The San Francisco Section Annual Awards are about recognizing those individuals and organizations, within our Section, who deliver excellence and inspire others through significant contributions in the field of Civil Engineering. Click on the links below to download nomination forms in MS Word format.
Award nominations are due to the ASCE Section Office by August 14, 2009. Please don’t hesitate to contact the Section Office with any questions at 415/546-6546 or
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There are terms that can be included in an engineer's contract, either with an owner or sub-consultant, that relate to copyright and that should be considered with some knowledge.
Written by Robert Moody, Presiden of the SF Section Younger Member Forum
SF YMF is five letters, or four different letters to be exact. But what does it mean? The literal answer is San Francisco Younger Member Forum. But what does that collection of important sounding words mean? A great man once provided a succinct answer in three words: professional, outreach, social.
Please join us on Thursday, June 25 for dinner and a special presentation and book signing by Donald Macdonald, AIA on his latest book Golden Gate Bridge: History and Design of an Icon.
On May 14, Chris Whitworth, from the Humboldt County Public Works Department, presented the design and construction of the Mad River Bluff Stabilization Project.
Ms. Mathieson will discuss four case histories illustrating the importance of common sense in failure investigations related to earth movement and water seepage. The case histories, all from insurance claims and litigation, are within the areas of overlap of geotechnical engineering and engineering geology and should be of interest to engineering professionals and students alike.
Over 55 attendees including students, sponsors, Branch officers, and guests attended the Branch’s annual student awards banquet at the Oak Lounge in the Tresidder Union at Stanford University on May 4.
Come play a nine-hole round of golf at the second annual ASCE-YMF Golf Tournament on Friday, June 12 at Boundary Oaks in Walnut Creek. Meet new people, challenge old friends, and most importantly, have fun. For more information, contact James Shahamiri at
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Program: Instrumentation Workshop Speakers: Dale Marcum, PE; John Lemke, GE; and Robert Chew, GE Date: Tuesday June 16 Time: 6 pm to 8 pm Location: Caltrans District 4 Headquarters Auditorium, 111 Grand Avenue in Oakland Cost: $10, Students free RSVP:
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or 415-546-6546 by Monday, June 15
The ASCE Construction Institute Chapters of the Sacramento and San Francisco Sections will be awarding Construction Scholarships for the 2009/2010 academic year. Up to 6 scholarship awards ranging between $1,000 and $2,000 each will be made!
Questions occasionally arise as to the copyright aspects of engineering plans. A copyright symbol may be found somewhere on the sheet and one wonders, what does that mean. How do you get a copyright and, if you have it, what can you do with it? What if an engineer and client have a dispute and the owner refuses to pay.
Written by Kent Sasaki - San Francisco Section President
How to get Hired
The job market is grim. Firms are laying-off staff or have hiring freezes. The few firms who are hiring only have limited openings. Competition to land a job is high because of the large number of applicants for a given opening.
A bill is being reviewed in Committee to authorize a local governmental agency to enter into an agreement with a private entity for financing for specified types of revenue-generating infrastructure projects.