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Architectural Engineering

    2022 AEI Forum: Healthy Building Framework and Creating a Low-Carbon Economy
    2024 AEI Forum: Designing Carbon-Neutral Structures: Methods and Case Studies
    2024 AEI Forum: Mass Timber in Construction to Whole Building Componentization
    2024 AEI Forum: SpeedCore: Advancements in Efficiency and Resilience of the Modular Shear Wall System
    Kendeda Building Part 1 - The Living Building Challenge
    Kendeda Building Part 2 - Reuse and Red List
    Kendeda Building Part 3 - Water and Landscape Architecture
    Kendeda Building Part 4 - Mass Timber
    Kendeda Building Part 5 - Kendeda Building Financial Analyses: Magnifying Impact by Improving Monetary Return on Investment
    The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It
    Whole Life Carbon Webinar

Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Waterways Engineering

    ASCE Manual of Practice 156: Navigation Channel Sedimentation Solutions Best Practices
    Introduction to Navigation Channel Design
    Navigation Engineering - Challenges of Sustainability and Resilience
    Navigation Engineering - Understanding the Basics
    River Information Services: Basics of RIS and Plans for U.S. Implementation
    Sediment Characteristics, Sources, and Movement
    Ship/Tow Simulation of Navigation Design Studies: Interpreting U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Requirements
    Sustainable Sediment Management for Navigation Projects

Construction Engineering and Management

    2024 CI & CRC Joint Conference: The Anatomy of a Complex Demolition Project: Engineering and Execution of the I-74 Mississippi River Bridge Removal
    Avoiding Problems in Masonry Construction
    Bringing IFC to Bidding
    How to Price and Document Your Delay Claims
    Innovative and Smart Construction: Use of Infrared Thermal Profiling and GPR Pavement Density Scanner
    International Project Development and Construction Risk
    Mile Long Bridge Planning, Design, & Construction
    Mitigation of Carbon Emissions from Construction Projects
    Quality Management During Design and Construction
    Roadway Construction Inspection Techniques to Minimize Life-Cycle Costs
    Target Zero Injuries - Developing a Comprehensive Safety Program for Engineers and Constructors
    The Pricing of Delay Costs for Construction Projects
    Understanding Firewall Basics

Environmental Engineering

    Avoid Costly Mistakes Using HEC-RAS - Understanding HEC-RAS Computations
    Buried Plastic Reservoirs and Tanks: Out of Sight; But Are They Out of Mind?
    Case Studies on Utilizing the Principles of Natural and Nature-based Solutions in the Arctic and Adjacent Cold Regions
    Culvert Design for Fish Passage - Concepts and Fundaments
    Culvert Design for Fish Passage - Design Steps and Examples
    Decentralized Recharge and Reuse - Innovative Wastewater Systems
    Designing Channels for Stream Restoration: Alluvial Channel Design
    Designing Channels for Stream Restoration: Threshold Channel Design
    Erosion Control and Revegetation Materials; Design, Installation and Performance
    Estimating Erosion Rates - Tools for Prioritizing TMDL-Water Quality Improvements, Stream Restoration, and Infrastructure Protection Projects
    Fighting PFAS, Where Should our Money Go?
    Hydrologic Trespass and Nuisance Considerations in Stormwater Management Design
    Inspection and Rehabilitation Methodologies for Large Diameter Water Transmission Pipelines
    Introduction to Solid Waste Transfer Design for Rural Communities
    Large Wood 101: Fundamentals of Stream Restoration with Large Wood
    Modeling Low Impact Development (LID) and Green Infrastructure (GI) using the EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM): Continuous Simulation
    Modeling Low Impact Development (LID) and Green Infrastructure (GI) using the EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM): Event-Based Modeling
    Modeling Low Impact Development (LID) and Green Infrastructure (GI) using the EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM): SWMM Basics
    Overview of Nature-based Solutions: Adapting Lessons from Temperate Regions
    PFAS Contamination - Translating Research to Practice
    Pipeline Condition Assessment Using Broadband Electromagnetic (BEM) Testing
    River Restoration with Large Wood - Detailed Design and Construction
    Sediment Transport Basics: Part 1
    Stream Restoration: What Works and What Doesn't Work
    Using Gridded Rainfall in HEC-HMS
    Using HEC-RAS 5.0 for Two Dimensional Hydraulic Analyses
    Using Technology to Mitigate Wet Weather Overflows and Reduce Infiltration and Inflow (I/I)
    Woody Vegetation on Earthen Levee Embankments-Facts and Fiction

