Ahoy from the California Maritime Academy! The ASME student section has
been experiencing increased membership and we are very excited about our
upcoming events. We are gearing up for a much-anticipated tour of the
C&H Factory this month as well as eagerly anticipating the Regional
Student Conference in Reno, Nevada next month. We have approximately 4
groups of students competing this year under the direction of Professor
McLemore. In the month of April, the student section of ASME has
tentatively planned a tour of the Genentech plant located in South San
Francisco. Weather and schedule permitting, we plan on learning the
engineering concepts behind the themes and attractions at Paramount's
Great America on physics day. I am very excited about the activities at
hand and we are planning the next year with much diligence. To provide
for the financial aspects of our activities, we are fundraising as much
as possible. If you would like to make a donation or would like some
more information about the student section at the California Maritime
Academy, feel free to contact me at (707)-451-8163 or by e-mail at
contempo@hotmail.com.
Sincerely,
Gene Ellis
ASME President
California Maritime Academy
Greetings from U.C. Berkeley! We just started our spring semester
over here on the other side of the bay, and we have many great events
coming up. Last month, several of our members went on the Engineers'
Joint Council ski trip to Tahoe, which was a lot of fun. This month, we
will be having a general meeting and co-hosting a Student-Professional
Awareness Conference (S-PAC) with IEEE. We have invited speakers from
companies like Hewlett Packard and Lockheed Martin to give talks ranging
from engineering life in the defense electronics industry to the
transition from campus life to the corporate world.
Next month, we will be hosting our annual Crab Feed. The dinner will be held on Wednesday, March 18th, from 6-9 p.m. in 120 Bechtel Engineering Center. The cost is $22 with RSVP and $25 without (RSVP to asme@euler.berkeley.edu by March 10th) and includes all you can eat crab, salad, bread, and drinks. For student members who RSVP, the cost is $9 (the cost is $11 for non-members, and there is an additional $2 charge for any student who does not RSVP by March 10). We are all looking forward to this event, and hope to see everyone there.
If you have any questions or comments for the U.C. Berkeley student section, or would like to place an advertisement in the Crab Feed program, please feel free to contact us at asme@euler.berkeley.edu or by contacting Edwin Lee at (510) 548-2161.
San Francisco State University
Winter beak is over, but for some of us it wasn't much of a break. The
SFSU Human Powered Vehicle team was hard at work preparing the plug for
our monococ unibody frame. Special thanks is due to Martin Quan, Eddie
Cruz, Emanuel , and Eric Shadd for spending their break working on the
bike. ASME as a whole ended the semester with a blast. Wayne Pedranti of
United Airlines provided us with an excellent tour of the airplane
maintenance facility in December. Also, in December ASME and SAMPE
through a joint end of the semester banquet; over 120 students attended.
Currently we are hard at work preparing some special events for e-week,
and planning a career fair to be held late in March. We also have many
students preparing for RSC to be held in Reno. Hope to see many of you
there. That's all for now!
-Greg King II