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Sid Goodman and Lisa Laplante had a brief review session at FDU, Teaneck.
This was in lieu of a full fledged Section meeting, due to logistical problems of the executive committee.

Next Section meeting: tentatively set for May 11 or May 18 at Kraft, East Hanover.
Brian Boden reserved Kraft for either of these alternate dates. It is up to Richard Dolinsky to advise which date it shall be.
The executive committee will be notified when the date and place is confirmed.

Pharmaceutical Project Engineering Program April 24:
Lisa Laplante sent out announcement emails to email listed members.
Program by Bruce Eckman, QC engineer - (908) 232-8900 0ffice, (908) 528-3286 cell
The program is Mechanical Engineering Projects in Pharmaceutical Construction GMP basics you need to know:
…Good manufacturing practices per 21CFR211
…Facility design concepts acceptable to the USFDA
…Mechanical systems subject to commissioning qualification
…Validation activities during the four phases of a facility project
…Design qualification review.

Honors and Awards Dinner:
The executive committee felt that May would be a good month for it. Arnold Pristernik made arrangements for this event in the past, but he has not been well. As a result, the month of May will be honor-less. If members will step in for Arnold, we will be able to plan an honor-full event at a later date.
Arnold's e-mail address has been changed. It is now a.pristernik@verizon.net.
I hope he is feeling better. Even if he is perfectly healed and is willing to resume his past service, he will need help.

Web Page Course:
St. Peters College offers a 6-week course to us. Based on attendance by 20 students the price per student is estimated to be roughly $400. Each session will be 2 hours, using computers at the College that are loaded with web page design software. Richard Dolinsky was involved in arranging this event.
He has been out of town for an extended period on business.

Brainstorming Meeting- to be announced
We will invite all ASME members to a brainstorming session.
The object is to involve more members in directly actuating programs of general and technical interest.
Richard Dolinsky will plan this, after he returns from a round of business trips.

Morris Museum Tour:
Bud said he would arrange a tour for April. No specific input from him yet.

Meadowlands Pumping Station and Paterson Falls Generator Tour:
Lisa Laplante will try to arrange a tour or tours for May, when water flow will be optimum and the weather will be pleasant.

Wine Making /Beer Brewing Tours:
These are good networking events. Lisa will verify availability and scheduling.
She will notify members by E-mail on short notice. Previous Beer/Wine events were well attended. Beer bottling and labeling is done on Thursday nights.
Beer tasting is on Friday nights. Grape deliveries from Chile will start arriving after April 29th. Members interested in these events are asked to call Lisa so she can make arrangements. laplantel@asme.org.

Another Program on Patents:
At the Engineers week dinner, Richard Straussman, the patent attorney who presented the last program said that he should be contacted to arrange a follow up program for the winter of 2006. James Litvany arranged the previous program on patents with patent attorney R. Straussman. The event was well attended. Is James willing to do this again? James, please respond.

Program on Starting a Business:
Lisa will talk to Iggy D’Agati, Brian Boden, and Dick Touma about this.
No input from Iggy, Brian, and Dick yet.

Regional Student (robotic) Competition (RSC) – Fishing Robots:
An RSC program was held at FDU, Teaneck. April 1, 2006 at FDU, Teaneck in the gymnasium and in the Muscarelle building. The challenge was to build an invention that enables a quadriplegic to cast a fishing line and reel the line back in.
There were impressive entries.

Rebuilding Together:
Lisa Laplante said a Rebuilding Together event is planned for April 29, 2006.
Lisa asked our Webmaster to post a link for this event on our website. Interested volunteers, should refer to the link for information. If all else fails, contact Lisa laplantel@asme.org.

A June Wedding:
Lisa is getting married on June 10. The wedding will take place in Connecticut.
Best wishes to the couple.

Picnic?:
Should we plan one? The last place was great but turnout was poor due to threatening weather which never made good on its threats.

Election of Section Officers for next fiscal year:
Nominations for Section Officers are being asked for Elections will be held in June or July.
Self nominations (volunteers) are welcome.

Present North Jersey Section Officers:
…Section Chair - Richard Dolinsky
…Treasurer - Arnold Pristernik
…Secretary - Sid Goodman
…Bergen/Passaic Subsection Chair - Lisa Laplante
…Morris/Sussex Subsection Chair - Ramesh Gulrajani
…Essex/Hudson Subsection Chair - Boris Khusid
…History and Heritage - Beal Moore
…Industry Relations - Lisa Laplante
…Leadership and Development - James Litvany
…Webmaster - Pablo Ospina

Other Programs:

Elements of Metallurgy – a seven week course at NJIT starting May 22 from 6-9PM.
Teacher: Pierre Taubenbla. (732) 545-9775 or Pierregersey@aol.com.
Further details at www.asm-nynj.org.

Electricity from Fuel Cells; Reality vs. Pipedreams.
Dinner meeting – Herb Cooper of Dynalytics Corp. presentor
Notice came from Ariel Czemerinski, PE of AMC Engineering, PLLC
Albertson, NY 11507-0043

Met Section Technical Meetings:
Tuesday May 16th
Tuesday June 13th
See http://www.sections.asme.org/metropolitan_ny/

Submitted by Sid Goodman, P.E., M.S.M.E.
Secretary
Goodmans1@asme.org
(201) 327-5158 home
(973) 616-7300 laboratory