October 2016 |
| SEPTEMBER ASCE BOARD OF DIRECTION MEETING HIGHLIGHTS Historically Diverse Board Meets at Convention, Approves Region Realignment  Charles W. Black, Jr., P.E., M.ASCE, your Region 4 Director, is a member of the South Carolina Section. Charles is Vice President and Senior Environmental Engineer for S&ME, Inc. He 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. 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 Chuck. |
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| INDIANA SECTION Purdue alum earns ASCE Fellow status H. Scott Norville, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech University, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Norville served for 11 years as chair of civil and environmental engineering at TTU, and for most of his professional life he has worked with architectural glazing. He earned his MSCE degree in 1976 and his Ph.D. in 1981, specializing in structural engineering, at Purde University. Read more about what made him worthy of Fellow status. |
| REGION 4 NEWS ASCE 2016 Convention brings members from around the world together in Portland  Photo by Jim Tkatch for ASCE University of Arkansas student Danielle G. Neighbour was among the attendees at the ASCE 2016 Convention, Sept. 28 through Oct. 1, in Portland, OR. Pictured: Neighbour receives the 2016 Daniel W. Mead Prize for Students for her paper addressing, “When working in a foreign location, what defines the design standard which the engineer can rely on to have met his or her ethical obligation to provide a safe and sound engineering solution or design?” at the Annual Business Meeting and Leadership and Society Awards Breakfast at the Convention. Explore all of the activities at the convention as covered in ASCE News. |
| TENNESSEE SECTION Report Card grades Tennessee infrastructure The recently released 2016 Report Card for Tennessee’s Infrastructure reflects a problem that isn’t getting solved. The state’s infrastructure received a “C” grade, the same overall mark it earned in the 2009 Report Card. “Knowing our grade is our first step to improvement,” Ashley Smith, P.E., M.ASCE, president of the Tennessee Section, told the Tennessean. ASCE members graded the area’s infrastructure by eight criteria: capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation. Tennessee scored well in the categories of aviation (“B-minus”) and bridges (“B”) but graded lowly in dams (“D), transit (“D-plus”), and wastewater (“D-plus”). Read the entire Report Card. |
| SOUTH CAROLINA SECTION Member of South Carolina State Guard Engineering Command named ASCE Fellow D. Bruce Nothdurft, P.E., P.G., F.ASCE, a professional geologist who for many years has trained at the cutting edge of disaster assessment and reconnaissance, has been named a Fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction. Nothdurft’s passions and skills also led him to join the South Carolina State Guard Engineering Command to help with pre- and postdisaster safety assessment. Read more about what made him worthy of Fellow status. |
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