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The National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) is pleased to publish the 2021 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards winners. The awards were announced during NCSEA’s 29th Structural Engineering Summit, held February 14-17, 2022, at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. A video of the presentation can be found on the NCSEA website. Given annually since 1998, each year the entries highlight work from the best and brightest in our profession.
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The NCSEA Diversity in Structural Engineering Scholarship was established by the NCSEA Foundation to award students who have been traditionally underrepresented in structural engineering (including but not limited to Black/African Americans, Native/Indigenous Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and other people of color). In 2021, four amazing students with bright futures in structural engineering received scholarships, and yet, there were many more deserving students that did not receive support.
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With 42% of bridges in the United States being over 50 years old and 7.5% of them labeled structurally deficient, it is time that scholars and practitioners take stock of the most recent developments in the fields of bridge asset management and maintenance, as a first step to improving America’s bridges. ASCE’s Special Collection brings together recent research on a number of key issues in these fields – such as bridge testing and inspection, climate change, and life cycle management – to help engineers and decision-makers make bridges safer. This collection is curated by Dan M. Frangopol, Dist.M.ASCE, Lehigh University, and Sriram Narasimhan, Ph.D., P.Eng (Ontario), M.ASCE, University of California, Los Angeles. Access at https://ascelibrary.org/bridge_asset_management.
The bipartisan bill seeks to preserve development of codes and standards that promote community resilience, advance sustainability and protect public safety
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Creative Solutions for a National Historic Landmark
Nestled between university housing and hospitals in Madison, WI, is a building that, even among equals, distinguishes itself as a monument to architecture. A National Historic Landmark, the First Unitarian Society Meeting House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1951. The building’s auditorium is supported by center-hinged wood trusses spanning up to 76 feet near the entrance, down to 12 feet at the building’s iconic prow. Trusses bear on stone piers and walls. Wright restricted himself to using 2×4s and occasionally 2×6s. The contractor later commented that Wright wanted to “build that church with toothpicks,” a statement that would become apparent over the next 60 years.
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NCSEA is seeking abstracts for the 2022 Structural Engineering Summit, scheduled for November 2-4 in Chicago, Illinois. Sessions will be 45-60 minutes total and should deliver pertinent and useful information that is specific to the practicing structural engineer, in both technical and non-technical tracks. Potential submission topics include:
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Keynote Speakers
The Opening Keynote Lauren Gardner led the team that developed an online interactive COVID-19 dashboard, first released publicly on January 22, 2020, hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. She will speak about the evolution of the dashboard, the challenges it faced, and how the data has been used to build prediction models and improve the general understanding of COVID-19.
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