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Welcome to
the December 2011 edition of the e-Technicalendar! This
newsletter of the Engineers' Society of Western PA (ESWP) presents
important information about the current events and member
activities of the ESWP and our Affiliated Technical Societies.
Please take a moment to view this issue and learn more about the
great continuing education and business networking opportunities
available at ESWP!
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Members Holiday
Buffet
Friday, December
16, 2011
It's
a 'party of parties'
11:30am
- 1:30pm
$21.95
per person++ Cash Bar
The ESWP Holiday
Luncheon is a seasonal tradition that many members look forward to all
year long. It's a great place to bring your small party to our big
party! Members bring clients, associates, support staff, friends and
family. Why not make the ESWP Annual Holiday Luncheon a part of your
seasonal tradition? Enjoy great food, live entertainment and
camaraderie...mingle with old friends and make ones. Reservations are
required, and can be made by contacting Michael Gaetano at m.gaetano@eswp.com
Enjoy Jack
Nicolette on piano, and a sumptuous buffet prepared by Chef Kevin
Lynch. Our menu:
·
Fresh Fruit Display
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Shrimp & Bacon Caesar Salad
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Pasta Primavera Salad
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Spinach Artichoke Spread with
Pita
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Fresh Vegetable Medley
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Redskin Potatoes
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Cajun Rice
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Chicken Cambazola
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Pork Cutlet with Dijon and
Mandarin Orange
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Stuffed Cabbage with Tomato Cream
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Cavatappi
with Artichoke
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Angus Chuck Stroganoff
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Salmon Cakes
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Served Homemade Dessert
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Coffee & Tea
We hope to
see you there! Don't delay - make your reservations now!
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2012 Annual
Banquet
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
David
Lawrence Convention Center
Reservations
are now Open!
Make your reservation
now and join us at the 2012 ESWP Engineering Awards Banquet. This
popular event, held annually during National Engineers Week, is a
gathering of the regional engineering community. It's a great place to
renew old acquaintances and make new friends! We will return to the
David Lawrence Convention Center for the 2012 event. In addition to a
great evening of fellowship, ESWP will present our "Annual Awards
of Distinction" for the 'Engineer of the Year'
and the 'Project of the Year.' The event is highlighted
with the presentation of the Metcalf Award - presented to Mr. Bernie Fedak, and our featured Guest Speaker,
Astronaut Catherine Coleman. Make your reservation now by
clicking here!
2012
William Metcalf Award
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Bernie
Fedak
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We are pleased
to recognize Mr. Bernie Fedak as the
recipient of ESWP's oldest and most prestigious award, the Metcalf
Award.
William Metcalf
was the first president of the ESWP, serving terms in 1880 and 1881. In
his honor, the William Metcalf Award was first presented in 1963.
According to the ESWP bylaws, "the Metcalf Awardee shall be an
outstanding engineer who is a resident of the United States and whose
field of engineering accomplishment relates to those fields normally
associated with Western Pennsylvania". The selection committee for
the Award feels strongly that Mr. Fedak
fits these requirements.
Mr. Fedak has more than 40 years
service in the steel industry with Jones & Laughlin, LTV and
US Steel and Aker Construction. He is currently a Project Executive
with Aker Kvaerner on a $1.4B coal fired power plant being built in
West Virginia.
Mr. Fedak served on the Executive Board of the Construction
Industry Institute (CII) from 1997 thru 2001. He was awarded the CII
practice "Implementer of the Year" award in 2002. He is a
life member of AIST and served as President in 1996. He has been a
member of the University of Pittsburgh, Mechanical Engineering Visiting
Committee for over 15 years, chaired the committee from 1997 thru 2001
and was the "Distinguished Alumnus" awardee in 1995.
"Bernie" served on the ESWP Board as President in 1997
and 1998. He has been involved in numerous charitable activities
including: Boy scouts of America, United Fund and the University of
Pittsburgh Capital campaign.
2012
Keynote Speaker
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Catherine
Coleman
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NASA Astronaut
Catherine "Cady" Coleman has been confirmed as the
Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Annual Engineering Awards Banquet.
Dr. Coleman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
has a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts in polymer science
and engineering. She was selected as an astronaut candidate in March
1992. She has completed three missions in space for NASA, and recently
completed a 159-day tour aboard the International Space Station. You
can view Dr. Coleman's official biography on the NASA website, located here.
With more
than 700 attendees, the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania
(ESWP) Annual Engineering Awards Banquet is sure to be the premier
networking event for the technical community in this region. Our 128th
Banquet, scheduled for February 22, 2012 is poised to uphold the highly
valued networking, and also advance ESWP's primary mission: engineering
education.
