When veteran engineer Andrew W. Herrmann speaks to the public about the critical state of the nation's infrastructure, his passion is evident.
"As a parent, if my children came home with Ds on their report cards, I'd be very upset," he said when interviewed on the History Channel's 2009 documentary "The Crumbling of America," which cites the D grade given to the nation's infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Herrmann, who has held numerous positions at ASCE including serving as president in 2011-12, goes on to say that the entire nation needs to be upset with such grades and, "we have to go talk to the principal; we have to start doing things that will improve those grades."