COLORADO SECTION ASCE Distinguished Member featured in innovation blog Priscilla Nelson, Ph.D., Hon. D.GE, Dist.M.ASCE, recently published an article and video for the NTT Innovation Institute. Her piece, titled “Faces of Innovation: Building Partnerships to Bring Ideas to Life,” explores the different avenues to innovative engineering. Nelson, honored by ASCE as part of the Distinguished Members class of 2006, is the mining engineering department head and professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Read Nelson’s article. |
| MID-MISSOURI SECTION Mizzou Student Chapter welcomes freshmen with BBQ  Photo courtesy ASCE University of Missouri The University of Missouri ASCE Student Chapter welcomed potential future engineers at its Freshman Engineering Barbecue. See what the chapter’s working on at its Facebook page. |
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ST. LOUIS SECTION Missouri S&T educator, alum named ASCE Fellow Robert Ray Holmes Jr., Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE, national flood hazard specialist and coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Holmes holds academic appointments as an adjunct professor of civil engineering at both the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Illinois. He’s also a past president of the Mid-Missouri Section of ASCE, a member of ASCE’s computational hydraulics committee, and vice-chair of the St. Louis Section of EWRI. Read more about what made Holmes worthy of Fellow status. |
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