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The Rochester Engineer Published since 1922 by
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Volume 93, Number 1, JUNE 2015 3,500 to 4,000 Monthly Circulation ISSN 0035-7405
Air Quality Control Inside A Masterpiece
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RES Mission Statement: The RES will become the lead organization for improving the image and influence of the engineering community in the greater Rochester area by: Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of the region’s engineering and technical capabilities; Providing the best clerical support and public relations assistance to our affiliates; Continually communicating the engineering and technical accomplishments to both the engineering and technical community and the public; Providing regular forums and networking opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of issues; and, Providing programs that identify career opportunities to the region’s youth and develop the skills of the practicing engineer.
5 • Join the RES Tutoring Team and support Dr. Walter Cooper Academy Scholars for "Summer School 2015" 6 • Air Quality Control Inside A Masterpiece (cover) 8 • Get to the Point! - Write the Way You Speak 9 • Get IT Done - Turn on the AC
News items and articles are invited. Materials should be submitted to the executive director at the society’s office, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607; Phone number (585) 254-2350, e-mail: res@frontiernet.net.
10 • The Limited Monopoly - Reissue - One of Seven Ways to Correct a Patent 12, 16-17 • News From Professional Firms 12, 23-24 • Professional Firms - Employee News
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25 • Go Green - Business to Business Event - Friday, June 19
14-15 • Position Openings 15-16, 20 • Campus News 18-19 • Enjoy Candid Photos From the 113th RES Annual Gala - 4/11/15
41 • Rochester Engineer Advertising Rates 42 • Soft Ankle-Foot Orthotic (feature)
Board of Directors:
OFFICERS: President ADAM CUMMINGS, PE Barton & Loguidice, PC / ACummings@bartonandloguidice.com First Vice President JON KRIEGEL Retired / jkriegel@rochester.rr.com Second Vice President MICHAEL V. TRIASSI Optimation Technology, Inc. / mike.triassi@gmail.com Acting Treasurer MICHAEL V. TRIASSI Optimation Technology, Inc. / mike.triassi@gmail.com Past President MARY STEBLEIN, PE LaBella Associates / mary.steblein@swe.org DIRECTORS: CORNELIUS (NEAL) ILLENBERG PE Retired / nillenberg@aol.com LEE LOOMIS Retired / leeloomis46@gmail.com SCOTT GRASMAN, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology / Email: scott.grasman@rit.edu ESTHER BETANCOURT Harris Corporation / ebetanco@harris.com RICHARD E. RICE, PE MJ Engineering / rriceaquash@gmail.com CASEY DILL Arnold Magnetic Technologies / casey.dill@gmail.com JOSEPH DOMBROWSKI, PE M/E Engineering / jdombrowski@meengineering.com DIRECTOR to TBD Administrative Director LYNNE M. IRWIN Rochester Engineering Society / e-mail: res@frontiernet.net
44-46 • Directory of Professional Services 46 • Directory of Business Services 47 • Affiliated Societies and Corporate Members of the RES
news of the...
• ABCD Association for Bridge Construction and Design...............37-38 • AFE Association for Facilities Engineering...........................................30 • AFE Association for Facilities Engineering...........................................30 • APWA American Public Works Association...........................................40 • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers....................................................32 • ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers....................................28 • EA Electrical Association.......................................................................36 • GVLSA Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association.............................35
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• IEC Independent Entrepreneurs Council...........................................33 • IES Illuminating Engineering Society....................................................29 • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.......................34 • INCOSE International Council of Systems Engineering...........................27 • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society......................................26 • RES Rochester Engineering Society....................................... 3-5, 18-19 • SWE Society of Women Engineers........................................................31
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President’s Message Mary Steblein, RES President 2014 - 15 I’d like to start off this month’s message by thanking the RES Board, Officers, members, and affiliates for another successful year. At the Annual Meeting in May, the new Officers and Directors were elected, and I am excited to turn over the reins to Adam Cummings, our new RES President (starting June 1). I look forward to continuing my service on the Board as Past President - which also means continued work on that Strategic Plan I mentioned in January! Many of the items I’ve talked about in the last 10 President’s Messages are still relevant and on-going issues. I’d like to condense my year’s worth of messages into a few nuggets for your reference: • RES is always looking for people to join committees and the Board. • The current state of our infrastructure is a big problem. Money is being diverted to fix roadways and bridges (the visible improvements), but our water and wastewater infrastructure will continue to be a concern. • Using the right message can help recruit future engineers. Check out some suggested language at http://www.engineeringmessages.org/ • Engineers can influence public policy. Use your analytical and technical skills to assist in the public policy and political process. Engineers could be more visible in this arena. • Soft skills are important for engineers. Communication, creativity, adaptability, collaboration and leadership might not be the first attributes that come to mind when we think of engineers – but they should not be ignored. • RES is undergoing a Strategic Planning process and your input is welcome. • Be aware of the Imposter Syndrome. If you’re experiencing it, acknowledge it and find ways to manage it. res news - president’s message
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Work to understand unintentional bias. Find ways for your work environment to be more inclusive. Find a mentor, be a mentor, or both! Aim for work-life balance.
It’s been an eye-opening year. Despite a year of serving as second VP and then as first VP of the RES, I do not think I knew exactly what to expect on a day-by-day basis as the 118th RES President. There were many decisions to weigh in on, input to solicit, questions to answer, networking opportunities, and collaborations with other groups. There were also the more routine tasks I knew to expect: putting together a message for this publication each month, reviewing agendas, presiding over the monthly Board meetings, reviewing the minutes, and participating at the Annual Gala. I weighed my decision to join the Board as a Director carefully, and then again when I was nominated as an Officer - the time has flown by so quickly. In retrospect, I am glad I accepted my nomination as an Officer – I believe that my written, verbal, and meeting skills have been exercised and refined, and I’ve made many valuable connections within the local engineering community. With all that I have learned and am taking away from this experience, I am hopeful that you were able to gain some additional insight from me as well. Now serving as Past President, I look forward to helping the RES continue to thrive. Thank you for all of your support. I would like to include a special thank-you to RES Administrative Director Lynne Irwin for everything she does, to Sal LaBella and Sergio Esteban for encouraging me to increase my involvement in RES, and to Allison Cutt, who has been invaluable as an editor. Have a wonderful summer!
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Rochester History Continuing with the historical sampling of the earlier writings on behalf of the Rochester Engineering Society, the years following "The Great War," into and through the “Great Depression,” continued to be a time of reaching out for the maturing Society, both locally and nationally. The meeting minutes describe a series of technical discussions and presentations intended to broaden the technical horizons of the membership (especially the CE's, ME's and EE's). The RES affiliated itself with a number of National technical societies, adopted local Affiliated Societies, frequently held joint meetings with them and continued taking action on a growing list of public matters. Certain issues of standardization, some crucial to public safety, became the responsibility of the RES and its affiliates. Once again war affected the Society, taking away many of its leaders and providing opportunities for others to step forward to fill these vacancies. In an effort to provide even greater perspective on the happenings and concerns of the day, a synopsis featuring selected items from "The Rochester Engineer" has become an integral part of this series. In the pervasive economic downturn of the “Great Depression,” the magazine offered classified advertising for unemployed engineers, technicians and draftsmen and took other steps to try to deal with the crisis. Still, it continued its effort to shape the function, purpose and infrastructure of the City of Rochester, and beyond. The Second World War and the Korean Conflict are now history. These experiences have changed the face and, no doubt, the future of the community. The Rochester municipal leadership and the industrial community have become immersed in the cold-war, growth economy.
“The Rochester Engineer” (May 1960)
This issue presented the slate of officers and directors of the RES for the coming year, including, President – Charles F. Starr, Consulting Engineer, 1st VP – Frederic C. Young, Senior Partner, Young Associates, 2nd VP – James A. McConnell, Assistant Chief Engineer, RG&E, Treasurer – Howard A. Brown, Superintendent Electric Distribution Department, RG&E; Directors – Alexander M. Beebee, Jr., Plant Engineer GM – Rochester Products, and Bernard F. Perry, District Engineer, NYS-DPW. Voting would take place at the June 9, 1960 RES annual meeting.
June 7, 1960 (Board of Directors Meeting, Hotel Sheraton)
The Board accepted the resignations of seven RES members, and it voted to accept fifteen new members, including its second female engineer, Dorothy Tracy, Assistant Engineer, NYS-DPW. The Board also accepted the RES annual report for 1959-60 for presentation at the Annual Meeting, on June 9, 1960.
June 9, 1960 (RES Annual Meeting, Hotel Sheraton, Attendance – 42)
Following the appointment of two Tellers to count the ballots, the membership heard a slide presentation, “Iceland – Asset or Problem Child” by Dr. Kenneth C.D. Hickman, Technical Director, Aquastills, Inc. who described a recent project in which his company was asked to install a seawater drinking water system for an isolated community in the Westman Islands, southwest of Iceland. At the close of this presentation, the Tellers announced the election of proposed RES officers and directors.
June 30, 1960 (Board of Directors Meeting, RG&E Auditorium)
Outgoing RES President, Jasper Willsea called the meeting to order, announcing five RES member resignations, and thanked the Board for their cooperation during his successful year as President. 4 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
A Sampling from the Archives of the Rochester Engineering Society...1897 - 1960 by Lee M. Loomis
June 30, 1960 (Board of Directors Meeting, RG&E Auditorium)
Incoming RES President, Charles Starr called the meeting to order. A motion to adopt a budget, identical to the previous year’s, pending determination of certain yet-to-be-known cost parameters, was passed. The expectation was that, by the October Board meeting, these costs would be identified, and an accurate budget would be possible. The names of six RES Directors, eligible for membership on the 1960-61 RES Executive Committee, were read and, by unanimous vote, Harvey H. Klumb was elected. In accordance with the RES Constitution, the other members of the RES Executive Committee are the President, the two VP’s and the Treasurer.
“The Rochester Engineer” (June 1960)
The University of Rochester announced a $2.75M program to expand the science and engineering facilities, as part of the larger $49.9M “Greater University Program.” This portion of the overall program is designed to “accommodate the University’s rising enrollment in the sciences and allied departments and to provide space for steadily growing programs of study and research,” according to Dr. Cornelius W. de Kiewiet, U of R President. Heading the solicitation for the remaining funds for the new science & engineering facilities was Robert E. Ginna, Chairman & CEO, RG&E, and Donald McMaster, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Eastman Kodak Company.
