PRAIRIE

VIEW A&M
UNIVERSITY
Annual Report
American Society of Civil Engineers Student
Chapter
CONTACT INFORMATION

▪ Mailing address:
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  P.O. Box 519, MS #2510, Prairie View, TX 77446

▪ Email address
pvamu.asce1@gmail.com
Web site
www.pvamuasce.weebly.com
Instagram: @pvamu.asce
STUDENT
OFFICERS
2019
 STUDENT OFFICERS 2019

Frida Rubi –President 

Loriell Campbell – VP

Aspen'Que Ridgley - Secretary

 STUDENT OFFICERS CONT’D

Chika Okwor – Treasurer 

Jarvis Hawkins - Professionalism

Developer Coordinator

Marshall Green- Community

Service Chair
ADVISORS 2019-2020

Dr. Judy A. Perkins PhD, PE (Faculty Advisor)

Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed PhD, PE,

CPESC ( Secondary Faculty
Advisor)
Mr. Stephan A. Hrncir PE
(Practitioner Advisor)
Introducing New Advisor Starting
Fall 2020
Dr.Md. Jobair Bin Alam, Ph.D., P.E., A.M.,ASCE
(Secondary Faculty Advisor)
▪ (936)-261-1652
▪ Email: mdalam@pvamu.edu
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
▪ Mission Statement:
"The purpose of  Prairie View A&M University’s American Society of
Civil Engineers Chapter is to expose students to opportunities in various
industries, retain them in engineering professions, and release them into
society with the proper tools needed in the engineering community.”
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
▪ Goal 1: 
⮚To increase the number of retention of members every year by having
more events and opportunities that will attract people.
▪ Goal 2:
⮚To obtain a better connection with Freshmans and Sophomores within
the beginning of every new school year.
▪ Goal 3:
ØTo participate more with ASCE national events and competitions
throughout the school year, by fundraising and raising money to go.
 GOAL 1
▪ We would like to increase the retention rate of members at least 5% and
also keep them participating more throughout  the semester.
▪ Action plan :
▪ By going to introduce ourselves in any civil classes from beginners to
senior design classes,
▪ Tutoring sessions to help any civil engineering student
▪ Follow-up plan:
▪ Attend the involvement fair on campus and try to do more social event
 GOAL 2

To obtain a better connection with Freshmen's and Sophomore's within the

beginning of every new school year.
▪ Action plan listing tasks of how you planned to achieve your goal
▪ Having the EBoard attend the Freshman and Sophomore level classes and
introducing ourselves and ASCE.
▪ Follow-up plan for the future
▪ Have more social events near or in the freshmen dorms.
▪ Have events at an earlier time.
 GOAL 3
To participate more with ASCE national events and
competitions throughout the school year.
▪ Some of the ASCE events include ASCE Houston Branch meeting, Compete in the Concrete
Canoe competition, Compete in the ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition, and the Texas -
Mexico Conference host by University of Texas at Arlington.
Plan of Attack
▪ Our chapter has been trying to get more involved in participating in events on campus and also
national ASCE events. However, a major obstacle in reaching this goal has been that our
chapter lack substantial funding to pay for our members involvement in various events.

▪ To better this effort, we created a schedule of fundraising activities to occur every other week
on a specific day. We increased advertisement of these events around campus so that the
turnout would be higher as well as the profit made from the event.

▪ To get more member to attend the ASCE Houston Branch meeting a ticket will be handed out to
member who attend, which the ticket will then be place in a raffle to win a prize which could
include a trip to the Texas - Mexico Conference .
 MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS
▪ Total number of members: 25
▪ Total number of ASCE National Society-level members: 13
▪ Percent of members are Society-level members :
▪ 14 total members
▪ 56%
▪ Number of members with Junior and Senior status :
9 Juniors
13 Seniors
▪ Number of Juniors and Seniors eligible to join ASCE :
▪ 22 in total
▪ Percent of eligible Juniors and Seniors that are members:
88%
MEETING STATISTICS
▪ Number of professional meetings with an invited speaker: 3
▪ Number of meetings with student presentations and/or paper(s) presented:
4
▪ Number of professional licensure meetings and/or ethics topics presented:
0
▪ Number of field trips: 0
▪ Number of social functions: 0
▪ Number of students that attended Section/Branch meetings: 5
▪ Number of students that attended Younger Members meetings: 5
 Spring General Body Meeting
▪ The speaker at this meeting was HNTB.
During the visit the guest speakers spoke on
many things such as the company’s expertise,
values and projects. It was a very engaging
event, students and visitors were able to
interact with the guest speakers and ask many
questions. They also gave insight and
recommendations on upcoming job
opportunities that would become available
soon.

