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SAME/ASCE Joint Luncheon

Speaker Charles Camillo

11:30 am to 1:00 pm, Thursday January 19th, 2012

Overview

This presentation offers a behind-the-scenes look at the decision-making process involved with the 2011 activation of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

Speaker Bio

Charles Camillo has served as the historian for the Mississippi River Commission and the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project since 2001. He also serves as the historian for the Corps of Engineers' Mississippi Valley Division and the Engineer Research and Development Center.

He is a co-author of Upon Their Shoulders: A History of the Mississippi River Commission and he has authored several papers on various components of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project. He is currently writing a book on the 2011 Flood as it pertained to the MR&T project. He began his career as a historian with the Corps of Engineers in 1993.

Time, Date, Location

11:30 am to 1:00 pm, January 19th, 2012, Engineers Club of St. Louis

11:30 Registration / 12:00 Lunch

Cost: $15 per person, students $5, unemployed members $5 (checks

payable to ASCE)

Reservations: Call Kurt at the Engineers’ Club for reservations by noon the Friday before the event

Kurt: 314-533-9333, or fax: 314-533-9336, or email: kurt.krispin@engineersclub.net.

ASCE is charged for all reserved lunches. If you’ve signed up and can’t make it, please cancel with Kurt by Friday before the meeting or we will have to charge you for the meal. 1/2 PDH is typically awarded to attendees.

St. Louis Section Officers & Directors 2011 - 2012 President Elise Ibendahl CH2M-Hill 1034 S. Brentwood Blvd. Suite 2300 St. Louis, MO 63117 Phone: (314) 335-3022 Fax: (314) 421-3927 E-mail: eibendah@ch2m.com President-Elect Steve Randolph Horner & Shifrin, Inc. 5200 Oakland Ave. St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: (314) 531-4321 Fax: (314) 531-6966 E-mail: srandolph@hornershifrin.com Vice President Marc Bacchetti David Mason & Associates 800 S. Vandeventer St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: (314) 534-1030 Fax: (314) 534-1053 E-mail: mbacchetti@davidmason.com Secretary Shawnna Erter SCI Engineering Inc. 130 Point West Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63301 Phone: (636) 949-8269 Fax: (636) 447-4181 E-mail: serter@sciengineering.com Treasurer Michael Buechter Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District 2350 Market Street St. Louis, Missouri 63105 Phone: 314-768-2772 Fax: 314-768-6341 E-mail: mtbuec@stlmsd.com Director of Professional Development Lyle Simonton Director of Administration Matt Harper Director of Technical Development Chad Schrand

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Upcoming ASCE Events Jan 17 (Thursday) SAME/ASCE Joint Luncheon 11:30am-1:00pm

President’s Message Congratulations! The St. Louis Section has been awarded the Outstanding Section and Branch Award for Large Sections and Branches! I believe this is the first time we’ve won, which is exciting considering that only four sections are named “Outstanding” each year (one in each category of Very Large, Large, Medium, and Small). The award will be presented to us at the Regions 3, 6, and 7 Multi-Region Leadership Conference in Kansas City in February. As President-Elect I initiated a draft of our

award application, and Steve Randolph finished the application after we changed offices in September. Jordan Pettibone (Younger Member Chair) and Chad Schrand (Director of Technical Development) will accept the award at the Leadership Conference on behalf of our Section.

Winning the Outstanding Section Award is a testament to all the hours logged by our many officers, committee chairs, and volunteers. We could not have won this award without your contribution! As we start the New Year, it’s good to reflect on our accomplishments. Our award application shows how busy we’ve been: We overhauled our website, presented awards to professional members, grade school, high school, and college students (undergraduate and graduate), hosted the Infrastructure Symposium, 7 lunches, 2 socials, and a golf tournament. We visited multiple schools and other career guidance activities. We welcomed the formation of a new student chapter and visited and supported our existing student chapters. Our Younger Members Group held 9 meetings, a recruitment pizza party, a Trivia Night, a BBQ, and a Toys for Tots Drive, volunteered at the Science Center and for Rebuilding Together, and hosted a Career Guidance Forum. Our Technical Committees/Institutes held over 20 events, ranging from monthly meetings to conferences, provided valuable continuing education opportunities to our membership, and partnered with other organizations.