“The Rochester Engineer” (August 1960)
Traditionally, the August issue included the Board’s report on the activities of the previous year. Included in this year’s report was mention of the 1959 revision of the RES Constitution, including the admission of Cooperating Societies to the RES. As of May 31, 1960, the RES has admitted four; The NYSSPE/Monroe Chapter, the Rochester Chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Rochester Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Rochester Chapter of the American Society for Metals. The Emmet Blakeney Gleason Memorial Fund announced the establishment of a $10k scholarship program at the U of R’s College of Engineering for up to two entering freshmen who, “show scholastic promise, motivation for engineering and financial need,” according to Dr. John W. Graham, Dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. Graham pointed out that engineering enrollments, nationally, were lagging behind the rising need for highly educated personnel in this field. Subsequent articles in this series will describe the RES' continuing outreach to other technical societies as it considered its role in this and the larger community, along with more of the activities of the RES as it moved to be of greater service to its membership, especially those suffering from the current economic crisis, and adopted a greater role in shaping the future of the City and its environs. Noted also, will be the contributions made by RES members in the struggle to meet the challenges coming out of World War II, as well as a hoped-for period of post-war growth and prosperity. These articles will also feature an impressive array of RES activities in support of post-war re-emergence of Rochester area industry. We welcome your questions and comments on this series.
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RES News Join the “RES Tutoring Team” and Support Dr. Walter Cooper Academy Scholars For “Summer School 2015” It’s time for Summer School at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy! A childhood friend of Dr. Cooper’s has donated $20,000 to support a first-ever summer school program at our Partner School. The “Dr. Everett Williams Summer Literacy & Science Academy” will be a five-week program that begins on Monday, July 6th and runs through Friday, August 7th. Summer school runs from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm and includes breakfast and lunch for the students. Taught by our own faculty, the program includes topics such as “Taking Care of the Earth” (earth science), “Human Body” (physiology), “Ants/Insects” (entomology), “Forces & Energy” (physics), “Inventors & Inventions” (science & engineering). This program presents an opportunity for RES members, affiliates and friends to directly support our students to continue their learning process through the summer weeks, and avoid the academic “Summer-Loss” that often occurs from not being in school during the summer months. Will you help us with this important program?
Dr. Walter Cooper w/RES Tutor, Renee Keaton, whose employer allows her “flex–time” to come and tutor some of our 3rd Graders, a couple of hours each week.
We need tutors this summer, people with a passion for literacy and science and technology, to join us in ensuring that this program becomes a success, and perhaps even a model for future summer school programs. Please come to a 90 minute Orientation Session, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, Thursday, June 18th, at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, 353 Congress Ave., Rochester, NY 14619. There is NO OBLIGATION, just come and hear about what we’re planning. We want to give you an overview of the program, introduce you to the teachers with whom you’d be working and show you some of the amazing instructional materials we will be using with our students this summer. Please RSVP to Lee Loomis with your plans to attend the June 18th Summer School Orientation Session.
Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at… Rochester Engineering Society, (585) 254-2350 via website: www.roceng.org or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (cell)
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Air Quality Control Inside A Masterpiece By Michele Cometa, University News, Rochester Institute of Technology COVER IMAGE
The Sistine Chapel, one of the most visited historical sites at the Vatican, was showing signs of wear due to the volume of visitor traffic, and its air ventilation system was being taxed. Today, with a new system it can accommodate up to 2,000 visitors at one time in nearly any weather conditions.
Michelangelo was 33 when he began painting scenes from Genesis and the familiar hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—masterpieces considered the work of a lifetime.
under vaulted arches and on the ceiling. But the 500-yearold chapel in Vatican City was showing signs of wear due to the dust and debris brought in by tourists often exceeding capacity.
Jackie Russo Anderson (RIT Class of 2007, Mechanical Engineering) was just 30 when she was involved as part of an international engineering team that designed an ultramodern air management system to preserve the chapel’s historic artwork, without changing any part of the building’s original structure.
Anderson worked with an international team of engineers from Carrier’s offices in Syracuse, France and China, as well as art and communications representatives from the Vatican and the Italian Consulate involved in the chapel preservation efforts, which began in 2011 and were completed this past October. The previous air ventilation system was also being taxed, as it was designed to accommodate a maximum load of 700 simultaneous visitors. Today, the new system is designed to accommodate up to 2,000 visitors at one time.
“I would never have thought during my time at RIT, that at 30 years old, I’d be working on a project at the Sistine Chapel. That’s something that normally happens down the road, in your life, in your career,” said Anderson, who is a senior engineer in air management systems technology at Carrier, a division of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, the company that led the project. More than 6 million people a year take in the majestic beauty of the chapel’s frescoes on its walls and alcoves, 6 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
While an undergraduate at RIT, Anderson studied airflow and contamination and was part of Professor Risa Robinson’s mechanical engineering team studying cigarette smoke particle deposition in the lungs. This became the basis for her master’s thesis. She refined this further as a doctoral student at Syracuse University, focusing on indoor cover article
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air quality. Hired by Carrier in 2011, Anderson uses all these accumulated skills working on new technology development, fan design and system and custom applications for the company. “The work I did with Dr. Robinson easily transferred to the indoor air quality work that I studied for my Ph.D., which provided for an easy transition to the air management team at Carrier,” she said. “The Sistine Chapel project was both an air management and an indoor air quality challenge. The scale is very different between a human lung and the Sistine Chapel, but the underlying physics were solved with the same methods.” The team had some modeling limitations when it came to the building. It was a bigger scale than what they were used to, and they couldn’t change anything in the structure. “The Sistine Chapel is just an enormous building, and then you have these huge, really thick stone walls on the exterior which are hundreds of years old,” she explained. To prepare, Anderson and her colleagues studied the HVAC system, put in place by Carrier 20 years ago. It was still fully functional, but the air system capacity needed to increase. The chapel did not have the ductwork or internal ventilation structures that modern homes and buildings do today. Temperatures needed to be controlled for the sake of the paintings and the people, but bringing in more air meant larger vent openings, and this was not an option. Anderson did not visit the Sistine Chapel until after her preliminary design and modeling work was complete in May 2014. cover article
Jackie Russo Anderson (RIT, 2007) was part of a team that improved the air quality system at the Sistine Chapel.
"I had spent a lot of time modeling the interior of the Sistine Chapel, so I was very familiar with the overall dimensions of the space,” she said. “But when I first walked in I couldn’t believe how big it actually was and how amazing the paintings were. Michelangelo was a true genius.” It is ironic that Michelangelo’s impressive masterpiece on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel illustrating the creation of humanity was being damaged by the crowds of modern humanity that visit the chapel each year. “My role related to the air management within the chapel and how we would deliver three times more airflow without increased velocities near any of the paintings and without any structural changes to the chapel itself,” Anderson explained. “There were also aspects of controlling carbon dioxide and other contaminants that I modeled with computational fluid dynamic tools. One of the major portions of the project that I worked on was the design, modeling and testing of
the diffuser that now delivers the conditioned air to the space.” The team successfully increased the volume of air within the chapel through the complex diffuser system, vented through several small openings under the windows in the chapel, all part of the original ventilation system. It was also able to dilute carbon dioxide produced by visitors. The new diffuser Anderson produced could only have been achieved with an understanding of airflow and how to manipulate the physics of increasing the airflow through small, unyielding spaces. Anderson returned to the Vatican for the system unveiling after installation was complete in October 2014. “When I first started working on this, I didn’t necessarily understand how amazing the project really was until it started to come together,” she said. “Now, seeing how many people care about it, how much the Vatican has appreciated it, you really understand how special a project this was to be a part of.” q
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Get to the Point! Write the Way You Speak
Before all those retired English teachers start to shriek, let me explain: You need to develop a comfortable, natural writing style that resembles a conversational tone. Too often, I read statements from engineers like this: 1. Please be advised that any variations from these assumptions will constitute a change in the scope of work, requiring corresponding additional services on our part. Or how about this one, which I suspect had input from a legal person: 2. This proposal is made subject to the General Conditions of Service attached hereto. If you are in agreement with this proposal, kindly sign below indicating your notice to proceed and acceptance of the terms and conditions stated herein. Look what happens when we start to get involved in technical details: 3. The concept of allowing the north-south corridors to be considered as un-rated passageways could be permitted so long as they connect to rated corridors leading to exit enclosures as discussed in our meeting. The problem with this “over engineered” language is that it sneaks into the daily communications and becomes our “natural” writing style: 4. It is because of my scrutiny of the budget that I feel it would not be an inopportune time to spend agency resources for the reception. I would bet my paycheck that if I ran into an engineer in the hallway and asked: “How’s that project going?” that the response would be something like “We’ve had a few delays but are back on track and expect to deliver the final report to the client on July 14, right on time.” Now that’s more like it: Clear sentences spoken very eloquently, directly, and simply. And, in grammatically correct structures. But for some reason, when fingers get placed on the keyboard, we tend to have the need to sound “professional” and end up being incomprehensible. Let’s see if we can translate, decipher, interpret the above samples. Here’s what I think the writers were trying to say: 1. Please note that any variation from these assumptions changes the scope of work and requires us to provide additional services at additional costs. 2. This proposal corresponds to the attached General Conditions of Service. To proceed with the project, we require your signature below, which indicates your acceptance of the outlined terms and conditions. 3. As we discussed in our meeting, we can consider the north-south corridors as un-rated passageways if they connect to rated corridors leading to exit enclosures. 4. I have looked at the budget, and we have agency money to cover the reception. (Just like algebra, the double negative makes it a positive.)
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Simple, clear, direct, language builds trust and integrity with your reading audience, just as it does with your listening audience.
