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 3 update? See the February edition of  News Around Region 3 Share this page via social media and email:

MICHIGAN SECTION ASCE member leading the fight for clean water in Flint Virginia Tech professor and ASCE member Marc Edwards famously fought a decade ago to eliminate lead from the water of Washington, DC. Now he’s turned his attention to the water crisis in Flint, MI. Read more about this inspiring civil engineer.

REGION 3 NEWS New Faces of Civil Engineering demonstrate inspiring talent, service ASCE recently announced its 2016 New Faces of Civil Engineering, and three Region 3 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. Ange-Therese Akono, a professor at the University of Illinois whose travels have taken her from Cameroon to France to the United States, and Kyle Bareither, a Milwaukee-based engineer from Chicago who also is a cancer survivor, were honored in the Professional category. Jill Vande Boom, a student at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, was selected in the College category.

REGION 3 NEWS Illinois engineer and Minnesota professor among new NAE inductees Four ASCE members have been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, including Gary J. Klein, P.E., NAE, M.ASCE, executive vice president and senior principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. in Northbrook, IL. Klein was selected for his “investigations of national and international infrastructure and conveying knowledge from these investigations to the profession.” University of Minnesota professor Emmanuel Detournay, Ph.D., NAE, A.M.ASCE, was selected for his “advances in hydraulic fracturing and drilling dynamics.” Detournay, who earned his bachelor’s degree in Belgium, was elected to NAE’s roster of “foreign” members. Individuals in the newly elected class will be formally inducted at the NAE’s annual meeting, Oct. 9, in Washington, DC. .

MICHIGAN SECTION Michigan native wins Dream Big contest grand prize Nathan Shellhamer of Niles, MI, a junior at Purdue University, was attending the Multi-Region Leadership Conference in Pittsburgh last month with his fellow members of the Boilermaker Student Chapter. Little did he know he was about to be announced as the top prize winner of ASCE’s Dream Big Contest. Shellhamer won a trip for two to an international location shoot for the filming of the engineering IMAX epic, Dream Big. The trip will take him to either Dubai, Rome, or Venice, depending on the film’s shooting schedule. “I think it’ll be interesting from a student perspective,” he said. “You hear about these things in class, these big projects. So to get to go there and actually see them – and then on top of that to see how they’re filmed for the movie – to be a part of it and kind of see it firsthand, it’s going to be awesome.” Read more about Shellhamer.

NORTH DAKOTA SECTION Girl Day 2016 celebrates women in engineering Courtesy ASCE North Dakota Section The ASCE community celebrated National Engineers Week, Feb. 21-27, in a variety of ways. The North Dakota Section was active on Girl Day at North Dakota State University. Several local civil engineering volunteers taught girls about the profession through afternoon seminars and fun activities.