August 2015

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 August If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for August, 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 last month's Region 1 update? See the July edition of  News Around Region 1  Share this page via social media and email:

LOWER HUDSON SECTION New York duo wins Engineering Encounters Bridge Design Contest Courtesy Engineering Encounters A student team called TeamTeamTeam from Cornwall Central High School in Cornwall, NY, won the 2015 Engineering Encounters Bridge Design Contest.  For coming out on top in the final round, Lucas Donnellan and Liam Caufaglione each earned $5,000 scholarships. The event is an evolution of what had been known as the West Point Bridge Design Contest.  More on this year’s contest.

REGION 1 NEWS ASCE welcoming applications for Student Transition Activity 'STAY' Grants Is your ASCE Section or Branch making plans to reach out to undergraduates this year? Need money to make this year’s events more engaging and relevant? ASCE is launching a pilot test of a new Student Transition Activity Grant program for local ASCE groups in Regions 1, 2, and 3. STAY Grants will be awarded to support Society outreach to students that demonstrates the value of ASCE both during their undergraduate years and beyond. Up to 30 grants of $500 to $1,500 will be awarded to ASCE groups with plans to show students that staying with ASCE will boost their transition into the profession and take their career further. Results of the pilot in Regions 1, 2, and 3 will help determine whether to take the program nationwide. For STAY Grant guidelines, email Leslie Payne, ASCE director of student and younger member programs, at lpayne@asce.org. Applications are due Sept. 21.

ALBANY SECTION Active local SEI leader earns ASCE Fellow status Mark Kanonik, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior associate with EYP Architecture and Engineering PC in Albany and adjunct faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been elected a Fellow by ASCE’S Board of Direction. He serves as chairman of the Mohawk-Hudson Chapter of the Structural Engineering Institute, and is a former past program committee director. Learn more about what made Kanonik worthy of Fellow status.

SYRACUSE SECTION Clarkson professor, hydraulic engineering researcher elected Fellow Weiming Wu, Ph.D., F.ASCE, a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, has been elected a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Currently an associate editor of ASCE’s Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Wu served as chair of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute’s Computational Hydraulics Committee and the ASCE/EWRI Task Committee on Dam and Levee Breaching. Read more about what made Wu deserving of Fellow status.

METROPOLITAN SECTION Consultant on suspension bridges around New York City dies Herbert Rothman, NAE, F.ASCE, an expert in suspension-bridge cables and design analysis, recently died at age 91. He was a retired principal of Weidlinger Associates, New York, where he launched the firm’s transportation group. He joined ASCE in 1956 and was a Life Member. Read more about his career.

METROPOLITAN SECTION Design of New York Wheel overcomes geotechnical, logistical challenges Upon its completion in 2017, the 630 feet tall wheel on the northeastern tip of Staten Island will be taller than the current world record-holder by 80 feet. See renderings of the design, then explore the design issues in ASCE’s online Civil Engineering magazine.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Extreme shrimp studied as models for new materials Understanding how some species of shrimp withstand extreme pressure and heat could lead to future high-performance materials for extreme environments. See what the research has found in ASCE’s online Civil Engineering magazine.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Climate warming and other disturbing trends worsened in 2014 A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration appearing in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society reveals that 2014 was marked by record warmth, record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, record ocean temperatures, and "the Blob." Consider the findings in ASCE’s online Civil Engineering magazine.