Einstein once said “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” The “text message generation” and Blackberry prisoners need to be careful about being too cryptic or using slang. 1. Cool…can do…time? 2. B4 mtg ck #’s w bob. 3. Answers: no, yes, not sure, maybe I appreciate that we can’t interpret these statements without the full text of the communication, but it takes more work than it should to comprehend the message. I guarantee that whoever has to read statements like this will spend more time trying to interpret them than it would take for the writer to write a clear, concise and complete sentence. I encourage you to develop a writing style that is natural yet remains professional. Remove all the stuffy, complex, four-syllable words along with the cryptic short cuts and slang. Think about the language and tone you use when you are in a business meeting and adopt that to your writing. One way to test your writing is to read it out loud and see if it sounds and feels right. If you can’t pronounce a word, or can’t breathe because it is too long, then I suggest a revision. Next time you get stuck and don’t know what to write, pretend your audience is in front of you and has just asked you a question. Then write the way you speak. Please do not hesitate at any given time in the future to contact the writer of this article with your issues, questions or comments about the text provided herein at the following email address. UGH! Email me at LisaM@rgilearning.com if you have questions or comments. Online instruction on business and technical writing is available at www.rgilearning.com
© 2015, RGI Learning Lisa Moretto is the President of RGI Learning, Inc. For 21 years she has helped engineers improve their oral and written communication skills. Visit www.rgilearning.com or call (866) 7443032 to learn about RGI’s courses. get to the point
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— André Godfrey There is no substitute for knowledge, no substitute for the truth, no substitute for hard work, and no substitute for network speed. Are we willing to pay for speed? Of course we are, we see examples every day. Corporate travelers pay to avoid rental car lines. A fair percentage of automobile drivers pay for EZ Pass to avoid waiting in toll lines (although it is interesting to observe that as more drivers get EZ Pass there are diminishing returns as the wait in the EZ Pass line itself gets longer). The list of examples is fairly self-evident so I won’t belabor it. How important is network speed to your everyday business? If your business is anything like the business I am in, speed is not just important, it is essential. We can’t afford to lose a minute in anyone’s day and everyone in my company wants to know the same thing: • How fast can we boot up our computers in the morning and start to work? • How fast can we get around on the internet to look up information? • How fast can we access attachments on email? • How fast can we access internal accounting applications? • How fast can we access our internal reports? • How fast can we access our ERP/CRM systems? • How fast can we access proposals – past and current? • How fast can we look up product information? • How fast can we look up product pricing that changes daily? • How fast can our engineers downloads patches and apply fixes? • How fast can we search past emails and other information? • How fast can we search and use our internet site? • HOW FAST CAN WE DO THIS CONCURRENTLY WITH ALL OUR USERS AND HAVE ALL THE APPS OPEN ON OUR DESKTOP WHILE WE WORK!?
The last part may appear unreasonable but let’s face it. We are users and not to be trusted. The answer to each and every one of these questions above and the hundreds more than are tangent to them has remained the same for 30 years despite tremendous technological advances. The answer is- not fast enough. get IT done
So here’s the premise. I’m willing to pay for network speed and I’m willing to pay a substantial price to get it. In fact, damn the cost, just let me know how much I need to write the check for. Can you get me there? Here goes: Get an Intel Core i7 processor with a solid state drive, 64bit-Windows and 16 gig ram. It may be overkill but then again it may not. I had to laugh when I read the review for just such a machine. “Get a computer that comes with a quad-core Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce graphics. This extra power lets you enjoy using the system over the next 4 to 5 years before it begins to feel slow.” Wow. Now let’s get you the rest of the way. Check the specs of your new computer for 802.11ac compatibility because the real reason to upgrade that computer is to gain yourself 802.11ac compatibility. 802.11ac is dozens of times faster than your current wireless and will eventually replace wired gigabit Ethernet networking in the office. There is a little bitty of a cautionary note to all of this. Just the tiniest of snags. First, your ISP needs to deliver at speeds that will allow you to take advantage of your new computer and the 802.11ac standard. Second, if you have 802.11ac, then all wireless users in your office must also use 802.11ac or else you will all default to the slowest common denominator. Kind of like being back taking trig in high school isn’t it? That caveat aside (and I acknowledge it is a very expensive caveat), I find some solace in knowing that it is achievable.
Think about IT.
André Godfrey is President/CEO of Entré Computer Services, www.entrecs.com
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The Limited Monopoly® Reissue - One of Seven Ways to Correct a Patent by Robert Gunderman, PE and John Hammond, PE
The Super Seven
There are currently seven ways to correct or amend an issued patent: 1. Reissue (the topic of this article) 2. Certificate of Correction 3. Disclaimer 4. Reexamination 5. Inter partes review 6. Post Grant Review 7. Covered Business Method Review While a book could be written on each, this article presents a brief summary of Reissue – what it is, and how and why it is used.
Reissue of “Defective” Patents
If a patent, through error, is deemed wholly or partially inoperative or invalid, by reason of a defective specification or drawing(s), or through a patentee claiming more or less than they had a right to claim, the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office may reissue the patent upon surrender of the original patent, payment of a fee and filing of a new and amended application. The term of the reissue will be for the unexpired part of the term of the original patent. It is important to note that defects can be corrected and claims can be amended, but no new matter can be introduced. Furthermore, the claims in the newly filed application for reissue must be for the same general invention as that disclosed as being the invention in the original patent1.
Why Reissue?
There are many instances where an error in an issued patent would justify that a reissue application be filed. A defective specification or drawing(s), claims that are too narrow or too broad, a misunderstanding of the invention by the patent practitioner thus resulting in faulty claims, or incorrect or faulty priority references all warrant the filing of a reissue application. If there are issues related to novelty or obviousness of the claims, reexamination is usually the better tool for the job. 10 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
Timeframes to File and the Special Case of the Broadening Reissue
If the Applicant believes that he did not receive claims commensurate with the scope of his invention, but that his claims are unduly narrow, he has two years from the grant of the original patent in which to file what is known as a “broadening reissue.” If a broadening reissue2 is filed to broaden the scope of the claims, the Applicant must not only comply with this two year rule, but also must clearly indicate that the reissue application is for a broadening reissue in the reissue application papers. Other than the specific situation of a broadening reissue, a reissue application can be filed at any time as long as the patent has not expired. For any reissue application, the oath or declaration must state why the Applicant believes there is a basis for reissue (i.e., what error is being relied upon).
The Rule Against Recapture
A reissue will not be granted to “recapture” claimed subject matter which was surrendered in prosecution in order to obtain the original patent. There is a three step test that is often used for recapture analysis3 to determine if recapture has occurred. These steps are used by practitioners, Examiners, and the courts to ensure that recapture does not occur. For those interested, a quick internet search is sure to provide the specifics. If, for example, a restriction requirement4 (or election of species) was made in a patent application and the Applicant did not file a divisional application on the non-elected The Limited Monopoly
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invention, but instead caused only the elected invention to issue as a patent, the non-elected invention cannot be recovered by filing a reissue application. The failure of the Applicant to timely file a divisional application directed to the non-elected invention is not considered a defect that would make the patent eligible for reissue, and if the Applicant attempts to file a reissue application to recover the non-elected invention, the claims will be rejected.
The Examination Process
Reissue applications are examined like other patent applications, upon filing of the reissue application and related filing papers, payment of fees and offer to surrender the original patent. It is common for the same Examiner who issued the original patent to be assigned to the reissue application. Reissue applications are acted on by the Examiner in advance of other applications. There is usually, however, a two month delay period where the reissue application is not acted upon by the Examiner sooner than two months after the announcement of the filing of the reissue application has appeared in the Official Gazette published by the USPTO. This allows any member of the public to submit pertinent information prior to the Examiner’s action. This pertinent information is submitted in the form of a Protest5. If the reissue application is involved in litigation, other special considerations apply, and the reissue application may then be made special above and beyond other reissue applications, or prosecution may be suspended by the Examiner. It should be noted that application for reissue of a patent shall constitute an offer to surrender that patent, and the surrender will take effect upon reissue of the patent. Prior to October 21, 2004, the original physical Letters Patent (the “ribbon copy”) was required to be surrendered to the USPTO, but that is no longer a requirement. The original patent remains in effect until a reissue is granted. If the reissue application is rejected or abandoned, the original patent remains enforceable.
Enforceability of the Original Patent
If the claims of the reissued patent and the original patent are substantially identical6, the reissued patent constitutes a continuation of the original patent and infringement can be asserted since the date of the original patent. If, however, the claims of the reissue are not “substantially identical” to the claims of the original patent, enforcement is tied to the claims of the reissued patent and the date of reissue.
Doctrine of Intervening Rights
Also defined in 35 U.S.C. 252 is the doctrine of intervening The Limited Monopoly
rights. Should a party make decisions based on the scope of the claims in the original patent, and later find that through a reissue it is now infringing, the Court where the matter is litigated may allow that party to continue to make, purchase, offer to sell or use within the United States or import into the United States, anything patented by the reissued patent. This essentially limits a patent holder’s ability to enforce claims that are different in scope than the original patent in certain situations.
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Reissue, like many patent law related topics, is complex. This article touches on some of the basics, but there are numerous fact patterns that must be considered in determining if a reissue application is the correct way to resolve an error. If the error is simple and of a clerical nature, a certificate of correction may be the right approach. Errors that would make the patent partially or wholly inoperative or invalid are usually best taken care of before the patent is put to task in an enforcement action. Whether reissue is the right way to go depends on a careful review of all of the facts at hand, usually by a patent practitioner working closely with the patentee. 1. 35 U.S.C. 251 2. The Limited Monopoly® February 2010 3. Clement, 131 F.3d at 1468-70, 45 USPQ2d at 1164-65, CAFC 4. The Limited Monopoly® June 2008 5. 37 C.F.R. §1.291(a) 6. 35 U.S.C. 252 Authors Robert D. Gunderman P.E. (Patent Technologies, LLC www.patentechnologies.com) and John M. Hammond P.E. (Patent Innovations, LLC www.patent-innovations.com) are both registered patent agents and licensed professional engineers. They offer several courses that qualify for PDH credits. More information can be found at www.patenteducation.com. Copyright 2015 Robert Gunderman, Jr. and John Hammond Note: This short article is intended only to provide cursory background information, and is not intended to be legal advice. No client relationship with the authors is in any way established by this article. GRAPHIC CREDIT: 1970 Lotus Super Seven JUNE 2015 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 11
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Rochester's City Hall Green Roof, Parking Lot Wins 2014 APWA Award The American Public Works Association, Genesee Valley Branch has awarded The City of Rochester Department of Environmental Services a 2014 Project of the Year Award for Environmental Projects category (less than $5 million) for the City Hall Green Roof, Parking Lot and Raingarden Project. (Barton & Loguidice assisted with the pervious parking lot and rain garden portion of this project). The City of Rochester has recently completed a three-part Green Infrastructure improvement project that involved the installation of a green roof, green pervious parking lot, and rain gardens. The project demonstrates the City's commitment to green innovation and sustainability, by reducing the amount of runoff from wet weather into the City's combined storm/ sewer system (and ultimately into
the region's rivers, streams, and lakes). Stormwater is consumed by plants on the green roof, the pervious pavement filters and slows the amount of runoff to the combined storm/sewer system, and green infrastructure elements such as rain gardens and structural soils contribute an additional layer of stormwater filtration and runoff control. The $779,000 project is funded by a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) grant (85%) and by the City of Rochester (15%). The project provides for other public and private building owners a demonstration of green construction and the potential system benefits. q News from Professional Firms, continued on page 17...
