January 2014  

Welcome!

The new ASCEnews Weekly introduces a monthly feature – news from the Sections, Branches, Younger Member Groups, Student Chapters and other local ASCE groups in your Region. Help us make this new feature a benefit to you – and tout your group's achievements with the larger Region. See below.  

 
SAN FRANCISCO SECTION
City's iconic Exploratorium wins Section's sustainability award


Photo courtesy San Francisco Section newsletter

At the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, Section President Daren Gee presents the Section's 2013 Outstanding Sustainable Engineering Project award to Dennis Bartels, Exploratorium executive director. The Exploratorium's goal is to have a net-zero energy operation and become the largest net-zero energy museum in the U.S. The environmentally friendly design incorporates a bay water heating and cooling system, rooftop photovoltaic arrays, rainwater collection, and high-performance windows and glass. Rutherford + Chekene led the engineering effort on this iconic project.  Section website>>


ORANGE COUNTY BRANCH
Younger Member Forum leader named one of ASCE's New Faces

Kimberly Gee, a project engineer with the NCM Engineering Corporation in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, and an active member of ASCE’s Orange County Younger Member Forum, is one of ASCE's 2014 New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional. Gee recalls her involvement in expediting the replacement of a flood-damaged bridge in Highland, San Bernadino County, which served as a major artery for the region, as the high point of her early career. Read a profile of Gee in ASCE News. Branch website>>  


LOS ANGELES SECTION
Section president calls on CEs to change politics from within

"The vast majority of politicians, from local to national level, are non-engineers, and many
of them are not familiar with the direct relationship between infrastructure maintenance
and renewal and the needed and on-going expenditures these systems require to continue
making them tick," said Los Angeles Section President Yazdan Emrani in the January Los Angeles Section Monthly newsletter. "No matter what stage of your career you are at, I’d like to ask you to consider running for public office at some point in your life. There are a lot of local political offices that one can consider while maintaining their full-time engineering career. These include school boards, city councils, or even commissions such as planning commission, public works commission, which are usually appointed by the city council," Emrani urged in his President's Message. Read the message>>
    Section website>>


SACRAMENTO SECTION
$900 million Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway mega-project progresses


Photo courtesy Capt. Michael N. Meyer, U.S. Army

The control structure at Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway as seen last November. Essentially a second dam, the control structure is divided into six concrete monoliths and will reach a height of 158 feet when completed. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District is building the $900 million Folsom Dam auxiliary spillway, the centerpiece of a joint federal project with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to reduce flood risk throughout the Sacramento area. For more on the mega-project, see the Sacramento Section's newsletter, The Engineerogram.   Section website>> 


Share your group's achievements here


Are you a local ASCE leader whose group has had achievements and activities recently that have made you proud? Spread the news of your successes here with members of the overall Region. Submit your details via an easy online form we hope you bookmark; please share it with other leaders. Photos from events are especially welcome. Thanks for helping to make this new monthly feature interesting and beneficial. Submit items for consideration via the online form.


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