Geotechnical Engineering

    2020 GI Web Conference: Earth Retaining Structures Technical Committee Presentation on Earth Retaining Structures
    2020 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams and Slopes Technical Committee Presentation on Impacts of Recent Extreme Events
    2020 GI Web Conference: Soil Improvement Technical Committee Presentation on Soil Improvement
    2020 GI Web Conference: Underground Construction Engineering Technical Committee Presentation on Recent Advancements in Underground Engineering and Construction
    2021 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams and Slopes - Extreme Events on Civil Infrastructures
    2021 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams and Slopes - Extreme Events on Dams, Landslides, and Flowslides
    2021 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams and Slopes - Extreme Events on Geotechnical Infrastructures
    2021 GI Web Conference: Geo-environmental Engineering
    2021 GI Web Conference: Soil Improvement
    2022 GI Web Conference: A Quick Look into Some of the Latest in Grouting Research, Design and Practice
    2022 GI Web Conference: Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Technical Committee - Seismic Hazard Evaluation for the Western, Central, and Eastern US
    2022 GI Web Conference: Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Technical Committee - Soil-Structure Interaction
    2022 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams, and Slopes Case Histories
    2022 GI Web Conference: Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical Committee - Subsidence Risk Mitigation in a Low-level Radioactive Waste (LLW) Landfill Final Cover: A Case History
    2022 GI Web Conference: Soil Improvement Committee - Case Histories in Soil Improvement for Civil Infrastructure
    2022 GI Web Conference: Unsaturated Soils Technical Committee - Unsaturated Soils in a Changing Climate
    2023 GI Web Conference: Advancing Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering: Innovative Strategies and Practices
    2023 GI Web Conference: Challenges and Opportunities in Site Characterization and Seismic Hazard Analysis: Practice to Research
    2023 GI Web Conference: Deep Foundations Case Studies of Design and Construction
    2023 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams, and Slopes Design and Case Histories
    2023 GI Web Conference: Embankments, Dams, and Slopes Extreme Event Research and Emerging Trends
    2023 GI Web Conference: Emerging Modeling Techniques in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering: Research to Practice
    2023 GI Web Conference: Ground Improvement for Liquefaction Mitigation
    2023 GI Web Conference: Harnessing the Potential of Geosynthetics Performance Testing for Optimized Roadway Design
    2023 GI Web Conference: Recent Advances in Earth Retaining Structures
    2023 GI Web Conference: The Present and Future of 3D and 4D Geotechnical Data in BIM and Digital Twins
    Bridge Deep Foundation Design for Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading - Lessons Learned
    Energy Piles - Background and Geotechnical Engineering Concepts
    Engineering Practice for Wetting-Induced Collapse of Soils
    Geosynthetic Applications Accompanying Shale Gas Drilling Operations
    Geosynthetic Reinforced Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls
    Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Integrated Bridge System
    Geosynthetics Used in Unpaved and Paved Roads
    Introduction to Jet Grouting and Its Applications
    Introduction to Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
    Long-Term Durability (aka, Lifetime) of Geosynthetics
    Low Mobility Grouting
    Pressuremeter and Foundation Design
    Recycled Materials in Transportation Geotechnical Applications
    Selected Topics Regarding Geosynthetic Clay Liners
    Soil Liquefaction Risk Mitigation Using Earthquake Drains and Other Drainage Techniques

Profession and Practice

    ASCE's Code of Ethics
    CE Corps - Striving Towards Equitable Infrastructure
    Creating Self Innovating Organizations with Measurable Results
    Design of the Giant Magellan Telescope Enclosure
    Digitization in the Field of Civil Engineering
    Ensuring Safe Hydrogen Infrastructure: Challenges and Best Practices
    Ethics in Sustainable Development for Civil and Structural Engineers
    Ethics: Workplace Strategies for Ethical Challenges
    From Engineering to Entrepreneurship: How to Prepare For, Start and Manage Your Own Engineering firm
    Innovation in CE Education for Future Ready CEs
    Mitigating Uncertainty - A Perspective for Engineers
    Principled-Based Ethics: Character-Builder or Career-Ender
    Public Speaking - How to Plan, Design, and Deliver a Presentation
    Success & Failures: Case Studies of Mistakes
    The Competitive Workforce