Professional Firms Employee News Ben Gustafson Accepted Ownership Role in Hunt HUNT announces new shareholder to join its team of principals. Role of ownership was offered to the Rochester office senior project manager Benjamin J. Gustafson, PE. Mr. Gustafson assumes the role of Principal effective immediately. Mr. Gustafson joins the other twelve shareholders in the firm. This is the result of a long-term strategy to offer ownership in the firm to key members who have demonstrated their commitment to HUNT, and who have expressed an interest in assuming the role of principal. Ben Gustafson joined HUNT in 2009 as a civil engineer. He is a graduate of Valparaiso University and earned his professional engineering license from Pennsylvania in 2010 and New York in 2011. He began his career performing site design, utility, and approval work for one of the largest home builders in the world while living in Philadelphia. For HUNT, Ben has been project manager and completed site design work for Guthrie Health at several locations, Woodland Park in Lansing, Calamar Apartments in Erwin, Transonic Systems Inc. in Lansing, and the Rochester Housing Authority. Early in his career he provided community development services to Crossworld Haiti in Passe Catabois, Haiti. q
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University Researcher Wins NIH Award for Developing New Atrial Fibrillation Solution Behnaz Ghoraani’s work in signal processing targets irregular heartbeats that can lead to stroke Behnaz Ghoraani, engineering faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology, was recently awarded a $456,000 grant from the National Institutes for Health for the project “Catheter guidance algorithm for identification of atrial fibrillation ablation.” According to the American Heart Association, atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder, affects more than 2 million Americans. These fluctuations in the heart can cause increased risk of stroke and heart failure. Electrical signals within the body drive the mechanical movement of the heart. Atrial fibrillation is an irregularity of the heart rate, specifically within the atria, the two upper chambers of the heart, due to a disturbance in the electrical activity. Ghoraani and her research team are developing a novel low-risk, low-cost algorithm allowing improved and patient-specific localization of electrical disturbance sites to improve clinical intervention for atrial fibrillation. Clinicians and electro-physiologists access the atria using a catheter, a process called atrial fibrillation ablation, isolating the atria from the pulmonary veins as a means to stabilize the electrical activity. “This will help the doctors to better target the problem,” said Ghoraani, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering. “The developed algorithm is going to help them attempt to better ‘see’ what is going on in the atrium—more than sensing the electrical signals in the heart, but analyzing it. This technology is about guiding the clinicians to where they need to sense in the atria, by analyzing the patterns of the electrical signals in the atria.” Ghoraani has done extensive work in the area of developing signal and image processing techniques to characterize the human atrial fibrillation mechanism, in addition to developing signal analysis algorithms for electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, audio and speech data. Through signal analysis and pattern recognition techniques, Ghoraani has been able to find patterns that can guide researchers toward the disturbance source, and this will be the basis of the research team’s diagnostic application. She is collaborating with Elizabeth Cherry, associate professor in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences, as well as clinicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center, electrophysiologists and scientists at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y. The team is developing the algorithm building upon clinical data collected from an early project through Toronto General Hospital where Ghoraani was a post-doctoral Fellow. She found evidence of patterns of atrial fibrillation in the intra-cardiac signal, and the preliminary data is being used to establish the algorithm for this latest project. “The human body is a source of information and it is communicating with us. We have to translate it in a way that we can better use that information,” she said, “with many scientists looking at possible solutions, and trying to tackle it from different angles. It is very hard to access this data because it is so dynamic, that’s kind of the challenge we are facing. We are combining information and trying to understand the clinical problem through engineering and mathematics. I think that is the interesting side of this project.” q Campus News, continued on page 16....
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Campus News RIT Awards Kate Gleason Medal for Leadership in Engineering Education to Two National Collegiate Leaders Engineers advance new technologies that make innovative products possible. And in doing so, engineers are shaping the future of society. In recognition of the influential role that the academic leaders of engineering colleges play in creating the engineers of tomorrow, the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology has established the Kate Gleason Medal for Leadership in Engineering Education. Leah Jamieson
“The award is inspired by the reality that the future of our society is shaped by the work of engineers, and the shaping of those engineers is the business of engineering colleges,” said Harvey Palmer, dean of RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering. “Those individuals who are providing outstanding leadership at engineering colleges deserve special recognition, for the good of our nation and our global society.” The college presented its first award on Purdue University dean of engineering Leah Jamieson. Recognized internationally for her achievements in education, research and service, Jamieson has played an integral role in the development of Purdue University’s status as a top engineering school in the country. She began as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the university in 1976 and has held a succession of leadership positions, from graduate coordinator and department head to distinguished professor of engineering, prior to becoming dean. The college awarded its second medal to Texas A&M University System vice chancellor and dean of engineering M. Katherine Banks. Banks holds a dual role at Texas A&M. As vice chancellor, she oversees coordination among the engineering, academic and research programs
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at seven universities throughout the system, as well as three state agencies: the Engineering Extension Service, the Transportation Institute and the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. For the latter, she oversees the research administration of more than 4,400 projects and $157 million in sponsored research awards. As dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, Banks leads one of the largest engineering schools in the country, with more than 13,000 students and M. Katherine Banks nearly 400 faculty. Her background is in civil engineering and she is a licensed professional civil engineer in several states, a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. “While applauding extraordinary achievement as a leader in engineering education is the primary motivation for creating the Kate Gleason Medal,” said Palmer, “we are also hoping to gain significantly in the long term from tapping into the expertise, insights, knowledge and experience of Medal winners, to help RIT become even stronger than it is today.” The Kate Gleason Medal is named after Kate Gleason, who was business leader, inventor and the first woman elected to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Her influence on her family’s company, Gleason Works, was transformational, as she led the way to globalization for U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s. “RIT’s engineering college is extremely proud to be named after such an extraordinary woman,” said Palmer. q Campus News, continued on page 20....
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Erdman Anthony Receives International Quality Certification for 15th Year For the 15th year Erdman Anthony has received ISO 9001 certification, meeting international standards for quality. ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is an independent, non-governmental membership organization and the world's largest developer of voluntary international standards. The certification process ensures that systems are in place at the firm to deliver quality products and services to 16 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
customers. “Erdman Anthony is one of a relative handful of engineering consulting firms nationwide to have earned ISO 9001 quality certification,” said Scott S. Kelley, P.E., corporate quality system manager for the firm. “This certification sets us apart in a highly competitive market.” q campus news | news from professional firms
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Bergmann Associates Moving Headquarters to Tower280 Bergmann Associates plans to move its Rochester, NY headquarters to Tower280 (formerly known as Midtown Tower) in the fall of 2016. Bergmann will become the primary tenant in the building occupying the entire 55,000 SF second floor. The 17 story iconic tower, once a regional destination and hub of activity, is currently being renovated by owners Buckingham Properties and Morgan Management. Originally designed by Victor Gruen, Midtown Plaza was the first urban indoor shopping mall in the United States when it opened in 1962. Bergmann’s 190 Rochester based employees will be moving from First Federal Plaza on East Main Street, where they have called home for the past 15 years. Bergmann has been diligently evaluating space alternatives in the City of Rochester for the last 18 months. A relocation team, led by Chief Operating Officer Pete Giovenco, asked an internal committee of 25 employees to review and analyze a number of important factors. “The committee’s feedback was quite valuable in our decision,” commented Giovenco. “After all, the employees should have a loud voice in where they will work and the amenities that are most essential to them.” Some of the factors important to staff were parking, safety, community connectivity, contemporary feel and image. “As the first major tenant in Midtown Tower, a Rochester landmark that has sat vacant for years, Bergmann Associates planned move is a true testament to the fact that Downtown Rochester is indeed undergoing its renaissance,” Mayor Lovely Warren said. “I expect many more businesses to follow Bergmann’s lead and locate to what will soon be, once again, a hub of activity in our Center City. I also want to acknowledge Buckingham Properties, a key partner in bringing our downtown back to life, and with that we’ll be able to attract more jobs, make for safer neighborhoods, and have more access to a quality education for our children.” Bergmann’s Senior Interior Designer Charlene Finn is programming the new space. “We recognize the opportunity this relocation affords us as a company,” said Finn. “It is exciting to design a space where our employees have a choice in where and how they work within the office environment. This will improve engagement, innovation, and vitality, all necessary elements of a vibrant work culture and components supportive of the emerging generation of professionals.” Ken Glazer, Managing Partner at Buckingham Properties states “Bergmann Associates relocating to Tower280 sends a genuine message to our community that Rochester has indeed turned a corner and downtown is quickly becoming an attractive option for all types of businesses. The interest we are seeing at Tower280 only reinforces our belief that this community and its dedicated leaders will be successful in creating a thriving City Center.” “We are absolutely thrilled that Bergmann Associates is our first major tenant for Tower280. This announcement is an extremely positive moment, not only for Tower280, but also for the revitalization of downtown Rochester. Tower280 is a $59 million project that will include 181 beautiful, modern apartments and three floors of retail/commercial space. This is a great day for Bergmann, Tower280 and the City of Rochester,” Bob Morgan, CEO of Morgan Management. q Virtual Flyover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeKow5NtQy8&feature=youtu.be news from professional firms
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Campus News Generating broadband terahertz radiation from a microplasma in air Researchers at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.
spectra – they have peaks and troughs at different frequencies. But depending on the spectral resolution, these features might look very similar for the different materials.
In a recently published paper in Optica, Fabrizio Buccheri and Xi-Cheng Zhang demonstrate that an approach for generating terahertz waves using intense laser pulses in air – first pioneered in 1993 – can be done with much lower power lasers, a major challenge until now. Ph.D. student and lead author Buccheri explains that they exploited the underlying physics to reduce the necessary laser power for plasma generation. He adds that it could potentially be improved for applications in the monitoring of explosives or drugs.
“Spectroscopy is like taking a picture,” said Buccheri. “If the camera has a low resolution, the resulting image might be blurry and the object difficult to identify.”
