ASME
Section Meeting Minutes 11-23-04
At Kraft
Foods,
Eagle Building, in conference room 132S
100 DeForest Avenue
East Hanover, NJ 07936
Attendance: attendees noted by *
*Arnold
Pristernik-Honors and Awards & Treasurer
Art Vasky
* Beal Moore-Chair, History and Heritage
Bill Koehler
Boris Khusid-Essex/Hudson Chair
*Bud Foster
Hugh Huntzinger
*Iggy D’Agati
Jim O’Toole
*Karen Ohland-Section Chair & Vice Chair, Bergen/Passaic
Larry Schmerzler
Lisa Laplante- Industry relations
Pablo Ospina-Webmaster
Peter Hauser -Director, Northeast Region Office
Ramesh Gulrajani-Morris/Sussex Chair
*Richard Dolinsky-Bergen /Passaic Chair
Richard F. Tax, American Engineering Association
Richard Touma
*Sid Goodman-Section Secretary
*James Litvany, ASME LDI, Leadership Development Initiative
Karen called the
meeting to order at 8:00 pm
Next
Section Meeting Dec 14, Tuesday – 7:00pm
Holiday
meeting
At Charlie Browns Steakhouse
337 Fairfield Road
Fairfield, NJ
Phone: (973) 808-4473
Fax: (973) 808-5501
No cost for members. Guests of members are invited.
Directions:
From the Garden State Parkway:
Take Exit 153 (Route 3/Route 46). Take Route 3 West to Route 46 West.
Follow Route 46 West to the exit for Fairfield Road. Take the exit ramp
to the end and make a right. The Steakhouse will be a block on the right
side.
From Route 80 or Route 46 West:
Take Route 80 to Route 46 West. Take the exit for Fairfield Road.
At the end of the exit ramp, make a right. The Steakhouse will be a
block on the right side.
From Route 46 East:
Take the exit for Fairfield Road. At the second light, make a left.
You will then be in Charlie Brown's parking lot.
From Route 287 North or South:
Take Route 287 to Route 80 East. Follow signs to Route 46 East. Take
exit for Fairfield Road.
At the second light, make a left. You will then be in Charlie Brown's
parking lot.
Program
on Least Lifetime Cost of Filtered Air in HVAC systems:
Dr. Boris
Khusid would like to arrange a program at NJIT in February or March.
He wants to coordinate attendance of students and faculty from NJIT, and
from Stevens Institute. Dr. Khusid won’t know which nights he will be
teaching until the teaching schedule for the spring term is determined.
Once that is known, we will be able to coordinate this with the
availability of filter expert Don Thornburg, Manager of Research at
Camfil Farr, Inc. (Riverdale, NJ). The following dates are to be
avoided. February 9th and 21st and the last two weeks in March.
Consider
Programs for New/Early Career Engineers or Outreach to Engineering Societies:
Think about
programs for early career engineers and those who work in pharmaceutical
companies.
Karen suggested we invite other engineering societies to participate in
joint programs such as a program on patents. She asked us to think about
how we can contact societies such as ASHRAE, SAE, and the American
Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers.
Patent
and Invention Program:
North Jersey
Alumni president for Stevens Institute, James Litvany, LDI thinks that a
date can be firmed up by the end of next week. The program will probably
be held during the last two weeks of January.
Program
on Starting a Small Business:
Lisa Laplante
expects that her business workload will taper off enough to allow
planning a program with Iggy D’Agati and Brian Boden.
Habitat
for Humanity Program:
There will be
an event on November 27th. Lisa Laplante has been coordinating
participation.
Talk on
New Engineering by Eugene F. Adiutori:
Engineer
Adiutori has written a book on this subject and has given several
presentations.
He offers to give us a lecture. Karen e-mailed him asking if he will be
available to provide a program in March 2005. He has not replied. If he
does reply, we will consider a date that is other than March.
Engineering Week Dinner, 2005:
We are
scheduling the dinner for February 24. An invitation has been sent to
the tentative keynote speaker, Dr. Yusef Mehta. He is a professor at
Rowan University and a member of Engineers Without Borders. Engineers
Without Borders arranges student projects. We are waiting for his
confirmation.
