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Rock Island Post & ASCE Quad Cities Chapter Fall Engineering Conference

Thursday, October 12th – Friday, October 13, 2023

Join us Thursday, October 12th at WIU and Friday, October 13th at St. Ambrose University for our annual training event featuring a keynote from the 54th Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, LTG (Ret) Todd Semonite! LTG (Ret) Semonite holds a BS in civil engineering from the US Military Academy and Master degrees from the University of Vermont and US Army Command and General Staff College.

Thursday evening will be a social & networking event at Western Illinois University's Quad City engineering campus in Moline, IL with a one hour PDH presentation.

Friday will be an engineering conference at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA which will consist of 7 PDH hours in 1 of 4 tracks - General Civil, Municipal, Structural, Electrical/Mechanical.

Participants who attend all activities will receive 8 PDH hours including 1 in ethics.

Detailed instructions on where to park, which rooms and buildings to go to, and individual speaker information will be provided prior to the event to all registrants.

Our 2023 conference will include great presentations on the TBK Sports Complex, Moline's Stormwater Master Plan, Linwood Mine Duct Bridge, Bioluminscent path design, the Field of Dreams, major improvements at USACE navigation facilities, and much, much more across our 4 tracks.

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Our SAME Community

Centered in Rock Island, Illinois, the Rock Island Post serves the Upper Mississippi River Valley, with members in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Indiana and Ohio. The post boasts over 250 individual members and over 40 sustaining member firms. Monthly meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month. In addition to hosting an annual golf outing and commander briefings, the post is also active in various community activities.

The Society of American Military Engineers is the only nonprofit professional engineering education organization that actively promotes the advancement of both individual technical knowledge and the collective engineering capabilities of governments, the uniformed services and private industry.

Our goal is to unite public and private sector entities and individuals in the A/E/C fields so that we can prepare for and overcome natural and man made disasters, acts of terrorism and improve security at home and abroad.