On Wednesday at 11:45 (108 SN), we have Suffolk in to talk about the renovations to Matthews Arena. We are also trying to get a field trip planned in the next few weeks to Matthews. This lecture would be a good opportunity to learn about the renovations before you see them in person. Pizza will be served.

Concrete Canoe:

Email Ezra Jampole at jampole.e@neu.edu if you are interested.

Steel Bridge:

Email Nicole Serafin at serafin.n@neu.edu if you are interested.

NUASCE Bocce:

Take a look at the Bracket and lets try to get the tournament finished by Friday or early next week.

Community Service:

Over the past few weeks we have been in talks with various organizations and we are trying to get two work days planned for this semester. One being with Boston Water and Sewer and the other a cleanup on the Watertown side of the Charles River. It looks like we will have a work day at the Charles River on November 21st. Look for more information next week.

One of the advantages the BRT would have over the MBTA is having larger and more substantial stations that are spread further apart.  Because they are space slightly less frequently, the busses would make fewer unnecessary stops and would therefore have less travel time for users.  The BRT would also have better traffic controller information as well as still connecting with the MBTA and commuter rail.

The main focus of this presentation of the BRT was the engineering challenges faced at the critical location of Commonwealth Ave. at the Boston University Bridge.  AECOM gave several proposed options for implementing the BRT in this area.   Some options included ideas such as the creation of new structures, a separate route built for the BRT, and the relocation of the Boston University Academy building.  AECOM also played a very interesting simulation video made for one of the proposed solutions.

On Wednesday at 11:45 (108 SN), we have AECOM in to talk about transportation planning and design. The lecture with be centered around their work on the Urban Ring in Boston. Pizza will be served.

Concrete Canoe:

Email Ezra Jampole at jampole.e@neu.edu if you are interested.

Steel Bridge:

Has a meeting Thursday at 7pm in the design studio.

NUASCE Bocce

The brackets for the NUASCE Bocce Tournament have been posted outside Professor Tillman’s office. Everyone should get their matches finished by this Wednesday and their second round matches done by Friday.

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I’ll be issuing a Joke of the Week as well, so check back for great jokes!

NSTAR has well over 3,000 employees and serves over 100 communities with 1.1 million electric and 300,000 natural gas customers.  The main focus areas for their environmental engineering are environmental sustainability, maintenance and construction environmental compliance, facility environmental compliance, and oil and hazardous material (OHM) release management.

For environmental sustainability, NSTAR recycles materials such as utility pole wood, dielectric fluid, waste motor oil, batteries, copper, aluminum, lead, steel, etc.  They look to use renewable products such as vegetable oil which is non-toxic, bio-degradable, non-petroleum based because it comes from a vegetable source.  Reducing their Carbon footprint is also very important to NSTAR.  The company tries to achieve this by reducing the use of energy and water, efficient fleet fuel use, and reducing the loss of SF6 gas, which has a great global warming potential.

NSTAR also talked about the engineering challenges faced with a specific example of the 2,000 gallon leak found at station 49 in Kenmore Square.

This week we have Daniel Watton from NSTAR talking about environmental management and quality assurance at electric generation and distribution facilities. Please join us Wednesday, 7 October in 108 Snell Engineering at 11:45. As always, pizza will be served.

NUASCE Bocce:

The NUASCE Fall Bocce tournament is back! There will be a sign up sheet at the meeting on Wednesday. If you are interested, sing up ASAP so we can get started making the brackets. Winner gets a pair of tickets to see the Bruins take on the Tampa Bay Lighting on Wednesday December 2nd.

Membership Dues:

We received more signup sheets so we will begin to collect dues again.

Freshman Free
Sophomore $10.00
Middler $10.00
Junior $15.00
Senior $15.00