Technical Council for Computing and Information Technology

The Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology TCCIT operates under the auspices of the Technical Activities Council TAC of ASCE. The TCCIT was authorized by the TAC in January of 1973. Its current mission is “to advance professional knowledge and improve the practice of civil engineering by encouraging the effective use of current and emerging computing and information technologies.” Prior to 1997, it was known as the Technical Council for Computing Practices TCCP , and was conducting almost the same type of activities, but under a slightly different mission statement. The TCCIT has an executive committee EXCOM , three administrative committees Advisory Committee, Education Committee, and Publications Committee and two technical committees Intelligent Computing Committee and Database and Information Management Committee . In addition, ASCE has a Global Center of Excellence in Computing that falls under the umbrella of the TCCIT. A detailed account of the history of computing in civil engineering, the role of the TCCIT, and the stream of ASCE conferences on computing was published a few years ago at the onset of the celebration of ASCE’s 150th anniversary Fenves and Rasdorf 2001 .