Almost a month before Pam Radtke Russell joined the staff of Engineering News-Record full time, we gave her one of the biggest assignments any editor or reporter at ENR gets: writing the Award of Excellence story.

This year, the overriding mood of the triennial CONEXPO-CON/AGG equipment trade show was one of guarded optimism.

CONEXPO 2017 was set in fast-growing Las Vegas, where the Nevada Dept. of Transportation, 100 years old this year, “has $3 billion in road projects underway in Clark County alone,” said Tony Illia, NDOT public information officer.

More than 200 New York City students donned 3D glasses for “Dream Big: Engineering Our World,” which will air in theaters across the U.S. to promote engineering careers

Tudor Van Hampton, ENR’s managing editor who died on Feb. 4, meant so much to so many.