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ChairmanI. [email protected]
Vice-ChairmanRattan [email protected]
TreasurerCharles [email protected]
Executive AdvisorGurmukh D.
[email protected]
MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
In our first newsletter for 2007, may I wish you all ahappy and
prosperous New Year! We congratulate ourvice-chair, Rattan Tawney,
who was elected to fellowgrade last year. The executive committee
is grateful toall our members who volunteered their time and
effortto bring about our programs in the past year or other-wise
supported these programs by their participationand attendance. We
are hopeful for your continued sup-port this year. We welcome your
feedback on these pro-grams; advise on our plans, and suggestions
on andactive involvement in our future activities. Our goalremains
to return significant value, at the local level, forour
membership.
Two February EventsFeatured in this newsletter are two events
for February2007. We are pleased to announce that our
popularEmbassy Dinner Meeting for this program year wouldbe at the
Venezuelan Embassy on the 15th of the Month.Venezuela, which has
been in the news lately, is a coun-try of rich and deep cultural
heritage that has extensivetrade and technical relationships with
the US, butintriguing personal or political relations at the
highestlevels. We expect a large turn out as usual so do notdelay
in securing your reservation for this meeting!Our other program for
February is equally exciting: adisplay by our section at the
National Building Museumin Washington, DC, on Family Day -
Saturday, Febru-ary 17, 2007 - as part of the Engineers Week
celebra-tions. We hope you have planned to visit the museumwith
your family and partake of the many activities on
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ASME DC Embassy Dinner - Feb. 15, 2007
An Evening at the VenezuelanEmbassy
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2007Time: 7:00 pmLocation:
Venezuelan Embassy
Bolivarian Hall2443 Massachusetts Ave. NWWashington, DC.
Cost: $25 per personRSVP: by February 13, to the ASME Washington
SectionExecutive Secretary, Andrea Gironda at (703) 489-9503 orvia
e-mail at [email protected].
Menu: Venezuelan dishes, house salad, Venezuelan snacks,cold
dishes and desert. There will be open bar of whisky,red and white
wine, Rum and soft drinks.
Program:7:00 p.m. Open Bar7:15 p.m. Welcoming words by the
Ambassador7:30 p.m. Presentation by Embassy's Counselors for
Econ-omy, Petroleum, and Culture.8:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner
SecretaryMohsen [email protected]
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this day, and we invite you to stop by the ASMEWashington DC
stand. The section still wel-comes gifts of small but useful items
such aspens, key chains, magnets, calendars, glossybrochures and
fact sheets, etc., which can behanded out to visitors to our
display. These give-aways could spot your organization‘s logo
orother identification.
Balance of Program YearOur plan for the balance of the program
yearincludes support of regional science and engi-neering fairs in
the Metropolitan WashingtonDC Area during the March - May period
(wewelcome volunteers who would serve as ourspecial awards judges);
our annual ASMEWashington Fellows dinner meeting; a StudentAwards
dinner meeting at which some of thescience fair winners, our
sponsors, and recipi-ents of our Washington DC Section
ASMEScholarships would be recognized (more indus-try and other
sponsors are sought for theseawards and the dinner); and a
family-orientedevent. We especially want this last activity to
bespouse and family friendly and entertaining, andwelcome your
suggestions. Indeed I would liketo set up a special committee to
plan and realizethis event and urge any of our interested mem-bers
out there to get in touch with me. We con-tinue to review and
explore opportunities for aprofessional development event. Please
keep thesuggestions and ideas coming.
Cheers,
Iheanyi Eronini
Call for Nominations: 2007 Old GuardEarly Career Engineer
Award
Recognize an outstanding early career engineeractively involved
in their profession, their com-munities, and the work of the
Society. SubmitNominations Today!
Visithttp://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Communities/EarlyCareer/8026.pdf
for more details. The dead-line for all nominations is March 1,
2007.
ASMEWants You To Become An ASME Leader!
ASME is looking for bright, energetic Early Career Engineers
inter-ested in volunteering their time for the engineering
profession.Selected applicants will be funded* to attend the
Leadership Train-ing Conference from March 2-4, 2007 at the Wyndham
GreenspointHotel in Houston, Texas.
At the conference, gain insight into ASME‘s organization,
activities,and resources, learn what it takes to lead or start an
ASME unit, andnetwork with more than 150 other ASME leaders.
To apply, email your application [email protected]
with the subject: “Application forEC Delegate to LTC-07.” The
application deadline is Jan. 19. Ifselected, you will be notified
by Jan. 31.
For more information on the conference, go
tohttp://www.asmeconferences.org/ltc07/
*In accordance with ASME’s Volunteer Travel Policy, ASME will
pay 100% ofyour travel costs and up to $100 per day for your hotel
and per diem. TheWyndham is $94 per night plus tax. ASME asks that
you pay a $75 registrationfee to cover your meals while at the
conference.
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