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This article discusses the importance of reproducibility in academic research, specifically in the field of bridge engineering. The authors argue that reproducibility is challenging due to factors such as paper documentation, technology constraints, and proprietary issues. They propose implementing a policy that encourages researchers to make their data and models available to others, although they acknowledge that full reproducibility may not always be practical. To incentivize this practice, the Journal of Bridge Engineering plans to introduce a visible recognition badge for papers that provide open data, models, and codes. The authors also outline the review process for papers seeking the "Data Verified Paper" designation. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers tips on how to write an award-winning paper about engineering. According to the article, a prerequisite to writing a good paper is an in-depth understanding of the subject. This understanding should be beyond words and deep into concepts. To do this, one must have first-hand experience on the research that you are conducting.

The Journal of Hydrologic Engineering is a major journal in the field of hydrologic science and engineering. It has been published for 27 years and covers a wide range of topics related to hydrology and water resources. The journal recently revised its aims and scope to reflect changes in the field, including advancements in technology and emerging areas of study. The journal publishes various types of papers, including technical papers, case studies, and state-of-the-art reviews. The review process is efficient and fair, with a typical turnaround time of 2 months. The journal encourages researchers to submit their work and also invites them to serve as reviewers. Additionally, the journal publishes special collections and offers opportunities for young professionals to join the Early Career Editorial Board. [Extracted from the article]

This paper reports on a controlled experiment carried out to investigate the differences between novices and experts during the review of papers for engineering journals. A total of 17 young faculty members with PhD degrees were given instruction on the peer review process, and then had to review a short paper, for which the actual reviews were available. The quality of the reviews was assessed using criteria developed by editors of medical journals. The evidence obtained from this study helps to identify the critical areas in which reviewers fail to perform a good review, and then to develop strategies to overcome such limitations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) are looking for nominations for the 2006 ASCE and SEI Awards. Objective of the ASCE and SEI Honors and Awards Programs; ASCE awards based on meritorious papers; SEI awards.

Presents updates on matters related to architecture and engineering as of May 2004. Award received by John F. Donohoe, founding director of Construction Institute; Profile of civil engineer Benjamin Wright; Overview of the book "Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal," by Alfred A. Knopf.

The current construction industry for civil and structural engineering is considered to be one of the growing industries in the world. With the push toward a more digitized industry, emerging trends such as additive manufacturing and the use of three-dimensional (3D) printing technology, along with consumer demand, are resulting in automated development with multiple benefits. Successful applications for small-scale construction projects that have implemented 3D printing have shown improvements in cost, production time, and design freedom and complexity. However, for large-scale applications, there are various limitations and factors hindering the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies. In this paper, a systematic literature survey of recent 3D printing technologies was conducted specific to the area of construction engineering, and the various techniques, materials, software, and technical and nontechnical aspects were analyzed. The key applications and their benefits are outlined, and their potential for large-scale applications is articulated. Future research areas for these components are suggested to strengthen the technical readiness and feasibility of adopting 3D printing technology in construction engineering and industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is designed to help readers understand the state of innovation in hydrologic research and relevant lessons from the popular literature of business. We use citations to a paper as a measure of the impact in an area of research. Looking at the citations to all papers for a given year in a journal, they follow a power-law relationship, poorly cited papers being common and highly cited papers being rare. The power law develops because the selection of papers to cite is being biased by the citations of others. Quite remarkably, the slopes of these power laws are the same from journal to journal. Research strands have a life cycle that begins with an important, paradigm-shifting paper. Early papers that also contribute to an emerging research strand are usually well cited. As the number of papers in a strand increases, their impact begins to fall off. Eventually, interest in the strand wanes and researchers drift off to the next opportunity. It is essential for scientists to understand where their research lies in terms of a growth curve and to reposition it as needed. The business literature is clear that success stems from innovation rather than copycat products, with anticipation as a necessary ingredient. Informal indications are that most research scientists are content in their mediocrity. Knowing that a research line is not impacting seems not of a reason to change it. We do not understand the reasons why. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduces a series of articles on hydraulic engineering featured in the February 2002 issue of the 'Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.'

Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views expressed in this Forum article do not necessarily reflect the views of ASCE or the Editorial Board of the journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on architectural and engineering education at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Educational programs in architecture; Information on graduate program in computational design; Educational programs in civil and environmental engineering.

The traditional approach to formulating building codes often is slow and labor-intensive, and may struggle to keep pace with the rapid evolution of technology and domain findings. Overcoming such challenges necessitates a methodology that streamlines the modernization of codal provisions. This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) approach to append a variety of codal provisions, including those of empirical, statistical, and theoretical natures. In this approach, a codal provision (i.e., equation) is analyzed to trace its properties (e.g., engineering intuition and causal logic). Then a ML model is tailored to preserve the same properties and satisfy a collection of similarity and performance measures until declared equivalent to the provision at hand. The resulting ML model harnesses the predictive capabilities of ML while arriving at predictions similar to the codal provision used to train the ML model, and hence it becomes possible to use in lieu of the codal expression. This approach was examined successfully for seven structural engineering phenomena contained within various building codes, including those in North America and Australia. The findings suggest that the proposed approach could lay the groundwork for implementing ML in the development of future building codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses papers in the August 2013 issue of the "Journal of Bridge Engineering" including papers related to long-span bridges, a case study on the topological optimization for the seismic retrofit of bridges and a paper on a jetty bridge structure.

The article presents a list of papers related to hydraulic engineering including "Design of hydraulically efficient power-law channels with freeboard," "Estimating transition probabilities in Markov chain-based deterioration models for management of wastewater systems" and "Postprocessing the hybrid method for addressing uncertainty in risk assessments."

The article presents a list of articles related to hydraulic engineering published in several journals, including "Dissolution of Wollastonite in a Packed Bed Contactor," by G. S. Anand and A. Sriram, "Salt River Project Canal Automation Pilot Project: Simulation Tests," by E. Bautista, A. J. Clemmens and R. J. Strand, "Treatment of Acid Rock Drainage in a Meromictic Mine Pit Lake," by T. S. R. Fisher and G. A. Lawrence, "Modeling Steel-Frame Buildings in Three Dimensions: Panel Zone and Plastic Hinge Beam Elements," by S. Krishnan and J. F. Hall, and "Optimal Reservoir Operations for Irrigation Using a Three Spatial Scales Approaches," by F. Mannocchi and F. Todisco.

Lists several research articles on hydraulic engineering. "Oxygen sag models for multiorder BOD reactions," by D.D. Adrian and E.M. Roider; "Impacts of physical and chemical heterogeneities on aquifer remediation design," by A. Aksoy and T.B. Culver; "Evaluation of a system for residential treatment and reuse of wastewater," by R.W. Babcock Jr. and D.A. McNair; "Effects of ENSO and PDO on water supply in the Columbia River Basin," by S.B. Barton and J.A. Ramirez.

The article presents information about an announcement made by the "Journal of Bridge Engineering," regarding a call for papers for an upcoming special edition focusing on fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge structures and components. The objective of the special edition is to bring together a collection of papers reflecting the state of the art in the use of FRP materials for bridge structures and components. The special edition will not include the topics of traditional bonded FRP repair and retrofit of bridge structures or internal FRP reinforcement for concrete bridges.

A list of research papers and reports about engineering is presented. They include "Irregular Breaking Wave Transmission Over Submerged Porous Breakwater," "Scattering and Trapping of Wave Energy by a Submerged Truncated Paraboloidal Shoal" and "Effect of Upward Seepage on Scour and Flow Downstream of an Apron due to Submerged Jets."

Presents several papers concerning hydraulic engineering. "On modeling acoustic waves in saturated poroelastic media," by B. Albers and K. Wilmanski; "Least-cost design of water distribution networks under demand uncertainty," by A. Babayan, Z. Kapelan, D. Savic and G. Walters; "Inactivation of baccillus spores by ultraviolet or gamma radiation," by E.R. Blatchley III, A. Meeusen, A.I. Aronson and L. Brewster.

