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May 2004 Annual Awards Banquet
Program Description: Come and join us for a special FBI presentation and to honor our 2003-2004 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. As a result of the events of 9/11/2001, the FBI has changed its focus from enforcement of federal laws to prevention of the next terrorist attack on the United States. The mission of the FBI is more "global" in nature than ever before. In order to meet its expanded responsibilities, the FBI will be hiring almost 1200 new Special Agents and 2100 Professional Support employees in FY 2004. In line with this shift in priorities, the FBI is looking for applicants with specialized backgrounds to become Special Agents. At the top of the list are engineers and those with backgrounds in the physical sciences. The FBI is also making an extensive effort to avail itself of the skills and talents offered by women and minorities. We will also honor our student winners from Future Cities and the Regional Student Science Fair. Games will be available - or just enjoy the atmosphere. Bring the entire family - everyone is welcome! There is fun for everyone at Pittsburgh's Waterfront.
Would You Like To Be A Pittsburgh Section Sponsor? If you sponsor ASME Pittsburgh, we will feature your company's products and services in our newsletter and capture the attention of 1500+ members to inform them of your company, or on this site and be on the WWW. For more information click here or contact anyone on the Executive Committee.
Message From the Chair Dear members: As we approach the end of another fiscal year, there are a number of important items to bring to your attention. First, we are again offering another high-value professional development seminar on Wednesday March 10th, on Finite Element Analysis (FEA). This course runs from 9-5 and offers continuing education credits to participants. An instructor from Algor, Inc. will teach the course in a computer learning-laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering. The cost of the course is $60.00 (members), $80.00 (nonmembers), and $30.00 (students), and includes a copy of limited use Algor software to take home, morning and afternoon snacks, and a gourmet deli lunch. Please contact Al Bouvy at 724-875-4484 or arbouvy@aol.com to register or obtain more information. Seating is limited, so please register now. We will post more information as it becomes available to http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/#mar10. Then on Thursday March 25th, ASME and IEEE will jointly tour the Eaton Cutler Hammer facility at RIDC West. Mr. Al Bouvy is also handling reservations for this event: 724-875-4484 or arbouvy@aol.com. This tour is free, as usual, and the optional after tour dinner cost is $22.00. More information can be found at: http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/#mar23. Finally, the Kennametal tour has been rescheduled for April 6th (Al Bouvy, 724-875-4484 or arbouvy@aol.com) and our annual awards banquet is set for May 4th. Each year we honor a company and member with the Industry Recognition Award and the Engineer of the Year Award. If you think a company or member deserves recognition for outstanding contribution and would like to nominate them for these two awards, please contact me immediately so that they can be considered. At the awards banquet, we continue our longstanding tradition of honoring the outstanding students whose projects represented the best mechanical engineering projects from the 65th Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair portion of the Pittsburgh International Science and Technology Festival (Sci-Tech Festival). We are seeking volunteers to meet and help select these talented students at the fair on the afternoon of Friday April 2nd. Please contact Dr. Darrell Rapp at (412) 992-5358 or rappd1@asme.org for more information about judging. For more information on the Science Fair, go to http://www.scitechfestival.org/mainsf_over.asp Finally, I'm pleased to report that Pittsburgh Regional Future City Competition Champion Riverview has won the national title in Washington DC on February 25th! A special thanks is extended to all of the ASME members who volunteered their time at the local Future Cities competition, and was ultimately a part of their success. Also, I would like to thank you for voting for next year's chair, who will be Doug Koebler and four new directors (Frank Faron, Bill Spohn, Jeff Vipperman, and Al Bouvy). If you have interest in getting involved with the executive committee, I encourage you to join us for our next meeting on March 12th in Monroeville. More details can be found at http://www.asme.org/sections/pgh/#Meetings. Hope to see you soon. With Best Regards,
April Newsletter Read the latest ASME Pittsburgh Newsletter here (in .pdf - may take a moment to load - please be patient) This month's featured articles include: Download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to view PDF files.
