About Convention

Civil engineers have had the leading role and vital responsibilities in creating and maintaining the built environment for centuries. Creative minds have given life to communities by providing managed water resources and environment, developed transportation and energy systems, expanded ports for trade, and advanced structures and building systems. As our world expands through innovation, technology, and in population, civil engineers have a renewed call to action: ensure that the built environment is safe, dynamically resilient, sustainable, future-ready, and adaptive to changing climate conditions.


The ASCE Convention stands as the Society's premier membership event, offering a unique annual opportunity for the entire Society to come together. This gathering not only showcases the diversity within civil engineering that ASCE represents but also features a program that is integrated, cross-cultural, technical, and educational in nature.  New in 2025, we are pleased to announce that the ASCE Convention will build upon the success of the 2023 INSPIRE Conference to bring a greater level of technical content to the Society’s flagship event.
 

Why Attend?

ASCE 2025 Convention will feature a variety of meaningful programming experiences whether you are a first-time attendee or a veteran convention goer: the annual ASCE members meeting, keynote presentations, invited panels, case histories, and research papers..

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As a civil engineering professional, you know you can find the latest information, innovations, and technologies when you attend ASCE Convention. You also know that to be competitive, you must constantly fine-tune your skills, find new ways to cut costs, streamline processes, and drive change.

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ASCE 2025 Convention

The program will follow the convention topics listed and described below. These topics are intended to be used to define a recurring convention program that draws attendees back each year. They are intended to provide benefits to attendees and their employers on an educational and professional level.

Convention Topics

Significant Projects

This topic is intended to cover mega projects and multidisciplinary systems viewpoint on the feasibility, planning, design, construction, costs, public process, value, innovation, environmental, sustainability, with a focus on resilient infrastructure systems and communities. 

System Failures and Recovery

The topic is intended to explore disasters from a multi-disciplinary point of view. It will look at the natural and/or man-made causes; prediction; present codes and standards and suggested revisions; and/or examine impacts, mitigation and recovery from effects by component or macro approaches. These sessions may contain reports from ASCE/institute disaster response teams and investigate case studies, lessons learned, or discuss sustainability, risk management, disaster mitigation, and/or resilience design concepts.

History & Heritage

This topic will cover significant civil engineering achievements within the region of the host city or of national importance to add appeal for all attendees.

Strategic Issues/Public Policy

This topic is to present a forum to discuss the progress and direction of public policies and their effect on the profession. Sessions are intended to present current status, to drill down on practicable application of policies, how to utilize ASCE policies to affect political and legislative changes, to present case studies, and investigate future directions. Presenters could also be political or legislative leaders who understand the issues and the environment surrounding them. This topic is broad and can cover the following subtopics and more through the lens of public policy: decarbonization, climate readiness, infrastructure financing, social justice and sustainability, engineers and ethics, mitigation, planning and preparedness, building code advancement and adoption, and more. 

Standards 

This topic is to discuss the impact of standards on the profession. This will be an encompassing topic that involves the on-going discussion about measuring and and maintaining infrastructure for sustainability and resilience and the roles that standards play in that aspect of infrastructure. Other discussions may include performance objectives and designing infrastructure for functional recovery, updates to standards, etc.

Emerging Technologies

Presentations are intended to introduce new industry and profession level topics; explore nature-based design; examine sustainable infrastructure, looking at embodied carbon and greenhouse gases and climate mitigation; expand on energy efficiency and power production, and touch on infrastructure digitization. The topic encompasses all things new and fledgling in the industry. 

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The sessions should explore the emerging field of artificial intelligence and all the new ways has begun to and is currently impacting the civil engineering profession. Sessions should also expand upon discussions around machine learning design, safety checks, streamlining project management, and more. 

Papers are optional for all proposal types and will be eligible for inclusion in the ASCE 2025 Convention Proceedings.

Committee Members

ASCE Convention Technical Program Members

  • Michelle Madzelan, P.E., M.ASCE, Chair
  • Michael Bloom, P.E., M.ASCE, Vice Chair
  • Arthur Alzamora, Jr., P.E., M.ASCE
  • Tzufit Boyle
  • Loujin Daher, P.E.
  • Perrin Falkner, P.E., M.ASCE
  • Theresa Harrison, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE
  • Reuben Hull, P.E., M.ASCE
  • Andrew Kline
  • Dan Walker, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE