What the society is all about

Tour of the Las Vegas Airport under construction. Spring 2007.

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UCLA-ASCE consists of student members with a wide variety of backgrounds and academic levels, and often students from outside the major even join the group to take advantage of the many opportunities that ASCE membership can provide. The underlying goal of the student chapter's leadership team is to foster an environment that not only promotes engineering skill and professional development, but also helps to build the foundation for strong and enduring friendships for years to come.

Since being chartered in 1959, UCLA's ASCE Student Chapter has grown into an active student-run organization that strives to promote the professional development of civil engineering students through curriculum-enriching activities.

Engineering Exposure

The chapter sponsors many field trips that are relevant to civil engineering including tours of Hoover Dam, the San Francisco Golden Gate and Bay Bridge rehabilitation projects, and local engineering firms. Additionally, the chapter seeks to provide undergraduates with greater exposure to unique construction sites, including the Getty Center during steel framing, Royce Hall during seismic retrofit, and Powell Library during rennovation and restoration.

Several chapter delegates also attend an annual ASCE Zone Management and Leadership Conference, during which leadership workshops and social activities allow chapter members to meet and work with students from other universities, many of whom will later become professional acquaintances.

Finally, the chapter organizes cooperative study groups, seminars, industry nights, and social and sporting events. The quarterly newsletter, Connections, covers many of these activities and is distributed to the UCLA community and industry sponsors.

The steel bridge team fits the final pieces into place during the competition.

Conference

The most notable society event of the year is the annual ASCE Pacific Southwest Regional Conference, in which students from 18 universities in the Pacific Southwest (Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii) compete in various team-oriented competitions, including: