ASCE History
The year ASCE was founded
What is 1852?
The acronym ASCE stands for
What is the American Society of Civil Engineers?
Name one other civil engineering club here on campus
What is the Society of Women's Engineers (SWE), Concrete Canoe, or Engineers in Action (EIA)?
Before becoming U.S. President, he was an ASCE Honorary Member recognized for improving highway standards.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The certification earned after passing an exam in your last year of University or soon after.
What is the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam?
The branch of civil engineering handling the design of superstructures.
What is Structural Engineering?
The force acting on a moving object is the product of mass and acceleration. F = m*a
What is Newton's Second Law?
The city in which ASCE was founded.
Where is New York?
The number of Regions ASCE is separated into.
What is 10?
Name a civil engineering project in Seattle.
What is the Space Needle, Light rail, waterfront, or most anything?
In 1927, she became the first woman to become a full member of ASCE.
Who is Elsie Eaves?
Role you should take in ASCE when you are no longer a student.
What is a Younger Member? (18 months free after graduating, as well as a free Technical Institute. Talk to an officer later for more information.)
Manage water, including water treatment, supply, and distribution systems, and ensure water is safe to drink and that infrastructure can withstand natural disasters.
What is Water Resources Engineering?
The three types of supports that are most commonly used for statics problems.
What are rollers, pinned, and fixed supports?
ASCE was originally a professional society that also included these professionals before it broke apart as its own branch.
What are Architects?
The number of countries that ASCE represents.
What is 177 countries?
The most expensive civil/construction project in history.
What is the United States Interstate System (459 Billion)?
Known for developing the "buttressed core" system for the Burj Khalifa.
Who is William F. Baker (2024 Distinguished Member)?
The license earned after gaining four years of work experience and passing an exam.
What is the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam?
A specialized branch of civil engineering focusing on the safe, efficient, and sustainable planning, design, operation, and maintenance of all ways humans move. Involves applying technological solutions, traffic modeling, and infrastructure design to improve mobility for people and goods, with a strong emphasis on safety improvements.
What is Transportation Engineering?
An increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
List at least four founders of ASCE.
Who is Julius W. Adams, J.W. Ayres, Alfred W. Craven, Thomas A. Craven, Edward Gardiner Emmet, Robert B. Emmet, [Mr.] Gorsuch, James Greene, James Laurie (First President), W.H. Morell, S.S. Post, W.H. Talcott, and W.H. Sidell?
Location of the current ASCE headquarters.
Where is Reston, Virginia? (Moved in 1996 after nearly 150 years of being in New York)
True or False, The Sydney Opera House is classified as a civil engineering historical landmark.
True, ASCE has classified it as a historical landmark.
An American civil engineer and railroad engineer who designed the Starrucca Viaduct. He co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1852 and served as its president from 1874 to 1875.
Who is Col. Julius Walker Adams?
The full name for P3 or PPP.
What is the Public-Private Partnership?
Assess the physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of soil and rock to determine how they will behave in a construction or engineering project.
What is a Geotechnical Engineer?
A licensed professional structural engineer, working for an engineering company, approves the plans for an overhead walkway, made of steel, in the atrium of a hotel. During construction, the installers working for a construction firm do not correctly follow the installation plans, and the walkway collapses due to an incorrect installation. Who is the primary party held liable for the accident?
I) Steel Company who fabricated the steel beams
II) Construction Company
III) Engineering Design Company
IV) County Building Inspectors
What is III) Engineering Design Company? (The steel was not defective. Engineering Design Company would have signed off that the construction was performed according to the plans.)
First adopted in 1914, this was developed to model professional conduct for ASCE members.
What is the ASCE Code of Ethics?
The first and most important guideline of the ASCE code of ethics.
What is "engineers must, first and foremost, protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public"?
The longest bridge in the world.
What is the 1915 Canakkale Bridge?
Known as the "father of civil engineering," his Eddystone Lighthouse is a designated ASCE International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
Who is John Smeaton?
While it is not a requirement in the state of Washington, Civil Engineers should be
Lifelong learners, pursuing specialization and continuous learning through ASCE resources, are vital for long-term career success.
A specialized field that applies biology, chemistry, and engineering principles to protect human health and the environment, focusing on water/wastewater treatment, air pollution control, and waste management.
What is Environmental Engineering?
Knowing that a continuous steel railroad track, with a coefficient of thermal expansion of 12 × 10−6 m/m/°C, and Young’s modulus of 200 GPa, was placed on and secured to railroad ties in the winter when the temperature was –10°C. The stress in MPa in the rail when the temperature reaches 90°C in the hot sun during summer most nearly is (A) 192 (tensile) (B) 200 (compressive) (C) 240 (compressive) (D) 120,000 (tensile)
What is (C) 240 (compressive)
(The change in temperature is a positive 100°C The railroad track goes into compressive stress.)