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VOL. 48 NO. 3 SERVING 2000 ENGINEERS & LAND SURVEYORS MAY, 2012
55th Hawaii State Science and EngineeringFair
Mahalo to all of our SAME volunteers at the55th Hawaii State Science Fair on April 2 to
From left to right: April Clemmensen, U.S.Air Force; Kara-lynn Ogawa, Pearl CityHigh School; Michael Loui, Pearl City HighSchool; and Andrew Clemmensen, U.S. AirForce.
2012 Engineers Week Kickoff LuncheonMore than 200 engineers and their supporters attended this year’s
Engineering Week Kickoff Luncheon at the Hale Koa Hotel onFebruary 21. CAPT Peter Lynch, Vice Commander of NAVFAC Pacific(second from left), addressed the audience on the Navy presence inthe Pacific. Co-sponsored by the Society of American MilitaryEngineers (SAME) Honolulu Post and the HCES, the annual event isheld each year to launch the start of Engineers Week in Hawaii.Others in the photo, from left to right, include: Eamonn Kinsella, J.M.Waller Associates; CAPT Peter Lynch, U.S. Navy; Joseph Ting,President of Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies; LT Rick Tiff,U.S. Navy; Bryan Zachmeier, AMEC; and BG Richard Stevens, U.S.Army Corps of Engineers.
Science Works! - Major Sally Hannan Speaks to Students at the55th Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair.
Major Sally Hannan delighted an audience of over 500 studentsand teachers at the “Science Works!” Symposium at the 55th HawaiiState Science and Engineering Fair.
Describing her work as an engineer with the Honolulu District of theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Major Hannan showed a video of mil-itary engineers at work and impressed students with stories of howshe “had the best job in the world”.
The April 3 event also featured scientists from the National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a real-life volcanolo-gist- turned inventor.
Students from 6th through 12th grades attended the symposium.The best student comment of the day: “I really liked the cool videoshowing stuff blowing up!”
HONOLULU POSTSOCIETY OF AMERICANMILITARY ENGINEERSEstablished 1920 --Dedicated to the National Defense
P.O. Box 31218, Honolulu, HI 96817Web page: www.samehonolulu.org
2010-2011 Honolulu Post OfficersPresident Col Mark Bednar, USAFVP/Programs Bryan Zachmeier, USAF (Ret)VP/Sustaining
Members Will Boudra, PE, USN (Ret)VP/Membership Jerry Matsuda, PE, USAF (Ret)Secretary Capt David Stringer, USAFTreasurer LT Aaron Allison, USNDir at Lge, Army LTCOL Doug Guttormsen, USADir at Lge, Navy CAPT Paul Fuligni, USNDir at Lge,
Air Force Col Karl Bosworth, USAFDir at Lge,
Coast Guard LCDR Andrew Wright, PE, USCGDir at Lge, Civilian Todd Barnes, PE, USA (Ret)
4! The Honolulu Post awarded a total of $1,000to outstanding student projects. This year’swinners were:
JR. RESEARCH CATEGORY:• Mallorie Aiwohi – Kapaa Middle School• Chloe Chalekian – Mid-Pacific Institute• Julia Hirano – Waimea Canyon School• Maya Tigley – Niu Valley Intermediate• Chirstian Cubacub – St. Theresa School• Sreelakshmi Kutty – St. Andrews Priory• Esme Yokooji – St. Andrews Priory
SR. RESEARCH CATEGORY:• Kara-Lynn Ogawa and Michael Loui – Pearl
City High School• April-Joy McCann – Mililani H.S.
…and the winner of the OUTSTANDINGSCHOOL AWARD:
WAIPAHU INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL – ErinYagi
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our SAMEaward winners!
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po box 4353, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813An association for Hawaii’s Engineers and ArchitectsWEB address: http://eahawaii.googlepages.com/home
EAH 2010- 2011 OfficersPresident Aaron Erickson 591-27282nd VP Howard Wiig 587-38111st VP Geoffrey Paterson 261-6597Treasurer Tit Mun ChunSecretary Gary Yamamoto 485-2777Director Dave Martin 543-4504Director Travis HyltonDirector Andy Keane 531-3017Past Pres. C. S. Papacostas 956-6538
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IEEE Hawaii Section2010-11 Hawaii Section OfficersSection Chair: John Camery [email protected]: Chris RussellTreasurer: Marjorie Pearson [email protected]: Grant Torigoe [email protected]
ENGINEERS – CRITICAL THINKERS &PROBLEM SOLVERSJoseph Ting, P.E., CxA – HCES Immediate PastChairman
Ten years ago, wehad Johnny Cash,Bob Hope & SteveJobs. To date, manydo not have cash,hope and jobs. Toenhance the liveli-hood of our youngergeneration of engi-neers, who couldhave fallen into thatsituation, we need to train our engineering stu-dents to become critical thinkers & problemsolvers.
When we concluded the 2012 HCESBanquet, which marked the finale of the 2012Engineers Week, we also celebrated theEngineers Weeks in conjunction with the birth-day of our founding father, GeorgeWashington. President Washington has beenconsidered as the nation’s first engineer,notably for his survey work. Other than that, hetook charge and resolved problems as a criti-cal thinker to establish the United States ofAmerica.
THINKING CRITICALLY & RESOLVINGPROBLEMS? – Yogi Berra used to say, “If youdon’t know where you are going, you will windup somewhere else!” As engineers, we need totake charge. I have confident that those of you,who are engineering practitioners, should goback to the academia and volunteer your-selves to serve as part-time lecturers at ourlocal colleges and universities, so that we cancontinue to train our engineering students to bepragmatic yet flexible. We should groom themto be critical thinkers and problem solvers.Otherwise, they would become self-servingindividuals, who would simply line up their ownpocket book just like many of our current politi-cians at various levels of the government.
We need to train our young engineers to beversatile and open-minded. Martha Grahamsaid it well “Great dancers aren’t greatbecause of their passion”. We have witnesseda couple of successful and pragmatic engineerlike Marites Calad (Vice President & BranchManager of Norman S. Wright), and Tara Lum(our current UHM engineering graduate). Notonly are they engineers, but also, they alsogreat dancers in hula and jazz, respectively.They have demonstrated their passion in danc-ing at the HCES Banquet held at Hale KoaHotel on February 26, 2012. They expressedtheir dances with passion like what OprahWinfrey did say: “I was once afraid of peoplesaying, ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now Ihave the courage to stand and say, ‘This is whoI am.’ Both Marites and Tara take charge asengineers at work and apply the “can do” atti-tude at play.
During my college days at MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), I metone of my batchmates, whom we simply called“Bibi” (a.k.a. Benjamin Netanyahu). At thatpoint in time, this young architectural engineer
once said at a social gathering held at HarvardSquare’s Casablanca: “Don’t follow where thepath may lead. Go instead where there’s nopath & leave a trail”. No one ever knew at thatpoint in time that “Bibi”, a critical thinker &problem solver would ever lead Israel as aPrime Minister and became the greatest playerin the Middle East, whom French PresidentNicholas Zarcozy & U.S. President BarackObama had to bemoan over an open micro-phone a few months ago.
In a few months from now, the currentChinese President Hu Jintao, an hydraulicengineer, who has led China to an economicboom will be succeeded by President-elect XiJinping, a chemical engineer, who will bringChina to its next level of their economic pros-perity.
It’s my pleasure to share these anecdoteswith you about the successes of some of themodern ENGINEERS. As an engineering prac-titioner, we need to mentor our next generationof engineering students in developing their crit-ical thinking to resolve complex problemsthrough long essays, in-class debates andother hallmarks of liberal arts courses. Thesestudents need to be flexible thinkers with inno-vative ideas and a broad knowledge base,which can only be derived from exposure tomultiple disciplines. Should we train themappropriately to be problem-solvers, we arepreparing them to serve the country not as war-riors, but as critical thinkers, who can reviveany poor economic situation and in turns, pro-tect the security of this country.
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P.O. Box 2873HONOLULU, HAWAII 96802
HOME PAGE: http://hces.us
2012-2013 OFFICERSChair: Bryan ZachmierChair-elect: Dawn SzewczykSecretary: Dean Borges Treasurer: Les Kempers
SOC Representative Alternate
AACE T. TaamACECH K. HayashidaAPWA J. Lamar ASCE D. Barsana R. BabcockASHRAE D. BorgesASME D. Kam J. AhernEAH A. EricksonEWBH W. WongFALEA S. Agraan E. PinedaHSPE J. Dubois K. KunimineIEEE G. Torigoe ITE W. YamamotoSAME B. ZachmeierSEAOH L. MoranSFPE S. DannawaySWE L. ThompsonUH(assoc) S.K. Choi
EAH’s new meeting location is at the MangoGrill in the Topa Tower (Ewa tower on FortStreet ) in the Topa Financial Center (OldAMFAC Bldg). Parking is available (enterfrom Nimitz). The WEB site has been updatedto provide directions and a Map. If you havequestions please call Sam Gillie (543-4739).
Meetings are held every Friday (exceptHolidays).
Meetings start at NOON and have endedPROMPTLY at 1:00 pm for 70 Years.
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Hawaii Society ofProfessional Engineers
A state society of the National Society of Professional Engineers
P.O. BOX 3774 HONOLULU, HAWAII 96812
WEB SITE www.eng.hawaii.edu/~hspe2011-2012 Officers and DirectorsPresident: Kurt Kunimune, P.E. [email protected]. Elect: Manny Lanuevo, P.E. [email protected] Pres.: Joelle Bubois, P.E. [email protected]: Marc Botticelli, P.E. [email protected]: Nathan Yuen, P.E. [email protected] Pres.: Majella Stevenson, P.E. [email protected] Directors:Oahu: vacantMaui: Darren Okimoto, P.E. [email protected] Island: Galen Kuba, P.E. [email protected]: Kevin Murar [email protected]
P.O. Box 88840Honolulu, HI 96830Website: www.acechawaii.org
Officers for 2011-12President: Douglas Lee, PE 523-8499Pres. Elect: Terrance Arashiro, PE 533-3646Treasurer: Mike Street, PE 836-7787Secretary: Beverly Ishii-Nakayama, PE 942-9100Past Pres.: Sheryl Nojima,P.E.,Ph.D. 521-0306Nat. Dir.: John Katahira, PE 596-7790Directors: Joel Yuen, PE 521-3773 Robin Lim, PE 841-5064 William H.Q. Bow, P.E. 941-8853Exec. Dir.: Ginny Wright 741-4772 Email [email protected]
P.O. Box 4135, Honolulu, Hawaii 96812Website: http://www.falea.org
Officers/BoDirectorsʼ for 2010-2012President: Elvi B. PinedaVP/Pres Elect: Jeoffrey S. CudiamatSecretary: Maritez MarquezTreasurer: Nicolo A. OrenseAss’t Treas: Jojo A. LopezAuditor: Eugene N. CalaraBus. Manager: Suzie S. AgraanPress Rel.Off: Joey G. ResurreccionPast President: John C. RamosHCES Rep: Suzie S. AgraanAlternate: Elvi B. PinedaDirectors: Napoleon Q. Agraan Ramon B. Bonoan, Jr. Frank Cruzata Vergel G. Del Rosario Marcelino C. Labasan Angelie L. Legaspi
ACEC HAWAII ELECTS 2012-2013 BOARDOF DIRECTORS
We are pleased to announce our 2012-2013Board of Directors elected at the AnnualMeeting held on March 26, 2012 at the HiltonHawaiian Village Hotel.President - Terrance Arashiro. Austin Tsutsumi
& Assoc.President-Elect - Beverly Ishii-Nakayama,
Shigemura Lau Sakanashi Higuchi & Assoc.Treasurer - William Bow, Bow Engineering &
DevelopmentSecretary - Robin Lim, GeolabsNation Director - John Katahira, The Limtiaco
Consulting GroupPast President - Douglas Lee, Brown and
CaldwellDirector - Joel Yuen, InSynergy EngineeringDirector - Cheryl Palesh, Belt CollinsDirector - Jeff Kalani, Yogi Kwong Engineers
Congratulations to these outstanding individ-uals who have answered the call to serve!Their tenure begins July 1, 2012.
TWO ACEC HAWAII FIRMS TO RECEIVENATIONAL AWARDS
We are proud to announce that SSFMInternational and Masa Fujioka & Associateswill each receive national awards at the ACECEngineering Excellence Awards Banquet onApril 17, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel -Washington D.C.
SSFM International will be receiving one of16 Honor Awards for its Magnetic SilencingFacility project (which was featured in the April2012 Wiliki O Hawaii). Masa Fujioka andAssociates will receive a National RecognitionAward at the same event for its USS ArizonaVisitor Center Replacement Value Engineeringproject.
ACEC HAWAII WELCOMES NEW MEMBERFIRM: GROUP 70
We are proud to announce that Group 70recently became a member firm of theAmerican Council of Engineering Companiesof Hawai’i. Please visit our website atwww.acechawaii.org find out what we do andfor information on how your firm can become amember of ACECH and help improve the busi-ness climate and opportunities for consultingengineering firms in Hawaii.
HIGHLIGHTS/COMMITTEE REPORTS:TREASURER’S REPORT – Nick updated the
balances of the FALEA & FALEA FOUNDATIONaccounts, and also disbursed some checks forpayment of the Filipina Fiesta booth atKapiolani Park for next Month, deposit for theFALEA Inaugural in late September, and $50refundable deposit for participation in theFiesta Filipina Parade. Other less labor-inten-sive means for fundraisers need to also beexplored.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – Jeoffreyreported that the FE Review is over. There willbe 4 taking the April Exam, and the rest willsign up for the October Exam. The total numberof attendees this time around was very consis-tent with an average attendance of around 15for all the classes. Furthermore, severalchanges were made this time around includinginclusion of Ethics, Computers, and addingmore Practice Problems into the curriculum.The “mock” exam also was done in the after-noon.
MEMBERSHIP - Welcome to new MemberRacel Leili P. Jaramilla! She is a CivilEngineering graduate of the University of thePhilippines, and works for the C & C ofHonolulu.
FALEA SCHOLARSHIP GOLF TOURNA-MENT – The next Golf Committee meeting willbe on May 5th. JN Chevrolet will provide theHole-in-One prize vehicle. We need to be moreaggressive in recruiting for golf team members,and/or securing additional sponsors.
FILCOM’S FILIPINA FIESTA PARADE – Therewas much discussion on what to wear duringthe parade, and everyone agreed that the colorneeds to be uniform. Jeoff will e-Mail all theBoard Members. The float will incorporate theBahay Kubo used in a previous parade. FALEAwill receive $500 from FilCom to help defraysome expenses in building/designing our float
PRESIDENTIAL AWARDS – Jeoff hasappointed Krizzle Mabuti to start filling out theForms. Deadline for submission is end of June.
FCCH TRIP – This is in conjunction with theTrade Mission to the Philippines in November of2013. Rose Churma, a FALEA member who isnow the new President of FilCom, has askedJeoff to be on the Committee.
FALEA INAUGURAL – This will be held at theFilCom Center on September 22nd.
Fliers for the HSPE 2012 golf tournament willbe mailed out shortly. The golf tournament isthe primary fundraising event for the HawaiiMathcounts competition. This year’s tourna-ment will be held at the Hickam Mamala BayGolf Course on June 29 Friday), 2012 – 12:30pm shotgun start. Please keep the date open,and please consider putting a team togetherand/or contributing as a donor or volunteer.
Since the tournament will be held on HickamAir Force base, the logistics of attending will bea little more involved. Since a list of participantsmust be submitted by June 12, we are askingthat for each four person team, a list of alter-nates be provided as the sentries at theHickam gates will be looking for participants’names on a pre-submitted roster.
If your name is not on the submitted list, youwill be required to fill out the paperwork at theHickam Pass and ID office, which will requirebeing escorted to the golf course by an HSPErepresentative.
As such, please note the following:+ Participants may check in as early as
10:30 AM.• Please allow yourself additional time to get to
the course and be admitted through theHickam gates.
• Lunch and dinner will be provided for tourna-ment participants
• Driving range balls will be provided byHSPE.
• A snack/beverage cart will be driving aroundthe course
• Please submit your team rosters with alter-nates by June 11.
• Please be sure the submitted names matchthe name on your driver’s license
• Please include your middle initial(s). If youdo not have middle initial, please indicate‘NMI’.
• Please provide your birthplace, includingcity and state
• If born out of the country, please provide thecountry name and your naturalization certifi-cate numberIf you should have any questions, please
contact Kurt Kunimune at 479-0767. TheMamala Bay course is a beautiful venue. Theadditional steps to gain access are well worththe effort. Mahalo!
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2011-2012 OFFICERSOffice Name PhonePresident Dawn Barsana-Szewczyk 943-1133 email: [email protected] Ian Arakaki 596-7790 email: [email protected] Brian Enomoto 388-5559 email: [email protected] Glenn Miyasato 488-7579 email: [email protected] Benjamin Rasa 521-5361 email: [email protected] President Roger Babcock 956-7298 email: [email protected]
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Hawaii Section — Younger Member ForumWeb site: http://www.ascehawaii.org/ymf.html
2011-2012 YMF OfficersPresident – Lara [email protected] President – Kurt [email protected] – Jason Sugibayashi [email protected] – Puna Kaneakua [email protected] President – Eric Arakawa [email protected]
MAY DINNER MEETINGTopic: Testing and Modeling Rheology of SelfConsolidating ConcreteSpeaker: Lin Shen, Ph.D., Assistant Professorof Civil Engineering, University of Hawaii atManoaProgram: Dr. Shen will present his research onthe properties of Self-Consolidating Concrete(SCC) and will discuss his work on the devel-opment of numerical models to predict aggre-gate segregation. Dr. Shen will also discussfuture research to develop a robust SCCdesign using angular and porous Hawaii localaggregates.Date: Thursday, May 17, 2012Location: Treetops at Paradise Park,
Manoa ValleyTime: 5:30 p.m. - Social Time
6:30 p.m. - Dinner7:00 p.m. - Program8:45 p.m. - Adjourn
Menu: Multi-entree buffetCost: $25.00 for ASCE Hawaii Section
members$28.00 for Non-ASCE HawaiiSection members and Guests$11.00 for UH Manoa StudentChapter members
Please make checks payable to ASCE-Hawaii Section and mail to Ben Rasa, ASCEHawaii Section Treasurer, Belt Collins HawaiiLtd., 2153 North King Street, Suite 200,Honolulu, Hawaii 96819, postmarked by Friday,May 11, 2012. Reservations for the dinnermeeting to Ben Rasa by Monday, May 14,2012, by phone at 521-5361 or email [email protected].