Buccheri explains that applications for terahertz radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation named after its frequency, can be divided into two categories: imaging and spectroscopy. Imaging using terahertz waves is similar to imaging using X-rays, but unlike X-rays it is not a form of ionizing radiation. Imaging with terahertz can, for example, allow us to look under layers of painting. For imaging applications, a narrow range of terahertz frequencies is needed. He adds that this can be generated using specific terahertz devices, such as diodes or lasers. However, for spectroscopy applications, “such as analyzing food for poisons or baggage for drugs or explosives it is useful for the terahertz radiation to be as ‘broadband’ as possible,” according to Buccheri. That is, it contains waves of many different frequencies within the terahertz range. For this, a plasma is needed. Buccheri explains that spectroscopy works by looking at which frequencies are absorbed by certain materials. Different materials have different
For common applications, however, higher spectral resolution is not feasible as it is more costly and requires more sophisticated equipment. In these cases, more points of comparison are needed, just like in fingerprint analysis. The more points of comparison that are available, the more precise the analysis, and this is what a broadband source can provide, says Buccheri. “If you were only using a source of radiation with a range around 1 terahertz you might not be able to tell two different materials apart at low spectral resolution, as you might only have one feature in the spectrum to compare,” added Buccheri. “If instead you compare their spectra over a range of tens of terahertz, the ‘fingerprints’ of the two materials will differ and the materials will be more clearly identifiable, even at lower spectral resolutions.” Until now, approaches to use a plasma as a broadband source of terahertz have commonly used an elongated plasma generated by combining together two laser beams of different frequencies, i.e., colors. This technique, usually referred to as “two-color” approach, requires powerful, expensive lasers. The “one-color” approach uses single laser frequency to generate the plasma. Pioneered by Harald Hamster and colleagues in 1993, it required even higher laser energies and therefore it was not explored further until this recent
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paper by Buccheri and Zhang. Buccheri explains that he has always been interested in the polarization of light and how it can be exploited for different uses. He was interested in certain polarization states that exist for a beam of light: azimuthal or radial polarization. In these states, the electric field is either perpendicular to the radial axis or radial at each given point. “I wanted to see if by creating a plasma with a laser in one of these “weirder” polarization states I could make the terahertz emission more efficient,” said Buccheri. “That didn’t work. But when I understood why it didn’t work, I really understood the underlying physics.” He adds that he was then able to exploit the physics to use lower laser energies than previously thought possible to generate broadband terahertz waves in air. The trick was to replace elongated plasmas, with lengths ranging from few millimeters to several centimeters, with a microplasma, about the width of a human hair. He thinks that fine tuning the type of laser used and changing the air to a different gas could enable even lower operation powers. An advantage of this “one-color” approach to generating terahertz radiation is the fact that the terahertz waves propagate in a different direction to the laser beam. This makes it easier for potentially coupling the terahertz waves to a wave guide on a microchip, for example. The researchers received funding from the NSF (ECCS-1229968) and the Army Research Office (W911NF-14-1-0343). Full reference for the paper: Terahertz emission from laser-induced microplasma in ambient air, Fabrizio Buccheri and Xi-Cheng Zhang, Optica, Vol. 2, Issue 4, pp. 366-369 (2015). http://dx.doi. org/10.1364/OPTICA.2.000366. q
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Monroe Professional Engineers Society (MPES) NYSSPE Annual Convention 8 PDH Credit
Place: Fort William Henry Hotel & Conference Center, 48 Canada Street, Lake George, NY Cost: Room rage: $158 & $229 - room must be booked by May 11th. Comments: Sponsorship opportunities are available. Online registrations now available, www.nysspe.com. If you have questions please contact Jen Miller at jamiller@nysspe.org or 518-283-7490.
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Place: Hibachi Sushi Buffet Restaurant, South Town Plaza on Jefferson Road (Route 252), just west of West Henrietta (Route 15), Rochester. Time: 12:00 noon. Comment: Any IEEE member is invited to attend and to participate, or just to observe. Lunch is $3 for IEEE member. No reservation or RSVP is needed, just show up. Website: http://rochester.ieee.org.
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American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE)
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Place: Victor Hills Golf Club, 1450 Brace Road, Victor Time: Tee-off at 10:00 am (South Course); Dinner about 3:30 pm (buffet dinner with Prime Rib, Sliced Ham and Stuffed Boneless Chicken Breast). Cost: $75 per person (includes lunch, 18 holes of golf, dinner, awards & prizes). Lunch and golf is $50. Dinner only is $30. Comments: Golf attire required (shirt with collar, no tank tops). 4-person scramble. Reservations: Send registration form and check (payable to Rochester Chapter ASPE) to Rochester Chapter ASPE, Jennifer Wengender at Clark Patterson Lee, 205 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester, NY 14604. If not already signed up, contact Jennifer immediately.
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Day Game at Frontier Field - Rochester Red Wings vs. Indianapolis Indians This event includes a lunch and a brief talk on what’s happening at Frontier Field. Cost: $25 for lunch and a ticket to the game in a luxury suite. Time: Game starts at 1:30 pm. Stay as long as you can or enjoy a great afternoon in the ballpark. Reservations: Contact Berneda Rivard by Monday, June 1st, BME Associates, 585-377-7360 or brivard@bmepc.com. Engineers' Calendar continued on page 22.... continuing education
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Independent Entrepreneurs Council (IEC)
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When You Should Consider When Designing and / or Constructing a Cleanroom from a Certifier’s Perspective Speaker: Ralph Kraft, R. Kraft, Inc. Place: SUNY Polytechnic Institute, College’s of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center (STC), 5450 Campus Drive, Canandaigua, NY Time: Registration from 7:30 to 8:00 am; Presentation from 8:00 to 9:00 ~9:30 am. Registration required: There is no charge for this presentation. Reservations are required by close of business on Friday, June 12, 2015. Make your reservations via The Rivers Organization at 585-586-6906 or ESTG@Riversorg.com.
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Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) 2015 Annual Golf Outing
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Place: Victor Hills Golf Club, 1450 Brace Road, Victor, NY Time: Shotgun Start at 10:30 am Cost: Details on page 29 of this issue or go to the website at www.ies-rochester.org. Reservations: Reservations must include payment. Make checks payable to IES Rochester and mail with the registration form to IES Rochester Section, PO Box 23795, Rochester, NY 14692.
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International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Town Hall Meeting
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Place: Terry Hills Country Club, 5122 Clinton Street Road, Batavia, NY Time: Registration and lunch beginning at 11:30 am; Shotgun start at 12:45 pm; Dinner at 6:00 pm Cost: $100 per person (includes lunch, golf with cart, keg beer starting one hour before dinner, dinner and prizes). $150 hole sponsorships available. Reservations: Contact Mike Barrett by Wednesday, June 10, 2015, (716) 688-0766, mbarrett@wendelcompanies.com. Entry form can be found online at http://abcdwny.org/.
Friday, June 19 Go Green
Place: Victor Hills, South Course, 1450 Brace Road, Victor, NY Time: Coffee, doughnuts and bagels at 9:00 am. Scramble Forman, shotgun start at 10:00 am Cost: 18 holes of golf and lunch - $60, Golf and dinner - $85, Dinner only - $35 per person. Reservations: Contact Craig Avalone, CHA by June 12th at CAvalone@chacompanies.com or 585-232-5610 ext. 287. Payment is required in advance by sending the registration and prepayment to AFE Rochester Chapter 21. Details are posted on page 30.
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Thursday, June 25
Project Mamangement Institute Rochester Chapter (PMI)
Leadership and Consensus Building 1 PMP PDU Credit
Speaker: Senator Joseph Robach Place: Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul Street, Rochester Time: 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Dinner provided. Comments: Ronald McDonald House Event - Attendees must bring articles to donate. If no articles are brought cost is as stated below. Cost: $15 member, $25 non-member. Reservations: Reservations and details at www.pmirochester.org.
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Place: Rochester Brooks Club, 962 Honeoye Falls Road, Rush, NY (www.rochesterbrooks.org) Time: Registration 2:30 – 3:30 pm (practice/instruction rounds available $5/round), Sporting Clays 50 Targets from 4:00 to 6:00 pm (Ammunition not included, $7.50 a box at the club. Eye and ear protection required, limited quantities available. Cocktails from 6:00 to 7:00 (cash bar), BBQ Dinner - 7:00 to 8:00 pm. Costs: Shooting and dinner - $40 per person, Shooting only - $25 per person, Dinner only - $20 per person. Pay at registration, make checks payable to GVLSA. Registrations: Registration deadline is June 19th – rain or shine event. Dress appropriately. Contact Bob Hatch at bhatch@schultzpc.com or 585-349-3750 or John Gillen at johngillen@frontiernet.net or 585-786-3960. engineers’ calendar
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Place: LeRoy Country Club, 7759 East Main Road, LeRoy, NY Registration: Register early for a discounted price (before June 19). Price includes 18 holes of golf, cart, coffee and donuts, lunch at the turn (choice of hot dog or hamburger, chips and beverage), one free beverage ticket good at the beverage cart, and buffet dinner. Details at www.eawny.com.
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Professional Firms Employee News Senior Leadership Changes at CHA
CHA announced the elevation of its Chief Executive Officer, Raynond L. Rudolph, PE to Executive Chairman and named Michael Carroll, PE as its new CEO and president. "These moves," said Ira Starr of Long Point Capital and Chairman of the Board, "are part of a plan we made in 2008 for CHA to become a leading company in its field. It allows the firm to put greater focus on growth and value creation." "In addition to his role as Chairman, Ray will support Mike Carroll" added Mr. Starr "by serving as Chief Client Officer and leading the corporate and business development activities, providing a sharp focus on meeting the growing needs of our clients." Mr. Rudolph offered that he was "thrilled
to be able to, with Mike joining the firm, focus his full attention on clients. That's where my passion rests. I am also exceptinally pleased we were able to find someone of Mike's caliber to lead the company. We could not be in better hands with Mike as CEO." "Mike's experience," said Mr. Starr "is a unique fit for this stage in the firm's development. He has extensive executive executive experience as CEO, President, and Executive Vice President of global, multi-billion dollar engineering and consulting firms, including ARCADIS and AECOM. His experience as a team builder creates high performance, high morale organizations that will serve CHA very well." Mr. Carroll brings 22 years' experience to his new position, having served as CEO of ARCADIS in the United Kingdom,
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President of that firm's Infrastructure Division in the U.S., and stints as Region Manager for ARCADIS' North, South, and West divisions. He also served as executive vice president at AECOM. He spent 20-years in the Air Force, including a six-year assignment in upstate New York. A graduate from SUNY Utica, he holds a MBA and a MS in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Commenting on his priorities in his new assignment, he said "It's an honor to lead CHA, which is a well performing company, to the next level - to make the firm the industry standard. My sole focus is to have the firm be the best in the industry, one sought out by clients and employees while providing investors and shareholders exceptional returns." q Professional Firms, Employee News, continued on page 24...
