| ALABAMA SECTION ASCE volunteers lend helping hand to W.Va. flood victims When flash floods poured through West Virginia, June 23-26, local ASCE leaders felt compelled to help their state rebuild. Emily Gould, a senior civil engineering student at the University of Alabama, where she is vice president of operations for the ASCE Student Chapter, helped lead the charge. She grew up in Charleston, WV, and was home this summer for an internship. She volunteered at the Elkview Baptist Church flood relief distribution center and was excited to work with the ASCE group. Read more about Gould’s work and the West Virginia resilience effort. |
| ALABAMA SECTION Alabama Section welcomes President Woodson  Photo courtesy : Alabama Section ASCE President Mark Woodson recently had a busy visit in Alabama. Woodson toured the Airbus A320 facility, a $600-million, 53-acre manufacturing plant, at the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley Field. He also met with key leaders for the City of Mobile, the City of Orange Beach, and Baldwin County. He participated in a roundtable discussion at University of South Alabama that included members from the Alabama Department of Transportation, the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System, the Alabama State Docks, the Associated General Contractors of America, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, and the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. He concluded his trip by delivering the keynote at the ASCE and American Public Work Association Joint Summer Meeting, where he also presented the 2015-2016 Alabama ASCE Student Civil Engineer of the Year Award (a $4,750 scholarship) to Yasmeen Arafeh of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and swore in the 2017 Section officers: Frank Summers, vice president, and Alan Parker, president-elect. “It was a great pleasure to have a sitting ASCE president visit Alabama and attend our Section meeting as many of us were afforded the opportunity to spend more time with Mr. Woodson than what has been possible at any other ASCE event that he has attended,” said Shelia Montgomery Mills, Section president. “I enjoyed learning more about how his home branch and section of ASCE operate, what he has learned while visiting many other sections and branches, his insights from those experiences, and how we might use that knowledge within the Alabama Section.” |
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IN CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE Tests reveal new pipeline can withstand strong earthquakes Using a simulated earthquake, Cornell University has determined that a new type of earthquake-resilient utility pipe destined for Los Angeles is ready for the next big disaster. Explore the testing process in ASCE's Civil Engineering online. . |
IN CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE Now's the time to tackle potential water scarcity, World Bank report says We should prepare now to mitigate climate change-induced water scarcity by 2035 or prepare to pay the human, environmental, and economic price, warns a report by the World Bank. Consider the call to act now in ASCE's Civil Engineering online. . |
IN CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE Is an artificial leaf the game changer for solar energy? University of Illinois at Chicago researchers use a novel, engineered catalyst to dramatically improve the efficiency of solar cells in converting CO2 into syngas. Explore the promising new technology in ASCE's Civil Engineering online. . |
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