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March 2002 NewsLast updated 03/1/2002 Articles
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Description About
the Speaker Clark Walter is a graduate of Indiana University
of Pennsylvania with a degree in Education. He has a diverse background
encompassing Education, Business Administration, and Manufacturing business
environments. In addition, he has sixteen years Accounting Management
experience with U. S. Steel Corporation and has owned and operated a small
business. Mr. Walter also served as a Financial Consultant specializing
in investment and accounting processes. His Industrial and Commercial
Training Skills were recognized in 1999 when he was named the National
Facilitator of the Year by Leadership Management International; he is
currently the Senior Vice President of Career Dynamics, Inc., which is
headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Member Input Needed on the April CTC Tour ASME members will get the opportunity to
tour CTC
in Johnstown, PA on April 17, 2002. However, we need to know if you would like to go on
the tour and what you are interested in seeing at CTC. Some areas of CTC
involvement include:
Nominations Needed For Engineer Of The Year And Industry Of The Year Awards Here's your chance to nominate the engineer or company that you feel deserves special recognition for their achievements. Nominations are due to Dick Conley (rconley386@aol.com) by March 31, 2002.
Mark Your Calendar For The Annual Awards Banquet & Dinner-Dance Cruise Come and join us on May 24, 2002 as
we sail the three rivers on the mighty Gateway Clipper Ship "Majestic",
listen to great music and honor our 2001-2002 Engineer-of-the-Year and
Industry-of-the-Year. This is always a special opportunity to honor those
who have served the Mechanical Engineering community of Pittsburgh with
distinction. Visit our web site (www.asme.org/sections/pgh) for the
most up to date information. For registration or more information, contact
Dick Conley, 412-521-5941, or email rwconley@kerotest.com. Registration is required by Tuesday, April 23, 2002. Space is limited, so make your reservation early!
Tour Of ANDI Lab Planned In May Here’s a new event to add to your calendar.
The ASME Pittsburgh Section will be touring the ANDI laboratory (map)
on May 9. Since its acquisition from Westinghouse in 1992, ANDI has significantly
expanded its facilities and capabilities to provide equipment-testing
services for large number of fortune 500 companies as well as other test
laboratories including Underwriter Laboratories.
Junior Robo-Vikings Win Team Spirit Award In First Lego League Competition
Every student on the team, which received
$200 in ASME Pittsburgh Section sponsorship for team supplies and materials,
had a different part of the project to work on. Some did research (for
example, a PowerPoint presentation on global warming was part of the contest).
Some programmed the robot using Lego logic (similar to ladder logic).
Some built and tested partial robot designs, mechanical parts, sensors,
and motors on a test course in the school science room. http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20011202robotics1202p6.asp
Recognizing our Fellow Members The Fellow Grade is the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, the attainment of which recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. Did you know there are 52 members in our Section who are Fellows? If you know any of them, please congratulate them on their achievement! Adnan Akay, Harvey Allen, Cristina Amon,
Edmund Appleby, John Barsom, Donald Burnham, Jonathan Cagan, Norman Chigier,
Minking Chyu, Ronald Coffield, Maria Comninou, Arthur Croll, Ellison Davison,
James Di Perna, David Dietrich, W. Doty, L. Ike Ezekoye, Martin Falk,
Jerry Griffin, Donald Griffin, Gus Holabeck, Charles Jones, Wilbur Kennicott,
William Lankford, Jack Maurer, Bertram Milleville, Jack Moore, William
O’Donnell, Leighton Orr, Fletcher Osterle, Sam Palusamy, William Purcell,
David Purdy, Arthur Rathbun, Stephen Roth, Wilfred Rouleau, Sunil Saigal,
Stanley Schaffer, Allen Selz, Patrick Smolinski, Alfred Snow, Paul Steif,
Theodore Stern, Remco Waszink, John Wesner, Jonathan Wickert, Donald Wiebe,
Bernard Winer, Savio Woo, Tse Chien Woo, Shi-Chune Yao, Campbell Yates.