In the era of automation and artificial intelligence, some problems in the petroleum industry can be efficiently solved by machine-learning models based on big data. Previous researchers have addressed truly precise methods to evaluate reserves from accessible well-test data, although enormous time, effort, and cost were required. However, due to the lack of sufficient conventional material balance (CMB) test data for a large number of wells in the Su Dong (SD) gas field, only 12 wells (0.99%) were generally suitable for previous methods. We substituted the fully built-up reservoir pressures used in CMB with those converted from shut-in casing-pressure data. Suffering from data noise caused by pressure fluctuation, only 22.91% of the plots were linear. The nonlinear plots were enhanced into linear plots by denoising and smoothening according to engineering knowledge. Machine-learning models were developed to perform the enhancement automatically, which constructed an adaptive and feasible workflow. The model improved the percentage of applicable wells to 68.16% (824 out of 1,209) and achieved considerable precision for reserve evaluation. The proposed method is much more suitable than CMB in gas fields featuring unstable production status and provides feasible reserve evaluation. This paper presents an exemplary demonstration of the combination of petroleum engineering and machine learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of articles related to energy engineering is presented, including "Dispersion Modeling of Leachates From Thermal Power," by G. Singh and colleagues, "Evaluation of Membrane Processes for Reducing Total Dissolved Solid Diagnosed to the Truckee River," by E. R. Mortensen and colleagues, and "In-Place Stabilization of Pond Ash Deposits by Hydrated Lime Columns," by S. K. Chand and C. Subbarao.

This study considers the content of the papers published by ASCE’s Journal of Management in Engineering, which has witnessed a growth in number of papers and breadth of participation, particularly of international origin, during the 1985–2002 period. The content is analyzed in two main dimensions: the type of subject and its composing topics, and the type of contributors to the journal. The analysis shows the evolution of the engineering management discipline as represented in the journal. Over the years the discipline has been enriched by an increasing number of contributions on corporate strategies and programs, organizational change, and cultures issues, as well as a growing interest in project management topics, such as quality planning and evaluation of alternative project delivery systems. The number of papers by practitioners, initially the largest contributing group to the journal, has declined significantly over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of recommended articles on cold region engineering published in 2003. "Goodbye, Hazen; Hello, Kozeny-Carman," by W.D. Carrier III, published in the "Journal of Geotechnology and Geoenvironmental Engineering"; "Thermal Post-buckling of Uniform Columns on Elastic Foundation--An Intuitive Solution," by G.V. Rao and K.K. Raju, published in the "Journal of Engineering Mechanism"; "Soil Water Content Monitoring Using Electromagnetic Induction," by R.C. Reddy and B.R. Scanlon, published in the "Journal of Geotechnology and Geoenvironmental Engineering."

The article lists topics for the special edition of the "Journal of Bridge Engineering," including the use of inspection results for the assessment and management of bridges and the significance of new technologies on the inspection of bridge procedures and policies.

The article presents a list of papers related to bridge engineering. The papers are: "Strengthening Timber Bridge Beams Using Carbon Fiber," by T.W. Bruell and H. Saadatmanesh, "Cost Impacts Scheduling Impacts, and the Claims Process During Construction," by M. Chester and C. Hendrickson, "Time-Variation of Scour at Abutments," by S. Dey and A.K. Barbhuiya," "Note on Chloride-Induced Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks," by P. Phurkhao and M.K. Kassir and "Seismic Passive Earth Pressure in Soils," by K.S.S. Rao and D. Choudhury.

