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Texas Section Update

2.    SAVE THE DATE!   TX Section Spring Meeting – “A Texas?Sized Challenge: Infrastructure Needs of a Growing Population” — will be held at the El Tropicano River Walk Hotel in beautiful downtown San Antonio, Texas from April 18-21, 2012.   Some highlights planned for the Spring Meeting:

• Golf at beautiful Quarry Golf Course.
• CPD seminars, Ethics hour, Civil Engineering Sessions (50+ abstracts have been submitted!)
• Younger Members Forum – learn from speakers who are leaders in civil engineering
• Hays Street Bridge Tour—Visit a former motor vehicle bridge that was rehabilitated into a pedestrian?bicycle bridge, the restoration of which was the Texas Section’s ASCE 150th Anniversary project.
• Board and committee meetings
• Breakfast and plenary session – Panel discussion on infrastructure needs of Texas
• Student Concrete Canoe Presentations and exciting Concrete Canoe Races to be held at Boerne Lake on Saturday 4/21
• Awards Luncheon – See fellow engineers receive special awards for their service to the Section, the civil engineering profession and to the many Texas communities. Speaker is Mr. Henry Cisneros, the former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Fun social & Refreshment Break with Exhibitors – Relax and Network with one another!

5.    TX Section 5-Year Strategic Plan was approved by the Executive Committee on January 7, 2012.  More information on plan will be posted on the Texas Section website soon.

If you have any questions, please contact your Texas Section Director, Angela Matthews, P.E. at [email protected].