The list of our achievements could go on, but space is limited. The New Year is a time to reflect on past success, but also time to make those infamous New Year’s Resolutions. Fortunately, we have a Strategic Plan and thus we already know our goals. Steve Randolph (President-Elect) and I recently attended a local seminar by the Leadership Effect that focused on turning strategies into results. This not only reminded us that we have a good plan but that we truly need to focus on how to achieve our goals and acknowledge our strengths and weaknesses. There is so much enthusiasm during our strategic planning sessions, but it’s hard to maintain that excitement and move ahead when we have so many very hard-working “committees of one”. If we can be the top Large Section in the country with small committees, imagine what we can do and the difference we can make in the lives of students and the public we serve if our dedicated committee chairs have more help to execute their visions.

As I look at our Strategic Plan Action Item list, I’m pleased to see that we are making progress. For example, the Statewide Infrastructure Card effort is getting underway and could use some volunteers. Contact Chad Schrand to get involved, or just say Yes if he asks for your help! Steve and I plan to make our Plan a more integral part of our regular Section operations in the future so that we can continue to lead the country in our efforts. Attending the workshop gave us time to think about how we might do that, and so it is good that we now have a plan for how to implement the plan.

I challenge each of you to reflect on this abbreviated version of ASCE’s Vision 2025 as part of your own New Year’s Resolution: We are entrusted by society to create a sustainable world and enhance the global quality of life. Civil engineers serve competently,

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collaboratively, and ethically as Master Builders, Innovators, Leaders in Public Policy, Managers of Risk, and Stewards of the Environment. Can you think of a recent example where you’ve achieved part of our vision? I hope that in 2012 each of us will work to achieve our Vision so that we can truly be trusted leaders for a modern world.

Happy New Year, Elise Ibendahl, PE, CFM

St. Louis Section Announcements

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For all YM questions, please contact YM committee chair Jordan E. Pettibone

jepettibone@hornershifrin.com

Younger Member Events

Spring 2012 – Forum discussion on Sustainability: What’s This Mean for Young Engineers? We will be hosting a discussion about what sustainability is, and how it will affect us in our careers. More info to come. May 12, 2012 – Rebuilding Together – St. Louis We have participated on project teams the last few years, and we plan on doing so again this year. This is a great community service project to be a part of. Your level of experience (or lack thereof) in performing home maintenance work is no concern. Watch here for more info as we get closer to the date. Also, we have submitted our annual report to the Younger Member Council. We will have it for your viewing up on our website shortly. Check it out. We’ve been busy!

http://sections.asce.org/stlouis/Younger-members/YoungerMembersGroup.htm

St. Louis Section Announcements

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Announcements

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Announcements

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Announcements

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MS&T— CE – 380 Water Resources and Wastewater Engineering Location: MSD Date/Time: Meets Wednesdays 6:00 PM – 8:45 PM, Spring Semester begins January 11 2012 Instructor: Gary T Moore MS, P.E. This course is intended to provide graduate students an opportunity to study the planning and design of multipurpose water resource projects and wastewater collection / treatment / disposal systems. Latter part of course is designed to apply design principals and applications to wastewater collection and treatment plant facilities. Both hand calculations and computer methods for multipurpose water resource projects and wastewater collection and treatment plants will be developed. In addition, it is anticipated that a tour of one wastewater treatment plant will be a part of the course. On completion of the course, students should be able to understand the aspects of planning and designing multipurpose water resource projects and wastewater collections systems and treatment plants and determine the hydraulic functions of several processes of a wastewater treatment plant facilities such as bar screens, primary treatment tanks, secondary treatment tanks, pumps, unit sizing, collection system sewers and outfalls. Students will have a final design project for a wastewater treatment plant unit sizing and hydraulics and present the information in a professional setting. Computer applications may be employed as needed as part of the course work. Other computer or hand computations may be performed for hydrologic determinations for flow rates. For further information regarding enrolling in this or any other graduate courses at the MS&T Engineering Education Center at UMSL, visit MST's website at http://eec.mst.edu/. Call (314) 516-5431 or mailto:eec@mst.edu for more information.

