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Centennial Celebration Update

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

The ASCE Texas Section is celebrating 100 years! In honor of this, we are having the biggest membership drive ever. Our goal is to increase membership in Texas from 9,100 to 10,000! For every new professional member that you recruit to ASCE who pays their National AND Texas Section dues, you will ...

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Engineers Week at the Perot Museum Recap

Posted by jen on 03/04/2013 12:00 am  /   Education Outreach

Thanks to our volunteers who helped out at the Perot Museum on Friday, February 22: Omar Venzor, Colin Blankenship, Brad Hernandez, Alison Smith, and James Montgomery. The Perot Museum hosted over 1800 elementary and middle school kids during our day at the museum! We helped kids build bridges to ...

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Texas Section ASCE Centennial House

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

Exciting things are happening in the Dallas Branch ASCE. In celebration of 100 years in Texas, the Texas Section ASCE is collaborating with the Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity to build a “Green House” this coming fall – 2013. Civil Engineers will be designing and constructing a ...

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Engineers Without Borders Meeting

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

MEETING REMINDER: EWB-USA NORTH TEXAS PROFESSIONALCHAPTER WHEN: Thursday, March 07, 2013, 7:00 PM WHERE: HALFF ASSOCIATES, 1201 N. BOWSER RD.,RICHARDSON (http://maps.google.com/maps) TOPIC: Mr. Colin Blankenship, P.E., CFM, RAS, will be speaking about the“Green House” building pr...

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Volunteers needed for Shadowing Program for Engineering Students

Posted by jen on 03/04/2013 12:00 am  /   Education Outreach

The Carrollton/Farmers Branch ISD Newman Smith High School Engineering Pathways has 12 students looking for help placing students shadowing professional engineers for an upcoming “Shadow Day”. PROGRAM PURPOSE: The purpose is to allow a student in the Science/Engineering Pathway P...

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Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award

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

We are pleased to announce that a member of ASCE Dallas Branch, Joseph Castronovo, P.E., M.ASCE, has been selected to receive the nationalStephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a member of ASCE who, through research, planning, design or cons...

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President's Message - February 2013

Posted by jen on 02/05/2013 12:00 am  /   President's Message

Howdy!! I want to thank all the volunteers who gave up most of their Saturday a few weekends ago to be judges for the Future Cities Competition held at UTA. If you have not had the opportunity to be a judge in this competition, please consider doing so next year. It is truly mind blowing to see what...

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February Meeting Speaker

Posted by jen on 02/04/2013 12:00 am  /   Keynote Session

Speaker: Kyndra Johnson Topic: "Lancaster ISD - The STEM Cynosure: Pioneering the Transformation" Kyndra Caroline Jenkins Johnson was born on June 24, 1975, in Mobile, Alabama, to the late Leon Jenkins and Carolyn Jenkins. As a child, Kyndra was actively involved in sports and extracurricula...

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February Technical Session

Posted by jen on 02/04/2013 12:00 am  /   Technical Session

Technical Speaker: Dario Sanchez & Jim Williams Topic: Student Steel Bridge 2013 Competition Dario Sanchez: Dario Sanchez is a senior civil engineering student at UTA and expects to graduate this December. He is a member of ASCE, and is the current steel bridge captain for UTA. Jim Williams: ...

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February Meeting Sponsor is Halff Associates, Inc.

Posted by jen on 02/04/2013 12:00 am  /   Meeting Host

In 1950, Dr. Albert H. Halff started a consulting engineering company in a one-room office in Dallas. His mission was to provide quality engineering consulting services and find sustainable solutions that fulfilled human needs while pro¬tecting the natural environment. More than 62 years later...

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