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Special Education Activities
Seminar I Wednesday, October 10
8:00 AM - 12 Noon Fee: $145M / $195NM Engineering managers today are faced with the daunting tasks of attracting, hiring, and retaining the best engineering professionals in a team-oriented environment in spite of restructuring and cost-sensitive clients. The “War for Talent” is the #1 or #2 success driver for engineering managers. According to surveys, it costs a company from one to 1.5 times the engineer’s salary to replace the individual. These changing times demand a new breed of engineering manager who is willing to explore new ways to attract and manage engineers. Managers today are evolving into teachers and coaches while keeping an eye focused on the project’s bottom line. In this seminar, you will…
Greg Hutchins, P.E., is a Principal with Quality Plus Engineering and Working It, LLC, based in Portland, OR. He is the author of more than a dozen books on process management and project management. A for-mer work/career columnist for The Oregonian, he is presently the work/career columnist for IEEE, PMI, ASQ, and others. Marjorie Paladeni is a Career Development Specialist with Working It, LLC. She specializes in coaching engi-neering and information technology professionals in life, career, and work success strategies. [ Back to the top ]
Seminar II Wednesday, October 10
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Fee: $245M / $295NM This seminar provides in-depth coverage of tree root damage to buildings based on a comprehensive survey of many buildings conducted in the United Kingdom. The information is illustrated by case histories. These topics are addressed: the tree root system; soil; interaction between trees and buildings; strategy for investigating damage; monitoring building movement; remedial action after damage; prediction and prevention of damage; and roles for the professions. This seminar will help you to…
P. Giles Biddle, OBE, Ph.D., is President of P.G. Biddle Consultancy Services. The majority of his work over the past 25 years has concentrated on tree root damage and he is the author of Tree Root Damage to Buildings. He is a member of the Institution of Structural Engineers Task Group revising its report on subsidence of low-rise buildings. His research provided the basis for reappraising site investigation methods and developing practical techniques to make decisions on prevention of subsidence damage and remedial action, with emphasis on the arboricultural options available. [ Back to the top ]
Seminar III Wednesday, October 10
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Fee: $245M / $295NM With passage of amendments to the federal Clean Water Act in 1987, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was required to implement a program to regulate the discharge of storm water from industrial and construction sites under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Large and medium municipalities were also required to obtain permits for their storm water discharge. EPA has continued to revise and develop the permit program by issuing subsequent regulations addressing small municipalities and construction sites. This seminar provides practical measures for complying with EPA’s most recent requirements for storm water discharge permits for industrial and construction activities and municipalities. State and regional concerns are also addressed. Among its benefits, this seminar will help you…
Roy D. Dodson, P.E., is President and Founder of Dodson & Associates, Inc., Houston, TX. Dodson has extensive experience in the design and permitting of industrial sites, land development projects, public works, and municipal, industrial, and hazardous waste disposal facilities. He has been involved in the permitting of more than 100 industrial sites under the NPDES storm water permit program and is the author of the McGraw-Hill textbook, Storm Water Pollution Control Municipal, Industrial, and Construction NPDES Compliance. Craig T. Maske, P.E., is Project Manager with Dodson & Associates, Inc. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, Missouri, and Illinois, and is a Nationally Certified Floodplain Manager. Maske has more than 10 years of experience in the permitting and development of industrial, municipal, and private construction projects; preparation and review of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs) for construction sites, municipalities, and industrial sites; and storm water sampling requirements for NPDES permits. [ Back to the top ]
Seminar IV Wednesday, October 108:30 AM - 4:30 PM (Part I) Thursday, October 11 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Part II) Writing Professional and Technical Communications: Proposals, Reports, and Letters That Work Fee: $295M / $345NM Did your last proposal flop? Are your reports too voluminous? Do your letters draw no response? Are your written technical explanations too complex? Through this practical workshop, you will improve your ability to organize, research, and construct written communications. You will learn from lecture, discussion, and actual practice how to apply the principles of efficient communication to your written documents immediately. You must bring a project to the seminar (report, proposal, paper, article, etc.) to develop as a course vehicle. This workshop will benefit all Civil Engineers who must write to keep their jobs. Attending this seminar will help you…
