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ASCE ASSEMBLY
Welcome to
In This Issue:
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Tonight’s agenda:
Speaking: City of Wichita- Shawn
Mellies (Chief Design Engineer)
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Professor Spotlight: Dr. Sunanda
Dissanayake
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Announcements
4
Fall 2014 Officer Contacts
And Daily Bridge puzzle
Did You Know?
Assembly
October 23, 2014
Speaker Profile:
Mr. Mellies graduated from Kansas State University in May of 2006
with a bachelor of science in civil engineering. He started working
for the City of Wichita after graduation as the small projects
engineer, and then he was promoted to the special projects engineer
in spring of 2012. In the fall of 2013, he became the chief design
engineer. He is a member of the Kansas Chapter of American Public
Works Association (APWA) were he currently serve as the career
awareness chair and Wichita Society of Professional Engineers
(WSPE) were he serve as vice-president. Mr. Mellies is also a
licensed engineer in the State of Kansas.
IMPORTANT:
The world’s largest office
What if I don’t attend enough assembly meetings
building by floor size is the
to receive credit?
Pentagon in Virginia, USA, with
over half of its
Students are required to earn credit for the CE 015 course
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6500000 square foot
each semester enrolled as a civil engineering student.
(604000 square meters) floor area
Students who do not meet the aforesaid requirements will
used as offices.
receive no-credit for the class for the semester
Fall ASCE Tentative Schedule
October 23- Assembly in Umberger 105
 City of Wichita
October 30- Assembly in Umberger 105
 HNTB
November 1- Joint Diner at KSU
 KDOT-Calvin Reed
November 20- Assembly in Umberger 105
 Senior Projects
 Officer Elections
and a hold will be placed on their iSIS account until credit is
earned. The only way to make up this credit is to write a ten
page research paper for each seminar missed during the
semester. The topic for the paper must be approved in
advance by a course instructor. Topics typically cover
technical aspects of civil engineering that are of interest to the
student.
Paper Requirements
The paper must be:
1) 10 pages
2) Double-spaced
3) 1” margins
4) 12 point font
5) Cover page and reference page that do not count
towards 10 pages
6) At least 3 references from current journals or industry
periodicals
7) Standard referencing format – either “name and date”
or “numerical” method is allowed
8) Not submitted previously for a class assignment
To learn more, please see the CE 015 course
syllabus and CE 015 Policies.
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Dr. Sunanda Dissanayake (Dr. D)
Professor
2128 Fiedler Hall
sunanda@ksu.edu
Dr. Dissanayake was born and raised in the beautiful island nation of
Sri Lanka to a family that treated education as the number one priority. After passing an
extremely competitive national exam, she entered University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka
to study Engineering and selected Civil Engineering as her major after the common first
year. (Do you know that public university education in Sri Lanka is completely free?)
She then continued to Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand for her
Masters degree after getting a German scholarship. (Do you know that there are many
scholarships and you will not get one unless you apply?) After a brief return to Sri Lanka,
Dr. D came to the United States to get a doctoral degree from University of South
Florida. Upon completing her PhD in Civil/Transportation Eng., she decided to stay in
the US, which was one of the hardest decisions, and joined KSU in the Fall of 2002.
At KSU, Dr. D teaches UG courses CE 411: Route Location and Design; CE 572:
Highway Engineering, Planning and Design; and Graduate courses CE 775: Traffic
Engineering; CE 771: Travel Demand Modeling; and CE 872: Transportation Safety. She
has completed many research projects related to traffic engineering and safety, and
currently works on 8 active research projects in the area of Transportation Engineering
based on very applied and practical topics.
Dr. D is a registered professional engineer, a member of ASCE, ITE, Chi Epsilon, and
many other technical and professional committees at the national level. She has published
extensively and serves on the Editorial Board of two reputed journals in Transportation
Engineering and has also been a recipient of the highly prestigious Fulbright Scholar
award for her sabbatical. Dr. D is also the first female Full Professor in the Civil Dept
since its inception in 1907.
On personal side, Dr. D is married to Gamage, who also works for KSU in Information
Technology area and has two wonderful daughters. Gihani (20) is a senior at UNC,
Chapel Hill and studying abroad this semester in Costa Rica, while Kalani (11) is a sixth
grader at Bergman Elementary in Manhattan.
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BrainBashers Daily Bridges
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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
Introductions:
Practitioner Advisors:
Honorary Lifetime
Contact Member:
Faculty Advisors:
Officer Contacts:
President:
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 Now you try one
Now you try one
Dave Karnowski
Peter Clark
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
dlpowers@ksu.edu
Concrete Canoe Chairs:
Jacquelyn Ewald
jkewald@ksu.edu
Darren Meyer
djmeyer@ksu.edu
Open House Chairs:
Show off your art skills and try to
draw the Skyscraper shown on the
bottom left hand corner!
Ben Nye
nye@ksu.edu
Koby Slaven
kslaven@ksu.edu
George Baker
georgefbaker@ksu.edu
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Scholarships
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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 2015 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 Alfred Benesch & Company for coming to our ASCE Chapter meeting. Here
are a few pictures to remember!
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Solution to the puzzle bridge:
Fold and tear here
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name: _________________________________________
Class Rank:
FR
SO
JR
Date: October 23, 2014
Student Member:
Y
/
N
(circle one)
National Member:
Y
/
N
(circle one)
National Number: ____________________________
SR
(circle one)