The Quad City Engineering and Science Council (QCESC)

AWARDS ANNOUNCED AT ENGINEERS WEEK BANQUET

Davenport, IA -- The Quad City Engineering and Science Council presented the following awards at the 42nd Annual National Engineers Week Banquet held on Friday, February 27, 2004 at Davenport Holiday Inn.

Junior Engineer of the Year:

Thomas R. Gambucci, P.E
Hydraulic Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

 Mr. Gambucci has received two official commendation awards for project work during 2003, and has received the highest performance rating by his supervisor. On March 27th, he gave a technical presentation at the ASCE Water Resources Regional Conference in Iowa City, Iowa, entitled "Preventing Overtopping Damage to EMP and HREP Protective Levees: Lake Odessa, near Wapello, IA". Mr. Gambucci is an active member of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Rock Island Post, and received an award on Sept 11th for recruiting the most sustaining members to the Post. Also as a part of SAME he organized a Scholarship Golf Outing held on June 27th which raised $2100 for local area students seeking college degrees in engineering and technical sciences. Mr. Gambucci is very active as a leader in the community, serving as a church organist at two parishes and an instructor of Taekwon Do, and volunteers as a science fair judge for the Invent Iowa Invention
 

 

Senior Engineer of the Year:

Daniel P. Miller, P.E.
Civil Engineer, Stanley Group

Mr. Miller's career at Stanley Consultants has included assignments in southern and West Africa and Jamaica, as well as Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Arizona, and Utah. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Iowa, Utah, Florida, and Idaho. He has successfully completed projects for the Corps of Engineers (Rock Island, St. Louis, and Jacksonville Districts); the United Nations; Departments of Transportation for Iowa, Arizona, and Utah; the U.S. Coast Guard; county and municipal government entities; and commercial enterprises. In 2002, Mr. Miller was president of both the Quad Cities Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Rock Island Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME). His leadership helped to bring those organizations together to work on projects to promote engineering and aid their memberships. To date the organizations have held several joint meetings and co-sponsored an annual Continuing Education Conference. The conference, in its third year running, provides high quality, low-cost opportunities to meet the continuing educational requirements of professional licensure. The day-long, two-track, CEU conference has been attended by more than 100 professionals each year and yielded more than $5000 profit to assist the society's programs.

As past president of SAME, Mr. Miller provides support on several successful endeavors, including the annual scholarship golf outing and the annual Commanders Briefing. Each of these outings netted approximately $2,000. This money went to the scholarship fund, which provides scholarships to engineering or science bound high school graduates. The Post scholarship fund balance now exceeds $125,000 and has been invested in a mutual fund to increase the potential for more and larger scholarships.
 


The Quad City Engineering and Science Council is an umbrella organization representing 31 technical societies and organizations in the Quad City area with approximately 6,000 associated members. The QCESC is in it's 42nd year of operation and is a non-profit organization.