The 2019 Summit is Less Than 2 Months Away
The 2019 Structural Engineering Summit is coming up fast! Have you registered or
reserved your hotel room
? The Summit will be held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. NCSEA has secured group rates at the Disneyland Hotel as well as Disney's Grand Californian, and reservations are going quicker than ever. Rooms are available before and after the Summit
(per hotel availability)
, giving you the option to fit in some leisure time.
There is a lot to look forward to at this year's Summit!
With a brand new format, beginning on Tuesday and ending Friday afternoon, this year's schedule allows for more education and less overlap. In addition to the
16 hours of continuing education
that is available, there are also several networking opportunities to attend. To welcome everyone on Tuesday night, NCSEA will be hosting a
Grand Opening Reception
for all attendees, and then immediately following that the
Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) is welcoming all attendees to California
with their own special event! On Wednesday night,
A Celebration of Structural Engineering
is back. This extravagant event, hosted by Computers and Structures, Inc., will celebrate the immeasurable contributions of structural engineers. Finally,
NCSEA's Awards Celebration
on Thursday night will conclude our celebrations for 2019. The event will begin by honoring our award winners, then will be followed by a festive after party with dinner, entertainment and music, allowing for opportunities to network & celebrate the ingenuity, creativity, and innovation of the structural engineering world.
Don't miss this chance to be a part of this growing and dynamic event–join us for the best education with expert speakers, a leading trade show, and compelling peer-to-peer networking at an event designed to advance the industry. Visit
www.ncsea.com
to view the complete schedule and to register today!
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Upcoming Events
September 26, 2019
Champaign, IL
October 1, 2019
Chicago, IL
October 10, 2019
Westminster, CO
October 17-18, 2019
Greensboro, NC
October 24, 2019
Chicago, IL
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15 Scholarships Awarded to Attend 2019 Summit
NCSEA's Young Member Group Support Committee received a record number of applications for the
Summit Scholarship program
this year.
First-time scholarship recipients will receive free registration to the Summit which includes all educational sessions, access to the trade show, and an invitation to the NCSEA Awards Events, as well as a $1000 stipend that may be used toward transportation and hotel costs, sponsored by Computers & Structures Inc. For those who have previously been awarded a scholarship, a returning scholarship would cover registration to the Summit only.
Congratulations to the 2019 Scholarship Winners:
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Ilias Gibigayem
Oklahoma - OSEA
Jeena Jayamon
California - SEAOC
David Hackney
Missouri - SEAKM
Kayla Hampe
New Hampshire - SENH
David Marshall
Utah - SEAU
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Anthony Wulfers
Arizona - SEAoA
Maggie Mahoney
Colorado - SEAC
Dorian Krausz
Colorado - SEAC
Andrew Podojil
Connecticut-SEC/CT
Devon Minich
Florida - FSEA
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David Nauheimer
Illinois - SEAoI
Chelsea Hoplin
Massachusetts-SEAMass
Sharon Jankiewicz
Washington DC - SEA-MW
Emily Garrison
Washington DC - SEA-MW
Victoria Flys
Arizona - SEAoA
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YMG of the Year Finalists Announced
This annual award is
given to recognize Young Member Groups that are providing a benefit to their young members, member organization, and communities. NCSEA's Young Member Group Support Committee thanks
all of those who submitted applications—the selection committee was impressed by all of the great work going on around the country! Young Member Group of the Year Award finalists each receive one complimentary registration and $1,000 travel stipend
(sponsored by Computers and Structures Inc.)
to send a representative to the
NCSEA Summit in Anaheim, CA, November 12–15.
The winning Young Member Group will be announced at the Summit and will receive an additional $2,500 for their Young Member Group to use for future activities.
Congratulations
to SEAoG (Georgia), SEAMASS (Massachusetts), SEA-MW (Metro-Washington), MNSEA (Minnesota) and SEAW (Washington)!
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Secure Training to Become a Second Respsonder
Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
(Central Time)
The California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) Safety Assessment Program (SAP), hosted by NCSEA, is highly regarded as a standard throughout the country for engineer emergency responders. It is one of only two post-disaster assessment programs that will be compliant with the requirements of the Federal Resource Typing Standards for engineer emergency responders and has been reviewed and approved by FEMA's Office of Domestic Preparedness. Based on ATC-20/45 methodologies and forms, the SAP training course provides engineers, architects, and code-enforcement professionals with the basic skills required to perform safety assessments of structures following disasters.
Learn more.
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Guide to the Design of Building Systems for Serviceability
in Accordance with the 2012 IBC and ASCE/SEI 7-10
The guide provides detailed explanations and examples of application of code provisions and standards for a broad scope or materials, building systems, and building components and includes information and examples covering the vast majority of limit states encountered in the structural design of buildings. The discussion and examples are based in the buildings code provisions and include commentary as well as code referenced standards, and publications.
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NCSEA Engineering Structural Glass Design Guide
The intent of this Guide is to collate relevant design references, requirements, and analysis methods into a single source for easy reference. It is intended to assist in determining the capacity of glass elements, augmented or reduced by the various relevant factors, and assumes industry standard levels of quality with regard to fabrication and installation.
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Welcome NCSEA's Newest Corporate Members:
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Upcoming Webinars
All NCSEA live webinars, listed below, offer 1.5 hours of continuing education credits. Most NCSEA webinars are Diamond Reviewed and accepted for SE continuing education in all 50 states. Please review the webinar description to check the Diamond Review Status. To view other upcoming webinars,
click here.
October 3rd
Jim Vogt, P.E.
October 24th
Michael Rzeznik, P.E.
October 29th
Gail Kelley, P.E., Esq., is a LEED AP
November 19th
Jeffrey Hill, P.E.
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- 25+ live webinars a year featuring high-quality speakers.
- Receive an unlimited number of free CE certificates for each webinar; multiple viewers at the same location can receive credit for every live webinar w/ no additional costs.
- Unlimited 24/7/365 access to NCSEA's Recorded Webinar Library
- NCSEA's Education Portal provides easy access to all of your education content, including:
- Purchase history
- Earned Certificates to track your PDHs
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Recorded Webinars can be purchased
here.
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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!
As our mission statement states, we are here to represent and strengthen YOU and YOUR SEA. But in order to do so we need a little help. 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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