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GROUP LEADERSHIP TEAM 2017-2018
David P. Houser, P.E. Chair 330.665.3753 (home) davidhouser519 @ gmail.com Edward S. Seroka Vice Chair 330.379.4413 (office) edseroka @ neo.rr.com Brent C. Sisler, P.E. Treasurer 330.836.9238 (home) marybrentsisler @ cs.com Cara E. Adams Secretary 330.379.6202 (office) caraadams302 @ yahoo.com Members Edward S. Seroka Past Chair Andrew J. Brugger 2018 Mark L. Burrows, P.E. 2018 Dick Henry 2018 Brian D. Goshia 2019 Jim Parish, P.E. 2019 Marion G. Pottinger, Ph.D. 2019 Abhilash Chandy, Ph.D. 2020 D. Dane Quinn, Ph.D. 2020 Brent C. Sisler, P.E. 2020 University of Akron student section Scott Sawyer, Ph.D. – Advisor Akron professional section website: https://community.asme.org/akron_section/b/weblog/default.aspx email: akronasme @ mail.com Webmaster: Brent C. Sisler, P.E. Newsletter editor: Brent C. Sisler, P.E.
ASME International Akron Section September, 2017
Newsletter Message from the Akron Section Chair
To the Akron ASME Members: Welcome to the beginning of the 2017-2018 Akron ASME Season. This season we will continue with our multi-technical society meeting direction to provide our members with good technical meetings and activities. This allows all of the societies involved to provide more depth in the meeting subjects and a larger audience for the presenters. We also will continue our support of the local and regional Science Fair activities by providing judges and Akron ASME scholarship awards and the local college connections. As always, we are in need of members who want to provide direction and guidance to the Akron ASME Section. If you are interesting in assisting in our Section’s direction, please do not hesitate to contact me or any of our Section’s Officers. Sincerely, Dave Houser, 2017-2018 Akron Section Chair
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Note from the Program Chair Our first event this fall is a joint meeting with the Mechanical Engineering students at Akron U. They offer to get us parking passes for any of us who might need them. I will need your reservation to request a parking pass, hence the earlier-than-usual September 2nd reservations deadline for professional section attendees. Please be mindful of the reservation deadline. Note that the professional section attendees are not being offered anything to eat, nor is there any cost for you to attend. The student attendees may have some food to eat, paid for within the University. They are working on that now, but did not have anything “certain” that I could share by the required publication date of this newsletter. I should explain about the food situation: Akron ASME can no longer subsidize dinners for those attending its meetings. Most of you have seen my plea about the financial plight in which Akron ASME finds itself (a listserv message to all our members from me last spring, that I have included at the end of this newsletter, for your reference). Sited as this meeting is on the UA campus, University Dining Services (UDS) requires us to buy our food from them, although the students get the meeting room for free. For me to get food from UDS for the professional section attendees, the cost would probably be in the range of $10 to $15 each. This is too much to expect the student attendees to pay. So, the student officers will be trying to offer food to the students as an enticement to come, and that food would be paid within the University in some way. There are places within the Student Union for the professional section attendees to eat, either before or after the event, if they wish to do so, at their own expense. I am sorry that this got a bit complicated. As you will see below, we have a couple events coming up with Cleveland SAE, one in October and the other in November. See the Cleveland SAE website http://www.sae.org/servlets/sectionInfo?SECTION_CODE=MS017&OBJECT_TYPE=sectionInfo&PAGE=getSectionMainPage for details, if they are lacking below, due to the early publication deadline for this newsletter. If you want to attend these events, I must register with them for you, and prepay. Also, they want me to send them only one check for each event, from all of those from Akron ASME wanting to attend. What that means is that I need you to send me a check with your prepayment, made out to “Akron ASME” in the amount required, to: Brent C. Sisler, P.E. Treasurer, Akron ASME 2077 Stabler Road Akron, OH 44313 Please be mindful of the reservations deadline for each event. There has been an