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Fellow Engineers and Friends, Our September meeting was a success. Current Texas Section President Nancy Cline, P.E. delivered an informative discussion on the state of the Section and the civil engineering profession. Nancy also presided over the installation of the 2008-2009 branch officers. The meeting provided a great opportunity for us to review our success over the past year. We recognized the committed efforts of our outgoing branch officers and committee members. We also presented Tim ...

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett "Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike and Houston's Infrastructure" This month we are pleased to welcome Harris County Judge Ed Emmett who will address Lessons Learned from Hurricane Ike and Houston’s Infrastructure. A question and answer session will follow his presentation. Please do not miss this interesting and informative discussion! Edward M. Emmett was unanimously appointed County Judge by Harris County Commissioners Court on March 6, 2007, ...

Thank you to all the following societies for hosting this month's meeting: American Society of Civil Engineers Houston Council of Engineering Companies Society of American Military Engineers Texas Institute of Transportation Engineers American Public Works Association Texas Society of Proffesional Engineers Women's Transportation Seminar

Currently, adjusted assignments to the Houston Branch include 2981 members. 65% of all National renewals (1766 members) elected to pay their Texas Section Dues. Thank you for your strong ASCE participation! Please see the ASCE Houston Branch Membership Report for October 2008 for more details and info on how to win prizes.

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SEPTEMBER PROBLEM Here is the 7-step proof, which says 2=1. a and b are non-zero integers. 1. a = b 2. a*a = a*b 3. a*a - b*b = a*b - b*b 4. (a + b) * (a - b) = b * (a - b) 5. a + b = b 6. 2*b = b 7. 2 = 1 Is it Correct? If not, then what is wrong with the proof? SOLUTION Between step 4 and step 5, you are dividing by (a - b). If a = b, then you are dividing by 0.  ...

Fellow Younger Members, With the summer over it’s now time to select our new Younger Member Forum Chairs for the 2008-2009 year. Thanks to last year’s board including Jared Bowlin, Amy Stonaker, Charlie Stevens, and Kate Fath for all the work they did to plan social, technical, community service, and educational events. Special thanks go to the 2007-2008 Younger Member Forum Chair Regina Lemons, for her commitment that went above and beyond to ensure that the committee was successful. ...

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Wow! What a great year we have had at the ASCE Houston Branch. I trust that each of you had a great summer. Although we had our normal summer break for July and August, we continued our fourth annual joint meeting with the Houston Contractor’s Association. We started the year off strong with the HCFCD seminar. All of the main speakers and technical sessions throughout the year transcended many disciplines and offered ASCE Houston Branch members great technical knowledge. The technical ...

Nancy Cline, P.E. Director of Public Works, Town of Addison "A Cost-Plus-Time Bidding Procedure" The Town of Addison has used an innovative alternative bidding procedure for the past five years. Several other municipalities in the Dallas area have also adopted this approach. A+B bidding is a cost-plus-time bidding procedure that selects the lowest bidder based on a monetary combination of the contract bid items (A) and the time (B) needed to complete the project. Ms. Cline ...

Julio Salinas, EIT TxDOT - Waller/West Harris Area Office "Bridge Construction on the Katy Freeway at The Beltway 8 Interchange" Mr. Salinas graduated from the University of Houston in 2004 with a BS in Civil Engineering and has since worked with TxDOT on 14 bridges. He will discuss the BW8 & IH10 interchange bridge construction.

ASCE Houston Branch thanks Fugro Consultants LP for sponsoring this month's meeting. Please click here for more information about Fugro Consultants LP, or visit them at http://www.fugroconsultants.com/.

Currently, adjusted assignments to the Houston Branch include 2981 members. 65% of all National renewals (1766 members) elected to pay their Texas Section Dues. Thank you for your strong ASCE participation! Please see the ASCE Houston Branch Membership Report for September 2008 for more details and info on how to win prizes.

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June Problem How long would it take you to count 1 billion orally if you could count 200 every minute and were given a day off every four years? Assume that you start counting on 1 January 2001. Solution To count 200 numbers per minute, to get to one billion you need: 1 billion/200 minutes= 5 million minutes = 83,333.3333 hours=3,472.2222 days= 9.512937 years Thus, the actual time needed to count the numbers is 9 years, 187 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes. The ...

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Welcome to the ASCE - Houston Branch Newsletter of upcoming events, articles, jobs and more from our membership.

Our May lunch meeting turnout was great. Special thanks to Peter Key, Deputy Director of HCTRA, who shared a little history on when and how the Toll Road Authority got its start and where they are at today with SB792. He stressed HCTRA’s vision and commitment to remain focused on improving the local region’s mobility. He explained that the toll road revenues fund the majority of Harris County’s infrastructure improvements on their five-year plan. The ASCE Houston Branch conducted a ...

Shay Shafie, P.E. Vice President, Community Development for Southern Land Company Mr. Shafie has been with Southern Land Company since October of 2007 and is currently in charge of the residential development and all infrastructure-related activities in support of the Imperial Redevelopment Project located on the former Imperial Sugar Refinery site and the State of Texas General Land Office Tract 3. Prior to joining Southern Land Company, Shafie served as vice president of ...