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Professional Firms Employee News Beardsley Architects + Engineers Appoint Three Directors to Their Board Beardsley Architects + Engineers announced that Barry Halperin, AIA, Carmen Lapine, PE, and Michael Reynolds, AIA, were appointed to the Board of Directors in May 2015. Together they were hired fifteen years ago and now Barry, Carmen, and Michael enthusiastically market the firm’s services, provide supportive management skills, and are passionate mentors and advocates of the firm. They embody the definition of teamwork and set the standard for client relationship building and development. With this character, we are proud to bring them into the fold. Barry Halperin, AIA, Principal Developer | Individualization | Achiever | Responsibility | Deliberative – top five Gallup Strengths As a Principal and former owner of his own firm, Barry Halperin joined the firm in 2000 and has been a key developer of the firm’s vision and direction. He describes his leadership style as collaborative, and he enjoys working in partnership with Beardsley's quality staff throughout the company’s multiple locations.
Barry Halperin, AIA
Barry is proud of the client relationships he has maintained over the years and believes this has paid dividends to the firm in repeat business and great design opportunities. Barry especially enjoys the variety of work that Beardsley undertakes, particularly the complex environmental and geographic conditions often faced as a multidiscipline firm. Carmen J. Lapine, PE, Principal Strategic | Belief | Responsibility | Achiever | Focus – top five Gallup Strengths
Carmen J. Lapine, PE
Carmen Lapine utilizes his knowledge and strong leadership skills to advance the firm and their clients. As a Principal and civil engineer with over 25 years of experience in design and construction, Carmen leads by example working together with the firm's quality staff to help build strong client relationships. To accomplish this, he believes in the importance of mentoring and the encouragement of staff development by providing supportive environments that promote professional growth and allow staff to flourish. “We have learned that without knowledgeable staff in this fast-paced design world that we live in, quick informed decisions to meet compressed schedules and budgets cannot be made,” says Lapine. Michael N. Reynolds, AIA, Principal Maximizer | Strategic | Empathy | Individualization | Achiever – top five Gallup Strengths
Michael N. Reynolds, AIA
Michael can be described as an architect who targets service and the ultimate client experience as prerequisites to exceptional architecture. He is able to hear the one-of-a-kind story in each person’s life and use it to frame a holistic and rewarding design experience, leading to lasting relationships and architecture specific to each client.
Joining the firm in 2000, Michael has developed as a client-centric principal within the firm. He embraces humility, empathy, and open mindedness as primary leadership qualities and is driven to support others by promoting their strengths. His passion and commitment to the firm is second to none. q 24 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
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Monroe Professional Engineers Society
A Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607 Dedicated to Professionalism in Engineering in the Interest of Public Safety and Welfare www.monroepe.org
2014-15 Officers: President Joe Dombrowski, PE, President-elect Chris Devries, PE, Treasurer Neal Illenberg, PE, Membership Chair Joe Dombrowski, PE The 2014-2015 year for the Monroe Professional Engineers Society (MPES) will be coming to a close soon. Looking back over the last year I am proud at what MPES has been able to achieve and the contributions we have made to our community. When you have had the opportunity as I have had to work side by side with many skilled, talented and dedicated people who have contributed to achieving the goals of the Society it is easy to see why things work so smoothly year after year. With that in mind I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of the MPES Board for their efforts over this last year. I’d also like to express my thanks and thank you to all the people on the Board who have contributed in any way, big or small to our various programs and efforts this past year like; MathCounts, TEAM+S, Scholarships Selections and the Engineering Symposium. Without the continued efforts and dedication of you we would not be able to achieve the great successes we have nor would we be able to give back to the community in the manner that we do. THANK YOU! Watching the organization run, it’s easy to see how others might be content to stay in the background and think, “they don’t need me.” Well, we do! Remember MPES is an ALL VOLUNTEER organization. I and all the others on the Board and those that manage, coordinate and run our various events are all volunteers. None of us are able to give hours and hours each month but we each give what we can and taken as a whole the organization gets the level of effort it needs to be a success. As with any volunteer organization, the capacity 26 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
of our success is reliant upon the commitment of our members and the growth of the organization. As such, I encourage YOU to consider lending a helping hand by joining the Board or just setting aside a few hours each year to assist with one or more of the MPES programs that we proudly sponsor. In many of these instances, the time commitment is low but the personal reward is high. If you are interested in getting involved but not ready to take on a full leadership position or you are not sure how your skills may be beneficial to the Chapter, then please contact me or any of the other MPES Board of Directors. We will be glad to provide you with information on the ways that you can get involved and give back at a level that you feel comfortably with. As always, you are encouraged to become a more active member in the Society. We are constantly striving to improve your membership but we always need more help. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at jdombrowski@meengineering.com and please do not hesitate to contact me or any other Board member with any questions. Sincerely, Joe Dombrowski, P.E., President – MPES jdombrowski@meengineering.com
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International Council on Systems Engineering www.incose/org/flc
Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING www.incose.org/flc
Upcoming Chapter Meeting Events • June 18, 2015 INCOSE Finger Lakes Chapter Meeting
Town Hall Meeting: This is your chance to ask the Chapter Leadership questions or make suggestions - please make every effort to take advantage of this opportunity. Here are some possible discussion items: SIW2015 (occured in January of this year)
Program Content for Chapter Meetings
Upcoming regional event (you could be a participant
What more do you want from the Chapter
New INCOSE Website System
New Ideas
Modeling (vendors have offered free one
Joining Chapter Leadership (a great way to learn how
if so desired)
year licenses for educational purposes)
and INCOSE Central?
to lead without pressure)
Chapter Project(s) (perhaps we can organize a project for a good cause)
• Call for nominations for chapter leadership: Do you enjoy working with great people, full of ideas and experience? Consider joining the leadership team of the Finger Lakes chapter of INCOSE. We have openings on the board of directors (President-elect, Membership Director, and At-large Director) for 2015, and we will be holding a special election soon to fill these positions. If interested, please email rzinni@gmail.com to learn more about being part the FLC Leadership group; it’s a great way to gain leadership experience to enable you to grow faster professionally. Meeting Agenda:
6:00 pm Meeting Introduction / Featured Presentation 7:15 pm (approx time) Adjourn Meeting
Locations: The following sites will participate in the meeting. All sites will have telephone conference access and will display the presentation (please contact Rick Zinni for any general questions, or if you want to call in on your own, at rzinni@gmail.com): Ithaca, NY Syracuse University Xerox Rome, NY SRC, No. Syracuse, NY Lockheed Martin SI Rochester Inst. of Tech.
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Wesley Hewett at wahewett@gmail.com, Ithaca, NY; Dr. Young Moon at ybmoon@syr.edu, 220 Link Hall Charles Rizzolo at charles.rizzolo@xerox.com Bruce Rubin at bruceieeerubin@yahoo.com Kevin Devaney at devaney@srcinc.com, 6225 Running Ridge Road, 13212 Shirley Kupst at shirley.kupst@lmco.com, LMCO Clark Hochgraf at cghiee@rit.edu, RIT, Rochester, NY, Bld 82, Room 1150
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Rochester, NY Chapter
American Society of Plumbing Engineers President: ALAN SMITH, P.E. IBC Engineering, P.C. 3445 Winton Place, Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Technical: ADAM KRAMER IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Legislative: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E. Clark Patterson Lee 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Vice President Membership: DOUG MEIER Twin”D” Associates 1577 Ridge Road West Suite 116B Rochester, NY 14615 585-581-2170 Treasurer: TERRY BROWN, CPD M/E Engineering, PC 150 North Chestnut Street Rochester, NY 14604 585-288-5590 Administrative Secretary: ED YELIN, PE, CPD Erdman Anthony and Associates 146 Culver Road, Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14620 585-427-8888 Education Chairman: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E. Clark Patterson Lee 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Newsletter Editor: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110
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President's Message
The golf committee is still accepting hole sponsors ($100) and prize sponsors ($200) to support the outing. Please contact Jennifer Wengender at Clark Patterson Lee if you are interested in being a sponsor. Congratulations to Jennifer Wengender on passing the CPD exam. Registration for the 2015 Technical Symposium is available on ASPE’s website (www.aspe.org). The Symposium will be held in St. Louis from October 1st through October 4th. To save $50 on registration fees please register before July 31st There will not be any meetings during the summer months. Meetings will be on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from September 2015 through May 2016. Meetings are held at Valicia’s Ristorante, 2155 Long Pond Rd., Rochester 14606 (just north of Route 31, Gates). I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable summer. See you in September.
Alan Smith, P.E. Rochester Chapter President
Meeting Notice – Save the Date Topic: Annual Golf Outing Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Time: 10:00 am tee-off Place: Victor Hills Golf Club, 1450 Brace Road, Victor Cost: $75.00 (includes lunch, 18 holes of golf, dinner, awards & prizes). Make checks payable to Rochester Chapter ASPE. RSVP: To Jennifer Wengender, Clark Patterson Lee, 205 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester, NY 14604 (if not already signed up, contact Jennifer immediately).
