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Met Section
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The ASCE Met Section held its annual dinner dance and awards presentation at Tavern on the Green in New York City on June 19th, 2008. The event included a cocktail hour, awards ceremony, recognition of officers, directors, technical group and committee chairs from the past year, and installation of the 2009-10 officers and directors. The evening concluded with music and dancing.
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History & Heritage Committee
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The Metropolitan Section has been selected as a 2009 recipient of a History and Heritage Citation. The citation is given by ASCE's History and Heritage Committee and recognizes the role Sections and Branches play in promoting civil engineering history to the public and preserving the history of the field. The Met Section was recognized for its outreach activities over the course of the year, especially during the 125th anniversary celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Met Section
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The Metropolitan Section has endorsed Moustafa Gouda as the official nominee to serve as President-Elect for the term commencing in October 2009. The nomination was approved by the Met Section’s Board of Directors at the Board meeting held on April 15, 2009. A copy of the  endorsement letter is available on the Met Section website. You can find out more about the upcoming election by visiting the 2010 election page on the ASCE website.
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Met Section
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The first issue of the Metropolitan Section newsletter was published in October 1953, in which John P. Riley called the new publication in his President's Message "a milestone in the continuing progress of the Section." Up until a few years ago, monthly mailings of the Met Section newsletter continued to serve as the primary means in which ASCE members where informed about upcoming events in the New York City metropolitan area and other Section news and activities.
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Met Section
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ASCE President-Elect Blaine Leonard, P.E., F.ASCE visited the Met Section on May 13, 2009. A luncheon was held at AJ Maxwell's Steakhouse in Manhattan during which current Met Section officers, chairs of technical groups and committees, and past presidents officially welcomed the president-elect to the New York City area and discussed ideas for organizing ASCE activities on a local level.
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History & Heritage Committee
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In October 2008, the Met Section submitted nominations for the Manhattan, Queensboro, and Williamsburg Bridges to ASCE's History and Heritage Committee (HHC) for National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (NHCEL) status. The nomination packages included published papers, articles, and reports about the bridges and their designers. The HHC voted to recommend each of the bridges for designation as a NHCEL, which were formally approved by the ASCE Board of Direction on April 24, 2009. The Queensboro and Manhattan Bridges are both celebrating their 100th anniversaries in 2009.
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