Ken O'Dell, SE
President
If, like me, you are caught in the end of the year holiday rush, you may appreciate a brief President’s message. For those of you able to join our Holiday Dinner at Morton’s last week, I expect is was a great evening for you. Those of you who took home a few of the giveaways from CSI, I imagine it was even better. It sure appeared that fun was had by all. As prefaced in my introduction, the evening was about YOU, the members of SEAOSC, and the chance to share with friends and colleagues. I hope that you are creating life long friendships with your fellow Structural Engineers.
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Have you Renewed your 2019-2020 Membership?
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Thank you for your continued membership support!
SEAOSC has the professional distinction and influence it does today because of our past leaders, you and 1,100 of our colleagues. Your membership strengthens our organization and helps to position it as the premier professional organization to which local structural engineers belong. SEAOSC represents you in the noble profession of structural engineering by fostering and promoting the contributions of structural engineers to society.
To maximize your membership, we encourage you take advantage of the many of the member benefits intended for you and these are shown in our
Make an Impact
membership flyer. One of the benefits available to
SEAOSC
SE and PE members for a fee is the ability to participate in the online
SEAOSC
Member Search service
. This service is intended to help the public find Structural Engineers and Professional Engineers specializing in a particular area of structural engineering.
Your membership and participation helps increase the visibility of our profession and its value as well as increasing our influence and impact to make a greater positive difference together than we could individually.
Renewals are now due on the anniversary of your join date so you will receive the full one-year benefit of your membership.
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Committee Update - Communications Committee
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The Communications Committee has been working through our continual goal of modernizing SEAOSC’s communication platforms. The committee is currently working to update the current SEAOSC website with more targeted audience content for various sections of the website. The communications committee also continues to work on increasing SEAOSC’s visibility to the community. We are now live tweeting and posting on SEAOSC’s LinkedIn page during the monthly dinner meetings in order to update members about the event presentations as well as collect questions from members who are not able to attend the dinner meetings. If you are unable to attend a dinner meeting and are interested in the presentations, please follow us and send us your tweets throughout the events with your questions and comments.
The committee is also currently working on a Fact Sheet that will be distributed to local or State level policy makers and elected officials. The Fact Sheet is designed to provide basic information about the Building Code and Building Performance as an introduction to the overall advocacy by SEAOSC to promote improved building standards.
Our committee’s main role is to promote SEAOSC for the membership as well as the general public. We continue to publicize SEAOSC’s contribution to the community as well as the achievements of various SEAOSC committees. If you would like to participate in the Communications Committee, or would like to learn more about the committee, please contact Maria Mohammed at
mmohammed@structuralfocus.com.
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Welcome New Members
Member SE
Arif Meric Ozkan , Arup
David Muradyan, Biayna Engineering & Construction
Kirk Wagner, Axis Construction Consulting, Inc.
Member
Fredy Orellana
, OConsulting LLC
Gabriel Sanchez, Ehlen Spiess & Haight Structural Engineers
Mohit Goyal, DCI Engineers
Nicholas Trombetta, Arup
Saif Haroon, IMEG Corporation
Associate
Armin Malakouti, GB Geotechnics
Young Associate
Bogdan Demian, BuroHappold
Catherine Stephens, HNTB Corp
Daniel Phelan, Degenkolb Engineers
Daryl Frigillana, Englekirk Structural Engineers
Dustin Horney, John Labib + Associates
Kristine Nguyen, BuroHappold
Rouzbeh Afshar, Nova Geotechnical and Inspection Services
Yining Pan, IMEG
Affiliate
Bahman Ehsan, Bahman Ehsan Inc
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SEAOSC Holiday Dinner Write-Up
SEAOSC celebrated the end of the year with its annual SEAOSC Holiday Dinner at Morton’s Steakhouse in Downtown Los Angeles. The (TV) yule logs were warming the room as members, friends, and family enjoyed each other’s company. In special attendance, Ashraf Habibullah, founder, President, and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc., kicked off the gift-giving season with iPads, Fitbit watches, and structural analysis textbooks to a lucky few in the room in addition to sponsoring dinner for all the students who attended. In the same spirit, regular event sponsor Optimum Seismic offered to cover a year of membership fee for anyone who were not yet SEAOSC members, and Kurt Fischer of Kurt Fischer Structural Engineering donated his half of the 50/50 raffle back to the SEAOSC Foundation. SEAOSC thanks everyone who attended this event and wishes all our members a very happy Holidays and New Year!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
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NCSEA
Public Outreach Challenge - SEAOSC Maria Mohammed
Public Outreach Winner - Maria Mohammed of SEAOSC accepts the Golden Horn of behalf of SEAOC for winning this year’s NCSEA Public Outreach Challenge on Nov. 14 at the Disneyland Hotel. The national award goes to the SEA that conducted the best public outreach over the year via general and specialized media, including print, radio and television.
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SEAOC 2019 Convention Proceedings
The proceedings from the SEAOC 2019 Convention in are now available for members to download for FREE from the SEAOC Bookstore.
This document contains the unedited papers presented by the authors at the 2019 SEAOC Convention on August 28-31, 2019 at Squaw Creek, CA.
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SAVE THE DATE: SEAOC MAUI CONVENTION 2020!
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Join us during the week of Labor Day for five glorious days of continuing education and entertainment at the southern tip of Kaanapali on the western shore of the Maui. Our convention will offer:
- Three days of three-track technical sessions featuring the latest in structural engineering research, structural engineering practice, and business development
- A trade show featuring exhibitors of companies from all over the world that produce important products and services for our industry
- The presentation of our annual Excellence in Engineering Awards winners Our Annual Business Lunch where we will hear from our outgoing President on the state of our Association and install our incoming SEAOC President and the latest inductees to the SEAOC College of Fellows....
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MEMBER REFERRAL PROGRAM:
SEAOSC Members can opt-in to the Referral Program for $100 annually. You may opt-in anytime by contacting the SEAOSC office at
seaosc@seaosc.org
. A listing will appear on seaosc.org/Member-Services-Search which includes your name, license number, business address and your selected categories.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
While California not does have mandatory continuing education for your license renewal, SEAOSC created this voluntary program to recognize and record members’ seminar attendance. You can enroll for $50 annually during dues renewals. Credit is issued for your attendance at qualifying dinner meetings, seminars and educational events based on 1 credit for each contact hour of continuing education.
Click Here
to learn more.
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2019-2020 Board of Directors
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Kenneth O'Dell, S.E.
MHP, Inc. Structural Engineers
President
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Matt Barnard, S.E.
Degenkolb Engineers
President Elect
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Kelsey Anne Parolini, S.E.
SSG Structural Engineers
Treasurer
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Mehran Pourzanjani, S.E.
Saiful Bouquet
Immediate Past President
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Bryan Seamer, S.E.
LPA Inc.
Director
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Garrett Mills, S.E.
Taylor & Syfan
Consulting Engineers
Director
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Henry Burton, Ph.D., S.E.
University of California,
Los Angeles
Director
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Kim Caravalho, S.E.
Brandow & Johnston
Director
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Tim Kaucher, P.E.
Simpson Strong-Tie
Director
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Tom Harris, S.E.
California Code Check
Director
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Victor Cuevas P.E.
Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety
Director
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Wayne Chang, S.E.
Structural Focus
Director
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DIRECTORY / CLASSIFIEDS / ADS
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SEAOSC Office
437 S. Cataract Avenue, #4B
San Dimas, CA 91773
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