Summary of the Hydraulics Division-ASCE (1938-1988)

摘要

Formation of the ASCE Hydraulics Division was authorized by the Board of Direction of the Society in April 1938 as the twelfth technical division. Prior to that time, 28 different committees of the Society had been concerned with water. The petition to form the Division was signed by 200 members of ASCE, with the stated objective: To strengthen the position of the civil engineer in general and special fields of hydraulic engineering, to sponsor papers and encourage discussion of hydraulic engineering subjects, to urge civil engineering colleges to equip their students with a knowledge equal to that imparted in the curriculum of any other type of engineering college.