ASCE Lehigh Valley Section

June brought us an in-person construction site tour of the I-80 Exit 308 interchange realignment in Stroudsburg, which is a near $100 million construction project reconstructing the interchange with two bridge replacements, two new roundabouts, new ramps and road reconstruction, and plenty of retaining walls, new signs, curbs/sidewalk, and drainage/utility work. A great turnout of ASCE Lehigh Valley Members made the trip to brave the 90+ degree weather for a project tour, and then afterwards, head to Stroudsmoor Country Inn to enjoy dinner and a presentation on the project by lead designer Tyler Kerstetter, PE of CDM Smith. Special thanks to Tyler for participating and presenting, as well as Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and J.D. Eckman, Inc. for allowing the tour to take place, and Nicholas Giglio, PE of Urban Engineers for organizing the event! Joseph McFadden and Ian Carson, EIT of Michael Baker International were also of great assistance for planning and participating in the event!

LVASCE had their annual awards dinner last night at Lafayette College, where students and career professionals were honored for their engineering achievements. Students from each student chapter in our section were recognized as exceptional leaders. Congrats to Joseph Giannella and Jonathan Nowak from Kings College, Amanda Sprague from Lafayette College, and Kyra Boston from Lehigh University, for being recognized as winners of the 2024 ASCE Student Leadership award! Congratulations are also in order to Matt Evans, PE for being awarded as our 2023 Young Civil Engineer of the Year, and Keith Weitknecht for being awarded 2023 Civil Engineer of the Year! Another award that is given each year is for Project of the Year, and this years winner was the City of Allentown and Michael Baker International for their work on the Jordan Creek Greenway between Turner Street and MacArthur Road. Always nice to see a new project that benefits pedestrians and gives recreational opportunities! Special thanks to Sean Dooley for leading the awards committee, Kristen Sanford for leading the planning with Lafayette, and Lane Wilder, MEng, PE for overseeing the planning of this whole process! So much work is done behind the scenes to make this happen. Thank you to everyone that was able to attend, and thank you to everyone that volunteers their time to further contribute to the civil engineering profession!

The deadline to apply for our annual awards is quickly approaching! Nominations for Young Engineer of the Year, Engineer of the Year, and Project of the Year can be found here: https://lnkd.in/gRMzmpvY We request that any nominations are submitted to Sean Dooley at sdooley@kceinc.com by this Friday, March 15th!

We are less then 6 days away and already have over 80 golfers signed up. Don’t be left out. Sign up now before it’s too late.

We are only 12 days away from the 6th Annual EPIC Golf Outing. Please get your golfer registrations in by September 22nd if you can. Looking forward to some great golf and some great raffle gifts donated by some of our Friends at Aero Aggregates of North America, Compaction Grouting Services, Inc., Geo-Technology Associates, Inc. (GTA), and GeoStructures, Inc.

It’s that time of year again. Come join us on September 29th for some fun and a little bit of golf. We have raised enough to fund two college scholarships for High School seniors as well as some ASCE student chapter awards. https://lnkd.in/g2zzN6qY

It’s that time of year again. Come join us on September 29th for some fun and a little bit of golf. We have raised enough to fund two college scholarships for High School seniors as well as some ASCE student chapter awards. https://lnkd.in/g2zzN6qY