American Society of Mechanical Engineers

All members interested in helping out with section activities are invited to the monthly Executive Board Meeting. They are held the second Tuesday of every month at the Flat Iron Cafe in the Flats at 6:00 pm. Call Mike Sturdevant at (440) 352-8970 for more detail

ASME International Calendar

Technical Tidbits

Wind Turbine at CWRU

In November 2010, a 100kW wind turbine was erected on the Case Western Reserve University campus. Our CWRU student section (thanks K.J.!) provided this link to a time lapse movie showing the building of the wind turbine. You may have to cut and paste the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr169zvYOsM

Batteries at Painesville Power

Yesterday, Patrick Cleary and I visited the Painesville Municipal Power plant. This plant has been in operation since 1908 and looks every bit of that. However, there is also on the site a new building being erected which will contain a vanadium redox flow battery with a capacity of 1.08 MW.

http://www.sgiclearinghouse.org/sites/default/files/projdocs/1753.pdf

We hope to sponsor a tour of the facility sometime this coming fall.

A change to the Cleveland ASME Web Site

The ASME is changing the way they interface with their members. They’re creating a more modern and social web presence.

This web site will no longer be supported. The new site will be accessible from inside your ASME profile.

To get there go to this web site:
https://my.asme.org/home.cfm

You’ll then need to key in your e-mail that’s associated with your ASME membership; and then your password.

Once you are inside the ASME web site you’ll need to go to the Cleveland Section Page. You’ll find that here: https://preview.community.asme.org/cleveland_section/default.aspx

You can also get there by going to the District B page and then navigating to the Cleveland Section.

Here’s the path from within the ASME Site:

Home>Knowledge & Community Operating Board>Global Committees Operating Board>District B>Cleveland

Once you’re on the page it has familiar social media tools for blogging and contacting others inside the ASME community. We’ll be posting messages about upcoming events and yes, even the newsletter will be posted as a PDF.

Energy Tech 2013

21 - 23 May

Case Western Reserve University

http://energytech2013.org/.

Let us know if you plan to attend, and anything interesting you find, because if enough ASME members are present this year, we may be able to seek ASME funding to pay for 2014 attendance.