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Worcester, Massachusetts Section


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Officers

Name

Position

Email

Phone

Fax

Dan Smith

Chair

dsmith@babcockpower.com

508-854-1191

508-885-6066

Harry Awiszio

Public Relations


508-853-5944


William Medeiros

Technical Activities

wmedeiros@babcockpower.com

508-854-3894

508-852-7548

Jack Nechay

Treasurer

nechayjm@ix.netcom.com

508-393-3571


Ward Holloway

Webmaster

Hollowayw1@asme.org

860-684-8659

860-684-3328

Loretta McHugh

Asst. Webmaster

lmchugh@hswoa.org

508-671-9356


Tony Linn

Newsletter Editor

ablinn@wpi.edu

508-791-2221



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Joint ASME-IEEE Meeting

The Design process for High Technology Products:
High Technology products make for exciting engineering. This discussion will address the Pratt&Whitney design process that enables the addition of new advanced technologies in to the product line of gas turbine engines. Details of the steps in the process and the checks and balances that allow it to work will be examined.

  May 2006

MAY MEETING: TOUR of
POLAR BEVERAGES,
1001 Southbridge St.,
Worcester
DATE: Tuesday, May 23

Polar Beverages, New England’s largest independent soft drink bottler, is a fourth-generation, family owned business that traces its roots back to 1882.
It started with the J.G. Bieberbach Company, importers of seltzer water and bottlers of ginger ale and mineral water in Worcester.

April 2006

Tour of Hyde Tools, 54 Eastford Rd., Southbridge

Established in 1857, Hyde Tools is into its second century of service to American industry and the home handyman. If it's made of wood, paper, plastic, leather or rubber, chances are that Hyde Blade is involved in making it.

March 2006

Plant Tour: Riverdale Mills,
130 Riverdale Street., Northbridge, MA

Riverdale Mills was founded in 1980 and manufactures weather and corrosion resistant wire mesh. Sixty percent of their production is for marine products, including lobster traps. Riverdale occupies approximately 300,000 sq.ft. in an early 1900's restored mill complex. They employ greater than 100. There is a dam with a restored (in-stream) water turbine which produces power for the automatic welders.

February 2006

Joint ASME - IEEE - SME
National Engineers Week Meeting
Feb. 21 at Higgins House, WPI

The future of American Engineering Panel Discussion with Presentations and Q/A following.

December 2005

  The company began as the Sprague Print Works in Cranston, RI in 1824. William Sprague pioneered the printing of cotton cloth an d      built his company into a textile empire. In the 1960’s the company expanded its scope to include merchandising also. Cranston Print Works, currently employee-owned through an ESOP, is organized into three operating groups: Cranston, Bercen Inc., and Cranston Trucking Company. Cranston Division’s manufacturing, distribution, supply chain and worldwide customer service operations are located in Webster.

November 2005

Tuesday November 15th  tour of Nypro Injection Molding. Nypro has been a leader in injection molding technology since its foundation in 1955. Nypro has over 1400 molding machines in eighteen countries, more than any other global molder. Nypro was founded around one injection molding machine in 1955. The original company name was Nylon Products Inc. and the company's original mission was to be the first molding company specifically dedicated to molding DuPont's then new miracle material, nylon.

October 2005
We will be touring Alden Laboratory in Holden. Alden’s specialties are in Air & Gas Flow Modeling, Environmental Studies, Flow Measurement and Mathematical Modeling. Alden’s Air & Gas Flow Modeling Group is a recognized leader in the physical and computational flow modeling of industrial, utility, and other process gas flow systems. Alden’s Environmental Group is widely recognized as being highly effective in resolving environmental issues associated with FERC and NPDES project licensing.

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