About the author  ⁄ Victoria Arbitrio, P.E., SECB

Victoria Arbitrio, P.E., SECB, F.SEI (vickiarbitrio@gmsllp.com), is the Vice President of the Applied Technology Council (ATC), and an Associate Partner at Gilsanz Murray Steficek in New York.

…and Why We Need More Women in Design and Construction

In August 2015, The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) finally recognized Nora Stanton Blatch Barney as an ASCE Fellow, 110 years after she graduated from Cornell with a Civil Engineering degree and 99 years after the ASCE Board of Directors turned down her application for membership (reference blogs.asce.org).

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The Council

The Applied Technology Council (ATC) was created by practicing professionals with the intent of serving the evolving needs of engineering practice. Begun in 1971 after the San Fernando earthquake demonstrated the need for improved hazard mitigation strategies and seismic design standards, the founders came up with the novel idea to pay engineers and researchers to develop these technologies instead of relying on volunteer labor. ATC became a nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation in 1973.

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