The 35th Annual Best in the West (BITW) Drill and Blast Conference in Spearfish, South Dakota, brought together over 300 attendees for three days of training and networking. Organized by the Black Hills and Northern Plains chapters of ISEE, it featured sessions, a trap shoot, a mountain tour, and an awards banquet raising $16,000 for scholarships.
The Penn State Student ISEE Chapter and Eastern PA ISEE Chapter held a joint dinner and meeting on April 10, 2024, at Pennsylvania State University's Hosler Building. Christopher Catalano, Chief of Explosives and Safety Section at PA Department of Environmental Protection, spoke about "Academics in Blasting."
ISEE has uploaded 60 papers from their 50th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique to OneMine.org®, a digital library offering access to over 150,000 technical papers on explosives engineering.