Structural Engineering

    Additional Current Day Structural Systems
    ASCE 7-22 Changes to Flood Load Provisions
    ASCE/SEI 41-17 - Performance Objectives & Seismic Hazard Changes
    ASCE/SEI 41-17: Analysis Procedure Changes
    Bridge Demolition with Explosives
    Calculation and Applying Design Wind Loads on Buildings Using the Envelope Procedure of ASCE 7-16
    Changes to the Nonbuilding Structures Provisions in ASCE 7-16
    Condition Evaluation of Existing Structures - Concrete and Steel
    Condition Evaluation of Existing Structures - Masonry and Wood
    Connection Solutions for Wood Framed Structures
    Curtainwall Primer for Design Professionals
    Deflection Calculation of Concrete Floors
    Design of Roof Structures - Avoiding Common Errors
    Design of Wood Connections
    Designing Structures for Tsunami Resilience using the New Chapter 6 of ASCE 7-16
    Determining Flood Hazard
    Determining Flood Loads Using ASCE 7-22, Supplement 2
    Diagnosis, Repair, and Restoration of Building Facades
    Elimination of Deck Expansion Joints on Existing Bridges
    Engineering Judgment - Structural Renovation of a 100-Year-old Historic Barn
    Evolutionary Optimization for Hybrid System of Post-Tensioned Cross-Laminated Timber and Light-Frame Wood Shear Walls in Mid-Rise Buildings
    Examples of Vintage to Current Day Structural Systems - Part 1
    Examples of Vintage to Current Day Structural Systems - Part 2
    Examples of Vintage to Current Day Structural Systems - Part 3
    Glued Laminated and Cross Laminated Timbers: Mass Timber for a New Generation of Wood Construction
    Graphic Statics - Primer on Trusses
    How & Why to Use ASCE 7-22 in Your Practice
    Introduction to Structural Fire Engineering
    Investigation and Repair of Fire-Damaged Framing
    Investigation of Winter Roof Failures - Lessons Learned
    Joints in Buildings
    Large Wood Diaphragms in Heavy-Wall Buildings: New Understandings of their Seismic Behavior and Improving Their Performance
    Lateral Bracing of Flexural Members
    Learning from Failures of Wood-Framed Structures
    Needs and Innovation in Modular, Rapidly Erectable, and Deployable Structures: Steel Bridges
    Non-Linear Time History Analysis
    Petrographic Analysis of Concrete Deterioration
    Pier and Beam Foundation Design for Wind and Flood Loads
    Post-Tensioning Concepts and Practice - Beyond the Basics
    Practical Applications of Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) in Strengthening Existing Concrete and Masonry Structures
    Practical Design of Bolted and Welded Steel Connections
    Practical Design of Slabs on Grade
    Practical Life-Cycle Analysis for Bridges
    Quantification of Numeric Model Uncertainty and Risk
    Rain Loads in ASCE 7-22 , What’s New and Different
    Revised Flood Load Combinations to Use with ASCE 7, Chapter 2
    SEI Standards Series ASCE 7 & Building Codes - Part 1
    SEI Standards Series ASCE 7 & Building Codes - Part 2
    Seismic Assessment and Strengthening of Buildings and Structures in Areas of Low to Moderate Seismicity
    Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings: An Overview of Changes to the New ASCE 41-13
    Seismic Screening of Buildings Using ASCE 41-13
    Significant Changes to the Wind Load Design Procedures of ASCE 7-10
    Structural Renovation of Parking Garages
    Structural Thermal Bridging in the Building Envelope
    The Role of the Specialty Engineer (From the Wood Truss Industry's Perspective)
    The Value of Structural Detailing
    Wind Design for Components and Cladding Using ASCE 7-16
    Wind Design for Industrial Facilities
    Wind Loading: MWFRS and C&C Approach for Non-Rectangular Low-Rise Buildings
    Wood Deterioration Investigations and Repairs

Sustainability and Resilience

    Calculating Embodied Carbon within System Designs
    INSPIRE 2023: Climate Change: Case Studies on the Built Environment and Quanitifying Flood Risk
    INSPIRE 2023: Fostering Sustainability in Education
    INSPIRE 2023: Impacts of Energy Transformation, Building Equity into Infrastructure, Machine Learning Assisted Network Resilience Design
    INSPIRE 2023: Natural Hazard Impacts on Infrastructure and Minimal Sensing and Data Fusion for Structural Seismic Risk and Resilience Modeling
    INSPIRE 2023: Open-Source Platforms for Resilience Assessment of Communities and Regions to Natural Hazards  
    Leveraging Earth System Science and Modeling to inform Civil Engineering Design (Part 2): Coastal Flood Hazards and Straight-line Winds
    Leveraging Earth System Science and Modeling to inform Civil Engineering Design (Part I): Extreme Temperature and Intense Rainfall
    Nature-Based Solutions: How to Get Started
    The Emerging Partnership between ASCE and NOAA and its Implications for Addressing Nonstationarity in Weather and Climate Extreme in Civil Engineering Practice
    Updating Structural Specifications to Reduce Embodied Carbon

