The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is on the verge of breaking up into a series of special interest groups. Washington consultant Gary Kellogg argues that this would be the final nail in the profession's coffin. Civil engineering is one of a kind among the professions. It deals with the very great and the very small, with a plethora of unknowns, with vast sums of money, with wild extrapolations, with teams of often conflicting players, with hundreds of project workers and with untold liabilities. Furthermore, most of these things are beyond the profession's direct control. It is not surprising, therefore, that effective civil engineers learn early on in their careers the reality and meaning of working through others.
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