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Texas Section Report - April 2013

Contact your Texas Section Director, Brad Hernandez, P.E. at[email protected] for more information.

ASCE TEXAS SECTION SPRING 2013 CONFERENCE AND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN CORPUS CHRISTI: MARCH 19-23, 2013

The Spring Conference was held last month in Corpus Christi as the Texas Section honored 100 years of Engineering a Better Texas!

The conference had three full days of educational content, including presentations from the Port of Corpus Christi, TxDOT, and three ASCE Institutes. The conference also provided many networking opportunities including mixers, a banquet at the Texas Aquarium, and a Friday Night Celebration that was planned by the students. 

We had a lot of participation from college students from across Texas and Mexico. The students competed in the Concrete Canoe Competition as-well-as had the opportunity to attend multiple programs including Interviewing 101, What They Didn’t Teach You in School, and Path to P.E. 

I’m honored to report that the Dallas Branch was very well represented at the conference! I’d like to congratulate the following people for being recognized as Texas Section Award Winners at the Honors Luncheon:

• Roger Behgam, P.E. with URS was presented with the Professional Service Award
• Jean Maier Dean, P.E. with Nathan D. Maier was presented with the Service to People Award
• Sean Merrell, P.E. with City of Frisco was presented with the Government Civil Engineer Award
• Charlie Quade, P.E. with Huitt-Zollars, Jill Jordan, P.E. with City of Dallas, and Duane Milligan, P.E. with TxDOT were presented with the Texas Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for theMargret Hunt Hill Bridge

CENTENNIAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

INVITE all your civil engineering friends to join ASCE!   The TEXAS SECTION has a goal to reach 10,000 members in 2013. Each new member you bring to ASCE TX Section, you’re entered in a monthly drawing for $100 Prize and the $2013 grand prize! There are many more prizes --- see the Texas Section website (http://www.texasce.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=24 ) for more details.

SAVE THE DATE! ASCE TEXAS SECTION CENTENNIAL WEBINAR: APRIL 24, 2013

Sustainability, presented by D. Wayne Klotz, P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE

The webinar will be between 12:00pm – 1:00pm. If you are interested in registering, please go to the Texas Section website (http://www.texasce.org/login.cfm?callingpage=M360_http%3a%2f%2fm360.texasce.org%2ffrontend%2fforms%2fViewForm.aspx%3fid%3d46898) for more details.