March ASCE Virtual Meeting

TOPIC: ASCE KC Section Awards and "Engineering the Future"

SPEAKER: Dennis D. Truax, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, D.WRE, F.ASCE, F.NSPE

LOCATION: Microsoft Teams (Click here to join the meeting)

COST: Free

PRESENTATION:

With an expanding global population, we must take care of aging infrastructure to meet current needs, and at the same time, move it into the future with new technologies and capabilities that will enable us to combat the problems of tomorrow. In this presentation, ASCE President-Elect Dennis D. Truax will share how we need to prepare future civil engineers to meet these challenges.

As the oldest engineering society in the United States, ASCE represents 150,000 members in 177 countries. ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment – while protecting and restoring the natural environment.

BIO:

Dennis Truax is the James T. White endowed chair, department head, and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Mississippi State University, and the director of the Mississippi Transportation Research Institute. Now in his 41^st year on the Mississippi State faculty, he has assumed various roles as mentor to students, staff, and faculty. Truax served on ASCE’s Board of Direction as a director and Society treasurer. He has worked on numerous ASCE committees and task forces, and he was the faculty advisor to the Mississippi State ASCE Student Chapter for 26 years.