unbroken element of trust between Cleveland SAE and Akron ASME, and that continues to this day. The SAE members are used to prepaying for all Cleveland SAE events, most using the Cleveland SAE website and the members’ personal credit cards. As you know, Akron ASME is not set up to take credit cards, so I am forced to take your reservations “the old-fashioned way”, i.e., by check (preferable) or cash. Since this is new for Akron ASME, I am nervous about how our members will receive this burden. My feeling is that this additional step (prepayment) will make any of these SAE events less popular to Akron ASME, perhaps to the point of no one from Akron ASME being willing to attend them. I hope that isn’t the case. We’re just going to have to let this play out, and see what happens. Brent C. Sisler, P.E., Akron ASME Program Chair
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Cleveland SAE presentation of “History of Characterizing Tire Forces & Moments Applied to a Vehicle”
by Dr. Marion G. Pottinger, P.E. to which Akron ASME has been invited
When: Monday, October 9, 2017. Doors open and exhibition viewing begins at 5:30 PM. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. The program will begin at 7:00. Where: Holiday Inn Akron West in Montrose, near the intersection of SR-18 and I-77. Program: The technical part of the meeting has two parts. · EXHIBITS During the registration period exhibits covering everything from bicycle tires to the Michelin Tweel® in an agricultural application will be available in the ballroom. The intention is to explicitly mention the exhibits in the SAE meeting announcement. There will be eight. Unfortunately, the description of the exhibits can’t be available until early September. · ABSTRACT Pneumatic tires were invented to reduce ride associated forces induced by road surface unevenness, harshness. The harshness of previous wheels and solid tires punished passengers in horse drawn vehicles and riders on bicycles. Once the inventors had working tires they discovered to their surprise that pneumatic tires made rolling wagons, coaches and bicycles much easier. Rolling resistance force joined harshness associated forces as important characteristics of tires. Given the now known reduced harshness and rolling resistance of pneumatic tires, automobiles employed pneumatic tires from the beginning. The serious accidents associated with the higher speed capabilities of automobiles quickly pointed to a third category of tire forces, control forces. This paper begins with both inventions of the pneumatic tire. It briefly examines the historical development of today’s engineering knowledge of the tire forces and moments responsible for ride characteristics, rolling resistance, and vehicle control. The emphasis is on work over the last 50 years. For each of the classes of forces and moments the discussion ends with a small projection of the future. The talk won a best oral presentation award at the 2017 SAE World Congress (The SAE International Meeting). Speaker Biography: Dr. Marion Pottinger, a Professional Engineer, is the owner of M’gineering, LLC a consulting practice devoted to concepts in machines and mechanics with particular application to tires and tire/vehicle systems. For almost 50 years he has worked in about every area of tire mechanics both as a practicing engineer and a manager. He is best known for his work with respect to tire force and moment properties and the mechanics of the tire footprint with application to wear. He authored the chapters on these areas which appear in The Pneumatic Tire edited by J. D. Walter and A. N. Gent. Dr. Pottinger was a member of the committee that prepared TRB 286 Tires and Passenger Vehicle Fuel Economy, which was instrumental in producing tire energy consumption labeling legislation. He wrote the APPENDIX on testing. He is widely published in a number of areas (61 papers, parts of five books, plus government restricted reports and patents) and was a member of the team that teaches the University of Akron Tire Mechanics course for many years. Dr. Pottinger has given numerous lectures including the plenary lecture for The Tire Society in 1997. He was later president of the society. Cost: $35 per Attendee including dinner Reservations: by Monday, October 2, to either [email protected] or 330/864-7555, followed up with a check made out to “Akron ASME” in full prepayment for the number of dinners wanted and sent to Brent C. Sisler, Treasurer, Akron ASME, 2077 Stabler Road, Akron, OH 44313.
