Part 1 of a three-part series For the better part of my adult life, I have been going to the gym and working out. I’m in good shape, but for many years I have been stuck with this feeling of being comfortable with the results of the effort I was putting in the gym….
How Engineers are Fighting Traffic
We have been asked NJIT to post this great and informative infrographic that they have produced. As you may know 25% of road congestion is caused by traffic collisions. Autonomous cars are one of the many technologies that will hopefully lead to a reduction in collisions and congestion. The Google car is said to have…
Sustainable Highways, Transportation & GREENROADS?
The CivilEngineeringCentral.com blogs have often discussed the need for sustainable transportation in the US. Whether we discussed transit, high speed rail, the SCHWEEB or SkyTran, we are fascinated with the concept of finding a way to be better to our planet while getting where we need to go when we want to get there. One…
Traffic Fatalities Report – How Are Civil Engineers Saving Lives?
Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search, Inc Managing Partner, CivilEngineeringCentral.com View Matt’s profile & connect with him on LinkedIn A report released on April 1st by the US Department of Transportation concluded that US traffic fatalities are its lowest level since 1949. The basis for this decline, and some noted in the report, are numerous: * …
Is There A Future in Civil/Structural Shweebeneering?
By Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search, Inc. Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC, home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com Well, you can thank this week’s blog to my new hobby of “tweeting.” One of the other professionals that I follow made a “tweet” that led to a way cool website whose idea is worth mentioning. The future of this “pod…
Can You Name That Highway?
By Matt Barcus President, Precision Executive Search Managing Partner, A/E/P Central, LLC, home of CivilEngineeringCentral.com My father and grandfather were chemical engineers, my younger brother studied civil engineering, my older sister scored over 1400 on her SAT’s. Apparently that “smart” gene, along with the gene that provides a full head of hair, managed to bypass me. …