march 2013 newsletter - lehigh valley pspe

xValley Engineer Newsletter March, 2013

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

March 12, “PA/NJ Sustainability Symposium”, Temple University, Philadelphia

March 13, Stormwater BMP Webinar/Follett Corporation Tour

Easton, PA April 5-7 PSPE Boot Camp East, King

of Prussia, PA. http://pspe.org/

April 9, tour of the Gambit Center, DeSales University

May 9, LVPSPE Annual Meeting and Installation of Officers.

MATHCOUNTS 2013 WINNERS- OREFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL TOP

TEAM, YOGESHWAR VELINGKER THREE-TIME WINNER

Francee Fuller Barry Isett & Associates, Inc.

For the 29th year, the Lehigh Valley Chapter,

Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engine-ers hosted the Lehigh Valley MATHCOUNTS ® Regional Competition at Trexler Middle

School in Allentown on Sunday, February 10.

Orefield Middle School, coached by Brian Fulmer, was the top ranking team of the 30 schools that participated. The team, along

with the top four individual finishers, will advance to the state competition at the

Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey Hotel held on March 22 and 23 in the national “Olympics of Math”, organized by the National Society of

Professional Engineers in association with several other organizations. The Lehigh

Valley Chapter will pay the registration and hotels costs for the competitors and their

coaches. For the third year in a row, Yogeshwar

Velingker, an 8th grade student at Orefield Middle School was the individual winner. This

is a young man who knows his math! As a 6th grader in 2011, Yogeshwar placed first; he won the regional competition again in

2012, and went on to win first place at the state championship and won the right to

compete on the national level.

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Yogeshwar, along with second place finisher,

Alexander High, an 8th grader from East Hills Middle School, third place winner Michael Medaugh, an 8th grade student at Pocono Mt.

East Junior High School, and fourth place winner, Daniel Qian, an 8th grader from

Southern Lehigh Middle School, have earned the right to move on to the state level competition.

Southern Lehigh Middle School, coached by

Jamie Nattress, was the second highest ran-king team and Springhouse Middle School, coached by Kevin Hallman, placed third.

Other high-ranking teams were: East Hills Middle School fourth; Lower Macungie Middle

School, fifth, and Pocono Mountain East, sixth. St. Ann School, Emmaus, was named the “most improved”,

The students spent the morning taking a

series of tests that featured questions such as:

The product of three consecutive odd inte-gers is 9177. What is the sum of these three

integers? (63) Draw a pentagon with each of its five diago-nals. How many triangles are contained in

the figure? (35.)

Individual and team tests were held in the morning. The afternoon session featured the

top ten ranking individuals in a “Jeopardy” like stage competition to determine final ran-king. The top 10 individuals were:

First Place - Yogeshwar Velingker, 8th

grade, Orefield Middle School. Second Place – Alexander High, 8th grade, East Hills Middle School.

Third place – Michael Medaugh, 8th grade, Pocono Mountain East Middle School.

Fourth place –Daniel Qian, 8th grade, Southern Lehigh Middle School. Fifth place – Sai Mallipedhi, 8th grade,

Springhouse Middle School.

Sixth place –Aryaman Khandelwal, 7th

grade, Springhouse Middle School. Seventh place- Matthew Liu, 6th grade,

Springhouse Middle School.

Eighth place- Alana Dee, 8th grade, St. Joseph the Worker.

Ninth place –Shaumik Phadke, an 8th grade, Springhouse Middle School.

Tenth place- Jereme Chien, an 8th

grade, Lower Macungie Middle School.

In addition to Alana Dee, top ranking girls were Sarah Mackin, an 8th grader at South-ern Lehigh Middle School and Sandhya

Sriaam, a 7th grader at Eyer Middle School.

The four top Pennsylvania winners will go to Washington, D.C. in May to vie for national honors. Almost 6,000 schools nationwide

participate in the competition, co-sponsored by the National Society of Professional En-

gineers, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and a host of industries that see the importance of making math excel-

lence challenging, exciting, and prestigious. --------------------------------------------------

Do not wear courtesy as a watch, to be taken out now and then when you want to

impress people. Be courteous always, wherever you go, with whomever you

happen to be. -Sister Mary Mercedes

-------------------------------------------------- If I had known I was going to live this long, I

would have taken much better care of myself.

