Early Career Delegates to the 2007 Leadership Training Conference

ASME Wants You To Become An ASME Leader!

ASME is looking for bright, energetic Early Career Engineers interested in volunteering their time for the Engineering Profession. Selected applicants will be funded* to attend the Leadership Training Conference March 2-4, 2007 at the Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel in Houston, Texas.

At the conference you will gain insight into ASME’s organization, activities, and resources, learn what it takes to lead or found an ASME unit, and network with more than 150 other ASME leaders.

To apply, email your application to EarlyCareerEngineers@asme.org with the subject: “Application for EC Delegate to LTC-07.” Applications should be in Word format, and should include your name, ASME membership number, daytime phone number, address, number of years since graduation, any ASME positions held, and an essay (500 words or less) on any one of the following topics:

- Why I Want To Become an ASME Leader.
- What should ASME be doing to better serve to the mechanical engineering profession?
- Is there an “engineering crisis?” If so, what should ASME be doing about it?
- Describe a program or activity ASME could sponsor to promote interaction between ASME Communities.

The application deadline is January 19th. If selected, you will be notified by January 31st.

For more information on the conference, go to http://www.asmeconferences.org/ltc07/ or visit the LTC community.

Please share this opportunity with your friends and colleagues!

*In accordance with ASME’s Volunteer Travel Policy, ASME will pay 100% of your travel costs and up to $100 per day for your hotel and per diem. The Wyndham is $94 per night plus tax. ASME asks that you pay a $75 registration fee to cover your meals while at the conference.

New Section Resources Site

Visit http://www.asme.org/Governance/Volunteer/Practices/ to check out this new site. It was developed over the last four months by a cross-sector project team and it went live just before SAM. Let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.

YEC Meeting at SAM 2006

Hi, everyone-
I don't know about you all, but I thought this SAM was the best meeting since the reorganization, maybe ever. I am finally starting to see the opportunities for cooperation, leveraging the strengths of the different parts of organization, etc., that the new structure promised to provide. At this point, these opportunities are limited in scope, but I think they'll continue to grow.
Our YEC meeting Saturday evening was a lot of fun. It was good seeing everyone who could make it, and I was grateful for a chance to talk about what we want to do this coming year. I'd like to see this discussion continue both here and on the CoP. Our group has a lot of visibility and a lot of pull within ASME right now. If you have ideas about things we should do, let me know.

ECEs Nominated as ASME VPs

Congratulations to Justin Young! He has been selected by the 2006 Nominating Committee as the VP, Affinity Communities Nominee for the term starting in June 2007!

In other Early Career Engineer news, Candice Bauer has been selected as the VP, Center for Professional Development, Practice, and Ethics (CPDPE). It's great to see two amazingly-qualified early career engineers with these important leadership roles in ASME! The complete list of nominees is below.

For more information, visit http://www.asme.org/Governance/Nominating/Selections_By_2006_Nominating.cfm.

Selections By The 2006 Nominating Committee Of Nominees For Society Office
Terms Beginning In June 2007

PRESIDENT
Sam Y. Zamrik

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE, BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Frank C. Adamek
Donald R. Frikken
Mark W. Goldsmith

VICE PRESIDENTS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICE & ETHICS
Candice Bauer

PUBLIC AWARENESS
Vincent Wilczynski

STANDARDIZATION & TESTING
Joseph W. Milton

AFFINITY COMMUNITIES
Justin R. Young

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
Larry Kielasa

Raytheon Head Plagiarizes ASME Publication

I'm not sure who's seen one of the original articles published in the NY Times, Time Magazine, etc., but here's an interesting follow up to that article: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/05/19/1656394.htm. It's amazing how low the ethical standards have fallen in the U.S. College students across the U.S. can commit plagiarism and be kicked out of the class (with a failing grade) or possibly kicked out of the university. The CEO of a large aerospace company in the U.S. has committed plagiarism for years, and he's given a paycut. The standards seem a little off here, but who am I to judge.

Check out the article - it's defintely interesting reading. And go ASME - we got free national publicity and that can't be a bad thing since ASME didn't do anything untoward!