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGLast held: April 11, 2012Next meeting: May 10, 2012
POPSICLE BRIDGE BUILDING CONTESTThe ASCE Hawaii Section held its annual
Popsicle Bridge Building Contest on March 8,2012 as part of the University of Hawaii JuniorEngineering Expo. 23 teams from 12 differentOahu middle schools participated in both tech-nical presentation and bridge load testing cat-egories. A team from Highlands IntermediateSchool placed first in both categories withteams from Dole Middle School, Mililani MiddleSchool, Saint Joseph School and Highlandsalso placing.
CONTINUING EDUCATIONASCE National holds more than 275 semi-
nars and computer workshops each year on awide variety of technical, management, andregulatory topics. These seminars are held inmore than 45 cities across the U.S. In addition,ASCE offers customized on-site training andmany distance learning programs, includinglive interactive web/teleconference seminars,online courses and courses on CD, videotape,and audiotape. Please visit www.asce.org/con-ted/ for complete details.
ASCE HAWAII SECTION STUDENTSCHOLARSHIPS
Please help us increase our scholarshipendowment so that we can recognize deserv-ing students. We continue to accept tax-deductible donations with the goal of increas-ing the annual scholarships. Make your checkpayable to ‘ASCE Hawaii Section’ and mail to:ASCE Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 917,Honolulu, HI 96808. If you have any questions,please contact Roger Babcock at 956-7298, [email protected].
ASCE JOB LISTINGSThe following job listings are currently posted
on the ASCE Hawaii Section website:• Experienced Heavy or Civil Estimators –
Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company,Inc.
• Architects, Civil Engineers, StructuralEngineers, Mechanical Engineers, andElectrical Engineers – Mitsunaga &Associates
• Managing Professional Engineer – C.S.H.May Consultant
• Project Managers, Senior Civil Engineer -URS Corporation
• Transportation Engineers – CH2MHILL• Director of Operations – SMG/Hawaii
Convention Center• Project Manager/Project Engineer – Global
Business Solutions Inc.• Deputy Program Manager – HDR• Civil Engineer V – HDR• Senior NEPA Project Manager – HDR• Civil Engineer IV – HDR• Project Manager, Remediation &
Infrastructure - Cape EnvironmentalManagement Inc.
• Director, Capital ProgramManagement – KamehamehaSchools
• Project Engineers , Maui & Kauai –Bowers and Kubota Consulting
• Civil Engineer, Technical Sales –Jensen Precast
• Program Administrator (Chief ofRefuse Collection and Disposal) -City and County of Honolulu
• Structural Engineer II – City andCounty of Honolulu
• Civil Engineer IV – City andCounty of Honolulu
• Civil Engineer V – City and Countyof Honolulu
• Mechanical Engineer IV – City andCounty of HonoluluFor further information on these
job listings or to find out how youcan post job openings in your com-pany on this website, please visithttp://www.ascehawaii.org/jobs.htm.
Next YMF General MeetingThe next YMF general meetings are sched-
uled for Tuesday, May 1, 6:00 p.m. at Tsunami,596-0700; and Wednesday, June 6, 6:30 p.m.at Ige’s Restaurant & 19th Puka, 486-3500. Ifyou are interested in attending to find out whatthe YMF is all about, contact the YMF [email protected].
Moanalua Senior Project JudgingBy David Lin and Tiffany Hamada,Community Service Chairs
On Saturday, March 24, 2012, YMF volun-teered to judge the Moanalua High SchoolSenior Project. Each YMF volunteer had anopportunity to view three or four students’ writ-ten work then score the student on howthoughtfully they created and delivered theirpresentation. Topics ranged from non engineer-ing topics such as chocolate, concussions,photography, etc. to civil engineering topicssuch as environmental engineering. One byone, the students were filled with excitementand relief as they presented their senior pro-ject. YMF judged these presentations basedupon Hawaii’s Department of EducationGeneral Learner Outcomes. Overall, it was agreat learning experience for the students andYMF. Congratulations to Moanalua HighSchool’s graduating class of 2012! Thank youto the YMF volunteers for coming out to help atthis event and to Liane Voss for coordinatingthis event with the YMF.
