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Texas Section Report - April 2013

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Texas Section

Contact your Texas Section Director, Brad Hernandez, P.E. [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 hono...

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Civil Engineering Club Update

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Membership Update

The past couple club meetings have been focusing on Geotechnical Engineering. First, the students experimented with making stronger subgrades for their piles of bricks. It was demonstrated that a lone pile of sand cannot support many bricks, but if we use just a few paper towels as a sort of geogr...

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2013 ASCE Life Members

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  

At the March meeting, many of our current life members were in attendance. At this meeting we also honored several new life members. Congratulations to our newest life members for your lifetime commitment to the promotion of the civil engineering profession.Photos of the event can be seen here.To ...

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UTA Civil Engineering Seminar

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Technical Session

The University of Texas at Arlington if offering a seminar entitled “The Philosophy of Engineering for the Burj Khalifa – the World’s Tallest Structure” on Wednesday, April 10 from 4:00-5:00PM. For more information, view the the informational flyer.

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Passing of Dr. Albert H. Halff, Distinguished ASCE Member

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Announcement

Dr. Albert Henry Halff passed on March 25, 2013, at his home on Kaua’i, in Hawaii. He was 97 years young. He was born in Midland, Texas on August 20, 1915, to Henry Mayer Halff, a prominent West Texas rancher, and Rosa Wechsler Halff. He was the youngest of four children. His siblings were Hal...

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Passing of Robert Yielding - ASCE Dallas Branch President 80-81

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Announcement

Born April 29, 1925 in Corsicana, to James Grover Yielding and Ara Ester Yielding. After graduating from Corsicana High School in 1942, Robert joined the Navy training as a Navy pilot. He graduated from SMU, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineer degree in 1949. In 1974 Texas A&M pr...

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G.B. Mann Scholarship Update

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Scholarships

Scholarship applications have been forwarded to counselors at school districts located within the Dallas Branch area informing them of the ASCE Dallas Branch G.B. Mann Scholarship for 2013. The scholarship is open to high school seniors pursuing a civil engineering degree beginning in the fall of 2...

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Ethics Seminar at UTA

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Ethics Seminar

Engineering Ethics Seminar in April David Howell, P.E., Director of Licensing for the Texas Board of Professional Engineers, will present an Engineering Ethics Seminar on Friday, April 26, on the UT Arlington campus. Attendance at the seminar will fulfill the one-hour of ethics requirement for mai...

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President's Message - March 2013

Posted by jen on 03/04/2013 12:00 am  /   President's Message

Howdy!! Please join me in congratulating Faisal Syed, P.E., PTOE and Julie Jones, P.E., CFM for winning the ASCE Dallas Branch Engineer and Young Engineer of the Year Awards during the Engineer’s Week Awards Lunch on February 21. These two individuals exemplify the great work Civil Engineers ...

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March 2013 Main Speaker

Posted by jen on 03/04/2013 12:00 am  /   Keynote Session

Mr. John H. Slate is the archivist for the City of Dallas, where he is responsible for historic city government records in the Dallas Municipal Archives. He is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, has a BS from UT-Austin and a Master’s in Library and Information Science, worked at ...

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