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INSTRUCTORS: 
Molly E. Sullivan, PE, CFM
Brooke Poppe, PE
Gregory Scott, PE, PMP

Purpose and Background

Community Engineering Corps (CECorps) works to build a future where everyone has access to the engineering resources required to live a life of opportunity. Currently, more than 11.6% (37.9 million)* of the US population falls below the poverty line. These poverty-stricken communities are scattered across the country - from the hollers of Appalachia to inner Los Angeles - and face daily challenges associated with being ill equipped both financially and technically to address their failing infrastructure needs. It’s challenging if not impossible for an underserved community to Be Future Ready when, as a result of centuries of inequitable resource allocation, they are not prepared to handle the infrastructure issues they face today. How can an underserved community work to conserve water when the system that supplies their town is riddled with leaks and there are no funds to hire a consultant to assess the best path forward? Here at Community Engineer Corps, we work to leverage the expertise and humanity found in these rooms – within all of you – to provide pro-bono consulting services and produce the Preliminary Engineering Reports and analyses required for communities to secure available grant funding and address their ever-increasing infrastructure needs. This presentation will discuss the program and showcase the program process and impact by highlighting the Foxburg Civil project successfully completed by the ASCE Pittsburgh Section for the Foxburg Borough in Pennsylvania.

*U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 1960 to 2022 Annual Social and Economic Supplements.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the CECorps program and its impact in underserved communities across the US.
• Explain how volunteer engineering teams can provide communities with valuable expertise to catalyze movement towards increased public health and help underserved communities Be Future Ready.
• Identify how they can partner with their local CECorps volunteers, formulate a new CECorps team, or get involved in volunteering on a short-term, as needed basis.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are assessed by responding to the post-session survey. If the course is taken OnDemand, there will also be a 10-question multiple choice post-test.

Who Should Attend?

• Civil engineers
• Students
• Corporate Partners

How to Earn your PDHs

This course is worth 1 PDH. To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to attend the live session and/or watch the recording(s) and complete the post-session survey. If the course is taken OnDemand, there will also be a 10-question multiple choice post-test.