November 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. See the other Region reports for November If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for November, 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 10 update? See the October edition of News Around Region 10 Share this page via social media and email:

REGION 10 ACTIVITIES New Region 10 leaders installed during ASCE’s annual conference in Panama Region 10’s Board of Governors took advantage of the Panama setting of ASCE’s annual conference in early October to convene a successful Board meeting. Constantine Memos, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, was installed as Region 10 Director, and two new Governors were selected and appointed – Prof. Sivakumar Babu of India, and Prof. Jairo Uribe Escamilla of Colombia. The Board was gratified to see signs of the growing interest in ASCE globally, including the formation and approval of six new International Student Groups in the last quarter, and several other notable activities by international Sections.

IN ASCE’S CIVIL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE ONLINE Report ranks nations in order of best bets for infrastructure investment The United States climbs back into the top 10 on a list of best places to invest in infrastructure, but still trails hot markets in Asia and the Middle East. Consider the survey by ARCADIS in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. Islamic cultural spaces come to Toronto A museum and a cultural center explore the possibilities of light through two very different architectural designs. See what was devised in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. Energy harvester would generate power from traffic The prototype of an energy harvester that uses the traffic-induced vibrations of a bridge to generate electricity is about to be tested on a bridge in Scotland. Explore the potential breakthrough in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine. Concrete could make wind towers taller A new design using precast-concrete elements assembled on-site could enable wind turbine towers to reach the heights at which the wind blows strongest. Consider what’s now possible in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

REGION 10 NEWS New, easier to use ASCE website features updated, better organized info The national Society has just debuted an all-new ASCE.org website, featuring a responsive design that works well on any device, from smartphones to tablets to laptops and desktops. Regions, Sections and Branches information is now easier to find, and has been fully updated with links to websites and rosters of current leadership at each level, down to your Section and Branch.  Visit the Regions, Sections and Branches area, then explore all of the new ASCE.org – and remember to bookmark pages to return to them later.