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2023
January 11 — Lunch Meeting – Traci Holton (BNA) – BNA Vision and the New Horizon
2022
December 14 — Lunch Meeting – Butch Eley (Deputy Governor and TDOT Commissioner) – TDOT Update
December 10 — Salvation Army Warehouse Volunteering
November 30 — Virtual Lunch Meeting – Brian K. Charlesworth (Wright Brothers Construction) – When Culverts Fail: SR-312 Emergency Repair – Bradley County, TN
October 29 — Adopt-a-Highway – ASHE Volunteer clean-up event
October 19 — Lunch Meeting – Pam Kordenbrock (FHWA) – Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Carbon Reduction Program & PROTECT
October 6 — Social at Blade & Timber
August 24 — Joint Lunch Meeting with TSITE – Shaun Armstrong (TDOT) & Sharon Schutz (TDOT) – Introduction to the Project Delivery Network (PDN)
July 29 — Inaugural Awards Banquet at The Bell Tower
May 20 — Technical Seminar
- Smart Work Zone Technology – Making Our Roads Safer – Jason Quicksall, P.E. (TDOT)
- I-24/Hickory Hollow DDI – Kevin McAlister, P.E. & Jonathan Haycraft, P.E., ENV SP (Barge Design Solutions)
- Asphalt Surfaced Pavement Interlayers for Asphalt Overlays – State of the Practice in 2022 – Nicholas Reck, MSc.Eng, APM (TenCate Geosynthetics)
- Stream & Wetland Mitigation Overview & Trends – Ben Brown (TDOT)
- An Introduction to ASCE 38-02 Subsurface Utility Engineering – Rhett Sloan, PLS (SAM)
- Music City Grand Prix – Don Reid (NDOT)
- Updates on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill – Pam Kordenbrock (FHWA)
May 7 — Adopt-A-Highway Clean Up
April 21 — Social at Pins Mechanical
April 13 — Lunch Meeting/Webinar – Matt Newman (Gresham Smith) and Jon Storey (TDOT) – Highway System Access Manual Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Overview
March 9 — Lunch Meeting/Webinar – Clay Culwell (TDOT) – Disturbing Trends in Highway Safety
January 27 — Lunch Meeting/Webinar – David Wright (Bennett & Pless) – Surfside Condo Collapse – An Engineering & Management Failure
2021
December 11 — Salvation Army Warehouse Volunteering
November 29 — Lunch Meeting – Paul Degges (TDOT Deputy Commissioner & Chief Engineer) – TDOT 2021 Update
November 10 — Lunch Meeting/Webinar – Ted A. Kniazewycz (TDOT) – The Unwanted Discovery on the Hernando de Soto Bridge I-40 over Mississippi River – TDOT Repair Video
October 19 — Lunch Meeting/Webinar – Jon Storey (TDOT) – Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Efforts with the I-40 Mississippi River Bridge Case Study
September 22 — Webinar – Amir Moslehy (UT-Knoxville) – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Opportunities & Challenges
August 11 — Lunch Meeting – Faye DiMassimo (Nashville DOT) – Metro Nashville Transportation Update
June 22 & 29 — Technical Seminar
June 14 — 10th Annual ASHE Golf Tournament at Greystone Golf Club
April 21 — Webinar – Dr. Chris Cherry (UT-Knoxville Professor) – Electric Vehicles
March 10 — Webinar – Jeff Murphy (TDOT Project Safety Office) – Tennessee Crash Data
February 24 — Webinar – Adam Spiller & Josh Sitz (KCI) – TDOT Roadway Projects and Stream Mitigation: Not Just an Afterthought
January 7 — Webinar – Rochelle Carpenter (TDOT), Nora Kern (Walk/Bike Nashville) and Cortney Geary (Chattanooga/Hamilton County RPA) – Statewide Active Transportation Plan Roundtable
2020
December 17 — Christmas Trivia Virtual Social
December 12 — Salvation Army Warehouse Volunteering
December 8 — Webinar – Paul Degges (TDOT Deputy Commissioner & Chief Engineer) – TDOT Update 2020
