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May 2014 TEXAS SECTION Special magazine issue commemorates Section’s centennial  “Texans love a good story and Texas engineers are no different,” says author Betsy Tyson as she describes capturing the 100-year history of ASCE’s Texas Section in an interview in the current issue of Texas Civil Engineer, the magazine of ASCE’s Texas Section, which this month produced a special edition commemorating its 2013 centennial year celebrations. The magazine includes a Q&A with Tyson, who wrote the official book of the centennial. The magazine is available online. Read the special edition>> Photo courtesy ASCE Texas Section TEXAS SECTION University of Texas at Tyler hosts Texas-Mexico Student Conference  Photo courtesy ASCE Texas Section Nearly 350 students representing 16 schools from Texas and Mexico took part in the recent Texas-Mexico regional Student Conference hosted by the University of Texas at Tyler. With its Dr. Seuss-themed boat “Horton,” Texas A&M University won the overall concrete canoe competition and will advance to the national competition next month in western Pennsylvania at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Texas Tech came in second and the host school, UT Tyler, finished in third despite winning all of the races except women’s sprint, which was won by Texas Tech. TEXAS SECTION Texas A&M professor, author of Reddy’s Theory, wins ASCE’s Mindlin Medal Junuthula N. Reddy, Ph.D., distinguished professor at Texas A&M’s College of Engineering, is the recipient of ASCE’s Raymond D. Mindlin Medal for 2014. Reddy’s outstanding work in the development of higher-order shear deformation theories of beam, plates, and shells and their computational models have become lasting contributions used by other researchers around the world. The idea he arrived at in 1984 bearing his name – Reddy’s third-order theory – has received over 1,000 citations to date and has been a resource ever since. Learn more about Reddy’s achievements in ASCE News. TEXAS SECTION Fort Worth water district engineer wins ASCE pipeline award David H. Marshall, P.E., M.ASCE, director of Engineering Services for the Fort Worth, Texas–based Tarrant Regional Water District, has won the ASCE’s 2014 Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award. Marshall was honored for expanding the limits of pipeline knowledge and applying the lessons learned in the planning and research, design, construction and operation, and maintenance of water transmission pipeline systems. A Texas first is taking place under his leadership – development of the Integrated Pipeline Project, a 150-mile transmission system that will provide a raw water supply to approximately 2 million users. Learn more about Marshall’s award-worthy achievements in ASCE News. TEXAS SECTION Houston and California-based oil and gas geotechnical engineer elected ASCE Fellow Richard A. Sullivan, P.E., F.ASCE, active in geotechnical and geoenvironmental offshore oil and gas projects around the world during a lengthy career in Houston and in southern California, has been elected an ASCE Fellow. While in Houston, Sullivan worked on geotechnical investigations, design and construction control for industrial plants, commercial buildings, earth levees and docks, and offshore oil and gas piled platforms. In California, he worked on site environmental assessments, permitting, environmental rehabilitation, construction control, and postclosure monitoring, notably at a Superfund site in Burbank. Learn more of what made Sullivan worthy of election as a Fellow in ASCE News. Outreach event? Successful activity? Announce it here! If you’re a local ASCE leader and your Section, Branch, Younger Member Group, or Student Chapter has staged any special events, engaged in outreach from grade-school kids to lawmakers, or anything of the sort, let ASCEnews Weekly know and we may include it in next month’s Region report. You may already have written about it and posted pictures in your newsletter, website, or social media. Share the details and any photos at asce.org/localnews. Got questions? Write to submissions@asce.org. 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