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HEY ENGINEERING FRIENDS!!!!! Come learn more about designing helical piles & anchors and get you some PDH credits! You know you need them. Comment below if you can make it and let me know where we'll see you! If you can't come, please share with anyone that may be interested!

From planning to engineering, in choosing BSEL you gain a network of great people with outstanding design, build, and implementation capabilities.

It's always a great day when we get to talk with future design professionals! Yesterday, Senior Engineer Ken Sides, PE, CNU-a, LCI led instructor Tina Boyd's University of South Florida graduate transportation class on an exciting tour of local roundabouts. #tampa #florida #EngineeringStudents #engineering #design #TrafficEngineering #EngineeringEducation

I am very pleased to share that my abstract to the World Engineering Convention 2023 has been accepted. It is titled "How to Increase the Chance of Project Success". Across the world there is growing challenge to ensure a sustainable engineering and construction industry to design, construct and maintain the vital infrastructure to support our economic, social and environmental wellbeing of our communities. The paper supports the key topic 04.2 WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Engineering Capacity Building (CECB) to develop and maintain a sustainable engineering related work force as well as informed decision makers in Governments and in the private sector. Also, SDG9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure to build reliant infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation. These goals will be achieved with the requisite technical and non-technical competencies and capability for this new era with greater complexity.  The technical factors in utilising alternate methods of project delivery, with greater collaborative contracting and harnessing new technologies. The non-technical competencies or human factors with enhanced communication, cooperation, coordination, trust-based relationships, leadership, strategy and governance, influence and culture. Our industry will need enhanced skills and expertise. Unfortunately, there have been too many examples of major projects that have failed to achieve the projects objectives, with delays, overspend and operational issues.   Whilst the engineering and construction industry (and insurers) may have borne the brunt of the project losses, these costs must come back to the community on future projects. Rather than technical and non-technical risks being manifested on major projects by happenstance, they can be mitigated or managed through a structured process of innovative risk management as the key ingredient to the assurance of project success. For more information refer https://www.wec2023.com/

The Fall Issue of The Bridge by the National Academy of Engineering is live, co-edited by STVP Associate Faculty Director Mike Lepech. In his essay "The Value of Engineering for Sustainability," Lepech explores the pivotal role engineering plays in shaping a sustainable future. Gain valuable perspectives on the intersection of engineering excellence and sustainability by reading the latest insights: https://bit.ly/45Eymxe

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 I am thrilled to share that I have passed the FE exam! 🌟 Huge thanks to my professors at FIU for their guidance and support throughout the journey. 📚 Looking forward to taking the next steps towards becoming a professional civil engineer! 🔧💼 #FEexam #CivilEngineering #FIU #Grateful #CareerChanger #GoPanthers!

Other folks with an engineering background will probably have had similar experiences: having to try to explain what and where engineering is (everything and everywhere!). This is a great resource to describe the breadth of engineering disciplines, the kinds of work they do, and the nature of the engineering mindset. I'm sharing it as much as anything so that I can find it again the next time a friend or colleagues asks me to chat to a school age child thinking about a future in STEM. #womeninstem

AREMA 2023 in Indianapolis is off to a great start with the Introduction to Practical Railway Engineering Seminar. #AREMA2023 #RailwayInterchange2023 #PracticalRailwayEngineering