The ASCE June Planning Meeting will be held on Wednesday June 15th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Tommy’s Pizza in Dublin. The Planning Meeting will help us generate topics of discussion throughout the year at the monthly lunch meetings.

Everyone is invited. Please send an email to Adam Rich (arich@riverconsulting.com) by Wednesday June 8th if you will be attending.

The April 2011 newsletter is now available for download.

The Central Ohio Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is sponsoring a "Civil Engineering Career Day". The purpose of the program is to expose high school juniors to the profession in hopes that they may consider civil engineering as a career. In the past, the program has received national recognition from ASCE for the excellent exposure that the students and community receive as part of the program. This year the program will take place April 20, 2011.

ASCE's legislative fly-in last week was a success. ASCE members from Central Ohio and also ACEC members met with staff members of Representative Tiberi and Senators Portman and Brown. Senator Sherrod Brown's office is very active coming up with his own version of infrastructure improvement which includes a mix of grants and loans and goes beyond highways and covers the clean water act.

Joint Meeting w/ Ohio University Student Section

Topic: Construction of Nelsonville By-Pass

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

ASCE CINCINNATI SECTION GEOTECHNICAL GROUP
42nd Annual Ohio River Valley Soils Seminar
October 21, 2011
Millennium Hotel Cincinnati
150 West Fifth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio

CALL FOR PAPERS

TOPIC: “Lessons Learned: Failures and Forensics”

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey and Ohio Geological Society in cooperation with Cox-Colvin and DLZ-Ohio, Inc. will host a workshop dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the near-surface geology of central Ohio. Workshop participants will learn about diagnostic environmental and geologic characteristics, hydrogeologic properties, general engineering characteristics, potential environmental and geologic hazards, and economic uses for eleven bedrock and Quaternary geologic units.

UNCERTAINTY, RELIABILITY, AND FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
(OR, RBD - THE GOOD, BAD & UGLY)

Dr. Fred H. Kulhawy, P.E., G.E., Distinguished Member, ASCE
Professor Emeritus of Civil/Geotechnical Engineering
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

The March 2011 newsletter is now available for download.

Topic: West Main Street Bridge - Westerville Presentation and Tour

Joint Meeting with ASHE and Engineer's Club of Columbus

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

The West Main Street Bridge over Alum Creek is an important crossing that connects the west side of the City of Westerville to Otterbein University and the Uptown District. Three parks incorporate the corners of the bridge along with a Senior Center and Alum Creek bike trail on the west side.