February 2015

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 February If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for February, 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 January edition of  News Around Region 4                     Share this page via social media and email:

NORTH CAROLINA SECTION Environmental engineering professor at Duke elected to membership in NAE Mark R. Wiesner, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, James L. Meriam Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and director at the Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology at Duke University, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his contributions to membrane technologies for water treatment and to the understanding of environmental behavior and risk of nanomaterials. He initiated research on the factors controlling membrane performance, and proposed using coagulants as a pretreatment, a practice that has become a widely accepted standard for water and wastewater treatment with membranes. Later, he and his students developed cost models that predicted what would make membrane filtration cost-competitive with conventional technologies – an achievement that was honored with ASCE’s Rudolph Hering Award in 1995. Discover more about what made Wiesner worthy of this honor in ASCE News. .

ARKANSAS SECTION Chair of ASCE/T&DI’s Aviation Council elected ASCE Fellow Ernie Heymsfield, Ph.D., F.ASCE, is a tenured associate professor at the University of Arkansas, where he has been teaching and conducting research as a faculty member for 18 years. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked as bridge structural engineer for the New York City–based Pavlo Engineering Company, where his expertise was in structural engineering and numerical modeling. Chair of the ASCE/Transportation and Development Institute’s (T&DI) Aviation Council, Heymsfield’s research includes numerical modeling, seismic response, bridge engineering, and airfield runway safety. Discover more about what made Heymsfield worthy of this honor in ASCE News.

VIRGINIA SECTION Norfolk library expansion bridges past and future Designers link a classical 1900s building to a new, technologically advanced structure to bring historic collections in the Virginia city’s new library up to date and out into the world. See the attractive melding in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Global engineering firm evaluates 50 most sustainable cities A new report by ARCADIS examines how 50 of the largest cities in the world balance social, environmental, and business interests. See which cities rank highest in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Study for Corps of Engineers urges national effort to reduce coastal risks A report conducted by the National Research Council and sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calls for a united, national vision for coastal risk management. Consider the call to action in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.