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).

Akira Tokuhiro, U of Idaho, The Post Fukushima World: Lessons Learned, Energy Resources and Security

Diversified Metal Products, Design parameters for efficient fabrication

Diversified Metal Products plant tour – tour of welding techniques and processes

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.

Les Anglais, Haiti Well Restoration Presentation

This winter the ASME Idaho section sponsored a trip for an engineer to travel to Les Anglais, Haiti. The purpose of the trip was to train locals to maintain their city’s water wells and provide spare parts for the wells.

On June 14th, the Idaho section of ASME will host an evening focused on that trip:

Where: Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, 300 S. Capital Ave., Idaho Falls

Itinerary:
6:00 to 7:00 p.m. - Social hour with heavy hors d'Oeuvres and a cash bar.
Attendees will be free to view the art museum's exhibits (http://www.theartmuseum.org/Exhibits.htm).
7:00 p.m. - Recipients of 2012 college scholarships from the ASME Idaho section will be recognized.
7:15 p.m. – Ben Baranko will present his report of the trip to Les Anglais and the success they had repairing a well and purifying their water storage.

There is no cost to attend this event, but seating is limited to 80 people

Please RSVP Joe Palmer (joe.palmer@inl.gov) by June 12th if you plan to attend.

The Idaho Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is hosting a workshop on when and how to invoke various codes and standards into the engineering process. Engineering assumptions and risk assessments must be carefully scrutinized to ensure the most effective path is being selected. There is usually some gray area where the engineering team has to decide which parts of a code to follow and which parts to take an exception to in their requirements documents.

This workshop is open to all interested parties and provides 8 PDH credits. For compelte information, visit our course information page.

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.

ISU School of Engineering would like to invite you to the:

Spring 2012 Senior Capstone Design Presentations

Wednesday, April 18th and Thursday, April 19th
6:00 – 9:00 pm
PSC 140 (Chemistry Bldg.)

For more information, contact Mary Hofle at hoflmary@coe.isu.edu

The Eastern Idaho Engineering Council is sponsoring the 2012 Southeast Idaho Engineers Week Banquet Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Clarion Inn in Pocatello as part of the celebration of National Engineers Week Feb. 19-25.

Dr. Joy Rempe, INL laboratory fellow, will present a keynote address on the topic "Revisiting Insights from Three Mile Island Unit 2 in View of the Events at Fukushima Daiichi."

The organization will recognize new professional engineers and present an award for outstanding engineer, along with door prizes. The celebration offers an opportunity to mingle with friends and colleagues in a setting away from the workplace.

Tickets for the event, which includes a menu choice of roast prime rib of beef, walnut-crusted salmon or vegetarian lasagna, are $30 if payment is received by noon on Monday, Feb. 20. The cost for full-time students or newly licensed PEs is $15 if received by noon on Feb. 20. Cost at the door is $35.

To make reservations, contact Gene Stuffle (208-317-1477, gene.stuffle@isu.edu) or view the council's website at EIECouncil.org before noon on Feb. 20, and indicate your dinner entrée choice and payment method.

Check the links below for more information about the program, making ticket reservations and the keynote address.

National Engineers Week Banquet: 02.14.12_EIEC.Banquet.pdf

Keynote speech: 02.14.12_Keynote.pdf

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Draft Report and Path Forward

The Idaho Chapter of NA-YGN welcomes JOHN KOTEK, Partner, Gallatin Public Affairs & Staff Director, Blue Ribbon Commission

Speaking on The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future
Draft Report and Path Forward

For full details, click to view event flyer.

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

The Old Guard Committee honors ASME members that have made great strides in the engineering profession, community and the work of the Society by sponsoring the Early Career Engineer Award. Celebrating 75 years of ASME service, the Old Guard Committee is proud to have provided this award and help young engineers transition from school to work.

To first be eligible, you must be a current ASME member and have earned a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering or MET between years February 1, 2006 - February 1, 2008.

A Grand Prize of $5000 will be awarded including ASME Membership dues paid for life (valued at $3000).

If you or someone you know would like to pursue this opportunity, reach out to a friend or colleague to and have them nominate you or nominate them - they just need to be an ASME member or Fellow. Learn more about this award and to get yourself nominated today.

All nominations must be received by Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Follow this link for a PDF file with all the details.

All Engineers Christmas Social

Join colleagues from local engineering societies for a Christmas Social event. Mingle with your engineering colleagues during this no-host social. Enjoy a creative Hors D’oeuvres table comprised of turkey, ham, smoked sausage, pastrami, sliced cheeses, rolls, condiments, chicken and beef skewers, petite meatballs, chilled shrimp, and Buffalo wings, Christmas music. This event is being sponsored by local chapters of ANS, ASCE, ASME, AIChE, IEEE, INCOSE, IAS, IWIN, AWS, ISA, ISPE, ACS, and TBP, and also sponsored by Basic American Foods, Idaho National Laboratory, Premier Technology, Inc., and Walker Engineering, P.C.

SPOUSES ARE DEFINITELY WELCOME

A benefit for ASME Idaho Chapter Hand Pumps for Haiti effort.

The event is a fundraiser to support our humanitarian efforts in Les Anglais, Haiti. The Idaho section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) endeavors to equip and train local plumbers to maintain the pumps that provide access to water wells in Les Anglais, Haiti. These actions would resolve issues with wells and pumps installed by aid agencies with good intentions during past relief efforts. Wells are drilled and pumps are installed, and then they are left to degenerate to a state of uselessness for lack of simple maintenance measures.

Location:
Diversified Metal Products
3710 North Yellowstone Highway
Idaho Falls, ID 83401

Date:
Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Time:
5:30 - 6:30 - Social hour with complimentary heavy hors d'ouerves and a cash bar
6:30 - Hand Pumps for Haiti presentation by Karen Moore

The event is free, but donations are encouraged.

Click for full event details.

Nominate an educator worthy of recognition as a leader in science/technology/engineering/mathematics education. Winners receive a $2000 cash prize and a trip to Washington, DC for the award ceremony. The person that nominates the selected educator also gets an expenses paid trip to the ceremony in Washington, DC.

The Engineer’s Week DiscoverE Educator Recognition Awards deadline is December 1!

This program is one of the “signature” projects of ASME’s year as lead society in Engineer’s Week 2012, aiming to recognize wonderful educators who make a difference by teaching engineering to young people through their grade 6-12 STEM classes, or their involvement in FIRST, Project Lead the Way, Future City, and other great programs.

If you know teachers who could be nominated, and if you, or a fellow ASME member or engineering student can nominate them, please encourage them to fill out the writable-pdf form on this link and apply.

This page describes the award criteria:
http://www.asme.org/events/engineers-week-2012/discover-e-educator-recognition-awards

The linked nomination form is also here:
http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Events/29889.pdf

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!

Les Anglais, Haiti Well Restoration Presentation

This spring the ASME Idaho section sponsored a trip for two mechanical engineers to travel to Les Anglais, Haiti. The purpose of the trip was to restore access to the well that provides fresh water to the village. The two engineers met with Les Anglais locals to teach them how to perform maintenance on the well's hand pumps and to establish a village water board to take responsibility for the hand pumps.

On June 16th, the Idaho section of ASME will host an evening focused on that trip:

Where: Art Museum of Eastern Idaho, 300 S. Capital Ave., Idaho Falls

Itinerary:
6:00 to 7:00 p.m. - Social hour with heavy hors d'Oeuvres and a cash bar. Attendees will be free to view the art museum's exhibits (http://www.theartmuseum.org/Exhibits.htm).
7:00 p.m. - Recipients of 2011 college scholarships from the ASME Idaho section will be recognized.
7:15 p.m. - Mark Slovak will present his report of the trip to Les Anglais and explain the problems with attempts to help the people in Haiti.


Seating is limited to 80 people at $10/person. Reserve your seat here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/179742

For questions or further information about the event, contact Karen Moore (karen.moore@inl.gov, 208-526-8852).