Gus Weblingʼs Junior Civil EngineeringNightBy Kevin Fong, Outreach Chair
On Friday, March 23rd, ASCE YMF members,
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S T R U C T U R A LE N G I N E E R S
A S S O C I AT I O NO F H AWA I I
PO BOX 3348, HONOLULU, HI 96801Web Page URL http://www.seaoh.org2012 BOD OFFICERS & DIRECTORSPosition Officer PhonePresident Wesley Segawa 935-4677 [email protected] President Brian Kung 488-7579 [email protected] John Uno 945-0198 juno@ consultingstructuralhawaii.comTreasurer Marvin Mestanza 946-2277 [email protected] Aaron Erickson 591-2728 [email protected] Linda Moran 676-1963 [email protected] Alison Agapay 216-3195 [email protected] Tim Goshi 791-3966 [email protected] President Brian Ide 536-2108 [email protected]
Our new state-of-the-art plant maintains Tileco’s position as the State’s leading concrete block manufacturer.
www.tilecoinc.com ph. 682-5737 TILECO INC.
State-of-the-Art ManufacturingState-of-the-Art ManufacturingGeotechnical Presentation – Gelatin Jiggle
Lara Karamatsu, Eric Arakawa, Lisa Takushi,David Lin, Amanda Tanaka, Gloria Singharaj,Tiffany Hamada, Gail Macaraeg, Julie Hero,Lance Okuda, Sara Toyama, and myself, alongwith members from Aiea High School andASCE Hawaii Section (Glenn Miyasato, BrianEnomoto, and Jon Young)volunteered at GusWebling’s inaugural Junior Civil EngineeringNight. The event was the brainchild of LisaTakushi, and with the help of a committee, theidea was brought to fruition. The program con-sisted of a short presentation, a geotechnicaldemonstration, then four activities (wastewater,transportation, structural, and construction)that highlighted the various aspects of civilengineering, and finally an awards ceremonywhere we handed out certificates and goodies.
Amanda and Gloria led the Wastewater activ-ity, and the activity involved trying to filter watermuddied by marshmallows and chocolateusing household items, simulating a waste-water plant. The students were amazed at howthe water’s appearance transformed, and Icould see many of them after the event, work-ing on their filters, trying to make it even better.I think they saw the impact civil engineers canhave on cleaning up a community’s valuableresource. The Structural activity was lead byme, and the goal was to build a stable marsh-mallow tower a certain height to rescue their
Marshmallow Tower saving the ‘friend’
“friend” on top of a cliff. The students imaginedmany different configurations, and it was fun tosee the iterations the students went through tofind what worked. In the end, some students
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HIGHLIGHTS OF BOD MEETINGApril 4, 2012Committee Reports:
General Membership Meetings/Technical
Seminars/Events:– Simpson Strong-Tie 2012 Product Line
Workshop is scheduled for April 24 & 25,2012 at the BIA CTA Training Center
– “Designing & Specifying Pervious ConcretePavements” seminar is scheduled for May 3,2012 at Pagoda
– NRMCA Pervious Concrete TechnicianCertification is scheduled for May 4, 2012 atBIA Training Center
– Joint ASCE-SEAOH meeting is scheduled forMay 17 2012 at TreetopsThe following seminars are anticipated to be
presented in 2012:– ACI 318 Code Seminar– Masonry Code Seminar– AISC Handbook Seminar
2012 SEAOH Annual Convention Update:This year’s Annual Convention will be a Joint
SEAOH/CCPI event and is tentatively sched-uled for October 19 & 20, 2012 at Turtle BayResort. The theme will be “Restoring OurInfrastructure”.
New Member Applications:Membership application from Brandon
Erickson was unanimously approved.
Missing Members:Please contact Membership Chairperson,
Jiabao Chen (Ph: 791-3945 or email [email protected]), or any of the SEAOH Officers ifyou have a new mailing and/or email address.
The next SEAOH Board of Directors andOfficers meeting will be held on Wednesday,May 2, 2012. Contact SEAOH President WesSegawa (965-4677, [email protected]) for moreinformation.