ASME Membership Ratifies Changes To Membership Grades The ASME membership has ratified changes to the membership grades. These changes to Article C3.1 of the Society’s constitution eliminate the Associate Member and Executive Affiliate member grades, expand the mix of years of membership and active practice to qualify as a Fellow, reduce the required number of years of engineering experience to qualify for Member grade from 12 years to 8 years, and remove experience equivalencies to eliminate duplication of material that is in Society Policies. The revised article also encourages members to use descriptive titles with their names to reflect personal or professional achievement. For more information, contact John Corcoran at 212-591-7940 or e-mail him at corcoranj@asme.org.
Voices of Innovation A new daily public radio program, "Voices of Innovation," launched by the American Association of Engineering Societies with generous support from ASME, will feature some 200 engineers in 2-minute programs that explore and celebrate the world of engineering. The program will begin airing in April 2002. To be considered for one of the programs, engineers need to submit a story idea form, which is available at www.voicesofinnovation.org.
E-Mentoring Program to Expand to Young Engineers The success of last year's program and the enthusiastic response of members wanting to become mentors has fueled the expansion of the e-Mentoring program. This program for student members is expanding to include mentoring services for engineers who have recently (5 years or less) graduated from engineering school. Young engineers can now benefit from the career advice of more seasoned engineers in their particular field of interest. Recent graduates may get even more benefit from a mentoring relationship, since they have some experience and may have more specific career questions. Last year, the new e-Mentoring program matched 100 pairs of students and mentors by May 2001. This year, 75 pairs of students and mentors were matched as of last November. How does the program work? Students and young engineers (mentees) seeking a mentor choose from a database of names, which gives information about the mentor's background, experience and engineering specialty. Mentees are then asked to fill out an online application indicating their top three choices for mentors. The mentor requests are evaluated by ASME and matched on a first come, first served basis. Only members are eligible to participate in this program as a mentor or mentee. Anyone wishing to find a mentor or to volunteer to become a mentor for a student or young engineer member should visit the website at www.asme.org/ementoring. Volunteers can choose to mentor a student, a young engineer or both. Questions about the program should be addressed to Deidra Hackley, at hackleyd@asme.org.
Member Get a Member 2001-2002 Member-Get-A-Member Campaign - Invest in the Future of Mechanical Engineering Help ASME International serve the needs of the mechanical engineering community by sponsoring new members. With each new member, you recruit, 50% of the first year’s dues will be spent on scholarships for mechanical engineering students. For complete program details, log onto http://www.asme.org/membershipdrive
Nominations Needed for Young Engineers Award ASME International wants to give $5,000 plus a prepaid life membership to a young ASME member that has done an outstanding job in their profession, community, and the work of ASME. If you know someone who deserves to win this award, please nominate a young engineer for the Old Guard Young Engineers Award today! For more information, visit http://www.asme.org/cma/og/youngengineer.html .
Show Your Support for ASME If you sponsor ASME Pittsburgh, we will feature your company's products and services in our newsletter. For $300 you can capture the attention of 1500+ fellow members and inform them of your company on a full page of one issue. For $180 your company will be featured in 1/2 page; for $95, 1/4 page; for $70, 1/8 page; and for $50 a business card space for one issue.
Management Skills Handbook ASME Region V Management Skills Handbook (MSH) is full of meaningful how-to's and tips. The articles are written for use in management as well as ASME leadership positions. Involvement in ASME is an excellent way to develop and enhance your management skills. You can access the sections from http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/mgmtskillshbk.html. The second chapter, Organization and Time Management, is now available. It contains the following sections:
Professional Development Please continue responding to the online survey at http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/pdsurvey.html. Future topics will be selected based on member input.
Sign up to receive ESWP publications, free As a member of ASME, you can receive a copy of the monthly, TechniCALENDAR and the quarterly, Pittsburgh Engineer. Sign up
The next Executive Committee meeting is on Friday, March. 15, 2002 at 7:30 AM in Denny's Restaurant (map), 3980 Wm Penn Hwy, Monroeville. If you wish to attend, please contact Joy Kocar 724-744-2445. See the Calendar page for this year's program.
See also archived minutes.
Section E-mail List Moved The Section E-mail list has been moved from Listbot to YahooGroups. The Listbot service is no longer available. If you'd like to receive timely news from ASME International, job opportunities, events, etc., consider joining the Section e-mail list (simply send an e-mail to asmepghnews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Instructions are also on http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/joinlist.html)?
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