REGION 3 NEWS Section centennials celebrate 100 years of engineering  Photo courtesy ASCE Michigan Therese Kline, flexible pipe specialist in the special structures unit of Highway Development and president of the Michigan Section of ASCE, receives the State of Michigan recognition for the Michigan Section of ASCE’s 100 years of service from Director Steudle. The Illinois and Michigan sections are among the four ASCE Sections celebrating centennials this year, joining National Capital and Utah. The Michigan Section formed in 1916 in Detroit, where 100 years later the group hosted its centennial gala dinner at Cobo Hall. The Illinois Section has commemorated its 100-year birthday throughout 2016 with a variety of events and tours. Read more about the history and heritage of ASCE’s four 2016 Section centennials. |
CENTRAL ILLINOIS SECTION COO with Springfield roots earns Fellow status John Coombe, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, an executive vice-president and chief operating officer at Hanson Professional Services Inc., has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Coombe has contributed an immense amount to his community, particularly in Springfield, where he has served on the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors and chaired its infrastructure committee. Read more about Coombe’s career. |
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September 2016 |
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 September If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for September, 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 August edition of News Around Region 3 Share this page via social media and email:  |