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Next Branch Meeting - June 15, 2010

Speaker:
Russell Jernigan, P.E., P.G., Ph.D.
Texas Project Manager
Brierley Associates

Topic:
Underground Construction Techniques

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Branch Newsletter


June 2010

Central Texas Growth, Infrastructure and Comprehensive Planning
ASCE - Austin Continuing Education July 27, 2010

Please join us at this year’s ASCE Continuing Education Seminar at the University of Texas MCC building.  This year’s Keynote address will be given by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell.

This year’s speakers include:

Lee Leffingwell (Mayor City of Austin)
Amadeo Saenz (TxDOT Executive Director)
Betty Voights (Executive Director Capital Area Council of Governments)
Joe Cantalupo (Former CAMPO Executive Director to Discuss 2035 Plan)
Joe Gieselman (Travis County - Executive Manager Transportation and Natural Resources)
Mike Kelly (City of Austin Watershed Protection)
Richard Semple (Williamson County GIS Manager)

 

All proceeds benefit the ASCE scholarship fund. Government sector employees, nonprofits and unemployed personnel may attend for a $25 donation.  ASCE and TSPE members may attend for a $125 donation and nonmembers may attend for a $150 donation.  Firms may sponsor this event for $500, which includes up to 5 attendees, display of marketing material, and a banner at the event.  Sponsoring firms will also have their logo displayed on the registration page and projected on the screen at the event.  The Texas Board of Professional Engineers requires 15 hours of continuing education credit per year; this event will count for 7 continuing education hours.  Please contact David Harris at dmharris@pbsj.com with any questions or comments.

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Fall 2010 PE Review Course
Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowling
2010 Austin Children's Museum

Branch & UT Help in New Orleans
Austin Branch Wins Again

 

Linda Barlow Receives 2009 Citizen Engineer Award!!

After graduating from high school in Galveston, Texas, Ms. Barlow moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas. She worked during school to offset costs, first for the Texas State Senate for two years and then for Austin Research Engineers (ARE), Inc, a pavement specialty firm, until her graduation. She continued to work for ARE, and after the firm was purchased by first Southwestern Laboratories/Huntingdon, then by Maxim Technologies, and then by HVJ Associates, Inc.

Ms. Barlow traveled around the US during the first part of her career, working on various airport and highway pavement projects in a number of different states. Additionally, in the late 1980’s she served the Austin Branch ASCE in a number of roles including: secretary/treasurer, treasurer, secretary, and V.P. communications. After her first child, she was able to stay in Austin working on various street and airport projects for the City of Austin and other surrounding cities. She continued her participation in the Austin Branch by sitting on the Engineering Management Committee, and subsequently on other committees including the 150th Anniversary Committee and the Public Relations Committee, which she has chaired for the last nine years.

Ms. Barlow is currently working as Senior Project Manager in the Pavement Department of HVJ Associates, Inc. She is experienced in civil engineering work, including: traffic and transportation, highway and streets, pedestrian facilities meeting ADA requirements, and airport pavements. Ms. Barlow's 20+ years of project experience provides a well-rounded knowledge of civil engineering work, with an emphasis on evaluation, design, and construction of pavements and associated traffic items. She has significant experience working on City of Austin funded projects.

 During her career, Ms. Barlow has prepared a number of technical presentations at various conferences, as well as taught a three-hour course on flexible and rigid pavement design at an ASCE continuing education seminar.

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Public Relations
Membership
Scholarship
Programs

 

Michael Kelly, P.E. Receives Government Civil Engineer Award

Mr. Kelly has been a member of ASCE since 1999 and focuses his Member activities in the Environmental Water Resources Institute (EWRI). Since 1996, Mr. Kelly has been employed with the City of Austin in the Watershed Protection Department, where he is currently a Supervising Engineer. Over the past 14 years, he has had the opportunity to work in a variety of water resource specialty fields including: Stream Restoration, Stormwater Treatment, Flood Hazard Reduction, and Wastewater Collection Systems.

Mr. Kelly’s most recent emphasis has centered on Stormwater quality and quantity in the urban environment. To that end, Mr. Kelly has been working closely with the Urban Water Resources Research Council within EWRI to bring a sound, science based approach to the development of Best Management Practices for construction and post-construction phase Stormwater controls. Mr. Kelly leads a team of City of Austin Engineers in developing Innovative Water Quality Controls (aka Green Infrastructure) and the related Design Criteria needed to achieve compliance with the City’s Water Quality Ordinances. In addition, Mr. Kelly and his team have developed state of the science guidance documents for construction phase erosion and sedimentation plans for projects completed within the City of Austin. These design guidance documents are being used as templates by government agencies across Central Texas as emphasis on clean water in the region increases.

Mr. Kelly received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Master’s degree is in Agricultural Engineering-Soil and Water Resources. Mr. Kelly received the ASCE Texas Section John B. Hawley Award in 2001 in recognition of a Technical Paper of Outstanding Merit entitled “Sediment Transport in Urban Stream Restoration Design”. Mr. Kelly enjoys working with local groups such as Habitat for Humanity and American Youth Works to help build a better Austin.
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Crespin Guzman, P.E. Receives Award Honor

Crespin is currently employed by Klotz Associates, Inc. in the Austin office as a Regional Manager since September 2008. Prior to joining Klotz Associates, he worked with Claunch & Miller, Inc. since February 2003 after his retirement from the City of Austin with almost twenty five (25) years of service. That period of time was spent between the Public Works Department and the Water and Wastewater Utility with the latter encompassing almost twenty (20) years.

Born and raised in San Benito, Texas after high school he joined the Army in 1963 and returned from service in the Far East and Europe to begin his collegiate experience in 1966 at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, Texas. After his first year he transferred to the University of Texas at Austin and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1971.

He went to Brownsville to start his professional engineering career. During this time he was actively involved in several professional organizations in leadership roles with the Rio Grande Valley Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers (TSPE), the Brownsville Jaycees and the Rio Grande Valley Jaycees. In 1977 he returned to Austin to pursue a Masters Degree in Public Administration and attended the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. In 1979 he joined the City of Austin Public Works Department to begin his public service career as a civil engineer in municipal government.

This point in time also marks the beginning of his involvement with several other professional organizations related to the engineering profession and extensive community service. He joined the Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering (TAME) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) while continuing with TSPE and the Travis Chapter. In 1983 he joined the American Water Works Association (AWWA) when he moved into the City’s Water and Wastewater Utility. Soon thereafter, he was instrumental in founding the Austin Chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). In the early ‘90’s during his tenure with the City of Austin, he helped found the Austin Hispanic Network (AHN), an employee organization promoting personal professional development and community service. Through the years he has received a variety of awards and recognition from all these organizations noting his service and leadership.

Married to Maria J. Sanchez in 1968 they have raised five children and currently have six grandchildren. All five children are professionals in their own right and include one attorney, two civil engineers, one accountant and one in marketing/sales. Two of them live away from Austin. He and the family have been active in their parish community over the years and still continue to be involved. He enjoys camping, horseshoes and some golf now and then.

 

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