| LOS ANGELES SECTION Younger Member earns prestigious national honor Tasha Miyo Kamegai-Karadi, P.E., M.ASCE, a Younger Member from the Orange County Branch, was one of 12 engineers nationwide to be recognized by DiscoverE as 2016 New Faces of Engineering. Read more about what made Kamegai-Karadi worthy of this honor. |
| REGION 9 NEWS Concrete Canoe teams make their splash for a shot at the finals  Photo by ASCE UCLA Cast in concrete, gravity-defying canoes designed and built by ASCE Student Chapters from around the world have been competing in regional tournaments this month, each striving for a shot at the 2016 national finals, coming June 9-11 to the University of Texas at Tyler. Above, the team from UCLA shows off its canoe. |
| LOS ANGELES SECTION Long Beach engineer, ASCE Distinguished Member, dies Robert D. Nichol, P.E., Dist.D.PE, Dist.M.ASCE, chairman of the Long Beach, California-based firm of Moffatt & Nichol and its former president and CEO, has died at 84. In 1975, Nichol became Moffatt & Nichol’s second president, and his vision and leadership expanded the company from a small southern California firm with one office and 50 employees into one of the world’s top maritime and transportation design and advisory firms with 32 offices across the nation and abroad. Read more about his life. |
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| LOS ANGELES SECTION Long Beach engineer, ASCE Distinguished Member, dies  Photo courtesy Roxanne Follis The Orange County YMF recently hosted its annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition with the Los Angeles and San Bernardino/Riverside YMFs. The event brought together nearly 50 teams of high school students. Keep up with the OC YMF. |
| SACRAMENTO SECTION California research hydrology expert elected Fellow Peter E. Smith, P.E., F.ASCE, an expert in the field of research hydrology, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. He has more than 39 years of experience with the U.S. Geological Survey in California, Mississippi, and New York. Smith’s specialty is the hydrodynamics of estuaries, three-dimensional numerical modeling, mixing in coastal and inland waters, ecological applications of hydraulics, hydroacoustics, watershed hydrology, mathematics, and water quality. Read more about what made Smith worthy of Fellow status. |
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