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March 30th General Meeting

March 30, 2016 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

The Ike Dike and Hurricane Surge Protection for the Houston-Galveston Area

March 30th (Wednesday) 5:30 pm General Meeting

Carriage House of the Clayton Library at 5300 Caroline St

The Houston Public Library does not sponsor or endorse this meeting.  The library has a parking lot with free parking.  See attached map showing location of the library and photo showing the parking area.

IEEE Houston Consultant Network members, IEEE Members, interested parties, students and guests are all welcome!  Please RSVP to tgcooper@sbcglobal.net.

Agenda

5:30 PM – Networking & Snacks

5:45 PM – Brief announcements and introduction of speaker

6:00 PM – Presentation followed by Q and A

7:15 PM – Adjourn and exit the building

7:30 PM – Staff closes the library

Len Waterworth, COL (ret.) USA

Executive Professor, Maritime Administration; Special Assistant the the CEO, Leadership Development;
Senior Research Associate, Center for Texas Beaches and Shores Texas A&M University at Galveston

Presentation:

Colonel Waterworth will present the need for hurricane surge protection for the Houston-Galveston area.
He will cover features of the Ike Dike design and other hurricane surge protection measures.

Speaker:Len Waterworth

Colonel Len Waterworth joined Texas A&M University at Galveston as executive professor in the Department of Maritime Administration in 2014. Col. Waterworth is also the special assistant to the CEO for Leadership Development and a senior research associate in the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores. Colonel Waterworth holds a master of strategic studies from US Army War College and a master of engineering administration from George Washington University.

His duties include working to coordinate Ike Dike hurricane surge protection research activities with Texas A&M Galveston faculty and research partners at Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university; the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston and the Homeland Center of Excellence at Jackson State University in Mississippi, the Sspeed Center at Rice University, as well as public outreach efforts with businesses, municipalities and non-governmental organizations in the Houston/Galveston region.

After a long and successful career in the US Army, Colonel Waterworth has had a similarly successful career in top administration in both governmental and private sectors with the Army Corps of Engineers, Dannenbaum Engineering Corporation and most recently as executive director at the Port of Houston Authority.

Details

Date:
March 30, 2016
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm