Join us this coming Thursday, April 8th, from 12:15PM-1:50 PM in ST 105 (conference room) for a seminar hosted by Civil Engineering Alumni Group members Daniel Dicker, Jack Seidman, Clifford Gold, and Bernie Haber. The event will be a continuation of the Q&A portion of the Future of Civil Engineering event held on March 18th during the first half hour (bring your questions), as well as providing a new discussion on ethical problems in engineering.

Click Here to get the preliminary lecture outline for the event!

Because students did not have a chance to ask questions during the March 18th event on the Future of the Civil Engineering Profession, we are dedicating some time on the April 8th event to answer the following list of questions:

• What is the role of engineers in shaping policy?
• Today’s staffs are growing larger to produce the same designs as before. Is engineering caught in a bureaucratic web?
• Are small engineering firms doing private projects dying?
• What parts of the country are hot for jobs? Where will the growth most likely be, and in which sectors?
• Is the current state of engineering one that is dominated more by the politicians and financiers in the country than by the engineers? Does the authority now lie with the engineers, contractors, unions, politicians, or financiers? Such trends are different for engineers in other countries (in Europe for example, engineers are seen throughout government).
• How are the politicians and engineers getting along in a country that went through a long period of distrusting engineers and technology (the 1950’s until now)?
• What’s the future for the job market as costs of developing soar? Are we in store for fewer public works projects, and more engineers collaborating on fewer projects?
• What can be done to make projects more cooperative? It seems that every individual interest is always seeking to leverage the projects for their own gain.
• What can we expect to see moving forward? Should we expect more joint efforts, more public/private partnerships on projects, and engineers branching into politics?

Hope to see you on April 8th for another exciting and provocative seminar!!