-Dr. August Polinske, on the occasion of his 70th Birthday --------------------------------------------------

Human beings, who are almost unique in

having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-From the Sedona Excentric, June 1998


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Engineer’s Week Banquet 2013

Friday, February 22 Alfred Gruenke, PE

The Lehigh Valley Engineering Council

celebrated the 33rd Annual Engineer’s Week Banquet at the Holiday Inn® Hotel Allentown - I-78, culminating a week of activities and

celebrations in the Lehigh Valley Engineering community. The venue again displayed the

hospitality for which it has become famous Chairman Chris Blechsmidt welcomed over

150 Engineers, guests, and students in recognition of our finest.

The highlight of the evening was the presen-ting of awards to the best and the brightest

of our profession; Dwayne Schantz PE as Engineer of the Year, and Brianne Wilburne

EIT as Young Engineer of the Year. Other awards were to Bill Erdman as the Lehigh Valley Section, ASCE Engineer of the Year.

Ben Guthrie presented the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for a dam in

East Stroudsburg to James Phillips and Roger DeLarco, who representing the Borough of East Stroudsburg.

Mark Sarkisian, P.E., S.E., LEED was the

speaker of the evening. Mr. Sarkisian is the Director of Seismic and Structural Engine-ering in the San Francisco office of Skid-

more, Owings & Merrill LLP. He provided the audience with an insight into the world of

large structure designs. He presented a number of very futuristic buildings from

around the world with which he was invol-ved.

Many of these structures are in earthquake prone areas, which naturally presents a

series of unique challenges to the engineer. Mr. Sarkisian stressed that a building is designed to last for generations, thus the

design, from the foundation up, has to be analyzed. Computer modeling is used to

divide the forces into smaller segments,

reducing forces on any single element.

Also, special requests by the client have to be accommodated, such as a building with no outside columns.

Besides innovative building designs, Mr.

Sarkesian also espouses unique building materials that will lighten and strengthen the structure, and improve insulation charac-

teristics. The “carbon footprint” of the buil-ding itself, and the construction, are always

a consideration. He is the author of “Designing Tall Buildings

– Structure as Architecture” He holds four U.S. Patents for high-performance seismic

structural mechanisms designed to protect buildings in areas of high seismic activity.

The presentation qualified for 1 PDH for Pennsylvania and New York.

------------------------------------------------- I’m generally seen as the father of the

Mustang, although, as with any success, there were plenty of people willing to take

the credit. A stranger asking around Dearborn for people who were connected with the Edsel would be like old Diogenes

with his lantern searching for an honest man. On the other hand, so many people

have claimed to be the father of the Mustang, I wouldn’t want to be seen in

public with the mother! - “IACOCCA, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY”, by Lee Iacocca

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He has much to be modest about. -Winston Churchill -------------------------------------------------

He spends too much time wading in the

shallow end of a think tank. -Anonymous


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SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORS

Please Contact the Valley Engineer Editor to

sponsor scholarships for the remainder of the

calendar year.

SCHOLARSHIP – THE GIFT THAT LASTS A LIFETIME A great way to be involved in the LVPSPE Chapter

is to contribute to the

SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT FUND.

The Scholarship Committee is continually seeking

contributions to the Fund. If you would like to

contribute in any amount –please see the

attached form and on the PSPE website at Lehigh

Valley Chapter link –

http://www.pspe.org/scholarships

Please write your TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to

“Pennsylvania Engineering Foundation” or “PEF”.

Donations should be mailed to:

Roger A. Miller, P.E.

301 Old Orchard Drive

Easton, PA 18045

Please note “LVPSPE Scholarship Fund” on the

comment line.

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES The Pennsylvania Engineering Foundation

currently administers the following scholarships

for engineering students:

Undergraduate

$2,000 PEF Grant

$1,000 Harrisburg Chapter PSPE Grant

$1,000 Professional Engineers in Private

Practice Grant

Upperclassman

$2,000 Pennsylvania Engineering Foundation

Grant

Applications and guidelines are on-line now at


Any questions regarding scholarships can be

directed to

Alex Dezubay, PE

609-577-0714

[email protected]

2012 – 2013 LVPSPE

SCHOLARSHIP DONORS

Graduate FLSmidth Inc. Bethlehem, PA

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc Coopersburg, PA

Senior The Pidcock Company Allentown, PA

Junior Staffeld Engineering Services Center Valley, PA DME Alliance Inc.

Allentown, Pa. Hanover Engineering Associates

Bethlehem, Pa. Barry Isett & Associates Trexlertown, Pa.

Sophomore Kohn Engineering

Macungie, PA

Civil & Forensic Engineering Bethlehem, PA

Monarch Precast Concrete Corporation Allentown, PA

McTish, Kunkle & Associates

Allentown, Pa Keystone Consulting Engineers

Bethlehem, Wescosville, Kresgeville, Newton Engineering Allentown, Pa.

J AND P Engineers, P.A. Bethlehem, Pa.

Freshman Sungard Public Sector. Inc. Bethlehem, PA Express Business Center

Trexlertown, Pa.


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Sungard Public Sector. Inc.

