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FORT WORTH CIVIL ENGINEERFort Worth Branch ASCE Newsletter w fwacse.org Vol. 3, No.3 w November 2007
letter from the presidentAdVAnCe the BrAnCh! that is the theme for the fort Worth Branch in 2007-2008. on August 27, 2007, we had our Branch planning and leadership Conference, and i tasked our officers and committee chairs to help advance our Branch. so far, we are off to a great start.
on the Advance the Branch front, we are investigating alternative sites to host our monthly branch meetings and are assisting the texas section with the Branch mentoring program. We may also be looking into updating our web-site to provide more information to you on Branch activities. i’ll have more on these items as we continue throughout this year.
on october 4th-6th, we had a world-class texas section meeting at the doral tesoro. the events were highlighted by numerous continuing education classes, outstanding technical paper presentations, and trips to see the new dallas Cowboys stadium and eagle mountain lake. some of you even got to party friday night at the speedway! feedback from the texas section was tremendous. i would like to personally thank all who were involved in organizing the event and also
those who volunteered their time to help out and assist during the meeting. the next section meeting will be in the spring in Corpus Christi.
We have had two recent Branch meetings in september and october that were outstanding. in september, dr. Ken rainwater, from texas tech, installed our incoming officers and also did the lunch presentation, discussing groundwater issues in texas. in october, dr. hossain, from University of texas at Arlington, presented his program on high-resolution resistivity imaging for site investigations. Both meetings were well attended. mark perkins, our program chair, has already scheduled
some great programs for upcoming monthly meetings as well, including a presentation from the local chapter of engineers Without Borders in december. You don’t want to miss this! We have an excellent team of people leading the Branch this year! mark perkins is our president-elect and program Chair. scott Berman is our secretary, keeping track of the Board and Branch meeting minutes and sending our reports to the texas section. scott also did (continued on Page 2)
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AsCe fort Worth Branch treasurer’s report november 2007
the fort Worth Branch of AsCe is pleased to announce that as of the start of our 2007-2008 fiscal year, we received a big boost in our finances from the 2007 texas section meeting held in fort Worth in october! our Branch was responsible for organizing the event and handling all of the finances. this was a large undertaking and involved months of planning. We are currently attempting to reconcile the books and finish tying up the loose ends. in summary, the meeting resulted in approximately $120,000 in gross income with approximately $90,000 in expenses. this will hopefully yield an approximate $30,000 profit! the profits from the section meetings are divided between the section and the Branch. the texas section receives 50%, the Branch receives 37.5%, and the remaining 12.5% goes to the section’s Branch General fund. the texas section also receives $10,000 in support as a budget item for the meeting. these meeting are tremendous revenue generators to help support our parent texas section. our account has fluctuated considerably due to the meeting, but we will likely receive over $10,000 from the section meeting boosting our account to approximately $35,000. thanks to all the planners, sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees. We have heard great things from this meeting and we hope everyone enjoyed it!
Gary WilliamsFort Worth Branch Treasurer, M. ASCE
(continued from Page 1) an outstanding job last year on the treasurer duties as he had to manage many large transactions involving both the joint meeting with the dallas Branch and the texas section meeting in fort Worth. he is passing the treasurer reigns on to Gary Williams, who i know will also do a fantastic job. our directors, who will assist these guys this year, are Jennifer Butcher, Jay sappington, and Carl Krogness.
sanford lahue is our outgoing section director, whose service has been tremendous to the Branch. ronda Visintainer is our incoming section director and has already attended her first section Board meeting. John Wier continues to serve as our historical chair.
for public relations, Josh Brockett is taking over the helm. Jay sappington continues to run a great web-site and shelly hattan is our email coordinator and stays busy sending out meeting reminders to the Branch. sam hinojosa is the special meetings Coordinator, landis Grimmett is meeting set-up, steve mcCullough is our hospitality chair, and leah hermes is in charge of Continuing education this year.
travis Attanasio is our new membership chair. he will also be attending the Younger member leadership forum for regions 3, 6, and 7 in Austin, texas, in January. J.t. Auldridge is the Younger member chair, and he has many activities and happy hours planned for the year. mandy Clark will serve as the engineers in Government chair, and devon tiner and Brandon long are our UtA practitioner Advisors for this year.
i would like to wrap up this letter by acknowledging roxanne pillar, who is our past-president this year. she did an exceptional job last year coordinating the Branch activities and keeping us all in line. she always put forth a great effort, was very thoughtful of Branch members, and was a true leader. We appreciate everything she has done for the Branch.
