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Welcome to
In This Issue:
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Tonight’s agenda:
Speaking: Alfred Benesch &
Company
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Professor Spotlight: Dr. Esmaeily
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Announcements
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Fall 2014 Officer Contacts
And Daily Bridge puzzle
Did you Know?
The Empire State Building
contains 60,000 tons of steel,
more than 10 million bricks,
and has 6,500 windows.
Assembly
October 9, 2014
Speaker(s) Profile:
Chuck Bartlett, PE, AVS Project Principal. Chuck graduated from KState with a BS in Civil Engineering in 1986 and an MS in Civil
Engineering in 1988 and has over 25 years of civil engineering
experience. He is in charge of transportation design; civil site design;
storm water management; and water resources throughout Kansas.
He has led Benesch’s team as KDOT seeks to improve K-177, K-4
and US-50. He is an Associate Value Specialist and regularly
participates in value planning / engineering studies. In Kansas he led
KDOT’s Value Planning effort for K-14 in Rice and Reno Counties
and the City of Manhattan’s Value Planning related to the K-18 / K113 interchange. Chuck will lead and coordinate all efforts of the
Benesch team.
Chris Harker, PE, Bridge Design. Chris graduated from K-State with
a BS in Civil Engineering in 2001 and a MS in Structural
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Engineering in 2004. Chris’s responsibilities include structural and
civil design, hydraulic assessments, load-rating analyses, cost
Fall ASCE Tentative Schedule
estimating, plan review, development of specifications and overall
project management. His design projects have included highway and
October 9- Assembly in Umberger 105
rural bridges, culverts, roadways, retaining walls and levees. Chris’s
 Alfred Benesh & Company bridge design experience ranges from large structures, such as K-23
October 23- Assembly in Umberger 105 over the Cimarron River, to local projects, such as US-73 over Piper
 City of Wichita
Creek. He is a NHI/KDOT prequalified bridge inspector and
October 30- Assembly in Umberger 105
construction observer, and will be a resource for KDOT throughout a
 HNTB
structure’s life cycle.
November 1- Joint Diner at KSU
Bethany McDiffett, IE. Bethany graduated from K-State with a BS in
 KDOT-Calvin Reed
November 20- Assembly in Umberger 105 Civil Engineering in 2012 and has 3 years of civil engineering
experience. Bethany is responsible for traffic engineering,
 Senior Projects
construction observation, assistant construction administration and
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design services on transportation projects. Her transportation
experience includes the KDOT K-177 Modernization project and the
City of Hays 41st Street Improvement project.
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Dr. Asad Esmaeily
Professor
2112 Fiedler Hall
asad@ksu.edu
Dr. Esmaeily was born in Kerman, a south-central city in Iran,
where he finished his primary and high school, ranking first in Kerman
Province and second nationwide. He earned his BS and MS in civil
engineering from Tehran University. After graduation with his MS, he
worked for three years as the managing director of Kerman Regional
Water Authority with 10 offices and more than 2000 employees nationwide, affiliated to
ministry of energy. He also taught at Kerman Azad University, and worked as a senior
design engineer for a couple of years before starting his Ph.D. program.
He graduated with a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from University of Southern
California (USC) in 2001. He also holds an MS in Structural Engineering and an MS in
Electrical Engineering from the same school, earned in 1998 and 2000 respectively. After
graduation he worked for Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) for close to
a year where he was engaged in the “San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span
Seismic Safety project.”
Since joining the civil engineering department at KSU in August 2002, Dr.
Esmaeily has taught 14 different undergraduate and graduate courses like Statics, Statics
and Dynamics, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Advanced Theory of
Reinforced Concrete, Structural Dynamics, Structural Analysis, and Design of Structures
under Dynamic Loads. He has published a number of teaching related papers and has
received James L. Hollis Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,
Myers-Alford Memorial Teaching Award, and CE outstanding teaching award for several
times.