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Associationfor theAdvancement ofCost EngineeringHAWAII SECTION
OFFICERS President – Kurt BendlerVice President – Paul BrussowDirector – Amarjit SinghDirector – Maelyn UyeharaPast President – Stephen JacobsonTreasurer – Guia LasqueteSecretary – Kevin Mitchell
impressed with intuitive, clean designs. Laradirected Transportation, and the activityinvolved plotting the shortest path through a‘community’ (a board of trees, buildings, andrivers that Lara made), that showed the routingissues transportation engineers face. It was funto see the students argue over the course ofdirection they think the road should take.Finally, Eric guided construction. The objectivewas to build a Lego tower that balanced aes-thetics, cost, and time. This simulated realworld measures to help students realize themany intangibles in getting a project done.In the end, I would say the first ever, GusWebling’s Junior Civil Engineering Night was asuccess! The event took a lot of hard work, andso thanks again to all the committee chairs andvolunteers for helping ASCE YMF make thisevent awesome. I definitely think we made animpact on the community, but then again, that’swhat we do every day at our jobs, don’t we?
KNOW YOUR ASCE HISTORYby C.S. Papacostas
BOWLING CITYWhile digging into the record for information
about a transaction that took place around1952 and transferred ownership of theFernhurst land parcel from the YWCA to theHonolulu Rapid Transit (HRT) Co., I had noinkling that this month’s follow-up article wouldbe about a bowling alley establishment!This is what happened:
The Dec. 21, 1954 edition of the HonoluluStar Bulletin informed its readers that HonoluluLimited, a wholly owned subsidiary of HRT,was formed earlier that month to take over all ofthe transit company’s non-utility properties.Almost immediately, the new business ventureannounced its intention to build a bowling alleyand parking lot at that site. The proposedrecreational facility was the sixth new bowlingalley planned or announced that year. Clearly,a “bowling craze” was afoot.
Since by design Honolulu Ltd. owned andoperated non-public utility properties only, itmanaged to escape the regulatory authority ofthe Public Utilities Commission (PUC).
This HRT business strategy was not withoutits strong detractors, however. For example, onFeb. 23, 1956, the newspaper HonoluluRecord (founded and edited by union activistKoji Ariyoshi) wrote, “When Honolulu RapidTransit Co. asked permission of the PublicUtilities Commission in buying the Fernhurst(YWCA) property at Alapai, it said the acquisi-tion of the land would make it possible to cutexpenses by $95,000 through consolidating itsoperations.”
Instead, “A big area of the property whichthe HRT said would be used for parking ofbuses and storage of equipment is now usedfor bowling.”
As a result, “The transit company, as a publicutility firm, got around the complication of oper-ating an establishment housing bowling alleysby organizing a subsidiary, Honolulu Limited.HRT directors are directors of the new firm.”
According to the explanation provided by anunnamed “businessman in the transportationfield,” HRT sold land it owned to the very prof-itable Honolulu Ltd. which it also owned. Bydivesting itself of the profitable endeavorstransferred to its subsidiary, HRT was in a posi-tion to claim that its public utility componentoperated at a loss and, as a result, couldobtain PUC permission to raise transit fares onseveral occasions.
“If HRT can’t make a go, it should sell out tothe city,” the anonymous source was quoted tosay prophetically; as we shall see in a futurearticle, the sale of the public transit company tothe city came about twenty years later.
The Nov. 30, 1955 Star-Bulletin opened arelated story with “The public is invited to par-ticipate in tomorrow night’s opening events atBowling City, the handsome 24-alley bowlingcenter at King and Alapai Streets... Owned byHonolulu, Limited, Bowling City is under leaseto Varsity Bowling Center, which intends tomake it one of the city’s most popular meccasfor sportsmen.” For the benefits of bowlersamong my readers, I am quoting further thatthe alleys were “of the Brunswick CrownImperial type [of] all-maple construction.”
A parking area for about 100 cars was pro-vided for the convenience of the patrons of the
center which, in addition to the bowling sec-tion, included three supplemental businesses:Hawaiiana, a snack bar and fountain; A & M.Sundries, carrying magazines and films amongthe items in stock; and Sunray Clock Service,specializing in the repair of watches andclocks.
A day later, the Honolulu Advertiser featureda photograph of Edward De Harne, the presi-dent of Honolulu Ltd., rolling the first ball in thepresence of “close to a thousand people,” andclarified that the semi-automatic Brunswickpinsetters would later be replaced by fullyautomatic machines.
My curiosity won the better of me and I spentuntold hours trying to ascertain the fate of whatproved to be a notable establishment. Severalpeople I contacted recalled that the buildingwas L-shaped with the supplemental shops lin-ing King Street and the bowling alley sectionperpendicular to it toward the mountain. I alsofound out that in 1974 “Mike McGrath success-fully defended his Winston-Salem InvitationalChampionship in Honolulu, defeating EarlAnthony, in the playoff game, 247-218, atBowling City.”