We are looking forward to a great 2007-2008, and we hope you can help AdVAnCe the BrAnCh, too!
Stephen B. Crawford, PEBranch President
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November 19, 2007(next ASCE Branch meeting)dr. Jared hazletoneconomic and demographic trends Affecting Civil engineers in texas
December 17, 2007matt Craigengineers Without Bordersproject in Cabezas, Bolivia(@ Joe T. Garcia’s)
January 15, 2008harold durrwachterluminant energy“the future of Wind and other renewableenergy sources in texas”
February 19. 2008Woody frossardtrinity river Vision AuthorityUpdate on fort Worth’s trinity river Vision project
Upcoming Programs
for Fort Worth
Branch ASCE ASCE Fort Worth BranchDecember Meeting Announcement
*Special Location*
Joe t. Garcia’s restaurant 2201 n. Commerce st.fort Worth, tX 76106
817-626-4356www.joets.com
December 17, 200711:45 a.m.
program:engineers Without Bordersproject in Cabezas, Bolivia
$14 per personAll attendees must RSVP no later than noon on
Friday, December 14
Contact: Cha Kettlebandemail: [email protected]
phone: (817) 284-9400
AsCe fort Worth Branch secretary’s report november 2007 Scott Berman, Fort Worth Branch Secretary, M. ASCE
recent meetings have provided for exceptional speakers:
September 17, 2007dr. Ken rainwater“diversity in American Ground Water management - lessons for texas”Attendees: 69
October 15, 2007dr. sahadat hossain“high resolution resistivity imaging for site investigations”Attendees: 35
The Fort Worth Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers wishes you and yours a very special
Thanksgiving.
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fall 2007 texas section AsCe meeting summary
the texas section holds semiannual conferences at different cities around the state in the spring and the fall. the fall 2007 meeting was granted to fort Worth. the last section meeting in fort Worth was held in 2002 in Arlington. for the 2007 meeting, the host committee really wanted to give the state a taste of fort Worth. We started the planning two years before the conference. We looked at locations in downtown fort Worth, but found the ideal location in north fort Worth at the doral tesoro hotel. the next step in the planning was to decide on a theme for the event. Being located near the texas motor speedway, the host committee decided to have a nAsCAr theme with the slogan “Civil engineering in the fast lane”.
thanks to all the hard work of our planners, volunteers and members, the meeting was a tremendous success! We had over 400 attendees, with 30 exhibitors, 14 Continuing professional Cevelopment (Cpd) seminars and numerous technical presentations. these were all above and beyond the normal numbers for a texas section meeting.
the meeting started on Wednesday october 3rd with a meet and greet for the state Board of direction, texas section officers and early arriving guests on the hotel back patio by the Championship Golf Course. many engineers from around the state showed up on thursday for the wide array of Cpd seminars. the icebreaker was held in the exhibitor area on thursday evening and the Wonder Bread Car from ricky Bobby was rolled out for display (shake and Bake!). friday topped off the conference with over 50 technical presentations in all fields of civil engineering. At the friday Awards luncheon the new slate of state officers were installed and all of the texas section Awards were awarded to fort Worth AsCe members and UtA Graduates (Whooop!). sanford lahue received the professional service Award. John Wier received the history and heritage Award. (see below) scott Berman received the service to people Award, and Coy Veach received the John focht Jr. Citizen engineer Award. those who attended the friday night entertainment were treated to a tour of texas motor speedway with pace car rides around the track at 100+mph and then a nice dinner at the speedway Club overlooking the track.
the texas section meeting was a great revenue generator for the texas section and our Branch. thanks to all the planners, sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees. We have heard great things from this meeting and we hope everyone enjoyed it!
Scott Berman – Fort Worth Branch Secretary, M. ASCE
fort Worth Branch member receives texas section AsCe “historY And heritAGe AWArd” Fort Worth, Texas – October 5, 2007
Branch member John Wier, pe, rpls, has a keen appreciation of the history and heritage of both civil engineering and the state of texas. he has combined these interests to write various articles. many articles have been on the history of civil engineering and these have appeared in the newsletter of the fort Worth Branch of the American
society of Civil engineers.
for his “special contributions made to recording and/or recognizing the history and heritage of civil engineering in texas”, mr. Wier was presented the texas section “history & heritage Award” recently at the fall 2007 meeting of the texas section AsCe held in fort Worth.
his articles as published in the AsCe newsletter can be viewed on the website of Wier & Associates, inc. at www.WierAssociates.com/resources/history.asp.