M.D. Morris, P.E., F.ASCE, Ithaca, NY, has taught 685 writing courses successfully to 15,000 working professionals over the past 36 years. He is author of four books and editor of 102, in addition to having published 600 other written works. A graduate of Cornell University, Morris is the founding editor of the ASCE Construction Division Journal, was the Construction Writers Association 1997 Man-of-the-Year, and is an active member of the Overseas Press Club. In ASCE, he served as President of the Metropolitan Section, the Ithaca Section, the New York State Council, and as Chairman of the Construction Division. Morris is also the recipient of the 2001 Peurifoy Construction Research Award. [ Back to the top ]
Seminar V Wednesday, October 10
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Fee: $145M / $195NM Learn the new rules for career success! Managing your career through project success is one of the hottest career ideas today. We’ve entered the era of self-management and self-employability. In other words, YOU are responsible for your career. What matters most is your knowledge and how you apply it to solve specific business problems and manage projects. This workshop introduces you to today’s leading ideas on career development. Learn what organizations really want from engineers. Discover your value proposition and how to develop additional core competencies. Conduct a career / work gap analysis. Learn how to align yourself with your organization’s strategic direction. Determine your own competency “career path” in your company. Learn how to enlist your boss’s support for your career development. Through participation, you will…
Greg Hutchins, P.E. & Marjorie Paladeni [ Back to the top ]
Seminar VI Thursday, October 11
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Fee: $245M / $295NM Is your job security fading? Is the corporate bureaucracy getting you down? Are you increasingly concerned about how much you work and how little you earn? Are you stagnating intellectually and/or emotionally? Do you want autonomy? Do you increasingly think, “I can do it better!”? Then maybe now is the time for you to go out on your own to start an individual practitioner consulting business that builds on your experience and vision. For engineers and other technical professionals who are on the fence, this seminar will help you make a decision and, if it is a go, help you get started. If you recently went into business for yourself, the practical advice in this seminar will help you save or grow your new business. Seminar participants will receive Flying Solo: How to Start an Individual Practitioner Consulting Business. This seminar will enable you to…
Stuart Walesh, Ph.D., P.E., Valparaiso, IN, has more than 30 years of engineering and management experience, including experience as an individual practitioner. Employers have included regional and national consulting firms and government entities. Walesh has functioned as a project manager, department head, discipline manager, marketer, professor, and dean of an engineering college. He served as project manager on many and varied projects ranging from small, focused studies to large, interdisciplinary, multi-office, multi-organizational efforts. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications and presentations in the areas of engineering and management practice and education. During the last two decades, Walesh has led or facilitated some 120 seminars, workshops, and meetings throughout the country. [ Back to the top ]
Seminar VII Friday, October 12
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Fee: $245M / $295NM One of the most exciting things in the world is to learn how to communicate effectively on an interpersonal basis. What most people don’t realize is that all of our behaviors, not just our speaking and listening, communicate something. Therefore, everything we do and say influences our relationships with others and drives them towards or away from the desired reaction that we want from them. This seminar focuses on the specific techniques and behaviors that make engineers and managers more effective in relationships with others including clients and project team members. These skills can build confidence to achieve a higher level of success regardless of current role or responsibility. This seminar will give you the ability to…
Gary D. Bates, P.E., F.ASCE, partner in the management consulting firm of Roenker Bates Group, Cincinnati, OH, specializes in the techniques of “effective management through positive communication” and “systems for continuous improvement.” Bates has nearly three decades of experience in the management of organizations and design and construction projects valued over $1 billion for domestic and international markets. This includes the general management of a five-office, 700-employee architectural/engineering operation and development of a new engineering market in Europe and Africa. In the last 11 years, he has been involved in consultation, facilitation, and training programs for numerous organizations. He is known nationally for his expertise in partnering, team-building, and effective communication. He is Editor-Emeritus of ASCE’s Journal of Management in Engineering and co-author of Win-Win Negotiating: A Professional’s Playbook. [ Back to the top ]
Seminar VIII Friday, October 12