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Cleveland SAE offers
“University teams presenting & displaying” to which Akron ASME has been invited
When: Monday, November 6, 2017. Doors open and exhibition viewing begins at 5:30 PM. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. The program will begin at 7:00. Where: Flitzen Factory, 2636 Brecksville Rd., Richfield. Program: The University of Akron, Case Western Reserve University, and Cleveland State SAE student sections will present the work of their teams competing in Formula SAE, Baja SAE, SAE Aero Design, etc. They will discuss their work and show what they have designed. The student built vehicles will be on exhibit. In addition the Flitzen Factory (a BMW modifier) and Track First (a racing supply store), which occupy the meeting building, will give short presentations. Cost: $15 per Attendee including pizza and beverages. Reservations: by Monday, October 30 to either [email protected] or 330/864-7555, followed up with a check made out to “Akron ASME” in full prepayment for the number of dinners wanted and sent to Brent C. Sisler, Treasurer, Akron ASME, 2077 Stabler Road, Akron, OH 44313.
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UAkron ASME newsletter by email – make sure you get one! As you probably know by now, many years ago, due to cost considerations, Akron ASME had to stop mailing hardcopy newsletters.
UNew a few years ago and stopped as of this year U: Please be ready for a change in the way you receive information from us. We had been using a GoDaddy server to send emails to our “members + friends” (they looked like “Express Email Marketing”). We are no longer doing that, for two reasons: 1) it was expensive and we can no longer afford it; and, 2) national ASME frowns on us using other than its listserv for communicating with our members. National ASME has not explicitly answered the issue of how a section communicates with its “friends” (i.e., “prospective members, ex-members, donors, and others interested in us”). I know they are hoping that, somehow, all the “friends” can be drawn in as (ASME) “members” eventually, but they haven’t offered us a communications “vehicle” to help make that happen. So, it becomes increasingly important that national ASME and we, in Akron, have a correct email address for you. If national has an incorrect email address for you, you will not be receiving my listserv messages. If those emails do not seem to be coming to you, please email me, Brent Sisler, at [email protected] with your correct email address. As members, you should be getting ASME listserv emails from Akron ASME announcing: 1) upcoming events; 2) updating of our Akron ASME website ( now moved to https://community.asme.org/akron_section/b/weblog/default.aspx ); and, 3) posting of our updated newsletter to that website as an Adobe Acrobat *.pdf for your viewing, printing, and/or download.
Please let me (Brent Sisler, 330/836-9238 or [email protected]) know, if you have comments, questions, or concerns.
UAkron ASME “speakers” needed in high schools
The Akron Section of ASME would like to begin a project to put engineers in contact with area high school students. A need that has been made known to us is that the amount of graduating high-school students going on to study science and engineering is down in the Akron area.
Akron ASME is attempting to develop a pool of engineers that would be willing and able to go to a school for anywhere from a half hour to a couple of hours, based on their schedule, and speak to high school classes. The format is anything from an informal talk with a science classroom to a PowerPoint presentation to a group of students enrolled in science classes. We have a new “What is a Mechanical Engineer?” brochure from national ASME that makes such a visit very easy for someone willing to go into the schools. We have hundreds of copies on hand, ready to give to you. We have it as a *.pdf, too, if you’d like to take a look.
If you would be interested in getting involved with this program and helping educate students about science and engineering fields, please contact Cara Adams at caraadams302 @ yahoo.com.
Thanks for considering it!
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2017-2018 Akron Section Schedule Date Program Location Thur., 9/14/17 ASME Student Design Team Night The University of Akron
Mon., 10/9/17 Dr. Marion G. Pottinger SAE Presentation: “History of Characterizing Tire Forces & Moments Applied to a Vehicle”
Holiday Inn Akron West
Thur., 11/2/17 ACESS Honors and Awards Banquet Guy’s Party Center, Akron Mon., 11/6/17 SAE University teams presenting & displaying Flitzen Factory, Richfield Wed., 1/17/18 Joint meeting with Akron ASM New Era Restaurant, Akron
Thur., 2/22/18 EWeek Banquet Emidio & Sons Banquet Center, Cuyahoga Falls
Thur., 3/22/18 Student (Papers) Night The University of Akron Tues., 4/3/18 Membership Appreciation/Renewal Night & Industry Expo Sons of Herman, Akron ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On the following pages, you will find: 1. Information about Lorton Technology Professional Engineer (PE) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) coursework (pages 9 and 10 of 17). 2. Value of ASME membership in successive *.pdf’s from asme.org: a. ASME_Member_Benefits_at_a_Glance.pdf (page 11 of 17); b. ASME_Professional_Membership_Brochure.pdf (pages 12 and 13 of 17); and, c. ASME_Student_Membership_Brochure.pdf (pages 14 and 15 of 17). 3. Spring, 2017 plea to Akron ASME members for financial assistance (pages 16 and 17 of 17).
