Early Career Engineers! The Idaho section of ASME is launching a lunchtime seminar series to provide learning and networking opportunities to newer entrants into the engineering work force. Approximately monthly we will gather for lunch and a presentation from one of your colleagues or perhaps a short training seminar of interest. This series will be a great opportunity to make new connections with other early career engineers, meet local ASME leadership, listen to an interesting speaker, and get some free food!

If you're an Early Career Engineer, please come and join us at the ASME section luncheon on Th. April 18th, at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will be held at the Whitewater Grille, 355 River Parkway, in Idaho Falls.

Our speakers are BYU-ID students. Their presentation will focus on "A sounding rocket was designed and manufactured for an intercollegiate competition. The goal is for the rocket to achieve exactly 10,000ft above ground level with a 10lb payload and be recovered in operable condition. The competition awards are given based on a point system with more points being earned for student designs as opposed to commercially bought components. The students were divided into four teams; propulsion, structure, recovery, and outreach. Each team was required to design their systems individually. All systems were integrated together upon completion. The structure team used aluminum, wood, plastic, and cardboard to create the body and compartments for each component. The propulsion team created an aluminum motor casing and casting methods for the ammonium perchlorate/aluminum powder fuel. The recovery team designed a two stage system employing a smaller drag chute and a larger main chute. The outreach team created a program to bring to local schools, teach them about science and get them excited about engineering. Students from freshman to seniors collaborated to remain in budget and on time for competition. Final results of test launches are still pending."

If you are not an early career engineer, then you are welcome to attend the luncheon but you need to pay for your own lunch. Please RSVP by Tu., April 16th (send an E-mail to Ali Siahpush siahpush.ali@gmail.com).

If you're an Early Career Engineer, please come and join us at the ASME Section luncheon on Wed. Aug. 22nd at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will be held at the Whitewater Grille (355 River Parkway, Idaho Falls, ID, 208-523-3355) in Idaho Falls. We have a great speaker! Anthony Crawford is our speaker. His talk will focus on the "Haptics basics for virtual interaction and teleoperation".

Summary: A review of the two predominant types of haptic user interfaces and the multiple methods for controlling such devices. Issues associated with implementing these devices in virtual environments and teleoperation scenarios will also be presented.

If you are not an Early Career Engineer, or ASME member, you are welcomed to join us, but you need to pay for your lunch.

Please RSVP (by Monday, Aug. 20th) to Ali Siahpush at ali.siahpush@inl.gov.

If you're an Early Career Engineer, please come join the ASME Section for lunch on Thursday, April 26th at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will be held at the Whitewater Grille in Idaho Falls. We have a great speaker!

Mr. Benjamin Baranko is our speaker. His talk will focus on the pump project at Haiti.

If you were unable to attend our other luncheons, hopefully you can make it this time. We have a few new members that we hope to see there as well.

Location:
Whitewater Grill
355 River Parkway
Idaho Falls, ID
208-523-3355

If you are not an Early Career Engineer, then you are welcomed to go but you need to pay for the lunch.

Please RSVP (by Tu. April 24th) to Ali Siahpush at ali.siahpush@inl.gov.

Topic of the presentation:
The presentation will address the December 2011 follow-up trip for the ASME Handpumps for Haiti project. This effort has allowed the town of Les Anglais to become self-sufficient in the maintenance of their handpump operated wells, which are the only clean water source for the town due to damage to other water systems from the most recent severe hurricane. Other examples of where engineering projects can provide a direct impact on quality of life in Haiti at the grassroots level will be discussed as well.

If you're an Early Career Engineer, please come join the ASME Section for lunch on Thursday, Feb. 9th at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon will be held at the Whitewater Grille in Idaho Falls. We have a great speaker!

Maziar Rostamian (UI Ph. D. candidate) is our speaker. His talk will focus on the computational modeling and simulation of graphite moderators in frictional contacts as anticipated in a pebble bed reactor.
For a more detailed write-up on the talk, click to view PDF.

If you were unable to attend our other luncheons, hopefully you can make it this time. We have a few new members that we hope to see there as well.

Location:
Whitewater Grill
355 River Parkway
Idaho Falls, ID
208-523-3355

If you are not an Early Career Engineer, then you are welcomed to go but you need to pay for the lunch.

Please RSVP (by Tu. Feb. 7th) to Ali Siahpush at ali.siahpush@inl.gov

If you're an Early Career Engineer, please come join the ASME Section for lunch on Thursday, October 27th at Noon. The luncheon will be held at the Whitewater Grille in Idaho Falls. We have a great speaker!