Transportation

    2024 T&DI Conference: Advancements in Artificial Intelligence Transforming Infrastructure Systems
    2024 T&DI Conference: Assisted Human Drivers and Robot Drivers
    2024 T&DI Conference: Electrifying the Transportation Grid and Railway Applications of Automation and AI
    2024 T&DI Conference: GDOT's Innovation Program Delivery
    2024 T&DI Conference: Litigation Risk & Reality in Transportation Construction
    2024 T&DI Conference: Planning for Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure
    2024 T&DI Conference: Transitioning to a Clean Energy Environment for Public Transportation Fleets
    2024 T&DI Conference: Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Applications in Transportation Infrastructure Systems I
    2024 T&DI Conference: Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Applications in Transportation Infrastructure Systems II
    2024 T&DI Conference: Updates from the GDOTs Traffic Operations Office
    AASHTO '93 Pavement Design
    Airfield Pavement Condition Assessment - Manual or Automated? Which is Best? 
    An Introduction to Traffic Signal Operations
    Bases and Subbases for Flexible and Rigid Pavements
    Benefits of Pavement Reclamation: How In-Place Recycling has Worked for National Parks/Forests
    Best Practices for Crack Treatments for Asphalt Pavements
    Complete Streets and Pavement Preservation - Linking Planning and Public Works for Better Communities and Better Infrastructure
    Contributors to Speed and Considerations for Speed Management
    Corridor Studies - A Primer for Agencies
    Design of New Flexible Pavements
    Developing, Implementing, & Managing a Comprehensive Citywide Traffic Signal Coordination Program
    Effective Pavement Management and Its Benefits
    Engineering Treatments and Design Development Strategies for Creating Safe Routes to Schools
    Geophysical Imaging in Support of Structural and/or Pavement Investigations
    How to Meet The Federal Traffic Sign Retroflectivity Requirements
    Introduction to Variable Speed Limits
    Managed Lanes: From Planning through Design to Operations
    New and Emerging Technology for the Construction of Pavements
    New ASCE Standard - Design, Construction and Maintenance of Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavements
    Pavement Marking Maintenance Methods
    Pavement Preservation
    Prevent Accidents and Traffic Delays - The Art of Delivering and Maintaining Successful Signal Timing Improvements
    Recycled Base Aggregates in Pavement Applications
    Redeveloping Roadways for the Urban Core within Constrained Right-of-Ways
    Regulatory and Warning Signs - Providing Answers to Common Citizen Requests
    Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavements - Applications and Guidance
    Setting and Managing Speed Zones
    The Future of Transportation, Connected Automated Vehicles
    The Impact of Design, Construction and Maintenance Features on the Long-Term Performance of Pavements
    The Road Safety and Signage Audit - Proactive Roadway Safety in the 21st Century
    Thin Pavement Surface Treatments to Improve Friction and Reduction Moisture Infiltration
    Traffic Signal Design
    Traffic Studies for Implementing Short-Term and Long-Range Roadway Improvements
    Transportation Infrastructure Considerations for Super Heavy Load Moves
    Vulnerable Road User Planning & Design

Water and Water Resources

    2024 EWRI Congress: Emerging Concepts and Methods in Modeling Hydraulic and Hyrdo-Climate Processes
    2024 EWRI Congress: Field-Scale Studies of Infrastructure Water Management
    2024 EWRI Congress: Green Innovations in Sustainable Water Infrastructure
    2024 EWRI Congress: Hydraulics Modeling for Transportation Infrastructure Part 1
    2024 EWRI Congress: Hydraulics Modeling for Transportation Infrastructure Part 2
    2024 EWRI Congress: Managing Water Quality in Distribution Systems
    Advanced Culvert Hydraulics with HEC-RAS
    Design of Onsite Wastewater Disposal Systems
    Design of Restrained Joints for Pressure Pipes
    Drowning Machines! Hydraulic Analysis of Low Head Dams for Safety Considerations
    Dubai Storm Water Tunnel Sustainability Lessons
    Hydraulics 101 - Understanding the Basics
    Installation, Design and Performance of Prefabricated Drains, aka PVDs
    Introduction to Runoff Analysis Using Unit Hydrographs
    Risk and Uncertainty Principles for Flood Control Projects - Understanding the Basics
    Seismic Assessment and Design of Water and Sewer Pipelines
    The Integration of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling Tools in Water Treatment Plant Design
    Water Balance Modeling for Alternative Covers


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