Please join the St. Louis Section for our November...

November 2010

Please join the St. Louis Section for our

November Luncheon Meeting

Speaker: Craig J. Giesmann, P.E., P.M.P.

Location: The Engineers’ Club of St. Louis, 4359 Lindell Blvd.

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 9

11:30 Registration / 12:00 Lunch

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

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

November 5th: 314-533-9333, or fax: 314-533-9336, or email:

[email protected]. ASCE is charged for all reserved lunches. If you’ve signed

up and can’t make, please cancel with Kurt by Friday before the meeting or we will have to

charge you for the meal. 1/2 PDH will be awarded to attendees.

Topic: Taum Sauk Upper Reservoir Rebuild On December 14, 2005, a 700 foot section of the rockfill dam surrounding the Taum Sauk Upper Reservoir failed releasing 1.4 billion gallons of water down the Proffit Mountian, into the Black River and Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park. This massive release of water stripped the earth of all vegetation, leaving in its wake a barren path of rock. Shortly thereafter, AmerenUE began an investigation into the cause of the failure, as well as initiated plans for rebuilding the reservoir. Construction began in the fall of 2007 and was completed in late 2009. This presentation will discuss the event and eventual construction of the largest Roller Compacted Concrete Dam in the United

States. About the Speaker: Craig Giesmann, P.E., P.M.P., received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil/Structural Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He is a

licensed professional engineer, and has also attained the Project Management Professional (P.M.P.) credential from the Project Management Institute. He has been involved with and led many large scale multi-million dollar projects during his career, and was the Project Manager for AmerenUE during the Taum Sauk Rebuild Project.

Presently, Mr. Giesmann is the Managing Supervisor of Hydro Engineering at AmerenUE.

November 2010

St. Louis Section Officers & Directors 2010-2011 President Adam Spector St. Louis County Highways & Traffic

121 S. Meramec Ave. St. Louis, MO 63105 Phone: (314) 615-8594 Fax: (314) 615-8156 E-Mail: [email protected] President-Elect Elise Ibendahl CH2M-Hill 1034 S. Brentwood Blvd Suite 2300 St. Louis, Missouri 63117 Phone: (314) 335-3022 Fax: (314) 421-3927 E-mail: [email protected] Vice President Steve Randolph Horner & Shifrin, Inc. 5200 Oakland Ave. St. Louis, Missouri 63110 Phone: (314) 531-4321 Fax: (314) 531-6966 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary Marc Bacchetti David Mason & Associates 800 S. Vandeventer St. Louis, Missouri 63110 Phone: (314) 534-1030 Fax (314) 534-1053

[email protected] Treasurer Shawnna Erter

SCI Engineering Inc 130 Point West Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63301 Phone: 636 949 8269 Fax: 636 447 4181 E-mail: [email protected] Director of Administration

Matt Harper Director of Professional Development

Mike Buechter Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District 2350 Market Street St. Louis, MO 63103 Phone: 314-768-2772 Fax: 314-768-6342 E-mail: [email protected] Director of Technical Development Lyle Simonton Past President Nielsen R. Palmer Nielsen Engineering, LLC 7338 Pershing Ave. St. Louis, Missouri 63130 Phone: (314) 727-6484 E-mail: [email protected]

June 8 — June Luncheon June 25 — 2010 Royals Night Fundraiser July 12-14 — 2010 Missouri River-Texoma Regional and Midwest Levee Conference October 20-22 — Hoover Dam 75th Anniversary Celebration

Calendar of Events

On October 14, I had the privilege of moderating the first St. Louis Infrastructure Symposium at St. Louis University. While this was a joint event between the St. Louis Section and SLU, I have to give credit to the university staff for having done a lot of the work. The new Civil Engineering program there is full of enthusiasm and I am excited to welcome them into the

