This group was closely associated with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Adams was fairly active in the organization throughout the period he was teaching at the University of Utah. After he left the University, his interest in the organization appeared to wane.

SPEE Summer School for Engineering Teachers, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, July 1930; Programs, notes, field trips.

SPEE Summer School for Engineering Teachers, Stevens

Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, July 1932 Program, Notes.

SPEE, Johnsonburg, New Jersey Conference, cont.; SPEE Annual Meeting of the Pacific Southwest Section of the SPEE, Los Angeles Junior College, December 1937; SPEE 45th Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June-July, 1937.

SPEE Summer Surveying Conference, Camp Marston, Ranier, Minnesota.

SPEE New York Meeting, 1937 Conference reunion, January 1938; SPEE 46th Annual Meeting, College Station, Texas, June 1938; Includes final report of Camp Marston Conference.

SPEE Missouri Regional Conference of Surveying Teachers, April 1939, Rolla, Missouri Hydraulies Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, June 12-15, 1939 47th Annual Meeting, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsylvania, June 19-23, 1939 Pacific Southwest Section, SPEE, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, December 1939

48th Annual Meeting, SPEE, University of California, Berkley, California.

Reports Pacific Southwest Section, University of Southern California.

Programs Hydrology Conference, State College, Pennsylvania.