Geotechnical Lab Testing 2012 January 4-6, 2012 | Rolla, Missouri http://geotechtesting.mst.edu Engineers | Geologists | Lab Managers | Lab Technicians

Improve your knowledge of consolidation, shear strength, and permeability testing principles through Missouri S&T's Geotechnical Lab Testing short course. You will also learn the principles and techniques of soils testing, such as proper soil specimen handling and preparation procedures, and the techniques that eliminate and reduce critical testing errors.

More Info

Instructors Louis Ge, PhD. Ronaldo Luna, P.E., Ph.D. Richard W. Stephenson, P.E., Ph.D. $975 Registration Fee Includes refreshments each day, extensive course notes, materials and use of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Professional Development Hours Participants will earn 27.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) for completion of the course. For Program Schedule, or to Register Online http://geotechtesting.mst.edu Registration Contact Distance Education Phone: 573-341-6222 Email: dce@mst.edu

Announcements

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Considering Returning to School for a MS or a Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering? Take a look at SIUE. Eleven different transportation engineering courses are available to graduate students, including Transportation Security, Advanced Geometric Design, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Transportation Safety Systems, Computer Simulation in Traffic Engineering, Transportation Planning, and Traffic Studies, for example. Nationally-recognized teachers who are also professional engineers teach these courses and mentor students through graduate school. Students have the opportunity to use state-of-the-practice research and teaching facilities including a traffic signal lab, a vehicle driving simulator, and advance computer traffic simulation software. Assistantships are available for most full-time MS or Ph.D. students, including a monthly salary plus a full tuition waiver. Apply today at www.siue.edu/graduate.

Employment Announcements

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Description

Position Description: Senior Environmental Engineer

Company: Burns & McDonnell

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

The Position: Founded in 1898, Burns & McDonnell is an award-winning engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting services firm. We are a 100-percent employee-owned firm with our World Headquarters located in Kansas City, Missouri and offices nationwide. Burns & McDonnell plans, designs, permits, constructs and manages projects all over the world with one mission in mind -- to make our clients successful. From the water you drink, the air you breathe, the roads and airports you travel, to the power that illuminates your home, you don't have to look far to see ways that Burns & McDonnell touches peoples lives. Burns & McDonnell has an exciting opportunity in our St. Louis office in our Environmental group for a Senior Environmental Engineer. The Senior Environmental Engineer executes complex assignments requiring the use of advanced techniques, resulting in the development of new or improved processes, equipment and/or technological methods. Responsible for performing, supervising, and sealing designs on various major projects. Prepare scopes of work, cost estimates and proposals. May develop and evaluate plans for major projects. Progressive design and project management responsibilities. Provide leadership, guidance and instruction to less experienced staff members. Some marketing responsibilities. May assess feasibility or soundness of proposed applications when data is insufficient or testing is advisable. May coordinate departmental or divisional project studies, reports or project design assignments. Regularly meets and corresponds with clients, subcontractors or outside personnel. Preparation of work plans, investigation reports, feasibility studies, remedial design and implementation for CERCLA, RCRA, and other state lead programs. Project management of above projects. Other duties as assigned. Candidate should have a wide background in the environmental field including site investigations, risk assessment/management, remedy selection, construction oversight and project/personnel management. Experience with fast turnaround design-build projects would be helpful. Project experience should include remediation, small infrastructure type projects, and contractor oversight.

The Requirements: Bachelor's degree in civil, environmental or geological engineering from accredited program. Minimum 10 years related experience (completion of master's degree in related field may be substituted for one year of experience). CERCLA, RCRA or other state lead program experience on investigation through remediation. Excellent written & verbal communication skills. Strong analytical and problem solving skills. This position requires an individual capable of applying intensive and diversified knowledge of principles and practices to broad areas of assignments. Must be capable of devising new approaches to problems encountered. Previous consulting experience preferred. Professional Engineer registration preferred.

As a 100% employee owned firm, we offer stock ownership, incentive bonus programs and matching 401(k) plans. If you are ready for a new challenge, please visit our website at www.burnsmcd.com/careers. Search Keyword: 110701 Senior Environmental Engineer.

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