2021 Leadership Retreat Delivers
NCSEA held its 2nd SEA Leadership Retreat virtually in April, an annual event that delivers educational and social opportunities to strengthen the SEAs. This year's event hosted 21 sessions over the course of 3 days to over 160 attendees. Each day included interactive educational sessions as well as committee interaction sessions that provided attendees the opportunity to connect with NCSEA committee leadership . Attendees heard presentations on Engagement in the New Normal, revenue streams, leadership development, outreach, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. The event also included a wrap-up of 2020 with Past President Emily Guglielmo, and an introduction to the next year with 2021-2022 Board President Ed Quesenberry. Did you miss the event? Click here to view the recordings.
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NCSEA's newest webinar series will discuss how Strategic Thinking will improve your daily decisions as structural engineers and significantly impact you, your career and your firm’s profitability. The presenter, Jared Jamison, brings unique perspectives as a successful structural engineer, engineering executive, and professor of business planning.
Key Benefits:
- Tools to bring strategic thinking into your daily actions, enhancing your value to your firm and your careers.
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A Strategic Action Playbook designed specifically for YOU to support you and continue enhancing your firm's success after the event.
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Access to an interactive forum for you to connect with other attendees and the speaker.
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This session will focus on the insights necessary to make good strategic decisions, and how to apply this daily.
This session will detail tools to strengthen strategy and use Interactive exercises to help attendees think through strategic choices.
Attendees will learn how to use strategic thinking to effectively set personal objectives to support their careers and 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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Welcome to this 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.
In this post, we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. May is dedicated to recognizing the contributions AAPI citizens have made to society in the United States. Our resources illustrate the biases, stereotypes, and descrimination that the AAPI community experiences in the workplace and beyond. Ultimately, the links showcase ways to support our AAPI colleagues and provide suggestions for how to reduce bias in the workplace and in STEM education.
While discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders has been prevalent in the U.S. for centuries, the recent COVID-19 outbreak has resulted in increased violence toward the AAPI community. In addition to the resources below, we recommend watching the short video poem, “a word”, which underscores this surge in violent attacks. You can also watch PBS’s 5-part Asian Americans series (currently free to stream) to learn more about Asian American history in the US.
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This article presents the disparity between the presence of Asian Americans in entry-level positions and their presence in upper management. The authors present solutions to this phenomena (referred to as the “Asian glass ceiling”) and ways to increase diversity in the workplace.
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WATCH
Alice Li, a student at Vanderbilt University, describes how the “Model Minority Myth” contributes to issues such as poverty and discrimination within the AAPI community. She discusses how the “model minority” label actually furthers discrimination, and serves to label Asian Americans as outsiders.
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A panel of engineers discuss the challenges of being an Asian American engineer working in the United States. They share their experiences with the cultural biases and stereotypes they’ve faced in their career. The speakers also provide advice on how to be an ally to AAPI coworkers.
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June 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2021 | Sponsored by Atlas Tube
Learn all about the Outstanding Project winners from each category of NCSEA's 2020 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. This webinar series will include presentations about each project along with interactive question & answer sessions.
Registration is FREE thanks to Atlas Tube! Attend all 4 live sessions & earn 6 PDHs.
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STRUCTURE Sponsored Webinar
May 26, 2021
Learn why fasteners fail, how to specify self-drilling fasteners and how Elco’s FLEX line has you covered.
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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!
- Complex engineered systems may benefit from principals developed to enhance social-ecological resilience. This article and short video present seven principles described in the book “Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems” published by Cambridge. The principles include: 1) maintain diversity and redundancy, 2) manage connectivity, 3) manage slow variables and feedbacks, 4) foster complex adaptive systems thinking, 5) encourage learning, .) broaden participation, and 7) promote polycentric governance. It is noted that the blanket application of these principles may entrench and exacerbate inequalities. However, with some common sense, this guidance has applications in the design of resilient engineered infrastructure systems.
- In a report called “Cities on the Route to 2030”, nonprofit CDP released survey results of 812 cities grappling with the challenges of climate risk. 93% of cities reported they are facing significant climatic hazards but less than half have climate adaption plans. Of the cities surveyed, cities are enhancing resilience through these top actions: 1) tree planting and/or development of green space, 2) flood mapping, 3) community engagement and education, 4) developing crisis management plans including warning and evacuation systems, and 5) developing hazard resistant infrastructure design and construction. This represents lots of opportunities for the AEC industry!
- The UK Climate Resilience Program is hosting a series of webinars leading up to the next UN climate conference, COP26, in November 2021. Non-state actors may choose to pledge to the Race to Resilience campaign in what organizers hope will catalyze action to protect vulnerable communities from climate risks and thrive despite the challenges. In addition to an emphasis on reducing green house gas emissions, this years conference will also focus on adaption and community resilience.
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Call for Committee Volunteers
Are you interested in volunteering with NCSEA? The Council depends on its members to get involved to help advance our mission and further develop our partnership. Our volunteers help educate on codes and standards, develop publications, create courses, advocate for safe structures and post-disaster recovery, and so much more. If you are a new volunteer interested in serving on an NCSEA committee please click here to complete the Committee Volunteer Application.
The following committees are actively seeking new members:
- The Structural Licensure Committee works with state Structural Engineers Associations to influence the adoption of consistent licensing laws and rules in the interest of public safety, especially relating to licensure of structural engineers. Individuals interested in this committee should have a passion for structural licensure, and the unique responsibility structural engineers have to protect the safety, health, and welfare of the public.
- The Sustainable Design Committee promotes sustainable design practices within the profession through leadership, advocacy, outreach and education. The primary objectives of this committee's members include advocating for the inclusion of sustainable design within the practice of structural engineering, helping to form sustainable design committees on the local level, creating and disseminating educational material, advocating for policy and code development, and more.
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Learn about embodied carbon and why it is relevant to the building design and construction community, new groups in the industry such as the NCSEA Sustainable Design Committee and it’s partnership with SE2050, tools that can be used to study embodied carbon and perform LCA studies, steps design teams considering pursuing the LCA in rating systems can take to incorporate LCA into their design process.
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Upcoming Webinars
May 27, June 3 & 10, 2021
Jared Jamison
June 1, 2021
Alyson Hallander and Dritan Topuzi
June 22, 2021
Sarah Scarborough, S.E.
July 20, 2021
Gary J. Klein, P.E., S.E.
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- At least 30 high-quality, live webinars
- An unlimited number of free CE certificates
- 24/7/365 access to the Recorded Webinar Library
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