Date & Time: 6:00 PM, November 2, 2010
Location: Lehigh University, Packard Lab Room 324
AGENDA
Called to order at 6:10 pm
Attendees:
Don Talhelm, IEEE
Ben Guthrie, ASCE
Keith Gardiner, ASME/ECLV
Joe McCarthy, PSPE
Agnes Muranyi-Walp SWE, SME
Daryl Callan, EWB, ASME
Dave Toler SAE
Meeting minutes accepted
Date: Friday February 18, 2011
Location: Holiday Inn, Rts 78 and 100
Invitations E-mail announcements will be sent to the Engineering societies
Awards- PSPE will present the Engineer and Young Engineer of the Year Awards.
Speaker Discussion - All
No theme found in the available information at this time.
ASHRAE is the engineering society that is the overall sponsor of Engineers Week this year.
Options for speaker discussed were:
· Dr. Brock Alexander talks on how to transform into an effective innovative technology organization.
· Robert T. Simmons is the president of ASME and is located in Princeton, talks about fusion and the prospects of fusion. Keith can contact through ASME if desired.
· Frank Willis is a PE with a background in civil engineering and would be speaking about the BP oil spill. There would be no speaker fee so the cost would be associated with the speakers travel cost. The speaker is located in Louisiana. He is available on the date of the banquet.
· Dan McNichol. Fee is $3,000 plus travel expenses. Topic would be the infrastructure of the nation. He is on the speaker circuit. Topic is very close to the speak given last year.
· Lee Butz was suggested as a possibility as a person knowing about the issues in the Lehigh Valley. It was discussed that this might be too close to the topic from last year.
A motion was passed to ask Frank Willis to be the speaker for the banquet.
Sponsors
· Ben has a list of the sponsors for the last 3 years.
EPBJ Ben Guthrie
· Contacted EPBJ but have not heard anything back. Last year started talking with them in mid December. Audrie Mayoral did the editing of the articles last year and LVEC should contact her again.
Banquet Booklet
· Minute Man Press did the printing last year and expect that they will do it again this year.
Publicity Elizabeth Horahan
· No discussion since Elizabeth could not attend.
LVEC Account Balance - $9,414 + $200 in petty cash
Member Dues
· Does not have the information at this time. The list of current dues paying members is used to make the list on the website.
Currently waiting on a signature for PNC to transfer over to Ben. Need to look into if can get signatures of the executive officers to satisfy PNC. Agnes might have the contact information of the past chair whose signature is needed.
Need to determine if we have filed with the IRS and if we still have our 503(c) status.
Suggestion made to look into tax exempt status for LVEC. PSPE looked into it and they decided not to pursue getting that status. Need to determine our current status before pursuing this further.
Ben needs to be put on the Bond for the treasurer and it needs to determined how to do this.
Audit of Books
· Request was made to do an audit of the financial records by Don Talhelm and Elizabeth Horahan.
Future City Competition January 23, 2011
STEM April 2011 ?
November 11 ASMI Young Members Night
November 18 ASQ Mountain Top Removal
October 21 ASQ- Topic: Controlling a Process You Dont Own
November 17 ASME plant tour of ABEC
EWB is looking for funding to do an implementation trip in Sierra Leone in January. EWB will submit a formal request for funds from LVEC.
Website is up to date but Agnes requested that information be sent to her for putting on the website. Member societies have not been sending information to be put on the website.
Tuesday, December 7 in PL.324.