November 18 — Webinar – Mike Bivens & Cory Halligan (Rembco) – Elder Mountain Road Landslide Repair
October 28 — Webinar – Casey Taggart & Jerome Cox (Eutaw) – Mack Hatcher Extension
October 14 — Webinar – David Morse (WSP) & Jennifer Lloyd (TDOT) – TDOT Transition to OpenRoads Designer
September 23 — Steel Day Webinar with National Steel Bridge Alliance
Henry Pate (Neel-Schaffer) — Value Engineering of Two Bridges in East Tennessee
Carter Bearden & Evan Graves (HDR) — Accelerated Bridge Construction of Foster Avenue Bridge in Nashville
Rex Gilley (WSP) — Design & Construction of I-440 Bridge over I-65 in Nashville
September 9 — Webinar – Stuart Samberg (RK&K) – Ramp Metering Methods, Algorithms, & the I-270 Case Study
August 18 — Webinar – Michelle Ray (WSP) – NEPA Basics: The What, Why, and the How
July 30 — Webinar – Lina Khoury (Volkert) & Wesley Peck (TDOT) – Hydraulics and Linear Transportation Projects
June 15 — Webinar – Matt Goette (HDR) – TN Highway Safety Plan Update
March 4 — Lunch Meeting – Mark Woods (State Pavement Engineer, TDOT Mainetance) – Pavement Preservation
January 31 — Lunch Meeting – Jonathan Haycraft (Barge Design Solutions) & Rachel Gentry (TDOT) – I-24/I-75 Interchange
2019
December 14 — Salvation Army Warehouse Volunteering
December 4 — Lunch Meeting – Paul Degges, TDOT Deputy Commissioner / Chief Engineer
November 6 — Lunch Meeting
October 19 — Fall Social at Gentry’s Farm
March 18 — Lunch Meeting – Nashville’s Bluetooth Data Deployment
January 23 — Lunch Meeting – Adaptive Signal Control – Meredith Cebelak with Gresham Smith
2018
December 8 — Angel Tree
December 5 — Lunch Meeting – TDOT Update – Commissioner John Schroer
November 7 — Laura Raczkowski, P.E. and Greg Duncan, P.E., Applied Pavement Technology, Inc. – TDOT Aeronautics Airport Pavement Management Program
October 13 — Fall Social @ Gentry Farms
September 10 — Annual ASHE Golf Tournament
September 5 — David Headrick – Advanced Technologies for Surveying and Mapping
August 3 — TDOT Update – Paul Degges @ TDOT Region 3 Auditorium
2017
December 16 — Salvation Army Angel Tree Volunteer Opportunity
December 8 — Lauren Gaines & Peter Kauffman – I-24 at Hickory Hollow Parkway Interchange
November 1 — BNA Vision
October 14 — Fall Social @ Gentry Farms
September 11 — Annual ASHE Golf Tournament
September 6 — John Sacksteder, PE & Mike Hancock, PE – Louisville Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges
May 19 — Technical Seminar
Session 1 – Russell Moorehead, PE – Chattanooga Riverwalk
Session 2 – Rex Bush, PE – Birmingham “Spaghetti Junction” Interchange
Session 3 – Andy Barlow, PE – SR 171 Adaptive Signal System
Session 4 – Chris Rhodes, PE & Jeff Koontz, PE – Transit Signal Priority on Murfreesboro Pike Corridor
Lunch Session – Steve Joiner – Generations At Work
Session 6 – Sammie McCoy, PE – I‐124 Reconstruction Project in Chattanooga
Session 7 – Jim Ozment, PG – NEPA Update
Session 8 – Jeff Jones, PE – AASHTO Greenbook Update
Session 9 – Erin Curry, PE – ALDOT Curve Safety Program
Session 10 – Justin Wood, PE – GDOT Design‐Build Bridge Program
April 5 — Paul Holzen, PE & Jonathan Marston, PE – City of Franklin Transportation Funding Initiative
March 2 — Kasey Anderson – Legislative Update
January 25 — Tanisha Hall – Multimodal Corridor Feasibility Study
2016
November 2 — nMotion Strategic Plan Recommendations
October 5 — Jim Ozment, PG – TDOT’s Approach to Compensatory Mitigation of Streams & Wetlands
August — TDOT