Get Involved

Few sections within ASCE offer the breadth of services that the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section/ASCE provide.  With over 3,200 members across the Commonwealth, BSCES has a total of nine technical groups and institute chapters, over a dozen committees, and ten student chapters. 

• We are the only section that publishes an engineering journal;
• We have our own television show;
• We support a legislative fellow who serves as a staff member to the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation;
• We sponsor approximately 30 events each year;
• We give away over $40,000 annually in awards, donations, prizes, scholarships, and grants;
• Our members are volunteer participants with Engineers Without Borders, the Charles River Cleanup, and the Greater Boston Food Bank among others;
• We celebrated our heritage with the 100th anniversary of the Cape Cod Canal and the 250th anniversary of Ipswich’s Choate Bridge;
• Our government affairs efforts include transportation financing advocacy at the local level and active participation at ASCE’s national Fly-In;
• We host a variety of outreach activities geared to the K-12 community including tours of Boston bridges, the Future City Competition, Model Bridge Contest, and On-Line Bridge Contest.

Our efforts have been recognized nationally.

• We have been awarded the best Very Large Section by ASCE five times;
• We have been awarded the Outstanding Section and Branch Website Award by ASCE in 2016 and 2022
• We have been awarded the Section and Branch Diversity Award in 2015;
• We have been awarded the best Structural Engineering Institute Chapter in 2015;
• We have been awarded the best Geo-Institute Chapter in 2014;
• We are also the oldest engineering society in the United States.

If you and your colleagues are not actively involved with BSCES, you are missing out on some great opportunities.

For more information please contact BSCES President, Michael Cunningham, or Executive Director, Rich Keenan.

Since I moved to Boston, I have found it highly valuable and in fact unique nationally to have such strong regional relations between industry, government, and academia to help drive our profession forward. Over the last several years, a lot of this success has been due to the efforts of BSCES.
Jerome F. Hajjar, Ph.D., P.E.
CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northeastern University