CMA staff Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP, Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE, Brent Whitfield, P.E., ENV SP and Patrick Kaimrajh, P.E. attended FES Professional Engineer Legislative Days in Tallahassee this week at the Florida State Capitol. The group met legislators including Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez, Senator Ana María Rodriguez, Senator Jason Pizzo (38th District), Representative Joe Geller (100th District), Representative Dan Daley (97th District), Representative Rick Roth (District 85), Representative Joe Casello (District 90) and Representative David Silvers (District 87). https://www.fleng.org/page/PELegislativeDays

CMA Associate Engineer Madeley Arriola Guerrero, E.I. volunteered at the Hagen Ranch Road Library for the National Engineers Week: Be a Pioneer for Progress program.  29 people were in attendance.  Madeley gave a presentation about “What is engineering? And How to become one?” She also helped lead the group in making Bristlebots!

CMA was named as one of the ‘Best Places to Work’ at the South Florida Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in South Florida awards program.  The event was held at The Signature Grand in Davie on Thursday, February 20. The awards program recognized small, medium and large companies deemed by their employees to be the ‘Best Places to Work’ in South Florida. More than 500 professionals attended the event. CMA ranked 8th overall in the medium-sized company category – congratulations! For more information, please visit https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/

Chen Moore and Associates staff participated in the ASCE Broward Fourth Annual Engineer for a Day event on February 12. The student outreach program was created to encourage high school students to consider civil engineering as a future career field. The day was divided up into two sessions. The morning session was hosted at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 4 offices in Fort Lauderdale, where students interacted with local engineering university students, professors and other professional engineers, where they learned about the academic requirements necessary for completing an engineering degree and general information in the engineering field. In the afternoon session, the students split up into smaller groups and toured local engineering firms, including Chen Moore and Associates’ Fort Lauderdale office. Thanks to our staff for welcoming these students and giving them the opportunity to become Engineers for a Day! For more information, please visit http://www.broward-asce.org/

On February 11, CMA Director of Planning and Landscape Architecture Cris Betancourt, RLA, AICP and Landscape Architect Stefan Bortak, RLA, CID staffed a table at the UGA College of Environment + Design Career Fair at the University of Georgia. Attendees included undergraduate and graduate students in UGA’s LAAB-accredited landscape architecture program who have a comprehensive understanding of design, including coursework in garden design, community design, urban design and regional planning. http://career.uga.edu/hireuga

CMA staff attended the SMPS South Florida Paint & Sip Networking Social on February 11. CMA also donated to the event, which was held at Art Sea Living in Boynton Beach. A portion of the proceeds from the event benefitted Girls 2 Women.

On February 8, CMA staff participated in the Miami-Dade ASCE Field Day at Zoo Miami benefitting local students studying civil engineering. CMA was an event sponsor and finished in third place overall! Attendees included Greg Mendez, P.E., Patrick Kaimrajh, P.E., Sathvika Ramaji, E.I., Nick Karpathy, E.I., Carlos Tijerino, Manny Caamano, Jazmin Cruz, and Chris Donnelly. Nick Karpathy, E.I. organized the event.
 

Representatives of CMA Robert Best, P.E., Teresa Lewis, E.I., Carlos Tijerino, and Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP attended the ASCE Multi-Region Leadership Conference January 31 – February 1 in Philadelphia.  

CMA Vice President Jose L. Acosta, P.E., F.ASCE served as co-chair and Senior Engineer Patrick Kaimrajh, P.E. and Associate Engineer Carlos Tijerino served as judges for the Future City Competition held January 11 at FIU College of Engineering. Future City is a project-based learning program where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future. This year there were 11 local teams competing for top prizes and six special awards.   St Hugh Catholic School was the winning school and is pictured with other co-chair Dave Clarke of Stantec, the Dean of the College Engineering at FIU and the Assistant Dean (Dr Osama Mohammed) who served as the lead for the SE Region of Future Cities. For more information, please visit http://aln.fiu.edu/futurecity/

CMA President Peter Moore, P.E., F.ASCE, ENV SP, LEED AP presented a dedication at NASA of the Vehicle Assembly Building designating it as an ASCE National Historic Landmark to the NASA Director.  Kevin J. Thibault, Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation and other CMA staff members were in attendance.