Articles for Dallas ASCE

Mr. Alan Plummer, P.E. of Alan Plummer Associates, Inc., received the “Good Scout” Award from the Longhorn Council of the Boy Scouts of America on August 5, 2010, during a luncheon benefitting Scouting Programs. Alan is very active in his community and his strong value system has made a positive impact on the engineering industry. Congratulations Alan for your recognition.

Article 7: Elections 7.1 Nominating Committee. The Nominating Committee shall choose one (1) or more candidates for election to each office, except the office of President and President-Elect as outlined above, and obtain the consent of each nominee to serve if elected. In addition, other Subscribing Members of the Branch may nominate candidates by submitting a written petition containing at least three (3) signatures of Subscribing Members. The Nominating Committee shall set the ...

Aug. 1, 2010: Nominations due for Younger Member Employer Recognition Award August 15, 2010: Nominations due for Casagrande, Construction Management, and Kapp Awards Oct. 1, 2010: Nominations due for Citizen Engineer Award and Public Service Award. Nomination deadline for Distinguished Members, Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research, Charles Pankow Award for Innovation, and Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes Oct. 30, 2010: Nominations due for the ...

Come to St. Louis and join us for the 2010 Missouri River/Texoma Regional and Midwest Levee Conference, co-hosted by the SAME St. Louis and Scott Field Posts and ASCE, St. Louis Section, at the beautiful Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark hotel adjacent to Busch Stadium! For more information, please click here.

Rebecca Dugger, P.E., Director, Trinity River Corridor Project Rebecca Dugger is a native Texan, born and raised in Terrell, Texas. Ms. Dugger moved to Dallas shortly after earning her Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University (class of ’83), and began her career as an Engineer Assistant with the City of Dallas Water Utilities Department at the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant in 1984. Rebecca worked for the Water Utilities Department for 15 years, ...

HNTB is a multidisciplinary firm known and respected for our work in municipal, transportation, bridges, aviation, architecture, urban design and planning, environmental engineering, water and construction services. We serve our clients with integrity, technical excellence and a commitment to performance - providing quality work, on time, on budget and to the client's satisfaction. For nearly a century, HNTB has helped create infrastructure that best meets the unique demands of ...

William Llewellyn Powell, 97, has died of natural causes. Mr. Powell was a Dallas Branch Past President (1959 - 1960), Past Vice President (1956 - 1957), and still regularly attended the monthly branch meetings. Mr. Powell was recognized twice by ASCE for his service to engineering including his elevation to Fellow in 1987. His obituary from the Dallas Morning News can be found here.

The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Civil Engineering is hosting its annual alumni night on Saturday, April 18, 2009, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The events will be held at the Rio Grande Ballroom in the E.H. Hereford University Center.

ASCE Branch President Faisal Syed (Left) and Texas Section Vice President Roger Behgam (Right) present Jim Shilstone (Center) with the Best Paper Award from the Texas Section Fall Meeting held in Dallas.

John Hudspeth, P.E., TxDOT I-635 Project Manager John Hudspeth is a 1990 graduate of Skyline HS in Dallas and a 1995 graduate of Texas A&M, BS in Civil Engineering. He has been with TxDOT for 13 + years. John began his TxDOT career in the Collin County Area Office working in Design and Construction in 1995. He moved to the SW Dallas Area Office as Design Manager in 2003 and then moved to the LBJ Project Office as CDA Project Manager in fall 2005. Jack Antebi, P.E., TTI I-635 Mobility ...

Established in 1975, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. provides a comprehensive range of civil engineering and surveying services for municipal, drainage, transportation, traffic, and land and site development projects throughout Texas. Each project is managed by a principal engineer to provide responsiveness through leadership. Brown & Gay Engineers is ranked in the Top 500 Design firms in the country by Engineering News-Record, as one of the top 10 Civil and Structural Engineering Firms by the ...

After completing a national search, Carrollton selected Peter Braster as the city's first Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Manager. As Carrollton's TOD Senior Manager, Peter is responsible for the development and redevelopment of Carrollton immediately around the Green Line Light Rail Transit Stations. Mr. Braster plays an integral role in the City's development process and oversees projects from inception to completion. He participates in making recommendations for policies and ordinances ...

Happy New Year By the time you will receive this newsletter; I will be on vacation about 8000 miles away, in Pakistan, with my family. This year has been great for the United States of America but the economic times are tough for many. The slow down in the global economy has impacted our engineering profession, just like it has impacted many other facets of our industry. Well - we can all hope and pray that the New Year will turn things around for the best. We are continuously ...

Seminar Topic: "Galveston County's Disaster Response and Recovery from Hurricane Ike" The Dallas Branch Construction Institute (CI) will hold a one hour continuing education seminar following the January 2009 Meeting/Luncheon. In 2008, after being placed on alert status for Tropical Storm Dolly and Hurricane Gustav, Halff Associates and two other consultants were alerted to prepare to respond to Hurricane Ike. On September 12, 2008, Hurricane Ike made a direct hit on Galveston Island and ...

Established in 1975, Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. provides a comprehensive range of civil engineering and surveying services for municipal, drainage, transportation, traffic, and land and site development projects throughout Texas. Each project is managed by a principal engineer to provide responsiveness through leadership. Brown & Gay Engineers is ranked in the Top 500 Design firms in the country by Engineering News-Record, as one of the top 10 Civil and Structural Engineering Firms by the ...

ASCE Dallas Branch Christmas 2008 Project Update The members of the Dallas Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers donated $1,036.00 toward the 30th Annual Christmas Is For Caring Campaign. To date our members have given $5,524 to the Denton State School since we started in 2003. On Monday, December 8 at around 9:30 A.M., KRLD announced "The Dallas Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers" donation over the air and mentioned that we had been collecting money for the ...

The Future City Competition – sponsored by National Engineers Week – is designed to inspire 7th and 8th grade students about engineering by challenging them to solve real-world problems associated with building a livable city of the future. Hundreds of North Texas students have been working hard since October on their city concepts. It’s almost time to ask for the volunteers to come forward and help with judging the competition. We need volunteers to help us out with judging student ...

ASCE Dues Renewal Please renew your 2009 ASCE dues by December 31. Also, please include in your renewal the Texas Section-Dallas Branch dues for $55 (plus consider the $20 voluntary Branch donation) so that you will continue to receive Texas Section and Dallas Branch newsletters. The easiest way to renew is online at the ASCE web site www.asce.org/renewal.

Mr. Sean Merrell, PE, PTOE, has been awarded the "Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement" by ASCE's Committee on Younger Members. Mr. Merrell is one of five winners chosen from numerous nominations throughout the U.S. This is a nationally competitive award and recognizes the hard work and excellence that they have both contributed to the Civil Engineering Profession. Mr. Merrell is a Project Manager in the Traffic Group for Brown & Gay Engineers, Inc. and has ...

Dear Texas Section Member: It is my honor to announce that Mr. Ottis Foster, P.E. has been selected as the Executive Director of the Texas Section ASCE beginning in January 2009. Ottis is a Past President of the Central Texas Branch and has served the Texas Section in various roles, which includes leading the Section’s efforts to publish the Residential Foundations Engineering Guidelines and also chairing the Government Affairs Committee. My conversations with Ottis during the process have ...