List of Contributions

I read in today's Source that the Board decided to back off its plans to move to a geographically based governance framework. See https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/article/2025/11/07/board-eager-to-embrace-change-as-it-looks-toward-the-future Maybe the Board should ...

Maybe a rift is "form follows function." This was a favorite of my undergrad structural engineering professor and something I've carried in my head for 46 years. One can do a search to learn about the saying's history. ------------------------------ Mitch Winkler P.E.(inactive), M.ASCE Houston, TX ...

I just finished Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and I highly recommend it. One of the highlights was learning about this 2012 paper in Genome Biology on research and grant writing. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/gb-2012-13-5-155 I was able to download the PDF without issue. ...

Your connection between 'Lean' and the Incident Command Structure (ICS) is not something I had thought of, and it makes perfect sense. You comments and those of others support my experience that processes like 'Lean' fail to deliver the intended value when applied to routine work. The comparison ...

It is interesting that ASCE's new chief executive, Peter J. O'Neil, is not a civil engineer and dnd does not appear to have any experience with our industry. I, for one, am cautiously optimistic about the new connections and initiatives he might start, free of biases from an entrenched design or construction ...