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No. There is no reference to leadership in the EGs. We noted this last year in our ASEE paper. The CDL committee has been working on the EG project to address this gap. Thanks ... ------------------------------ Michael O'Connor ,P.E., M.ASCE Vice-President Silver Spring MD --------------- ...

Mitchell, thanks for the comment. There has been a lot of discussion of what does leadership means in the context of civil engineering, let alone leadership versus management. (Disclosure- I am part of the ASCE Committee on developing leaders). I recommend starting by reading what others have written ...

Separating the question into design profit and construction profits, I presume the question goes to the design profit. ASCE published two manuals on this topic (among others). MOP-45 (How to Select and Work Effectively with Consulting Engineers: Getting the Best Project) in chapter 4 discusses the design ...

The CE history topic this week is Robert Ridgway (1862-1938) an American civil engineer and president of ASCE itself in 1925! October 19th is his birthday. He did not study engineering at any school, but worked 49 years for New York City in the construction of major projects, and became Chief Engineer ...