About American Society of Civil Engineers

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) represents more than 147,000 members of the civil engineering profession worldwide, and is America’s oldest national engineering society. ASCE’s vision is to position engineers as global leaders building a better quality of life. The Society celebrated its 150^th anniversary in 2002.

ASCE is the world’s largest publisher of civil engineering information – producing more than 55,000 pages of technical content each year. The ASCE publications Divisions produces 30 professional journals (available both in print and online editions), conference proceedings, standards, manual of practice, committee report and monographs under the ASCE Press imprint.

ASCE Journals are the premier source of technical information for the civil engineering profession and form the core collection in the field — 32 journals available in print and online. The online journal archive contains over 48,000 articles, more than 400,000 pages, published since 1983.