Vision 2025: Creating A New Role for Civil Engineers

1. Vision 2025: CreatingA New Role for Civil Engineers Presentación del documento La Visión para la Ingeniería Civil en 2025 22 de junio de 2010 - Madrid Stefan Jaeger, CAE ASCE Managing Director Strategic, Board & International Initiatives

2. Today’s Presentation • Why a Summit on the Future of Civil Engineering in 2025? • The process for creating the Vision 2025 and Roadmap reports • What ASCE is already doing to achieve the Vision • The road forward globally

3. Why a Summit? • Commoditization of engineering services • Rise of software, technician work • Exploding amount of knowledge • Globalization, off-shoring • Infrastructure investment shortfall • Environmental challenges • Attracting students into the profession

4. Why a Summit? Broadly speaking, there are only two futures for civil engineering: the one the profession creates for itself or, in the void, the one others create for civil engineering.

5. The Engineer of 2020 • ASCE Summit planning waited for completion of U.S. National Academy of Engineering report: The Engineer of 2020:Visions of Engineering inthe New Century

6. Summit In June 2006, some 60 civil engineer and non-engineer leaders gathered… ASCE-Hosted Summit, Lansdowne, Virginia

7. Summit …to look over the horizon.

8. What will the world be likein 2025?

9. Will role will civil engineers play in the world of 2025?

10. Summit Process • Steering Committee appointed to lead • Keynote addresses • Breakout groups

11. Summit Process • Consolidation of ideas • Reports to full summit and discussion • Editorial Committee translated results into the Vision 2025 report • Editor: Stu Walesh, Ph.D. P.E., D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE

12. Entrusted by societyto create a sustainable world andenhance the global quality of life,civil engineersserve competently, collaboratively, and ethically as:

13. Master Builders • Master planners, designers, constructors, and operators of society’s economic and social engine—the built environment

14. Stewards of the Environment • Stewards of the natural environment and its resources

15. Innovators • Innovators and integrators of ideas and technology across the public, private, and academic sectors

16. Managers of Risk • Managers of risk and uncertainty caused by natural events, accidents, and other threats

17. Leaders in Public Policy • Leaders in discussions and decisions shaping public environmental and infrastructure policy.

18. The Excitement Students on Vision 2025: “A powerful statement.” “Very impressive and enlightening.” “One of the best professions.” “Civil engineers will elevate standards of living.” “Civil engineers are intelligent, charismatic, and powerful.”

19. The Excitement • Engineering societies around the world have embraced the Vision • ASCE speakers invited for major presentations / interaction in Brazil and Portugal • Portugal, Poland, Turkey interested in translating the Vision • Australia and South Africa pursued efforts similar to Vision 2025 • In U.S., a professor at the University of Alabama highlights Vision 2025 to recruit students

20. The Challenge Turning excitement into concrete action…around the globe

21. Vision 2025 Roadmap Process • ASCE appointed task committee • Corresponding members from the UK, Australia • I served as lead writer, editor • First face-to-face meetings established the organization of the Roadmap.

22. 1 2 3 4 5 Vision 2025 Roadmap Process Entrusted by society to create a sustainable worldand enhance the global quality of life, civil engineersserve competently, collaboratively, and ethically as: • Master planners, designers, constructors, and operators of society’s economic and social engine—the built environment • Master stewards of the natural environment and its resources • Master innovators and integrators of ideas and technology across the public, private, and academic sectors • Managers of risk and uncertainty caused by natural events, accidents, and other threats • Leaders in discussions and decisions shaping public environmental and infrastructure policy. “VISION OUTCOME”

23. 1 Vision 2025 Roadmap Process Entrusted by society to create a sustainable worldand enhance the global quality of life, civil engineers serve competently, collaboratively, and ethically as: • Master planners, designers, constructors, and operators of society’s economic and social engine—the built environment • Civil engineers facilitate and lead multi-disciplinary, collaborative programs using a systems approach to achieve successful project outcomes. • Civil engineering is universally recognized as a “learned profession” characterized by competency and the continued pursuit of knowledge and experience. • Civil engineers have the language and cultural skills, competency, and experience necessary to practice globally. • Civil engineers are universally recognized for their high ethical standards of practice. “SUPPORTING OUTCOME”

24. 1 Vision 2025 Roadmap Process Entrusted by society to create a sustainable worldand enhance the global quality of life, civil engineers serve competently, collaboratively, and ethically as: • Master planners, designers, constructors, and operators of society’s economic and social engine—the built environment • Civil engineers facilitate and lead multi-disciplinary, collaborative programs using a systems approach to achieve successful project outcomes. • Serve as trusted advisors to owners of projects to define project goals and objectives. • Identify the roadblocks to facilitating successful collaborative programs, and develop systems-oriented strategies to remove those roadblocks. • Promote extensive leadership, program management, and project delivery education and training at all levels of career development. • Encourage the education and training of young engineers through mentoring by senior practitioners. “TACTIC”

25. Vision 2025 Roadmap Process • Face-to-face meetings and weekly conference calls • Online group writing, editing of outcomes, tactics • Sent for review to Summit participants, ASCE leaders, outside organizations

26. Achieving the Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025:A Roadmap for the Profession • Produced by an ASCE Task Committee • Published Sept. 2009 • Provides focused outcome statements, lists of tactics

27. How you can get involved • Read the Vision 2025 and the Vision 2025 Roadmap documents • Society / Organization leader: • Share the Vision with others and inspire their endorsement • Develop activities / programs that create interest • Individual civil engineer: • Undertake one or two new activities • With input from other countries, ASCE can help monitor the effort over the long term, and help in sharing others’ experiences

28. ASCE: Achieving the Vision • Making an inventory of where ASCE programs fit into the Roadmap • ASCE’s priority strategies clearly connected: • Infrastructure • Competency • Sustainability • Will use Roadmap as a background and framework for ongoing actions • But ASCE cannot address every tactic

29. The road forward globally • ASCE disseminated the Roadmap to international partner societies • Each country must decide which parts of the Roadmap are important to them, and then take action on those • Like ASCE, each country can also keep the Vision as a touchstone when discussing new and ongoing initiatives

30. Flyer – Vision 2025 in Chinese

31. Your Spanish Translation • Congratulations for a high quality, professional publication! • Your association will be an inspiration to other countries. • Already a great service to the Spanish-speaking world

32. Vision 2025 and the Vision 2025 Roadmap reports (also in Spanish) are available at www.asce.org • Click on “Issues & Advocacy” on main navigation bar; then “Vision 2025” • Order a free hard copy in English • Download a PDF

33. www.asce.org Vision 2025 Page In Spanish

34. “By achieving the Vision, we ascivil engineerswill have reshaped our professional stature and remained the force behindour own destiny, discovering a practical reality in what was once just imagined.” —Achieving the Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025:A Roadmap for the Profession