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Fee: $245M / $295NM This informative seminar reviews the basic elements of Letters of Map Revisions (LOMRs), Conditional Letters of Map Revisions (CLOMRs), and Physical Map Revisions (PMRs). These are required for certain engineering projects in the 100-year floodplain or floodway as a condition of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This seminar covers: definitions; amendments versus revisions and when each is required; LOMRs, CLOMRs, and PMRs; use of FEMA’s MT-2 forms; length of time to process a LOMR, CLOMR, or PMR; fees for submission to FEMA; key contacts; and relevant web pages. Participants will receive a notebook of relevant information, including checklists, forms, and regulations. This seminar will benefit you by helping you to…
Gary Guhl, P.E., is the Lead Technical Professional for Floodplain Hydrology and Hydraulics in PBS&J’s Flood Map Production Coordination Contract (FMPCC) with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Regions 5, 6, and 7. Guhl has more than 28 years of experience in surface water hydrology and riverine hydraulics, drainage design, floodplain management, and sediment and erosion control. This experience encompasses a broad range of practices including: planning, analysis, design, and permitting of unique solutions involving water resources problems and issues. As Lead Technical Professional, Guhl oversees the engineering aspects of PBS&J’s FEMA FMPCC services group. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in eight states and a Certified Floodplain Manager. The firm is based in Beltsville, MD. P. Michael DePue II, P.E., Program Manager with PBS&J, is responsible for management of all PBS&J FEMA MCC activities in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. DePue specializes in one- and two-dimensional modeling for riverine and coastal flood and scour studies. His experience includes the use of: HEC-1, HEC-2, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS, UNET, ADICPR, RMA-2, FESWMS, SWMM, and XP-SWMM. He also has extensive experience in the design of stormwater systems for highway and land development projects. He is the co-author of five papers on open-channel modeling and was an instructor for ASCE’s Computer-Aided Hydrology and Hydraulics seminar. [ Back to the top ]
Special Education Seminars Saturday, October 134:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sunday, October 14 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM ExCEEd Student / Educator / Practitioner Teaching & Learning Seminar This seminar, sponsored by Project ExCEEd, introduces participants to the fundamentals of effective teaching and provides a suite of practical tools to improve teaching effectiveness. The program covers principles of effective teaching, student learning styles, writing and using lesson objectives, organizing classroom instruction, and interacting with students. The seminar also includes a demonstration class in which various techniques presented in the seminar are modeled in the context of an actual engineering class, with participants role-playing as undergraduate students. Seminar instructors draw on extensive experience in teacher training that includes service as program coordinators for week-long ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshops that have been offered annually at the U. S. Military Academy and University of Arkansas since 1999. Who Should Attend?
Incl. Sunday Continental Breakfast Session Instructors:
Sunday, October 14
8:00 AM - 12 Noon
Current and prospective engineering technology
accreditation program evaluators, engineering
technology educators and practitioners, and interested
ASCE members are encouraged to attend
this training session. Criteria and procedures for
accrediting both two-year and baccalaureatelevel
civil, construction, and architectural engineering
technology programs will be reviewed, along with
the program evaluator’s duties prior to, during,
and following campus visits. This session is open
to individuals and institutions interested in learning
more about accreditation. Sunday, October 14
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Training to prepare current and prospective program
evaluators for EC2000 procedures! In addition
to EC2000 criteria, presenters will focus on
the accreditation process, including evaluator
pre-visit activities, input/resources available to
evaluators, evaluator responsibilities, campus visit
activities, possible accreditation actions, new
language and actions, and post-visit activities.
Sponsored by ASCE’s Committee on Curricula
and Accreditation (CC&A). Session Instructors: H. Chik Erurumlu, Ph.D., P.E. J. Phil Smith, P.E. Saturday, October 13
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Join practitioners, students, and educators, in addition to the National Education Activities Committee, in recognizing outstanding education leaders, students, and papers. John H. Lienhard, Ph.D., ASME award-winning creator and host of Engines of Our Ingenuity, which is designed to boost public understanding of technology and heard nationally on Public Radio, will share innovative material from his more than 1,650 segments. His book, Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture, is now available through Oxford University Press. Tickets: $30 Moderators:
Michael Lacy, P.E., M.ASCE
Donn Hancher, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE Presenter:
M.D. Anderson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and History, University of Houston, Houston, TX Jane Marcet & Early 19th Century Technical Education Sponsored by Halff Associates, Inc. Please note that all full-day seminars will have a one-hour lunch break from 12 Noon to 1:00 PM.
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