Special thanks to our 2024-2025 Platinum Sponsors!
Come celebrate with ASCE Maryland to celebrate our newest life members and soak up all the holiday cheer! We will enjoy a buffet dinner at this event. No technical presentation will be given. Instead, we will celebrate a presentation of our life members. Music performance to be announced! Delicious desserts are being graciously donated by DFI Engineering.
Additionally, two tours of the Engineers Club - also known as the historic Garrett-Jacobs Mansion - will be given. The first tour will begin at 6:00 PM, and the second tour will begin at 6:45 PM. Tours are free and no additional registration is required!
Please consider bringing a new, unwrapped toy to donate to Toys For Tots at this event as well.
Music performance by Boate & Aljuni beginning at 6PM.
Special thanks to DFI Engineering for providing cheesecake desserts!
Upcoming Events
December 2024
11th - MD Section Holiday Party and Engineers Club Tour
12th - SEI Event
January 2025
13th - Professional Objectives & YMG Event - FE Exam Prep Panel
15th - MD Section & Geo-Institute Joint Event
February 2025
12th - MD Section Event
March 2025
29th - ASCE Maryland Section Annual Scholarship Fundraiser
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Location: The Engineer's Club
Garrett Jacobs Mansion
11 W. Mt Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
6:00 PM - 6:45 PM Engineer's Club Tour 6:45 PM - 7:30 PM Engineer's Club Tour 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Social Hour & Networking 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Dinner & DessertCost: $35 for Students & Government Employees*
$50 for Members
$65 for Non-Members
Dinner: Dinner buffet with NY Strip Steak Madagascar, Stuffed Salmon with Hollandaise sauce, salads, side vegetables, and dessert (cheesecakes and cakes) courtesy of Ray Streib and DFI (Development Facilitators, Inc.).
Dress Code: Business Professional
We will be using ASCE Collaborate for all events moving forward. While you are required to have an ASCE log-in, you are not required to be an ASCE member to create an account or register for events. Please email reservations@ascemd.org for any questions regarding the new registration process.
*Government Employees or those paying with their ESB (Chit) Account should select "Generate Invoice" and we will invoice you separately.
We do not accept American Express cards!
Presented by: Silas Nicholas
In Partnership with the Geo-Institute, a presentation by Silas Nichols from Federal Highway Administration's Office of Infrastructure.
About the Topic
Over the last several years, the combination of complex bridge replacement projects (primarily in urban areas), and rapid repair of failed bridge foundations have presented new challenges to structure foundation designers. It has become relatively common for geotechnical engineers to need to find resilient and sustainable solutions for these difficult situations while meeting accelerated time schedules and tight budgets. The best-case scenario outlined here would be to evaluate foundations for reuse without any additional work. However, this is often not a feasible option. Especially in the case of a failed foundation where the load path is no longer reliable. This results in approaches that identify foundation types that that can be used in replacement applications in limited right-of-way and for replacement of failed foundations, and methods for considering structural enhancement or supplement to existing foundations that may be reused for continued structural support.
About the Speaker
Silas Nichols is the Principal Geotechnical Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Infrastructure. Silas is responsible for providing leadership and direction for the FHWA National Geotechnical Team through policy support, technical developments, and coordination with industry and professional groups. Silas’ experience is in both public and private sector engineering work. Professional experience includes design and construction services for numerous routine and complex or unusual projects throughout the United States; development and delivery of instructor led and web-based training for continued education of transportation engineers; development and delivery of university courses; invited and keynote presentations; authoring technical articles and editorial columns; and various levels of participation on technical and steering committees. Silas is a Certified Instructor and a Master Trainer for the National Highway Institute (NHI) and teaches classes part-time at the University of Delaware. Silas has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Syracuse University, and a master’s degree in Geotechnical Engineering from Tuft’s University.
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Location: The Engineer's Club
Garrett Jacobs Mansion
11 W. Mt Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost: $35 for Students & Government Employees*
$50 for Members
$65 for Non-Members
Dinner: TBA
Dress Code: Business Professional
We will be using ASCE Collaborate for all events moving forward. While you are required to have an ASCE log-in, you are not required to be an ASCE member to create an account or register for events. Please email reservations@ascemd.org for any questions regarding the new registration process.
*Government Employees or those paying with their ESB (Chit) Account should select "Generate Invoice" and we will invoice you separately.
We do not accept American Express cards!
Presented by: Dr. Thomas Gernay
About the Topic
The response of structures to accidental fire events is a crucial component of the safety and resilience of the built environment. While structural engineers explicitly consider gravity, wind, and earthquake- induced forces in their design, they often rely on prescriptive rules for mitigating fire hazard. However, developing an understanding of the anticipated behavior of structures in fire provides benefits as it allows engineers to assess risk, safely innovate, and quantify performance of candidate designs to meet resilience and sustainability goals. Engineers must have access to the appropriate models and analyses tools to enable these assessments. This presentation will discuss available methods for characterizing fire exposures, material response, and structural behavior in the fire situation, and discuss their application as part of a performance-based structural fire design approach. The presentation will also highlight through practical examples how assessing explicitly the performance of structures in fire can deliver benefits in terms of cost, safety, architectural heritage, sustainability, and resilience.
About the Speaker
Thomas Gernay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he founded and leads the Multi-Hazard Resilient Structures group. His areas of research are in structural fire engineering, computational mechanics, risk and resilience, and performance-based design. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the co- author of SAFIR®, the finite element software to model the behavior of structures subjected to fire. His contributions have notably been recognized by an NSF CAREER award, the AISC Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award, the NFPA Foundation Medal, and the IAFSS Magnusson Early Career Award. He serves as an Associate Editor for both the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering and for Springer’s Fire Technology, and is Co-Chair of the ASCE SEI Fire Protection Committee. He holds a Ph.D. in structural engineering from University of Liege and was a Fulbright postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University.
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Location: The Engineer's Club
Garrett Jacobs Mansion
11 W. Mt Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost: $35 for Students & Government Employees*
$50 for Members
$65 for Non-Members
Dinner: TBA
Dress Code: Business Professional
We will be using ASCE Collaborate for all events moving forward. While you are required to have an ASCE log-in, you are not required to be an ASCE member to create an account or register for events. Please email reservations@ascemd.org for any questions regarding the new registration process.
*Government Employees or those paying with their ESB (Chit) Account should select "Generate Invoice" and we will invoice you separately.
We do not accept American Express cards!
MARYLAND SECTION SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER (2).pdfMaryland Section Annual Scholarship Fundraiser
More details coming soon!