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Akron ASME plea to members for financial assistance You may recall seeing a message similar to this one around this time last year, about the financial plight in which Akron ASME finds itself. There has been no change. I did receive three donations addressed to me in 2016, with the checks made out to “Akron ASME”, to deposit directly into Akron ASME’s Treasury: two from individuals and one from a corporate entity. I quickly deposited them and thanked the donors. In addition to such donations, national ASME gives us two ways to obtain financial support from it: 1) the chance to compete for scarce funds allocated to sections through the Section Activity Funding Program, with a limit of $1,000 per year; and, 2) members are asked to check an optional box in their membership application at renewal time, wherein they could donate ten dollars ($10) directly to their sections. (And, I have confirmed from national that Akron ASME gets that entire $10 if a member selects that option, i.e., national does not take a part of that $10.) As a consequence, our Akron ASME Treasury is now “steady, but shaky”. Here is what has happened the last few years: We received $842 from member donations to our section in 2014, but only $640 in 2015, and $515 in 2016. Part of what happened there is that the 2014 donations covered 18 months, and the 2015 and 2016 donations only 12 months. [And note that the “uneven” amount (i.e., “not in increments of $10”) is due to the fact that a person can overwrite the suggested $10 with any other amount.] Your section spends roughly $2,200 a year on its activities: about $800 on meetings (subsidy to both students and members to attend), about $1,000 on awards to students (e.g., scholarships, science fair awards, Student Papers Night), and about $400 on donations to local groups (e.g., ACESS membership and donation, EWeek donation). I would be glad to share my detailed accounting with any of you who wish to see it. It is two “quick read” Excel spreadsheets, one of which serves as my annual Treasurer’s report to national and the other is my transaction ledger for the year, detailing each expense and income item. As you might imagine, we are struggling to replace the annual couple or three thousand dollar “allocation” which national has withdrawn from us a couple years ago, that through the now-extinct “Section Merit Based Funding Program” (the exact amount varied each year, depending upon how we did on our “report card” and the amount of money national had in its pool to divide up amongst the ~233 sections world-wide). You could say that Akron ASME needs to “tighten its belt” and reduce our expenses. Most certainly, we can do that, if we are forced. However, your Board of Directors (now called the “Group Leadership Team”, or “GLT”) continues to review our yearly programs and watches over each expense. None are deemed frivolous. If you like the programs we have been offering and want to see them continue, please consider adding that optional $10 to your membership renewal this summer. In addition, further donations (above that $10) to Akron ASME would be gratefully accepted. Please contact the undersigned if you wish to donate more than the $10 “dues check-off” amount. If they are sent to me, I can directly deposit your donation in our Akron ASME checking account and write you a receipt. If you want to see our “year in review”, you can go to the Akron ASME section of asme.org and download our newsletters. The link should be https://community.asme.org/akron_section/b/weblog/default.aspx . And, please don’t be shy about contacting me directly to see our financial reports or offering ideas to help us out of this situation. We are here to serve your interests. If you like what your section is doing, we need you to “vote with your donations”. If you don’t like what we are doing, then we really need to hear from you on how we should change. If only half of you ~400 members were to select that $10 optional “dues check-off box”, it would generate a couple thousand dollars for your section. Thank you for considering our plight. Brent Brent C. Sisler, P.E.
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Treasurer, Program Chair, & Website Administrator, Akron ASME 2077 Stabler Road Akron, OH 44313 330/836-9238 – home [email protected] – home
