August 2014    


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.


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If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for August, 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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REGION 10 NEWS
Leaders of South Korean engineers’ society visit ASCE headquarters in Virginia


ASCE

Sharing common interests about engineering licensure, leaders from the Korean Professional Engineers Association traveled to suburban Washington, DC, to visit ASCE headquarters in Reston, VA, and meet ASCE staff.  The delegation included, as shown above, KPEA President Ik Jun, Um; Vice President Hank Moon and General Manager of International Affairs Chea Ho, Yun.
KPEA gave a presentation on the state of professional engineers in Korea and the requirements they face for licensure.  ASCE presented its Raise the Bar initiative, a movement to increase the increase the educational requirements for licensure as a professional engineer.  Both KPEA and ASCE seek to continue their dialogue on licensure at future events such as the 7th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region in September 2016.  While in the Washington, DC, area, KPEA also met with the National Society of Professional Engineers.   
INDIA SECTION, SOUTHERN REGION
Bangalore-based civil engineering researcher wins ASCE’s 2015 Michel Award

The inventor of C-bar rebar, which significantly enhances the lifespan of concrete structures, Anil K. Kar, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, is the winner of the 2015 Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research. Kar is owner of Project Management Engineering Services India, one of the PM Group companies.
Kar holds several Indian and international patents. Among his many innovative and award-winning designs, Kar developed the C-bar, a rebar with a plain surface and a deformed axis, with its capacity to enhance the lifespan of concrete structures without having to incur any additional cost, and its potential to replace the present generation of high-strength steel rebars with surface deformations. Kar has more than 50 years’ experience in engineering management, research, analysis and design for structural systems, engineering for nuclear plant facilities, weapon design, and structural rehabilitation. Read more about Kar’s Michel Award-worthy achievements in ASCE News.
PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP
University in Pakistan actively moves to form ASCE student group


Courtesy Umair Anjum, final year student

CA dedicated group of students and faculty at Mirpur University of Science & Technology in Mirpul, Pakistan, is working to establish an official ASCE International Student Group there. Recently, they held a number of group-qualifying activities, including in late June a mega-structures wall poster competition and a water workshop. Above, some of the award-winning posters on display, and the competition judges, including university Vice Chancellor Habib-ur-Rehman, second from left, and Dean of Engineering Muhammad Riaz Mughal, second from right..
AUSTRALIA SECTION
Brisbane Winter Lecture on structural design of tall buildings a big draw


Courtesy Stuart Rothwell, M.ASCE, Australia Section treasurer

To an overflowing auditorium, ASCE’s Australia Section recently held a successful Winter Lunchtime Lecture in Brisbane, featuring Richard Cass, a structural engineer whose tall towers are reshaping Brisbane’s skyline. Cass discussed the structural challenges in tall tower design, and attendees enjoyed the networking opportunity.   
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE
Construction begins on London’s deepest-ever underground station

The Liverpool Street Crossrail Station will include the two deepest basements ever to be constructed in central London, one of which bisects a long-buried 17th-century graveyard. Check out the design plans in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE
Intricate design graces new St. Lawrence River Bridge

Engineers and architects collaborate closely to develop the reference design for a new three kilometer/nearly two mile long bridge across the St. Lawrence River and the St. Lawrence Seaway. See what will join the Montreal skyline in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE
Denmark power plant to meld sustainability with skiing?

A waste-to-energy power plant under construction in Copenhagen will combine electricity and recreation. See what designers call “hedonistic sustainability” in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.