2011 WIN Region IV Conference
"It's the Climb" — Achieving Satisfaction in the Workplace

You are invited to attend the 2011 Women in Nuclear Region IV conference, co-sponsored by the Idaho section of ASME.

July 20 - 22nd, 2011

Shilo Inn
780 Lindsay Blvd
Idaho Falls, ID.

FOLLOW THIS LINK for complete information on this conference.

We hope to see you there!

Habitat for Humanity Build Day

The Idaho section of ASME has selected Saturday, June 4th, to join with other volunteers from the community to help with the latest Habitat for Humanity home.

The home is located at 3220 S. Romrell in Ammon.

The work day starts at 8am and volunteers are welcome to work for a few hours or for all day. The build supervisor needs to know how many people will be helping so please RSVP to Joe Palmer (joe.palmer@inl.gov) by June 1st if you would like to participate.

All participants must take the Habitat on-line safety training prior to their work day – go to this site http://www.idahofallshabitat.org/get_involved.html and follow the instructions under “Volunteer Safety Course”.

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!

The ASME Idaho Section is sponsoring Practical Welding Technology - PD359 on April 26th - 28th.

Anyone who has not had previous exposure to welding, but needs to understand its fundamentals, will benefit from the practical understanding of welding technology offered here.

This class includes a welding demonstration by Diversified Metal Products, something you won't find in any other version of this course.

Instructor: Albert J. Moore Jr., owner of Marion Testing & Inspection.

Please see our CLASS PAGE for all the details.

Idaho TECH is a wonderful educational science & engineering program that enables 4th, 5th and 6th grade student teams to design and construct motorized Mars Rover models from LEGO’s. Each team of 4-6 students test their Rover in one of three Preliminary Design Competitions, located in Idaho Falls, Meridian, or Moscow. It is an awesome program that’s really fun to be involved with!!

This is where you come in. Idaho TECH is not possible without wonderful volunteers like you that donate their time to help judge at each competition. I hope you want to be one of these wonderful volunteers at the Idaho Falls competition on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Did I mention that you would receive FREE pizza and beverages at the competition??

Here are the details --- during the competition, each team demonstrates their Rover’s capabilities on five different courses designed to measure speed, climbing skill, rock collection ability, and weight, as well as overall teamwork skills (“blind driving”). Each team also gives a poster presentation with a display that highlights the Engineering Design Process, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of their Rover. Finally, teams submit lab notebooks that document their experiences during the design process. We need your help to judge these seven events during the Idaho Falls Competition!!

I’m sure you are very eager to see these LEGO Rovers in action!! The judged events at the competition will last from 8:30am until approximately 4:00pm at Taylor’s Crossing Public Charter School in Idaho Falls, ID. If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out the volunteer form at your earliest convenience and email to idahoTECH@uidaho.edu. You will be able to indicate a preference for one or more of the seven events listed above on your form.

If you know anyone else who might be interested, please pass this request along. To sign up or for questions, please contact Angela Banks at angelaf@uidaho.edu, (208) 885-6438.

The ASME student section at BYU-I in Rexburg held the "D.I. Wars" design competition in March 2011 at an on campus swimming pool. The goal: Build a craft that can cross the pool. The constraint: Build it for $10 or less using parts scavenged from the local thrift store - the DI, aka Deseret Industries. The Idaho section of ASME provided refreshments for the event.

Early Career Engineers! Come join the ASME Idaho Section for lunch on Thursday, March 24th at the Hard Hat Grill in Idaho Falls. If you missed our last luncheon, here is a second chance to meet everybody. This will be a great opportunity to make new connections, meet local ASME leadership, listen to an interesting speaker, and get some free food!

Nathan Carlson will be speaking 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. This is sure to be a interesting presentation, so don't miss it. Bring plenty of business cards for networking!

Time: 11:30 am, Thursday, March 24, 2011

Location: (Updated Location)
Whitewater Grill
365 River Pky.
Idaho Falls, ID 83402
(MAP IT)

Cost: Free!

