Announcing 2021-22 Board of Directors
NCSEA is pleased to announce the new Board of Directors for 2021-2022. Previously the Board of Directors transition took place during the Structural Engineering Summit. In 2019 the Council made the decision to change the organization's fiscal year and have the Board of Directors term follow the same schedule. Ed Quesenberry (SEAO) will serve as President replacing Emily Guglielmo (SEAONC) who will transition to Past President for one year before exiting the board. David Horos (SEAOI) was named Vice-President, Ryan Kersting (SEAOC) as Secretary, and Christopher Cerino (SEAoNY) as Treasurer. Two new directors have been welcomed to the Board of Directors, Sarah Appleton (SEAOG) and Brian Petruzzi (SEA-MW). Richard Boggs (SEC/CT) and Paul Rielly (SEAoT) have exited the Board. Jami Lorenz (SEAMT) also joined the board in the fall of 2020 when a change in personnel was required.
The Current NCSEA Board of Directors is:
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President: Ed Quesenberry (SEAO)
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Vice President: David Horos (SEAOI)
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Secretary: Ryan Kersting (SEAOC)
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Treasurer: Christopher Cerino (SEAONY)
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Director: Eli Gottlieb (SEAoNY)
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Director: Jami Lorenz (SEAMT)
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Director: Sarah Appleton (SEAOG)
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Director: Brian Petruzzi (SEA-MW)
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Past President: Emily Guglielmo (SEAONC)
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Please join us in thanking Jon Schmidt (President 2018-19, Past President 2020-21) and Emily Guglielmo (President 2020-21) for their incredible contributions to NCSEA, the NCSEA Board of Directors, and to the profession as a whole. |
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Welcome to the next 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’s post explores ways to welcome more diversity into our engineering education programs and explores strategies to retain students of color through college and into employment. In our February post celebrating Black History Month, we highlighted some sobering statistics - only 4% of all bachelor degrees awarded in engineering went to Black students in 2016 despite the fact that Black Americans make up roughly 14% of the US population. At both the undergraduate and graduate level, Hispanic students, American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students are also significantly underrepresented. These trends are clear in the 2020 SE3 Survey findings.
A challenge that's often cited for recruitment of engineers is the lack of a diverse pool of candidates. We've all heard of the "pipeline problem" but don't often look beyond the catch phrase. To understand the full extent of the topic, we recommend the following article by Aline Lerner, "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in eng hiring".
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This article summarizes a larger study, in which Black engineering students were interviewed to determine the largest obstacles they faced in completing their graduate program. For example, Black PhD students note that they struggle with difficulty fitting in with their peers and lack of support from advisers due to overt racism.
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WATCH
Freeman Hrabowski, University of Maryland Baltimore County president, discusses how to create an environment where minority students can prosper, specifically in sciences and engineering. Hrabowski shares four suggestions that are aimed at removing the barrier of first year courses, which can improve accessibility to these fields for all students.
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In this episode of Discover Science, Dr. William F. Tate IV reviews how different social determinants, including geographical location, impact a student’s success in the classroom. He draws on his experience in St. Louis, MO, to discuss how community members can intervene to address the structures and systems that disproportionately affect students of color.
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 | 1:00 pm CT
As structural engineers have driven down operational emissions through smarter designs, there has been a shift to focus on embodied carbon. The goal of the Whole Building Lifecycle Assessment (WBLCA) is to reduce the embodied impacts of a building by quantifying the environmental impacts of structure and enclosure. Structural engineers need to take steps to quantify and reduce our impact. There are several tools and guidelines that exist to help practitioners in this process.
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why embodied carbon is relevant to the building design and construction community;
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NCSEA's Sustainable Design Committee's partnership with SE2050;
- tools that can be used to study embodied carbon and perform LCA studies;
- how to identify steps design teams considering the LCA in rating systems can take to incorporate it into their process.
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OSEA
May 6 & 13,2021
SEAOI
May 13, 2021
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STRUCTURE Sponsored Webinar
May 5, 2021
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Secure Second Responder Training Designed for YOU
NCSEA's structural engineering focused Emergency Response Course is built upon the CalOES Safety Assessment Program that is highly regarded as a standard to train emergency second responders. This FEMA reviewed and approved training course provides engineers, architects and code-enforcement professionals with the basic skills required to perform safety assessments of structures following disasters. NCSEA's course builds in structural engineer focused education and lessons. Licensed design professionals and certified building officials will be eligible for SAP Evaluator certification and credentials following completion of this program and submission of required documentation.
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The NCSEA Resilience Committee seeks to provide a multidisciplinary collaboration platform to formulate recommendations and innovations to enhance resilience in the built environment. In an effort to further the Committee’s goal to educate the structural engineering community on resilience approaches to planning, design, and construction, the following resilience-focused content addresses strategies, practices, and ways of thinking to meet the challenges of designing in a multi-hazard environment. Acknowledging that resilience-thinking is cross-disciplinary, the content highlighted will be from many different perspectives and disciplines intentionally. Join the conversation on LinkedIn!
- This podcast series, hosted by the American Planning Association, delves deep into how planners and other professionals are grappling with planning for a multi-hazard environment. Leaders in the field share key insights for resilience capacity building across the United States. Resilient planning has incredible potential for reaping the most positive impact in our communities because singular interventions (e.g. siting) can manage multiple hazards by mitigating vulnerabilities before they are problems.
- The Resilience Ecosystem (RE) is an open and inclusive community of public and private entities working to help communities and businesses in all U.S. regions to adapt/build resilience to climate-related hazards. To promote resilience-building actions, equitable reduction of climate change risks, reduction in losses, and strengthen the economy of adaptation sciences in the U.S., the RE has published a ‘Theory of Change’ to think holistically and collaboratively about resilience to climate change. Read about their goals and objectives, participate in RE’s workshops, or watch a video about their progress to-date.
- Did you know that you can download synthesized summaries of state-level climate information? These NOAA State Climate Studies were produced in 2017, with some updates in 2019, in response to the release of the Third National Climate Assessment. These summaries contain historic trends and plausible future conditions pertaining to physical climate and coastal issues.
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Daily actions and decisions can have broad implications to your firm’s business. Strategic thinkers understand how their actions and decisions support their firm’s competitive position and success. Designed and presented by a structural engineer for all structural engineers, this webinar series will help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to practice strategic thinking each and every day to boost your firm’s success.
This unique and interactive series includes two bonuses to help you advance your strategic mindset and apply it daily:
- A Strategic Action Playbook designed specifically for YOU by the speaker, Jared Jamison, that will support you during the presentations and continue enhancing your firm's success after the live event.
- Access to an interactive forum for all attendees to connect with one another and the speaker. Questions, ideas and solutions can be discussed and debated throughout the event.
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This session will focus on answering the question “what is strategy and what is strategic thinking?” and describe the insights necessary to make good strategic decisions.
Interactive exercises will help attendees to focus and guide their future decision making and describe tools they can use to help establish and strengthen their strategy.
Attendees will learn how to use strategic thinking to guide daily decisions and effectively support their firm’s strategy.
Click here to register now.. The registration fee for the Seminar is $395 for members ($500 for nonmembers), which includes all 4.5 hours of education. Each individual webinar can be purchased separately for $195 for members ($250 for nonmembers).
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Upcoming Webinars
May 4, 2021
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May 11 & 12, 2021
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May 18, 2021
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May 27, June 3 & 10, 2021
Jared Jamison
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