January 2012 Issue
Gearing Up for
E-Week: ASME Provides Turnkey Tools for Engineers Working With Teachers
ASME and EWB have some new tools to help you connect with local area teachers and pre-college students to generate some excitement about the engineering profession.
Watch Intro Video Clip
(This video clip provides a brief overview of what some groups of young engineers under the age of 35 have initiated through three specific EWB projects.)
Finding new ways to illustrate and convince young people that engineering is cool and can be a fulfilling career/profession will allow us to impact and attract a larger pool of individuals from an array of diverse backgrounds including women and underrepresented minorities to the profession. Simply talking about the importance of math and science has limited effect with today's generation. Research shows us that the best way to reach them is to involve them in something that matters to them. EWB projects that provide engineering solutions to community problems model an exciting way for engineers to introduce different engineering concepts, like developments in Humanitarian Engineering. This can spark informative conversations with teachers and pre-college students.
Check out the series of videos that act as companion pieces to classroom activities based on 3 different EWB projects – and use them in your local outreach programs
Features
Pursuing a Manufacturing Career
Managing Transition
Ritesh Lakhkar, Senior Development Engineer, Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY) talks about his career in manufacturing and how he coped with continuous change in his life; moving to the Americas from India; pursing an advanced education and his diverse background working in two different manufacturing environments.
Podcast: Managing Energy and
Water for a Sustainable Future
In an interview recorded live at ASME‚ 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress, keynote panelist Mike Hightower, discusses how energy and water share an important interdependence and recommends strategies for managing energy and water for a sustainable future.
Podcast: Advances in
Nanostructures for Energy
Production
Plenary speaker at ASME's 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and MIT professor Gang Chen discusses emerging technologies related to nanostructures for energy production.
The Africa Strategy
by Strategic Issues Committee
(October 2011)
The perception of Africa as a poor place to invest is changing rapidly as global companies are developing new strategies to access over a billion potential consumers. Increased development spurred by local and international investment is creating a virtuous circle of growth and prosperity similar to the emergence of China, India and the tigers of East Asia. Africa, like those whom industrialized before, will need to dramatically increase spending on energy, water and transportation infrastructure to maintain its rapid growth.
ASME Turbo Expo: Young
Engineer Travel Award
Application Deadline: March 1, 2012
Copenhagen, Denmark
This monetary award is for young engineers at companies, in government service, or engineering undergraduate or graduate students in the gas turbine or related fields to obtain travel funding to attend Turbo Expo to present a paper of which they have authored or co-authored. The purpose is to provide travel funding to those who cannot attend the conference without this assistance.
Turbomachinery Training
Courses
June 9-10, 2012, Bella Center Copenhagen, Denmark
The courses will include:
Technology & Applications of Turbine Coatings
Gas Turbine Failure Analysis
Introduction to Optimization Methods and Tools for Multi-disciplinary Design in Turbomachinery
Advances in Turbines Aero-thermo-mechanical Design & Analysis
Gas Turbine Rotor Life Management
A Primer on CHP Technologies
Basic Gas Turbine Metallurgy and Repair Technology
Networking Reception for Students & Young Engineers at Turbo Conference
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Copenhagen, Denmark
Featuring the top experts and leading companies in the field of turbomachinery, there is no better place for young engineers to be than Turbo Expo!