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🚨 New issue of Engineering at Maryland! 🚨 The latest issue of Engineering at Maryland has arrived! Check out the story on BIOE undergrads Corinne Martin and Neel Panchwagh, and the CAREER Award spotlight on BIOE Assistant Professor Dr. Erika Moore.

It's always a great day when we get to talk with future design professionals! Yesterday, Senior Engineer Ken Sides, PE, CNU-a, LCI led instructor Tina Boyd's University of South Florida graduate transportation class on an exciting tour of local roundabouts. #tampa #florida #EngineeringStudents #engineering #design #TrafficEngineering #EngineeringEducation

Coastal monitoring provides crucial data on physical processes such as erosion and accretion, sediment transport, tidal patterns and changes in the attached coastal ecosystems. Particularly in a time when coastal zones are highly susceptible to climate change impacts, monitoring coastal areas allows us to assess and quantify these impacts, such as changes in water levels, the range of retreat and gain of shoreline, and the severity level of dune erosion. We can better understand these changes' effects on coastal ecosystems and human communities by tracking the changes of the coasts. Coastal observation data would also help identify coastal flooding and habitat loss risks, providing critical information for policymakers in making informed decisions regarding coastal management and climate adaptation strategies. This includes planning for infrastructure development, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable conservation efforts. Despite the intensively developing digital data technologies such as a high-resolution satellite imagery data and radar data, still obtaining data specific to local regions at a higher resolution and economically is challenging. Crowd-sourced imagery data is highly beneficial in this aspect as they overcome these challenges to a certain degree, with the added advantage of having more frequent imagery data around extreme events such as storm surges, which allows verification of information, too. CoastSnap, introduced by UNSW, is a great and famous initiative in this regard. Wales Coastal Monitoring Centre Monitoring Center (WCMC) is carrying out the CoastSnap framework in Wales successfully, and they have collaborated with us at Swansea University to add a CoastSnap station at the Swansea University Bay Campus premises, which is located at the edge of a highly dynamic Swansea Bay. Hope we can strengthen the coastal imagery databases with the help of community scientists and the wonderful team from WCMC! Wales Coastal Monitoring Centre Swansea University Harshinie Karunarathna

The Fall Issue of The Bridge by the National Academy of Engineering is live, co-edited by STVP Associate Faculty Director Mike Lepech. In his essay "The Value of Engineering for Sustainability," Lepech explores the pivotal role engineering plays in shaping a sustainable future. Gain valuable perspectives on the intersection of engineering excellence and sustainability by reading the latest insights: https://bit.ly/45Eymxe

For those who care about #sustainability #entrepreneurship and believe that innovations in technology and engineers can unlock solutions to the most difficult planetary challenges, please keep reading. As STVP - the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center Faculty Director, Mike Lepech and James Leckie writes "If purely technical solutions are not sufficient, what is the value of engineering, a discipline that rigorously applies mathematics and science to solve real-world problems, in addressing our existential sustainability challenge?" As a Stanford University School of Engineering ChemE grad, this resonates with me and we need to equip more students and engineers with the knowledge, tools and resources to keep #building, #creating, #innovating and #engineering! "This issue explores the unique value proposition that engineers and engineering disciplines present in addressing the National Academies’ Grand Challenges. Covering topics ranging from the global sustainability challenge to the sequestration of carbon to transformations in our water management system, the articles in this issue show how engineers are vital to creating a world in which humanity can thrive." https://lnkd.in/gYGseGkW

So many great takeaways from today's ideas forum! Thanks to Juliano Denicol for facilitating and to all the panelists for sparking a much-needed conversation in our infrastructure industry. The main takeaways that stood out for me were: 👉 Keep people and the ultimate customer at the heart of everything the Program enterprise does, using data and digital as enablers. Recognize that digitization is a journey. 👉 Focus on outcomes to enable people and nature to flourish together. 👉 Align risk with the capability to ensure sustainable returns. 👉 Have clear incentives to encourage integration. 👉 Address human and interface complexity with intergovernmental bodies. We are seeing more examples of these, particularly the New York City Owners Roundtable and astronomy projects offer great learnings on managing external dependencies, particularly in multi-country supply chains. Looking forward to implementing these insights and continuing the discussion! 🚀 #InfrastructureInnovation #IdeasForum #Collaboration

Serving as a gateway for collaboration and research, the LEED Gold Washkewicz College of Engineering building at Cleveland State University places science on display while integrating with the urban streetscape. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/Yf1p50Rayq6 #HEDadvances #positiveimpact #highereducationdesign #engineering #STEMdesign

Serving as a gateway for collaboration and research, the LEED Gold Washkewicz College of Engineering building at Cleveland State University places science on display while integrating with the urban streetscape. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/R3bw50R9ljK #HEDadvances #positiveimpact #highereducationdesign #engineering #STEMdesign

😎 1999 must have been a great time in Berkeley, California, especially among those attending the 7th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction. +30 papers published! Cynthia C.Y. Tsao, Ph.D., we need to catch up soon. 🤓 Here are some 💎 that got my attention with some snippets. WHAT IS LEAN CONSTRUCTION - 1999 Gregory A. Howell "Lean construction much like current practice has the goal of better meeting customer needs while using less of everything. But unlike current practice, lean construction rests on production management principles, the “physics1 ” of construction. The result is a new project delivery system that can be applied to any kind of construction but is particularly suited for complex, uncertain, and quick projects." Papers I'm doing a deeper dive into include: The Dark Side of Lean Construction: Exploitation and Ideology by Stuart D. Green Bringing Light to the Dark Side of Lean Construction: A Response to Stuart Green by Gregory A. Howell & Glenn Ballard See what else was published that year at https://lnkd.in/gVTCqzPS.

I asked Claude who are some professors and authors that share similar philosophical views about design and engineering as the late Henry Petroski. I got the names of these giants whose shoulders I am standing upon. The common threads are a view of engineering as a human-centered endeavor focused on solving problems via design, not just applying science. And an appreciation for engineering failures as opportunities for reflection and improvement, rather than just mistakes. In short embracing and uncovering the subjectivities in engineering, not just its objectivities. The Giants List from Claude's LLM are...David Billington, Eugene Ferguson, Samuel Florman, Henry Michel, Clive Dym, Louis Bucciarelli, David P Billington Jr. - Son of David Billington, Sheri Sheppard, David Mindell, David Perkins.