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October, 2011 ISA Newsletters, Southern District 11 1

October 2011

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The value of active ISAmembership and leadership tothe individual and employer

The presentation will focus on the value of active ISA membership for an individual and for theircompany. He will also talk about current ISA events, future plans, and the Automation Federation.

In addition to his primary presentation Leo will also present informationrelated to the key Society activities currently being implemented, and to beimplemented in the future. A Q&A session will follow.

Meeting DetailsLocation: Fluor, Building 47 Cafeteria, Irvine SpectrumDate: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 (different date from normal meeting)Time: 5 PM Social Hour; 5:30 PM Dinner; 6:30 PM ProgramRSVP to Bis Mitra at [email protected] or (949) 349-3270Dinner: BBQ Chicken at no cost, courtesy of ISA Orange County

About the SpeakerH. L. “Leo” Staples Jr, is the 2011 ISA president. As President of the Society, Mr. Staples is a

member of the ISA Executive Committee and ISA Executive Board.

Mr. Staples is compliance management leader at Power Supply Division, Oklahoma Gas & Electric(OG&E). He began his career with Oklahoma Gas & Electric in 1978 at the company’s Horseshoe LakePower Plant. He currently is leadingefforts to develop a complianceorganization for the utility.

Mr. Staples is a Level IIICertified Control Systems Techni-cian( and a Level IV Senior Engineer-ing Technician-Industrial Instrumentation through the National Institute for Certification in EngineeringTechnologies, or NICET. He earned an Associate’s degree in electrical engineering technology from RoseState College, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from the University ofPhoenix.

An ISA Member since 1989, Mr. Staples was elevated to the distinguished grade of ISA Fellow in2009. He is currently a Member of the Greater Oklahoma Section. He has vast experience in Section,

District, Department, Division, and Society activities, includingserving as District Vice President and Chair Council of District VicePresidents and three terms on the ISA Executive Board as SocietyTreasurer. Mr. Staples is an active participant in ISA’s PowerIndustry Division and has authored and delivered several papers atvarious symposia. His first book, ProjectManagement: A Technician’s Guide waspublished by ISA in March 2010.

Leo Staples can be reached at(405) 553-2191 or [email protected].

Inside This Issue…

Dec 3: Joint LA-OCChristmas Holiday Party

Feb 22: Instrumentation2012 Expo & Training

Upcoming Regional Events

How far you go in life dependson your being tender with theyoung, compassionate with theaged, sympathetic with thestriving and tolerant of theweak and the strong. Becausesomeday in life you will havebeen all of these.

- George Washington Carver

2 - President’s Message

3 - Central Plant Tour

Power Plant Training

Special Member

4 - ISA InternationalInstrumentationSymposium

JPL Tour

5 - ISA Analysis Symposium

CCST Testing

PE Class Held

7 - Instrumentation 2012

8 - Section Meetings

9 - Regional Events

Christmas Party

12 - Job Shop &Business Opportunities

13 - Job Shop, Continued

14 - Job Shop

Assistance forUnemployed Members Annual ISA Chistmas Party

Dec 3 at Knotts Berry Farm Hotel. Details on page 9.

2 ISA Newsletters, Southern District 11 October, 2011

The monthly ISA Section Newsletters and annual Regional Membership Directory and Buyers’ Guide are mailed to all ISA section members in SouthernCalifornia and Southern Nevada and to ISA student affiliates at Cal Poly Pomona, Long Beach State University and Bakersfield College. Newsletters include the CentralCalifornia Alarm, Los Angeles Annunciator, Orange County Chart, San Diego Signal and Las Vegas Experience. Changes of address can only be processed by ISAby at (919) 549-8411 or www.isa.org. For editorial submissions and feedback, please contact the newsletter editor. Advertising rates, circulationinformation and style guide is posted at www.TechPubs.net. Billing and publishing correspondence may be addressed to TechPubs Communications, PO Box1605, Costa Mesa, California 92628. Submissions are copyright by the authors with all rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2011 TechPubs Communications. All RightsReserved.