Affiliate Liaison: ADAM FRENZEL Empire State Associates 181 Bay Village Drive Rochester, NY 14609 585-602-0271
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Future meetings: September 16th, October 21st. (Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society) aspe news
Illuminating Engineering Society - Rochester Chapter P.O. Box 23795, Rochester, NY 14692 585-766-0329 - www.ies-rochester.org
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Rochester Chapter
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: www.rochester.ashraechapters.org President's Message The Rochester Chapter ASHRAE program year is complete, and a great year it was! Thank you to the Rochester ASHRAE officers, committee members and membership. The Rochester chapter appreciates your time and dedication. It is your effort to give back to our ASHRAE community that made our chapter’s year the success that is was! The last order of business at the May Golf /Picnic event was the announcement of our 2015-2016 Chapter Officers and Board of Governors. 2015-2016 ASHRAE Rochester Chapter Officers President Christina Walter President-elect Jeff Close Secretary William Clark Treasurer Paul Kenna Board of Governors BOG 3rd year Scott Edwards BOG 3rd year Mike Benedict BOG 2nd year Tom Streber BOG 2nd year Branden Farnsworth-Weinblatt BOG 1st year Steve Dear st BOG 1 year Sam Scorsone
Also presented at the Golf /Picnic event was the Realto E. Cherne “Engineer of The Year Award.” This award is presented to the individual of the Rochester Chapter for outstanding contribution of service on behalf of the chapter. Recognition is made for service to the community through education, technical achievement and support of society goals. The 2014-2015 award was presented to Thomas E. Piekunka, PE. Tom is also past president of the Rochester Chapter of ASHRAE 1991-1992. Congratulations Tom! The Rochester ASHRAE Chapter is very pound to have presented an “ASHRAE Community Sustainability Project” to the Rochester Rotary Sunshine Campus. The Rochester ASHRAE chapter has provided turnkey HVAC design and installation for the “Rotary Sunshine Campus Sensory Stimulation Building.” This building will be used by thousands of campers each summer who attend camp programs. The building is designed to assist campers who are dealing with autism or other sensory issues. The goal is to give them the ability to enter a building that is designed to assist in calming them and allowing them the ability to have a successful camp experience. Thank you to all who participated. It was your donation of time, expertise, material and equipment that made this great project happen! We are very grateful to have been part of this project! It has been a great year! See you all at the Clambake in September! Best, Edward J. Burns ASHRAE-Rochester President 2014-2015 Please check out our chapter website at www.rochester. ashraechapters.org or if facebook is your preferred method of communication take a moment to “like” us www.facebook.com/#!/ ashraerochester. 32 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
JUNE NEWSLETTER
Thank you to the Sponsors of the Annual ASHRAE Picnic / Golf Tournament - Monday, May 11, 2015 Platinum: Gray Metal Products Gold: Carrier Clark Patterson Lee EC4B Guckian Energy Systems H&V Sales, Inc. Herman HVAC Products, LLC IBC Engineering J.T. Mauro Co., Inc. J.W. Danforth Co., Inc. J.W. Swanson & Associates Johnson Controls LG Logical Control Solutions M/E Engineering Massive Testing & Balancing Mech Tech HVAC, Inc. Modular Comfort Systems, Inc. Monroe Piping & Sheet Metal LLC Pathfinders Engineers & Architects LLP Postler & Jaeckle Corporation R.F. Peck Co., Inc. R.L. Kistler Inc. RL Stone Co., Inc.
Gold, continued: RP Fedder Corp. Siemens Trane Turner Engineering PC Ventrol Victaulic VJ Stanley Silver: Bergmann Associates Day Automation Mitsubishi Pres Energy Price Industries Twin City Fans Closest to the Pin – Women’s Pro Air Plus Closest to the Pin – Men’s Gray Metal Products Longest Drive – Women’s Labella Associates Longest Drive – Men’s Gray Metal Products
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Independent Entrepreneurs Council "The Junction of Technology, Manufacturing & Business Development" Chairman/Moderator Ralph Kraft R. Kraft, Inc 585-621-6946 Program Director Robert Lewis AdviCoach 585-385-2087 Treasurer Richard Blazey Business Metamorphosis LLC 585-520-3935 Web Master Richard Blazey Business Metamorphosis LLC 585-520-3935 Event Planner Rick Rivers The Rivers Organization 585-586-6906 Community Outreach: Terry Rogelstad Pfeiffer Vacuum 585-330-9713 Dave Bassett Bassett IP Strategies 585-739-9726 Lee Drake OS Cubed 585-765-2444 Dennis Roote CDE Engineering & Environmental PLCC 585-330-6986
Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed Monthly Breakfast Series Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Location: SUNY Polytechnic Institute, College's of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center (STC), 5450 Campus Drive, Canandaigua, NY 14424 Time: Registration, 7:30-8:00 am Presentation: 8:00-9:00 ~9:30 am Registration Required: There is NO charge for this presentation. Reservations are required by Friday Close of Business June 12, 2015. Make reservations via The Rivers Organization at 585-586-6906 or ESTG@Riversorg.com. Topic:
What You Should Consider When Designing and /or Constructing a Cleanroom from a Certifier's Perspective
Speaker: Ralph Kraft, of R. Kraft, Inc. - cleanroomservices.com Abstract: Ralph will discuss items of concerns for those contemplating, designing or constructing a cleanroom from a Certifier’s perspective that will save the cleanroom owner dollars on the front end and a lot of frustration after the room is operational. Ralph has 35+ years of experience in the Design, Construction, Certification and Troubleshooting of cleanroom facilities (regardless of industry discipline) of which he draws from, for this presentation. He is the author two books on cleanroom design, construction and operational concerns as well as having written numerous articles in various trade magazines pertaining to cleanrooms over the years, and speaks at various symposiums and conferences on this subject.
Upcoming Talks: Date September
Speaker Topic Terry Rogelstad "Using a Quadruple Mass Spectrometer"
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If you are a “technology based entrepreneur” and you feel that you have a topic of interest that you would like to present, contact Bob Lewis (585-385-2087). Talks are the 3rd Tuesday of every month (8:00-9:30 am) Reservation Required. Join us at our monthly luncheon meeting to see how we can help you grow your business. Contact one of the persons listed to the left for time and place.
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Rochester Section
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The new Rochester section web site is at: http://rochester.ieee.org (always check the web PDF edition for late changes and additions)
Jacob Z. Schanker, P.E., Newsletter Chair E-mail: j.schanker@ieee.org
Rochester Section Meeting Tuesday, June 2 at Noon The next monthly Rochester Section business meeting is on Tuesday, June 2, at 12:00 pm, at the Hibachi Sushi Buffet Restaurant in South Town Plaza on Jefferson Road (Route 252) just west of West Henrietta Road (Route 15). Any IEEE member is invited to attend. Lunch is only $3 for IEEE members. No reservation or RSVP is needed, just show up.
Congratulations to our Newest Senior Members Three Rochester Section members were elevated to Senior Member status at the most recent Senior Member Panel meeting in Tapei, Taiwan. Congratulations to:
Robert Boyd, a member of the Photonics Society. Greg Gdowski, a member of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology and the Consumer Electronics Societies. Peter Stubler, a member of the Computational Intelligence and the Signal Processing Societies. 34 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
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Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association Website: www.gvlsa.com
Year 2015 Officers President John F. Gillen, LS Vice President Roy B. Garfinkel, LS Secretary Robert J. Avery, LS Treasurer Michael A. Venturo, LS Robert B. Hatch, LS, ex officio
Year 2015 Meeting Dates June 26, 2015 6th Annual Sporting Clays event at Rochester Brooks Club.
July 10, 2015 N.F.L.S.A. & G.V.L.S.A. Golf Tournament
No August Meeting
June 2015
Board of Directors 2013-2015 Michael C. Bodardus, LS Jared R. Ransom, LS 2014-2016 Clifford J. Rigerman, LS Joseph J. Hefner, LS 2015-2017 Jeffrey A. Tiede, LS Scott E. Measday, LS
Join us for our 6th Annual Sporting Clays Event Friday June 26, 2015 Rochester Brooks Club
962 Honeoye Falls Road Rush, NY www.rochesterbrooks.org
Registration 2:30-3:30
(practice / instruction rounds available $5/round)
Sporting Clays 50 Targets 4:00-6:00
Ammunition not included, $7.50 a box at the club. Eye & ear protection required, limited quantities available. Professional Affiliations • • •
New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Inc. National Society of Professional Surveyors Rochester Engineering Society
Cocktails 6:00-7:00 (2 drink tickets) Cash Bar BBQ Dinner 7:00-8:00 Shooting & Dinner: $40 per person Shooting Only: $25 per person Dinner Only: $20 per person Pay at registration; make checks payable to “GVLSA” Reserve Your Spot Today or Call For More Information!
Registration deadline June 19, 2015 Rain or shine event – dress appropriately Contact: Bob Hatch at bhatch@schultzpc.com or 585-349-3750 Contact: John Gillen at johngillen@frontiernet.net or 585-786-3960
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Rochester Section
American Society of Civil Engineers Website: www.asce.org Board Editorial by: Katherine C. Dugan, PE., M. ASCE, Vice President ASCE Upstate NY Regional Student Conference The RIT ASCE Student Chapter participated in the 2015 ASCE Upstate New York Regional Student Conference - an annual event in which civil engineering students participate in design competitions, professional/technical presentations and other activities - at the United States Military Academy campus at West Point, NY, on April 16 – 18. Over 400 students from 14 schools from the Upstate NY Region and Canada attended the competition. The annual event is the regional qualifier for the ASCE National competition for the concrete canoe and steel bridge teams. The Concrete Canoe Competition requires teams to design, fabricate and race a canoe made from a special mix of lightweight concrete. RIT’s canoe theme this year was “Gone Fishin” and the team displayed commendable sportsmanship and teamwork handling their vessel. The Steel Bridge Competition supplements the students’ education with a comprehensive, student-driven project experience from conception and design through fabrication, erection, and testing, culminating in a steel structure that meets client specifications and optimizes performance and economy. The competitions provide students with important experience forming teams, budgeting, designing and communicating that is invaluable in their future civil engineering careers. Congratulations students!!
PR University
On April 11th representatives from the ASCE Rochester and Buffalo Sections attended an interactive public relations training course called PR University, an initiative of ASCE with presenters attending from National headquarters. Attendees learned public relational skills and how to handle the media, especially when being put on the spot. At the end of the workshop each participant was put on the spot with a video-recorded mock news interview and then everyone’s videos were critiqued. This was apparently very good practice for Rochester’s very own Sam Anthony, who sat down with Evan Dawson and Matthew Leonard from WXXI radio on April 24th to discuss the state of the NY infrastructure. ASCE has many resources, including on-hand full-time staff to help engineers effectively communicate our vital message of the importance of investing in our infrastructure.
