Books
Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers
Convey wrote and produced this coffee-table style book as part of a larger project to encourage girls to consider a career in engineering. Changing Our World highlights the accomplishments and tells the stories of 238 women engineers. Convey created the outline, helped identify women to profile, conducted research and interviews, wrote the text, and obtained images, and designed and produced the book.
First Place winner of the 2007 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness Awards for illustrated interior from a large non-profit.
The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why
Convey worked closely with the ASCE Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel - a blue-ribbon group of experts convened to study the New Orleans levee failures - to capture their thoughts and words in this report.
Guiding Principles for the Nation's Critical Infrastructure
This report stems from the engineering and institutional failures of in New Orleans and other engineering disasters. It presents a framework for assessing and managing the vulnerabilities of large complex infrastructure programs in a changing world. Convey worked closely with the ASCE Critical Infrastructure Guidance Task Committee to write the text and develop the graphical layout.
Diversity by Design: Guide to Fostering Diversity in the Civil Engineering Workforce
Convey conducted extensive interviews with executives at civil engineering firms across the U.S. gather their practical, hands-on advice for attracting, hiring, promoting, and retaining women and people of color in the engineering profession. Convey wrote this book and developed the graphical layout for ASCE's Committee on Diversity and Women in Civil Engineering.