ASCE Plot Points Podcast

Pull out your career roadmap and you probably won’t see very many straight lines. Most people’s paths go up and down and back around. And that’s OK. It’s to be expected. On today’s episode of ASCE Plot Points, Reza Sheykhi walks us through his career journey from Iran to Miami, Florida, where he is Florida International University’s strategy manager and an active member of ASCE’s Miami-Dade Branch (2:00). In this week’s edition of Origin Stories, we hear from meteorologist-turned-civil-engineer Nichole Marsh (13:11). And Member Memos finds Jerry Pionessa Jr. and Stephanie Slocum discussing the way crucial decisions have shaped their careers (15:22). Listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. * SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS * SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY * SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY * SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER

Humans have long had a love-fear relationship with technology. Building information modeling revolutionary David Odeh, an ASCE Technical Region Director, says forget the fear and focus on all that technology can do to help you find civil engineering solutions (2:46). In Civil Engineers Are Not Boring, we meet Assunta Daprano, whose passion for railroads is both a hobby and a career (13:03). In Member Memos, David Gamez, Michael Schindler, and Ruwanka Purasinghe talk about what civil engineering technology excites them most (16:30). Listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. * SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS * SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY * SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY * SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER

Visualize life as an infinite circle of giving. Someone does something nice for you? Do something nice for someone else, and pay it forward. On today’s episode of ASCE Plot Points, we meet civil engineers who have taken this philosophy to heart. Jose Aguilar, who works for Psomas in Tucson, AZ, talks about how he made his idea for an inspiring student competition a reality (2:01). In this week’s edition of Civil Engineers Are Not Boring, we meet Skye Gentile, a Parsons senior engineer and former Division I college gymnast (11:08). And in Member Memos, NC State’s Morgan DiCarlo and Merrimack College’s Jim Kaklamanos tell us about how they’ve tried to turn past gratitude into future contributions (13:41). Listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. * SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS * SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY * SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY * SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER

It’s been 15 months since Hurricane Harvey pelted Southeastern Texas with historic levels of rain. The resilience efforts continue, led by civil engineers like Carol Haddock. Haddock, the director of public works in Houston, gives us an update on the progress made in her hometown since Harvey . In this week’s Changing the World segment, University of Central Florida student Zachary Loeb talks about how his love for fishing led him to create a potentially game-changing tidal generator . And in Member Memos, Ashlyn Alexander, Elyssa Dixon, and Kate Osborn break down what they see as the most important aspects of a resilient city . Listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. * SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS * SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY * SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY * SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER

There’s a great, big world out there waiting for you to explore. Travel can be a game-changer for the perspectives that shape your work as a civil engineer. ASCE 2018 President Kristina Swallow discusses her experiences traveling the world and the way those trips have expanded her horizons (). In this week’s Career Minded segment, Clark Nexsen CEO Chris Stone talks about the skills and traits he looks for in new hires. (). In the first of our Member Memos, we hear about more civil engineering travel experiences from Jonathan Brower, Kelly Farabee, and Chris Hanna (). Listen to the episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. * SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS * SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY * SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY * SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER

Somewhere along the way, the world mistakenly got the idea that civil engineers were shy, awkward number-crunchers, incapable of making eye contact during a conversation. The ASCE Plot Points podcast is here to straighten out that misconception. The new show – launching later this month on your favorite podcast platform – explodes the myth of the socially nervous civil engineer, introducing you instead to a group of dynamic, brilliant, often hilarious civil engineers who are reshaping the way our world looks and works. It’s the ASCE Plot Points podcast – telling the story of civil engineering one civil engineer at a time. Listen to the trailer episode below, and subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. * SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS * SUBSCRIBE IN GOOGLE PLAY * SUBSCRIBE IN SPOTIFY * SUBSCRIBE IN STITCHER