October 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 October If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for October, 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 4 update? See the September edition of News Around Region 4 Share this page via social media and email: |
REGION DIRECTOR'S REPORT Highlights of October’s ASCE Board of Direction Meeting David B. Peterson, P.E., F.ASCE, your Region 4, Director, is a member of the North Carolina Section and is a Senior Manager for Rummel, Klepper & Kahl, LLP, in Raleigh, NC. David represented you at the October 5-6 Board meeting in Panama City, Panama, held in conjunction with ASCE’s Global Engineering Conference 2014. The conference helped commemorate the 100th anniversary of one of civil engineering’s greatest achievements—the Panama Canal. Seeing the massive effort underway to expand the canal, and collaborating on the conference with ASCE’s partner Engineers Without Borders–USA, gave additional meaning to the Board members’ role of guiding the important work of ASCE and the profession. Also participating in this meeting as observers were ASCE’s incoming officers, who were formally installed during the annual business meeting later in the week. Among the issues the board addressed are the following:
Board members are interested in your views on the issues they are considering. To share your views, or other ideas on how ASCE can better serve its members and the profession, please email David. |
ARKANSAS SECTION First-ever Report Card for Arkansas’ Infrastructure issued with an overall D+ For the first time, Arkansas residents have the expert appraisal of the state of the state’s infrastructure from the civil engineers of ASCE’s Arkansas Section. Its first Report Card for Arkansas’ Infrastructure gives the state a cumulative GPA of D+. Seven infrastructure categories were evaluated, with levees and dame each receiving the toughest grades of D, and while bridges and wastewater had the best grades, those still were each only C+. Released during Arkansas’ annual Section Conference, the Report Card noted that as of 2010, the state’s highway system was the nation’s 12th largest, but the traffic fatality rate was the nation’s second highest. In addition, the state has 214 wastewater treatment facilities in need of upgrades and improvements over the next 20 years. Read more about the grades and the evaluators’ recommendations, in ASCE’s Save America’s Infrastructure report. Section website>>. |
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Dramatic national memorial honors disabled veterans The nation’s newest memorial is not only a tribute to disabled veterans but also a triumph of design and engineering teamwork. The Disabled Veterans’ Life Memorial Foundation selected a design by Washington, DC-based Michael Vergason Landscape Architects in 2003 from among 20 submissions in an invitational design competition. Discover how it came together in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. |
INDIANA SECTION Purdue project aims to preserve engineering research data A system under development would create a large warehouse of data, enabling researchers to draw broader connections with past works. Explore how it would work in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. |