SAVE THE DATE
now to be sure that you don't miss this event!
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Project &
Engineer of the Year
Nominations
Open until 12/31/11
In
conjunction with our National Engineers Week program, it is our goal
each year to recognize an exemplary engineer and an outstanding project
from the Western Pennsylvania region. To that end, a Special Awards
Committee has been established within the ESWP elected Board of
Directors and will make selections based upon the criteria as listed
below, and included on the nomination forms. Awards will be presented
in a ceremony during the ESWP Annual Banquet on Wednesday February 22,
2012. The attention that these awards will bring will highlight the
important contributions engineers make to our society. It is the hope
that these awards will represent a meaningful impetus in attracting the
best minds to the field and encouraging those in the field to excel at
their work.
Nominations for
the annual Awards of Distinction are now open! You can download the
nomination forms by
clicking on this link.
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ESWP Program Committee
Events...
Local
Government Agencies Capital Campaign and Procurement Process
Tuesday,
January 10, 2012
If you liked
the recent University Capital Expenditure/Procurement Panel, you'll love
this panel on Local Government Agency Capital Projects and Procurement
Process. Hear from representatives of numerous local and county
governmental agencies about their upcoming plans for capital
improvements and how to do business with them. Included to
date:
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City of Pittsburgh Engineering
Department-Pat Hassett
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Allegheny County DPW-Bernie Rossman
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ALCOSAN-Dave Borneman
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Allegheny County Economic
Development-John Earley
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Allegheny County Airport
Authority (invited)
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PWSA (invited).
Event is held
at ESWP; 8:00 a.m. arrival & continental breakfast; 8:30 panelists
begin sequential presentations. Cost: $30 Members; $40 non-members
(Full time government employees: half price). Panelists have approx. 20
minutes per presentation, with an end time planned for 11:00 AM for the
session.
Advance
reservations are required, and can be made by emailing Dave Teorsky at d.teorsky@eswp.com
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 International
Water Conference® Recap
The 2011 IWC was
held
November 13-17,
2011 at the
Hilton Hotel in
Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, FL. More than 650 attendees took
part in this year's conference. This year, the conference featured
more than 70 technical papers, many of which were "standing room only."
In addition the IWC Exhibit Hall showcased more than 70 exhibits and
played host to the luncheons and receptions throughout the conference.
Even though we just finished the 2011 IWC, we are
already underway with plans for the 2012 conference. The Call
for Papers is officially open, and exhibit renewals are
underway. Check the IWC
website! Mark your calendar now to save the date for the
73rd International Water Conference®. The 2012 IWC returns to San
Antonio, TX over November 4-8.
The IWC is the premiere technical conference for
industrial water and wastewater professionals. Now, in it's 73rd year, the IWC
attracts more than 600 attendees from more than 37 U.S. states,
and 20 countries. To learn more about the IWC, visit our home page.
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 International
Bridge Conference® News
Technical Program
We received a record number of abstracts that
have been reviewed by the IBC Technical Program Committee, and the
program will be announced in January. With the quality and
diversity of these submittals, they are sure to develop an
outstanding technical program for the 29th Annual IBC. Don't miss out
of this opportunity to be part of what promises to be the best and
biggest IBC ever!
IBC
Awards Nominations
Nominations are
now being accepted for the IBC Awards. A detailed listing of
the six differents IBC awards, along
with nomination forms, can be found here: http://www.eswp.com/bridge/awards.htm
Featured
Agency
In 2012, we are
pleased to return to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in
Pittsburgh, PA, and especially pleased
to welcome Missouri
as the 2012 "Featured State". You can learn more
about the bridge program of Missouri by clicking on this link.
Exhibit Hall Sales are Open!
There are other ways to participate in the IBC. New
Exhibit Booth sales for the 2012 IBC are now open! If you haven't
exhibited at the IBC previously, this is a great opportunity to
reserve a booth at the world's premiere design engineering and
construction conference for the international bridge community. Put
your firm in front of more than 1,500 attendees from across the country
and around the world. Past IBC's have been 'sold out', but with the
enlarged exhibit space at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, we
now have the increased space to accommodate more (and larger) displays.
To see available booth locations, and learn more about pricing, click here.
More than
anything, the IBC is the place to be for bridge practitioners from the
world over...it's a
World of bridges in the City of bridges!
For 28 years the
IBC has been the pre-eminent arena for the bridge industry in North
& South America, Europe and Asia. The IBC regularly attracts over
1,500 bridge owners and engineers, senior policy makers, government
officials, bridge designers, construction executives, and suppliers
from throughout the US and abroad (IBC 2011 participants came from 46
states and 20 countries). If you have information on the practice of
bridge engineering, design, construction, maintenance that is
well-suited to a large and knowledgeable audience, the IBC is the best
forum for your presentation.
