May 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.


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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 May, 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
ASCE extends condolences to Nepal quake victims, urges donations


Nepal is reeling following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25 and its powerful aftershocks, including the May 12 temblor, which have killed more than 8,000 people and displaced at least 450,000 more. Speaking for the Society, 2015 President Bob Stevens and Executive Director Tom Smith sent a message of condolence immediately following the April quake to our 60 fellow members in Nepal and to the leaders of the Nepal Society of Civil Engineers. U.S. ASCE members have been encouraged to make financial donations through the Society’s partner for disaster relief, the American Red Cross. The ASCE Foundation welcomes donations to support its Disaster Response Fund, which aids post-disaster assessment teams. .
AUSTRALIA SECTION
Chlorine-resistant membranes may lower operation costs


For decades, the typical membrane used to treat water as part of reverse-osmosis or nanofiltration systems cannot tolerate chlorine or other oxidizing agents, making them susceptible to biological fouling. Water-treatment systems that use chlorine to reduce fouling must then conduct dechlorination ahead of the filtration. But a new type of membrane under development by researchers at Australia's University of Melbourne resists chlorine. Discover its benefits, including in treatment systems used for desalination, in ASCE’s web-exclusive edition of Civil Engineering magazine.
IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE
UN and Stanford University reimagine global refugee communities


Collaboration produces a toolkit to help authorities site and design refugee settlements in a way that improves quality of life and creates beneficial connections with host communities. Explore the design toolkit in ASCE’s web-exclusive edition of Civil Engineering magazine.


Report: Rising Arctic temperatures have global implications

A state-of-the-field report geared toward non-specialists and issued by the U.S. National Research Council details the global implications of rising Arctic temperatures and melting ice. Explore the report found in ASCE’s web-exclusive edition of Civil Engineering magazine. 
Study of subatomic particles to aid investigations of bridge cables

While civil engineers frequently concern themselves with large-scale structures such as skyscrapers, dams, and bridges, researchers in applied physics probe the other end of the physical spectrum, studying the behavior of some of the smallest particles detectible by humans. It may seem unlikely that these two fields would collide, but that is what has happened at Columbia University, where a diverse team of researchers is using microscopic neutrons to investigate the behavior of broken wires inside suspension bridge cables. The results of the researchers' collaboration may be good news for the owners and operators of some the nation's largest and oldest suspension bridges. Explore the potential breakthrough in safety in ASCE’s web-exclusive edition of Civil Engineering magazine. 
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. Learn more about CECAR7 and submit your abstract.
More detailed bridge data will help stretch repair budgets

Shay K. Burrows, P.E. M.ASCE, is leading creation of a new Federal Highway Administration database of element-level data from bridge inspections that will give a much more detailed picture of the state of the bridges in the National Highway System and help owners stretch their repair budgets. Read about the data collection in ASCE’s web-exclusive Civil Engineering magazine. 
New foam material derives strength from geometry

Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have developed a geometric pattern for 3-D printing that creates precise closed-cell foam materials that approach the theoretical limits of isotropic—or uniform—stiffness. The development holds the promise of developing such lightweight structures as sandwich panels, insulation, or acoustical materials that can also carry structural loads. Read more on this innovation in ASCE's online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.