2008-2009 Officer Nominations and Positions

Conference Coordinator - Responsible for the transportation, registration, and activities of ASCE members at the 2009 Pacific Southwest Regional Conference in Hawaii. Will work with the prospective hotel, airfare, t-shirt, and car rental companies. Also, will work with Advertising and Publicity to recruit more attendees, with Treasurer on all expenses, Project Managers for scheduling, and Executive Board/ past Conference Coordinator for advice and decisions.
Nominees - Kimberly Manago

Career Fair Coordinator - Coordinates all aspects of the ASCE Civil and Environmental Engineering Career Fair at UCLA including contacting and maintaining relations with professionals, arranging venue location, food, and preparatory work, compilation of the career fair directory with information obtained from the participating companies, collecting resumes for the resume CD, promoting the event, etc. The position involves a lot of individual behind the scenes work and typically involves a heavy work load during the fall and winter quarters and some summer work, including a large amount of time spend contacting representatives via e-mail and telephone and organizing the event with UCLA event services representatives. The career fair coordinator is a position that requires a lot of self motivation and organization.
Nominees - Alexi Poulos, Kartik Atyam

Speaker Coordinator - Responsible for reserving rooms at the beginning of the year, working with the Career Fair Coordinator regarding gold/platinum sponsors, contacting companies and accommodating dates and times that are most convenient for them, arranging food and drinks for each meeting, working with the Publicity Chair, Web Master, and Correspondence Secretary with advertising for the meeting. Also responsible for arranging site tours and networking events with companies.
Nominees - Kristine Gali

Advertising and Publicity Chair - Coordinate with the other officers and projects to advertise events or opportunities. This is achieved by creating flyers, posters, and banners that are aesthetically pleasing. Also, all of the ASCE boards must be updated when necessary.
Nominees - Wendy Ito, Eric Chin

Alumni/Faculty Liaison - Creates and maintains list of alumni contact information. Keeps alumni informed of student interests via quarterly newsletters, and invites alumni and faculty to various student activities. Coordinates events that promote student, faculty, and alumni interaction.
Nominees - Yaniv Peeri

Correspondence Secretary - Responsible for sending out weekly emails that serve to update members about upcoming events, and about scholarships and job opportunities that ASCE has been notified about. The correspondence secretary collects updates from officers and compiles the weekly email every Monday. The position requires work every week for the entire year, but only for a few hours each week.
Nominees - Elizabeth Conklin

Webmaster - Responsible for maintaining the ASCE website including updating pictures, member lists, project pages, uploading files, and responding to inquiries. Capable of computer troubleshooting with a working knowledge of HTML, PHP, MySQL, and FTP clientside programs. Workload varies between long hours and idleness, depending on what needs to be updated and the proficiency of web design required. Beginning of fall quarter is busiest when pages need to be updated to comply with the current school year, however, time consuming tasks are dispersed throughout the year.
Nominees - Bobby Freidin

Social Chair - Responsible for planning at least one social event and one field trip each quarter. Also responsible for planning the End of the Year Trip. Requires organization and initiative to successfully provide numerous ASCE social events.
Nominees - Hy-Sun Lee

Community Service Chair - Responsible for organizing and implementing community service events in which members and faculty can participate. The frequency of events may vary quarter to quarter, with usually about two events a quarter. Events themselves may vary from beach cleaning to building a house in Mexico. Need to attend weekly Engineers without Borders meeting.
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Mentorship Chair - Arranges mentorship program and encourages mentor/mentee pairs to attend ASCE activities. Plans events and coordinates various activities amongst the mentors and mentees.
Nominees - Rachel Hoff

Membership Chair - Responsible for recruiting and keeping track of ASCE-UCLA membership. Registers UCLA members to the National ASCE. Requires many hours of work during fall quarter.
Nominees - Hila Sprecher

Historian/Newsletter Editor - Composes a quarterly newsletter that summarizes recent events, upcoming events, and the progress of the ASCE conference projects. Responsible for working with the CEE department, the UCLA yearbook committee and others to help compose any brief articles for those organizations' own publications. Also collects photos and videos of ASCE throughout the year and compiles them in an annual end-of-the-year banquet slideshow.
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IM Sports Captain - Organizes and registers teams to play UCLA intramural sports each quarter. Requires finding out the interest and commitment in any upcoming sports. Needs to be in constant contact with all the team members, informing them of any upcoming games of updates.
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Concrete Canoe:

Note: First and foremost, this is a group project and its success is largely a function of the leaders' ability to help one another in whatever manner deemed appropriate. All positions have important roles in writing and editing of the design report.

