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 5 update? See the February edition of News Around Region 5 Share this page via social media and email:

ALABAMA SECTION Huntsville students win national title at Future City Photo courtesy Angela Traylor Academy for Science and Foreign Language students Hannah White, Isabel Waring, and Alexa Huerta celebrate their first-place finish in the Future City competition. A team from the Academy for Science and Foreign Language in Huntsville, AL, won the national championship at the recent Future City Competition finals in Washington, DC. Future City, a program run by DiscoverE, is a national competition that encourages students (more than 40,000 participated) to apply science, technology, engineering, and math skills to real-world sustainability problems. The Huntsville team included eighth-graders Hannah White and Alexa Huerta, and seventh-grader Isabel Waring.

REGION 5 NEWS New Faces of Civil Engineering demonstrate inspiring talent, service ASCE recently announced its 2016 New Faces of Civil Engineering, and one Region 5 member 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. Florida native Katrina Myers, a University of North Florida grad who now works in Denver for Engineers Without Borders USA, was honored in the Professionals category.

FLORIDA SECTION Orlando engineer wins ‘dream’ prize in ASCE’s Dream Big contest “For three days I was jumping up and down,” said Rocio Rodriguez of his reaction to learning he was picked as one of three dream prize winners in ASCE’s Dream Big contest, celebrating ASCE’s forthcoming IMAX film. A structural engineer from Costa Rica who now works for Siemens in Orlando, FL, Rodriguez won a trip to attend an exclusive rough-cut screening of the Dream Big film in Laguna Beach, CA. Read more about Rodriguez and the contest. Dream Big: Engineering Wonders of the World will have its premiere next February.