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ASCE ASSEMBLY
ASCE ASSEMBLY
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Welcome to Assembly In This Issue:
1 Tonight’s agenda:Speaking: Alfred Benesch & Company
2 Professor Spotlight: Dr. Esmaeily
3 Announcements4 Fall 2014 Officer Contacts
And Daily Bridge puzzle
October 9, 2014
Dr. Asad EsmaeilyProfessor
2112 Fiedler [email protected]
Dr. Esmaeily was born in Kerman, a south-central city in Iran, where he finished his primary and high school, ranking
Speaker(s) Profile: Chuck Bartlett, PE, AVS Project Principal. Chuck graduated from K-State with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1986 and an MS in Civil Engineering in 1988 and has over 25 years of civil engineering experience. He is in charge of transportation design; civil site design; storm water management; and water resources throughout Kansas. He has led Benesch’s team as KDOT seeks to improve K-177, K-4 and US-50. He is an Associate Value Specialist and regularly participates in value planning / engineering studies. In Kansas he led KDOT’s Value Planning effort for K-14 in Rice and Reno Counties and the City of Manhattan’s Value Planning related to the K-18 / K-113 interchange. Chuck will lead and coordinate all efforts of the Benesch team. Chris Harker, PE, Bridge Design. Chris graduated from K-State with a BS in Civil Engineering in 2001 and a MS in Structural Engineering in 2004. Chris’s responsibilities include structural and civil design, hydraulic assessments, load-rating analyses, cost estimating, plan review, development of specifications and overall project management. His design projects have included highway and rural bridges, culverts, roadways, retaining walls and levees. Chris’s bridge design experience ranges from large structures, such as K-23 over the Cimarron River, to local projects, such as US-73 over Piper Creek. He is a NHI/KDOT prequalified bridge inspector and construction observer, and will be a resource for KDOT throughout a structure’s life cycle. Bethany McDiffett, IE. Bethany graduated from K-State with a BS in Civil Engineering in 2012 and has 3 years of civil engineering experience. Bethany is responsible for traffic engineering, construction observation, assistant construction administration and design services on transportation projects. Her transportation experience includes the KDOT K-177 Modernization project and the City of Hays 41st Street Improvement project.
Fall ASCE Tentative Schedule
October 9- Assembly in Umberger 105 Alfred Benesh & Company
October 23- Assembly in Umberger 105
City of WichitaOctober 30- Assembly in Umberger 105
HNTBNovember 1- Joint Diner at KSU
KDOT-Calvin ReedNovember 20- Assembly in Umberger 105
Senior Projects
Did you Know?
The Empire State Building contains 60,000 tons of steel, more than 10 million bricks,
and has 6,500 windows.
first in Kerman Province and second nationwide. He earned his BS and MS in civil engineering from Tehran University. After graduation with his MS, he worked for three years as the managing director of Kerman Regional Water Authority with 10 offices and more than 2000 employees nationwide, affiliated to ministry of energy. He also taught at Kerman Azad University, and worked as a senior design engineer for a couple of years before starting his Ph.D. program.
He graduated with a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of Southern California (USC) in 2001. He also holds an MS in Structural Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the same school, earned in 1998 and 2000 respectively. After graduation he worked for Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) for close to a year where he was engaged in the “San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety project.”
Since joining the civil engineering department at KSU in August 2002, Dr. Esmaeily has taught 14 different undergraduate and graduate courses like Statics, Statics and Dynamics, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Advanced Theory of Reinforced Concrete, Structural Dynamics, Structural Analysis, and Design of Structures under Dynamic Loads. He has published a number of teaching related papers and has received James L. Hollis Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Myers-Alford Memorial Teaching Award, and CE outstanding teaching award for several times.
His research interests include a wide range of topics within the structural area, especially structural dynamics and earthquake resistant structures. At KSU, he has been involved in some research programs related to reinforced concrete structures, such as Post Tensioning Inverted T Girders, Time-dependent properties of SCC, Confined Concrete Models and behavior, and Seismic Response of Bridge Piers under Various Loading Scenarios, Thermal Effects on Integral Bridges, Optimal Algorithms for Structural Damage Detection, and Development of a Simple Process for Strength Evaluation of Bridges. He has developed a number of computer applications widely used by educational, private and public institutes. He received the Pre-cast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s George D. Nasser Award in 2008. He served as the civil engineering coordinator of a World Bank Project to rebuild the Kabul University College of Engineering from 2006 to 2010.
He is an active/voting member of several professional societies such as ASCE, ACI, ASEE, EMI, and technical committees like ASCE-ACI Committee 441 and ASCE Experimental Analysis and Instrumentation (EA & I) Committee for which he has served as chair, co-chair and control group member for several years. He is the associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering since 2008, and served as the guest editor for the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics special issue of innovative methods in damage detection and wind engineering. Dr. Esmaeily has been the concrete canoe advisor since 2002, and is currently serving as the faculty advisor for the ASCE student chapter. He married his wonderful wife Shokouh in 1994, and they now have 2 sons, Amir Elias, 18, born in Los Angeles, and Daniel, 11, born in Manhattan, and a daughter, Shokoufa, 4, born in Manhattan.
Introductions: Practitioner Advisors: Dave Karnowski
Peter ClarkHonorary LifetimeContact Member: Bob ThornFaculty Advisors: Dr. Esmaeily
Dr. Riding Officer Contacts:
President: Vincent [email protected]
Vice President: Claudia [email protected]
Treasurer: Jacob [email protected]
Secretary: Bryan [email protected]
Editor/Historian: Yadira [email protected]
Freshman/Sophomore Rep: Brett [email protected]
Activities/Projects Chair: Mary Madden [email protected]
Caleb [email protected]
Grad Representative: Andrew [email protected]
Steel Bridge Chairs: Eric [email protected]
Donald [email protected]
Concrete Canoe Chairs: Jacquelyn [email protected]
Darren [email protected]
Open House Chairs: Ben [email protected]
Koby [email protected]
George [email protected]
BrainBashers Daily Bridges o Objective/Rules
- You have a collection of islands, each of which contains a number.- This number shows you how many bridges leave that island.- Your task is to connect every island, such that any island can be reached from any other.- A maximum of two bridges can connect two islands together.- Bridges can only go horizontally or vertically and may not cross each other.
o Here is an example
o Now you try one
Scholarships
Wichita Branch ASCE Scholarship The Wichita Branch R. Spencer Delamater, P.E. Scholarship was established in 1999 for the
Show off your art skills and try to draw the Brooklyn Bridge shown on your right!
purpose of inspiring civil engineering students to high achievement in both academic and leadership development. The $1,000 scholarship for the Spring 2014 semester is available to a Kansas State University or a University of Kansas civil engineering junior or senior from the 37 county area the Wichita Branch serves.
For more details visit the KSU ASCE website under our bulletin board!APPLICATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2014
Special Thanks to Nathan Bergman and the National Society of Professional Engineers for sponsoring our picnic. Here are a few pictures to remember!
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Name: _________________________________________
Class Rank: FR SO JR SR (circle one)
Date: October 09, 2014
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National Member: Y / N (circle one)
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