Orange County SectionOfficers 2011-2012www.isaoc.org

Getting things doneBy Fred Mc Eachen, Section President○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Very Respectfully,

Fred McEachenISA Ornge County Section President

PresidentFred McEachenFluor Corp.(949) [email protected]

President-ElectRafael AgrazsanchezFluor Corp.(949) [email protected]

SecretaryJennifer QianFluor Corp., (949) [email protected]

TreasurerEdward NaranjoGeneral Monitors(949) [email protected]

DelegateSebastian ZielonkaFluor Corp., (949) [email protected]

Past Section President andHonors & Awards ChairJesus MoncayoSouth Coast Systems, Inc.(714) [email protected]

Arrangements & Exhibit ChairsBis MitraFluor Corp., (949) [email protected]

HistorianChristine DorganDisneyland Resort(714) [email protected]

Membership ChairEmero SomFluor Corp., (949) [email protected]

Newsletter EditorJohn PrinceAPG Analyzer Systems(714) [email protected]

Nominations ChairRaj AdaniEmerson Process Management(800) [email protected]

Program ChairManny MartinezFluor Corp., (949) [email protected]

Publications ChairSergei SeleznevBlair-Martin [email protected]

Special AssignmentDon ZeeDon Zee [email protected]

Standards & PracticesRomel BhullarFluor Corp., (949) [email protected]

Student Section Liaison andWebmasterBob HarrisonConex Systems, (714) [email protected]

Student Section LiaisonCraig [email protected]

Division Vice President -Brad RupertCaltrol, (925) [email protected]

District Vice President ElectGary Campbell, CCST III(623) [email protected]

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The ISA OC Section Board has been working hard at getting things done and processing all thestuff that is coming at us. We have been meeting at Old World in Huntington Beach to make sure we hadeverything organized for the third annual Automation OC Exhibition, Training & Oktoberfest. This wasour biggest event of the year and with the tremendous support we received from our localInstrumentation and Control Systems Vendors the day was a big success.


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Tour of Cal State LongBeach Central Plant

Members of ISA Los Angeles Section andCal State Long Beach ISA Club toured theuniversity Central Plant facility last month.Pictured above are Sam Kunemoto, PaulFranklin, Lou Brancato, Paul Havrella, TomBurdi, Walter Martinez, Paul Bodeau, RodBodeau, Chuck Bagby and Justine Fulls.

Article and more photos on page 6.

Photo courtesy David Smith, CAP CCST

Thanks to Robert Sigal and Dan Wilbers of Inventsys for arrangingthe facility tour and presentation on September 27th about the designof integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC)power plants and some of the challenges related tothe control and operation of this type of plant andfor the live demo of one of a power plant OTSsystems. Invensys Operations Management islocated at 5760 Fleet Dr Unit #100 in Carlsbad.

Photo courtesy of Jim Van de Wetering

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ISA Los Angeles Section

Power plant operatortraining simulators

With a focus on the DOE’s IGCCpower plant and facility tour


ISALA, JPL honoredby visit from a veryspecial guest

The ISA LosAngeles Section isdelighted to welcome itsnewest member, Mr.Chien Jen Lee, retiredfrom NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory.

Having joined theLos Angeles Section ofISA in September, Mr.Lee celebrated his 100thbirthday on Sept 28, theday of the Section’s tour

of JPL. The tour was a homecoming, in a sense, for Mr. Lee, who workedon the Galileo Jupiter mission and other major projects before retiring in1992.

Mr. Lee is pictured here holding a certificate that he received fromJPL for his work on Galileo with his daughter, Nancy Lee, who alsorecently joined ISA Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Jane Platt.


The 58th Annual InternationalInstrumentation Symposium will be held nextyear at the Hyatt Regency in La Jolla inconjunction with the ISA Spring LeadersMeeting in June 2012..

The Symposium is recognizedinternationally as the outstanding forum fordiscussion of new and innovativeinstrumentation techniques, development andapplications.

