September 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 September 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 10 update? See the August edition of  News Around Region 10  Share this page via social media and email:

REGION 10 NEWS ASCE enhances stature with peers in South and Central America Credit: Meggan Maughan-Brown, ASCE  Executive Director and CEO of the Bolivian Society of Engineers Ivar Fernando Zabaleta Rioja signs an agreement of cooperation with ASCE as 2014 ASCE President Randy Over, Executive Director Pat Natale, and Bolivian Society leaders look on. The long-sought agreement had been in the works for years. Over and Natale, joined by Director of International Relations Meggan Maughan-Brown and Director of Sustainability and International Alliances Mike Sanio, represented ASCE and the U.S. among the 29 countries at the 34th UPADI Congress of the Pan American Federation of Engineers Societies in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The ASCE leaders later traveled to Colombia, where they renewed an agreement of cooperation with the Society of Colombian Engineers and met with the membership of ASCE’s Colombia Section. Read more about the successes of the international mission in ASCE News.

REGION 10 ACTIVITIES Largest university in Dubai seeks to establish ASCE International Student Group Courtesy Higher Colleges of Technology ASCE club Founded in 1988 and based in Dubai, Higher Colleges of Technology  is already the largest higher educational institution in the United Arab Emirates. Students and faculty of HCT’s civil engineering school agreed a year ago to seek the benefits of affiliation with ASCE as an International Student Group, and launched an unofficial club which has met monthly since last December. Students and faculty members were invited as guest speakers, covering topics from senior design group projects to mega projects.  Above, Dr. Saoud Almulla, director of HCT Colleges Dubai, speaks at a recent club meeting. Douglas Cousino, associate dean of engineering programs at HCT Dubai, listens at far right.

IN ASCE’s CIVIL ENGINEERING ONLINE MAGAZINE World map indicates where new roads, ecology clash Researchers have mapped the economic benefits – and environmental consequences – of a projected massive surge in road building in the developing parts of the world. See what expansion may mean in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

Said to resemble a giant armadillo, ultramodern curved building opens in Paris The organic shape of a French foundation’s new headquarters building combines airy floor plans with interior systems designed to protect the foundation’s archives. See the unusual look in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

Mixed-use complex in China blends nature, design The fluid lines of a new, mixed-use complex in Shekou, Shenzen, China, will blend interior and exterior spaces to merge urban design and the natural world. Consider the elaborate project in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

GLOBAL LINK CALENDAR Click on event titles for details OCTOBER 7-11     ASCE/EWB-USA Global Engineering Conference, Panama City, Panama 17-18   International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, Hyderabad, India

Funds buoy world’s largest tidal energy array The first phase of what will become the world’s largest tidal energy array, off the coast of Scotland, is moving forward. Edinburgh-based MeyGen Limited will receive £50 million (U.S.  $81.3 million) to develop and place four turbines. Dive into the ambitions plan in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.