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Exam prep and PDH providers
- Civil Engineering Academy (Isaac Oakeson): FE and PE civil exam prep
- PPI (Kaplan) PPI2Pass: Exam prep
- School of PE: Exam prep
- PDH Academy: Continuing education
- PDHonline: Continuing education
- ASCE Continuing Education: Continuing education
YouTube educators
- Practical Engineering (Grady Hillhouse): Infrastructure explained for the public (4.84M YouTube subscribers)
- Real Engineering (Brian McManus): Engineering documentaries incl. infrastructure (5.12M YouTube subscribers)
- Engineering with Rosie (Rosemary Barnes): Energy infrastructure engineering (130K YouTube subscribers)
Online communities
- Eng-Tips forums: Technical Q&A
- r/civilengineering: Careers, salary, practice
- r/StructuralEngineering: Structural practice
- ASCE Collaborate: Member Q&A
News and publications
- Engineering News-Record (ENR): Industry news and rankings
- Brian Potter (Construction Physics): Construction and infrastructure economics,Writes the widely cited Construction Physics newsletter
- Structure Magazine (NCSEA): Structural practice
- Civil + Structural Engineer (CE News): Civil and structural practice
- Roads & Bridges magazine: Transportation
- Construction Dive: Construction news
Podcasters, writers and authors
- Structural Engineering Institute (SEI of ASCE): Structural engineering
- Geo-Institute of ASCE: Geotechnical engineering
- Engineering Management Institute / Anthony Fasano: Career and leadership for engineers
- Bent Flyvbjerg: Megaproject delivery
- Eno Center for Transportation: Transportation policy
Government and public owners
- FHWA (Federal Highway Administration): Highways and bridges
- US Army Corps of Engineers: Water resources, levees, navigation
Standards bodies and research groups
- NCEES: Licensure
- ABET: Engineering education
- Zweig Group: AEC firm management research
- PSMJ Resources: Project management, financial benchmarks
- ASCE Infrastructure Report Card: Infrastructure condition
- AASHTO: Transportation design standards
- Transportation Research Board (TRB): Transportation research
- American Concrete Institute (ACI): Concrete
- AISC: Structural steel
- ASTM International: Testing standards
- ICC (International Code Council): Building codes
- Envision / Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure: The main sustainability rating system for US civil projects.
Associations and societies
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): ASCE codes, Civil Engineering magazine, Report Card, CE courses
- ACEC (American Council of Engineering Companies): Business of engineering, advocacy
- American Public Works Association (APWA): Public works
- American Water Works Association (AWWA): Drinking water
- Water Environment Federation (WEF): Wastewater and stormwater
- ARTBA: Transportation funding
- Associated General Contractors (AGC): Construction
- NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers): Licensure and ethics
- NCSEA: Structural engineering
- Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI): Precast concrete
- Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE): Publishes the Trip Generation Manual used in nearly every US traffic study.
- Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA): Authority on design-build delivery used by many DOTs.
