December 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 December If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for December, 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 5 update? See the November edition of News Around Region 5 Share this page via social media and email:

GEORGIA SECTION Active Georgia Section member and bridge designer elected an ASCE Fellow Lisa S. Woods, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, is a senior bridge engineer at the Peachtree Corners, Georgia, office of Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, Inc., and has over 15 years of bridge engineering experience. Licensed in eight states, Woods has designed more than 30 bridges across the state of Georgia for the Georgia Department of Transportation as well as the City of Atlanta, Georgia Power, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the South Carolina Department of Transportation. Honored with the 2002 ASCE Georgia Younger Civil Engineer of the Year award and the Georgia Section President’s Awards in 2003 and 2012, she has served on the Georgia Section’s Board in nearly every role from committee member to Section president in 2012-2013. Discover more about what made Woods worthy of election as an ASCE Fellow in ASCE News.

LOUISIANA SECTION Section inducts two members into its lifetime achievement Wall of Fame Courtesy Louisiana Section The highlight of the Louisiana Section’s recent 2014-15 awards gala was the induction of two members into its Wall of Fame, the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a Louisiana civil engineer. Stanton Huey Jr. and Ara Arman, seen above from left to right, receive plaques from Section Past President Robert Jacobsen commemorating the inductions. Each Branch can nominate one member per year for inclusion to the wall.  Section website>>

FLORIDA NEWS Distinguished researcher and educator at Florida Atlantic University elected an ASCE Fellow Madasamy Arockiasamy, Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng., F.ASCE, is a professor at Florida Atlantic University and director of the Center for Infrastructure and Constructed Facilities, where he has served as a principal investigator on more than $7.5 million worth of research projects at the state, national, and international levels and in industries in Canada, the U.S., and Japan. As a distinguished researcher and educator, his pioneering contributions to the materials and structures area involve mechanics, fatigue and fracture in steel, fatigue of prestressed concrete, durability of materials under severe environments, and corrosion-resistant, advanced high-strength polymer composite reinforcements for marine piles and bridge deck infrastructure systems. Discover more about what made Arockiasamy worthy of election as an ASCE Fellow in ASCE News.

LOUISIANA SECTION Louisiana barrier island restoration project begins A team of engineers is mapping utilities infrastructure and examining the geophysical conditions of East Timbalier Island as the first phase of a project aimed at reconstructing this lost barrier island. Explore the restoration plans in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine..

FLORIDA SECTION Lightweight solar canopies to power pedestrian bridge lighting A design has been completed for a pedestrian bridge in Tallahassee that will be lit by energy captured from suspended fabric solar cells. Check out the novel approach in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.