October 2016    

SEPTEMBER ASCE BOARD OF DIRECTION MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
Historically Diverse Board Meets at Convention, Approves Region Realignment
 


Constantine Memos, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, is your Region 10 Director.  Constance represented you at the Sept. 27-28 Board meeting in Portland, OR, held in conjunction with the ASCE 2016 Convention. ASCE’s incoming officers participated in the Board meeting as observers and were formally installed Sept. 30 at the annual business meeting. With the new officers, the Board membership now includes six women, making it the most diverse Board in Society history.

 This was Constantine’s last Board meeting as your Region director. Please welcome Brett C. Phillips, Ph.D., M.ASCE, to that role and wish Constantine the best.

Highlights of the Board meeting included:

• Receiving recommendations from the special Raise the Bar Review Task Committee (see story in ASCE News).

• Approving recommendations from the Task Committee on Geographic Boundaries, including the reassignment of Mexico from Region 10 to Region 6, the reassignment of Canada from Region 10 to regions 1, 3, or 8, depending on the provinces’  locations, and reassignment of Puerto Rico from Region 1 to Region 5. In addition, the Board authorized a Constitutional amendment to add a third Technical Region Director to the Board, to be placed on the 2017 election ballot for a vote by the overall ASCE membership.

• Engaging in 2016 Convention activities, including sessions such as the Industry Leaders Forum discussion on the ASCE Grand Challenge, keynote speakers, and technical tours. Directors joined attendees to get a sneak peek at the new IMAX film, Dream Big: Engineering Our World, set for release in February. The film is being produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with ASCE, and is presented by Bechtel. Portland proved to be a wonderful host city, particularly well-situated for some of the major civil engineering issues facing our industry, including those involving sustainability and resilience.

To share your views, or other ideas on how ASCE can better serve its members and the profession, please 
email incoming Region Director Brett

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 October
If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for October, 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


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REGION 10 NEWS
ASCE 2016 Convention brings members from around the world together in Portland


Photo by Jim Tkatch for ASCE

Kwabena Agyepong, Kwame A. Boakye, and Leslie A. Ayeh, of Ghana, were among the attendees at the ASCE 2016 Convention, Sept. 28 through Oct. 1, in Portland, OR. The Convention drew representation from many international delegations, including Association of Civil Engineers and Architects of Costa Rica, Association of Civil Engineers of Pichincha (Ecuador), Association of Civil Engineers, Channels and Ports (Spain), the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, the Chinese Institution of Civil and Hydraulic Engineers (Taiwan), the College of Civil Engineers (Ecuador), the Colombian Society of Engineers, the Egyptian Society of Irrigation Engineers, the Federation of Civil Engineering Associations of Mexico, the Finnish Association of Civil Engineers, the French National Council of Engineers and Scientists, the Ghana Institution of Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers (India), the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers, the Order of Engineers and Architects (Lebanon), the Panama Society of Engineers, and the Philippine Institution of Civil Engineers. Explore all of the activities at the convention as covered in ASCE News.

REGION 10 NEWS
Concrete pavement technology expert named ASCE Fellow


Shiraz Tayabji, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, a nationally and internationally recognized expert on concrete pavement technology, has been elevated to the status of Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.

Tayabji serves as a senior principal engineer in the Transportation Infrastructure Division of Applied Research Associates Inc., and as president of Advanced Concrete Pavement Consultancy LLC, based in Ellicott City, MD.

Tayabji graduated from the University of Nairobi (a constituent college of the University of East Africa) in 1970 with a B.S. (ENG) in civil engineering, and he received an M.S. (1972) and a Ph.D. (1976) in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Read more about what made him worthy of this honor.


REGION 10 NEWS
Leading Greek engineer elevated to Fellow status


Panos D. Panagopoulos, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, responsible for a significant number of noted design projects for hydraulic and marine structures and the provision of consulting services to the government of Greece, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.

He is known among consultants in Greece for his distinguished tenure (1998 to 2003) as president and subsequently vice-president of the Hellenic Association of Engineering Consulting Firms (Hellasco). During his presidency, he enhanced Hellasco’s cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works for the improvement of the public procurement framework in Greece, and thereafter became an active member of successive committees under Public Works. The public procurement law of 2005 took onboard many of Hellasco’s proposals.

Read more about Panagopoulos’ remarkable career.


REGION 10 NEWS
Pakistan to host international congress in December


The Institution of Engineers Pakistan Karachi Center and NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi are jointly organizing the eighth International Civil Engineering Congress, scheduled for Dec. 23-24 at IEP Convention Center in Karachi, Pakistan.

The theme of the ICEC-2016 is “Ensuring Technological Advancement through Innovation-Based Knowledge Corridor.”

Learn more about the event.

REGION 10 NEWS
Student Chapter in Malaysia debuts


The ASCE Student Chapter at Universiti Sains Malaysia – or the University of Science, Malaysia – recently debuted with a celebratory program at the school. The launch was well-supported by the faculty and was attended by the deputy dean and senior staff members. About 100 civil engineering students attended the event. 

Keep up with the new Student Chapter on Facebook.