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Internet Addresses

National Society of Professional

Engineers

www.NSPE.org

Pennsylvania Society of Professional

Engineers

www.PSPE.org

Lehigh Valley Chapter – PSPE

www.LVPSPE.org

2012 – 2013 State Officers State Director

Angelika Forndran, PE

[email protected]

215-536-1582

Alt. State Director

Joseph B. McCarthey PE

[email protected]

610-868-8492

VP Northeast:

Eric Tappert, PE

[email protected]

610-282-4606

Board of Direction Meetings

The monthly Board of Direction meetings are 6:00 PM on the second (2nd) Monday of

each month. Open to all members they are held at DeSales University Hurd Science Center 2nd Floor.

2012–2013 Chapter Officers

President: Peter Staffeld, PhD, PE [email protected] 484-264-7885 President Elect: Kevin Campbell, PE [email protected] 610-398-0904 Vice President: Alfred Gruenke, PE [email protected] 610-393-6561 Secretary: Chris Williams, PE [email protected] 610-398-0904 Treasurer: Ray Szczucki, PE [email protected] 610-614-1245 Immediate Past President:

Alan Fornwalt, PE

[email protected] Chapter Directors: Don Kohn, PE [email protected] 610-967-4766 Cheryl Rishcoff, PE [email protected] 888-524-4972 Roger Miller, PE [email protected] 330-904-6652. Nicole Gasda, PE [email protected] 215-536-7075 Al Dezubay, PE [email protected] 609-577-0714

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LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER

2013 MATHCOUNTS

CONTRIBUTORS

Civil, Municipal, Environmental, Transportation,

Structural, Surveying, Planning, Utility Permitting 252 Brodhead Road, Suite 100, Bethlehem, PA 18017

610.691.5644 · Fax 610.691.6968

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Additional Offices located in Allentown, Poconos, Lancaster-Lebanon, Elizabethtown, Towanda, and Wellsboro

in Pennsylvania, and Canton Ohio

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Lehigh Valley Chapter Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers

Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe and Carbon Counties

MINUTES FOR THE FEBRUARY 11, 2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

At 230 Hurd Science Center, DeSales University, Center Valley, PA

Attendees: Peter Staffeld, Roger Miller, Al Dezubay, Kevin Campbell, Angelika Forndran, Don

Kohn, Al Gruenke and Chris Williams

I. Call to Order: Peter Staffeld called the meeting to order at 6:15 PM

II. President – Peter Staffeld Eweek Banquet (22-Feb-13)

o 72 individuals have signed up through the Chapter website so far. o Chapter has 8 seats as part of the ‘Gold Sponsorship’. Two are provided to EOY

and two to YEOY. PayPal Account Update

o Account now has function to transfer money to Chapter bank account.

Student Chapters at Lehigh and Lafayette – no report Scholarship Application Update – Al Dezubay

o Al has coordinated with many local high schools and received responses from several.

o Peter has updated the previous scholarship application to a new PDF version

which can be edited by each applicant. New version is posted on Chapter website.

III. Program Committee – Kevin Campbell February: Mathcounts (9-Feb-13)

o Don thanked Kevin Campbell and Chris Williams for doing a great job organizing Mathcounts.

o Kevin provided an updated budget for the event, showing that expenses were nearly the same for 2011, 2012 and 2013. After factoring in donations, the final budget resulted in a surplus of approximately $500.

o Don made a motion that the Chapter donate the surplus funds to the State Mathcounts competition. Roger seconded the motion and all were in favor.

February: Eweek Banquet (22-Feb-13) – see above in Section II March: Stormwater Webinar & Follett Tour

o Chapter can join DVGBC’s PDH session and tour of Follett Corporation in

Easton. Webinar involves stormwater ‘best management practices’. April: Just Born tour


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o Kevin has contacted Just Born regarding a possible facility tour. However,

they may be too busy for us with Peep season approaching. May: Annual Meeting & Installment of Officers (9-May-13)

IV. Valley Engineer – Al Gruenke

Latest issues should be out shortly. Advertisements have been updated to reflect latest donors.

V. Treasurer – Ray Szczucki. No report.

VI. State Director – Angelika Forndran

Upcoming State meeting on January 19th. Legislative Day is being planned. Engineers will have the opportunity to meet with

State Legislature. Regional annual conference with PDH sessions in Hershey coming up. State is considering keeping its own membership database instead of relying on

database from PSPE.

VII. Past President – Alan Fornwalt No report.

VIII. Old Business Membership – no report

IX. New Business

Ballot for Bylaws Amendment o Most of ballots and envelopes were prepared prior to 2/11/2013 meeting. o Peter will mail all ballots shortly.

X. Adjournment at 6:49 PM on a motion by Don, seconded by Angelika. All were in favor.

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