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Stimulus Transportation Funding: What You Need To Know
Stimulus $ for Transportation Projects: Highway, Rail, Transit and Beyond, ACEC's popular online seminar featuring a panel of program management officials of the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration and Federal Railroad Administration, is now available for purchase from the ACEC Bookstore in downloadable format.
The March 25 live presentation is an important inside look at how the $38 billion in economic stimulus monies will be used to fund highway, transit, rail and other infrastructure projects.
Click here to order and download the one-and-a-half-hour seminar.
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Tough Leadership for Tough Times
Enhance your current leadership strategy with resources from the ACEC Bookstore.
Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership
Steve Farber
In this powerful and inspiring story, Farber shows that the goal of a genuine leader is to help others—teammates, employees, and colleagues—become more capable, confident, and accomplished than they are themselves.
Click here to order.
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Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times
Ram Charan
In Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty, Ram Charan helps you steer your business through the minefield of contracting markets, cash shortages, and ongoing uncertainty. No matter what your leadership role, Charan's insight will help ensure that your business emerges leaner, stronger, and well in front of the competition.
Click here to order.
Click here to browse our full selection of leadership publications.
Visit the ACEC Bookstore today at http://store.acec.org to view our full catalog of publications and merchandise.
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Are You Investing In Your Organization?
Hiring the right people is the key to your success. Bringing qualified engineering industry candidates to your team will strengthen your organization and provide you with the talent you need. ACEC's Job Board will help you find the perfect candidates.
We have the power of the engineering niche. Mass market boards may not have the right candidates. More and more, employers are looking to niche job boards to cover all their recruiting bases. By using a niche job board, such as the ACEC Job Board, you get direct access to a focused group of qualified engineering talent specific to your needs.
Don't forget, while you have an active job posting, you will also have access to our searchable resume database, containing over 15,500 job seekers.
Visit the ACEC Job Board to create an account and post your job today.
For more information, contact Nina Goldman at 202-682-4325 or write ngoldman@acec.org.
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Over 475 Searchable Jobs Posted
Over 15,500 Searchable Resumes Posted
Over 2,000 Registered Employers |
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Last Five "Help Wanted" Open Positions:
Electrical Engineer—Los Angeles, CA
Director of Traffic Engineering and Transportation Planning—New York, NY
Civil/Municipal Project Manager—Rapid City, SD
Project Engineer, Highway—Irvine, CA
Lead Structural Engineer, Buildings—Norfolk, VA
A Sampling of Posted Resumes:
Geotechnical Engineers—1,079
Water Resources/Wastewater Engineers—1,686
Transportation—1,444
Civil Engineers—2,335
Structural Engineers—1,678
Environmental Engineers—1,508
View These and Other Resumes and Jobs on ACEC's Job Board
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Online Seminars Are
Cost-Effective Source For Business Tools, PDHs
With one registration fee payable per Internet connection, a roomful of staff can participate in an ACEC online seminar at no additional cost—a welcome and cost-effective way to gain knowledge and earn needed PDHs. ACEC's 2009 calendar of online seminars will feature a wide variety of topics in support of better A/E business management knowledge and the techniques needed to weather an uncertain economy.
