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Vol. 23, No. 10 |
December 2007 |
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We need the assistance of several volunteers for the morning of January 26, 2008 to help judge and select the team to receive our special award. If you are willing to help judge this special award category, please contact Jim Mosner at 651-290-5512 or at james.b.mosner@usace.army.mil
Join the team that makes a difference!
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The University of Minnesota Department of Civil Engineering is seeking mentors for its spring 2008 Capstone Design course. Capstone Design is one of the final courses taken by most civil engineering undergraduates at the university. By working with practitioners in the field, students gain experience solving real-life engineering projects. Mentors-practitioners play an important role helping students address open-ended problems, propose a solution, and present this solution to the community. Mentors should be practicing professionals from the public or private sector. They meet with a group of four to five students weekly during the fifteen-week course, either at the university or at the mentor's job site. The projects they propose can come from any area of civil engineering, but must involve an economic component. The Capstone Design course has been a big success due to the interest and involvement of practitioners in the program. If you would like to participate, contact Professor Heinz Stefan at 612-625-2810 (stefa001@umn.edu) or Paul Eickenberg (peickenberg@wenck.com) For more info see the linked Dept of Civil Engineering's flyer or visit the U's web page at http://www.ce.umn.edu/alumni/capstone_mentor.html.
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As mentioned in previous newsletters, we are interested in your ideas for meeting presentation topics as well as any leads that you may have for interesting presenters. Please contact Paul Eickenberg, our Programs Coordinator, at 763.479.4253 or peickenberg@wenck.com with ideas or suggestions that you may have for upcoming technical presentations. Some of the areas/topics that we are especially interested in that help with our Post Award goals are:
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Justin
Waldron (l) receives the Presenter's
Mug
from Post President Jim Mosner (r) in
appreciation of his terrific presentation on
the new Texas Stadium, which will be the
largest domed stadium in the world when it's
completed in 2009. In addition to an
overview of all aspects of this immense
project,
he
also provided fascinating detail about the
foundation and structural systems that will
support the massive movable roof as well as
workings of the mechanical and electrical
systems that will be utilized.
He also covered a bit of history on the
evolution of movable roof systems that have
been developed for other stadiums in the
country.
Thanks
to our members who donated items for the "Care Packages for our
Troops" collection at last month's meeting. Those items were
added to the other items collected that St. Paul District USACE
office and sent to the District's personnel who are deployed in
Iraq. The Care Packages will be much appreciated.
As
mentioned in last month's newsletter, our Post has
volunteered to sponsor a special award category for the team
that best addresses "Readiness for Natural and Man-made
Disasters". 