ASCE St. Louis Section

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

is now accepting nominations for our 2026 Annual Awards and invite you to help us recognize the outstanding individuals and projects that are making a positive impact on our profession and industry. The forms are short and can be found at the link below!

ascestl.org/awards

Nomination Deadline: June 30, 2026
Email submissions via details in the award form

Nominations are being accepted for the following categories:
🎓Younger Member Award – Recognizing an emerging professional who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, service, and contributions early in their career

👷‍♀️Professional Award – Honoring a professional whose achievements, leadership, and dedication have significantly advanced the profession and industry

👨‍🏫Faculty Advisor Award – Recognizing a faculty advisor who has demonstrated excellence in mentoring, supporting student development, and fostering engagement within the profession.

🛣️Project of the Year Award – Celebrating an outstanding project that exemplifies innovation, excellence, and meaningful impact.

We encourage you to nominate deserving colleagues, mentors, advisors, teams, and projects that exemplify the highest standards of our profession!

Thank you to everyone who joined and the St. Louis Post of SAME for our June Section Luncheon!

We were honored to welcome Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy of who shared how computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are helping improve the hydraulic disinfection efficiency of small drinking water systems. His presentation highlighted the intersection of research, innovation, and public health in advancing critical water infrastructure💧

Special thanks to St. Louis Post for partnering with us, and for hosting🏫

is now accepting nominations for our 2026 Annual Awards and invite you to help us recognize the outstanding individuals and projects that are making a positive impact on our profession and industry. The forms are short and can be found at the link below!

ascestl.org/awards

Nomination Deadline: June 15, 2026
Email submissions via details in the award form

Nominations are being accepted for the following categories:
🎓Younger Member Award – Recognizing an emerging professional who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, service, and contributions early in their career

👷‍♀️Professional Award – Honoring a professional whose achievements, leadership, and dedication have significantly advanced the profession and industry

👨‍🏫Faculty Advisor Award – Recognizing a faculty advisor who has demonstrated excellence in mentoring, supporting student development, and fostering engagement within the profession.

🛣️Project of the Year Award – Celebrating an outstanding project that exemplifies innovation, excellence, and meaningful impact.

We encourage you to nominate deserving colleagues, mentors, advisors, teams, and projects that exemplify the highest standards of our profession!

is seeking nominations for outstanding project or colleagues deserving recognition and prestigious awards, showcasing the civil engineering excellence in Greater St. Louis! Self-nominations are also accepted. These prestigious awards are presented at the Annual Awards Dinner in the fall and are a great way to showcase the civil engineering excellence in our Section💪🏼

🔵 Project of the Year Award
⚪️ Professional Recognition Award
🟨 Young Engineer Award
🔶 Outstanding Faculty/Practitioner Award

Please submit nominations to Nichole W, Annual Awards Chair by June 15th. Guidelines and forms for nominations are available on the Section website!

👉 asceSTL.org/awards 🏆

📣 ASCE STL – May Luncheon🏗️

Join us alongside ASCE STL Younger Members on Thursday, May 7 at Bella Milano (Edwardsville, IL) for our upcoming luncheon featuring “Seeking Concrete Solutions in Material Engineering”

This presentation will explore the benefits of concrete pavements across trail systems, intersections, and parking lots—highlighting performance, accessibility, and real-world applications. Speaker Jesse Jonas will share practical insights on mix design, material selection, and innovative approaches to improve durability and cost-effectiveness in today’s infrastructure.

🗓 May 7, 2026
⏰ 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Bella Milano, Edwardsville, IL

👉 Register here: https://shorturl.at/lzSnh

had a great time volunteering at the Fort Zumwalt STREAM Night at Forest Park Elementary!

Students and families from 3rd–5th grade stopped by our booth to explore civil engineering through hands-on activities, including a shake table demonstration and MSE wall model. It was great to see so many young minds engaged and curious about how engineering shapes the world around them.

Thank you to our volunteers Jeff, Jacob, Caleigh, and Nichole for helping make the event a success!

is proud to partner with the St. Louis Section’s Sustainability Committee to host Olivia Paxson at our upcoming Section Luncheon. She will present on An Introduction to Embodied Carbon and How to Reduce it on Typical Structural Projects. We will also welcome new Life Members!

🔵Tue, April 14th @ 12pm
➡️ shortURL.at/CK8wr

Embodied carbon is a hot topic in the building industry, but how is it defined and what are we supposed to do about it? This presentation will define how embodied carbon appears in structural systems and it will identify ways to reduce it in typical projects. Many current recommendations for structural engineers are vague, rely on material changes, or are cost prohibitive. The goal of this presentation is to highlight specific ways to achieve significant carbon reductions on the typical project, without large cost increases or extra design work. It will break the recommendations into clear, concise guidance, and it will discuss the carbon impacts of reductions in equivalent comparisons. There will be a focus on recent code provisions and industry recommendations. Both design changes and specification language will be addressed. This presentation will challenge typical design standards and will discuss a handful of building materials to target how the average structural engineer can reduce carbon on their projects, so that every project can achieve embodied carbon reductions.

👩‍🔬📐Olivia Paxson, E.I., M.ASCE
Olivia is a Project Engineer at working towards building a more sustainable future. She received her Bachelors and Masters from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and now resides in St. Louis. She serves as a committee member on the SE2050 SEI Committee, focusing on reduction strategies and encouraging structural engineers around the country to reduce their buildings’ embodied carbon.