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.