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ASME Section
Minutes 3-19-03
At Fairleigh
Dickinson University, Muscarelle building 1000 River Road, Teaneck
Attendance: (Attendees
noted by *)
Anold Pristernik-Honors
and Awards
Beal Moore-Chair, History and Heritage
Boris Khusid-Essex/Hudson Chair*
Bruce Eckman
Charles Pluviose-Section Newsletter Editor
David Greenhut
Doug Longo
Hugh Huntzinger-Secretary Morris/Sussex, Section Web Page
Iggy D’Agati
Karen Ohland-Section Chair & Vice Chair,
Bergen/Passaic*
Keith Olasin-past Section Chair
Kristina Hani
Larry Schmerzler
Lisa Grenier
Lisa Laplante- Industry relations*
N. “Bud” Foster
Pablo Ospina*
Peter Hauser -Director, Northeast Region Office
Ramesh H Gulrajani-(Section Treasurer-presently inactive)
Richard Dolinsky-Bergen /Passaic Chair*
Richard Touma
Sid Goodman-Section Secretary*
Steve Liss-Past Chair, Newsletter Advisor
Vikey Suwanprutsachati
Karen called the
meeting to order at 7:15 pm
New Meeting
Time and Day of the Week to Meet.
It was unanimously
agreed that a starting time of 7:30pm is easier to attend, in view
of traffic difficulties and eating supper. The next meeting will observe this consensus and start at
7:30pm.
Karen suggested
that we review the tradition of meeting on Wednesday.
Would a different night of the week be better?
Comments from members are invited.
In terms of
reserving a room or the lecture hall at Fairleigh Dickinson, Friday
is the best day.
Tuesday is the worst. Meeting
at FDU is best for our Chair, Karen.
She must commute from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where
she is an executive.
The Bergen Passaic
Subsection will experiment with holding dinner meetings.
They hope this will attract greater participation. The next Subsection meeting will be at Charlie Browns in East
Rutherford at 7:00pm on April 9th.
[395 Paterson Plank Road, (201)842-9999].
If we hold Section dinner
meetings, they would be at 7:00pm, rather than 7:30pm.
Website and
Webmaster
John Melin, the
Region II Webmaster is now posting items through the region II
domain. He posted the
notice of the Engineers Week Dinner for us.
Submissions will be sent to him by Karen Ohland. She will be the point person for all submissions.
We will take over postings ourselves as soon as possible.
John uses Microsoft
Front Page to insert postings.
He recommends that we learn how to use Front Page by taking
the online course offered by ed2go.
The Course runs 6 weeks.
Each week, a lesson is transmitted.
A student has a week to respond for tutorial comments.
The course costs $60. It
is accessed through http://www.ed2go.com/jackson.
The next series starts April 9. See Course # CE011701.
Lisa Laplante, Sid
Goodman, and Richard Dolinsky volunteered to take the course. We wish to have
more than one person share the load of website preparation.
Karen will purchase 3 copies of Front Page 2002 (the latest version
of Front Page), for these volunteers.
The cost of course
subscription will be reimbursed by the Section.
What is most
exciting, is that Pablo
Ospina (ospinapablo@asme.org)
already knows Front Page. He volunteers to be our webmaster.
Submissions to the
Website by people who do not have Front Page can be made in the form
of a Microsoft Word document. Front
Page will take a Word document and accept it, without the nuisance
of html codes.
Before items are
posted on the site, they should be proof read.
This can be done by e-mailing copies
to the new website committee.
Committee E-mail
addresses are:
Karen Ohland (ohlandk@asme.org)
Lisa Laplante (llaplant@nji.com)
Richard Dolinsky (dolinskyr@asme.org)
Sid Goodman (sjgdesin@mindspring.com)
Pablo Ospina - webmaster (ospinapablo@asme.org)
Items destined
for the Website:
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Programs and
announcements.
-
Section
Minutes.
-
Announcements
from Subsections, including minutes.
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Announcements
and programs from Student Sections.
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Joint programs
with other Technical Societies.
-
List of
officers and how to contact them.
Student Sections
are invited to post items. Student
Section Advisors are asked to notify Student Sections that their
postings are welcome, and their participation in Section activities
is equally welcome.
Address of the
North Jersey Section Website:
http://sections.asme.org/northjersey/
As soon as
possible, new entries will be posted.
ASME 100
Questions - Online Mechanical Engineering Courses Now Offered
A series of courses
are now available for technical subjects you may have learned before
and wish to review, or new topics.
Each topic is presented in an interactive computer-based
format.
ASME members may
obtain access to these programs.
For information, contact Tom Kuehl, Continuing Education, at kuehlt@asme.org
or (212)591-8013.
The topics are:
Reinventing
ASME
A dinner meeting is
planned with keynote speaker Susan Skemp, President of ASME.
It will be on April 2, 2003, in the Peter Cooper Suite of Cooper
Union. Food will be
catered.
