June 2014    

METROPOLITAN SECTION, SYRACUSE SECTION, PUERTO RICO SECTION
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Cornell University and City College of New York compete in Concrete Canoe finals



Ed Rieker/AP Images for ASCE

Three universities from Region 1 were among the 23 civil engineering student teams that challenged each other at ASCE’s 27th annual National Concrete Canoe Competition last weekend , held at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in Pennsylvania. Coming from Puerto Rico to the competition with its canoe Galeon, the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez team placed a solid ninth overall, including a fifth place score for its final product, and a tie for 13th in the overall standings for the canoe races.



Ed Rieker/AP Images for ASCE



Ed Rieker/AP Images for ASCE

The arduous trek of the City College of New York team and its canoe, Goethals – named for civil engineer and CCNY grad George Washington Goethals – drew coverage from The New York Times. After playing host this year to the Upstate New York Conference, the Cornell University team brought its starry Ursa Major canoe to the finals, where it finished 21st overall. See the final results. See more photos of each team’s canoes in action, plus those of every team at ASCE’s Concrete Canoe photo gallery on Facebook. Funding provided by the ASCE Foundation makes ASCE’s National Concrete Canoe Competition possible.
  
NEW HAMPSHIRE SECTION
Section’s annual golf outing raises funds for civil engineering scholarships


The New Hampshire Section of ASCE hosted its Annual Golf Outing this year on June 6 at the Beaver Meadow Golf Club in Concord, NH, reports Region 1 Governor Jason Ayotte, P.E., M.ASCE.  Proceeds benefit the ASCE-NH Scholarship Fund which awards scholarships to New Hampshire current and future civil engineering students at the Section’s Annual Awards Banquet.  The NH Scholarships were originally started by the NH Section in honor of S. Russell Stearns, a past ASCE National President and NH Section President.  Over the years, the NH Section contributed to the endowment Scholarship through proceeds of successful NH Outstanding Civil Engineering Award events, golf fundraisers, as well as Section funds including member donations and dues.  This past year, the NH Section awarded $6,000 in scholarships to a University of New Hampshire junior and five high school seniors attending accredited engineering schools.   Section website>>   
BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION
CEO of major Boston-based engineering firm wins ASCE’s Friedman Award


Glenn R. Bell, P.E., S.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, has been honored with the 2014 Edmund Friedman Professional Recognition Award for service to the Society, including helping to found ASCE’s Technical Council on Forensic Engineering, among many achievements in a career spanning 40 years. The CEO of Simpson Gumpertz and Heger, headquartered in Boston, Bell has been with the firm since 1975. As a structural engineer, Bell has had responsibility for major design work on projects such as Spaceship Earth, the geodesic sphere at Walt Disney World Epcot Center. Read more of what made Bell deserving of the Friedman Award in ASCE News
 
PUERTO RICO SECTION
Puerto Rico-based consulting engineer named ASCE Fellow


Otto R. González-Blanco, P.E., F.ASCE, ACTAR, a forensic structural-hydraulic engineer who began his consulting practice, Ph C Engineering Consultants, in 1977 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, has been elected an ASCE Fellow. His firm has provided consultant services for the pharmaceutical and commercial industry, U.S. territory state and federal governments, other private and commercial industries, and Latin American governments. Discover more about what made González-Blanco worthy of election as an ASCE Fellow in ASCE News.   

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 June
If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for June, 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 May edition of  News Around Region 1 



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