▪ Number of attendees: 15 attendees

 Fall General Body Meeting

Pvamu Chapter of ASCE purpose was to begin

the school year with the intent to participate in
the Steel Bridge Design competition, Concrete
Canoe competition and fellowship with young
Civil Engineers in the making.
Number of attendees: 19 attendees
 Department of Energy
During the visit the guest
speakers spoke on many aspects
of the company. They were very
helpful, gave students resume
critiques and was generous with
spreading information about
internship/career opportunities.
Number of Attendees: 10
attendees
 Middle School Day
Students from various Middle
Schools visit Prairie View A&M
University for Engineering
Middle School Day. The different
departments put together
activities for the students to get an
insight of Engineering concepts.
The Civil Department and ASCE
helped student build bridges with
toothpicks and marshmallows.
 Airpod Giveaway
As a fundraiser for ASCE the
student leaders went on a mission to
engage with students on Prairie
View’s campus on a day during
Spring Fest. ASCE put together a
raffle to win a pair of Apple
Airpods.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
▪ Workshop for Student Chapter Leaders (WSCL)
▪ Location: Dallas,Tx
▪ Dates February 8- 10, 2019
▪ Number of students and advisors that attended: 5 student and 1 advisor
 SPECIAL PROJECTS (AUTO CAD)
Introduction to 2D Computer Aided drafting  and 3D drawing .
The objective of this course is to teach users the basic commands and tools
necessary for professional 2D drawing, design and drafting
using AutoCAD /After completing this course users will be able to:

▪ Use AutoCAD for daily working process. 

▪ Navigate throughout AutoCAD using major navigating
tools including Drawing lines, Erasing, and Object Snaps
▪ Create multiple designs using several of tools. 
▪ Explain drawing using annotations. 
▪ Plot or print the drawing by scale. 
Engineering component 

▪ Computer aided drafting is widely used in the civil engineering field

because of its ability to plan sites a lot easier than hand drawings, it
can help design a lot of engineering supplies, and is constantly
upgrading. This workshop was to show our members that this program
is important now and when we graduate.

▪ Participation
▪ An average of  12 students participated.
▪ We did this workshop on average of 1 day every two weeks for an
hour and 30 mins .
SPECIAL PROJECT (HABITAT FOR
HUMANITY) 
Goals, objectives
▪ Habitat for Humanity Northwest Harris County is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization
operated on  building homes, communities and hope. Partnering  with the Habitat for Humanity
NWHC in volunteering in building New Home Construction and for Home repair for families in
need of decent and affordable housing. 
▪ PVAMU ASCE Chapter have been partnering with the Habitat for Humanity NWHC since Spring
of 2019

How project goals and objectives matched with your Student Chapter goals
▪ Habitat for Humanity goal matches this chapter goal by providing teamwork, in coming together
with the community in building or repairing a home. 
▪ Our member enjoy volunteering with habitat for humanity and learning new trade on the
construction side of field and also learning what goes into constructing a home from the bottom up.
SPECIAL PROJECT (HABITAT FOR
HUMANITY) Cont’d
▪ Engineering component 
▪ Volunteering also give our member some aspect of civil engineering in laying down the concrete
foundation for a home and putting up trusses for the roof.

▪ Participation
▪ Spring 2019  we had 13 student including 5 executive board member participated with 100% being
member
▪ Fall 2019 we had 15 student including 5 executive board member participated with 80% being
member
SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS
▪ What were the most significant events of the year?

One of the most significant events would be habitat from humanity , I

feel like our chapter loves to get together outside of school to give
back to the community and be able to bond with each other.
▪ What were the most significant challenges?
Retention rate in our chapter meetings. Many times when we hosted
meeting the percentage of members that would join us would not be
that high. We will come up with better ideas to get more members to
come.