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ESWP
Membership Information
The ESWP Board
is pleased to announce that dues remain unchanged from 2011. Annual
dues for 2012 were mailed to all members at the beginning of December, 2011.
Dues are payable upon receipt.
Special
note to Corporate Members: In addition to the dues invoice, a roster
containing the names of individuals currently listed on your membership
roster was mailed. This is a good time to review the names currently
listed and make any updates or additions. Please make any edits on this
roster and return it to the ESWP office.
- Martin C. Sedkko,
Regular,
T3 Global Strategies
- Keith Straight, Regular¸T3
Global Strategies
- Korey Hang, Student,
Carnegie Mellon
- Merek Roman,
Under 35
Regular, Baker Hughes
- Lenna C.
Hawkins, Regular,
USACE
- Jay
Sabo, Corporate
Regular, AECOM
- Matt Castigilia, Corporate
Regular, AECOM
- Robert Gallaghar,
Regular,
Applied Health Physics, Inc.
- Ben Means, U-35 Corporate Regular, Aquatech International
- Ryan Honhart, U-35 Corporate Regular,
Aquatech International
Harken
Reider, Inc. Bronze Level Corporate Firm
- Ken
Crawford, P.E.
- Michael
Sobel
- Harry
Ward, P.E.
- Reiko
Lewis
Other
Member News...
At a recent meeting of the ESWP Board of
Directors, the following applicants were approved for membership. We
are pleased to welcome the following:
ESWP offers three new ways to encourage
membership!
1.
The "Government Employee" rate
offers reduced dues rate by 50%. Regular Individual Members from
the government sector pay only $115.00 for annual dues.
2.
The "Under 35" rate
offers young engineers a chance to join ESWP for only $25.00 for annual
dues.
3.
The "Under 35 Corporate
add-on" program gives all Corporate Member firms the ability to
include two "Under 35" members at no cost to their
roster. This means that Bronze Level Firms, who have 5 members on thier rosters may add two
additional members at no additional cost.
More than 75 Firms are currently represented under
the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania (ESWP) Corporate Member
program. Corporate Memberships in ESWP are available in 3 levels: Gold,
Silver and Bronze. Gold members are entitled to 14 individuals, Silver,
9; and Bronze, 5. Annual dues are $2400, $1700, and $1000 respectively.
More information can be found at eswp.com. Please
contact the ESWP Office for additional details.
Membership in
ESWP offers full privileges in the Pittsburgh Engineers' Building and
Members Dining Room, member discounts of events and programs,
subscription to the Pittsburgh ENGINEER Magazine, and e-Technicalendar, and the opportunity to participate
in the many events and activities planned for members.
Club services
are open daily for lunch services! We are ready to serve you Monday
through Friday from 11:30am-1:30pm. We offer a great menu at affordable
prices, served in a comfortable setting. Reservations are not required,
but appreciated. So, the next time you are in town, make it a point to
dine at the Engineers' Building. We appreciate your support!
To ensure that
you are receiving all important news from ESWP, please report any
address changes or updates to your contact information to the
ESWP Office; this will help make certain that you receive all
Society news, updates and announcements. For more information,
please click on the Quicklinks, or phone the
ESWP office at 412-261-0710.
ESWP is a
member organization that benefits greatly from the efforts of our
membership. Members are active in a number of ways, including attending
events and programs, and volunteering on our many different committees.
If you are interested in becoming more active on any of the committees
organized through ESWP, please contact the ESWP office. We are
currently looking for interested volunteers on Membership, Affiliated
Technical Society, Career Awareness and Publications Committees and our
Board of Directors. The time requirements are minimal and easily
managed, and it is a great way to contribute to the mission of the
ESWP.
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ESWP Student
Outreach Programs
Design
Lives Here 2012 kicks off!
We are off and
running with the third year of our Design
Lives Here student program. Conducted in partnership
with WQED Multi-media, Design
Lives Here is based upon the PBS television show, Design Squad. In
our local program, middle school students perform hands-on learning
through structured kits that arrive in their classroom with a complete
list of materials.
To learn more
about this exciting program, visit
our website, to see video coverage of the 2011 year-end
challenge event.
We are
currently seeking mentors to introduce the engineering
profession into the classroom. Only 1 visit is required!If you are interested in volunteering,
please e-mail Alyia Smith-Parker, ESWP's student outreach
coordinator.
If you would
like to volunteer for any of our student outreach programs, please
email Alyia Smith-Parker, ESWP's student outreach coordinator.
To keep abreast of the latest news on ESWP's Student Outreach
activities, please visit our homepage.
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