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Thank you to those that attended this year's Fall Annual Technical Conference in Asheville, North Carolina on September 14, 2014! Next year's Fall Annual Technical Conference will be in Raleigh, North Carolina on September 24 and 25, 2015. More information will follow when available.
The ASCE NC Section is happy to announce elections for the 2014-2015 Board of Directors. Please click here to cast your vote. Polls close Thursday, September 11, 2014.
2014-2015 Returning Board Members
In accordance with the ASCE-NC Section Bylaws, the following positions transfer automatically:
Past President - Duane Bents (current President)
President - Daniel Bridges (current President-Elect)
Treasurer - Corey Knight (2-year term)
2014-2015 Candidates
President-Elect: John Garner/Western Branch
Secretary: Rick Sanderson/Southern Branch
Vice-President: Tom Fitzgerald/Northern Branch
Submit Your Vote
Ron Geiger, Mike Collins (host with WFAE), Louis Mitchell, and David Harris.
For those of you in range, WFAE's Charlotte Talks radio show will cover the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card this Tuesday, August 12, at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on FM 90.7.
Panelists Louis Mitchell (NCDOT), Ron Geiger (HDR), and David Harris (ENGHarris) will review and discuss our infrastructure needs at the state and regional level. As you know, the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card provides a review of the built environment and serves as a lobbying tool to encourage infrastructure investment, and this is a golden opportunity to better educate the public about the topic.
Hear the interview!
Here's the article written before the show:
http://wfae.org/post/north-carolinas-infrastructure-needs
Please join the discussion with an email or a Tweet. Here’s a link to the show: http://wfae.org/programs/charlotte-talks-wfae
Here are some links to the Report Card:
2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure
http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/
2013 Report Card for North Carolina's Infrastructure
2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure | North Carolina Overview
The ASCE Board of Direction (BOD) met in Stowe, VT on July 12 & 13, 2014. The new website will launch (target date 2014-12-01) in phases later this year. Two strategic initiatives committees: Raise the Bar (RTB) and America’s Infrastructure, as well as two board committees: the Member Communities Committee (MCC), chaired by Chuck Black, and Public Policy Committee (PPC) all engaged in strategic dialogue with the BOD. The IMAX movie, DREAM BIG!, may be completed by DiscoverE-Week 2016. The BOD approved a budget for next year with no dues increase. The BOD created a new Committee on the Civil Engineering Technologist (CCET) and applications are now being accepted to work on this important task. The Industry Leaders Council’s ‘stretch’ goal of reducing infrastructure life cycle costs by 50% by 2025 was approved by the BOD. The BOD received a report from the Global Strategy Council Task Committee on the progress to date in India and approved the expenditure of $100,000 to continue the next phase of this effort. The RTB committee presented their five year plan, which the BOD approved, as well as, the expenditure of an additional $300,000 next fiscal year.
Revised Policy statements PS 130, Licensure of Professional Engineers and PS 432, Licensure Examinations were not approved by the BOD.
Congratulations to the following award recipients in Region 4:
2015 OPAL Government: Thomas D. Rust, PE – VA Section
2014 Collingwood Prize: Michael M. Flanagan, PE – IN Section
2014 Surveying and Mapping Award: Dr. Edward M. Mikhail – IN Section
I look forward to seeing many of you at our Fall Region 4 meeting in Newport News, Virginia on September 19 & 20, 2014, or at the next MRLC meeting in Miami, Florida, on January 9 & 10, 2015.
I appreciate the opportunity to serve on the ASCE Board of Direction as your Region 4 Director. Please feel free to contact me about any issues concerning ASCE at the local, state, regional, or society level. As Director, I am serving as your bridge between the Society’s Board of Direction and the Region 4 Board from October 2012 to October 2015. Phone: (919) 878-9560. Email: dpeterson@rkk.com.
ASCE has created a new standing committee named the Committee on the Civil Engineering Technologist (CCET) as a constituent committee of the Committee on Advancing the Profession (CAP). The committee’s official charge is to “... advance the integration of civil engineering technologists into the civil engineering profession.”
This work is a very important element of the professional and educational initiatives being pursued by our Society. Understanding the distinct and distinguished role of technicians, technologists, and engineers is important to maintaining engineering as a learned profession.
The member and staff leaders of CAP are soliciting applications for committee members through a public application process. It is essential that the CCET be comprised of individuals who are fully committed to working diligently on this important task. As such, we are reaching out to those with a civil engineering background, a history of involvement, and/or those with connections to the civil engineering professional/educational community.
Interested individuals should apply via the public “call for applications” page: http://www.asce.org/applyforCCET/. You can also use a PDF of the application. Applications are due by August 22, 2014. Committee members will be selected in September 2014 and notified as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants should carefully review the charter document outlining the CCET’s detailed charge, review the committee's composition, and understand the expected effort prior to applying.
Thank you in advance for your support as we pursue the civil engineering technologist initiative. Please contact Patricia Jones with ASCE at pjones@asce.org if you have any questions regarding the CCET or the application process.
Stephen Colbert commented on the ASCE Infrastructure Report on April 22, 2013. Check the video below for the commentary.
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/06tavh/tiny-triumphs---infrastructure---river-pollution
The North Carolina Section is accepting nominations for the positions of Vice President and Secretary. If there is somebody who you believe is qualified and willing to help promote the Section, please email your nominations to Duane Bent at dbents@smeinc.com. Nominations are due by July 18, 2014. Voting will commence in August, 2014.