April
14—The Business Case for Sustainable Engineering Practice by Bill Wallace, Wallace Futures Group LLC
15—How to Give and Receive Effective Feedback by Gary Bates, Roenker Bates Group
16—Private Partnerships for Public Needs: PPPs and Surface Transportation by Jim Hatter, Federal Highway Administration
21—Built to Last: Sustainability and Succession by Robert vanArsdall, XL Design Professional
22—Take Charge of Your Health! by Carol Calvin, United Healthcare
May
5—Diverging Diamond Interchange: An Innovative Traffic Solution by Lorenzo Rotoli, Fisher Associates
6—Effective Project Planning to Improve Profits by Gary Bates, Roenker Bates Group
12—Risk Management Report Card: Would Your Firm Earn A, F or Incomplete? by Erin Austin and Jack Beemer, David Evans and Associates, Inc., and panel
13—Increase Your Win Rate with Powerful, Persuasive Proposals by Clare G. Ross, The Clare Ross Organization
20—Breaking Down the Generational Language Barrier in Today's Multigenerational Engineering Workplace by Lori Oakes-Coyne, Morrissey Goodale, LLC
26—The Climate Project: Impact of Global Climate Change on Engineering Practice by Raymond Sirois, Wright-Pierce Engineers
27—Lessons Learned in Implementing BIM and IPD in a 900-Person Multidisciplinary Firm by Sean Smith, Gresham Smith and Partners
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| Convention Discount Extended; More Than 1,000 Pre-registered!
Ray LaHood, U.S. Transportation Secretary |
David Gergen, CNN Political Analyst |
Lt. General Robert Van Antwerp, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief |
ACEC has extended the early-bird registration deadline for the upcoming Annual Convention, April 26-29 in Washington, D.C. until April 16.
Click here to register now for this pivotal industry meeting, save $100 on your registration, and join more than 1,000 attendees.
Featured Convention speakers include U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who will address the Convention's 100th Anniversary Luncheon on Monday, April 27. Earlier that day, noted CNN political analyst David Gergen will speak at the Convention's Opening General Session.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chief Robert Van Antwerp and other Administration officials will also address Convention participants.
The Convention also features more than 40 education sessions highlighting opportunities in the federal stimulus package and effective business management in difficult economic times.
Additionally, Convention attendees will converge on Capitol Hill to advocate important industry initiatives.
Other Convention highlights include a Centennial Soiree Opening Reception and Dinner featuring the Capitol Steps comedy troupe on Sunday, April 26, and the 43rd Annual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala—the "Academy Awards" of the engineering industry—on Tuesday, April 28.
Click here for further Convention information and to register.
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| Federal Budget Makes Room For Additional Infrastructure Funding
The House and Senate have approved their respective versions of the federal budget for the coming fiscal year, opening the door to significant funding increases for transportation programs under the next highway bill.
ACEC won a crucial victory when both the House and Senate Budget Committees rejected an Administration proposal that would have weakened the funding guarantees that allow states to execute multi-year highway, transit and aviation programs. ACEC and other industry groups strongly opposed the Administration proposal because it would have threatened the budgetary "firewalls" that protect Highway Trust Fund revenues.
The House and Senate resolutions include a reserve account for increased highway and transit funding in the anticipated SAFETEA-LU reauthorization bill, as long as new spending is offset with additional revenues into the Highway Trust Fund.
"This is an important win, and a critical first step to increase federal investment in transportation infrastructure," said ACEC President Dave Raymond. "This budget gives us the ability to go to Congress and fight for a robust reauthorization bill with adequate and stable funding sources for meeting our transportation improvement needs."
One point of controversy was budget treatment of possible climate change legislation. Rather than approve the White House's proposal to raise $646 billion in new revenues through a cap-and-trade auction of emissions allowances, both the House and Senate created only a placeholder in the budget for a climate change bill. Amendments were approved in the Senate to use any new cap-and-trade revenues to reduce the associated cost increases for consumers and not raise either energy or gasoline prices. Both the House and Senate rejected using the budget process to fast-track a climate change bill.
The House and Senate are now negotiating over a final budget, with action expected when Congress returns from its Easter break.
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| Hawaii Hits ACEC/PAC Goal—"Increased Political Involvement Needed In Tough Economy," Says State Leadership
David Bills
Hawaii PAC Champion |
ACEC/Hawaii became the second Member Organization to meet its ACEC/PAC goal for 2009, joining ACEC/Wisconsin. This marks the fifth year in a row the Aloha State has achieved its ACEC/PAC goal.
PAC Champion David Bills of Bills Engineering Inc. in Honolulu led the effort by personally reaching out to every donor in the state.
