June 2014

Great outreach event or other activity? Let the whole Region know! 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, done charity work, fund raising 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. See the other Region reports for June If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for June, click on each to view them:   Region 1   Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section, Buffalo Section, Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers Section, Ithaca Section, Maine Section, Metropolitan Section, Mohawk-Hudson Section, New Hampshire Section, New Jersey Section, Puerto Rico Section, Rhode Island Section, Rochester Section, Syracuse Section, Vermont Section Region 2   Central Pennsylvania Section, Delaware Section, Lehigh Valley Section, Maryland Section, National Capital Section, Philadelphia Section, Pittsburgh Section Region 3   Akron-Canton Section, Central Illinois Section, Central Ohio Section, Cincinnati Section, Cleveland Section, Dayton Section, Duluth Section, Illinois Section, Michigan Section, Minnesota Section, North Dakota Section, Quad Cities Section, Toledo Section, Wisconsin Section Region 4   Arkansas Section, Indiana Section, Kentucky Section, North Carolina Section, South Carolina Section, Tennessee Section, Virginia Section, West Virginia Section Region 5   Alabama Section, Florida Section, Georgia Section, Louisiana Section, Mississippi Section   Region 6   New Mexico Section, Oklahoma Section, Texas Section Region 7   Colorado Section, Iowa Section, Kansas City Section, Kansas Section, Nebraska Section, South Dakota Section, St. Louis Section, Wyoming Section Region 8   Alaska Section, Arizona Section, Columbia Section, Hawaii Section, Inland Empire Section, Montana Section, Nevada Section, Oregon Section, Seattle Section, Southern Idaho Section, Tacoma-Olympia Section, Utah Section Region 9   Los Angeles Section, Sacramento Section, San Diego Section, San Francisco Section Region 10   All international Sections, Branches, and Groups Missed last month's Region 9 update? See the May edition of  News Around Region 9  Share this page via social media and email:

LOS ANGELES SECTION Cal Poly San Luis Obispo grabs second place in Concrete Canoe finals; Cal Poly Pomona a solid sixth place Ed Rieker/AP Images for ASCE Two California universities within Region 9 and their civil engineering student teams emerged victorious at ASCE’s 27th annual National Concrete Canoe Competition last weekend , held at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in Pennsylvania. Up against 22 other teams with its canoe Ambrosia, the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo team came in second place overall, including first place for its oral presentation and second for its final product. For its second place finish, San Luis Obispo received a $2,500 scholarship and a trophy. Ed Rieker/AP Images for ASCE Riding “Gidget,” California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, finished in sixth place, coming in fourth for its design paper, and eighth overall in the canoe races, with the women’s team finishing fourth in the in the slalom/endurance race. See the final results. See more photos of each team’s canoes in action, plus those of every team at ASCE’s Concrete Canoe photo gallery on Facebook. Funding provided by the ASCE Foundation makes ASCE’s National Concrete Canoe Competition possible.

SAN FRANCISCO SECTION Project manager for new Bay Bridge wins ASCE’s Roebling Award Michael D. Flowers, P.E., M.ASCE, has been named the recipient of ASCE’s 2014 Roebling Award for  outstanding leadership in construction of the most challenging bridge projects today, particularly the record-setting, single-tower, asymmetrical self-anchored suspension bridge spanning San Francisco–Oakland Bay. Flowers is CEO American Bridge Company, based in Coraopolis, PA , which teamed with Fluor to construct the Bay Bridge. Learn more about what made Flowers deserving of the Roebling Award in ASCE News.

LOS ANGELES SECTION Port of Long Beach project manager elected ASCE Fellow Douglas J. Sereno, P.E., ENV SP, F.ASCE, the director of Program Management with California’s Port of Long Beach, has been elected to ASCE Fellow status by the Society’s Board of Direction. Sereno’s 27-year professional career has focused on program management, primarily of large capital improvement programs, and on promotion of sustainable infrastructure. Learn more about what made Sereno worthy of becoming an ASCE Fellow in ASCE News.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE L.A. light-rail anticipates ambitious eastern expansion Fifteen years in the planning, an extension of light-rail service from Azusa east to cities in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains is starting to take shape. The engineering firm AECOM will take the project to the design/build stage. Find out about the extension’s alignment and more in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

California’s tallest bridge undergoes seismic retrofit Engineers use what may be the nation’s largest buckling-restrained braces as part of the seismic retrofit of the 730 feet tall, nearly 40-year-old Foresthill Bridge in Placer County. Discover how they made the bridge safer in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine..