Civil Engineering Consultant – Stormwater Management, Grading & Drainage
Recently, I took the Certified Floodplain Managers (CFM), which is administered by the Association of State Floodplain Managers. Luckily, I passed! However, while studying for the exam, I found that, unlike the PE exam, there was not a lot of information available online about the CFM exam. For this reason, I decided to write the … Read more
On Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), a regulatory floodway is designated by blue and orange diagonal hatching. The floodway is useful because it facilitates land use planning that regulates development in flood-prone areas. Although floodway delineations are based on hydraulic analyses, one could argue that floodway mapping is both an art and a science. This … Read more
Mentorship is often touted as a key to achieving professional success in the engineering field. For this reason, I set out to find a mentor early in my career. I joined a mentorship program through the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). While my assigned mentor was a great person and accomplished engineer, I found … Read more
When creating hydraulic models using the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS), most users rely on the user interface to assemble information correctly. However, it can be helpful to understand the file types that make up an HEC-RAS project. This is because understanding these file types can help modelers more easily understand how a … Read more