If you have ideas for a site visit or PDH class topic, please forward them to Sam Anthony at anthonyes@erdmananthony.com. asce news
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Genesee Valley Branch
American Public Works Association Website: www.apwa.net Geoffrey Benway, PE Genesee Valley Branch President Serving Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne County
Public Works: The 3 Legged Stool
I often write about the importance of public works and its impact on our lives. Public works is a three legged stool that includes Design, Construction, and Maintenance. The third leg, maintenance, is just as critical as design and construction and, some may say, is even more important. Public works in entrusted with the design, construction and care of our public facilities to insure that a project is built safely and in accordance with current standards and practices. Public works must also maintain these facilities and infrastructure to insure that they meet the design life and continue to function as well as endure beyond their design life. Unfortunately, public officials often look to cutting or ignoring the annual funds needed to maintain a public works project. This can lead to safety concerns, operational problems or premature failure. As a three legged stool will be useless if it only has 2 legs, so too will a project be considered a failure if it is not maintained. A drive around the area can certainly support this issue. I have seen many transportation projects that tout their creation of public space when the project is submitted for a project award but the amenities that are paid for with tax dollars never seem to be maintained. This includes landscaped medians, benches, and decorative lighting. Most landscaped medians that started out as plush gardens now only serve to be trash collectors and weed gardens. Pedestrian benches have deteriorated without maintenance, or damaged by vandals, are now testaments to the lack of maintenance. Decorative street lights with expensive powder coatings are in need of painting, replacement, or repair. My drive around Monroe County often can count more trees cut off than growing in the center median or along the sidewalks of any community. Failure to maintain trees robs us all not only of the aesthetic benefits but the environmental benefits of cleaning the air. Pedestrian bridges are another example of neglect. These detailed structures intended to create a “sense of place” and “connect communities” are underutilized and the cost often exceeds $1 million due to requirements for ramps, decorative features, and safety. Sure they may get used. But in this era of reduced transportation funding, are they the most pressing need? Has anyone done a pedestrian/bike count of users? These structures also need to be maintained, but often fall through the funding gaps in most municipalities. Buildings are also subject to insufficient maintenance. Cracked 40 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
walks, faulty retaining walls, rusted lintels, inefficient HVAC equipment and just basic TLC is needed for our facilities to last for future generations. I have been involved in public works for over 34 years and now have seen structures I worked on being demolished. It is sad that in a world where sustainability has become a desired practice, we continue to choose demolition over renovation. Our infrastructure is also vulnerable to poor maintenance. Budget cuts reduce field staff that typically do the maintenance of pipes and systems. This results in collapses of critical services, backups into homes and businesses, and traffic disruptions. Stormwater facilities are also in need of maintenance to address sedimentation, excessive vegetation, and animal damage. As everyone starts to look at the 2016 budgets, I remind everyone to fight to keep adequate funds for maintaining our facilities, fleet, and infrastructure.
New York Chapter Annual Conference
The New York Chapter’s annual conference and award ceremony was recently held in Utica, NY. Utica is a beautiful city with a proud past. However, the economy has not been kind to this grand city. The people and staff of the Utica Hotel did an outstanding job. The education sessions were excellent albeit a bit low in attendance. The NY Chapter will be sitting down to address how we can make this a better attended event. If you have suggestions or comments I would appreciate that you email them to me at gbenway@ci.webster.ny.us. While PDH’s are critical to professional engineers, we want to serve our entire public works community. We also need to know what parts of public works are not getting adequate training. This past event had a great session on leadership that would have been useful for the younger members of public works departments. Please remember to include funds in your budget to get all members of your staff to some professional training!
June 10th Meeting
Join other public works members for a day game at Frontier Field! The event includes a lunch and a brief talk on what’s happening at Frontier Field. Cost is $25 for lunch and a ticket to the game in a luxury suite! Game starts at 1:30 pm. Stay as long as you can or enjoy a great afternoon in the ballpark. apwa news
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Soft Ankle-Foot Orthotic Students: Adam Podolec, Megan Ehrhart, Noah Schadt, Geni Giannotti, Tyler Leichtenberger, Jared Green Faculty Advisors: Dr. Elizabeth DeBartolo, Mr. Edward Hanzlik Kate Gleason College of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
INTRODUCTION
Foot drop is a neurological disorder which impairs the ability of an individual to dorsiflex the foot (i.e., point the toe upward). This condition is a common side effect of a stroke, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, or a peroneal nerve injury. Patients who experience foot drop often utilize an assistive device known as an ankle-foot orthotic (AFO) which provides a stable and comfortable support for their foot and ankle and thus mitigates the effects of the condition. Current AFOs are bulky, rigid, and disrupt the user’s natural gait by providing assistance at all times, regardless of need. An active AFO will provide users with assistance only during appropriate times in the gait cycle. This will be particularly useful when the active AFO is used on non-level terrain which is difficult to navigate using the current AFOs. Additionally, this active AFO should comfortably fit into a user’s existing footwear. The inability to do so is an often voiced user complaint of current AFOs. The specific goal of the design team is to create an active AFO that uses an infrared-based terrain sensing system to monitor the user’s gait and a flexible McKibben muscle actuation system to move the user’s foot at the appropriate time. The AFO will have an aesthetically pleasing flexible exoskeleton made from allergy conscious materials and will be integrated with the actuation device, sensing system, and a microcontroller. The AFO will be capable of delivering an entire day’s use as an untethered system.
PROBLEM DEFINITION AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
Table 1: Engineering Requirements
Based on input from multiple stakeholders, including researchers, clinicians, and AFO users, a detailed table of requirements was created and is recorded in Table 1. These requirements span disciplines, from mechanical to electrical, but also are largely based on the orthotic as a useable assistive device. Many of the requirements were developed with the specific client base in mind. Based on these requirements, a plan for post-prototype testing has been developed to verify functionality of each requirement. A major part of this testing is assessing the qualitative attributes of the orthotics by surveying a volunteer group for the orthotics ascetics and wearablity. Research and benchmarking was then conducted on existing AFOs. This included research into the past AFO senior design projects at RIT and professional AFOs in order to address advantages and disadvantages of the AFO technology. This drove an initial design decision to place the Mckibben muscle on the front of the leg, where the tibialis anterior is located; the muscle in the leg that provides dorsiflexion. Furthermore a functional decomposition of the AFO was conducted in order to identify subsystems that required design decisions to be made. The team identified several critical challenges, namely the size of the air tank, the McKibben muscle design and accurately detecting heelstrike to articulate the muscle. It was determined by test data and research that the muscle and air tank would have to provide at least 1,500 steps in a day and deflect an 8 lb load 1 inch, in order to meet the design requirements. A tank life feasibility analysis was conducted in conjunction with a McKibben muscle design optimization to determine the appropriate size of Figure 1: Muscle Optimization an air tank and McKibben muscle to meet these requirements. A 90cu.in 4,500psi air tank was found to meet the requirements; however, this tank would cost an additional $160.95, which would exceed the budget. Therefore, for the purpose of the prototype and demonstrating functionality, a smaller tank was used; however, an air capacity model, validated by test data, was created that proves the larger tank would last for an entire day’s use. Four muscles were tested with varying widths and lengths. Figure 1 shows the data from the best performing muscle, meeting the defined requirements at 3 different PSIs. Some of the feasibility testing that was done on the electrical system had to do with the gait monitoring system. This is a system that will look at heel strike, toe strike, and distance of 42 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | JUNE 2015
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the leg to the ground. This will then tell the muscle when to articulate as a percentage of the gait cycle and also record the gait information that can be analyzed after use. This has been tested for feasibility and the result was that heel strike does lead to muscle articulation and that the data from all sensors was logged. The schematic that was used for this can be seen below. This data shows a person walking on level ground and descending a set of stairs. The system correctly identifies this as stairs and permanently articulates the muscle to provide continuous support.
Figure 2: Electrical Data
PRODUCT DESIGN AND USE
The design of the AFO was split into two pieces, an upper component and a lower component. The upper component consists of a small backpack worn by the user. Housed within the backpack is a compressed air tank with a regulator, a solenoid valve, a PCB board, and batteries. A pressurized air hose, power cable, and signal wiring are tethered together in a mesh sleeve and routed from the backpack to the lower component. The lower component is comprised of the soft orthotic, the McKibben muscle with lower and upper attachments, the lower component housing with the sensor PCB board and IR sensor, the heel sensor, and the toe sensor. To use the device, an individual would apply the lower component to their foot, making adjustments as necessary. Once the air hose and power lines are connected, the user will turn on the main power switch in the backpack. To activate the AFO, the user will press a button near their hip on the power supply line. When the device is active it will begin sensing and recording the user's gait data to a micro SD card. Using data from the heel strike sensor, the PCB will articulate the double acting solenoid, which controls the pressurized air flowing into the muscle from the air tank. This in turn, will contract and release the McKibben muscle, lifting the toe during the gait cycle only when needed. When the user is sitting, driving, or anytime they need permanent dorsiflexion support, they can turn the active mode off via the switch near the hip. The device will constrict the McKibben muscle and become a passive orthotic, constantly providing dorsiflexion. Additionally, the user can press a separate button releasing the muscle so the device is not providing any support.
BUDGET & MARKET ANALYSIS
The allotted budget for the project was five hundred dollars. A bill of material (BOM) detailing the cost of each part and cost of testing was created and maintained. Currently, the projected cost to build and test the prototype is $456.96. There is a large market potential for a soft active AFO due to a relatively large foot drop population. Specifically, foot drop is a common side-effect of a stroke, affecting Figure 3: Integrated System (right), approximately 20% of survivors (~1.3 million people each year). [1] Foot drop can also detailed Lower Component (left) occur as a side effect of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), Multiple Sclerosis, radiculopathy, or injury to the peroneal nerve, increasing the number of people affected. Furthermore, there is a drive for a soft orthotic, as many users are unhappy with current rigid AFO's because they are uncomfortable and do not allow for a natural gait cycle. To introduce the product to the market, research to select a medical distributor that fits the product's needs would need to be done. Given the team estimated manufacturing cost per device without overhead being $323, the prices for the competitors ranging from $30-$700, and the novelty of the device being the only orthotic on the market that provides active dorsiflexion, the price of the device should be set at $1000. Assuming the device can capture 1%-2% of the annual market, approximately 13,000-26,000 people, the result would be an annual gross profit of $13-$26 million. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS • Dr. Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, McKibben Muscle Expert and Facility Provider, and • Rochester Institute of Technology, Project Funding. REFERENCES [1] Kesar, Trisha M., Ramu Perumal, Angela Jancosko, Darcy S. Reisman, Katherine S. Rudolph, Jill S. Higginson, and Stuart A. BinderMacleod. "Novel Patterns of Functional Electrical Stimulation Have an Immediate Effect on Dorsiflexor Muscle Function During Gait for People Poststroke." Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association (2010): 55-66. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health. Web. 14 Dec. 2014. [2] Christopher Sullivan, Elizabeth DeBartolo, and Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, “A Wearable Gait Monitor and Terrain Prediction System” Proceedings of the ASME 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Sunriver, Oregaon, USA, June 26-29, 2013. feature article
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