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Texas Section News & Highlights

By Angela Matthews, Texas Section Director

The Spring Meeting in College Station was held April 27-30, 2011 and was well attended by fellow engineers and students from all over Texas.

• Ron Reed, P.E. of the Dallas Branch won Best of Paper for the Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 meetings.
• The Strategic Planning Committee has hired a consultant to assist in re-developing goals and vision and re-organization the structure of the Texas Section.
• The Texas Section Board discussed a recent vote in Spring 2010 that changes the way we host Section meetings effective in the year 2014.  The motion that was approved would make Spring meetings a business meeting and the Fall meetings continuing the current format.  Officially the details on how the Section meetings format will look like is still up for discussion. 

·          Technical Groups – For the Texas Section, Chair positions for the Environmental & Water Resources and the Transportation & Development Group are open to those who may be interested.

 

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Texas Section’s Centennial is 2013.   Throughout the year there will be activities at the local branch and at the bi-annual meetings in Corpus Christi (Spring) and in Dallas (Fall). 

• The Section has hired an event planner to help with coordination on the yearlong activities, fundraising and other planning for the Centennial year.

·          Texas Section Centennial committee would like to have two volunteers from the Dallas Branch to be the representative to share and to communicate with the local Branch on ideas and events happening in 2013.  Please talk to the Centennial Celebration Chair Sean Merrell if interested.

SAVE the DATE: Fall Meeting is coming up in Amarillo. September 28-October 1, 2011

·            Call for Papers for Fall Meeting: A written paper (maximum 25 pages) is mandatory for presentation and will be due by August 3, 2011.   More information on paper requirements is here.

From National ASCE -- new, independent non-profit organization tasked with developing and administering a sustainability rating system for North American infrastructure — the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) -- founded by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the American Public Works Association (APWA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

• The ISI rating system is founded on the "triple bottom line" concept of sustainability, which includes environmental, economic and social considerations.  

 

• The rating system will be formally launched in the summer of 2011 as a voluntary, web-based product.

If you have would like to participate in the above activities or have any questions/comments, contact your Dallas Branch Texas Section Director, Angela Matthews, P.E. at [email protected].