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

NEW JERSEY SECTION Princeton professor among new NAE inductees Four ASCE members have been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, including Michael A. Celia, Ph.D., NAE, M.ASCE, Theodora Shelton Pitney professor of environmental studies at Princeton University. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Celia was selected for his “contributions to the development of subsurface flow and transportation remediation and carbon dioxide sequestration.” The four new NAE members who also belong to ASCE are among 80 new U.S. members and 22 foreign members. They will be formally inducted at the NAE’s annual meeting, Oct. 9, in Washington, DC.

REGION 1 NEWS New Faces of Civil Engineering demonstrate inspiring talent, service Courtesy Steven Mezzacappa ASCE recently announced its 2016 New Faces of Civil Engineering, and five Region 1 members made the list. ASCE selects 10 New Faces in each of two categories – Professionals (age 30 and younger) and College (students) – as part of DiscoverE’s New Faces of Engineering program. Ece Fatima Koch was honored as a professional New Face. The New Jersey resident is a civil engineer for AECOM in New York City while also serving as a mentor to the Karachay community in her hometown. UMass Lowell students Gabriel Gerardo Rojas Perez and Micah Strauss were honored in the student category. Rojas Perez finds time for both his love of soccer and his passion for transportation engineering, while Strauss is working to find ways to blend civil engineering with the natural environment. New York natives Rachel Grafman and Steven Mezzacappa also received student honors. Grafman is a civil engineering student at the University of Maryland, and Mezzacappa is pursuing an architectural engineering degree at Penn State.

METROPOLITAN SECTION Senior principal at Langan named to prestigious ENR list Four ASCE members were showcased on Engineering News-Record’s annual Top 25 Newsmakers list, including Alan R. Poeppel, P.E., M.ASCE, senior principal at Langan in New York City. Read more about Poeppel’s accomplishments.