The Resident Engineer—A Member of the Construction Team
The paper discusses the prime concern of a resident engineer, namely, seeing to it that the structure built is in accordance with the plans and specifications and that the work is carried...
Journal of Management in Engineering
The Journal of Management in Engineering offers an avenue for researchers and practitioners to present contemporary issues associated with management and leadership for the civil engineer. The journal...
ASCE Official Register 1984
The OFFICIAL REGISTER is published annually to provide ready access to governing documents, statistics, and general information about ASCE for leadership, members, and staff. It includes...
The Individual Attitude: Its Impact on Financial Success
Individual engineers often have personalities and interests substantially different from those traits that support the financial success of a project. An engineer's inherent...
Building Failures—Construction Related Problems and Solutions
A leadership group of representatives from the fields of structural design, construction, building inspection, the law and insurance agreed that if five changes are made in the way building...
ASCE Official Register 1983
The OFFICIAL REGISTER is published annually to provide ready access to governing documents, statistics, and general information about ASCE for leadership, members, and staff. It includes...
U.S. Bridges: The Bias Towards Mediocrity
This article contends that in this century the United States has lost its leadership in bridge design and explores reasons why this came to be. Comparative examples of various bridge types...
ASCE Official Register 1982
The OFFICIAL REGISTER is published annually to provide ready access to governing documents, statistics, and general information about ASCE for leadership, members, and staff. It includes...
Games People Play with Work Sampling
Guidelines and principles are presented for planning and implementing a work sampling program. Principles to be followed include careful planning to fulfill objectives, the need to be...
Overseas Marketing Strategy
The personnel element in achieving and maintaining overseas marketing success is examined, and suggested strategies for selection, preparation, utilization and support of personnel for...
Professional Schools: The Debate Continues
The development of a strong unified profession of engineering should start with a careful restructuring of our educational units. Engineering education is in a state of disarray and cannot...
Engineering School Drives for National Leadership
Engineering programs in many universities are undergoing severe problems of limited space, too few faculty, burgeoning student enrollments, out-of-date laboratory equipment and inadequate...
Energy Crisis Revisited: Conference Highlights Roles of Marketplace and Government
At a recent conference on energy conservation co-sponsored by ASCE's Minnesota Section and the University of Minnesota, three speakers presented divergent views on the role...
The Professional Manager's Dilemma -- Leadership vs. Liability
Individual Development in Matrix Organization
A matrix organization provides the structure for an engineer to develop both technical and managerial skills on a variety of assignments. This organization allows the firm to conduct an...
Productive Foremen Charactistics
Findings are presented from a study on leadership styles used by a sample of pipefitter foreman which were associated with improved worked performance. Information was obtained through...
ASCE Official Register 1981
The OFFICIAL REGISTER is published annually to provide ready access to governing documents, statistics, and general information about ASCE for leadership, members, and staff. It includes...
ASCE Official Register 1980
The OFFICIAL REGISTER is published annually to provide ready access to governing documents, statistics, and general information about ASCE for leadership, members, and staff. It includes...
America's Energy Future—A Primer and Discussion of Options
When the first OPEC crisis of 1973 hit, the U.S. was importing 25% of her oil — now it is 50%. ASCE leadership, concluding that U.S. energy policy is weak, has undertaken a program designed,...
The Civil Engineer/Citizen: What Role and Responsibility in Government—
A common goal for all engineers is to become true professionals. The civil engineer should share his professional knowledge with the community through voicing his concerned opinion whenever...
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