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San Francisco and Mt. Diablo ASME
Joint Dinner Meeting

ASME Mt. Diablo and San Francisco Section Dinner Meeting and

presentation by the President of ASME

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009

Time: Reception 6:00 PM (no-host bar),

Dinner at 7:00 PM and presentation at 8:00 PM - 9 PM

Location: Embassy Suites, 1345 Treat Blvd., Walnut Creek, CA

(Pleasant Hill BART Station is right across the street from the hotel)

Speaker: Thomas M. Barlow, President, ASME

About the Topic: ASME, with its vision of preparing mechanical engineers to achieve high performance in the face of global challenges, has set its priorities in areas of energy, workforce issues and global synergies. Tom Barlow welcomes dialogue on new strategies aimed to meet these challenges. ASME relies on the strength of its diverse membership and strategic partners to step into leadership roles within the engineering community and to set the pace for changes facing the current and next generation of engineers.

About Speaker: Thomas M. Barlow is the 127^th president of ASME serving the 2008-2009 term. A longtime member of ASME, Barlow has participated on numerous technical, regional and Society-wide committees and boards and has demonstrated a strong record of support and leadership in student outreach, membership development, technology and engineering diversity. He is a Fellow of ASME and former member of the ASME Board of Governors, serving from 2003 to 2006. In the area of student outreach, Tom has served as a judge in student paper competitions and played a key role in developing ASME’s university-level Human-Powered Vehicle Challenge.

Tom enjoyed a 40-year career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, serving in a number of management and leadership positions before retiring in 2000. Tom served as the site manager of the Mechanical Energy Storage Technology Project of the U.S. Department of Energy from 1977 to 1981. He also served as a mechanical engineer, specializing in aircraft structures, while on active duty at the U.S. Air Force Research and Development Command at Wright-Patterson Air Base in Ohio, from 1957 to 1960. Tom attended Washington State University and received a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1957. He also earned an M.B.A. degree from Golden Gate University in 1985. Tom was the Chair of the Mt. Diablo Section and served on the Executive Committee for several years.

Time: 6:00 p.m. Festivities Begin, No-host bar.

Menu:

Rosemary Chicken, Butter lettuce salad with vinaigrette dressing,

starch, vegetables, rolls/butter, and coffee.

Cost:

$20 Students

$20 Out of Work Engineers

$35 Members & Guests

$40 Non Members

Directions and Parking:

Directions: http://www.sfsu.edu/~parking/text/tocampus.html

Parking Information: http://www.sfsu.edu/~parking/text/parking.html

RSVP:
Lynden Davis: Phone 510-525-7418 (leave message) or

davisl@asme.org
Reserve by Monday, February 19 at noon


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