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

Update 4/5/2011: PowerPoint presentation from Nathan's presentation is available on the Early Career Engineers Lunch Seminar Series page

The Systems Engineering Technical Committee (SETC) of the American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics (AIAA) is sponsoring a webinar on March 26th, 2011:

”Systems Engineering: Process and Practice”

You may VIEW A PDF DETAILING THE WEBINAR.

ASME Members will be entitled to the AIAA member rate of $49
Students, Retired or Unemployed may attend at $33
Non-members pay $89

To sign up, FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION

We are due for our monthly business meeting next Tuesday, April 5, 7 a.m. at Smitty's. Agenda items include:

1. Practical Welding course update - Steve
2. Early Career Lunch Seminar series - Nathan
          a) Recap of March's event
          b) Planning for next month's event
3. Habitat for Humanity - Joe/Dave D.
          a) Tool donation
          b) Building day, Sat. April 16
4. Annual Awards banquet - Steve
5. Scholarship applications & deadline - Ken

Due to scheduling conflicts, the March business meeting will be held on the second Tuesday of the month.

Agenda will include:

1. LTC recap - Joe
2. BYU-I tour of MFC HFEF recap - Dave
3. Code class status - Steve
4. Young engineers lunch forum - Nathan
5. District D Leader ballot - Steve
6. Habitat for Humanity update - Joe/Dave

See you March 8th at 7AM at Smitty's!

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) in Haiti is looking for a mechanical engineer to help select a replacement pump for water wells in Les Anglais, Haiti.

The request from EWB:
I'm wondering if ASME will be in any condition to examine the possibility of doing some hand pump replacement for Les Anglais in 2011. The pumps are all starting to break down, perfectly timed with the cholera outbreak in the town when safe water is most needed. I'm still convinced these are the wrong pumps for the community because you can't do any basic maintenance on them without pulling them from the well, a feat requiring a big truck and heavy equipment, i.e. lots of money to repair stupid little things like connecting rods, bushings, and seals.

I'm not sure whether the right kind of hand pumps are readily available these days in Haiti, given there are many borehole programs as part of the cholera response, but it would be worth a look. I think it would just mean one ME spending some time on the internet to select candidate pumps (I can provide some background from earlier searches, or for that matter I can select if you don't have anyone from ASME interested) and then following up to get availability in Haiti.

For more information and to volunteer, contact Karen Moore (526-8852, karen.moore@inl.gov).

PDF of Electric Vehicle Presentation Available for Download

Follow THIS LINK for a PDF document of the slides from the November 15th presentation on Electric Vehicle Technology by Jim Francfort.

The date for the MATHCOUNTS Chapter competition is Saturday, Feb 26, 2011, in the morning and early afternoon. Are you able to help out this year? See the attached Information Sheet (click for Word doc) for additional info.

The competition will be at ISU in the Ballroom, which is on the main floor. Scoring will be in one of the rooms upstairs. The schedule is the same as last year and is on the attached data sheet. We have 15 schools competing this year with additional individuals. We will have over 130 Mathletes this year.

PLEASE RESPOND !!! If you will be (or just might be) able to help at the competition on February 26 at ISU, Pocatello, please let Richard Feuerborn know as soon as you can.

Competition: We will need a lot of scorers and exam proctors, as usual. If you would like to be assigned a particular task, let me know. Otherwise, I will be assigning tasks and will send out a proposed list in early February.

For more information and to volunteer contact:
Richard Feuerborn, P.E., S.E.
MATHCOUNTS Coordinator for Southeast Idaho Chapter
Office: 208-904-3170
rfeuerborn@gmail.com

When: Thursday, February 24, 2011 6:00PM

Where: O’Callahan’s Restaurant & Convention Center at the Shilo Inn
             780 Lindsay Blvd.; Idaho Falls, Idaho
             (Click here for a map.)