If we have your e-mail address, you will have an abbreviated newsletter automatically sent to you. If not, then we highly encourage you to submit your e-mail address to receive the newsletter and latest information from us (see the next article below). Additionally, the newsletter is currently published well ahead of the delivered copy here on this website. All you have to do is browse our website at your convenience and you can find it here anytime. Previous newsletters will still be available on the Archives page. If you would like to have the newsletter in printed form, you can simply open the above link and use the print option on your browser. In addition to the newsletter, this
website will continue to have the latest information on monthly events,
tours, news, contact information, job postings, resources, archives, and
a host of other information to keep you informed.
Your E-Mail Address - The Key to ASME International Did you know that your e-mail address is the key to what's happening at ASME? By providing us with your current e-mail address, you can learn about events taking place in your local section, such as professional development courses, industry tours, section meetings, lectures, networking opportunities, and technical conferences. Updating your e-mail address online only takes a few minutes. To access your membership information, go to www.asme.org. Click on the "Members Only" tab to log onto this site. Be sure to have your member number on hand. After logging on to Members Only, select the "Change of Address and Information" link, located on the upper right-hand side of your screen. From this screen, you will be able to update your primary contact information. So don't miss out on all that ASME has to offer! If you have any questions about your membership information, contact InfoCentral at infocentral@asme.org.
Announcements 2004 Future City Competition This year's Pittsburgh Regional Future City Competition for small teams of seventh and eighth grade students was on Saturday, January 24, 2004 at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland. Approximately 31 schools participated in this year's regional event. The National Finals is held in Washington, D.C. during National Engineers Week, February 22-28, 2004. Regional winners from around the country will compete for national honors and prizes. The National Engineers Week Committee will provide the airfare and hotel accommodations for the winning team from each region. The First Place team will win a trip to the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, AL. Other prizes include scholarships, computers and savings bonds. In addition, teams will be eligible for special awards and recognition sponsored by engineering societies and other organizations. The challenge is to design and build a city of the future. Using the award winning SimCity(tm) software, each team will create a city displaying residential, commercial and industrial areas, power plants, transportation systems, communication systems, etc. Students will address important issues such as pollution, traffic density, taxes, and budgets while creating their city. Teams in the Future City Competition must develop a project plan and a logical model of a city using the SimCity(tm) software, construct a team-made physical scale model, write an essay about bioengineering & biotechnology and make a verbal presentation to a panel of judges. More information is available at www.futurecitypittsburgh.org or at www.futurecity.org. ASME Pittsburgh sponsored the "Most Effective Movable Part" special award at this year's competition. Holy Rosary was selected as the winner. Their model was very straightforward but effective. They recreated a people mover out of wide wrapping ribbon and thread-spool pulleys. Though manually driven, it was creative, original and obviously their own work. It successfully provided the proper effect while demonstrating their transportation concept. Student team members were Jocelyn Hopkins, Bianca Asti Leonard and Amber Ward-Black, with Rochelle Johnson (teacher) and Carl Henderson (engineering mentor) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Each student receives a $50 U.S. savings bond for his or her imagination, persistence and participation. All of the students deserve a round of applause for their tremendous efforts. Congratulations to all of the winners! See a picture of the winners here !! And Now..............A Word
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In the News RIVERVIEW JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN OAKMONT, PENNSYLVANIA, WINS NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK FUTURE CITY COMPETITION A city of the future – “Avenir” – designed by students from Riverview Junior/Senior High School in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, has won the 2004 National Engineers Week Future City CompetitionTM. The students – Allison Garda, Natalie French, and Cara Hartz – teamed up with their teacher Brian Ludwig, and volunteer engineer mentor Bill Brooks of Brooks Fire Protection Engineering. Read more about their achievement here. The Future City Champions Dinner will be held on March 25 at ESWP. Friends of the Future City program are welcome to attend. See the Dinner Invitation. Congratulations to the winners !! We just received the news that one of our alums, John Swanson will receive the Fritz medal. This Medal is "referred to as the highest award in the engineering profession" and is given by the American Associate of Engineering Societies. The Medal will be awarded on May 3, 2004 at the Great Hall of the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. To give a feel for the prestige of this award, previous recipients have
included: Gordon E. Moore, Daniel C. Drucker,Kenneth A. Roe, David Packard, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, Stephen D. Bechtel, Theodore Von Karman, Charles F. Kettering, David Watson Taylor, Herbert Clark Hoover, Guglielmo Marconi, Orville Wright, Gen. George W. Goethals, Alfred Nobel, Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Westinghouse, Lord Kelvin. For a complete list, and more information, see: http://www.aaes.org/communications/john_fritz_medal.asp
Upcoming Meetings The next Executive Committee meeting will be Friday, April 16, 2004 at 7:30 AM in Denny's Restaurant (map), 3980 Wm Penn Hwy, Monroeville, and is open to anyone interested. If you wish to attend, please contact Jeff Vipperman at 412-624-1643 or any member of the Executive Committee. (Meet some of the gang!) See the Calendar page for this year's programs.
