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April 2002 NewsLast updated 04/02/2002 Articles
April Program
About the Facility CTC is involved in numerous industry and
government projects with a broad technical focus. • Biomechanics - CTC has done extensive numerical
modeling of bone remodeling, heart valve • Process Modeling - CTC is involved with
various aspects of process modeling. • Electric Vehicles - CTC has developed a
hybrid HMMWV (HumVee) that uses a combination of • Casting/Heat Treatment - CTC has several
casting machines and a large heat treatment furnace • Welding - CTC has numerous welding capabilities
including an environmentally controlled • Forging - CTC has done extensive modeling
of forging and extrusion processes. • Semi-Solid Metal Working (SSM) - CTC has
one of the few fully operational SSM units for • Environmentally Safe Coating Systems -
CTC’s environmental facility develops coating • Fuel Cells - CTC runs the Fuel Cell Testing
and Evaluation Center (FCTEC) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering
Research Laboratory. The FCTEC tests fuel cells For more information about CTC, visit their
website at www.ctc.com or contact Eric
Bono at
February Program Very Well Attended The February Program, “Design of Spare Body
Parts” presented by James F. Antaki, PhD of the McGowan Institute for
Regenerative Medicine, had 72 registrants. Attendees listened with great
interest as Dr. Antaki discussed the challenges and innovative strides
made with the Streamliner artificial heart pump design. The diverse group included ASME, IEEE’s Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s
Biomedical Business Network. It was an excellent opportunity to network
with the area’s bioengineering community. Many attendees lingered well
beyond the presentation. Thanks go to Biomed Ink and IEEE EMBS for
sponsoring the event, to the University of Pittsburgh for allowing us
to hold the meeting in their facility, and to the Pittsburgh Technology
Council for handling registrations and providing name tags for all attendees. If you are interested in the EMBS, their web
site is http://www.emb-pgh.org.
Their next meeting is scheduled for April
18, 2002 and the speaker is Anthony M. DiGioia, MD who will be presenting
on the MERITS Program (Medical Robotics and Information Technology for
Medicine and Surgery). You can contact John Kalafut, jkalafut@medrad.com
regarding the program.
Rocky Economy Means Job-Seekers Need to Use Savvy Search Methods Marilyn Borysek, ASME Member Services The number of US. job opportunities edged
up slightly in December following significant declines that began in March
2001, according to the US. Department of Labor. A survey of 16,000 firms from staffing provider Manpower shows that
only 16 percent of employers plan to hire in the first quarter of 2002,
a dramatic drop from the 27 percent of employers who said they planned
to hire during the same period last year. Especially stunned are many technology professionals
who have enjoyed a robust employment environment for the last five years
but now are facing layoffs or have already lost their jobs. So, what can job seekers in the mechanical
engineering field expect? Despite
the bleak outlook, some bright spots exist for engineers. According to The Wall Street Journal, employment
experts see opportunities in the healthcare, biotechnology and technology
sectors for certain engineering positions. Specialized technology workers
such as software application engineers or systems analysts are most likely
to see demand. But, even the best-qualified senior mechanical engineers and seasoned executives will stumble if they land in a tough job, market with poor job-hunting skills. With layoffs spreading through almost every industry, mechanical engineers will have to work smarter and a little harder to land their next jobs. Be Persistent: Some degree of pushiness is
essential with all of your contacts. A good resume and solid skills aren't
enough. Timing has a lot to do with it, so create your own luck by staying
on the mind of your potential employers. Check in regularly, and send
thank you notes. Consider Alternative Employment: Offering
your engineering services as an outside contractor, temp or volunteer
can get you out there to show off your talent – and be on hand when a
full-time opportunity becomes available. If ASME's jobs Database helps you find a
job, or if you have successful job hunting tips you want to share, contact
Marilyn Borysek at borysekm@asme.org.
Registration Deadline April 23 for Annual Awards Banquet & Dinner-Dance Cruise Scheduled for May 24 Come and join us 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. We will also honor our student winners and
their teachers from the local Carnegie Science Center Student Science
Fair. Dancing will be available - or just enjoy the atmosphere and Pittsburgh's
river-front sights. Bring the entire family - everyone is welcome! There
are great sights to see and fun for everyone on Pittsburgh's beautiful
three rivers. All of this is available at a special discounted price for
ASME! Here's the itinerary: 6:00 PM - Board at
Station Square dock, Pittsburgh, PA; 7:00 to 10:00 PM - Sail (directions
are provided at http://www.gatewayclipper.com).
