| SOUTH CAROLINA SECTION South Carolina associate dean elected Distinguished Member M. Hanif Chaudhry, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, Dist.M.ASCE, was one of nine recently elected to ASCE’s highest honor – Distinguished Membership. Chaudhry grew up in Pakistan, studied in Vancouver, and today at the University of South Carolina is associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computing. His computational models of hydraulic transients are applied by engineers around the world, and he serves as a consultant to projects on six continents. Read more about his career. |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA STUDENT CHAPTER ‘Spark’ing innovation  Photos courtesy University of South Carolina steel bridge team ASCE student members around the country have been finalizing their steel-bridge designs this spring, including these students at the University of South Carolina. Follow the Gamecocks Student Chapter. |
| NORTH CAROLINA SECTION Former asst. secy. of energy for environmental management earns ASCE honor James A. Rispoli, P.E., BCEE, NAC, Dist.M.ASCE, was honored with election to ASCE Distinguished Membership. Rispoli is one of the world’s preeminent civil engineers in construction, infrastructure, and nuclear facilities management and operations. The Raleigh, NC resident was appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as assistant secretary of energy for environmental management. In four years in that role, Rispoli led the cleanup of waste and contamination from nuclear research and production. Read more about Rispoli’s secrets to management success. |
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KENTUCKY SECTION Kentucky Life Member named Fellow Dennis D. Smith, P.E., P.L.S., F.ASCE, president and CEO of DDS ENGINEERING, PLLC in Bowling Green, KY, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. He has been a member of ASCE since 1980 and was recognized in 2010 as the Outstanding Engineer in Private Practice by the Kentucky Section. He was recently named a Lifetime Member of ASCE. Read more about what made Smith worthy of the 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 update? See the early May edition of News Around Region 4 Share this page via social media and email:  |
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