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 6 update? See the February edition of News Around Region 6 Share this page via social media and email:

TEXAS SECTION Texas students win ASCE award at Future City Competition finals Courtesy Kim Miller The Harbor View Academy team shows off its model of a futuristic Bedford Falls and its award trophy. Students from Harbor View Academy in Rockwall, TX, earned ASCE’s award for Most Innovative Design of Infrastructure Systems at the 2016 Future City Competition finals in Washington, DC. The quartet of middle-school-aged students developed a waste management system for a futuristic version of the town Bedford Falls from the classic holiday-season film, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Run by the foundation DiscoverE, Future City is a national competition that encourages students (more than 40,000 participated this year) to apply science, technology, engineering, and math skills to real-world sustainability problems. The Harbor View team included seventh-graders Joy Mitchell, Joshua Richardson, and Sarah Grace Seggerman, along with sixth-grader Lucy Matheny. Read more about their success.

OKLAHOMA SECTION Oklahoma professor named to prestigious ENR list Four ASCE members were showcased on the Engineering News-Record’s annual Top 25 Newsmakers list, including Sesh Commuri, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, a professor at the University of Oklahoma. Read more about Commuri’s accomplishments.

TEXAS SECTION UT water resources engineer, researcher among new NAE inductees Four ASCE members have been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, including David R. Maidment, Ph.D., P.E., NAE, M.ASCE, the Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering at the Center for Research in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer. Maidment was selected for his “development of geographic information systems applied to hydrologic processes.” 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.