The building is nowhere to be seen in a Nov.8, 1980 photograph of the site that appeared inthe Advertiser, a fact that led me to the brilliantdeduction that Bowling City was demolishedsometime between 1974 and 1980. By 1980,HRT had already been bought out by the City &County of Honolulu that took advantage of fed-eral funding via the Urban Mass TransportationAct of 1964 and of recurring bus driver strikesthat all but paralyzed the city. This outcomewas gradual in being realized and involved theinterplay of the private owners of HRT, the laborrepresentation of transit employees, and gov-ernment entities at the county, state and federallevels.
In the end, the major actors in the unfoldingdrama were not the “mission boys” I mentionedlast month (April 2012) who had started andran HRT for many years. Among the “new” andlegendary protagonists were entrepreneurHarry Weinberg from Baltimore who beganinvesting in HRT in 1954 and who proceededmethodically to take over HRT in 1960; power-ful labor union leader Arthur Rutledge, whogrew up in Seattle, briefly visited Honolulu in1934 (as a stowaway) and moved there in 1938with very little to his name; and Frank F. Fasi(“Fearless Frank”) of Hartford, Connecticut whoreturned to Hawaii in 1946 after serving in thePacific theater of World War II and who enjoyedthe distinction (among many other distinctions)of being the longest serving mayor of Honolulu.
All three were sons of immigrants. The firsttwo came to America with their parents assmall boys: Rutledge (who changed his namefrom Avrom Rotlieder) hailed from Lublin,Poland, whereas Weinberg was born inSambor of what at the time was the Austo-Hungarian Empire. Fasi’s parents emigratedfrom Sicily.
To be continued...Do you know of a civil engineering accom-
plishment or event that your fellow ASCE mem-bers might find interesting? Please send abrief description to C.S. Papacostas (fax 956-5014, email [email protected]).Previous articles in the series may be found atthe Section’s web site. Just point your browserto http://www.ascehawaii.org.
***CALL FOR PAPERS***7th International Structural Engineering and
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be free pizza and soft drinks as usual. Pleasecontact Derek Sato or Kory Ikeda for directionsand for more information, such as parking.
APRIL 10 MEETING HILITES • ASME-HI Student Section-Professional
Networking Event scheduled at the PodiumRaceway April 21, 2012 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
• Department of Engineering (DME), UHM - Dr.Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad reported on thefollowing: 1) DME has 14 faculties for approximately
240 undergraduate students, with the hir-ing of three new faculties, includingJingjing Li, Reza Ghorbani, and ZacharyTrimble. There are still two more positionsto fill.
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ASME-HI 2010-2011 OfficersChairperson Derek Sato 543-4108 [email protected] Derick Kam 848-6966 [email protected] Kory Ikeda [email protected] Kevin Dang 737-1708 [email protected] Edmund Chang 543-4227 [email protected] Rep: Derick KamAlternate: John Ahern
2) Teaching Assistants (TA) are needed toassist with oral and writing intensive focusclasses.
3) The graduating class is expected to have40-50 students.
4) The DME Industry Advisory Board (IAB)participated in a recent graduate programreview meeting. The next IAB meeting isplanned in the fall 2012 for both under-graduate and graduate program review.
5) Dr. Nejhad is in his 20th year as ASMEFaculty Advisor. This fall Dr. ZacharyTrimble will become the new faculty advi-sor. Dr. Nejhad will remain as the DMEchair, ABET representative, and IAB con-tact.
• ASME-HI Officers for 2012-2013 will havethree changes. Kory Ikeda moves fromSecretary to Chairman, Raymond Liu movesfrom Director to Secretary, and John Ahernbecomes a Director.
• Possible tours include the Schnitzer Steel-Recycling facility in June to be arranged byChester Kaitoku, and the HECO CampbellIndustrial Park Combustion Turbine plant inJune or August to be arranged Derek Sato.
• Meeting Presentation: Kory Ikeda’s report onthe ASME 2012 Leadership TrainingConference held in New Orleans on March 2-3, 2012.FRANCIS RHODES MONTGOMERY
DESIGN COMPETITION will be held Friday,May 4, 2012 at the University of Hawaii, Manoacampus with the ME 482 Project Design II pre-sentations starting at 12:30 p.m. and lasting to3:30 p.m. Competing will be nine teams withabout 50 ME students. Some teams are spon-sored by The Boeing Company, a major sup-porter of the DME. After the presentations thejudges will view the team displays and inter-view the teams. The awards presentation willbe made between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. followedby refreshments. ASME-HI coordinates thisannual event with the DME’s ME 481 and 482Design Project courses. When held in a cam-pus auditorium, there is lots of room for thepublic to attend.
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