ASME St Louis Section Executive Board Meeting

September 4th, 2007

Attendees

• Angela Berring
• Mary Hammond
• John Keplinger
• Jim Campbell
• John Saufnauer
• Sam Huff
• Tom Mull
• Duane Meyer

Follow-up List (all items listed by owner - due date - action item)

• Duane Meyer - 9/5/2007 - Modify newsletter to include that Sept event is past chairs honorary event and they attend for free.
• Angela Berring - 9/5/2007 - Compose message from chair for Sept and submit to Duane.
• John Keplinger - 9/11/2007 - Send out June 2007 monthly treasurer's report
• Angela Berring - 9/18/2007 - Obtain past chair plaque for Sridhar from House of Award.
• Angela Berring - 9/30/2007 - Follow up with Sridhar on number of PDHs from course offered last year. Complete and submit section FY '08 Merit Based Funding request.
• Jim Campbell - 10/1/2007 - Finalize details for October Shriner's hospital tour and submit to Duane for Oct newsletter.
• John Keplinger - 10/1/2007 - Finalize date for Pepsi tour event and submit to Duane for Oct newsletter.
• Angela Berring - 10/1/2007 - Forward electronic copy of Earl Beaver's textbook request message to Duane for inclusion in Oct newsletter.
• Angela Berring - 10/1/2007 - Submit list of 25/50/75/life honorees to Duane for Oct newsletter.
• Mary Hammond - 10/2/2007 - Follow up with Tom Bever on his availability to coordinate SIUE student section visit should panel discussion not achieve adequate attendance from SIUE.
• John Keplinger - 10/2/2007 - Contact UMSL-WU joint engineering program director to check about ASME activities for students and possibility of an outreach/recruiting visit to the UMSL campus or integrating with WU ASME student section.
• Angela Berring - 10/2/2007 - Complete transition with Sridhar to get registered on section email distribution service for sending out newsletter.
• John Saufnauer - 10/2/2007 - Make contact with energy consultant to check availability for December lecture event.
• Jim Campbell - 11/1/2007 - Check into availability of John Crane (or similar) sales rep giving presentation/open house on seals, etc.

Discussion

1. Treasurer's Report
   1. Treasurer transition from John to Ravi complete. Ravi has been added as a signer to the US Bank accounts and Sridhar has been removed.
   2. Unit AFR and operations budget was submitted to headquarters last week (~8/25/2007).
   3. Southern Bank CD comes due in December 2007. Current names listed on CD are John Saufnauer and John Keplinger. Upon renewal, John Keplinger will be taken off and Ravi will be added. Ongoing practice will be John Saufnauer + current section treasurer.
2. Secretary's Report - No minutes from previous meeting to review.
3. Program Report
   1. Engineers without Borders event to be held on 9/18/2007 at Bevo Mill. Need to include in newsletter announcement that past chairs will be honored and attend for free. Plaque of appreciation to be presented to Sridhar Condoor.
   2. Shriner's event to be held on Wednesday 10/24/2007. Jim Campbell will provide details for next newsletter.
   3. Pepsi Bottling plant tour is tentatively scheduled for a Tue/Wed/Thur in the 2nd week of November. John Keplinger is program captain.
   4. December event unfilled as of yet. John Saufnauer was unable to make contact with an energy consultant to check availability. The base plan for December is to hold a "commercial" event. December event also needs to include awards.
   5. Sam Huff is program captain for January tour of MSD Meramec.
   6. No discussion
   7. No discussion
   8. Gateway Grizzlies event needs to move to May because no games scheduled in April.
   9. Spring would be good time to hold student design contest.
4. Merit Funding Form
   1. 2 versions of the form are available - current fiscal year as well as last fiscal year's.
   2. Angela will submit the form for this past year. Ongoing the outgoing vice chair will submit this form that recaps the year they were the vice chair.
   3. Missing piece of information is how many (if at all) PDH's were distributed from the event Sridhar planned last year - Angela to follow-up.
   4. Preliminary review of the new merit funding form completed by all members in attendance. All scores were perfect 5 of 5 except for Item 3 - "Provide Opportunities for Members' Professional Growth"
   5. Discussed having particular subject matter technical presentation by a vendor (i.e. mechanical seals, etc.) to distribute PDH's and score better in this category next year.
5. Section Awards: 25, 50, 75 and life
   1. Angela has the list from central regarding who in the section is receiving an award this year
   2. Honorees will be mentioned in the October newsletter.
6. Student Section Visits
   1. Sridhar proposing a panel discussion to bring all student sections together to discuss career options, meet with parent section, etc. Watchout is that UMR, SIUC students are unlikely to attend and turnout outside of the hosting campus tends to be low. Likely SLU would host this discussion.
   2. If the panel discussion does not capture adequate interest from all student sections, we will continue tradition of individualized campus visits.
   3. UMR - Tom Mull volunteered to coordinate
   4. WU - John Keplinger volunteered to coordinate
   5. SLU - Sridhar will coordinate panel discussion mentioned above.
   6. SIUC - Jim Campbell volunteered to coordinate
   7. SIUE - Tom Bever was volunteered to coordinate. Mary will inform him and check his availability.
   8. UMSL - Discussion of outreach to UMSL engineering students enrolled in joint WU-UMSL engineering programs. Students not integrated into WU student section and activities opportunity to increase membership. John K will followup.
7. Newsletter
   1. Angela will send out email version of newsletter to membership each month. Need to transition from Sridhar.
   2. Duane will mail the hard copies of newsletter to those people who have requested it each month.
   3. Angela to compose message from chair for September newsletter.
8. Request for Used Textbooks - Announcement will be put in October newsletter using Earl Beaver's email message.
9. Round Table - Next Exec Board Meeting on Tuesday 10/2 at 6 PM at Laclede St Bar & Grill.