We are excited to announce that this year's Fall Conference will be held virtually on Friday, November 13, from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM.
There will be four presentations with the opportunity to earn up to 4 PDHs.
Schedule
9:00 - 9:55 AM - Planes, Trains, and Rocket Ships, Elyse Mize
Elyse Mize is an environmental specialist at Kimley-Horn with 11 years of experience supporting a diverse range of federal, state, and local government clients. Elyse is passionate about informed decision-making and adding value to the environmental review process. She focuses on enhancing the client experience and providing innovative solutions to technical, logistical, and managerial challenges. Elyse has provided environmental analysis for a broad range of projects, specializing in commercial space transportation.
10:00 - 10:55 AM - Application of False Claims Acts to Highway Projects, Tim Wyatt, PE
Tim Wyatt is a construction lawyer with Conner Gwyn Schenck, focusing on construction disputes involving geotechnical issues and highway projects. He is also a professional engineer and member of ASCE. He is the author of several Transportation Research Board legal reports, including NCHRP Legal Research Digest 79, "The Effectiveness of State False Claims Acts in Protecting State Transportation Funding."
11:00 - 11:55 AM - Resilience at NCDOT, Colin Mellor
Colin began his career at NCDOT in 1994. Since then he has worked both as a public servant and in private industry as a geologist and a geophysicist, gradually changing paths through environmental coordination and permitting roles to NEPA analysis and environmental policy. Currently with NCDOT's Environmental Policy Unit he oversees NEPA project compliance for the eastern half of the state and is one of NCDOT's technical leads on Governor Coopers Climate Change-focused Executive Order 80.
12:00-12:30 - Break
12:30 - 1:30 - When Is The Last Time You Did Something For The First Time, Hugh Scott, PE
Hugh C. Scott IV is a Professional Engineer and graduate of the University of New Hampshire's Civil Engineering (BS & MS) program. Hugh has 18+ years of field-based technical support, sales, and management experience in forensic/design engineering, precast concrete, construction, and renewable energy industries. Hugh's newest focus on strategic marketing, social media platform implementation, and professional coaching/training has brought him full circle and back onto the ASCE-NH Section Board as President. As a ASCE-NH Section Past-President (2012/13) Hugh is excited to be back into an ASCE leadership role and serving the Civil Engineering community.
A meeting link and detailed agenda will be provided to those that register.
Cost
The registration fee for the event is $30. All proceeds from the event will go towards the North Carolina Section's scholarship fund, which provides up to four scholarships annually to students here in North Carolina.