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June 2006 News

 

Last updated 06/03/2006

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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.

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2006 ASME Bernard Langer Nuclear Codes & Standards Winner

Warren Bamford, a consulting engineer with Westinghouse has been selected by ASME to receive the prestigious 2006 Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award. To read more, please see this release from Westinghouse.

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Annual Awards Banquet Awardees

The Pittsburgh Section is proud to announce the Award winners at this year's banquet.

Science Awards:
Senior Level Winner - Jonathan Dumm "Robotic Navigation: No Strings Attached"
Instructor: Claire Dice

Intermediate Level Winner - Shannon Mooney "Temperature and Instrument Note Quality"
Instructor: Karen DeMarco

Future Cities - Pittsburgh Regional:
St. Bernard's School - Tom Lechowics, Nick Shrefler, Stacie Sekora
Teacher: Kurt Nelson
Engineering Mentor: David Missenda, URS Corporation

Student Awards:
CMU
David Rollinson - Outstanding Senior Mechanical Engineering Student
Caroline Conley - Outstanding ASME Student Section Volunteer

Geneva College
David Yoder - Outstanding Senior Mechanical Engineering Student
Jennifer Wynick - ASME Student Section Leader

University of Pittsburgh
Rika Wright - Outstanding Senior Mechanical Engineering Student
Jessica Grossman - ASME Student Section Leader

Industry of the Year:
McKesson Automation

Engineer of the Year:
David Shaw PhD

 

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May 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:
* Pitt School of Engineering Golf Outing
* Awardees at Annual Awards Banquet
* Nanotechnology Conference
* ASME '06 Congress

Download Adobe's free Acrobat Reader to view PDF files.

The newsletter is currently published well ahead of the e-mail notice 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 via 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.

 

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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.

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Announcements

EC Member Runs in the Boston Marathon

Congratulations to Dave Shaw who ran the B.A.A Marathon in April. His official finishing time was 3:45:02 (an average 8:35 mile), and overall he finished 9889th.


Pitt School of Engineering Golf Outing

The Pitt School of Engineering announces the 6th Annual Alumni Golf Outing, scheduled for July 17, 2006. Details of the event are listed below.

Hosted by: The School of Engineering
Date: Monday, July 17, 2006
Place: Montour Heights Country Club, Moon Township, PA
Time: 11:30 a.m. Registration and Lunch; 1:00 p.m. Shotgun Start
Cost: $155 per person; $620 per foursome Cost includes green fees, cart , rental, beverages, lunch and dinner.
For reservations: Please contact Jennifer Welton at 412-624-2458 or jwelton@engr.pitt.edu by July 5th.


New Health Benefit Available to Members

Through Life Line Screening, members can obtain preventive, noninvasive screenings that can quickly assess their risk for several common vascular diseases.
http://www.asmenews.org/archives/backissues/jan03/features/healthbe.html

 

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Notices

 

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In the News

Happy Anniversary to Local ASME Members!

50 Years:
Daniel Barch, John Dougherty, James Foster, James Geiser, William Keown, Frederick Kramer, John Mcconnell, Robert Miller, Paul Pfennigwerth, George Saliba, John Schmidt, Ralph Spada

44 Years:
Joseph Freiland Robert Levine

43 Years:
Gerald Clark, Robert Harrill

40 Years:
Pranabesh Choudhury, Dennis Paluselli

39 Years:
Kenneth Scharding

38 Years:
David Krol

37 Years:
James Conklin, James Di Perna, John Lobritz, Larry Schneider

36 Years:
Kenneth Deddo, Ray Fasiczka, John Oleary, Edward Patula, Michael White

25 Years:
Keith Andrew, Manohar Badlani, Daniel Bartolomeo, William Bland, Michael Budden, David Capone, Thomas Damico, Daniel De Santo, Daniel Dolby, Darlene Filler, Jeffrey Hall, Richard Hawk, Martin Hochhauser, Ralph Kopacko, John Kuhn, Hermann Lagally, James Lansel, Karen Levin, Douglas McClaine, Michael McMillion, Kenneth McMullen, Russell Metzger, William Mills, Robert Powischill, Mark Ripepi, Stephen Ross, William Shuker, Paul Smith, William Spohn, James Szyslowski, Gerald Veltre

A special congratulations to our Executive Committee's own:
Jim DiPerna - 37 Years
Bill Spohn - 25 Years

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Upcoming Meetings

The next Executive Committee meeting will be the Summer Planning Meeting on June, 13 at Marilyn Reeder's home, and is open to anyone interested.

If you wish to attend, please contact Lori Rankin at (412) 688-2093 or any member of the Executive Committee. (Meet some of the gang!)

See the Calendar page for the year's upcoming programs.

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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/)

You can also check out the ESWP techniCALENDAR for upcoming events at: http://www.eswp.com/techniCALENDAR/the_calendar.htm

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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.

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ASME International News and Periodicals

ME Magazine: http://www.memagazine.org/
Mechanical Engineering - the magazine of the ASME

ASME News: http://www.asmenews.org/
The Online Newspaper of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME Connections: http://www.asme.org/About/Connections/
Easy access to the new structure and strategies of ASME

ASME Press Releases: http://www.asme.org/NewsPublicPolicy/PressReleases/

ME Today: http://www.asme.org/youngengineers/metoday/
Quarterly online newspaper addressing issues and professional development of early career engineers.

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Articles of Interest

Engineering Shortage Article @ http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05320/607304.stm


**ASME's Mechanical Engineering Magazine periodically contains the new supplement Engineering Management. Current and would-be managers can turn to this supplement to pick up some of those skills needed in today's work environment. Go to the links below:

July '04: http://www.memagazine.org/emjuly04/index.html

November '04: http://www.memagazine.org/emnov04/index.html

March '05: http://www.memagazine.org/emmar05/index.html

July '05 http://www.memagazine.org/emjuly05/index.html


Rand Corporation said that your home computer would look like this in 2004. Take a look here to see if your computer really looks like their prediction.


If you missed our April 2004 tour of the Seward Power Plant tour, you missed a remarkable event. But you can still take the virtual tour here!!

www.reliant.com/files/450457_Seward_Tour_and_Dedication.pps


Learn to make really cool paper airplanes!! Visit ASME's Airplane Archive at:

http://www.asme.org/events/flight/paperarchive.shtml?URL=www.asme.org

"Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." - Socrates


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: (something easy)

A 2" length of steel bar is elongated to a length of 2.010" at which time the diameter changed from 0.5050" to 0.5042". Calculate Poisson's Ratio of this material.

Solution and a new problem next month. Have fun!

(Last month's solution)

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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.

 If you would like to know what it takes to become a Fellow grade member, visit http://www.asme.org/member/fellow/index.html.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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
http://www.asme.org/education/disted/esamprep.htm.

ASME Online Short Courses:

New titles include Project Management and Advanced GD&T.
http://elearn.asme.org/courses/courselist.htm. Many new courses will be added for the fall. http://www.asme.org/education/disted/library.htm.

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.

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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.

 

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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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July TBD, 2006:
Summer Planning Meeting II

**For more details on these and additional upcoming events, visit the Upcoming Events page**


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