August 2015

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 August 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 Missed last month's Region 1 update? See the July edition of   News Around Region 10        Share this page via social media and email:

REGION 10 NEWS New ‘ASCE’ group at university in Kazakhstan seeks official International Student Group status Courtesy Nazarbayev University A number of civil engineering students at Kazakhstan’s Nazarbayev University recognized last fall that they and their School of Engineering would gain by affiliating with ASCE, and with the help of department head Saeid Sadri as adviser, launched unofficially in January with an event drawing more than 60 people. The group has been coordinating with ASCE to conduct activities in the months since to help qualify it for official International Student Group status. Among recent events was a field trip to a huge mixed-use development under construction in Astana, the Kazakhstan capital, which will feature the tallest tower in central Asia at 320 meters/1,050 feet. Above, members of the university’s “ASCE” group at the construction site.  Visit the university’s English-language engineering school site.

REGION 10 NEWS Abstracts sought for 7th CECAR – Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region The next of the triennial CECAR conferences, the seventh Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region, will be held in late summer 2016 in Waikiki, Hawaii. ASCE is the host society for next year’s gathering, under the theme Ho-'Omalamalama: Building a Sustainable Infrastructure in the Asia Pacific Region. Organizers have issued an appeal for abstracts. Learn more about CECAR7 and act now to submit your abstract.

REGION 10 NEWS Two Canadian civil engineering professors each achieve Fellow status Keith W. Hipel, Ph.D., P.Eng, F.ASCE, president of the Academy of Science within the Royal Society of Canada and professor of systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, has been elected an ASCE Fellow, as has Omar Chaallal, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, full professor of structural engineering at the École de technologie superieure, Université du Québec, in Montreal, where he is also a research chair on strengthening and rehabilitation of infrastructure and director of development and research on structures and rehabilitation. Read more about their careers – Hipel and Chaallal.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Extreme shrimp studied as models for new materials Understanding how some species of shrimp withstand extreme pressure and heat could lead to future high-performance materials for extreme environments. See what the research has found in ASCE’s online Civil Engineering magazine.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Climate warming and other disturbing trends worsened in 2014 A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration appearing in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society reveals that 2014 was marked by record warmth, record levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, record ocean temperatures, and "the Blob." Consider the findings in ASCE’s online Civil Engineering magazine.