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Younger Member Forum
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 On Saturday, October 13th, a group of eleven younger members from the ASCE Met Section helped out at New York Cares Fall Day. The event was organized by New York Cares, a volunteer organization. It is one of their largest annual events to help revitalize public schools in New York City. Thousands of volunteers help out each year at schools throughout the city. The YMF group helped paint three murals at the Brooklyn International High School. It was great to be involved with such a huge effort across the city.
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Geotechnical Group
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 On November 13, 2012, Dr. Christos Vrettos delivered the 22nd Annual Mueser Rutledge Technical Lecture on "Protection of Foundations from Construction and Traffic Vibrations" at the CUNY Graduate Center Recital Hall.
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Geotechnical Group
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 Dr. Paul Mayne, P.E. delivered the Met Section Geo-Institute Lecture on the topic of "Geotechnical Site Exploration and GeoEngineering Education Issues in 2012 and Beyond" at the CUNY Graduate Center Recital Hall on October 15, 2012.
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Met Section
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 By Stefan Jaeger, Author of The Jackhammer Elegies
If you try to count the number of movies that have an engineer as a major character, you probably won't get off the fingers of one hand. I know of Arlington Road (the engineer, played by Tim Robbins, is a terrorist), Falling Down (the engineer, Michael Douglas, goes berserk), and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (the cover profession of the assassin, Brad Pitt, is an engineer), just to name a few. The problem with these is that the silver screen engineer hardly fits the bill as someone you'd want to invite home for dinner.
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Infrastructure Group
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 In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the ASCE Library has made available, free of charge, some selected papers on hurricane storm surge and its effect on infrastructure, modeling and research, and lessons learned from previous storms.
These documents include Storm Surge Barriers to Protect New York City, a collection of 16 papers published by ASCE National into a book (cover shown on right) from the 2009 ASCE Met Section seminar held in Brooklyn, NY sponsored by the Infrastructure Group, Environmental Sciences Section of the New York Academy of Sciences and NYU-Poly Department of Civil Engineering.
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Met Section
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This past summer, the ASCE Met Section Hospitality Committee was approached by Kristian Ivsett Johnsen of Tekna, a Norwegian engineering firm, who was organizing a visit in October 2012 to New York City for a group of about 40 structural engineers from Norway and Sweden.
In this occasion, the group had already planned a number of lectures and visits arranged through New York-based construction firms, and the Met Section only arranged a delivery of the Guide to Civil Engineering Projects In and Around New York City, and a brief list of notable New York City buildings built during the last five years, that they could use as a group or individually for a self-guided tour. Both were very much appreciated.
Maria Grazia Bruschi
Chair, Hospitality Committee
ASCE Metropolitan Section
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