Anna Lisonbee is a water resources professional engineer in training for Hansen, Allen, and Luce in Sandy, Utah.

There are a lot of ways to get your message out to the masses in 2025.

Rod Jones is a project manager for Holder Construction in Ashburn, Virginia.

But even as he is progressing in his own career – ENR named him a Top 20 Under 40 in 2024 – he’s acutely aware of attracting more people to the profession and helping others follow his path.

He’s an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Morgan State University, and his online “Rod the Builder” lifestyle brand – through YouTube and social media – inspires young professionals and students to find their passion in the STEM fields too.

In episode 178 of ASCE Plot Points, Jones talks about how he found his way into construction management and why it’s so important to him to share that story with others.

Isamar Escobar joined ASCE as a student several years ago. And since then, she not been a member in name only. She’s ranked among the most active of active ASCE members, planning this event, chairing that committee. 

With the AI revolution upon us, it’s easy to see technology and human beings on opposite sides of a spectrum.

ASCE members know Rossana D’Antonio as a member of the Society’s Board of Direction.

Tania Stewart is a transportation engineer for the Maryland Department Of Transportation State Highway Administration.

Learn more about Tania's photography business.

Watch Tania talk about her dual careers.

Tania's first solo art exhibit, "Black Joy," opens Feb. 1 at 2100 L Street NW in Washington, DC.

The ASCE member mother-daughter team of Minerva Rodriguez and Isabella Salgado celebrated buying a new house last June in the very nice Altadena neighborhood of Los Angeles.

It goes without saying. IRONMAN triathlons are intense.

Cold-water swimming for 2.4 miles, followed by 112 miles on a bike, and capped off with a 26.2 marathon run.

It takes someone special to conquer such a challenge.

Perhaps someone like a civil engineer?

Isaac Kontorovsky is a principal and vice president for BKF Engineers as well as vice president of the ASCE San Diego Section, and he recently took on IRONMAN California. Swim, cycle, run – all of it.

And he found a lot of common ground between his civil engineering career goals and the challenge presented by the most grueling of endurance sports.

In episode 172 of ASCE Plot Points, Kontorovsky talks about the why and how of his IRONMAN experience and why it might be more relatable to civil engineers than most realize.

Learn more about Isaac and his journey at his website.

This ASCE Day – coming up next week, Nov. 5 – will mark ASCE’s 172nd anniversary.

And that’s a very long time.

For an organization to last for so many years, it needs great leadership and great leaders who give back.

Jean-Louis Briaud and Knut Eriksen are two such leaders.

Each is a member of the ASCE Foundation’s 1852 Society, a very select group of people who have generously given more than $100,000 to the Foundation during their lifetimes.

In episode 171 of the ASCE Plot Points podcast, Briaud and Eriksen talk about their career trajectories and how they came to find that giving back was the best way forward.