Industry Task Force Takes Big Step Ahead In Assessing What Civil Engineers Must Know
Developing an educational road map for the practice of civil engineering in a more complex future world has occupied a team of industry academics and practitioners for most of the past four years. They now are about to unveil the most detailed guide yet to a diverse array of knowledge areas and skill sets many believe are crucial to the profession—and will require lifetime learning.
The American Society of Civil Engineers’ effort will create a civil engineering “body of knowledge” (BOK) necessary to earn degrees, get licensed and meet new practice challenges (ENR 12/6/04 p. 26). “We are setting the stage for better civil engineering education that will allow future practitioners to take a leadership position in engineering and compete in the global environment,” says Richard O. Anderson, chairman of ASCE’s 65-member BOK committee and principal engineer of SOMAT Engineering Inc., Troy, Mich.