ASME St Louis Section Executive Board Meeting

October 2th, 2007

Attendees

• Angela Berring
• Mary Hammond
• John Keplinger
• John Saufnauer
• Tom Mull
• Duane Meyer

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

• Angela Berring - 11/1/2007 - Forward electronic copy of Earl Beaver's textbook request message to Duane for inclusion in 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.
• Angela Berring - 10/2/2007 - Complete transition with Sridhar to get registered on section email distribution service for sending out newsletter.
• John Saufnauer - 11/1/2007 - 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.
• John Keplinger - 12/1/2007 - Work with Alan Pilch to get Secretary's report / board meeting notes) posted on website.
• ??? (needs an owner) - Work with Alan to check capability of job postings on section website.

Discussion

1. Treasurer's Report
   1. Treasurer not at meeting.
2. Secretary's Report - Approved. Notes sent out after last meeting.
3. Program Report
   1. 9/18 - Engineers without Borders - Success
   2. 10/24 - Tour of Shriner's hospital (Jim Campbell) - 6:30PM
   3. 11/13 - Tour of Pepsi bottling plant (John Keplinger)
   4. 12/4 - Briem Engineering open house - Mary to be captain
   5. January - Tour of MSD Meramec (Sam Huff)
   6. February - Engineering Management (Angela Berring)
   7. March - Nanotechnology or Bone & Joint Institute
   8. April - TBD
   9. May - Gateway Grizzlies family event
4. Merit Funding Form - Submitted in late September with score of 90 out of 100.
5. Section Awards: 25, 50, 75 and life -- Angela has the list from central regarding who in the section is receiving an award this year and will send to Duane for inclusion in Oct newsletter.
6. Student Section Visits
   1. UMR - Tom Mull volunteered to coordinate
   2. WU - John Keplinger volunteered to coordinate
   3. SIUE - Tom Bever was volunteered to coordinate. Mary will inform him and
   4. SIUC - Jim Campbell volunteered to coordinate
   5. SLU - Sridhar will coordinate panel discussion mentioned above.
   6. Combined event - Plan to do individual visits at schools.
   7. UMSL - John K spoke to Mary McManus (eng program director at UMSL). Plan is to invite UMSL students to WU request.
7. Job Shadowing Request
   1. Josh Smith-Moore to help (as of 10/22 email).
8. Advertising (specific to job postings)
   1. Benefit to members to be getting job postings (ASHRAE does this) so we should charge substantially lower cost than normal ads.
   2. Would be more effective to post on website for several months than one-time shot in newsletter.
   3. Next steps = check with Alan on capability on website to store this information. Discuss next meeting on rates and modification to policy.
9. LTC Delegates
   1. Ravindra
   2. Sam Huff potential candidate
   3. Angela will send email to follow-up and check on interest.
10. Newsletter
    1. Need to get it out by 10/10
    2. Need to get info on 25/50/75/Life members from Angela
11. Round Table –
    1. John Saufnauer presented document on Timing/Sequence Election of Officers
    2. Modifications to by-laws from last year. Don Frikken had made modifications to wording of changes based on his standards experience. John S recommends rolling out at December 4th meeting.
    3. Next Exec Board Meeting on Thursday 11/1 at 6 PM at Laclede St Bar & Grill
    4. Posting Treasurer's report & Secretary's report on website discussion. Consensus was post Secretary's report on website, but no Treasurer's report because there are no security controls on website.