Business Calendar The Pittsburgh Business Calendar publishes a calendar of events for the Pittsburgh business community. Click on the link for the full calendar of events. (http://www.businesscalendar.org/)
The Value of Your Membership Just Increased!! Take advantage of the New Discounted Dues Structure. If you have earned a baccalaureate degree or an advanced degree and have been out of school 4 years or less you can can save up to 60% on Member Dues. Check out the current member dues rates available at http://www.asme.org/member/info.html.
ASME International News The Online Newspaper of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Mechanical Engineering - the magazine of the ASME
December 2003 marked the 100th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers first flight. A very very interesting paper discussing the mechanics of their flight can be found here. (in .pdf form - may take a few moments to load) Brainteasers ! A monthly mechanical engineering problem to test your knowledge or try your luck. A new problem every month. The possibilities are endless - kinematics, fluid mechanics, physics......! You never know what we'll throw at you next! This month's problem: Spring is almost here, so it's time to get the golf clubs out! A 1.6 oz. golf ball is struck by a club so that a force of 18 lb is applied
for 0.04 seconds. What is the velocity of the ball leaving the tee?
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 53 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,
George Saxon Sr.,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.
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, features some 200 engineers in 2-minute programs that explore and celebrate the world of engineering. The program began 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. 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 2003-2004 Member-Get-A-Member Campaign - Invest in the Future of Mechanical Engineering! Recommend a paid new member during the 2003-2004 Member-Get-A-Member (MGAM) campaign and ASME will contribute 50% of their first year dues to scholarships for student members. Personally inviting a friend or colleague is straightforward and simple. At the same time, you will receive a Recognition for Volunteerism certificate of appreciation for 2 or more paid new members signifying your support of the mechanical engineering profession and its future. It's easy to recommend membership to your colleagues! New members will experience the benefits of ASME membership - technology transfer, access to a network of engineering experts, assistance with career advancement, leadership opportunities, and much more. For complete program details including a downloadable membership application, log onto http://www.asme.org/membershipdrive Your continued support of the Member-Get-A-Member Campaign is important to its success and we appreciate your time and dedication.
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 .
Professional Development Professional Education Courses: Two new products are at the ASME PE and FE Exam Review
Center. New FE Workbook and CD-Rom and the PE Exam Review on DVD ASME Online Short Courses: New titles include Project Management and Advanced GD&T. Prefer training on CD-Rom? Go to http://www.asme.org/education/disted/computer.htm. New ASME Corporate Online Training Library: Meet all your mechanical engineering training needs in one economical package tailored to your company. Go to http://www.asme.org/education/disted/library.htm. 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.
Public Affairs What's going on in Washington D.C.? Visit Government Relations , a weekly review of the latest legislative,regulatory, pollicies, and issues from Washington.
Updates 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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