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May 2010 Newsletter

The May 2010 newsletter is now available for download.

Motorcycle Tour

Date & Time: 
Fri, 06/25/2010 - 12:00pm
Location: 
Start at 6830 Perimeter Loop Road Dublin, OH 43017

ASCE is offering a motorcycle tour for non-golfers in coordination with the ASCE golf outing on June 25. The cost will be $35 for dinner at the Darby Creek Golf Course, located between Plain City and Marysville. We typically start the ride from the McDonalds at Rt. 161 and Avery-Muirfield Dr. in Dublin at about noon, and finish at the golf course between 4 and 5 pm, taking back roads to the northwest of Columbus, with a stop at some notable (or not so notable) site in that area.

14th Annual ASCE Golf Outing

Date & Time: 
Fri, 06/25/2010 - 11:00am
Location: 
Darby Creek Golf Course, 19300 Orchard Road, Marysville, Ohio 43040

14th Annual ASCE Golf Outing June 25th!!

Don’t forget to signup for the 14th annual ASCE Central Ohio Section Golf Outing to be held June 25th, 11:00a.m. at Darby Creek Golf Course. The format is the ever popular 2 person mixed format. For $65, the same price for the past 5 years, you get greens fees, cart, driving range, drink tickets, lunch, steak and chicken dinner, beverages, tons of hole and place prizes and lots of “those” pies at the end.

June Planning Meeting

Date & Time: 
Wed, 06/16/2010 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Tommy’s Pizza, 4273 West Dublin-Grandville Road, Dublin, Ohio

The ASCE June Planning Meeting will be held on Wednesday June 16th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Tommy’s Pizza in Dublin. The Planning Meeting will help us generate topics of discussion throughout the year at the monthly lunch meetings.

Please send an email to Mike Mazzoli (mike.mazzoli@psiusa.com) by Thursday June 10th if you will be attending.

Invitation to Join Order of the Engineer

The Order of the Engineer is an organization created to foster a spirit of pride and responsibility in the engineering profession.

www.order-of-the-engineer.org

The Order is not a membership organization; there are never any meetings to attend or dues to pay. Instead, the Order fosters a unity of purpose and the honoring of one's pledge lifelong to "Upholding Devotion to the Standards and Dignity of the Engineering profession." Members accepting the obligation often wear a stainless steel ring on the small finger of their working hand.

Younger Members Social

Date & Time: 
Wed, 05/19/2010 - 6:00pm
Location: 
Varsity Club, OSU Campus 278 W Lane Ave Columbus, OH 43201

A social event with the ASCE National President-Elect will be held at the Varsity Club on Wednesday May 19, 2010 from 6:00-8:00pm. The event will be similar to last year's event.

Pizza and drinks will be provided

No RSVP's needed

It will be held in the outdoor patio area, weather permitting.

May Awards Luncheon Meeting

Date & Time: 
Thu, 05/20/2010 - 11:30am
Location: 
Confluence Park Restaurant, 679 W. Spring St., Columbus, OH 43215
Kathy Caldwell, PE

Topic: MOVE: The Vision for Civil Engineering

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

Our special guest speaker is Kathy Caldwell, PE, who is the current ASCE National President-Elect. Ms. Caldwell is coming to us all the way from Florida, where she is president of Caldwell Cook and Associates and an adjunct professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Ms. Caldwell will begin her presidency in the fall of 2010.

Join us as President-Elect Caldwell presents her vision of the future of Civil Engineering.

Moving Ahead 2010: Sustainable Transportation Solutions for the 21st Century

Date & Time: 
Sun, 05/02/2010 - 12:00pm - Tue, 05/04/2010 - 2:30pm
Location: 
The Ohio Union Conference Center, 1739 N High St, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Is there a sustainable fuel alternative in our transportation future? If so, what will it look like and who will lead the way? Can alternative energy cars save the U.S. automotive industry? And what is "clean" energy and how should it best be used in our transportation systems?

Those and other questions will be discussed May 2-4 at "Moving Ahead 2010: Sustainable Transportation Solutions for the 21st Century."

http://www.movingahead2010.com/unite/

Ohio Engineers Legislative Day

Date & Time: 
Tue, 05/11/2010 - 8:00am
Location: 
The Capital Club, 41 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215

The Annual Ohio Engineers Legislative Day is on May 11, 2010

The Program includes:

  • 4 CPD Hours,
  • lunch,
  • Legislative Meetings

To find out more details about our program and speakers, look at the brochure, attached below.

To sign up for visits to your legislators' office call OSPE at 614-223-1144 or 1-800-654-9481(out of Columbus area).

Location: Capital Club, Columbus, Ohio

Contact: OSPE, 1-800-654-9481 (Ohio toll-free) or 614-223-1144

Central Ohio’s Geology in Core and Outcrop Workshop

Date & Time: 
Tue, 04/20/2010 - 9:00am
Location: 
Horace R. Collins Laboratory, 3307 South Old State Road, Delaware, Ohio 43015

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey and the Ohio Geological Society in cooperation with DLZ-Ohio, Inc., invite engineering and geoscience professionals to unravel the mysteries of the near-surface geology of central Ohio. Workshop attendees will earn professional development hours while learning about the diagnostic environmental and geologic characteristics; hydrogeologic properties; general engineering characteristics; potential environmental and geologic hazards; and economic uses for each mapped, geologic unit.