Mark your calendars now for Engineers Week, February 19-25, 2012. This year’s theme of 7,000,000,000 People – Seven Billion Dreams highlights engineers’ vast reach, making dreams real all over the world. ASCE invites you to take part in the festivities whether as an individual, civil engineering organization or ASCE Section or Branch. To make planning easier ASCE has celebration ideas, tips for planning outreach events, low cost and free resources, and staff standing by to answer your Engineers Week questions. Take advantage of online information, available on the ASCE website at www.asce.org/Outreach/Engineers-Week-2012/. Order free Engineers Week posters at outreach@asce.org. Tips to get started: 1) Start by naming an Engineers Week contact for your Section or Branch. Name one contact to receive this year’s support information for Engineers Week. 2) Recogize a special volunteer at the ASCE Multi-Regional Leadership Conferences. Send the name and mailing address of one community volunteer from your Section/Branch who deserves special recognition to outreach@asce.org. Questions? Feel free to contact Leslie Payne, Senior Manager, Pre-college Outreach at ASCE. Call 703-295-6364 or email outreach@asce.org.
Wind Beam Trial Design Problem Call for Participation ASCE/SEI standards continue to provide information clearly. Send in your solution today and encourage your colleagues to participate as well. Visit the SEI website at www.asce.org/SEI for more information and to download the exercise. Submit your solution by March 1, 2012 to: Suzanne Fisher at sfisher@asce.org.
2012 Joint Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute & 11th ASCE Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability EMI/PMC 2012
South Bend, Indiana
June 17-20, 2012
The College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame is proud to host the 2012 Joint Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute and 11th ASCE Joint Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability (EMI/PMC 2012) June 17-20, 2012. The joint conference provides a major
forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion of recent developments in all mechanics, materials, probabilistic-methods and structural reliability fields. Mark your calendars for June 17-20, 2012 and visit http://emipmc12.nd.edu/index.html to stay abreast of all the latest news on EMI/PMC 2012.
SAVE THE DATE
ASCE’s Annual 2012 Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ATC & SEI Advances in Hurricane Engineering Conference Miami, Florida October 24-26, 2012 www.atc-sei.org/
2012 Electrical Transmission and Substation Structures Conference Columbus, Ohio November 4-8, 2012 http://content.asce.org/conferences/ets2012/index.html
STRUCTURE magazine
Make your plans to attend ASCE’s 142nd Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Montreal, October 18-20, 2012. With a cutting edge conference theme of Civil Engineering in the New Global Economy and a world crossroads location of Montreal, there are certain to be sessions and events that spark ideas for new solutions to worldwide challenges and emerging markets. Or, hear topics and discussions on matters you will be facing in the future; stay ahead of the competition. Visit the ASCE Conference website at www.asce.org/conferences for more information about ASCE’s 142nd Annual Civil Engineering Conference.
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The Newsletter of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE
Submit a Trial Design Solution and be entered in a drawing to win a copy of ASCE/SEI 7-2010 Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures. Trial Design problems are an investigation into how structural engineers interpret code provisions. The exercise is designed to take about an hour, and all solutions will be anonymous in the publication of results. Your participation will help ensure that
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ASCE provides resources to celebrate Engineers Week
