ANNOUNCING THE 2022–23 NCSEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS |
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NCSEA is pleased to announce the 2022-23 Board of Directors. Their term runs from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. |
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Thank you to those concluding their service on the NCSEA Board: |
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Emily Guglielmo, P.E., S.E.
Martin/Martin, Inc.
SEAOC
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Eli Gottlieb, P.E.
Thornton Tomasetti
SEAoNY
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2022 NCSEA STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SUMMIT
November 2-4, 2022 in Chicago, IL
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NCSEA is excited to announce that the 2022 Structural Engineering Summit will be held in Chicago from November 2–4, 2022.
We had a wonderful Summit experience in February in New York—check out the event photos—and we look forward to continuing to learn, network, and celebrate together in November in Chicago.
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NCSEA is seeking abstracts for the 2022 Structural Engineering Summit. Sessions will be 45–60 minutes total and should deliver pertinent and useful information that is specific to the practicing structural engineer, in both technical and non-technical tracks.
For more information and to submit your abstract, visit our website. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2022.
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SPREAD THE WORD: NCSEA DIVERSITY IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 29 |
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The NCSEA Diversity in Structural Engineering Scholarship was established by the NCSEA Foundation in 2020 to award funding to students traditionally underrepresented in structural engineering (including but not limited to Black/African Americans, Native/Indigenous Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and other people of color). Multiple scholarships are presented annually to junior college students, undergraduate students, and/or graduate students pursuing degrees in structural engineering.
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BUILD YOUR FIRM'S FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SAVVY WITH THE FINANCE 101 RECORDED WEBINAR SERIES
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Are you interested in expanding your skillset in finance and accounting to grow your leadership and business skills? NCSEA and AE Ascend are partnering to offer three new on-demand programs focused on accounting and finance for structural engineers. The leader of these programs is Jared Jamison, founder and president of AE Ascend, a leading expert with over 20 years of experience in A/E firm management, operations, financial management, and business strategy.
These webinars are designed to allow the attendees to learn at their own pace while also providing 1-4 PDH(s) for each course completed. The introductory courses are designed to build upon one another, gain practical accounting and financial knowledge as well as prepare for the full financial management course.
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The Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) and NCSEA teamed up to deliver a web-based seminar series on the design of seismic connections. Recordings of these seminars are now available for purchase individually or as a series. Topics include:
- Steel moment frame connections
- Steel moment frame base plates
- Timber seismic connections
- Steel braced frame connections
- Concrete shear wall connections
- Concrete moment frame connections
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Each presentation provides information and examples for designing seismic connections in accordance with IBC 2018 and ASCE 7-16 and includes a discussion of the provisions in the standards as well as current research leading to future provisions, speaking to big-picture concepts and the nuts, bolts, and nails of implementation. |
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BOOKS & ENGINEERS: TO READ OR NOT TO READ?
April 7, 12–1 p.m. CST
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Are you a reader? Do you want to be? Is it true that readers are leaders? What books are you reading? What books should you be reading?
Join NCSEA’s Young Member Group Support Committee (YMGSC) at its upcoming free virtual open discussion to find out. We will be reviewing everything “reading”—from sharing our favorite books and authors to our philosophies for selecting books to read and even recommending apps and resources to make your reading more organized. Consider this an A to Z discussion of all books from fiction to the mechanics of friction!
Participants will share their expertise and perspectives with others and help build a recommended reading list and suggested technical references. We will share these lists with the attendees after the meeting. We will also provide some ideas on how your SEA can start its own book club.
To facilitate discussion and engagement, we encourage everyone to come prepared to share some of their favorite books, authors, and other reading preferences. The cost of admission when registering? Answers to these two questions:
- What book are you reading now?
- What is a "must-read" book for your fellow engineers?
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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.
In this issue of Read.Watch.Listen, we’re taking a look at the pay gap. A 2021 report by Georgetown University, titled Mission Not Accomplished: Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and Latinx Engineers, highlights the pay disparities that exist within the engineering professions. Not only is there a disproportionately low number of Black and Latinx engineers, but these engineers are often paid less than their White and Asian colleagues. The resources below provide an introduction to the salary gap as well as suggestions to increase fairness and equity in our work policies.
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This article from ASCE builds upon the findings in the Georgetown University report with a specific focus on civil engineering. After summarizing important facts from the report, the author presents several solutions for increasing minority representation and reducing the pay gap.
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Shelly Stewart III is a partner at McKinsey, where he leads the Institute for Black Economic Mobility. In this interview with CBS News, he discusses the $220 billion annual wage gap between White and Black Americans and what can be done to address it, including improving access to loans for Black entrepreneurs and representation in key industries.
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In this first episode of the podcast series, host Chandra Thomas Whitfield interviews Aja, a computer engineer, about her experiences with the salary gap and how it affected her career. The complete 12-episode series, which explores the pay gap and its effect on Black women, can be found here.
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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.
Structural engineers use codes and standards to design buildings and other structures to withstand forces due to natural hazards such as snow, wind, earthquake, and flood. Building owners, and the public at large, rely on codes and standards to provide a level of safety during such events. While there are lively debates on the role of codes and standards, and the understanding of the implied versus the actual level of performance, there is little debate on how climate change is covered today—it isn’t. While many owners are electing to design to levels beyond that mandated by code to incorporate climate change effects, the current provisions are based on backward-looking data.
SEI, the Structural Engineering Institute arm of ASCE, recently held its first climate change workshop that brought together 36 of the nation’s foremost experts in natural hazards both on the academic and practicing side to discuss possible ways to incorporate climate trends into ASCE 7. Since the ASCE-22 cycle is complete, all hazards are hitting the ground running for the next iteration and ASCE wants to ensure there is ample time for discussion prior to the next round of proposed changes to the Standard. If interested, look for upcoming opportunities to get involved in these discussions through ASCE code committees, SEI committees, or the NCSEA Resilience Committee.
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