American Society of Civil Engineers history

In 1868, a few years after architects had formed a professional society of their own, ASCE adopted its current name.

The reconvened ASCE met at the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York until 1875, when the society moved to 4 East 23rd Street.

The ASCE commissioned a new headquarters at 220 West 57th Street in 1895.

Nora Stanton Barney was among the first women in the United States to earn a civil engineering degree, graduating from Cornell University in 1905 with a degree in civil engineering.

The idea for the Texas Section began in Corpus Christi at a 1913 Good Roads meeting.

She was the first female member of ASCE, where she was allowed to be a junior member, but was denied advancement to associate member in 1916 because of her gender.

The New York Section was founded on February 18, 1920 at an organizational meeting held at the Engineering Societies Building, where Robert Ridgway was elected as the Section's first president.

As early as 1921, it was proposed to rename the Section because its members lived on both sides of the Hudson River and there were a lot of "Jerseymen" in the membership that did not live in New York City.

In March 1924, a bill to promote structural safety was drafted by a joint committee comprised of representatives of seven local architectural and engineering societies.

Membership in the Section quickly grew to 730 in 1926, making it the largest in the Society.

The Section's annual meeting on May 16, 1928 featured a presentation and discussion of papers on the foundations of the New Jersey Tower of the Hudson River Bridge at New York.

During the Great Depression, local sections of the Society extended financial relief to those engineers in need, as recommended to the Society's Board of Direction by the Committee on Salaries in October 1931.

In 1933 the Junior Branch started meetings and held two to four events per month.

In the Society's centennial year of 1952, the Metropolitan Section, along with local sections in Cincinnati, Cleveland, District of Columbia, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Tacoma, undertook the designation of the "Seven Engineering Wonders" in their respective areas.

Met Section President John P. Riley addresses the Local Sections Conference at ASCE's Annual Meeting in New York City on October 20, 1953.

The ASCE Metropolitan Section celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on February 18, 1970 with a formal dinner at the landmark Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue and Central Park South.

The UCF student chapter of ASCE was established in 1972 and has been active throughout the years.

Consequently, the Metropolitan Section membership dropped to 1,560 in 1975.

As part of the celebration of ASCE's 150th Anniversary in 2002, the founders' plaque in City Hall Park was rededicated and ASCE National President Tom Jackson attended a special ceremony held on November 14, 2002.

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