Category: Traffic Engineering

All Aboard: Train Your Eyes on This Ghost

By Ken Voigt, PE When you get hit by the Ghost Train in Shorewood, Wisconsin, your senses and imagination take an unforgettable ride in this village just north of Milwaukee. The public artistic sensory display of lights and sound commemorates the history of the Twin Cities 400 train that passed through Shorewood from 1935 to… Read More »

Scholarships Open Doors to Engineering Careers

How can I find engineering-specific scholarships? ACEC offers several. The deadline to apply is in March. A new year brings new opportunities, as the saying goes. And in civil engineering and related disciplines, employment opportunities abound for 2017 and beyond. Buildings and roads are being erected, the housing market has returned to a promising level, and… Read More »

Drones Fly Straight into Mapping, Inspection, Engineering Roles

How Can Drones Help Design Things? By documenting and mapping a site. By helping with traffic and parking volume studies. By tracking construction progress. By Jason Krueger, CP, GISP Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, are becoming an increasingly common tool in the survey, mapping, and engineering fields. Incorporating these aerial imaging and mapping platforms… Read More »