August 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 August
If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for August, 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


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LOS ANGELES SECTION
Co-founder of California-based DMJM and 1981 ASCE President Mendenhall dies

Irvan F. Mendenhall, co-founder and chairman of the board of the Los Angeles consulting firm Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall (DMJM), and ASCE’s president in 1981, passed away July 29 at the age of 96. After graduating from the civil engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1941, Mendenhall served in the Navy’s Seabees during World War II. Following the war, he reconnected with three architects, Phillip Daniel, Arthur Mann, and Kenneth Johnson, to form a practice that seized upon the Los Angeles postwar construction boom. 

First involved with ASCE as a student while attending UC Berkeley, Mr. Mendenhall stayed involved with the Society through ASCE’s Los Angeles Section, where he rose to become president. He also served on several ASCE committees and on ASCE’s national Board of Direction. Learn more about the life and achievements of Irvan Mendenhall in ASCE News.  Section website>>
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE
California could be powered exclusively by renewables

Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, develop a roadmap to meet the state’s sizeable energy needs exclusively with solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal power. Learn how it’s possible in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.
SACRAMENTO SECTION
New water intake will protect fish

A new joint intake and fish screen on the Sacramento River will provide water supply reliability and listed fishery species protection. Discover how it will work in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.  Section website>>.