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we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There
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Message From The Chair Dear Members, I am pleased to inform you of a very exciting and busy line-up of events for the coming year. We will be having multiple tours, professional development programs, and plan to continue supporting traditional events such as Rube Goldberg Competition, Future Cities Competition, and National Engineers Week. With the upcoming year, I have several items, which I would like to share with you. First, as you know, we are part of the new ASME. ASME operated under counsels, which were dissolved and new sectors were created incorporating components of the councils. All local Sections were affected by the new structure, and we are now under the Knowledge and Community Sector. One of many changes for the Sections is financial appropriation. Support will now be awarded to Sections that provide programs, activities, and other initiatives in support of their members. Your support and attendance ensures that we can acquire funds to provide you with the best programs and activities. Second, a very important initiative that we are undertaking is to establish an Industry Relations Committee that is intended to be very engaged with companies and industries throughout the Section. One of the primary functions of this committee is to work with companies who support their employees as members of ASME, and for those companies to let us know specifically what professional development or training we can provide to their employees. This in turn provides a more valuable employee receiving special knowledge and thus improves their bottom line. We also hope to extend these programs and tours out to the counties and communities further away from the immediate Pittsburgh area. Our Section covers eleven counties and has over fifteen hundred members. We are very interested in coming to your area for an event. Please share with us your suggestions for programs or tours in your community. Third, I would like to invite you to become more involved with our Section by joining us on the Executive Committee. We are always looking for new individuals with unique abilities and insight to help us with our efforts. All of our events need volunteers and your individual contributions are immeasurable. I would especially like to direct this invitation to those recent graduates and early-career engineers. One of the greatest, and transferable skills, is leadership. Joining our Section is a fantastic opportunity to gain that experience and expand your sphere of influence and create synergy working with others. Finally, I want to extend a heartfelt thanks to our Past Chair Lori Rankin and all of the Executive Committee for doing such a fine job with everything that it took to make the past year a success. I look forward to continued success with this exceptional group of individuals. In the coming months I will be discussing the above items in-depth. Throughout the year, we will be inviting you to get more involved with your local section, and encourage your participation in activities as well as your feedback. We hope that you find this an enjoyable and rewarding year with the Pittsburgh Section. Sincerely,
September Program - Reliant Conemaugh Plant Tour
Program Description Join us on a tour of the area's "Flagship Station of PJM" using the latest in clean-coal technology. The one-mile walking tour will last approximately 1-½ hours. We will tour the entire site outside (weather permitting) except for hazardous areas and the major areas include: Coal Handling, Scrubber, Balance of Plant, Boiler, and Turbine-Generator Hall. Conemaugh Plant - Operated by Reliant Energy "The Conemaugh plant, located approximately 80 miles east of Pittsburgh near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was recently named to the top ten list of best performing plants in America by Electric Light & Power magazine. It is one of the largest merchant coal-fired generating plants in Pennsylvania. Conemaugh is a scrubbed, coal-fired electric generating station featuring supercritical boilers that total 1,700 megawatts and four diesel units with a total generating capacity of 12 megawatts. The facility is located in Indiana County near New Florence, Pennsylvania. It is jointly owned by a group of eight co-owners. Reliant Energy has a 16 percent interest in Conemaugh and operates the facility for the owners group. Since the units were commissioned in the spring of 1970 and 1971, a number of emission control upgrades have been made. These include a balanced draft conversion, modifications to the electrostatic precipitators, conversion to a digital control system, installation of low nitrogen oxide burners to reduce NOx emissions and the installation of a wet flue gas desulfurization scrubber in the Fall of 1994 and 1995 to reduce sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions. For more information, visit www.reliant.com/wholesale
Mentors Needed for NE Week Future City Competition The National Engineers Week Future City Competition™ seeks engineers from every field to volunteer this fall and winter to introduce middle school students across the nation to a career in engineering. Since its founding in 1992, the educational program has made engineering come alive for hundreds of thousands of students. For information on becoming a volunteer mentor, contact Future City National Director Carol Rieg at (877) 636-9578 or CRieg@futurecity.org, or visit www.futurecity.org and click on "Register / Register as an Engineer." Engineers will be contacted by their area's regional coordinator. See the attached PR Release here. (.doc)
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.
September Newsletter Read the latest ASME Pittsburgh Newsletter here (in .pdf - may take a moment to load - please be patient) Featured articles include: 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.
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.
New Health Benefit Available to Members Through Life Line Screening, members can obtain preventive, noninvasive
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Notices
Happy Anniversary to Local ASME Members! 50 Years: 43 Years: 41 Years: 40 Years: 38 Years: 37 Years: 35 Years: 33 Years: 25 Years: A special congratulations to our Executive Committee's own:
Upcoming Meetings The next Executive Committee meeting will be Friday, October 6, 2006 at 7:30 AM at Denny's Restaurant (map), 3980 Wm Penn Hwy, Monroeville , and is open to anyone interested. If you wish to attend, please contact Rich Horne at (412) 521-4660 or any member of the Executive Committee. (Meet some of the gang!) See the Calendar page for the year's upcoming 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/) You can also check out the ESWP techniCALENDAR for upcoming events at: http://www.eswp.com/techniCALENDAR/the_calendar.htm
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 and Periodicals ME Magazine: http://www.memagazine.org/ ASME News: http://www.asmenews.org/
ASME Connections: http://www.asme.org/About/Connections/ ASME Press Releases: http://www.asme.org/NewsPublicPolicy/PressReleases/
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.
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.
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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* SECTION * September 19, 2006: October 6, 2006 October 11, 2006: October 25, 2006: November 3, 2006: November 16, 2006: **For more details on these and additional
upcoming events, visit the Upcoming
Events page** Renew your membership? Add your program ideas for next year? Send them to Rich Horne. Consider getting involved with any of our activities? There are many ways, such as Industry Relations, Engineer's Week, Science Fair, Awards Banquet, web site, discussion list. Contact Rich Horne. Consider signing up to be an e-Mentor? Make sure that your contact information is up to date? We will increasingly use electronic means to contact our members so please be sure your e-mail and fax numbers are accurate. Set up your e-mail alias? You can have a yourname@asme.org address that you can conveniently manage yourself. People will always be able to locate you, regardless of your work situation. Download
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Show your interest in a Professional Development course by taking the survey? Think about articles, tips, brain teasers, news, how-to's, etc. you can contribute to our newsletter? Consider joining the Section e-mail list? Consider getting involved with the Executive Committee? You can get involved in any capacity. If you can contribute only one hour a week, we would be grateful for your time. Contact anyone in the committee.
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