| DULUTH SECTION Lineage of leadership  Photo courtesy Chris Rousseau The Duluth Section recently celebrated the leadership of 19 of its past Section presidents. |
| REGION 3 NEWS Concrete Canoe teams make their splash for a shot at the finals  Photo courtesy ASCE Illinois Institute of Technology 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 Illinois Tech shows off its canoe. |
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May 2016 |
CINCINNATI SECTION Concordia University professor named ASCE Fellow Tarek Zayed, Ph.D., P.E., P.Eng., F.ASCE, a professor and researcher at the Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Concordia University in Montreal, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Previously, Zayed was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati and then full assistant professor at North Dakota State University. Find out more about what made Zayed worthy of this honor. 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 May If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for May, 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 the last Region 3 update? See the April edition of News Around Region 3 Share this page via social media and email:  |
| CENTRAL ILLINOIS SECTION Behind the scenes with the Illinois Tech concrete canoe team Former Central Illinois Section East Branch president named Fellow Deva Kanta Borah, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a leader in the fields of civil, environmental, and agricultural engineering based in Chesapeake, VA, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. He is a former president of the Central Illinois Section East Branch and has served ASCE in numerous other roles, including on technical committees. Read more about what made him worthy of Fellow status. |