This paper addresses one of the costs of new bridges, i.e., the cost of doing the preliminary engineering (PE). This particular aspect of cost has largely been neglected because of the difficulty in obtaining appropriate data. Typically, PE costs are determined as a percentage of construction costs, disregarding other project-specific parameters. Bridge projects let by the North Carolina (NC) DOT between 2001 and 2009 were reviewed. From an analysis of these 461 projects, the writers developed statistical models linking variation in PE costs with distinctive project parameters. The primary contribution this paper makes to the body of knowledge is the finding that PE cost estimates for bridge projects are commonly and significantly underestimated. The writers found that bridge projects exhibited a mean PE cost ratio of 28%. This result is significantly greater than the percentage used in practice. An investigation of data sources related to bridge projects, a description of regression techniques applied to predict the PE cost of such projects, and an assessment of the predictive performance of models are addressed in this paper. New knowledge contributions include identification of key factors affecting the PE costs of bridges, illustration of how those key factors enabled us to predict PE costs of future projects, and discussion of the data collection problems that hindered model development. The writers' PE cost analyses and predictive modeling effort relate to infrastructure funding issues. All of the parties involved in infrastructure construction, from legislators to contractors, must understand costs and have confidence in the cost estimates developed to ensure efficient and effective funding of infrastructure projects. This paper on bridge PE costs addresses one component of infrastructure funding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on several articles related to hydraulics submitted to the journal. Some of the articles are: "Nonlinear Modeling of El Nino/Southern Oscillation Index," by J.H. Ahn, and H. S. Kim; "Predicting Evaporation From Bare Soil and the Crop Coefficient for the Initial Period Using Common Soils Information," by R.G. Allen, W.O. Pruitt, D. Raes, M. Smith, and L.S. Pereira; "Estimating the Removal of Anthropogenic Organic Chemicals From Raw Drinking Water by Coagulation-Flocculation," by B.D. Ballard, and A.A MacKay.

As emerging high-performance concrete, the engineered cementitious composite (ECC) has demonstrated excellent application potential in civil engineering. With the wide application of ECC, it not only excels in the tension state and the structural elements but also in the more complex stress state of nonuniform confinement. For a reliable and economic ECC element design, understanding the dilation behavior of ECC is crucial under complicated stress conditions. This paper presents an experimental investigation and a detailed discussion of the ECC dilation characteristics under different confinement rigidities. The authors evaluate the effects of column parameters, such as different types of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, confinement levels, and cross-sectional shapes. Test results indicate that the ECC dilation amplitude (secant dilation) under FRP confinement is less than that of concrete due to fiber bridge effects within ECC. However, the maximum dilation rate (tangent dilation ratio) shows an opposite trend. Based on the data analysis in this study, a new lateral strain-to-axial strain model was proposed, which can predict the dilation behavior of FRP-confined ECC with nonuniform confining pressure. The proposed model not only accurately captures the dilation process of FRP-confined ECC but also precisely predicts its ultimate strain. In addition, the existing peak strength and ultimate strength models were also evaluated by the ECC test results. The comparison indicates that the strength models for concrete also apply to FRP-confined ECC when the ultimate hoop-confining stress is accurately determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the contents of the periodical "Journal of Bridge Engineering." Volume of papers received in 2003; Call for associate editors and reviewers; Reader input and feedback.

Reports on the plan of the 'Journal of Bridge Engineering' to publish a special issue on bridge management systems.

Addresses the security concerns in conducting electronic transactions in architecture/engineering/construction (A/E/C) projects by developing a framework for conducting secure and legally binding electronic transactions. Review of security in existing Web-based project management systems; Solution to the problem of securing electronic information after a transaction has been committed; Source of information in large scale A/E/C projects.

Presents a list of research papers on cold regions engineering.

Introduces the August 2005 issue of the "Journal of Structural Engineering". Special theme section of the papers that deal with various research aspects related to a structure's response to blast and impact loads; Article on whether seismic design provisions can improve the resistance of buildings to blast loads and progressive collapse; Integration scheme that makes use of higher-order polynomial approximations.

Presents an introduction to various articles published in the January 2005 issue of the "Journal of Structural Engineering."

The section introduces several articles within the issue of the "Journal of Management in Engineering," including one article about a process of risk identification and assessment in the Polish construction market and another paper about an underground railway extension project in Hong Kong, China.

