AWARDS

NNW received the 2007 American Council of Engineering Companies Iowa Engineering Achievement Award for the East River Drive Barrier Rail Replacement Project in Davenport, Iowa.

For 2006, NNW was awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2006 Oustanding Civil Engineering Project Achievement Award for the Iowa River Dam and Bridge Renovation project in Coralville.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

In August 2006 Steve Jacobsen, PE a consultant of VJ Engineering spent a week in Brazil at the 2006 International Transportation Conference.

 

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Steve Jacobsen,PE, consultant for VJ Engineering, has published several papers. Among them are the following:

Steve Jacobsen and Jane Driscoll published a paper titled "Creating a Succesfull Project Using Public Relations", US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, Seoul, Korea, July 2004

"Low Profile Railroad Bridge", 6th International Conference for Railway Engineering, Sponsored by the Railway Gazette, London, England, April 2003

"Development of New Modular Steel Bridge Design", US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, Seoul, Korea, July 2002

"Structural Feasibility of Segmental Steel Box Girder Bridge", First International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002

"Generation of Influence Surfaces for Two-Way Slab Bridges", Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium, Center for Transportation Research Education, Ames, Iowa, May 2000