Some of the major topic categories includeInstrumentation, Data systems,Communications, Turbine Engine Testing,Platform Testing , Test Facilities, Metrology,

ISA Division Symposia

Edward Naranjo,ISA Orange County,AIIS General Chair

Cyber and Homeland Security, Safety Instrumented Systems, ProcessMeasurement and Control, and Control System Instrumentation.

The symposium will include paper sessions, short courses,workshops and tutorials. For the latest list of short courses,workshops and tutorials refer to the ISA web site. Papers will beconsidered for publication in the ISA technical journal.

Sponsored by the Aerospace Industries, Test Measurement, andProcess Measurement and Control Divisions of ISA, the 58thInternational Instrumentation Symposium-ISA’s longest runningsymposium will be held June 2-7, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla,San Diego, California. This year’s Symposium will also be held inconjunction with the participation of the Propulsion InstrumentationWorking Group.

The Symposium will provide an outstanding opportunity to gainvaluable technical information and training in the traditional areas ofmeasurements/sensors, instrumentation systems, data and advancedsystem/sensor technology as well as innovative papers in many otherstate of the art areas.

Abstracts for papers are due by January 20,2012. Students are encouraged to submit papers forthe student sessions.

For additional information, contact EdwardNaranjo, General Chair, at (949) 581-4464 oredwardn@generalmonitors,com.

San Diego chosen site for 58th Annual InternationalInstrumentation Symposium, Spring Leaders Meeting


by Jane Platt, NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryEighty members of ISA Los Angeles and others signed up to

spend an autumn afternoon on a private tour of NASA’s Jet Propul-sion Laboratory, a world-renowned center for robotic space explora-tion.

Because this tour was booked to capacity, a second tour of JPL,which Caltech manages for NASA, was arranged for November 7, andit, also, was booked to capacity by mid-October. ISA Los Angelesplans another tour in the spring. The tour is open to all ISA members

An ‘out of this world’tour at NASA’s JetPropulsion Laboratory

Continued on page 10

Photos courtesy of Jane Platt


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The Analysis Division, the one worldwide body for processanalytics, will bring the 57th AD Symposium to the Crowen PlazaResort in Anaheim, April 22-25, 2012. More information will beavailable on our new web site www.adsymposium.org.

The symposium consists of:

· A full 3 day technical program (Monday - Wednesday), papersand tutorials....you can register for half day, full day (or anycombination)

· The Process Analytics Fundamentals training (6 units) all daySunday

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· An all day course on Thursday

· Exhibitor displays, all directly involved in process analytics andpopulated with the top product support specialists in the industry

· The Banquet on Tuesday night

For information about the Analysis DivisionSymposium, please contact Sandra Krauthamer, P.E.,at (310) 615-5639 or [email protected].


CSE PE review course held in HB

Session taught by Joe Hohn and Mike Wallace pictured above. VictorWegelin taught other sessions. Photo courtesy of John Prince.

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ISA Los Angeles thanks Cal State UniversityLong Beach for central plant tourby Walter Martinez

We had a successfultour last night. Everyonewas very impressed andtold me afterwards thatit was very informative.We had people from LADept of Water andPower, SCE, BP, Tyco,Southern California GasCo, other companies anda couple of engineering

students, for a total of seventeen plusCSULB staff .

Kevin Hottle, Lou Brancato, DukeGrant and Paul Havrella did an excellent job!Very professional and it showed they knowtrade. John Beall left some copies foreveryone showing some of the specs for thecontrol systems that was very useful foreveryone.

On behalf of the International Society ofAutomation (ISA) Los Angeles section Iwould like to say Thank You very much for agreat experience, and thanks to Tyco Valvesfor providing refreshment. ISA has providedsupport for several years to the CSULBstudents in the form of scholarships andgrants for student activities and projects. ISAwebsites: http://www.isa.org and http://www.isala.org.

Check out the QR code with your smartphone to see the specs for the plant. You canprint it and with your smartphone using theQR reader app you can scan the QR barcodeand it will automatically take you to the link.

Walter A. Martinez is advisor to CalState Long Beach ISA Club and is LeadInformation Systems Analyst in PhysicalPlanning & Facilities Management,andLecturer at the College of Engineering,California State University, Long Beach.Walter can be reached at (562) 985-5669 [email protected].

