CEC Explains

Tune in for a conversation between CEC engineers Amanda, Elina, and Kristen to mark International Women in Engineering Day. From their early childhoods through their education and beyond, these engineers share their personal experiences and give advice to women looking to enter the field.

Listen to CEC’s Leah Blinn interview Nucor’s Manager of Environmental Sustainability, Dave Miracle, as they talk in-depth about greenhouse gas emissions, energy, and more. While working with CEC for several years, Dave expresses how Nucor has met and exceeded its sustainability goals.

With our new CEO and our recent corporate headquarters move, there have been a lot of big changes within the company. For this episode, we decided to interview some of our CEC veterans to illustrate just how much we’ve changed since we were founded 33 years ago.

Listen to CEC's Jeff Shepherd and Katie Astroth as they explain the process of reclaiming abandoned mine lands and why it matters.

For Engineers Week, we conducted a series of short interviews during our annual planning meeting with some of CEC's engineers. We asked them what inspired them to become engineers and what they're looking forward to in the future of their career.

How do we influence employees to make the best choices when it comes to safety? CEC's Vice President of Safety, Keith Robinson dives into how actions and consequences (both good and bad) can influence behavior and what we can do to steer employees in the right direction.

What lies beneath? Our experts can find out. In our latest podcast, CEC archaeologists Colleen Westmor and Gabi Ritter talk about Cultural Resource Management and a unique archaeological survey they conducted in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Tremendous growth in the Nashville area has limited the amount of developable land. Listen as Bert Morton and Drew Stokes, two of CEC's local Nashville team members, dive into two notable projects that have changed the local landscape for the better and highlight some of the challenges developers and engineers are facing in rapid-growth regions.

For more, listen to our floodplains and real estate development episodes and visit our blog post about these two projects.

The U.S. Survey Foot is set to retire by January 1, 2023. How will the change affect borders, boundaries, and large-scale projects? CEC's survey experts explain why the U.S. had a different unit of measure and what the retirement means going forward.

CEC mining experts Rob Livermore and Brad Renwick discuss investigations that can be performed to evaluate the feasibility of opening a new mine or expanding an existing one.