Past Meetings/Events


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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

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 2nMotion Strategic Plan Recommendations

October 5 — Jim Ozment, PG – TDOT’s Approach to Compensatory Mitigation of Streams & Wetlands

August  — TDOT