The 2020 Summit is two weeks away, are you registered? This year's all virtual event offers the same expert-led education, peer-to-peer networking, and leading exhibit hall that you're used to...just at your desk! Taking place November 4-6 (& beyond for Bonus Content), the Summit offers you the chance to earn up to 26 hours of education, the most hours offered ever. This year's slate of education features captivating keynote addresses focused on the future of the AEC industry and how to lead a multi-generational workforce, as well as general sessions on topics like mass timber, safety assessment, code development, resilience, and more. Click here to learn more about the fantastic education sessions offered during this year's event!
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For the Virtual Trade Show, be sure to visit:
These are open to everyone for FREE until November 2. The Exhibit Hall has loads of information, downloads, special offers, AND raffles!
Your Registration Includes:
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Bonus Content Opportunities
The Bonus Content is a new feature for the 2020 Virtual Summit. This unique, value-added feature will occur over the span of three weeks following the live Summit. Each Tuesday, we will show additional sessions from what would have been part of the In-Person Summit, giving attendees access to sessions they would not have had the opportunity to view before. The Bonus Content will provide attendees an additional 9 hours of continuing education. This is just another reason this year’s Virtual Summit will be above and beyond the typical virtual event.
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NCSEA Adds Support to AISC's Student Bridge Competition
AISC's Student Steel Bridge Competition is an annual competition that challenges student teams to develop a scale-model steel bridge. The teams determine how to fabricate a bridge and then plan for an efficient assembly under timed construction at the competition. The bridge must span approximately 20 feet, carry 2,500 pounds, and must meet all other specifications of the competition rules.
Students may have questions about how to put together a written report and how to best convey the important information about the design and construction sequence of their bridge project. Teams also might need technical assistance with their design. This is where NCSEA comes in. As a supporting affiliate of the Student Steel Bridge Competition, NCSEA will assist by pairing our members, practicing structural engineers, with student teams to provide mentorship and guidance.
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Welcome to the second installment of Read.Watch.Listen: a monthly forum hosted by the NCSEA SE3 Committee to share and promote conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion within the structural engineering profession. Each month, we will curate a series of articles, audio-visual and digital media to facilitate self-education in matters that affect our professional practice as structural engineers. Whether you choose to read, watch, or listen (or all three!), we hope you will join us in this important conversation.
This month, in conjunction with NCSEA's second session in the DEI Series, we turn our attention to implicit bias. This is a social identity theory which suggests that people can act on the basis of prejudice and stereotypes without intention or conscious knowledge. Shani Barrax Moore, diversity & inclusion strategist, expands on this topic on her presentation of Bias Awareness and Socialization. Even the most well-intentioned people have some amount of unconscious bias. To learn more about yourself, we recommend taking the Harvard Implicit Association Test before you dive into this month's resources.
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READ
Written by Victoria W. Jackson as a graduate research associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, this brief synopsis seeks to shed light on examples of structural inequities and how implicit bias undermines policies and practices. The report also provides access to the State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review publication.
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WATCH
Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a mechanical engineer, writer, and activist, challenges people to look beyond their initial impressions as she demonstrates real examples of implicit bias. In this TEDTalk, Abdel-Magied also highlights the benefit of having mentors and encourages everyone to mentor those who are not necessarily similar to themselves.
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LISTEN
Plot Points is an ASCE podcast and this interview is part of their ‘Engineering a Culture of Inclusion’ series. Featured is Kim Parker Brown, P.E., F.ASCE,an environmental engineer and program manager for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. In this conversation, Brown discusses her own experiences with implicit and explicit bias and how she handles it while on the job.
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2020 NCSEA SEA Grant Program Open for Applications
The NCSEA Grant Program was developed in 2015 to award SEAs funding for projects that grow and promote their SEA and the structural engineering profession in accordance with the NCSEA Mission Statement. This program is funded by the NCSEA Foundation, which was established earlier this year to further support the non-profit activities of NCSEA and its Member Organizations. The goal of the Foundation and the Grant Program are to advance the structural engineering profession through technical development, education, and outreach.
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MO Public Outreach Challenge
NCSEA’s External Communications Committee is expanding last year’s MO Public Outreach Challenge to allow members, delegates and SEA leadership to submit their Member Organization’s most effective program for achieving NCSEA’s goal that: Practicing structural engineers are recognized by clients, media, policymakers, educators, students, and the public for the value of their contributions to society.
The purpose of this competition is to give SEAs a platform to be recognized by the SE profession for their work and dedication to the field. What do you consider your MO’s biggest Public Outreach accomplishment in the past year (November 2019 through December 2020)?
Each SEA may submit up to one entry for each of the following categories:
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Public Outreach:
- Creating or expanding your electronic engagement
- Assisting with publication of structural engineering media content
Political Advocacy:
- Influencing public policy
- Providing educational and/or event opportunities supporting political actions
- Supporting programs for engineers to stay in touch with political representatives and officials
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Students and Educators:
- Forming partnerships with schools
- Offering mentoring programs or awarding scholarships
Other Outreach Programs Related to Current NCSEA Initiatives:
- Collaboration with allied organizations
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Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts including those related to NCSEA Call for Action
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Submissions are due December 15, 2020. Click here to learn more. Submitters may enter in all four categories, but only one entry per category will be accepted for each SEA.
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Upcoming Webinars
All NCSEA live webinars offer 1.5 hours of continuing education credits. Most NCSEA webinars are Diamond Reviewed and accepted for SE continuing education in all 50 states. To view other upcoming webinars, click here.
October 27, 2020
Thomas E. Nehil, P.E., and Ron Anthony
November 12, 2020
Rob Hughes, Esp.
November 19, 2020
Professor Sudarshan Krishnan
Recorded Webinars can be purchased here.
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At least 30 live webinars per year featuring high-quality speakers.
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An unlimited number of free CE certificates for each webinar; multiple viewers at the same location can receive credit for every live webinar.
- Unlimited 24/7/365 access to NCSEA's Recorded Webinar Library
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Call for Information
We'd love to hear about your SEA! Have you hosted an event recently that you'd like to share with the rest of the organization? Are you hosting an upcoming event that you would like featured in Structural Connection or NCSEA News? Please let us know! If you have any news, events, or accomplishments you'd like to share, please reach out to Dana Long at dlong@ncsea.com. Also, remember to add your upcoming events to NCSEA's Calendar. Just visit this link and fill out the details of your event, it is really that easy!
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