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Reliant Cheswick Coal Plant Tour
Join the Pittsburgh Sections of ASME for a tour of the Cheswick Power Station in Springdale. The Cheswick Power Station is located along the Allegheny River in Springdale, Pennsylvania, approximately 10 miles North-East of Pittsburgh. The station achieved commercial operation in 1970. The plant consists of one coal-fired 588 MW (net) steam unit and employs 85 full-time power station professionals. Read more at the Upcoming Events Page. *Cancellation within 24 hours of event will require event payment unless a replacement can be found to attend.
Westinghouse Control Room Simulator Tour
Join the Pittsburgh Sections of ASME for a tour of the Modern Control Room Simulator for Nuclear Plants Tour at Westinghouse Electric Company in Monroeville. Westinghouse will be providing a tour of the AP1000 Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Simulator that is under development, along with an overview of their I&C technology. The AP1000 is an advanced 1000 megawatt (electric) nuclear power plant that uses the forces of nature and simplicity of design to enhance plant safety and operations and reduce construction costs. The control room design uses compact workstations with soft controls and displays to monitor and control the plant. Four AP1000 plants have been sold to China and are expected to come on line in 2013. US utilities have likewise recognized the value of this design and have tentatively chosen the AP1000 for 12 domestic plants. We hope you can join us for what will no doubt be a very interesting and educational tour. When registering for the tour, please be sure to include Name, Company Affiliations and Citizenship. Also, the tour has a limited amount of space. Sign up early to guarantee your space! *Cancellation within 24 hours of event will require event payment unless a replacement can be found to attend.
Elliott Turbine Tour
Program Description Join the Pittsburgh Sections of ASME for a tour of the Elliott Company in Jeannette, PA. Elliott Company is a major supplier in the field of prime movers and other rotating machinery, with more than 1,200 employees providing turbomachinery products and services. The Elliott Company started out in 1895 as the Chicago Boiler Company, a small manufacturer of boiler cleaning equipment based on the patents of William Swan Elliott. In 1914 the company founded by William Swan Elliott moved to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, where they manufactured the first American-built diesel-engine turbocharger. Elliott now provides turbomachinery products and services to a diverse range of customer applications worldwide. Event agenda: Event will be limited to 25 people. Duration: approx 2 hours
Annual Award Banquet Winners - 2007 Student Awards: Ray Davidowski - Geneva College David Armanios - University of Pittsburgh Engineer of the Year: Industry of the Year: A very special thanks to Vaughn Gilbert from Westinghouse for his presentation "The Nuclear Industry: Preparing for Unprecedented Growth"
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.
Message from the Chair Dear Members, Is it really the end of summer already? It seems like the last few months flew by and here we are ready to start what will hopefully be another exciting year at the ASME Pittsburgh section. We have some very exciting and interesting programs lined up for this year already, and there are sure to be some new ones added as we go along. On September 26th, we'll be heading to the Cheswick Power Plant for a tour. Details are located in the September newsletter. October is going to be an equally exciting month. On October 3rd, ASME will be visiting Westinghouse Electric Company for an encore program of the Modern Control Room Simulator Plants Tour. This tour was originally a joint program between the Pittsburgh section of IEEE and ASME, and both organizations have now gone and scheduled another separate one because of the overwhelming interest in the program. We hope to see you there! Then on October 23rd, ASME will be holding a program at the Elliott Company in Jeannette where they manufactured the first American-built diesel-engine turbocharger. Elliott now provides turbomachinery products and services to a diverse range of customer applications worldwide. Our annual Student Mixer will be held at Carnegie Mellon on November 7th. The program will be about the generation gaps in today's workforces and students from Pitt, CMU, Robert Morris, Geneva, and Point Park will be attending. There will also be time for students to interact with local professionals! Please consider joining the section and student sections for this informational and fun program. These few programs are just the tip of the iceberg. Tours and programs are being scheduled for the rest of the year including the Windber Research Institute just outside of Johnstown and many more. As in the past, ASME will continue supporting traditional events such as Rube Goldberg Competition, Future Cities Competition, and National Engineers Week. As a way to try and get more locals involved with the Pittsburgh Section, we are changing the format some for Executive Committee (EC) meetings. Our first EC meeting of the year will be held on Thursday, September 6th at 6 p.m. at the Panera Bread on Forbes Ave in Oakland. I hope this will interest those who live and work closer to the city to participate. Please contact any EC member if you are interested in becoming more involved with the Section. 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 Rich Horne and all of the Executive Committee for doing a great job this past year to make it 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,
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.
Pro/ENGINEER User Group Meeting The Three Rivers Pro Users Group will hold their Fall meeting on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at the Radisson Hotel in Monroeville. An outstanding meeting Agenda is attached along with a sign-up sheet. All are welcome to attend!
Notices
Upcoming Meetings The next Executive Committee meeting will be Friday , October 5, 2007 at 7:30 AM at Dennys Restaurant, Monroeville, PA. If you wish to attend, please contact Heather DeBiase at (412) 374-3975 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/
Some Technology Humor (true story): A former Canadian defense minister says the answer to concerns about climate change is technology from UFOs. He's demanding that governments worldwide use secret alien technology to replace fossil fuels and save the planet from global warming. Paul Hellyer served in the Canadian cabinet in the sixties. He tells the Ottawa Citizen that governments have alien technology they obtained from the crashes of UFOs. He says those spacecrafts were equipped with advanced fuel sources and propulsion systems that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuel within a generation. **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, 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
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
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* SECTION * September 26, 2007: October 3, 2007: October 5, 2007: October 23, 2007: October 25, 2007 (Tentative)
**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 Heather DeBiase . 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 Heather DeBiase . 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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