As a sweeper playing defense on North Carolina State University’s soccer team, Lewis E. “Ed” Link Jr. had a knack for pattern recognition and teamwork. “I could anticipate. I could see the pattern, the big picture, and go to where the ball was going to be,” he says. The National Soccer Coaches Association of America thought he had a special talent, too: It named him an All-American in 1967, his senior year. His success on the field, Link says, came from playing with the strengths he had, rather than from trying to shape his style after an inappropriate model—like some

Reversal of fortune for SIGIR's Stuart W. Bowen Jr. Congress has given final approval to a bill that would extend the office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction past next year. The House passed the bill Dec. 8, two days after the Senate approved it. The measure next goes to President Bush for his signature. The new legislation would reverse a provision in a defense authorization measure enacted in October that terminates the IG's office as of Oct. 1, 2007. The new bill keeps the office, headed by Stuart Bowen, open until 10 months after 80% of funds

Stanford University engineering professor and consultant Paul C. Teicholz is the fifth winner of the Henry C. Turner Prize. The honor, announced Nov. 20 by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is given annually for Innovation in construction technology. Teicholz is being cited for "carrying the architecture, construction, and engineering fields into the information age through his development and integration of information technology into the building and design industries," according to the museum's release. Photo: Teicholz Teicholz started more than 40 years ago at San Francisco-based consultant Jacobs Associates devloping computer applications for the construction industry. Later at another

Greenfield Seymour S. "Steve" Greenfield, former chairman of New York City-based engineering giant Parsons Brinckerhoff and a long-time industry innovator and leader, died on Nov. 17 in Englewood, N.J. He was 84. Cause of death was pancreatic cancer, according to a Parsons Brinckerhoff official. Greenfield, who joined PB in 1947, became a company partner in 1964 and served in the chairman role from 1982 until 1989. Even after his official retirement in 1995, he was a presence in the company who "who continued working several days a week" until his death, says current PB Chairman and CEO Thomas J. O'Neill.

August 28, 2006 HDPE vs. RCP, Round 2 By Dr. Patricia D. Galloway Dr. Patricia D. Galloway, PE, is CEO of the Seattle-based Nielsen-Wurster Group. In June she was appointed by President Bush to serve a six-year term as a director of the 24-member National Science Board, the National Science Foundation's governing body. Patricia D. Galloway I have received a surprising number of comments about the recent blog on manufacturer's warranties and specifically, the differences between HDPE pipe and concrete pipe.� As a professional, I thought I'd revisit the issue in light of those comments, which rightly pointed out that

Sixteen students from The City College of New York’s School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture are in an exchange program in Germany this summer at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences. Students from both institutions are developing proposals for proposals for downtown site development, with emphasis on urban design and sustainability. These are their stories. August 8, 2006 Students standing before Berlin city planning model. (Photo by Lisa Wan) On Sustainability By Lisa Wan My name is Lisa Wan. This fall, I will be in thesis at the undergraduate Architecture program of The City College of New York.

June 27 With Comments Like These, No Wonder Women Leave Engineering Patricia D. Galloway Patricia D. Galloway This week I was a co-chair of a most exciting summit on the future of civil engineering, organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The room was filled with a Who’s Who in the civil engineering community, including CEOs and executives of the nation’s top engineering design and construction firms, government agencies and universities. About 15% of the attendees were women, including university provosts, engineering deans, CEOs/Presidents and women holding key engineering positions. The summit focused on what the world would look

  May 1, 2006   Women At Work, Surrounded by Men Can men in construction ever learn to behave professionally with female colleagues? Ive always been curious about how women cope in the male-dominated construction industry. (About 11% of employed engineers of all kinds are women, according to recent government data.) So I started talking about it over Moroccan food with a couple of friends who had just landed their first jobs doing ADA inspection work for an established engineering firm in Manhattan. They are young, attractive, smart, and female, and are proud to be project engineers. Throughout the night,

April 21, 2006   Students Fight to Build a Green Future On Earth Day 2006, there’s something on the minds of young architects and engineers, and it’s a problem that won’t leave them alone. The challenge to come, they say, is the future of construction and energy practices. And these students, ingrained with problem-solving skills, are using politics to find solutions. Their cause? Sustainability. And students are organizing at the university and national level [] to fight for green building and renewable energy to be instated on their campuses. Throughout the United States, politicians and universities are quickly finding that

Teachers. McAninch, Jahren sponsored class. When he graduates this year, Nels Overgaard, a 22-year-old student at Iowa State University, plans to start up his own construction business. “He’s an entrepreneur,” says Charles T. Jahren, a professor in charge of the school’s construction engineering program. One of Overgaard’s last chances to prepare for the competitive work ahead was a new class that Ames-based Iowa State offered this spring on digital earthmoving. “Everybody knows that GPS is out there, but they don’t always know how it works,” he says. The new project controls are changing the lives of surveyors, engineers and contractors