List of Contributions

The legal weight is references are needed for applications. It seems to me not much else could or would occur. I would not expect any board in an official manner to respond to such a question. Possibly board members, particularly after they have cycled off, might discuss in a casual, off the record manner. ...

Matthew (& others), Dr. Steve Starrett and Dr. Carlos Bertha made a presentation to the Northeast Branch, Indiana Section, ASCE in the recent past. The topic was ethics, more particularly the new, revised ASCE Code of Ethics. They were promoting this presentation to several groups and I contacted ...

It is good to read perspectives of others on this topic. ASCE moved HQ from NYC to the DC area in 1996 [I am old enough to know that occurred but certainly needed to search for the year]. I am young enough or maybe too naive to have had any concerns myself at that time about the impact of such a move ...

Some places in the world use a comma for a decimal point rather than a period. Also a space is used to separate three numbers (increments of a thousand) rather than a comma. Instead of 72,520.23 the value would be 72 520,23. This was unfamiliar to me before I encountered it when working in another country. ...

I was reading an article that I stumbled upon based on my involvement with ASCE & licensure issues. The article includes the following: "Yet research provides scant evidence that licensing does what it is supposed to do-raise the quality of services and protect consumers. Instead, licensing ...