July 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 July If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for July, 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 June edition of News Around Region 9 Share this page via social media and email: |
REGION DIRECTOR'S REPORT Highlights of July’s ASCE Board of Direction Meeting Jennifer Epp, P.E., M.ASCE, your Region 9 Director, is a member of the Los Angeles Section and is a Water Resources Control Engineer with the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in San Luis Obispo, California. Jennifer represented you at July 11-13 Board meeting in Stowe, Vermont. The ASCE Board gathered for its ongoing process of setting strategic direction for the Society and addressing the specific issues and programs that require board input and approval. Board efforts included the following:
For more on the actions taken by the Board, see the story in ASCE News. |
REGION 9 ELECTIONS Be sure to cast your votes for Region 9 Director and Governor and other ASCE 2015 officers Help shape the future of your Society and the civil engineering profession by voting in the 2015 ASCE officers election. Although Mark W. Woodson is the sole nominee for president-elect and thus is running uncontested, there are open races for technical region director and for some Regions' directors and governors. ASCE members of associate grade and higher can vote if dues were paid by May 15. Learn about the nominees for Region 9 Director and Governor and cast your ballot today. |
REGION 9 ACTIVITIES Transportation Committee shares funding concerns with key Calif. Officials The ASCE Region 9 Transportation Committee is working hard to educate and talk about the need for long term transportation infrastructure investment in order to lead to a reliable funding solution. A reflection of this effort was the committee’s annual state capitol visit in Sacramento on June 19. Committee members held scheduled appointments with the state secretary and undersecretary of transportation, the director of Caltrans, the executive director of the California Transportation Commission, state senators, and a representative from the governor’s office, among others. State officials acknowledge California’s transportation infrastructure is underfunded. While proposed funding options include anything from raising the gas tax to lowering the voter threshold for approval of local sales tax measures used to fund transportation, elected officials have not arrived at consensus on this matter. Get details on the state legislation the committee is following. |
LOS ANGELES SECTION Engineer overseeing major S. Calif. projects elected ASCE Fellow N. Sathi Sathialingam, Ph.D., P.E., G.E., D.GE, F.ASCE, a principal geotechnical engineer / senior project manager with HNTB Corporation, has been elevated to ASCE Fellow status by the Society’s Board of Direction. In a career of more than 25 years in geotechnical and earthquake engineering, Sathialingam has worked extensively with governmental, industrial, commercial, and contractor clients on a wide variety of projects, notably the Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir Project, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Skirball Cultural Center, the Alameda Corridor Project, and the I-405 Sepulveda Pass Widening Project. Discover more about what made Sathialingam worthy of Fellow status in ASCE News. |
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Water gap grows in California drought A new report examines the potential effects of improving water-use efficiency in urban areas and agricultural regions, as well as increases in water recycling and storm water capture. Learn about the mitigation techniques in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. |
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Army Corps of Engineers considering public-private partnerships The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is streamlining its project processes, but with $23.5 billion in active projects and an average annual allotment of $1.5 billion to move those projects forward, it is weighing the possibility of public-private partnerships to help deliver projects faster and with less federal investment. Read how the Corps seeks to close its budget gap in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. |