Project Manager - Responsible for creating a budget, a project schedule, and coordinating the work of all of the directors. Serve as editor of the paper as well the presentation, and appointing other important positions within the group.
Nominees - Sharon Liu, Juan Zuniga

Construction Manager - Responsible for the construction of the mold and any materials/resources necessary needed to complete this task. You will coordinate workdays and schedule what activities need to be completed, as well as major milestones that must be reached to keep the project on schedule. The Construction Manager's duties peak towards the end of fall quarter.
Nominees - Chelsea Hoffman

Final Product Director - Responsible for finishing the canoe and preparing it for its final aesthetical presentation and readying it for competition. This will again include scheduling and coordination with team members in order to stay on task. Beginning with sanding and ending with staining and/or inlays, the ultimate goal is to make the canoe look and perform as best as possible. The Final Product Coordinator will find themselves most busy during winter quarter and the weeks preceding conference.
Nominees - Brian Wada, Wendy Ito

Materials Director - Responsible for researching new materials and new techniques for concrete design. Once the materials are chosen, they must be acquired and tested. The Development and Testing section and Mix and Gradation Tables must be completed for the report.
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Structural/Hull Design Director - Researches and creates physical/computer models for the structural and hull design of the concrete canoe. Must begin research of structural mechanics and fluid dynamics for concrete canoes during the summer in order to complete the hull design of the canoe by 3rd week of fall quarter. Responsible for the writing of the Structural and Hull design sections of the Final Canoe report. Experience with programs like AutoCAD, Prosurf, and SAP2000 is recommended but not required.
Nominees - Matt Runyan

Steel Bridge Project

Note: All directors are expected to help out with every part of the bridge project, whereas this list details each individual's responsibility to the project to ensure that all portions have adequate oversight.

Project Manager - Is in charge of overseeing the Steel Bridge Project, to ensure the project is on schedule, within budgetary constraints, and to continually encourage new participants in joining the project. The project manager is responsible for making overall goals and deadlines for the project, and is further responsible for coordinating with all project directors to help achieve them. Finally, the project manager is responsible for communicating to all outside parties (and is in essence "the face" of the project), which includes, but is not limited to, attending weekly ASCE Officer Meetings to update and coordinate with all other projects.
Nominees - James Torres

Assistant Project Manager - Is primarily responsible for the internal functions of the project (i.e. taking meeting minutes, reserving rooms for meetings, ordering food for meetings, t-shirt design, etc). They will assist the Project Manager by ensuring that all directors are on task/updated with new information and will step in when the PM is unavailable. Must attend all meetings planned by PM and Directors.
Nominees - Andrea Brown

Construction Team Director - Is responsible for selecting the build team (to be approved by the entire leadership) and planning and running "Boot Camp", to ensure a competitive construction time. Boot Camp entails selecting a place to run practices, taping the course, and maintaining a physically fit team, all the while keeping a light social atmosphere. The director is also in charge of maintaining the build tools, fasteners, and is in charge of designing the bridge aesthetics.
Nominees - Rachel Hoff

Design Team Director(s) - Is responsible for coordinating the design process by having meetings with upperclassmen/graduate students/Prof. Sabol to learn the concepts of bridge design and design the bridge, (and preferably optimize the bridge). The director must also have open meetings to go over the design process, and explain why design decisions were made. The director is also responsible for making design documents through AutoCAD or Google Sketchup for testing and the Fabrication Team. If testing is deemed necessary, director will coordinated with Harold Kasper, and run test, redesign as necessary.
Nominees - Bobby Freidin

Fabrication Team Director(s) - Is responsible for coordinating the entire fabrication process, which includes (but is not limited to), creation & upkeep of a cutting schedule, creating the steel order with the Design Team, working closely with the Tool Crib. If testing is deemed necessary, the director is in charge of delivering the test pieces. The director is also responsible for ensuring that every team member is working safely and using tools properly, and is also in charge of making sure that the ASCE Lounge is properly cleaned and organized after every work day.
Nominees - Matt Bechtel

Surveying Project Manager - Surveying is the science of making all essential measurements to determine the relative position of points above, on, or beneath the surface of the Earth, and to depict them in a usable form, or to establish the position of points and/or details. The surveying director should have a strong foundation on the basics of surveying. He/She will be responsible for creating a team and teaching them some basic surveying skills. The project director should hold practice at least once a week. The project director will be provided an electronic version of an Elementary Surveying course reader. In order to be prepared for conference in the spring the project director should cover lectures 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10. The lectures are short, easy and are essential to obtaining a basic understanding of Surveying.
Nominees - Brandon Hale, Quang Le