Section. The format of the event included a panel of speakers representing MSD, the Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri American Water, MoDOT, and the St. Louis Area Earthquake Hazards Mapping Project. Each presenter gave a brief overview of their needs and funding situation. After the presentations, the audience had an opportunity to vote on to who they would each give one dollar. The program ended with a question and

answer session for the panel. The audience members were largely practicing engineers in the area. What was unique about this particular presentation was that it gave a view of a cross-section of our industry. Oftentimes, we attend various

presentations and hear how the agencies that serve our particular area of practice are faring. This was an opportunity to hear from agencies that we may not all follow on a regular

basis. Hearing about sanitary and storm sewer systems, transportation systems, levees, water delivery systems, and seismic hazards made me realize that I am as guilty as the rest of the public when it comes to “out of sight, out of mind.” I practice in transportation, so I know how things are going there, but I don’t regularly experience issues with my water at home. So while I know there are issues, I have to admit I

haven’t been thinking about them. I’d like to think I’m not the only professional who focuses on one aspect of civil engineering to the point of becoming passive toward other areas. In the end, I don’t think that’s a problem, we all have our specialties and we are all aware of each other. What really matters is what we do

about the state of things. Realizing what I’ve been taking for granted reminds me that I need to make sure I do better at making other people see these things. We all need to be better about it. If someone in the industry can take part of our infrastructure for granted, think how much people outside of the industry

are missing.

Most people only think about engineers when things go wrong – when a pipe bursts, when a bridge collapses, when a levee breaks. The general public is most conscious of us when we fail. The rest of the time, we may be seen as overpaid civil servants. We need to make sure that infrastructure stays in the public discourse so we can avoid these

breakdowns. The upcoming elections provide an opportunity to bring infrastructure funding to the forefront of politics. We need to ask candidates questions on where they stand when it comes to issues relating to infrastructure. When pollsters ask about our priorities, we need to tell them infrastructure is important to us. When candidates come to our doors, we need to ask how they plan to help restore our infrastructure. Only if we increase awareness amongst politicians and the general public will the issue of infrastructure make it to the forefront of American discourse. We must take responsibility not only for the design and maintenance of our infrastructure, but also the discussion of our

infrastructure. Respectfully, Adam Spector, P.E., M.ASCE

President’s Message By Adam Spector

November 5 — AAEE - Kappe Lecture Series - Development of a Carbon Footprint Model for Landfill Disposal of Solid Waste November 6 — ASCE Younger Members Presents—Trivia Night December 7-8 — 53rd Annual Missouri S & T Asphalt Conference March 24-25 — Introduction to Dam and Levee Safety, Evaluation and Rehabilitation

Calendar of Events

St. Louis Section Award Winners

Government Relations

Would you like to become an ASCE key contact? It’s a great way to get informed on bills standing before Congress that could impact our profession. It’s also an easy way to send e-mails to your representative and senators. And you won’t be inundated with e-mails. You receive a once-a-month update on key issues plus occasional alerts on bills that need your influence. You can sign up for the key contact program at http://www.asce.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?

Lunch Discount

Supporting student activities has long been a priority of the St. Louis Section. Currently, there are four Student Chapters in the Section: Missouri University of Science and Technology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and University of Missouri. Additionally, St. Louis University has recently formed a Civil Engineering Club with the intent of becoming an ASCE Student Chapter. The Executive Board has voted to sponsor the club for membership in ASCE. In order to offer full support to all five student groups, the Section provides Practitioner Advisors to assist. Practitioner Advisors are asked to attend a minimum of one student event per semester, to keep in regular contact with student officers, and to report back to the Section on student activities. Other duties may vary depending on the needs of the students, but typically involve helping to find speakers for student meetings. If you are interested in becoming a Practitioner Advisor to one of the student organizations, please contact Adam Spector, [email protected] or (314) 615-8594.

Economically, times are tough in the engineering world. Many civil engineers have lost their jobs over the past few years and many organizations have frozen hiring to balance their budgets. ASCE recognizes these realities and has created the Survive and Thrive section of the website (http://www.asce.org/Content.aspx?id=2147484170) to assist members in positioning themselves to take advantage of scarce opportunities in the current job market. Programs are available through National to assist with payment of dues. Locally, the St. Louis Section Executive Board acknowledges that our monthly lunch programs are a valuable networking opportunity. At our last Board meeting, we voted to temporarily offer our student rate of $5 for these lunches to Section members who are currently unemployed. Please mention your situation when you RSVP for the lunch to take advantage of this offer.

St. Louis Section Award Winners

St. Louis Section Award Winners (Continued)

Supplemental

Saint Louis University Re-starts its Civil Engineering Program!

