AppendixⅤ
A PRELIMENARY REPORTONTHE ASCE SUMMIT
ON
FUTURE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
Held in Lansdowne Resort Hotel between 21-23 June, 2006
To JSCE President, Prof. Dr. Masanori HAMADA
ByÖmer Aydan
Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan

ITINERARY
Date: 21-23 June, 2006
Location: Lansdowne Resort Hotel, Virginia, USA
Participants: 90 people
USA: Current and Former Presidents of ASCE, ASCE Staff, Participants fromUniversities, Private Companies, State and Research Institutes,
Abroad:Japan (JSCE President, Prof. Dr. H. Hamada, Ö. Aydan, Secretary)
UK: Vice President of Institute of Civil Engineering
South Africa: President of SA Intsitute of Civil Engineering
Taiwan: Past President of Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Eng.
Mexico: President of MSCE
Canada: President-elect of Canadian Society of Civil Engeeiring
World Federation of Engineering Asssociation (President, President-elect
PROGRAM
21 June 2006
Welcome reception
Welcome speeches by ASCE President Dennis Manterson, Pat. Galloway, Stephen
BetchelSeated according to groups
M. Hamada and Ö. Aydan of JSCE are seated together with participants of Table 2
Keynote Presentation by Michael Roger, Newsweek Columnist on Technologicalissues
22 June 2006
Opening remarks by ASCE President
Purpose of Summit by Morgan
Explaination of Rules for Breakout Discussions
Themes of the Summit
Globalization
TechnologyLeadership

Specific Items of Group Breakouts:(1) Profession Practice;(2) Infra-structures;(3) Environment
Specific Questions:(1) what will the world look like in 20025(2) what could/should civil engineers be doing
Globalization
Keynote lecture by Ralph Peterson, Chairman of CH2Mhill on“Globalization and Civil Engineering of 2025.
Specific points of Kenote Lecture
Communication and Information (IT, national boundaries, NGO, Geo-spatialTechnologyPopulation demographic change(woman, minority groups, commercilization)
Trade-democratization (democracy, supply change)
World-wide consolidation (international companies, ethics, transperancy)
Natural resources and environmental issues (energy supply, world population,
sustainability, poverty, illitracy, global security, global warming)
Group Breakouts(6 groups or tables)
Meetings and discussions on globalization
Each group discussed globalization issue by considering profession practice,infrastructure and environment
Technology
Keynote Lecture by J. Voeller, Black & Veatehc.
“Technology and Civil Engineering of 2025: Visioning and Enabling”Specific Points of Keynote lecture
Autnomous
Self-repairing
Energy-lessAttention-lessMutant-ful
Omni-talking
Lingui-equal

Micro-value
Border-less
Organic
Some specific statements:
Robotics is a sub-part of the system
Non-linearity is New methods
Chaos is New Calculus
Sharing Related Technologies
Human is missing
Technology + Time
Overall report of the groups on the theme of “Globalization”
2nd Breakout Group Meeting and Discussions on Technology with the considerations ofprofession practice, infrastructure and environment
Keynote Lecture by Henry Hanks on Leadership and Civil Engineering of 2025
Specific Points of Keynote lecture
Leadership quality (humble, knowledgable, respectfull to others ....)
Civil engineering is the engineering of civil life
Attractive to young people and respected by the society
Considerate of environment, economics and politics
23 June 2006
Overall Report of the groups on the theme of “Leadership”
Meetings and discussions by each group on Aspirational Visions
Overall report of the groups on the theme of “Globalization, Technology and Leadership”
Aspirational Visions on themes of Globalization, Technology and Leadership
Closing Remarks by the conveyor

Preliminary Aspirational Views on Globalization, Technology and LeadershipGlobalization
Table 1
CEs are professionals trusted by global soceity to bring technology and people together
to deliver the dream of building a better world
Civil Engineering is recognized as an attractive prestigious and financially rewarding
profession
CEs set the agenda of the future health and welfare of the world community
CEs are stewards of the environment
CEs work in multicultural environment and providing solutions to the bgrowing needsof global soceity
CEs think globally and act locally
CEs are integrators of multi-disicplinary professional skills in order to create anddeliver life sustaining services to the public
CEs are the professionals most-trusted by society to bring people and technology
together to build a better world
Innovate, integrate, communicate, collaborate, lead
Table 2
Civil Engineering creates a sustainable global community
By being ethical, compassionate, sensitive to cultures, environment and societal
needs, apolitical, diversive and influensive, visionary and flexible
By knowing Body of Knowladge (BOK) (KSA: Knowladge, Skill Atttude is to enter
profession), beyond the BOK (continuing prefessional development and lifelonglearning)
By doing leading, collaborating, integrating, influencing,advocating, partnering,communicating, teaming, managing, persuading, adapting, inspiring, developing,defining and articulating the problem
RESPECTEDTechnology
Tables 3 and 4
Transform the profession to become sustainability engineers
Civil Engineering -> Sustainability Engineering
CEs will be No.1 resource for technical leadership creating cleaner, safer equitable andsustainable global civilization
CEs facilitate appropriate technology transfer that improves the quality of life while
being sensitive to and respectfull of diverse cultures and social needs
We aspire to create, utilize, and share appropriate technology that improves the qualityof life, meets the needs of diverse populations and cultures, preserves and enhances thenatural and built environments, inspires the optimism and and establishes ourselves
the partner of choice and collaborative integrator for sustainable progress.
CEs as a result of our passionate commmitment to public health, safety and welfare,ethics,

technologicalknowledge

andskills,

environmental

consienticiousness,innovative and creative outlook, lead, collaborate, and advise to contribute significatly
to enhancing the quality of life and the creation of a better world, as the recognizedmaster of steward of the natural and built environment.
Leadership
Table 5 and Table 6Concepts
Innovative, creative, dynamic, multi-cultural, holistic, respected, honest broker, trusted,
consensus builder, collaborative, cutting edge, expert, doers/closers/finishers, brandidentity, visible, influencial, risk takers, integrators, approachable, engaged, looking for
what’s best for world, counsel, voice of the built environment, building a professional,professionals, leading, executing, leading in sustainable environment, counselor vsleader role, forefront leader vs behind the scenes leader
CEs are the people’s engineer by accepting the public’s trust for the care andenhancement of natural and built environments we interact and live in
CEs are the public’s trusted counselor in delivering infrastructure solutions that
improves lives in a sustainable manner
Harmonizing and shaping the natural and built environment to creater better world

Welcome address of ASCE President

A view of breakout and discussion session

Group report

Group-Table 2