April 2018 KC Section Awards Luncheon and Society President-Elect Visit
Luncheon Sponsor:
Date:
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Location:
Brio Tuscan Grille
502 Nichols Rd, Kansas City, MO 64112
Time:
11:30 Registration/Networking
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Presentation
Menu:
Grilled Chicken Marsala, Pasta Alla Vodka, or Fettuccine Alfredo
Presentation:
New Life Members
Engineer of the Year
Project of the Year
Outstanding Senior UMKC Student
Distinguished Senior UMKC Student
National President-Elect Robin Kemper
Speaker:
Robin A. Kemper, PE, LEED AP, F.SEI, F.ASCE – ASCE President-Elect
Robin A. Kemper, PE, LEED AP, F.SEI, F.ASCE and ASCE President-elect has over thirty-five years of diverse and extensive structural engineering experience in design, analysis, and forensics, focused mainly on buildings. Robin currently is a Risk Engineer with Zurich North America. She works for both the Professional Liability and Construction Properties Risk Engineering Groups providing technical support to construction project policies, developing best practices, and investigating losses on construction projects. Robin has a passion for Engineering Ethics and since 2011, in her spare time, Robin has given over 20 presentations to various engineering groups.
Robin is a licensed Professional Engineer in six jurisdictions, and a Fellow of both ASCE and the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute. She has been active in ASCE since college, was President of both the Central Jersey Branch and the New Jersey Section of ASCE, and was District 1/Region 1 Director on the Society Board of Directors. Robin also served on the Board of Direction of Engineers Without Borders, and the Civil Engineering Industrial Advisory Board of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, her alma mater. She is currently a member of the Civil Engineering Industrial Advisory Boards for Rutgers University and the College of New Jersey.
Robin loves to travel, seaside vacations, and her family. She and Chris have been married for 37 years; they have two wonderful daughters and two great son-in-laws, and Robin loves playing with the newest member of the family, grandson Jonah.