Details: All the details are in THIS PDF FILE (Click to open)

Nominations for ISU Outstanding Engineer are due February 15th, 2011

Use this PDF Nomination Form (Click to Open) to nominate an individual for the Idaho State University Outstanding Engineer Award.

Full rules for nominations are in this PDF file (Click to Open).

Nominations for 2011 Awards from the Idaho Academy of Science.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2011 Awards from the Idaho Academy of Science.

Up to three awards are presented each year. They are:

1. Distinguished Idaho Scientist / Engineer
2. Distinguished Idaho Science Communicator
3. Outstanding New Investigator Award The recipient of this award is invited to give a keynote lecture at the Academy's annual meeting and symposium.

Candidates do NOT need to be members of the Idaho Academy of Science; however a tie to Idaho is required, such as working in Idaho, attending an Idaho educational institution, or conducting research on an Idaho related topic. Guidelines for submitting nominations are available at the Academy's web site at http://www.isu.edu/ias/awardprogram.shtml.

The deadline for submitting nominations is February 1, 2011. The Awards will be presented at the Academy's Annual Meeting and Symposium that will be hosted by The College of Idaho in Caldwell, March 31 - April 2, 2011.

This is a good time to pay IAS membership dues for 2011. To pay by check via US Mail, go to http://www.isu.edu/ias/join.shtml and select Option 1 to download an optional enrollment/renewal form. Or, to pay by credit card, select Option 2 and follow the instructions from PayPal.

Also, December is a good time to make a tax-deductible contribution to the IAS or the IAS scholarship program. The IAS is recognized by the IRS as a non-profit educational organization as defined by IRS code section 501 (c)(3), meaning that contributions are tax-deductible. Receipts are provided for all contributions greater than $10 or paid in addition to regular membership dues.

We are due for our monthly business meeting - Tuesday, February 1, 7 a.m. at Smitty's.

Agenda items include:

1. Spring code course selection - Steve
2. Early career engineers lunch seminar - review first event and plan for next one - Nathan
3. LTC registration status - Joe, Ali
4. Other event ideas? - All
5. Student section tours/speakers - Dave

Nominate a Rising Star for the ASME Old Guard Early Career Award

Deadline: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
$5000 Cash up for Grabs!
Recognize an outstanding early career engineer that has made great strides in the engineering profession, community, and the work of ASME!

Click here for nomination details (Word doc)

Eligibility
Eligible applicants must be a current ASME member and have earned a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering or MET between years February 1, 2005 - February 1, 2007.

Prize
A Grand Prize of $5000 CASH will be awarded to one recipient, including a prepaid ASME membership (valued at $3000). Two Runner-Up Prizes of Prepaid Membership may also be awarded.

Learn more about the selection criteria and how to nominate an early career engineer today.

All nominations must be received by Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - Act Now!

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.

You are invited to attend the following event sponsored by the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers:

Codes, Standards and Building Permits – Lynn Transtrum, City of Pocatello Building Department

1.5 PDH's

When: Wednesday, January 19th, 7 pm
Where: 2nd floor of Portneuf Valley Brewing, 615 S 1st Ave., Pocatello.
You can get a meal prior to, or during, the meeting.

What Lynn's presentation will cover:

• When is a building permit required?
• What does it cost?
• What does the City expect in a submittal package?
• What is the City’s review criteria?
• What national codes and standards apply?
• Local codes, standards, and zoning – are there any?
• What if my submittal is rejected – what next?
• Is there an appeal process?

For questions/more information, contact Steve Walker of Walker Engineering (234-8005).

The Idaho section is offering a tour of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Computer Assisted Virtual Environment (CAVE).

Where: CAES building, room 211, 995 University Blvd., Idaho Falls
When: Wednesday, January 19, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

The tour is limited to 20 participants, so please RSVP to Ed Harvego (526-9544, edwin.harvego@inl.gov).

Some background information about the CAES CAVE: Research at Idaho National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies is taking on another dimension — the third dimension, to be precise. CAES is home to a new 3-D computer-assisted virtual environment — or CAVE — that allows researchers to literally walk into their data and examine it. Such a tool brings data to life, akin to being able to feed blueprints into a computer and then walk around the virtual house. CAES is the only facility in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming with a CAVE of this kind.

Since its installation, the CAVE has been used by scientists and engineers working on a variety of projects, including storing carbon dioxide underground, and by teams to train Advanced Test Reactor staff, orient subcontractors and consider new designs. Now, Hollywood movie studios aren’t the only ones embracing 3-D technology. With the CAVE’s Mechdyne Flex technology, researchers can see how a protein catalyst is organized or look over the nuts and bolts inside INL’s Advanced Test Reactor facility.

The four-paneled system uses rear projection to display computer graphics on three walls and the floor. By wearing stereo glasses to create depth perception and holding a “wand” to manipulate and control data, users can tour a building still under design, plot a new transmission route, open a valve or delve into the core of a nuclear reactor.

All Engineers Christmas Social

Date: Thursday, December 02, 2010

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Place: Shilo Inn Convention Center, 780 Lindsay Blvd., Idaho Falls

Menu: Hors D’oeuvres

Cost: FREE!!

RSVP: Respond by 5:00 PM, Wednesday, December 01, 2010,
Dave Koelsch: 524-4293, dckoelsch@hotmail.com

Abstract: Join colleagues from local engineering societies for a Christmas Social event. Mingle with your engineering colleagues during this no-host social. Enjoy a creative Hors D’oeuvres table comprised of turkey, ham, smoked sausage, pastrami, sliced cheeses, rolls, condiments, chicken and beef skewers, petite meatballs, chilled shrimp, and Buffalo wings. Christmas music. This event is being sponsored by local chapters of ANS, ASCE, ASME, AIChE, IEEE, INCOSE, IAS, IWIN, AWS, ISA, ISPE, ACS, and TBP, and also sponsored by Basic American Foods, Idaho National Laboratory, Premier Technology, Inc., and Walker Engineering, P.C.

December Monthly Meeting

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Time: 7:00 A.M.

Place: Smitty's, 645 West Broadway Street, Idaho Falls

Agenda items include:
1) Sharing our tax ID with EIEC for their application to the IRS to become a non-profit entity - Steve
2) Professional Development Day financial status - James, Steve
3) Delegates for LTC in March in Dallas, TX - ?
4) Section tour of CAES CAVE - Ed
5) Young engineers' lunchtime seminar series - Nathan
6) Would these meetings be easier on everyone if we did them over lunch? We no longer have a significant portion (any?) of the committee working out on the desert.

Join the Idaho section of ASME for a presentation on Electric Vehicle Technology. Pizza and soft drinks provided.

When: Monday, November 15, 6:15 - 8:00 p.m.

Where: Room TAB 350A (in the Tingey Administration bldg.), University Place, 1776 Science Center Drive, Idaho Falls.
The room is upstairs at the back of the building (overlooking the river).

Jim Francfort of the Idaho National Laboratory will present:
1) Test results, past and present, for electric vehicle (including HEVs, PHEVs, NEVs, and BEVs) technologies.
2) Provide a look forward at the upcoming deployment of 8,300 Nissan Leafs and GM Volts and 15,000 charging stations. The effort will be the largest grid connected vehicle and infrastructure deployment study ever undertaken in the world.

The Treasure Valley (Boise) section of ASME will be joining us for this presentation via the University of Idaho's compressed video system.

An RSVP to Joe Palmer (526-8700, joe.palmer@inl.gov) is not necessary, but would be appreciated so that we provide an appropriate amount of food and drink.

UPDATE 12/2/2010: PDF of Presentation Available Online. Follow THIS LINK for a PDF document of the slides from the presentation.

From ISU Engineering Advisory Council

ISU Engineering Advisory Council response to the Proposed Reorganization of the ISU College of Engineering.

The full response is available by clicking this link to the PDF of the memo

November Business Meeting Agenda

Monthly planning meeting at Smitty's. Tuesday, November 2, 7 a.m. at Smitty's.

Agenda items include:
1) Compressed video meeting w/ Boise section on 11/15.
2) CDs vs. Money market account for section funds
3) Young Engineers series - lunchtime presentations for projects various engineers are working on.
4) Tour ideas
5) Report on Telford pumpkin toss on 10/22
6) Report on ISU pumpkin chuck on 10/30
7) Report on BYU-I trailer design contest on 10/29
8) Report on BYU-I presentation by Dale Wahlquist and HR personnel on 10/28
9) Report on BYU-I tour of CAES CAVE on 10/7

Judge needed on 10/29 for BYU-I student design contest

BYU-Idaho mechanical engineering students are holding a design contest to be judged on Friday, 10/29 at 4 p.m. Judging will take place at BYU-I. The Idaho section of ASME is providing a $100 cash prize to the winning design team.

Last year, BYU-I students, in concert with Diversified Metal Products and the Idaho section of ASME, designed and built a trebuchet. The trebuchet has been demonstrated at various functions over the past couple of years. The design contest currently underway is to design a trailer from which the trebuchet can be accurately fired.

Two local ASME members have already volunteered to act as judges. We need at least one more judge. If you are interested, contact Steve Reese (reeses@asme.org, 526-0070), Dave Duncan (david.duncan@inl.gov, 526-8090), or Ali Siahpush (ali.siahpush@inl.gov, 526-8708) for more information.

October Business Meeting Agenda

Monthly planning meeting at Smitty's. Tuesday, October 5, 7 a.m. at Smitty's.

Some agenda items:
BYU-I trailer design contest judging - BYU-I attendee
Young engineer event - Nathan
Report on the trebuchet day in Salmon - Karen/Joe
E-Week 2012 report - Ed
Ride The Divide screening - Steve

September Business Meeting Date

The regular, monthly business meeting will be held the second Tuesday in September due to the holiday weekend. We will be meeting at Smitty's Restaurant at 7AM on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010.

ASME Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing Combo Course

LOCATION
Idaho Innovation Center, Conference Room 109
2300 N. Yellowstone Hwy., Ste. 100
Idaho Falls, ID 83401
(Click for Map)

DATES
Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This course is a combination of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing Fundamentals 1 and Geometric Tolerancing Advanced Applications.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Engineers, designers, drafters, quality, procurement, tooling, production, purchasing manufacturing, CAD, inspection and shop personnel.

Early registration deadline is July 23. Registration increases by $200 after this date. 11 registrants needed by this date to host the course. Final registration deadline is August 8. Twenty seats are available in the class.

INSTRUCTOR
Al Neumann is a senior partner in Technical Consultants Inc. He graduated from University of Florida in Mechanical Engineering. He specializes in geometric tolerancing and tolerance stack-up and analysis.

Al is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and is senior level ASME certified as a geometric tolerancing professional. He also represents the USA in the International Standards Organization, ISO TC10 committee. He regularly attends the USA, ASME Y14.5M subcommittee on dimensioning and tolerancing.

Al has presented many geometric tolerancing training programs to engineering, manufacturing, and quality personnel at major corporations in the USA and around the world. He is a major contributor to the Geometric Tolerancing Applications and Stacks workbook and the Geometric Tolerancing Stacks and Analysis workbook.

REGISTRATION
Follow link below to Acteva.com to register online:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=206208

COURSE OUTLINE FOR DAY 1 & 2
Follow link below for course outline in PDF format:
Geometric Tolerancing Fundamentals, PD570, outline.pdf

DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION
Follow link below for detailed course description in PDF format:
Detailed course description.pdf

"Creating the Next 100 Years With Engineering"

June 10 - 11, 2010
Holiday Inn, 3300 S Vista Avenue, Boise, ID

Earn 12.5 Professional Development Hours!

Something for ALL disciplines of engineers.

View the PDF flyer by clicking here.

To register, go to http://www.idahospe.org/2010_annual_meeting.htm

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