No
Section Meetings are scheduled until September 2008.
Check this page later this summer for details of the September Section Meeting.
Also be sure to look at the "Events Calendar" page to see other meetings coming up.
Thank you for
coming to the Section Meetings this past year and for making them some of
the most successful meetings that we've ever had.
We look forward to
seeing you in the fall.
| 2005/2006 Meetings | Description | Location |
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Tuesday September 21 |
Water Park of America | Water Park of
America Ramada Inn/Thunderbird |
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Tuesday October 18 |
The Yucca Mountain Project | Radisson Hotel Metrodome |
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Wednesday November 9 |
Proposed Hydro-Electric Project in Minneapolis | Centennial
Student Union Minnesota State University, Mankato |
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Tuesday December 13 |
The Future of Transportation in Minnesota | Fort Snelling Officer's Club |
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Thursday January 12 |
Sustainable Highways - Oxymoron or Opportunity? | Fort Snelling Officer's Club |
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Thursday February 16 |
Load Resistance Factor Design for Geotechnical Transportation Features | Continuing
Education & Conference Center U of M, St. Paul |
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Thursday March 16 |
Hurricane
Katrina/ New Orleans Reconstruction |
Joseph's Grill |
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Tuesday April 11 |
ASCE Annual
Awards Banquet ASCE National President Dennis Martenson |
Marriott, St. Louis Park |
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Thursday May 18 |
Spouse/Companion Event Mill City Museum Tour |
Mill City Museum/ Old Spaghetti Factory |
| 2004/2005 Meetings | Description | Location |
|
Tuesday September 21 |
Inside MAST... Dan Dorgan, State Bridge Engineer Catherine French, Professor, U of MN |
MAST Laboratory Radisson Hotel Metrodome |
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Tuesday October 12 |
You Want to
Move THAT Roof? An Overview of Operable Roof Stadiums Worldwide |
Radisson Hotel Metrodome |
|
Wednesday |
Green Infrastructure
Design Dr. Chris Hendrickson Professor and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering Carnegie Mellon University |
Holiday Inn Downtown Mankato |
|
Wednesday December 15 2/04 Newsletter |
Light Rail and Other
Mass Transit Issues Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin |
Fort Snelling Officer's Club |
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Thursday January 13 |
Transportation Planning Natalio Diaz |
Fort Snelling Officer's Club |
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Thursday February 24 |
"Big Dig" John T. Christian |
Continuing Education and Conference Center |
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Thursday March 24 |
Joint luncheon meeting with the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) | Awada's on Plato |
|
Tuesday April 26 |
Awards Banquet Dennis Martenson |
Holiday Inn
West St. Louis Park |
|
Friday June 3 5/05 Newsletter |
Stillwater
Bridge Richard Arnebeck, Mn/DOT |
St. Croix River Cruise out of Stillwater |
| 2003/2004 Meetings | Description | Location |
| Construction Tour of the Ford Bridge | Ford Bridge Minnehaha Park Pavilion |
|
| Structural
Engineering: A Lifetime Career in the Design of Architectural
Structures Leslie E. Robertson, Structural Engineer |
Radisson Metrodome Hotel | |
| Wind Energy
Issues Today and Tomorrow Michelle Bissonnette and Sarah Emery, HDR Engineering |
Old Main
Village Mankato |
|
|
Thursday |
FAST
Lanes: A New Approach to Transportation Funding for the 21st
Century The Honorable Mark Kennedy U.S. House of Representatives |
Tournament
Players Club of the Twin Cities Blaine |
|
Thursday |
I-394 HOT Lanes Ferrol Robinson, SRF Consulting Group |
Fort Snelling Officers Club |
|
Thursday |
Joint MGS/ASCE
meeting Three Lessons on Engineering Geology Dr. Richard E. Goodman University of California-Berkeley |
Earle Brown
Center U of M's St. Paul Campus |
| Joint SAME/ASCE
meeting Super Bowl and Other Special Event Traffic Control Paul Ridgeway, Ridgeway International |
Awadas on Plato St. Paul |
|
|
Tuesday |
ASCE President-Elect Bill Henry | Holiday Inn St. Louis Park |
|
Friday |
Men are from
Menard's, Women are from Nordstrom's Mr. Kit Welchlin |
Tournament
Players Club of the Twin Cities Blaine |
| 2002/2003 Meetings | Description | Location |
| Hiawatha Light Rail Transit Maintenance Shop Building | Hiawatha Avenue | |
| In conjunction with the Annual Water Resources Conference | Thunderbird Hotel | |
| A Tale of
Bridge Engineering and Public Process - or - The Unstoppable Force and
the Immovable Object Dr. John M. Kulicki, P.E.; Modjeski and Masters, Inc. |
Underwater
Adventures Mall of America |
|
|
Thursday |
Current State of Design-Build for Transportation in Minnesota - A Panel Discussion | Fort Snelling Officers Club |
|
Thursday |
Ted Mondale | Bloomington Knights of Columbus Hall |
|
Thursday |
Joint MGS/ASCE
meeting Dr. Richard Barker, Virginia Tech Topic: Bridge Aesthetics 101 |
Earle Brown
Center U of M's St. Paul Campus |
| Joint SAME/ASCE
meeting "Security at our Regional Nuclear Power Facilities" Mark Findlay, Ph.D. |
St. Paul College Club | |
|
Wednesday |
ASCE President-Elect Patricia Galloway | Holiday Inn St. Louis Park |
|
Tuesday |
William
Sutherland, PE "How to Talk Good... and Why" |
Fort Snelling Officers Club |
| 2001/2002 Meetings | Description | Location |
| "Coffman Memorial Union Renovation," Tom Wood, Construction Project Manager |
Tour: Coffman Memorial Union Dinner: Old Spaghetti Factory |
|
| In conjunction with the Annual Water Resources Conference | Thunderbird Hotel | |
| "Disaster Management in
Minnesota: The Role of the Civil Engineering Community-- A Panel Discussion Hosted by the Structural Committee |
Holiday Inn Metrodome | |
| Transportation Funding Needs for
the State of Minnesota Hosted by the Transportation Committee |
Fort Snelling Officers Club; Post Road near the Airport | |
| Hosted by the Legislative Committee. Senator Paul Wellstone to address the Section. | Holiday Inn Metrodome | |
| Joint Dinner Meeting with the Minnesota Geotechnical Society. Professor Robert Holtz, "Geosynthetics for Soil Reinforcement." | Earle Brown Center | |
| Joint ASCE/SAME Luncheon Meeting. Featured speaker: Duane Ellifritt, "Why are there no more Leonardos?" | St. Paul College Club | |
| Section Dinner Meeting hosted by the YMF/Education Committee. Featured speaker: Thomas Jackson, ASCE President-Elect and Student Awards. | Holiday Inn- Minneapolis West |
|
| Section Dinner Meeting. OCEA Award Winner International Chimney Corp., "Historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Move." | Four Points
Sheraton 35W and Industrial Park Boulevard |