The article presents a list of research papers on topics related to hydraulic engineering published in the February 2006 issue of the "Journal of Hydraulic Engineering." The papers include "Effect of Media Grain Shape on Particle Capture During Filtration," by J. M. H. Barton and S. G. Buchberger, "Lime-Soda Softening Process Modifications for Enhanced NOM removal," by M. Bob and H. W. Walker, and "On the Fully Nonlinear Boussinesq-Type Equations for Waves and Currents Over Porous Beds," by Q. Chen.

Presents papers about bridge engineering. Repair of steel composite beams; Baseline models for bridge performance monitoring; Fatigue behavior of reinforced-concrete beams.

As inelastic design for wind is embraced by the engineering community, there is an increasing demand for computational tools that enable the investigation of the nonlinear behavior of wind-excited structures and subsequent development of performance criteria. To address this need, a probabilistic collapse assessment framework for steel structures is proposed in this paper. The framework is based on the integration of a high-fidelity fiber-based nonlinear structural modeling environment with a wind-tunnel-informed stochastic wind load model to perform nonlinear time history analysis. General uncertainty is propagated using a stratified sampling scheme enabling the efficient estimation of reliabilities associated with rare events. The adopted models for simulating high-fidelity nonlinear structural behavior were found, in general, to be adequate for capturing phenomena, including progressive yielding, buckling, and low-cycle fatigue, that are essential for wind induced collapse analysis. In particular, the adopted fatigue model was found to be capable of predicting damage and potential fiber/section fracture associated with non–fully reversing stress-strain cycles that are characteristic of wind loading. Through illustration on a 45-story archetype steel building, critical discussions on the types of observed collapse mechanisms, the difference between along-wind and across-wind nonlinear behavior, reliabilities associated with first yield, and collapse are presented. A probabilistic description of the residual and peak story drifts is also provided through development of fragility functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent developments in technology, such as building information models (BIMs), immersive displays, and mobile computing tools, have enabled changes in the means and locations of communication throughout the building architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry. This paper presents the findings from an exploratory study regarding the planning of physical media for effective communication in conjunction with the developments in BIM use. While literature shows that there has been noticeable impact of physical media on communication, there has been little evidence of consistent and thorough planning and evaluation of media for investment or project level planning. The exploratory study identifies media synchronicity theory as a starting point for identifying the media needs by task for more effective planning of communication, as well as potential considerations unique to the AECO industry. The paper concludes with studies which have begun for planning more specific applications for BIM and media within AECO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper suggests the methodology to follow when conducting discrete-event simulation (DES) studies in construction engineering and management research. Emphasis is made on the steps that, due to the uniqueness of the construction environment, are particularly important yet are not discussed extensively in the general DES literature. Guidelines are provided to determine what aspects of a DES study demand a rigorous application of the theory depending on the purpose of the study. The paper concludes with the importance of properly understanding the probabilistic concepts upon which DES relies and on coupling this understanding with engineering judgment as a key for successful use of DES in construction research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a mathematical method based on production theory and the principles of linear programming. It enables one to assess how efficiently a firm, organization, agency, or such other unit uses the resources available (inputs) to generate a set of outputs relative to other units in the data set. Recent papers by different writers present different applications of DEA in the transportation engineering domain. All of these papers are published in transportation journals. These papers are mainly aimed at addressing the transportation-related issues and thus do not focus too much on the DEA concept itself. It can be asserted that DEA is very likely to be used more and more in the transportation engineering domain. Given this, there is a need for the transportation professionals to fully understand the DEA concept. It is essential for such a community to identify cases where the application of this innovative and powerful method can be useful to help the decision-making process, to accurately apply DEA in a particular setting, to derive meaningful conclusions from the obtained results, and to acknowledge the limitations of DEA in certain cases so as to approach the results with caution. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate to the civil engineering, more specifically to the transportation engineering community the use of this powerful approach in performing comparative performance measurement. Within this context, this paper will address a transportation-related problem by using the DEA approach. Different from the other papers containing transportation-related DEA applications (as mentioned above), this paper will discuss, in detail, the steps that need to be taken to generate the DEA model and solve it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction industry is a major player in the nation's economy. The complex nature of the construction industry, coupled with the challenges of global competitiveness and changing regulatory requirements, has created the need for providing higher levels of education, experience, and training for construction professionals. An essential and integral component of the required education and training must be the research training of undergraduate civil and construction students, encouraging them to pursue advanced education and research careers in this area. With this in mind, the writer developed a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) summer program at Western Michigan University that focuses on construction engineering and management issues and problems. This construction-oriented undergraduate research training program is the first REU site in the United States to be funded by the National Science Foundation. This paper will describe the structure of the REU program, the types of activities undertaken by the REU participants, and the results of the program evaluation and assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geopolymers have been long recognized as the next-generation building material due to environmental reasons. However, geopolymers are inherently brittle and usually require high-temperature curing. This paper was intended to develop a ductile engineered geopolymer composite (EGC) under ambient curing conditions. Two types of metakaolin powder with different particle sizes were applied as the solid precursor. The tensile, compressive, and flexural behaviors of EGC with different mix designs were investigated. It was concluded that the combinational application of coarse and fine metakaolin is conducive to the tensile and compressive behaviors of EGC materials. As the alkali concentrations increased from 6 to 14 mol/L , the tensile and compressive strength of EGC increased, whereas the tensile ductility of EGC decreased gradually. Also, the SiO2/Na2O molar ratio had negligible influence on the tensile behavior of EGC, whereas the compressive strength decreased with the increase of SiO2/Na2O molar ratios. A numerical model to predict the flexural behavior of EGC was also proposed, and the accuracy was verified with experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A commentary on the article "Method of Solution of Nonuniform Flow with the Presence of Rectangular Side Weir," by Maurizio Venutelli is presented. The authors claim that the recommended technique integrates the variations along the side weir of the particular energy because of the bottom and friction slope. They consider the acceptability of the hypothesis of constant specific energy along the side weir. They offer experimental verification of simple numerical solution.