Dr. Piyush Sabharwall is our speaker. His talk will focus on Advanced High Temperature Reactors (AHTR) and mainly focus on INL’s work for the development of AHTR. For a more detailed writeup on the talk, click for PDF abstract.

If you were unable to attend our other luncheons, hopefully you can make it this time. We have a few new members that we hope to see there as well.

Location:
Whitewater Grill
355 River Parkway
Idaho Falls, ID
208-523-3355

If you are not an Early Career Engineer, then you are welcomed to go but you need to pay for the lunch.

Please RSVP to Ali Siahpush at ali.siahpush@inl.gov.

We Hope to see you there!

ASME Luncheon for Early Career Engineers - August 4, 2011

Come join the ASME Section for lunch on Thursday, August 4th. The luncheon will be held at Stockman's Restaurant in Idaho Falls. We have a great speaker!

Gannon Johnson will be presenting his thesis on an NEUP grant titled "Experimental Study and Computational Simulations of Key Pebble Bed Thermo-Mechanics for Design and Safety." It is sure to be a excellent presentation.

If you were unable to attend May's luncheon, hopefully you can make it this time. We have a few new members that we hope to see there as well.

Location:
Stockman's Restaurant
1175 Pier View Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83401
208-552-6500
The Restaurant is located where the Hard Hat Grille used to be.
CLICK FOR MAP

Please RSVP to Nikki Gorniak at nikkig@diversifiedmetal.com

We Hope to see you there!

Early Career Engineers!

Come join the ASME Idaho Section for lunch on Thursday, May 19th at 11:30AM. The luncheon will be at Stockman's Restaurant in Idaho Falls and we have a great speaker!

Akira Tokuhiro will be speaking on Technical Lessons Learned following the Post-Quake, Post-Tsunami, Fukushima Dai-ichi, Units 1-6, Nuclear Power Plant Accident. It is sure to be an excellent presentation. CLICK THIS LINK for an Abstract of the presentation and Professor Tokuhiro's bio.

We had several people that were unable to attend March's luncheon, so hopefully you can make it this time. We have a few new ASME members that we hope to see there as well.

Send this message to any Early Career Engineers that may be interested.

Stockman's Restaurant
1175 Pier View Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
208-552-6500
The restaurant is located where the Hard Hat Grille used to be. CLICK FOR MAP

Please RSVP to Nikki Gorniak at nikkig@diversifiedmetal.com

We hope to see you there!

Nathan Carlson spoke at the Whitewater Grill about the Sodium Separation System at the INL. This system evaporates solidified sodium from fuel and experiments. The system will run at 650 deg. C and 1 micron of vacuum, which creates difficult design problems for mating the furnace up to a glovebox in a nuclear facility.

PowerPoint presentation with links to drawings is available by clicking or right clicking link below:
PowerPoint: FMF Sodium Separation Project — ASME Presentation

The Powerpoint contains links to the individual PDF's used as supporting documents... here are separate links to each PDF if needed:
29195_assembly-xsec.pdf
Bellows_-_Sheet 2.pdf
Bellows_-_Sheet1.pdf
D45-0592_conceptual_2-17-11.pdf
D89-0101.pdf
flange_concepts_2-24-111.pdf
Presentation-1.pdf
Presentation-2.pdf

Come join the ASME Idaho section for lunch on Thursday, January 27th at the Hard Hat Grill in Idaho Falls. This will be a great opportunity to make new connections with other early career engineers, meet local ASME leadership, listen to an interesting speaker, and get some free food!

Our speaker will be Adam Robinson from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Adam is an early career engineer working as a nuclear engineer in the Fuel Performance and Design department at the INL. Adam will talk about some of his amazing work in the hot cells of the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF) and tell us what's next for his group. It is sure to be interesting and informative!

Bring plenty of business cards for networking!

Time: 11:30 am, Thursday, January 27, 2011

Location:
Hard Hat Steakhouse & Grill
1175 Pier View Drive
Idaho Falls, ID 83402

Cost: Free!

Please RSVP to Nathan McMasters at nathanm@diversifiedmetal.com.

Update 2/3/2011: PowerPoint presentation from first event is available by clicking link below (recommend right click and saving on your hard drive as the file is ~11.6MB):
PowerPoint: Designing For Post Irradiation Examinations