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2022 ASCE President Dennis Truax on the Past, Present, and Future of Civil Engineering

2022 ASCE President Dennis Truax on the Past, Present, and Future of Civil Engineering

Update: 2025-09-05
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Outdated education with low pay, but worn out infrastructure and sustainability needs? 🤔

These are the two sides of civil engineering today — and nobody has lived and breathed the field as much as Dennis D. Truax to know the right way to look at it. 👇

Dennis is a civil engineer who has spent decades shaping the profession in leadership positions. From leading Mississippi State University’s civil department to serving as ASCE President in 2022! 

In this episode, he shares the harsh truths and the hidden opportunities he sees today for civil engineers. And if that’s not enough, he also gives us a sneak peek into a new platform that challenges the old work model of one company, 40-hour workweeks.

(Yep. You read that right. 😨)

If you want to hear wisdom from someone who’s been in the trenches, led at the highest levels, and is still working to shape the future of civil engineering even after “retirement,”  you’ll love this conversation. 😉


🧠 TUNE IN TO LEARN:

  • The High-Level Professional Roles He's Held Over His Career

  • Has Today's Civil Engineering Education Fallen Behind?

  • Broad But Difficult: The Positive and Negative Side of Civil Engineering

  • The Hesitation of Young People to Go into Civil

  • A Groundbreaking Concept in Water Resources and Environmental for the Future

  • The Biggest Challenge (And Opportunity) in Civil Engineering Today

  • The Role of ASCE in the Political Battles for Investments in Infrastructure

  • Is US Infrastructure Improving?

  • Why the Wastewater Field Scores a D (And What Can Be Done About It)

  • What Changed in the Past That Makes Today a Great Time to Be a Civil Engineer

  • A New Civil Engineering Work Model (And the Platform to Leverage It)


🔗 RESOURCES MENTIONED:

ASCE 2022 President Dennis Truax Video

Engineer Match Group

The Infrastructure Report Card

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs (IJA) Act

Urban Sequoia Concept

Mississippi State University


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2022 ASCE President Dennis Truax on the Past, Present, and Future of Civil Engineering

2022 ASCE President Dennis Truax on the Past, Present, and Future of Civil Engineering

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