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How do you handle conflicts of interest? Have you ever been offered a kickback or asked for a "voluntary" contribution to a cause? Are there cases where we can – and should – act against an important principle to achieve an even-more-important benefit? To tweet or not to tweet? Entrusted by the public to provide professional solutions to complex situations, engineers can face ethical dilemmas of all forms. In Pursuing Engineering Ethics through Real-World Case Studies, Starrett, Lara, and Bertha provide in-depth analysis with extended discussions and study questions of case studies that are based on real work situations. Important concepts such as rights and obligations; conflict of interest; professionalism and mentoring; confidentiality; whistleblowing; bribery, fraud, and corruption; and ethical communication with the public in a social media world are discussed in practical and approachable terms. Organized by the canons of the ASCE Code of Ethics, this book is intended for practitioners, consultants, government engineers, engineering educators, and students in all engineering disciplines.

Engineering ethics --- Case studies --- Ethics --- Consulting services --- Dispute resolution --- Professional development --- Standards and codes --- Mentoring --- Social factors

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Prepared by the Subcommittee for Revision of ASCE Manual 81 of the Standards Committee on Atmospheric Water Management of the Standards Development Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE Guidelines for Cloud Seeding to Augment Precipitation provides practical details of using the cloud seeding technology. This newly revised manual incorporates pertinent background on the science and practice of weather modification by cloud seeding to augment precipitation. Topics include the societal, environmental, and economic aspects of precipitation enhancement by cloud seeding; legal aspects associated with weather modification operations; scientific basis; cloud seeding modes; and instrumentation and status of precipitation enhancement technology. The volume also includes an executive summary addressing the complex issues that arise with the development and application of the cloud seeding technology. This manual will provide water resources managers with the resources to make decisions regarding the use of cloud seeding to increase available water supplies.

Rain-making --- Precipitation (Meteorology) --- Weather modification --- Precipitation --- Water resources --- Professional societies --- Water management --- Social factors --- Economic factors --- Legal affairs --- Modification

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The early nineteenth century was a time of great change as the United States transitioned from the colonial era to the industrial age. Benjamin Wright’s engineering career spanned the better part of that time from 1790 to 1840.In Benjamin Wright: Father of American Civil Engineering, Steven M. Pennington chronicles Wright’s life and varied career from country surveyor to his early work on America’s railroads. After surveying the Mohawk River for navigation improvements and supervising the engineering of the Erie Canal project, he then went on to contribute to such projects as the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal near Philadelphia, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Washington, DC. From the capital city, Wright advanced his engineering practice as America grew and viewed its manifest expansion to the West.Throughout his life and work, Wright’s personal connections, politically, socially, and technically, were far reaching. Wright understood the mechanics and connectivity of how politics and economics demonstrated themselves. He worked with leaders across the business and engineering communities to make a lasting social, economic, and historical contribution.Benjamin Wright understood the necessity to establish an organization of practicing engineers to stimulate technical, business, ethical, and professional attitudes. In 1839, he participated in organizational meetings of what would become the American Society of Civil Engineers which, in 1970, designated him the "Father of American Civil Engineering."

Wright, Benjamin --- Civil engineers --- Distinguished engineers --- Engineering profession --- Canals --- Social factors --- Professional development --- Rail transportation --- Project management --- Economic factors --- United States --- Delaware --- Philadelphia --- Pennsylvania --- Ohio --- Wright, Benjamin,

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Co-published by ASCE Press and the Society of Women Engineers　If you think this is just another book about women’s issues, think again. This one is different.Becoming Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology, Second Edition is intended for people interested in the advancement of their own careers or in the development of human resources in their organization. Information is given in a reader-friendly format with easy-to-find bulleted lists supported by current research in sociology, education, and psychology. This second edition includes new information on implicit bias, other factors affecting leadership success, the impact of social media, management of diversity and inclusion initiatives, and creating respectful workplaces. Professional women in STEM, and managers interested in their progress, will quickly recognize the context of many of the information bytes and see the application in their own workplaces. This handbook provides readers with action plan elements for achieving important goals—both personal and organizational. A sample organizational leadership skills checklist is included.Chapters can be read in any order, with roadmaps for students, career women, faculty, and managers. Written both to support career success and to encourage leadership self-awareness,　Becoming Leaders　is a book you'll turn to again and again for advice, for information, and most of all for inspiration.

Women in engineering --- Women in science --- Women --- Education (Graduate) --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Workplace diversity --- Women engineers --- Engineering education --- Professional development --- Personnel management --- Organizations --- Leadership --- Social factors

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If you find yourself doing the quick pocket pat-down known as the Engineer's Check... If you use a MathCAD analogy to explain the birds and the bees to your teenager... If you are so steeped in structural parameters that you chortle over inappropriate variables... If you watched The Sopranos just for the bridges pictured in the opening montage... ...you are a candidate for Brian Brenner's latest collection of humorous essays that celebrate life as a practicing civil engineer. In this book you'll learn valuable skills, like egosurfing and how to use tribbles in a meeting to tell the engineers from the contractors. You'll ponder what bridges would be like if they could sing, and you'll discover friendships you never knew bridges could have, through social media. Brenner also invites you to consider serious subjects, like the transition from student to professional engineer and the growth in girth of engineering standards. He speculates on what will happen when, one day, some researcher determines that the current amount of information is good enough. Until then, Too Much Information: Living the Civil Engineering Life will entertain you even while it shows just how well civil engineering can explain life.

Civil engineers --- Civil engineering --- Bridge engineering --- Infrastructure construction --- Bridges --- Birds --- Parameters (statistics) --- Contracts and subcontracts --- Social factors --- Students --- United States --- Rhode Island --- Texas --- Brenner, Brian R. --- United States --- Social life and customs