The special buffet dinner includes chicken breast, baked ham, and pasta.
A cash bar will be available. The cost for ASME members and guests is
$25. The cost for children, aged 3-12, is $10. Make checks payable to
"Pittsburgh Section, ASME" and mail to:ASME c/o Kerotest Manufacturing
Corp., 5500 Second Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa 15207. 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!
Mark Your Calendar For the ANDI Lab Tour 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.
Engineers’ Week a Success! -based on a report submitted by Lori Rankin
and Janet Henke National Engineers’ Week at the Carnegie
Science Center (CSC) on February 22 and 23 was a success!! This year’s National Engineers’ Week was
the biggest ever at CSC. The program
featured over 600 volunteers (a 20% increase from 2001) representing 64
companies, agencies, societies, and universities (a 28% increase from
2001). A total of 561 normally under-represented students attended through
the Vira I. Heinz Endowment grant for National Engineers’ Week Programs.
In addition, 547 Girl Scouts earned engineering related badges and patches.
Over 7,600 visitors in attendance enjoyed
the chance to speak to engineers and to participate in the many hands-on
activities. Our ASME table was
located on the third floor overlook and was very busy both days. The Girl
Scout roller bearing experiment and the heat transfer experiment went
over well. And even though there were several pulley demos to choose from
- ours was tried numerous times. We also had Girl Scouts work at the table
demonstrating the experiments as a badge requirement.
The Girl Scout bearing activity was one of 6 activities that Junior
Girl Scouts were required to complete in order to earn the “Making It
Matter” engineering badge, a badge being offered by the Girl Scout organization
for the first time this year. The requirements for the Junior Girl Scouts
“Making It Matter” badge are: 1) making a polymer, 2) making polymers
with different properties by adding different ingredients, 3) finding
out how a doorbell works by making one, 4) finding out the role of bearings
in machines, 5) using newspaper to build a structure from which you can
hang a cup, 6) filling the cup with gravel without it tipping over, and
6) talking to people who use CAD in their jobs. There were approximately
200 scouts working on this badge. To show the role of bearings in machines,
ASME had two 7-lb cans that the girls had to try to spin when placed on
top of each other. Friction prevented
the cans from spinning. Marbles were then added as roller bearings between
the cans, providing a smooth surface and allowing the top can to spin
on the bottom can. The following people deserve special thanks
for helping to make the ASME exhibit such a success: - Jim Di Perna for his help in setting up the table on Friday morning. - Doug Koebler for helping pack up everything. - Marilyn Reeder, John Wesner, and Jim Di
Perna for lending videos. - Darrell Rapp for his heat transfer graphs. - Don Risko and Extrude Hone for the new
ASME information poster. - Don Molloy, Olympic Manufacturing, Ronkonkoma,
NY who donated the steel and aluminum pieces for the heat transfer experiment. - Michael’s Bistro (US&S cafeteria),
who loaned two 7-lb cans for the roller bearing experiment. - GFS, Inc
in Carnegie, which let us use some of their steel furnace pictures.
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.
The ESWP TechniCalendar will be in electronic
format only Beginning May 1, 2002, the TechniCalendar will be a paperless
document. As a member of the ASME Pittsburgh Section, you are entitled
to receive this publication produced by the ESWP. If you wish to continue receiving this publication
by e-mail, please send an email to eswp@eswp.com,
with the Subject: E-TC Subscription.
In the body of the message, include: 1. Your Name 3. ASME Pittsburgh Section 4. Your subscription mailing address If you are not a current subscriber to the
ESWP publications, but would like to be one, send an email but with the
Subject: ESWP Publications, and include the information above. Your mailing
address is still required for the Pittsburgh Engineering magazine. If
you have any questions, please contact ESWP at 412-261-0710 x10, eswp@eswp.com.
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.
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The next Executive Committee meeting is on Friday, April 19, 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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