This article discusses the paper entitled "Head-Discharge Equation for Sharp-Crested Polynomial Weir," by Raouf E. Baddour. It extends an appreciation to Baddour for presenting an equation for polynomial weir design. It proposes a more convenient way to present equation 7 which could be achieved using the Gamma function. It illustrates a equations for a simpler solution to equation 7. It also presents an exact solution to proportional weir as illustrated in equation 3 of the paper. In addition a modified exact solution of a proportional weir is presented based on equation 15 of the paper.

Provides information on matters concerning civil engineering, structural design and construction.

Although there have been several studies about using recycled aggregates to construct recycled aggregate base (RAB) layers, there is a lack of information about the effects of gradation of recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) materials on the performance of such layers. There is also limited information available regarding the use of RCA and recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) materials together in RAB layers. In this study, three test cells were constructed with RAB layers using two different RCA materials with different gradations and a blend of RCA and RAP materials, and another cell was constructed with a natural aggregate base layer. Physical characteristics of the base layer aggregates were determined, and resilient modulus (MR) tests were performed. A series of falling weight deflectometer (FWD) tests were performed in the field, and changes in air and soil temperatures over time were monitored. This paper contains detailed information about the evaluation of the engineering properties of recycled aggregates and the preliminary performance of the constructed RAB layers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results from a prediction event, organized by the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the National Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility (NGCF), and performed as part of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics to assess uncertainty in predicting the monotonic and cyclic lateral response of conductors. Geotechnical professionals from around the world were invited to predict the response of a model conductor (a flexible pile) subjected to a series of loading sequences in a centrifuge. A normally consolidated fine-grained soil was used in the tests, which was characterized by soil elements and in-flight T-bar penetrometer testing. While some participants provided accurate predictions, the mean response was an overestimate of the monotonic and cyclic load at the pile head, which was significant for large and very small displacements. An analysis of the submissions is presented to quantify the variability of the predictions received, assess the consequences of each design, and relay the uncertainty associated with engineering judgment in design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on the importance of peer review of articles published in "The Journal of Bridge Engineering." He calls for qualified associate editors and reviewers in the bridge engineering community to assist in reviewing and processing of papers submitted. He also calls for feedbacks and inputs from the readers in the community for significant contributions.