computer or input problems. Users and programmers...
The Role of the Resident Engineer
These proceedings include the papers presented at the specialty conference on resident engineers. The papers address different perceptions of the definition, qualifications, duties, responsibilities,...
Developments in New and Existing Materials
Materials engineering has emerged as an identifiable professional practice within civil engineering in the past few years. Although materials engineering is not new, the concept that this...
Advances in Short Span Steel Bridges
Applying recent research to the design of short span steel bridges can lower their cost and maintenance. Such research involves improved limit state criteria, more uniform lateral load...
Second-Guessing the Engineer
The relationships between utilities and the bodies that regulate them have changed drastically in the past few years. No longer can any costs associated with the construction of new power...
Negotiating Contracts
Good contract negotiations require an understanding of psychology and the dynamics of group interactions. Communication skills necessary to resolving key issues include identifying non-verbal...
Communication?A Common Vision
It is imperative that lines of communication remain open between those who represent the 'state of the art' in safety. The common goal of these interrelated disciplines...
Interdisciplinary Communication and Traffic Safety: An Information Systems View
The purpose of this Highway Safety Forum is to find ways to improve communications among professionals in eight disciplines which are involved in the effort to reduce the number and severity...
Ethics in the Field
Just as a child matures through various stages of moral development, the engineer too undergoes professional moral development described by psychiatrists. Development comes in six stages...
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 1984
ASCE Cumulative Index to ASCE Publications 1980-1984
It covers all the journal papers, Civil Engineering magazine articles, conference papers, and books from 1980 to 1984....
ASCE Annual Combined Index 1984
The 1984 ASCE Annual Combined Index provides a guide to materials appearing in publications of ASCE published during 1984. This includes papers and technical notes from ASCE technical...
Structures Congress Honors Fazlur Khan
Speakers at a session of the 1983 ASCE Structures Congress paid tribute to the late Fazlur R. Kahn by describing his work in developing structural systems for highrise buildings that were...
How to Strengthen Client-Consultant Relationships
Effective use of a professional consultant is often diminished by poor management-staff communication. Consultants, because of their previous experience, may be able to provide input to...
If They Don't Believe You, You Need a ROCK
People misunderstand engineers because they often overlook two important factors in communication. They forget who has the power to make the decisions. They eliminate all emotional content...
Managing Overhead in Consulting Engineering Firms
One of the ways an engineering firm can maintain - or increase - profitability is through judicious management of overhead. Yet various industry studies suggest that the typical engineering...
Establishing a Computerized Accounting System in a Consulting Firm
If it has been determined that there is a need for a computer, the next step is to determine the software programming needs. The two distinct options in software are 'packaged'...
Managing Yourself Plus One
Engineers become poor managers because they prefer devoting their time and energies to technical matters rather than those items that deal with management issues. This is true of managing...
Update on Impact Effects in Nuclear Plants Part I?Overview and Need for Integrated Approach
In this paper, an ASCE working group on impact effects in nuclear plants updates the review of this technology contained in a five-year-old ASCE report. In Part I, an overview is given...
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