ASME
Distinguished Lecturer- Ian M. Arbon:
Karen e-mailed
Mr. Arbon, asking if he would be available for a lecture in May 2005.
His subject is renewable energy and sustainability. He has replied.
Because he travels from England, he wants a tour of appearances for more
than one Section. Karen said she would post an inquiry of
interest.
Honors
and Awards Dinner:
It was decided
to hold the dinner at the Hanover Manor during the week of March 13th.
Richard Dolinsky will check availability of the Manor. Earlier dates are
impractical.
Election
and nomination of new officers:
Karen will
issue a call for nominations to our members.
We need to elect or re-elect the following officers of the Section for a
two-year term.
We must do this at the next Section meeting.
We need a Section Vice Chair to cover for Karen when she is away on
regional or national Affairs.
Secretary of the Section - Sid Goodman has served for more than two
years.
Bergen/Passaic Subsection Chair – Richard Dolinsky has served two years.
Please
nominate someone or volunteer your own services.
ASME
celebration of 125th Anniversary – 2005:
Volunteer
coordinators for E-week 2005 and the anniversary are sought from each
Section. Please contact Karen at
ohlandk@asme.org if you are interested in being either a volunteer
coordinator or a volunteer.
Treasurer’s Report:
No report at
this meeting.
Federal
Government Fellowship Program:
ASME has
established a program whereby members may become advisers to Congress
and the White House. Contact ASME headquarters for information.
Possible
Wine/Beer Tasting Program:
Lisa Laplante
will try to arrange a program. The Cricket Hill Brewery hosts tours of
their beer factory from 6 to 8 pm on Fridays. They give free samples and
sell beer to visitors.
New
Organizational Changes for ASME:
The proposed
organizational changes are on the website
www.asme.org/change.
The new organization will have fewer vice presidents. This will enable
better communication. The present structure, has 38 technical divisions,
with not enough programs that is local to members. Non-local meetings
are costly to members as well as to the Society.
Reports from
the IMECE conference indicate a net loss in dues paying members.
There is a generation gap. Members between the ages of 25 to 45 are
largely missing.
Without changes, the operating fund of ASME will be exhausted within a
few years.
Karen Ohland
and Iggy D’Agati are on a committee that is reviewing the alternative to
38 technical divisions. It is a Geographic Structure that will bring
programs to local districts.
Karen and Iggy
invite feedback on the charts (in www.asme.org\change), which define
Geographic Structure, Technical Units Task Force, and Senior Sections.
The charts outline membership needs being met and membership needs not
being met. Copies of these charts are attached to these minutes.
Which proposed
changes do you agree with? Tell Karen and Iggy.
The leadership
and development program will be continued. Anyone interested in this
program may contact leonardw@asme.org.
Upcoming
Events:
April 9, 2005 –
Regional Student competition, at Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ.
April 22-25, 2005 – Regional Student Leadership Seminar/ Regional
Operating Board Meeting and the Regional Administrative Conference in Puerto
Rico.
Dr. James Yardley, Director of the Nano-Science Center at Columbia
University will present the program.
“Nano-Science – Past, Present & Future”. Details will follow.
Website and Webmaster:
Submissions to the Website by members or student chapters should be in
Front Page or a Microsoft Word document.
Before items are posted on the site, they must be proof read.
Submit e-mail articles to…
Lisa Laplante llaplant@nji.com
Richard Dolinsky dolinskyr@asme.org
Sid Goodman goodmans1@asme.org
Final approval of submissions will be made by
Karen Ohland ohlandk@asme.org
Special articles for the website are welcome.
See the website for other special events
Our website address has changed. It is now
http://sections.asme.org/northjersey
Present Section Officers:
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Chair – Karen Ohland
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Treasurer – Arnold Pristernik
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Secretary – Sid Goodman
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Bergen/Passaic Subsection Chair – Richard Dolinsky
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Morris/Sussex Subsection Chair – Ramesh Gulrajani
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Essex/Hudson Subsection Chair – Boris Khusid
Submitted by Sid Goodman, Secretary
E-mail address: goodmans1@asme.org Phone no.
(201)327-5158 | 