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Dream Big and the ASCE Foundation
Menzer Pehlivan, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
In 1999, a huge earthquake hit Turkey. Almost 18,000 people died and many more
were injured when thousands of buildings collapsed. But this terrible event
changed the life of 13-year-old Menzer Pehlivan in a different way. She wanted to
help prevent these terrible tragedies in the future, so she decided to become a civil
engineer specialising in earthquake safety. Although her teachers said only men
could be engineers, she worked hard and achieved her goal. Her inspirational story
The ASCE Foundation released 'Dream Big' in 2017 and it's about the clever wayo
that civil engineers find solutions to problems people around the world face even
day. We learn about the challenges that engineers face building some of the most
amazing structures in the world, from the huge skyscrapers in Dubai to
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"We need to raise awareness so that we can grab those brilliant minds and
show them that through engineering they can change the world."
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Engineers (ASCE).
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