Environmental Design Project Manager - Recruits members to work on the environmental design project and leads the team in solving an environmental engineering problem, typically involving the remediation of contaminated water. The work begins as soon as the rules for the project are out, and continues until a working system has been designed and built. Environmental Engineering classes are a helpful prerequisite for this position, but are not required.
Nominees - Kristina Martinez

Seismic Project Manager - Has to manage, design and assist the construction of a 1/72 scale balsa wood model to resist past earthquakes on a shaking table. The manager is in charge of picking the construction group (4 people), managing the schedule and design and analysis work. The team has to prepare a poster of the project and the manager has to take care of transportation for the team and the model.
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Concrete Frisbee Project Manager - Design, test, and field a concrete disc in competition. Assembles and coordinates team meetings. Defines project milestones and responsible for timely completion. Workload approximately 3 hours per week, and skills include communication, writing, concrete materials and casting.
Nominees - Benji Baker

Concrete Bowling Project Manager - This is a fun, creative, and relatively small project. There are several aspects of this project which must be completed, included are the following: Mold Construction, Concrete Design and Construction, Aesthetics Project Display, Create a skit (2-4 minutes), and Bowling Competition (Team of 3 members). Project Manager of Concrete Bowling is the perfect position for one who wants responsibility with minimal time input. However, it is highly recommended to get started early.
Nominees - Anna Habibzadeh

Letter From The President

Dear Students, Alumni, and Faculty,

It is with great pleasure that I present our recently updated and redesigned UCLA ASCE website. I invite you to spend some time learning more about the many activities currently underway.

I would like to congratulate all of our project teams for their hard work throughout the year. Their dedication paid off as we had one of our most successful performances at the Pacific Southwest Regional Conference. Five of our projects placed third or higher, and UCLA finished third overall out of 18 schools. Most impressive, our Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge teams both earned bids to their respective national competitions.

I would like to send my biggest thanks to our ASCE officers for their strong commitment this year. I am truly grateful for having had the privilege to lead such a talented and motivated group of officers. I would also like to extend a special thanks to our C&EE faculty, who have been instrumental in our success, especially our Faculty Advisor Professor Scott Brandenberg and Department Chair Professor J.S. Chen. As always, we thank our C&EE alumni for their continued support and guidance in helping our chapter secure industry sponsorship as well as providing insightful feedback on our projects.

Lastly, I would like to thank all 155 of our dedicated members for their commitment to UCLA ASCE this past year. I would also like to invite all returning students interested in becoming more active in UCLA ASCE to consider one of the many leadership opportunities next year - from leading projects to organizing events, there is something for everyone. To learn more, please email asce@seas.ucla.edu or ask one of our officers.

Please feel free to email me at pjonna@gmail.com as I am always eager to hear your ideas and suggestions. Thank you for your support, we look forward to a strong finish to the year.

Peter Jonna
President, ASCE UCLA

Latest Updates and Announcements

Concrete Sports: Frisbee Wins Second Place

Posted April 23, 2008, 3:17 pm
Concrete Frisbee Team 2008

2008 has been a great year for Concrete Frisbee. Thanks to everyone's hard work in the planning, construction, development, and competition portions of the project, the Concrete Frisbee team earned a 2nd place title at the PSWRC. At the conference, Doug Lauder and Benji Baker threw the Frisbee an impressive distance of 153 feet with an accuracy of 84%.
Now that the conference is over, director Paolo Baltar is looking for next year's team to push forward even more. A detailed project report of this year is to be published soon, documenting the project's successes and things to improve upon. Paolo says, "My hope is that it will help next year's team create a First place Frisbee."

Concrete Sports: Frisbee Media

Posted February 22, 2008, 8:47 pm
The Frisbee is cast in a female mold made of Polyurethane

2008 Concrete Frisbee Rules

Concrete Sports: Casting is Underway

Posted February 22, 2008, 8:42 pm

Concrete Frisbee is taking an innovative direction this year. A very intricate mold made of Polyurethane has enabled us to create smooth curves and detailed inlays.
After a few promising tests and a number of prototypes, we're on our way to making the final product to compete at Conference. A new mold has been cast, and we will be making new Concrete Frisbees in the near future.
As the product reaches its final stages, testing and throwing practice can begin in preparation for competition. There's plenty of work to be done. Please don't hesitate to ask questions or get involved.

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08-09 Officers
President - Joy Park
EVP - Nicky Galloway
IVP - Thomas Curtis
Treasurer - Kilty Inafuku