Engineers Need Broader Education

The 2nd edition of ASCE’s “Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century” has been released. This edition places increased emphasis on such topics as sustainability, natural sciences, the humanities, globalization, public policy, risk, and uncertainty. The publication stresses that engineers need to expand their knowledge to meet the challenges of modern infrastructure; and as surveys have shown geosynthetics is an area to which not enough engineers and students are exposed. A bound copy may be purchased via ASCE’s bookstore, but a free copy may be downloaded in PDF here.