"I just reminded all of my engineering firm colleagues here in Hawaii that, during tough economic times, we actually need to increase our political involvement, not reduce it," said Bills. "Just look at the kind of legislative activity coming out of Washington these days—if we don't speak up for our professional interests on Capitol Hill, no one else is going to do it for us."
Bills, State Executive Director Ginny Wright and many volunteers also organized an ACEC/PAC silent auction at their annual Engineering Excellent Awards Banquet.
States that made their 2008 ACEC/PAC fundraising goal in the last quarter of 2008—and those that have already met their 2009 goal—will be recognized in Washington, D.C. on April 26 during the ACEC Board of Directors luncheon.
Click here to see the progress of each state in achieving its ACEC/PAC goal for 2009 and information on the PAC Champion(s) leading the state fundraising effort. For more information on ACEC/PAC, contact Greg Knopp, executive director, Political Affairs at gknopp@acec.org or Elizabeth Coit, PAC director at ecoit@acec.org.
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| Key Business Data Free For Participants In ACEC's Annual Industry Trends Survey
ACEC's annual Industry Trends Survey questionnaire is now available online by clicking here. Member Firms can also fill out the questionnaire recently sent by mail.
Participants completing the survey will receive survey findings (the electronic version of final report) free of charge.
The survey is entirely confidential—all statistics are combined and placed into a composite format. Results provide invaluable information on industry trends and standards and are indispensable for strategic planning and benchmarking against industry norms.
New this year is a section on sustainability and green design and construction.
All survey findings are broken down by firm size, geography and market focus so firms will be able to see, for example, whether highway design work is more profitable in the Midwest or the Northeast, or whether the upper Northwest is really "greener" than the Southeast.
Respondents have until April 23 to complete the questionnaire. To participate in the confidential survey online click here, or fill out the printed survey questionnaire and mail it to Mary Jaffe at ACEC, 1015 15th Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. Complete results will be available in 10 weeks.
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Recognize 'Red Flags' Of Model Contracts to Protect Your Business, Avoid Risk
Recognizing the Snares and Pitfalls in A/E/C Industry Contracts
May 28-29, Philadelphia
Set for May 28-29 in Philadelphia, Recognizing the Snares and Pitfalls in A/E/C Industry Contracts is a one-and-a-half-day course that will equip your firm's engineers, architects, project managers, contracting officers, specifiers and others to avoid risk, with important up-to-date knowledge in critical contract areas, especially important in a competitive economy.
Sessions will cover two dozen key provisions in model contracts that are vital in protecting your business and maintaining your firm's professional standards. Presenting faculty are James C. Brown II, vice president, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., and Justin L. Weisberg, Arnstein & Lehr LLP. Attendees earn 11 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Bottom-Line Advantage Is Goal Of Advanced Project, Program Management Course
Advanced Project and Program Management for the Engineering and Construction Industry
June 8-9, Cambridge, MA
ACEC and Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering bring Advanced Project and Program Management for the Engineering and Construction Industry curriculum to the East Coast this summer. The intensive two-day course will be presented June 8-9 in Cambridge (Boston), MA, providing contemporary insights into topics of vital importance in a challenging economy, including:
- Becoming "Project Fiduciary" in Uncertain Economic Times
- New Information Systems and Their Contributions to Projects
- Management of the Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Project
- Project Risks and Mitigation Measures
- Creative Funding Mechanisms—Program Economics
- Path Forward in Program Execution for Increased Fees, Repeat Business
Faculty are Stephen Mulva, associate director, Construction Industry Institute; Jerry Novacek, president NovaConGroup; and Ahmad Hadavi, associate director, Master of Project Management, Northwestern University.
