January 2015 |
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| REGION DIRECTOR'S REPORT Highlights of January’s ASCE Board of Direction Meeting  Constantine Memos, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, is your Region 10 Director.Constantine represented you at the ASCE Board of Direction meeting on January 8 in Miami, held in conjunction with the first of three Multi-Region Leadership Conferences. These conferences bring together Section, Branch and Region leaders, along with leaders from student chapters and Younger Member Groups. Vibrant, sunny Miami proved to be an ideal location for the MRLC, which offered sessions aimed at improving management of ASCE entities and on developing leadership skills for all career phases. Board members appreciated the opportunity to hear firsthand about challenges, concerns and aspirations from so many different ASCE members, and found the conference environment to be energizing. After welcoming its newest board members, installed at the ASCE business meeting in October, and its new executive director, Tom Smith, the board worked through an agenda that included both business actions and strategic discussions. Among the business conducted, the board:
A substantial portion of the board’s agendas have been devoted to strategic discussions with Society Committees. During this meeting, the board heard from the chair of the Committee on Education, Norman D. Dennis, PhD, P.E., F.ASCE, who identified a number of issues related to the future of engineering education. Most significant were proposed changes to ABET governance that, if approved, could greatly diminish ASCE’s influence on civil engineering program criteria in the future. The board will conduct a more extensive discussion of this issue at an upcoming meeting. |
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| PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP Members meet to reinvigorate ASCE group ASCE Pakistan International Group members recently held a “revival meeting” at Leads University’s College of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Lahore. Group President Mahmood Ahmad Sulehri, P.E., F. ASCE, led a discussion of strategies for strengthening and expanding the group. Sulehri highlighted efforts required for revival of ASCE’s Pakistan group, including more effective coordination among members, quarterly meetings, and filling officers’ positions. Participants offered valuable suggestions for promoting activities of ASCE and improving networking among its members. Among the goals is conducting technical courses in collaboration with the Pakistan Engineering Council. Learn how you can contact ASCE’s Pakistan group. Explore the host Leads University’s engineering school. |
| ASCE HEADQUARTERS NEWS ‘Dream Big’ and your ideas may get into ASCE’s big-screen engineering movie Around the world, engineers are creating amazing, imaginative works that push the limits of ingenuity and innovation. Next year, the public will get to see what we know well in an eye-popping way, on giant eight-story-tall IMAX screens! Now in pre-production, "Dream Big" will take viewers on a journey to see awesome feats of engineering, and learn about some of the professionals who made them happen. What and who do you think should be featured? Your suggestions may make it into the film. Let ASCE and producers know. |
| AUSTRALIA SECTION ASCE names Sydney’s Gladesville Bridge an international civil engineering landmark The Gladesville Bridge in Sydney, Australia, and the Bonnet Carré Spillway just west of New Orleans, Louisiana, are the latest works to be designated by ASCE as historic civil engineering landmarks, approved by the Board of Direction. The bridge was the world's longest with a concrete arch for 16 years following its 1964 opening. Completed in 1931, the spillway represented a new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approach to flood control. Learn more about the new landmarks in ASCE News. |
| IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE Indonesian university’s new campus to be built on stilts A campus to be built in Tangerang Selatan on the Indonesian island of Java will touch lightly on the landscape with a series of low-rise buildings on stilts above the floodplain. Consider the design approach in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. |
| Flexible, spray-on solar cells under development in Canada A Canadian research consortium linking chemistry, physics, and engineering is working on a new technology that would to wrap solar cells around large, irregular surfaces. Explore the potential energy game-changer in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. |
| Qatar building massive railway system The Qatar Integrated Railway Project will include more than 95 stations and will be built in two phases, with the first 35 expected to open by 2020. Explore the huge undertaking in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.. |
| IRAQ INTERNATIONAL GROUP President of ASCE’s Iraq Group and Iraq’s geotechnical society elected ASCE Fellow Omar al-Farouk Salem al-Damluji, Ph.D., MISSMGE, C.Eng., FICE, F.ASCE, is a consulting civil engineer, former chairman of civil engineering at the University of Baghdad, and a former cabinet minister of Construction and Housing of Iraq. While serving as a minister within the Iraq interim government, al-Damluji supervised capacity-building governmental institutions dealing with housing schemes, roads and bridges, and various kinds of mixed use and industrial buildings. A consulting engineer in both Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, al-Damluji was a senior project engineer with Halvorson and Partners on the World Trade Center Project of Abu Dhabi and a design and project manager with both Parsons International Ltd. and AECOM Middle East Ltd. Discover more about what made al-Damluji worthy of election as an ASCE Fellow in ASCE News. |
| REGION 10 ACTIVITY ASCE International Group forming in Israel; speaker sought for opening meeting Congratulations to fellow members in Israel who are set to launch a new ASCE International Group there in the next few months, following certification of non-profit status. The group has begun planning its inaugural meeting, and seeks a highly regarded ASCE member already traveling to Israel in the first half of this year who would be willing to be the guest speaker. If you will be visiting Israel and may be available, express your interest and dates of travel to Meggan Maughan-Brown, ASCE director of international relations, at mmaughan-brown@asce.org. |