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AsCe fall 2007/Winter 2008 Continuing education seminars
november 28-30, 2007design of foundations for dynamic loads (structural/
Geotechnical)dallas, tX
december 5-7, 2007techniques for pavement rehabilitation (transportation)
san Antonio, tX
december 12-14, 2007dam Breach Analysis Using heC-rAs (hydraulics)
san Antonio, tX
december 13-14, 2007leadership and development for the engineer ~ newly
Updated! (management)san Antonio, tX
december 13-14, 2007residential land development strategies ~neW!
(Construction)houston, tX
december 13-14, 2007instrumentation & monitoring Bootcamp; planning,
execution, and measurement Uncertainty for structural and Geotechnical Construction projects ~neW!
(structural/Geotechnical)san Antonio, tX
January 9-11, 2008heC-rAs Computer Workshop (hydraulics)
houston, tX
January 24-25, 2008structural Condition Assessment of existing structures
(structural)houston, tX
January 24-25, 2008structural design of residential Bldgs Using the 2006
international residential Code (structural)san Antonio, tX
february 6-8, 2008risk Assessment and management for Buildings and infrastructure security ~neWlY UpdAted!
(management/structural)houston, tX
february 7-8, 2008low impact development (hydraulics/environmental)
Austin, tX
february 21-22, 2008Wetlands & 404 permitting (environmental)
san Antonio, tX
march 6-7, 2008post tensioning Construction & design (structural)
houston, tX
march 27-28, 2008probabilistic design (structural/environmental)
san Antonio, tX
these in-depth, practice-oriented programs are produced by AsCe’s Continuing education department.
detailed descriptions of the seminars (by title) are available on AsCe’s website at www.asce.org/conted/
seminars.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Kelly Jarvis, Continuing Education Registrar at
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presidentstephen B. Crawford, p.e.
817.847.1422817.232.9784 (fax)
UtA prACtitioner AdVisordevon tiner, pe
972.574.6707972.574.5832(fax)
UtA prACtitioner AdVisorBrandon long, eit
817.467.7700817.467.7713 (fax)
president-eleCtmark perkins, p.e.
817.719.0372817.719.0122 (fax)
ViCe-president/seCretArYscott Berman, p.e.
817.640.8535817.633.5240 (fax)
treAsUrerGary Williams, p.e.
817.284.9400817.589.9993 (fax)
pAst presidentroxanne l. pillar, p.e.
817.335.3000817.335.1025 (fax)
direCtorJay sappington, p.e.
817.284.9400817.589-9993(fax)
direCtorCarl Krogness, p.e.
817.887.6138817.887.6135 (fax)
memBershiptravis Attanasio, p.e.
817.335.9900817.335.9955 (fax)
speCiAl mtG ArrAnGementssam hinojosa, e.i.t.
817.847.1422817.232.9784 (fax)
AUditGary Williams, p.e.
817.284.9400817.589.9993 (fax)
historiCAlJohn p. Wier, p.e.
817.467.7700817.467.7713 (fax)
YoUnGer memBersJ. t. Auldridge, p.e.
817-390.1013817.882.9462(fax)
meetinG setUplandis Grimmett, e.i.t.
817.847.1422817.232.9784 (fax)
pUBliC relAtionsJosh Brockette, p.e.
817.887.6140817.887.6135 (fax)
seCtion offiCersroxanne l. pillar, p.e.
817.335.3000817.335.1025 (fax)
enGineers in GoVernmentmandy Clark, p.e.
817.295.1113817.426.0971hospitAlitY
steve mcCullough, p.e..817.820.0420
817.820.0441(fax)
neWsletter Committeemark perkins, p.e.
817.719.0372817.719.0122 (fax)
WiChitA fAllsdon Johnston, p.e.
940.761.2284940.761.5565 (fax)
proGrAmmark perkins, p.e.
817.719.0372817.719.0122 (fax)
ContinUinG edUCAtionleah hermes, eit
817.847.1422817.232.9784(fax)
e-mAil CoordinAtorshelly hattan, p.e.
817.577.0824817.656.5611 (fax)
NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDSVacant at present
2007-2008 FORT WORTH BRANCH OFFICERS
ASCE Fort Worth Branch officers Installed for 2007-2008
Pictured, standing, from left: Karl Krogness, Ronda Visintainer, Jay Sappington, Gary Williams, Scott Berman, Stephen Crawford, Texas Section President Dr. Ken Rainwater, and Mark Perkins.
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