Upcoming Event

• Akron ASME Industry Expo
  Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Newsletter Contents

• Chair's Corner
• ASME Service Awards
• Akron ASME speakers needed in high schools
• Engineers Without Borders-USA
• The ASME Foundation
• Akron ASME Newsletter

Future Meetings and Events

• The Babcock & Wilcox Research Center
  Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The Akron ASME Industry Expo is our April ASME Meeting organized to highlight our local industry. It is the time for networking, socializing and fun.

This meeting brings together our sponsors, local industry representatives, our Akron Section ASME members, ASME members of other sections, members of other technical societies, and technical students from local colleges.

Industry representatives will showcase their products and capabilities in an informal trade show type environment to the approximately 120 engineers and students from our area. This is a great way to make contacts, and you may solve your technical challenges. Engineering, Manufacturing, and Support companies will be present.

The Akron Section will introduce the incoming board members who will serve you during the 2009-2010 year. Meet the people who work to provide the services of the section. Talk to the board members about how the Akron Section may serve you. Suggest a meeting topic you may want to here about, a company the membership may tour, or a lecture you or your company may desire. Be sure to give at least one board member your E-mail address to be assured you remain well informed. The Akron Section is here to support you.

Catch-up with members you haven't seen for a while. Our April meeting bringing industry, members and students together is a proven success. This is always one of our most heavily attended meetings. Enjoy a dinner provided by the section with cooperation of Industry.

The Akron Section thanks all the companies who are supporting our section now and throughout the past.

Happy Holidays!

Our Section has already had several GREAT! events this year:

• Our September Dinner Meeting was an Exhibit / Presentation, by Bill Woodall describing his adventure with a home-built Sopwith Triplane;
• In October, we had a good mix of both Student & Senior Section members join us at our recent tour / meeting at GLBC;
• November 6 was the ACESS Honors & Awards Banquet for High School & College students going into Science & Engineering Studies; and
• November 13 was a joint dinner meeting with our neighboring CAM ASME Section, including a th presentation on "The State of ASME", by Tom Davis, our District Leader.

• Activities & Tours which are FUN & INTERESTING (we are already working on ideas for next Fall's Meetings, so please send me ideas!);
• Opportunities to meet other Engineers & like-minded folks, for networking and building relationships;
• Strengthening the links between the University of Akron ASME Student Section with our Akron ASME Senior Section;
• Opportunities to mentor young people interested in Engineering Careers (Area Science Fair Judges are urgently needed! Contact Brent Sisler for details);
• Get your reservations / $30 deposit in for the March 7th Seminar, Renewable Energy for Ohio (3 hours, may be helpful for maintaining your Ohio PE license).

Thanks!

Mark Burrows
2008-2009 Section Chair, Akron ASME
burrowsm2@asme.org
330-208-5737 (cell)
330-342-0899 (home)

Congratulations and thanks to the following individuals on the noted service awards they received for the year 2007-2008, announced this past summer:

• 50-year: none this year;
• 35-year Life Member certificates: none this year;
• 25-year: R. Scott Betschman, P.E., Mark L. Burrows, P.E., Willard B. Donoho, Gordon D. Jones, Samuel G. Kelly, III, Ph.D., L. Scott Lindner, Richard R. Navarro, David Raj, Ph.D., Ricky D. Scholl

The Akron Section of ASME is about to begin a project to put engineers in contact with area high school students. A need that has been made known to us is that the amount of graduating high-school students going on to study science and engineering is down in the Akron area.

Akron ASME is attempting to develop a pool of engineers that would be willing and able to go to a school for anywhere from a half hour to a couple of hours, based on their schedule, and speak to high school classes. The format is anything from an informal talk with a science classroom to a PowerPoint presentation to a group of students enrolled in science classes.

We have a new "What is a Mechanical Engineer?" brochure from national ASME that makes such a visit very easy for someone willing to go into the schools. We have hundreds of copies on hand, ready to give to you. We have it as a *.pdf, too, if you'd like to take a look.

If you would be interested in getting involved with this program and helping educate students about science and engineering fields, please contact Cara Adams at caraadams302@yahoo.com.

Thanks for considering it!

Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students. ASME and EWB-USA have been collaborating for several years on a variety of projects. You can get involved too! EWB-USA offers several opportunities to become involved in building a better world one community at a time, whether you are an engineering student (undergraduate or graduate; a student in some other field of study; a professional engineer or university faculty member; or, not an engineer at all! There are several EWB_USA workshops taking place this fall around the country. More details on these workshops are available at www.ewb-usa.org/Fallworkshops.php. To find out how your Student Section can get involved in EWB-USA, contact Marina Stenos at stenosm@asme.org or 212-591-8614.

The ASME Foundation launched a new fund-raising campaign, ‘Engineering the Greater Good’ at the 2008 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Boston.

The campaign will reach out to corporate and individual donors with the aim of generating funding to expand the Society’s Federal Fellows program, one of ASME’s most successful government relations programs.

ASME Federal Fellows provide engineering and technical expertise to policy makers in the U.S. Congress, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and key government agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

"ASME federal fellows are engineering the greater good by contributing their experience on critical security issues, national competitiveness issues and on 21st century workforce preparedness," said Gov. John H. Sununu, the 85th governor of the state of New Hampshire, former White House chief of staff, and co-chair of the Engineering the Greater Good campaign.

The campaign is halfway to a million goal, and is particularly interested in engaging corporate investors. For more information on EGG, contact Judith Kearney, director of Development, ASME Foundation, at kearneyj@asme.org or 212-591-7445.

As you probably know by now, due to cost considerations, Akron ASME has had to stop mailing hardcopy newsletters. So, it becomes increasingly important that we have a correct email address for you.

If we have an incorrect email address for you and you have not received an email notice regarding our newsletter, please email Matt Pruszynski at matt@americashobbyhouse.com with your correct email address. You will get periodic notices from him announcing:

1. upcoming events;
2. updating of our Akron ASME website;
3. posting of our updated newsletter to that website as an Adobe Acrobat *.pdf for your viewing, printing, and/or download.

Please let me (Brent Sisler, 330/836-9238 or marybrentsisler@cs.com) know if this does not work for you. Thanks for your patience and understanding as we move to this new paperless regime.

1. Limited to first thirty (30) people to reserve.
2. Must pre-register by deadline below. No "walk-in's" permitted.
3. Not handicapped-accessible.
4. Minimum of 18 years of age.

Joint Akron ASME/AIChE Meeting

At The Babcock & Wilcox Company Research Center (BWRC) in Barberton, Ohio, its mission is to innovate, and to be visionary in developing technology solutions for current and future challenges.

The $14 million, 55,000-square foot facility, which was inaugurated in August, 2007, is located near B&W's Barberton headquarters. It features new laboratory and test facilities with state-of-the-art instrumentation and controls. It replaces an outdated facility in Alliance, and will be a center for innovation as the company works to develop the next generation of steam production and pollution control technologies, including technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the emissions of coal-fired power plants. More than 50 B&W employees work at the BWRC. Additional details may be found at www.babcock.com/services/research_and_development/.