Expand your knowledge of new delivery systems and contracting formats and discover innovative management techniques to increase projects and program revenues. Attendees earn 16 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Succeeding In Challenging Economic Environment Is Focus Of BDC Course
The Business of Design Consulting: Managing to Succeed in a Challenging Economic Environment
June 3-6, Portland, Maine
In response to continued strong interest, ACEC will again present The Business of Design Consulting: Managing to Succeed in a Challenging Economic Environment, June 3-6, in Portland, Maine. This intensive, four-day course examines and updates every element and function of the successful A/E business in the context of an uncertain and challenging business environment.
Content covers the eight key areas of business: management, finance, marketing, contracts, risk management, leadership, human resources, and information technology.
If you are an owner, executive, principal, business administrator, project manager (all levels), human resources manager, or manager of facilities and/or infrastructure projects, then you can't afford to miss this ACEC course. Attendees earn 28 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Add Courtroom Skills To Engineering Expertise To Include Legal Services In Portfolio
Applying Expertise as an Engineering Expert Witness
June 18-19, Philadelphia
In challenging economic times, adding new services that capitalize on your firm's existing skills and expertise is an important business strategy. Only the court-savvy, prepared and prudent engineer should take on the potentially lucrative assignment of being an expert witness in legal proceedings.
A sell-out in its recent debut, ACEC's Applying Expertise as an Engineering Expert Witness course will again be presented on June 18-19 in Philadelphia. The course prepares participants for legal service with recognition and a Certificate of course completion and 11 PDHs.
Designed for professional engineers, architects and surveyors interested in earning credentials for legal service engagements, attendees will learn from expert faculty about courtroom demeanor, how to maintain credibility, the differences between a fact witness and an expert witness, deposition behavior, permissible out of court statements, ethics, pre-courtroom testimony preparation, visual aids and more.
For agenda details and to register, click here.
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Online Seminars: Economics Of Sustainable A/E Practice, Meaningful Feedback, Transportation PPPs
The Business Case for Sustainable Engineering Practice
April 14, 1:30-3 p.m.
Bill Wallace, Wallace Futures Group LLC, calls sustainability "the No. 1 megatrend that will change the rules of global business." This timely bottom-line focused seminar explores sustainable engineering and its growing economic feasibility, and spells out ways to gain relative advantage by lowering costs, differentiating products and services, leveraging experience and core competencies, and discovering new market and geographic strategies.
For details and to register, click here.
How to Give and Receive Effective Feedback
April 15, 1:30-3 p.m.
The most important and fundamental tool that every manager uses to accomplish anything and everything is communication. Gary Bates, Roenker Bates Group, explores the details of how to be more skillful as both a sender and a receiver through the use of an appropriate feedback process to achieve your desired results. The seminar includes two self-assessment surveys that participants can use to measure their overall communication effectiveness and level of listening skills.
For details and to register, click here.
Private Partnerships for Public Needs: PPPs and Surface Transportation
April 16, 1:30-3 p.m.
Jim Hatter, Federal Highway Administration, defines the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) as "any arrangement where the private sector takes on more risk than is traditional." While comprehensive highway PPP programs are relatively new to the U.S., some countries have extensive and even long-term experience with highway PPPs in particular. This valuable online presentation will:
- Explain what PPPs are and why governments consider them
- Identify key USDOT project finance tools that work in conjunction with innovative procurement
- Describe PPP models and risk transfer
- Look at actual PPP case studies.
For details and to register, click here.
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Early Registration Opens For Fall Building Information Modeling (BIM) Course, Seattle
Building Information Modeling (BIM): The Promise and The 2009 Reality for A/E/C Firms
October 29-30, Seattle
ACEC's popular course, Building Information Modeling (BIM): The Promise and The 2009 Reality for A/E/C Firms, is accepting registrations for the next presentation, Oct. 29-30 in Seattle. Mark your calendars and register now for an informative and inside look into the many components that contribute to bottom-line success utilizing this interdisciplinary project delivery system. This is an invaluable overview for COOs, IT and project managers, and company principals. Attendees earn 11 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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