Civil Engineering

iCivilEngineer
"The Internet for Civil Engineers" This site offers industry news, a directory of useful websites in all areas of civil engineering, resources for the PE exam. Current links under News Center include Failure Watch, Big Project Watch, and WTC Coverage. The Resource Center includes Landmarks, Famous Engineers, and Industry Leaders.

National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE)
Provides access to research in earthquake engineering, including images, reports, software, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (abstracts of 95,000 papers on earthquake engineering since 1971), Selected Papers in Earthquake Engineering, Introduction to Earthquake Engineering.

structurae
An "international database and gallery of structures." An excellent source for images; also provides some data on the structures.

Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory
Links to other web directories, portals, image collections, and more.

Professional Societies

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Member information, publications, conferences, meetings, jobs
Civil Engineering Database - Covers all ASCE publications 1975 to present; search by author, title, keyword, date
Online access to complete contents of the ASCE research journals. Connect from Databases - Engineering -- look for ASCE Publications.

Structural Engineers Association of Southern California (SEAOSC) Information about the Associations, its activities and publications.

Government Agencies

California Air Resources Board

California Department of Water Resources

California Geological Survey (formerly Division of Mines and Geology)
Geological information, maps of seismic hazard zones, geological hazards, geological resources.

Caltrans
Information about the California Department of Transportation, the agency's construction projects and research activities. Also: seismic retrofit, information for contractors, highway conditions, fact sheets, history, photos, links to Caltrans district offices for local information, and more. The Division of Engineering Services section provides access to technical publications, specifications, drawings, and documents. More manuals are available from the Manuals and Forms link.

Department of Transportation (DOT)
The US government agency responsible for all aspects of transportation.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Links to regulations, publications, data and software, research programs, consumer information, local and regional offices.

South Coast Air Quality Management District
The smog control agency for all or portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.

U. S. Geological Survey
The USGS homepages provide a great deal of information of interest to civil engineers. This short list is just a sample of what's available:

Ann Morgan
aemorgan@csupomona.edu