The meeting will start at about 5:30pm and will proceed until
9:00pm. Contact the NYC
ASME headquarters for information.
Atlantic City
MegaRAC 3/6-3/8/03 for
Regions I, II, and III.
The North Jersey
Section was well represented there.
Among the events were:
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Exhibit of ASME
resources for disseminating knowledge
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Training
sessions for utilizing ASME resources and other topics
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A town hall
meeting for comments on ASME policies
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Socializing and
networking
-
Reports of what
Sections in the three regions have accomplished, with ideas for
programs.
Norris Allman, VP
of Region II gave the North Jersey Section a commendation for the
excellence of our Engineers Week Dinner.
Imre B. Von Balinth,
PE (one of our Section members) was given the Edlow S. Bance award
for continuous long term service at the section, region II, and
national level.
Engineers Week
Dinner and Awards Banquet, February 21, 2003
This was a
successful event. Except
for the disbursement of student financial awards, Karen reported
that we substantially broke even, cost-wise.
Keynote
Speaker
Dharam Pal, P.E., Chief Engineer of the Port Authority, described
the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site.
Distinguished
Engineer of the Year
Rob Stramara, of the Multitech Group
Presented by John W. Kennedy, Ph.D. Multitech President
ASME Student
Awards
Photographs are available. The
Student Section faculty advisors are invited to obtain the pictures.
They may be obtained at our next Section executive meeting,
on April 30th.
Awards to NJIT
Students:
Issac K. Nuss
John X. Jelis
John M. Maranski
Awards to
Stevens Students
Sean Marvel
Amy chau
Christian M. Rush
Joseph M. Grogan
Jared Sapp
Treasury Report:
No formal report.
We still need to get sign-off papers for our Certificates of
Deposit from Keith Olasin. A
formal treasury report will be submitted to ASME headquarters to
complete our annual report to them.
Karen is
temporarily handling the vacant Treasurer’s position.
Karen has sign off authority for Checks. Sid is a back-up signatory.
We hope that one of
our members will step up to the plate and assume the Treasurer’s
position.
Rebuilding
Together April 26
This is a one day
participation in a Habit For Humanity type of rebuilding.
Contact Lisa Laplante to participate.
In prior years,
many of our members pitched in and found it a rewarding, fun
experience. Lisa’s
E-mail is given above. Her
phone number is (973)872-2182.
Regional
Student Conference
April 5th West
Point Military Academy.
Karen, Lisa, and Iggy will be judges.
Anyone wishing to attend must register with Susan Lavigne at
our ASME office. This
is for security purposes. Contact
Susan at (800)628-5981 or lavignes@asme.org
.
FIRST robotics
competion at Rutgers: April 5th
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/
Richard Dolinsky will be a judge.
Demonstration
of Autodesk’s Inventor
Inventor is
Autodesk’s user
friendly CAD software for parametric solid modeling and assembly.
A demonstration of its capabilities will be given on April 29
at Kraft Headquarters at 7:00 pm. Details will be put in our
website.
Joint Technical
Society Meetings
We will arrange
joint meetings with other technical societies.
Information will be posted on our website.
At the moment,
there are two programs being hosted by the Newark Society of
Plastics Engineers which may be of interest.
On April 10th a Hot
Runner Symposium will be held at the Pines Manor in Edison, NJ.
There will be four speakers.
A Table Top Mini Show will be presented.
Registration may be made by going to their website http://www.newarkspe.org
The website gives directions and their meeting schedule.
Another SPE program
is their annual Golf Outing-Awards Dinner at the Beaver Brook
Country Club in June. Consult
their website for details.
Sid Goodman is
attempting to get programs
by the IEEE and the ISA.
Tour of the
Battleship New Jersey: April 26, 2003.
Information will be
posted on our website.
Future Possible
Programs:
Tour of metal
enhancement facility. Curtiss-Wright
has a metal improvement facility in Paramus, NJ.
General Magnaplate has a facility in Linden, NJ.
Sid will investigate.
Celebration of the
first aircraft flight and early aviation history.
Beal Moore will investigate.
We Still Need:
…A Chairperson
for the Morris/Sussex Subsection
…A Newsletter editor. A
newsletter can be put on the Website.
…A Treasurer
Please step forward
if you are able to help. If
you can recommend someone who is willing, please let us know. We are recovering from the blow of having our former Chair,
Webmaster, and Newsletter Editor Treasurer resign. Ouch! Is Murphy’s Law legal?
Honors and
Awards Dinner:
The date must be
firmed up. We were
hoping to arrange a special award to PSE&G in Honors Awards
Dinner due to some complications. Karen
will get advice from Norris Allman.
We expect to hold
this dinner at the Hanover Manor, at the end of May.
The Hanover Manor
gave us excellent value for the Engineering Week Dinner.
Next Section
Meeting:
April 30th at
Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck.
See the FDU website for directions. Time:
7:30 pm.
Submitted by Sid
Goodman, Secretary
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