Dean Manoj Patankar announced in a presentation to the Saint Louis Section of ASCE that Saint Louis University will resume its Civil Engineering program after almost a 35-year hiatus! The idea of restarting the CE program came as a culmination of interests and support from multiple constituencies—first, the Institute of Technology alumni who really wanted to see their beloved CE program back on campus, second, the local CE community who wanted a hands-on engineering program that catered to the local job market, and third, the new student enquiries. “There is a lot of excitement about this new program—administration, faculty, students, alumni, and industry friends—everyone is working hard to see this program succeed. It’s not very often that we get to start a new program like this,” said Dean Patankar. Together, it seems like the time is right for a new

CE program for the St. Louis metro region. Of course, the St. Louis Section of the ASCE is delighted to support this program and has already begun discussions related to a student chapter of the ASCE as well as internships at local companies, and adjunct faculty appointments. In discussing the distinguishing characteristics of the new program, Dean Patankar said that the program would focus on building two specialties—transportation and green/smart structures. The transportation track would leverage the legendary strength of aerospace engineering and aviation programs at Saint Louis University. The green/smart structures track would engage other academic departments across the campus, including electrical and computer engineering (embedded sensor

systems), environmental sciences, and urban planning. The new CE program starts in fall 2009. In the first two years, most of the courses will be shared with the mechanical engineering program. The University plans to hire a dynamic new department chair to lead this program. As the program matures, the University will add faculty. So, whether you are interested in teaching (part-time or fulltime), providing an internship, or making a donation to start a scholarship, contact the Dean’s Office at 314-977-8203. Of course, if you have a youngster interested in exploring a career in Civil Engineering, feel free to visit the campus! Additional information is available online at http://www.slu.edu/x27770.xml

Supplemental

Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering

SIU Carbondale SIUC Effective Spring 2010, practicing engineers or fresh graduates interested in obtaining a non-research based Master’s degree now have an option to join Master of Engineering (ME) in Civil Engineering Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The ME

in Civil Engineering is a non-thesis, course only, professional degree designed to provide advanced technical knowledge for professional practice and permits engineers to complete an advanced degree in one year (12 credit hours Fall, 12 credit hours Spring, 6 credit hours Summer). The program provides advanced study in the areas of structural engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering,

and water resources engineering. For graduation, ME students are required to complete thirty semester hours including a 3 credit hour Civil Engineering Project. For more information, please contact Ms. Laura Anz in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at SIUC by calling (618) 536-2368 or via email at [email protected].

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) SIUE offers the M.S. degree in civil engineering and Ph.D. in engineering science in three focus areas: environmental, structural, and transportation engineering. The programs are designed to meet the

educational needs of working engineers as well as traditional students who are interested in focused, advanced study in civil engineering to enhance their opportunities for professional advancement. Our full-time faculty are supplemented as needed with practicing professional engineers to offer courses that are primarily

scheduled in the late afternoon and evening to accommodate working professionals. For further information, please visit us online at http://www.siue.edu/engineering/civilengineering/graduate/ or contact the Department of Civil Engineering office at (618) 650-2533.

Master of Science in Civil Engineering and Cooperative Ph.D. in Engineering Science

MS&T— Hydraulics of Open Channels (CE-331)

Location: To Be Determined Date/Time: Meets Wednesdays 6:00 PM – 8:45 PM, Spring Semester begins January 12 2011 Instructor: Gary T Moore MS, P.E. This course is intended to provide graduate students an opportunity to study the fundamental principles of the flow of water in open channels. The student will explore the phenomena of uniform and varied flow, critical flow conditions, backwater curves, hydraulic jump, and applications studied and applied in detail. Latter part of the course is designed to apply open channel hydraulic principals natural and man made channels with and without floodplains. Both hand calculations and computer methods will be utilized to compute water surface profiles for open channel designs or examples. The student, as part of the course, will be responsible for the open channel

hydraulic design of a man made or natural channel or facility. In addition, it is anticipated that guest speakers may present/discuss floodplain management and regulations and open channel hydraulic analysis of floods similar to a case study presentation. This class will also involve one or two class periods in the field to determine manning’s roughness values for a natural channel and floodplain and other data gathering for use in the students HEC-RAS model for a selected creek in St Louis County. On completion of the course, students should be able to understand and determine the open channel hydraulic phenomena and applying the hydraulic principals to the design of man made channels or analysis of existing channels and floodplains. The students should also be able to apply various evaluation techniques to solve hydraulic impacts of open channels and floodplains to facilities or adjacent land forms. Students will present their final

design/analysis of an open channel system in a professional setting. Computer applications will employ the use of modeling utilizing HEC-RAS for steady flow and unsteady flow water surface computations. The effects of various obstructions such as bridges, culverts, weirs, and other structures in the floodplain will be considered in the computations. Spreadsheet or hand computations will be performed for water surface profiles based on project or problem features. Prerequisite: Cv Eng 230 with a grade of "C" or better. For further information regarding enrolling in this or any other graduate courses at the MS&T Engineering Education Center at UMSL, visit MS&T's website at www.eec.mst.edu.

