A NEW event at the AEI conference, the symposium is a pre-conference half day event organized by the AEI Emerging Leaders Council. The symposium is geared toward early career professionals to hear from invited industry professionals on various topics related to the A|E|C industry, and discuss relevant topics such as, professional leadership skills, career growth, networking and personal branding.

2023 Agenda

The E4 Principle: Engineering in the Service of Equity, the Environment and Our Economy

Evan Reis, Executive Director and co-founder, US Resiliency Council

Evan Reis is a Structural Engineer and Executive Director of the US Resiliency Council. He graduated from Stanford University in 1988. He is a national leader in seismic risk management, publishing more than 50 papers on resilience, and presenting to groups of building stakeholders around the country. Evan co-founded the USRC in 2011 as a way to educate building stakeholders about the gap between sustainability and true resilient design. The USRC’s mission and vision are to advocate for resilience-based designs, and a future where we not only have a low impact on the environment, the environment has a low impact on us. The USRC recently and successfully sponsored a bill that will appropriate $250 million in grant funding toward the seismic retrofit of soft story apartment buildings. Evan joined Safehub as its Director of Science and Analytics where he translated seismic sensor data into estimates of building performance, and develops collaborations with Safehub’s structural engineering corporate partners.

Janise Rodgers, Chief Operating Officer, GeoHazards International

Janise Rodgers (PhD, PE) is an earthquake and building engineer whose expertise includes not only the behavior of buildings during earthquakes but also general disaster resilience, technology transfer and capacity building, experimental and computational research, technical document development, and projects to help make communities safer from multiple natural hazards. Dr. Rodgers is GeoHazards International’s Chief Operating Officer and has managed international projects for GHI since 2005. These projects include multi-hazard vulnerability assessment, scenario development, applied research, seismic retrofit, training of local engineers and policymakers to mitigate risk, policy and regulatory assessment and development, mitigation planning, landslide safety, hospital safety, and school safety. She holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A & M University.

Louise Foulkes, Caribbean Programs and Engineering Manager, Build Change

Louise is a structural engineer, passionate about resilient, affordable, equitable, and sustainable housing. As the Caribbean Programs and Engineering Manager at Build Change, her work focuses on homeowner-driven approaches to disaster prevention and reconstruction throughout the region. Her broad experience encompasses structural design for wind storms, earthquakes, and climate adaptation; project management; building assessments pre- and post-disaster; construction supervision; and stakeholder engagement with homeowners, communities, governments and the private sector. Louise has a Masters in Engineering from Imperial College London and is an Affiliate of the UK Institution of Structural Engineers.

 

Expanding the AE ABET Curriculum Disciplines

Derek Clements, PE, LEED, AP BD+C, Kansas State University, Chair AEI Academic Council

 

What You Need to Know About Professional Licensure

Allyson Iwanicki Smith, PE, Andelman and Leek Engineering, Chair AEI Emerging Leaders Council

Starting a Successful Grassroots l AE Community

Camille Stefani, PE, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc, Member Washington, D.C. AEI Local Community

Getting Involved in an AEI Technical Community

 

Kristin Parrish, Ph.D, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University

Network at the Conference Welcome Reception following the Symposium

Note: All conference registrants are welcomed to attend the symposium. A Wednesday Daily registration option  which includes a ticket to the Welcome Reception is available for those who are not attending the conference.