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

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LOS ANGELES YOUNGER MEMBER FORUM
EWeek outreach activity brings engineering to students


Photo courtesy ASCE Los Angeles Younger Member Forum

The ASCE community celebrated National Engineers Week, Feb. 21-27, in a variety of ways.
The Los Angeles Younger Member Forum hosted more than 150 high school students for a day of presentations, boat-building competitions, panel discussions, and an engineering fair.
LOS ANGELES SECTION
Los Angeles engineer wins ‘dream’ prize in ASCE’s Dream Big contest

Marta Alvarez, president of her firm, YCE Engineering and Surveying, was picked by ASCE as one of three “dream” prize winners in the Society’s Dream Big contest, celebrating the forthcoming IMAX film Dream Big: Engineering Wonders of the World.

The Ventura, CA, engineer won a Dream Big gala premiere event in her local community. “I think the film is something we need out there so people know what engineers do,” she said. “And I think this premiere will be really cool. I’m really looking forward to it.” Read more about Alvarez, the contest, and the movie.

REGION 9 NEWS
New Faces of Civil Engineering demonstrate inspiring talent, service

ASCE recently announced its 2016 New Faces of Civil Engineering, and two Region 9 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.

Elizabeth Ruedas, a design engineer in the City of Industry, CA, with a sizable fan base for her YouTube channel, was honored in the Professionals category. Cody Dodge, a construction engineering student at Cal State Long Beach, earned recognition in the College category.