Call (314) 516-5431 or mailto:[email protected] for more information

UM-Rolla Engineering Education

Center in St. Louis The Missouri University of Science and Technology-Engineering Education Center in St. Louis offers M.S. degrees in Aerospace, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Environmental and

Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management, Engineering Mechanics and new Internet based M.S. and M.Eng. Degrees in Manufacturing Engineering to working engineers. The Center started its operations in 1964. Over 2,500 engineers used this excellent opportunity to enhance their

knowledge and status. All classes are offered in the evening. 10 classes are needed to acquire a M.S. degree that will affect your entire professional life. For more information, call (314) 516-5431 or visit the MST website: www.eec.mst.edu.

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

Younger Member Newsletter (National ASCE) — Spring Issue

The Committee on Younger Members is pleased to provide this issue which may be accessed at http://www.asce.org/files/pdf/inside/Issue66.pdf

If you should experience any problems accessing the newsletter, please feel free to contact Nancy Berson at [email protected] or at 703-295-6010.

Membership Register

You can use this link to ASCE National’s website to search for St. Louis Section members in the national database: http://www.asce.org/membersonly/directory/index.cfm

ASCE Newsletter via E-mail and Postal Delivery:

ASCE National keeps a central database that holds all ASCE members’ individual information. This database is downloaded by the St. Louis Section on the first of every month for Section use. This provides the Section with both mailing and e-mail addresses AS THEY ARE SHOWN ON YOUR NATIONAL RECORDS. Therefore, if you need to update these addresses regarding your receipt of the newsletter, please do so at the National level (www.asce.org) so we will be for-warded the updated information.

Email is the most efficient and cost effective means of delivering the newsletter. However, as a service to our members, paper copies will be mailed to any St. Louis Section paid member who prefers postal delivery. If you would prefer a paper copy, please contact Troy Turner at the address below.

News Items

Please try to get all announcements for placement in the newsletter to the Newsletter Editor by the 15th of the month prior to publication. Items may be sent (e-mail preferred) to: Troy Turner, EIT, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, 2350 Market Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63103, (314) 335-2086 Fax (314)768-6341, [email protected] Most news items will be available on the Section’s Web Page, which can be reached via the link on ASCE National Website (www.asce.org). Click on “Geographical and International Units” to link to the Section or go directly to our page at: http://sections.asce.org/stlouis/index.html. The Web Page Editor is Jeff Smith e-mail: [email protected] or via feedback di-rectly from our website.

Make sure you keep your register information up-to-date by contacting the National

ASCE at http://www.asce.org or call 800-548-ASCE (2723)!!

Job Posting

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of professional technical services.

Immediate professional opportunities exist in our St. Louis office:

Central Rail Leader (IRC27549) BS or MS related required and PE preferred. Minimum 20 years experience required on large railway and transit programs. Minimum 10 years management experience required. Existing professional relationships with Midwest rail and transit au-

thorities strongly preferred.

Transportation Senior Project Manager (IRC27547) BS or MS related required. PE required. Minimum 15 years highway engineering with progressive project management ex-

perience is required. Strong working relationships with IDOT and ISTHA required. Design/Build experience is a plus.

Senior Aviation Engineer/Project Manager (IRC26302) BS or MS related required. PE required. Minimum 15 years related aviation related design and/or project management ex-

perience required. Knowledge of FAA standards required. Current contact with potential clients in Midwest region a plus.

Additional opportunities available for the following disciplines: Water/Wastewater, Geotechnical, Structural, and Transpor-

tation.

For immediate confidential consideration, please apply on line to: www.jacobs.com/careers then select “Apply for a Job”, then select “North America”, then select “United States”, then type in the requisition number above in the keyword search field. Jacobs is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. For

further information you may email [email protected]

For details & updates see our Web Page: http://sections.asce.org/stlouis/index.html This newsletter will be sent to all Section members via e-mail.

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