Ohio State Fair
ASCE will be providing a display on engineering at a State Fair youth display on a day in the period Monday August 3 through Sunday Aug. 9. If anyone is interested in helping for a day or half day in this period please contact Dave Pritchard at 614-519-4819 or davepritchard@sbcglobal.net . While Dave has hands-on displays for use, he is also interested in any new suggestions for the display that might provide good interactive opportunities. It is also interesting to see the many displays put on by other tech entities.
Annual ASCE Motorcycle Ride
ASCE Central Ohio Section is planning a motorcycle ride in connection with
the Annual ASCE Golf Outing on June 12. We will meet to leave at 1pm in the
parking lot of SME Inc. in Dublin and finish with dinner at the Darby Creek
Golf Course near Plain City at 4pm. Cost is $35 which can be paid in
advance to Jim Pajk at the Franklin Co. Engineers office, 970 Dublin Rd.
Columbus OH 43215, or paid on-site. Checks to ASCE Central Ohio Section.
Please register by Friday June 5 if you plan to attend so we can order the
June Planning Meeting
The ASCE June Planning Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 18th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Tommy’s Pizza (tommyspizza.com) in Dublin. Please come for pizza and soft drink and to plan our upcoming ASCE and joint professional luncheons and dinner meetings for Fall 2015-Spring 2016.
Everyone is invited. Please RSVP to AJ Smith at ajsmith@hullinc.com by Wednesday, June 10th if you will be attending.
Clippers Baseball
Clipper Baseball Tickets - Wednesday May 20, 2015
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May Awards Luncheon
Topic: Status of the Society/Forensic Engineering
(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)
Our special guest speaker is John A. Frauenhoffer, P.E., S.E., M.ASCE who is the current ASCE Region 3 Director and Chair of the Region 3 Board of Governors. Mr. Frauenhoffer is a Licensed Professional Engineer and a Licensed Structural Engineer in Illinois and is the Director of Structural Engineering for Engineering Resource Associates, Inc., headquartered in Warrenville, IL.
Next Generation Street and Traffic Control Device Design for Central Business Districts and Town Centers
*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch
Purpose and Background
This webinar is a follow up to the Next Generation Street Design Principles webinar and focuses on the traffic control devices necessary to implement safer street design, curbing the bias toward rural or suburban design types used in the past. It highlights the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the NACTO Bikeway Design Guide, focusing on what sorts of traffic design applications provide accessibility in addition to mobility. This webinar builds on the emphasis on the interests of having economic development and safety be part of the performance measures used by the engineering community in street design. It relies on documents like the MUTCD and the ITE Designing Urban Walkable Thoroughfares that go farther in laying out specific design elements. It discusses different types of issues to consider in designing vibrant places, elements of signal design and how they contribute to the urban fabric, how to determine where and when to apply the new treatments, and how to monitor their effectiveness. The instructor provides examples of where these treatments have been implemented.
Streets comprise more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide their surrounding communities with a space where people can safely walk, bicycle, drive, take transit, and socialize. Cities are leading the movement to redesign and reinvest in our streets as cherished public spaces for people, as well as critical arteries for traffic. The aforementioned manuals and documents and next generation guides describe new principles and practices of the nation’s foremost engineers, planners, and designers working in cities today. Collectively, these documents present a new blueprint for designing streets and unveils the toolbox and tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant. This webinar discusses the increased need for creation of multimodal streets across the U.S., It also addresses specific steps needed to advance high quality design.
RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, May 8, 2015.
April Dinner Meeting
Topic: OU/OSU student chapter presentations
Portsmouth Bypass Project
(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)
ODOT is planning to build a 16-mile, four-lane divided highway around the City of Portsmouth in south-central Ohio. The highway will bypass approximately 26 miles of US 52 and US 23 through Portsmouth. The estimated construction cost is $429 million. It is the largest single construction project in ODOT history, and is the first-ever to be built a through a Public-Private Partnership (P3) approach. Construction is expected to start in June 2015.
The meeting will also include brief presentations by the Ohio University and Ohio State University ASCE Student Chapters.
Speaker:
Tom Barnitz, PE
Portsmouth Bypass – Project Manager, Ohio Department of Transportation
OSU North Residential District Construction Tour and Happy Hour
The Design/Build team at the Ohio State North Residential District project has been very kind and agreed to open up their project to a Construction tour. This tour is free, will provide 1 PDH, and is open to any Central Ohio ASCE member. The tour will take place on Thursday April 23rd at 6pm. Following the tour the Younger Member Group will be sponsoring a Happy Hour at The Varsity Club (Hopefully on the Patio!). The tour is limited to 40 people. To reserve your spot please email Keith Knuppel at kknuppel@hrgray.com no later than April 16, 2015.