Photo and graphics above courtesy Cal State Long Beach Facilities Management.

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San Diego Section See Website Mike Wallace, (858) 522-6866, [email protected]

Coal Gasification Training and Facility Tour. Invensys, Carlsbad.More info at section website: www.isasd.org

Los Angeles Section Tues, Nov 15 John Prince, (714) 968-5501, [email protected]

Highlights of the 2012 NFPA Code. Bob Burnell of GE. Sizzler,Downey. RSVP to [email protected]. Website, www.isala.org.

Joint Christmas Party with Orange County Sat, Dec 3Knotts Berry Farm Hotel. RSVP via www.isala.org.

Orange County Section Sat, Dec. 3 Fred McEachen, (949) 481-7291, [email protected]

Joint Christmas Party with Los Angeles Section. Knotts BerryFarm Hotel. RSVP via www.isaoc.org.

Las Vegas Section See Website Stan Spence, [email protected] the latest section info, please see www.isalv.org.

Central California Section No Nov Meeting John Burns, [email protected], (661) 615-4321 For program schedule, seeWebsite: www.isa.org/~ssjv

Bakersfield College Student Section Contact Advisor Sean Caras, (661) 395-4393, [email protected] contact advisor Sean Caras for the latest section information.

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Please contact the advisor. Website: www.isacsulb.org.

Cal Poly Pomona Student Section Contact Advisor Salomon Oldak, Advisor, [email protected] contact the advisor. Website: www.isacalpoly.org.

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Christmas Holiday Party 2011

• Entertain your favorite customer

• Reward your department employees

• Treat yourself and a guest

• Mix and Mingle with industry collegues

Knotts Berry Farm Resort HotelSaturday December 3, 2011

• 6:30 to 7:30 PM: Social Hour/Cocktail hour (with cash bar)

• 6:30 to 7:30 PM Silent Auctions

• 7:30 to 8:30 PM: Dinner

• 8:30 to 9:00 PM: Award Announcements• 9:00 pm to 10:0 0 PM Casino Night• 10:00 to 11:30 PM Raffles

Table prices:• Full table of 8: $550 (plus two door prize gifts valued at $50 each)• Half table of 4: $300 (plus two door prize gifts valued at $50 each)• Individual Tickets: $69

Sponsorships to advertise your companies name at the party; signs will beposted at your choice of sponsored item:

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• Sponsorships also available for submitting silent auction items; valuedfrom $35 to $50 each.

Contact Linda Meyers for more information @ [email protected] RSVP or for more information, please contact Linda Meyers (LosAngeles) at (949) 757-8537 or [email protected]; or Bis Mitra(Orange County) at (949) 349-3270 or [email protected].


Los Angeles Section tour of JPL, continued from page 4

Photos courtesy of Jane Platt

and those who join before the tour – toreserve your spot, send an email to [email protected]. There is no cost for the tour.

The Sept. 28 outing to JPL, located atthe base of the San Gabriel Mountains near

Pasadena, included a stop at “MissionControl,” a National Historic Landmark thatis formally called the Space Flight OperationsFacility. That’s where JPL engineers “talk to”a fleet of spacecraft throughout the solarsystem via NASA’s Deep Space Network of

antennas. They regularly communicatewith such missions as the twin Voyagers,which are approaching the edge of oursolar system, and the Dawn spacecraft,currently orbiting the giant asteroid Vesta.

The ISA members also saw the In-Situ Instrument Lab, a test bed whereengineers try out maneuvers on terra firmathat may be performed by rovers onMars. Another popular stop was at a life-sized model of the Mars Science Labora-tory/Curiosity rover, scheduled for launchto the Red Planet later this year. Addi-tional spacecraft models were on displayat JPL’s von Karman Visitor Center.

The tour guests watched a briefdocumentary narrated by Harrison Ford,called “Journey to the Planets andBeyond,” and later donned 3-D glasses for“Eyes on the Earth,” a short movieexplaining how NASA satellites alsostudy our home planet.

At one tour stop, the group joined ina rousing chorus of “Happy Birthday” forChien Jen Lee, a new ISA member whowas celebrating his 100th birthday thatday. The tour was a homecoming, in asense, for Lee, who worked at JPL formany years on the Galileo Jupiter missionand other major projects before retiring in1992. He was accompanied by hisdaughter, Nancy Lee, a dentist who alsorecently joined ISA.

After the tour, the ISA membersgathered at a nearby park for snacks andsodas, and some also ventured on to aPasadena pub and cafe.

Jane Platt is Publicity Chair for ISALos Angeles Section and is Media Chief atNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


Job Shop and Business Opportunities, (Pages 12-14)

Circulation is 1300-1500 ISA members and other industry personnel in California and Nevada. To place a Job Shop ad, call (714) 968-5501.

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Electrical Engineer. General Monitors, Lake Forest, CA. Industries:Safety instrumentation, oil & gas, energy, others. Job type: full time.Years of experience: 5+ years experience with analog, digital, andembedded systems. Education level: BS EE, minimum. Overallresponsibility: Lead the design, development, and testing ofmicrocontroller-based fire and gas detection systems for the globalleader in industrial safety. Requirements: Experience with one or moreof the following microcontrollers: Microchip dsPIC30F, TI TMS320F,TI MSP430, Freescale 68HC11; experience with one or more of thefollowing communication protocols: 4-20mA analog output, Modbus,HART; strong communication (written and verbal) and analyticalskills; hands-on design engineer; adept at working with cross-functional teams. If you meet the above requirements, please sendyour resume depicting your qualifications to [email protected]. We respect, value, and welcome diversity in ourworkforce. General Monitors is proud to be an Equal EmploymentOpportunity/Affirmative Action Employer (EEO/AA) M/F/D/V.

Senior Engineer/Project Manager Systems. General Monitors, Lake Forest, CA. Industries: Safety instrumentation, oil & gas, energy,others. Job type: full time. Years of experience: 5+ years relevant experience in design/fabrication/programming PLC based control systems.Preferred experience with Fire and Gas Detection technology and systems. Education Requirements: BS EE or equivalent technical experience.Overall Responsibility: Provide technical leadership and direction on new product offerings, engineering standards and practices. Manage thedesign, programming testing, and project management of integrated fire and gas detection systems. Requirements: Competent in Autocad 2D;PLC/HMI programming Contrologix preferred; Instrumentation/Electrical design; Field startup and commissioning, Testing and troubleshootinginstrumentation equipment; Familiar with NFPA 72 and ISA 61508; NICET Qualification desired. If you meet the above requirements, pleasesend your resume depicting your qualifications to [email protected]. We respect, value and welcome diversity in ourworkforce. General Monitors is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer (EEO/ AA) M/ F/ D/ V.


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Technical Sales Specialist, Valin Corporation, located inSanta Ana, CA is looking for a technical outside sales personfor San Diego and part of Inland Empire areas. Products/applications include: PLC’s, Sensors, Motion, Vision andFraming systems. Technical Sales Specialist’s primaryresponsibility is to provide innovative solutions tocustomers resulting in the development and growth ofcustomer accounts. Bachelor of Science and/or Arts ordemonstrate mechanical aptitude and relevant work

experience. Excellent verbal, written and telephone skills supported by stronginterpersonal skills and ability to work within a team structure. Preference forindividuals residing in the Carlsbad, Temecula or San Diego areas. Forconsideration, contact Ron Novak at (657) 212-3115 or email resume to:[email protected].

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Sr. Field Application Engineer/ So Calif.,major automation manufacturer. Will providepre- and post- sales technical support to keycustomers/distributors on full line ofautomation prroducts, including PLC’s,VFD’s, HMI, Servo/Motion, etc. BSEE orBSME or equivalent experience of 5-10 yrs.If you are an engineer with experiencedesigning solutions looking to work for amajor player in the industry with excellentcompensation and benefits, please call me at:Dianne Gauger & Associates, 760-777-7372

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