THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

NORTH JERSEY SECTION

ASME Section Minutes 12-14-04

At Charlie Browns Steakhouse.
337 Fairfield Road.
Fairfield, NJ.

Attendance: attendees noted by * and bold type:

Arnold Pristernik-Honors and Awards & Treasurer
* Art Vatsky
* Beal Moore-Chair, History and Heritage
Bill Koehler
Boris Khusid-Essex/Hudson Chair
*Bud Foster
Hugh Huntzinger
*Iggy D’Agati and wife
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 and wife
*Richard Dolinsky-Bergen /Passaic Chair and wife
Richard F. Tax, American Engineering Association
*Richard Touma
*Sid Goodman-Section Secretary and wife
*James Litvany, ASME LDI, Leadership Development Initiative

Karen called the meeting to order at 9:00 pm, after dinner.

Next Section Meeting   January 13, Thursday – 7:30pm

Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU)
1000 River Road
Muscarelle building
See the FDU website for directions Http://www.fdu.edu

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 9^th and 21^st and the last two weeks in 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.  Lately, they were involved in a project located in Honduras.
Student awards will be given at the Dinner as well as Engineer of the Year awards.
This dinner will probably be a buffet affair.

Intellectual Property Program:

North Jersey Alumni president for Stevens Institute, James Litvany, LDI reported that this program is scheduled for January 26^th at Stevens. Refreshments will be served at 5:00 pm.  The program will start at 6:00 pm.   Professor Prasad is coordinating the event with attorney Richard Straussman. Topics covered will be patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. It was said that we should invite other technical societies to attend, such as the SAE and the American Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers.
Details will follow.

Program on Starting a Small Business:

Lisa Laplante will plan a program with Iggy D’Agati and Brian Boden.  It was thought that as a follow up to this program or in relation to our program we involve the NJIT Enterprise Development Center. The Center is an for small innovative businesses.

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 April, 2005.  He has not replied.

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.  Because he is traveling from England, he needs a tour of appearances, not just a presentation at one Section. Karen emailed an inquiry of interest to other Sections.

Honors and Awards Dinner:

The Honors and Awards Dinner is scheduled for March 16^th at the Hanover Manor. Attendance is by invitation.  This will be a sit-down dinner.

Habitat for Humanity Program:

On November 27^th, 3 members helped clean a house which had been donated.  The house will be converted into two condos. The Paterson, NJ will have more projects in the future.  These projects will be balanced between new construction and rehabilitation of existing structures.
On April 20^th there will be a “Rebuilding Together” program.  Lisa Laplante would like to have ASME members participate.

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 125^th 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:

We presently have $1,510.82 in our checking account.
An allocation of approximately $8,000 from headquarters is expected.
The Essex/Hudson  subsection received an allocation of $450.
The Morris/Sussex and Bergen/Passaic Subsections are waiting for their allocations.
The amount in our Section’s CD account was not reported.

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 Program at the Edison Museum in West Orange, NJ.:

Art Vatsky said he will look into arranging a program there.

Possible Program at the Morris Museum:

Bud Foster was asked to look into arranging a program there.

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. Lisa would like this program to welcome new members, strengthen industrial relations, and have a business card exchange, networking. 

New Organizational Changes for ASME

The proposed organizational changes are on the website www.asme.org/change.
Visit the website to keep abreast of the changes which are being developed by the ASME Board of Governors.

Upcoming Events

• March 4-5, 2005, Technology Executives Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
  Karen Ohland will attend.
• 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.

ASME Long Island Section Programs

• January 26: Solar Hydrogen and Fuel Cells.
  RoomT101, Lupton Hall at SUNY Farmingdale at 6:00 pm.
  Reservations requested.  Speaker: Prof. Tawfik. Light refreshments. Credit given for 3 PDH’s.
• March 23: Wireless Technology in Room T101 (as above).
  Reservations requested.  Light refreshments.
  Credit given for 2 PDH’s.

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

Chair – Karen Ohland
Treasurer – Arnold Pristernik
Secretary – Sid Goodman
Bergen/Passaic Subsection Chair – Richard Dolinsky
Morris/Sussex Subsection Chair – Ramesh Gulrajani
Essex/Hudson Subsection Chair – Boris Khusid

Submitted by Sid Goodman, Secretary
E-mail address: goodmans1@asme.org Phone no. (201)327-5158