His research interests include a wide range of topics within the structural area,
especially structural dynamics and earthquake resistant structures. At KSU, he has been
involved in some research programs related to reinforced concrete structures, such as
Post Tensioning Inverted T Girders, Time-dependent properties of SCC, Confined
Concrete Models and behavior, and Seismic Response of Bridge Piers under Various
Loading Scenarios, Thermal Effects on Integral Bridges, Optimal Algorithms for
Structural Damage Detection, and Development of a Simple Process for Strength
Evaluation of Bridges. He has developed a number of computer applications widely used
by educational, private and public institutes. He received the Pre-cast/Prestressed
Concrete Institute’s George D. Nasser Award in 2008. He served as the civil engineering
coordinator of a World Bank Project to rebuild the Kabul University College of
Engineering from 2006 to 2010.
He is an active/voting member of several professional societies such as ASCE,
ACI, ASEE, EMI, and technical committees like ASCE-ACI Committee 441 and ASCE
Experimental Analysis and Instrumentation (EA & I) Committee for which he has served
as chair, co-chair and control group member for several years. He is the associate editor
of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering since 2008, and served as the guest editor for
the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics special issue of innovative methods in
damage detection and wind engineering. Dr. Esmaeily has been the concrete canoe
advisor since 2002, and is currently serving as the faculty advisor for the ASCE student
chapter. He married his wonderful wife Shokouh in 1994, and they now have 2 sons,
Amir Elias, 18, born in Los Angeles, and Daniel, 11, born in Manhattan, and a daughter,
Shokoufa, 4, born in Manhattan.
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Introductions:
Practitioner Advisors:
Honorary Lifetime
Contact Member:
Faculty Advisors:
Officer Contacts:
President:
BrainBashers Daily Bridges
Dave Karnowski
Peter Clark
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Objective/Rules
- You have a collection of islands, each of
which
contains
a
number.
- This number shows you how many
bridges
leave
that
island.
- Your task is to connect every island,
such that any island can be reached
from
any
other.
- A maximum of two bridges can connect
two
islands
together.
- Bridges can only go horizontally or
vertically and may not cross each other.
Here is an example
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Now you try one
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Bob Thorn
Dr. Esmaeily
Dr. Riding
Vincent Studer
studerv@ksu.edu
Vice President:
Claudia Gonzalez
Treasurer:
Jacob Paperi
Secretary:
Bryan Harkrader
Editor/Historian:
Yadira Porras
Freshman/Sophomore Rep:
Brett Morey
Activities/Projects Chair:
Mary Madden
claudi1@ksu.edu
jpaperi@ksu.edu
bhark@ksu.edu
yaporras@ksu.edu
bmorey@ksu.edu
marymadden@ksu.edu
Caleb Mitchell
caleb7@ksu.edu
Grad Representative:
Andrew Bernica
Steel Bridge Chairs:
Eric Hamilton
abernica@ksu.edu
eric29@ksu.edu
Donald Powers
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dlpowers@ksu.edu
Concrete Canoe Chairs:
Jacquelyn Ewald
jkewald@ksu.edu
Darren Meyer
djmeyer@ksu.edu
Open House Chairs:
Ben Nye
nye@ksu.edu
Koby Slaven
kslaven@ksu.edu
George Baker
georgefbaker@ksu.edu
Show off your art skills and try to
draw the Brooklyn Bridge shown
on your right!
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Scholarships

Wichita Branch ASCE Scholarship
The Wichita Branch R. Spencer Delamater, P.E. Scholarship was established in 1999 for
the purpose of inspiring civil engineering students to high achievement in both academic
and leadership development. The $1,000 scholarship for the Spring 2014 semester is
available to a Kansas State University or a University of Kansas civil engineering junior
or senior from the 37 county area the Wichita Branch serves.
For more details visit the KSU ASCE website under our bulletin board!
APPLICATION DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 31, 2014
Special Thanks to Nathan Bergman and the National Society of Professional Engineers
for sponsoring our picnic. Here are a few pictures to remember!
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