Leadership and Management in Engineering: Recent submissions

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    • Leslie Earl Robertson 

      Richard G. Weingardt (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)

    • Objectively Assessing Risk in a Complex World 

      Jan Lyons (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      When engineers think of risk management, it’s often in the context of events directly related to specific program elements—adequately addressing all design criteria, identifying and securing commitments for the necessary ...

    • Modeling Boundaries of Concern among Conflicting Stakeholders 

      Sara Metcalf (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      When public and private stakeholders gather to address a shared concern, they implicitly or explicitly bound the problem in geographic space. Implicit bounding involves identifying the problem and then considering the ...

    • Leadership, Management, and Political Decisions: The Chicago Transit Authority 

      Robert E. Paaswell (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      In 1986 public transit in the United States was facing numerous challenges. As always, most systems were strapped for both operating and capital funds, most had not changed their operations since the late 1950s, and all ...

    • Civil Engineers in Public-Private Partnerships and as Master Planners for Infrastructure Development 

      Jorge L. Ricaurte; Carlos A. Arboleda; Feniosky Peña-Mora (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      Public-private partnerships (PPP) have been actively implemented around the world since the 1980s, including projects in both developed and developing countries. Among the reasons for the growing use of this project delivery ...

    • Improving the Grade on Water Resources Infrastructure 

      Dominic Izzo (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      Although many of the practices and procedures that guide the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Civil Works Program are well established and proven, there are too many other practices within Congress, the executive branch, ...

    • Generating Public Awareness and Political Action to Create a Program for Michigan’s Crumbling Dams 

      James R. Hegarty (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      The tiny village of Lyons, Michigan, (population 715) owns the dilapidated remnant of a former hydroelectric dam on the Grand River, Michigan’s largest river. Various engineering consultants and state agencies have been ...

    • The Process Is the Product: Collaborative Design in Four Silicon Valley Schools 

      Karen Lee Hansen (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      In 1995 the city of Palo Alto passed a $143 million bond initiative to upgrade sixteen elementary and secondary schools. At that time this was the largest school bond ever passed by a California municipality. I outline the ...

    • Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure 

      Sidney M. Levy (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      America’s aging infrastructure is in dire need of upgrading, and with federal and state funding stretched to the breaking point, the private sector has stepped into the breach. Public-private partnerships are creating new ...

    • A Professional Engineer Serving in Local Elected Political Office: Personal Observations 

      Craig N. Musselman (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      This article presents personal observations regarding some of the benefits to the public and some of the challenges faced when a professional engineer in services as a local elected official. This is not a scholarly paper. ...

    • Civil Engineering, Legal, and Political Collaboration: Solving Denver’s Drainage Infrastructure Dilemma 

      Kenneth R. Wright (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      The archaic infrastructure and disjointed drainage policies in place in the six-county Denver metropolitan area during the 1960s left the growing area in a public health and safety predicament. In 1968, city, county, state, ...

    • Macroethics and Engineering Leadership 

      Daniel A. Vallero (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      Engineering leadership must consider macroethics; those issues important to society at large. The downstream effects of design decisions must be considered

    • Stephen P. Timoshenko 

      Richard G. Weingardt (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)

    • Leaving Things on Top of the Car 

      Brian Brenner (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)

    • Transportation Strategies to Mitigate Climate Change 

      Tiffany Batac; Lewison Lem (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      Local actions within the United States to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector are becoming increasingly prevalent given that no definitive guidance has been provided by federal agencies in ...

    • Must New York City Have Its Own Katrina? 

      Douglas Hill (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      The New York metropolitan region will inevitably be exposed to more severe coastal flooding as sea level rises and storms may become more frequent and severe with global warming. The inner city can be protected by placing ...

    • GHG Mitigation Policies and Land Use Interactions 

      Xiaodong Wang (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are widely acknowledged to be responsible for much of the global warming in the past century. Since the burning of fossil-based fuels is an important source of GHGs, the policies on GHG ...

    • Global Warming Every 1,500 Years: Implications for an Engineering Vision 

      Dennis T. Avery (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)
      This paper presents a counterpoint to the claim that

    • John Lucian Savage 

      Richard G. Weingardt (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)

    • The Political Decision Process 

      Mayor Albert R. Capellini (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2008)