SAEA Board looks forward to welcoming members to the Spring Membership Conference on Saturday May 13th in the Detroit Metro Area. The Keynote speaker is confirmed and members are very excited to listen and learn from Dr. El Gamal’s depth of knowledge and expertise as a business leader in the US Engineering community and GLWA. Dima El-Gamal, Ph.D., PE, LEED AP, is the Capital Improvement Planning Director at the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA). At GLWA she is responsible for planning ~$350...

Partially destroyed house building Following devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, SAEA moved quickly to create a fifteen-member earthquake response task force led by six specialized civil/structural engineers with combined experience of over 180 years in the analysis design and construction of reinforced concrete buildings. The other 11 members of the task force combine additional decades of experience in the electrical, mechanical, IT, environmental engineering. At the upcoming Spring...

2023 Spring Conference When:             Saturday, May 13th 2023 Where:            Holiday Inn Express – Farmington Hills                         21100 Haggerty Rd, Northville, MI 48167 Agenda 12:00-1:00 PM, Group Syrian Breakfast 1:00-1:30 PM, Introductions & Member...

SAEA is pleased to announce the Spring quarterly membership conference in the Detroit area on Saturday May 13th 2023 12:00 to 5:30 PM EST. Please join SAEA members and friends starting with a Syrian breakfast at 12:00 PM and end with a Syrian Dinner for family and members from 5:30-7:00 PM EST. Enjoy a special agenda with topics focused on the devastating earthquake and transition into engineering management with special attention to the Syrian-American engineer. Feel free to invite any...

Wind and solar energy could reach a record 12% of global electricity generation in 2023, up from 10% last year, climate think tank Ember has found. Syria’s neighbor to the north, Turkey, has tripled its share of wind and solar power generation between 2015 and 2021 placing it in 5th place among G20 countries at 13.6% share for clean energy. Several Syrian and Turkish engineers have cooperated to advance this form of power generation and is making this technology and experience available to...

SAEA Board recommends the below featured opportunity for engineers for continued education and professional development: What is new in AutoCAD 2024 – Autodesk Webinar - Thursday, April 13th, 2023 - 11:00AM (EDT)  In this webinar, Autodesk experts will demonstrate how AutoCAD 2024 helps you unlock insights and leverage automations with a best-in-class 2D and 3D drafting and design experience that is trusted by millions. You will see how AutoCAD 2024: Introduces new features to accelerate...

SAEA members in the civil and structural engineering fields discuss the recent shift in the cement industry to lower its carbon footprint in alignment with climate-action goals. Cement supply from and into Syria is especially important as recovery, repair and rebuilding effort start after the recent devastating earthquake. As quality of cement and concrete is under increasing scrutiny owing to many code violations and lack of quality assurance and enforcement evidenced in stricken buildings...

One of SAEA’s core programs is to support continuing education and professional development for members to work toward licensure or to maintain current engineering licenses. The board recommends the following ASCE courses for continuing education units for its members: Online construction courses: •           Construction Contract Administration •           Estimating Quantities for Lump Sum...

SAEA Board and special earthquake taskforce in relation to their current technical engineering support for the earthquakes in Syria to attend the ASCE expert panel: ASCE Geo-Congress 2023: Turkey-Syria Earthquakes Panel, Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:00 PM The ASCE Geotechnical Institute (GI) invited ASCE members to a moderated panel presented live at Geo-Congress 2023 in Los Angeles. Updates on the February 6, 2023 Magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 Kahramanmaras Earthquakes in Turkey-Syria were presented...

At the end of a three-day UN conference, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted the extreme importance of water action, and recommended that it be “at the center of the global political agenda.” With 3.6 billion lacking access to safely managed sanitation services, many are hoping to place urgency on this matter. Chemical engineers and Chemists like Salam Titinchi are exploring solutions. One such potential technological solution is carbon nanomaterials which have been shown to...