ASCE MN EWR is seeking a representative to join the MN Water Resources Conference Planning Committee

This is a great opportunity to work with our local water experts to choose abstracts for presentations and moderate conference sessions. Having a term limited rotation on the committee allows ASCE members to contribute diverse perspectives to the conference planning committee. This term would begin mid-December 2025 and last for 2 years.

The Minnesota Water Resources Conference occurs annually over two days in October at the St. Paul RiverCentre. Since a merger of the Minnesota Water Conference and the Annual Water Resources Conference in 2005, the Minnesota Water Resources Conference has been reaching steadily growing numbers of drinking water and water resources professionals. The conference provides opportunities to discuss best practices and lessons learned from engineering, design, and management of projects; water policy decisions and implications, and features emerging issues and research including poster presentations between conference sessions.

For more information including programs from past conferences, please visit https://ccaps.umn.edu/minnesota-water-resources-conference. If you are interested in representing ASCE on the Water Resources Conference Planning Committee, would like to nominate someone, or have any questions please email ewr@ascemn.org by November 21, 2025.

2025 Membership Survey

We want to hear from you!

Our Section is only as good as our members, and we want to make sure we are providing our members with the best educational, networking, and professional opportunities possible.

Please take 5 minutes to fill out our survey and let us know where you think our Section currently stands and what we can improve on so you can make the most of your ASCE membership. All responses will be entered for a chance to win $50!

Open Board Positions

Want to be more involved? Join us!

We have two open Board of Directors positions available as well as needing some additional help on our committees! If you are interested in either of the two Director positions, please reach out to our president at the link below. Please reply by September 30th, 2025.

Director of Communications

Responsible for managing our member contacts, website, social media, and sending out targeted messages and surveys.

Director of Events

Responsible for coordinating monthly events (tours, lunch and learns, happy hours, etc.) This includes finding speakers, venues, and organizing our annual spring Banquet as well as communicating with our partner organizations such as SAME and APWA

Want to be a board member. Email us at president@ascemn.org

2025 Build'Em & Bust'Em

ASCE Minnesota Section members recently organized an engaging STEM outreach event on 8th May, 2025 at University of Saint Thomas for 3rd to 5th grade students from local public elementary schools. The hands-on activity gave students the opportunity to collaborate with their teachers to design and construct bridges using toothpicks. Once completed, the bridges were tested for efficiency, sparking curiosity and creativity while introducing students to basic engineering principles in a fun and interactive way.

ASCE MN Report Card - Call for Volunteers

The Minnesota Infrastructure Report Card Committee from the ASCE Minnesota and Duluth Sections is recruiting engineers from various infrastructure backgrounds to join the 2026 effort.

Infrastructure Report Cards are our opportunity to communicate our state’s infrastructure

needs and priorities to lawmakers and members of the public. Our last report card, Minnesota Infrastructure | ASCE's 2022 Infrastructure Report Card, was released in 2022 and covered ten categories of infrastructure.

Currently, we are recruiting for the following categories:

Aviation, Dams, Drinking Water, Energy, Inland Waterways (NEW), Ports, Rail (NEW), Schools (NEW), Solid Waste (NEW), Stormwater (NEW), Transit, and Wastewater.

Adoption of new categories will depend on the availability, interest and expertise of committee members. We are also soliciting volunteers for various other tasks, including working with the Report Card Chair and ASCE National staff to develop and executive a plan to release the grades.

We anticipate holding our kickoff orientation in April 2025 and publishing grades by April 2026 (dates tentative). The time commitment is usually around five (5) hours a month but can be more depending on your availability and category choice. New categories will require more time but can be spread out among committee members.

If you are interested in volunteering, please complete the New Participant Survey linked below by March 31st, 2025. Email Hannah at reportcard@ascemn.org if you have any questions.

Minnesota Section Awards 2025: Time for Nominations!

Do you happen to know of a project within the state of Minnesota that has advanced the public health, safety and welfare for the public and local communities? How about knowing an exceptional individual within the civil engineering community for their dedication to the profession as well as community?

If so, please consider submitting a nomination for one of the award categories bestowed by the Minnesota Section.

  Award Categories:

- Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year

- Outstanding Engineer of the Year

- Outstanding Project of the Year

For more details on how to submit a nomination please visit the awards section:

Legislative / Report Card Committee Updates

On Jan 21st, 2025 , ASCE MN Board was invited by Senator Sandy Pappas to join the Senate Capital Investment Committee Meeting on January 21st. Hannah Albertus-Benham and Meredith Lis Marcott, PE talked about the ASCE MN and Duluth Sections previous 2022 Infrastructure Report Card and gave an update about the upcoming 2026 Infrastructure State Report Card to the MN Senate Capital Investment Committee (link to broadcast below). They also talked about several key topics for improving the infrastructure that are important for our future!

Senator Ann Johnson Stewart, Senator Scott Dibble (Members of the Minnesota Senate Capital Investment Committee) Margaret Donahoe with Minnesota Transportation Alliance, and Danielle Luzinski, PE with ASCE MN Board were also present during the meeting.

If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please reach out to reportcard@ascemn.org

Link to recording: https://lnkd.in/gN9UK6Yq

President's Message - December 2024

Happy holidays!

I hope you all are staying warm this December as it seems winter showed up rather abruptly. Thankfully ASCE MN has several upcoming events planned to help starve off the winter blues! We hope you check out our Dec. Section meeting next Tuesday in collaboration with our Legislative Committee, which will highlight the ASCE Report Card process. This will be especially helpful to those interested in joining our Report Card Committee in preparation for our 2026 state update. Updating our report card is no small feat and we need as much help as possible in making sure the state of our infrastructure is accurately represented. All are welcome to attend! If you are interested in joining the Report Card Committee, please reach out to Hannah at reportcard@ascemn.org.

On another exiting note is our annual Membership Appreciation night, held at Brit's Pub in Minneapolis! This is one our favorite events of the year and we hope you all make an effort to join us as we thank you for being a dedicated contributing member to our Section (did I mention it's free?)

Lastly I wanted to remind you all that we still have some open positions on our Board and Committees. If you are interested in joining us, please do not hesitate to reach out to me at president@ascemn.org and let me know what you are interested in contributing!

Take care and I wish you a lovely holiday season,

Lauren Linderman, Ph.D.

ASCE MN is looking to establish a T&DI Chapter and we want to hear from you!

Established in 2002, the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) is one of the nine (9) technical Institutes of ASCE. Representing the community of transportation professionals and expertise within the 160,000+ strong global membership of the Society, T&DI serves as the home for all transportation & development-related activities at ASCE.

We ask you to respond to the following survey to let us know what you are looking for in a transportation-focused committee so that we can best cater our efforts to our Minnesota Section.

ASCE MN thanks you in advance for responding and we look forward to the new opportunities this institute chapter can provide!

3rd ASCE MN YMG Construction Tour Series

On April 18th, Landmark Properties, Inc. has shown Young Members and Students, The Standard at Dinkytown, a 17-story building project. This past year, we got to learn about and see many of the geotechnical and foundational elements of the project. This year, Young Members and Students got to learn and see variety of high-rise construction.

Thank you Landmark Properties, Inc. and Jimmy Bennett, PE for giving Young Members and Students this opportunity to learn about the project! Looking forward for Chapters 4th and 5th in the coming years.