DVASE Membership
If you would like to become a member of the Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers, please fill out and print our membership form.
Why become a member of DVASE?
Membership includes invitations and admission to the monthly breakfast seminar series and reduced member rates to other DVASE events. By association with NCSEA (National Council of Structural Engineering Associations), all members receive a year subscription to Structure Magazine. Best of all it is a great opportunity to meet other professionals in the structural field and keep up to date with the latest news on codes, design criteria, and professional licensing.
Membership options
There are currently five options for DVASE membership:
- Firm Membership: ($600) Firm memberships are limited to companies that practice structural engineering or have structural engineering departments. Member firms will be listed on the DVASE website, and recognized on signage at all breakfast seminars. Attach membership forms for up to three (3) structural engineering practitioners with active professional registration (see Firm Affiliate below for additional members).
- Firm Affiliate: ($100) Additional individual structural practitioners with a member firm.
- Structural Engineer Practitioner: ($150) Individual structural engineer or EIT who is not with a member firm.
- Public Owner Practitioner: ($75) An employee of federal, state, local, or utility agency.
- Academic Member: ($50) Must be fulltime faculty teaching in a structural engineeringrelated degree program at an accredited college/university.
- Student Member: ($25) Must be fulltime student enrolled in a structural engineeringrelated degree program at an accredited college/university.
Firm Membeship (up to three registered professional engineers may join):
Individual Membership (select one of the give types):
Click here to download a membership application now!
How can you support DVASE?
We have many goals for the upcoming season, and they can't be achieved by the board members alone. That's why we have asked everyone to provide at least one field where they will support DVASE this year. We're not asking for a large time commitment, just some contribution on the member's part. Every bit of help counts! There are many ways you can help:
- Educating youth about structural engineering: The education effort is being chaired by Tom Langan, P.E. of Schoor DePalma, Philadelphia. He would like to form a committee to create specific goals to promote structural engineering to students as a profession choice. This may include organizing participation in EnWeek 2005.
- Website Committee: The website content cannot evolve without contributions from our members. Unlike Modern Steel or ENR, we do not have a writing staff to generate reading material for our members. This should be a forum to share information. We're asking for just ONE submission from you this entire year to post on the website. You can participate by submitting a brief article profiling your company or a recent project. Write an editorial about your opinion on the IBC Code! There are many topics to choose from. We'll do all the formatting and uploading. We just need the content from YOU.
- Breakfast seminar series: The board has planned topics and locations for the DVASE seminar series. Help in this area may include: making phone calls to the speaker or the venue, meeting a few minutes before the event to ensure everything is in order. We also need someone to write an article after the DVASE event to be posted on the website.
- Local project design competition: This effort is being chaired by Kirk Harman, P.E. of Cagley and Harman Associates, King of Prussia. Kirk is our NCSEA delegate. He would like to form a committee to help organize a DVASE project design competition with winners advancing to the NCSEA design competition in June 2005.
- Community Outreach and Public Relations Committee
- Statewide Structural Engineering Association
- Contract and Professional Liability Committee
Engaging the members in some participation builds a strong future for DVASE. Be sure to check at least one of the above topics on your membership form.