Rochester Engineering Society Magazine January 2022

www.roceng.org

January 2022 Also in this issue:

Celebrating 30 Years of Success

 RES 125th Anniversary Celebration | 7

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John A. Dredger, P.E., LEED AP President "If you take care of your people, your clients, and your community, success is inevitable"

 RES Scholarship Alumni Spotlight | 18

Stephanie Marini L3Harris Technologies

 Campus News | 22  Professional Firms 24 - Employee News | 27  Position Openings | 26 - 27  RES Continuing Education Education Series | 6  RIT Student Feature: Cyber+AI | 20

Corporate Members of the Rochester Engineering Society

ENTERPRISE LEVEL

c CHAMPION LEVEL

SUSTAINING LEVEL

IS YOUR COMPANY LISTED HERE? Call 585-254-2350 for information.

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corporate members of the rochester engineering society

Volume 100, Number 7, JANUARY 2022

Celebrating 30 Years of Succes

NEW! RES Scholarship Alumni Spotlight Stephanie Marini L3Harris

John A. Dredger, P.E., LEED AP President "If you take care of your people, your clients, and your community, success is inevitable"

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2 Corporate Members of the RES 4 RES Board of Directors 5 RES President's Message 6 RES 125th Anniversary Celebration 7 RES Continuing Education Series - Jan. 20, Feb. 17, Mar. 24 8 RES History - December 1974 - January 1975 9 Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, Recovering from the Pandemic...

10 RES Call for 2021 Nominations 11 RES Technical Corner by Brett Eliasz, PE 18 RES Scholarship Alumni Spotlight - Stephanie Marini 12 M/E Engineering: Celebrating 30 Years of Succes (cover) 16 2022 Engineering Symposium in Rochester 17 Get IT Done - Connect with IT! 20 RIT Student Feature: Cyber +AI 22 Campus News 24 News From Professional Firms 26 Position Openings 27 Professional Firms Employee News 28 Continuing Education Opportunities (PDHs) 29 Engineers’ Calendar 31 Campus News 43 Directory of Professional Services 44 Directory of Business Services 45 Affiliated Societies of the RES

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• ABCD Association for Bridge Design and Construction...................................41 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers...............31 • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers........................39 • ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers.......42 • EA Electrical Association..........................................34 • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers..........................................36 • IES Illuminating Engineering Society.......................35 • INCOSE International Council on Systems Engineering......................................29 • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society.........33 • RES Rochester Engineering Society..................... 2-11 • TERRA TERRA Science & Engineering Fair..................38

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The Rochester Engineer Published since 1922 by ROCHESTER ENGINEERING SOCIETY, INC.

Founded March 18, 1897

Board of Directors: OFFICERS: President GREG GDOWSKI, PhD University of Rochsester / Greg_Gdowski@urmc.rochester.edu

First Vice President MICHELLE SOMMERMAN, PE Bergmann Associates / msommerman@bergmannpc.com Second Vice President DENNIS ROOTE, PE CDE Engineering & Environment, PLLC / dennis.roote@cde-pllc.com

Treasurer TBD - Dennis Roote is interim treasurer.

Past President JOSEPH DOMBROWSKI, PE Retired from M/E Engineering / jdombrowski3@rochester.rr.com

EIGHT DIRECTORS: CORNELIUS (NEAL) ILLENBERG PE Rail Safety Consulting / nillenberg@aol.com

RICHARD E. RICE Erdman Anthony / rricesquash@gmail.com

BRETT ELIASZ, PE Bergmann Associates / beliasz@bergmannpc.com

KENTON G. HINES Merrill Lynch / Kenton.Hines@ml.com

MIKE KURDZIEL, PhD (Director on Executive Committee)

Harris Corporation / mike.kurdziel@L3harris.com

STEVEN W. DAY, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology / swdeme@rit.edu

NANCY CRAWFORD Optimation Technology, Inc. / nancy.crawford@optimation.us

TIMOTHY HOWE Stantec / Timothy.Howe@stantec.com

Administrative Director LYNNE M. IRWIN Rochester Engineering Society / e-mail: res@frontiernet.net or therochesterengineer@gmail.com

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Volume 100, Number 7, JANUARY 2022 (Electronic Copies Only) You can purchase individual printed copies directly from ISSUU. 2,500+ Monthly Circulation (11 issues electronically) ISSN 0035-7405

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.

News items and articles are invited. Materials should be submitted to the administrative director at the society’s office, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607; Phone number (585) 254-2350, e-mail: therochesterengineer@gmail.com.

The web site for the RES is: www.roceng.org.

The deadline is the 10th day of the month prior to the issue. Unless otherwise stated, opinions expressed in this publication are those of contributors, not of the Rochester Engineering Society, Inc. Advertising information may be obtained by contacting the office of the Rochester Engineering Society or going to the website at www.roceng.org.

Published every month but July. You can purchase individual copies directly from ISSUU. Go to www.roceng.org to join the Rochester Engineering Society. Click on the individual membership and you can submit your application on-line. res news - board of directors

RES News - President's Message Dear Fellow Engineers, Happy New Year! I think when I started my two-year term in 2019 I could never have envisioned what lay ahead. With a new derivative of Covid-19 upon us, I am sure all of us are looking forward to a healthy, hopefully, mask-free 2022. Like my message in January 2021, I would like to begin by saying thank you. Thank you to all of the healthcare workers that have worked tirelessly over the last year to keep our community safe and healthy. The stress endured by the staff in keeping our community healthy is often under-appreciated. Please know that your efforts have not gone unnoticed.

One of the things that I could never have forecasted was impact of Covid-19 on our ability to provide inperson events that bring our community together to celebrate our successes. Unfortunately, we have had to make the tough decision to cancel the upcoming RES Gala in April. All of us at the RES had been looking forward to our first in-person event in nearly two years. However, due to unforeseen circumstances the Board of Directors has determined that it is in the community’s best interests to postpone the Gala.

While this news is very disappointing, we are planning a new event later this spring when we can celebrate our 125th Anniversary. More information can be found on page 6, but please stay tuned as the plans for this celebration evolve!

Despite all of the negative side effects of the pandemic, the RES has continued to thrive! I would like to thank Lynne for all of her efforts in keeping the RES vibrant throughout nearly two years of virtual meetings. I would also like to thank the Board of Directors who have been instrumental in keeping the RES moving forward. Over the last year, we have created novel virtual events that have allowed our members to obtain valuable pdh-credit hours. We have revived the web pages. The RES magazine has been greatly improved! Numerous individuals have contributed articles that remind us of the striking talent and engineering accomplishments that occur within our community. We have also continued to deliver both scholarships and professional awards to students and the community. Although we have not been able to provide in-person tutoring at the Dr. Walter Cooper Academy (page 9), we have continued to deliver valuable virtual tutoring throughout these difficult times! Finally, we have grown our membership! All of this would not be possible without the support of our members! Thank you to all of our members, especially our newest Enterprise Corporate members. res news - president’s message

We also hope that you enjoy this issue of the Rochester Engineer! This month we continue our new article series on RES Scholarship Alumni and highlight the accomplishments of Stephanie Marini (page 18). She was the recipient of the 2019 David Fergusson Scholarship and is currently an Associate Manufacturing engineer at L3Harris Technologies.

Inside the cover you will also find a cover story highlighting many of the accomplishments of ME Engineering (page 12). I was particularly thrilled to see many of the upcoming projects including the University of Rochester Orthopaedics and Physical Performance Center, and the Medical Center Emergency Department and Inpatient Bed Tower! Such projects remind me to focus on doing what we do best. It’s all about building a better community and creating value that makes Rochester such a great place to live!

All my best, Greg Gdowski, PhD President, RES

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125th Anniversary Celebration Date & Venue: TBA (~May, beginning of June) Program to include: Awards The 2021 Engineer of the Year, Young Engineer of the Year & Finalists, and, Engineers of Distinction.

Also many high school and college scholarships.

Sponsorship Opportunities Available Soon!

(All photos are from the 2019 Gala)

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

2019 High School Scholarship Recipients

Platinum

Vastola Scholarship Monroe Professional Engineers Society

Aditya Bhargava

Gold

Victor High School Major: Biomedical Engineering / Harvey Mudd

Bergmann Scholarship

John Caputo

Greece Olympia High School Major: Engineering Exploration / RIT

Silver

Keith Amish Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society

Erik Maier

Oakfield Alabama Central School Major: Electrical Engineering / SUNY at Buffalo

Danny Ayele

University of Rochester Mechanical Engineering

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Scholarship

Natalie O’Hern

Pittsford Sutherland High School Major: Nuclear Engineering / MIT

Brockport High School Major: Computer Engineering

Pensacola Christian College Electrical Engineering

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Scholarship

Hudson Panning

Margaret Cech

Binghamton University Electrical Engineering minor in Computer Science

Robert I. Loftus Memorial Scholarship

NYS Association of Transportation Engineers

Katherine Flanigen

Pittsford Sutherland High School Major: Neural Science / New York University Shanghai Campus

Bronze

Thomas C. Lehmkuhl Memorial Scholarship NYS Association of Transportation Engineers

Justin Hofmann

Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School Major: Finance and minor in Accounting / High Point University

Erdman Anthony Scholarship

William Johnson

Byron Bergen High School Major: Electrical Engineering / SUNY at Buffalo

Hye Joon Diane Kim

Rochester Institute of Technology/KGCOE Chemical Engineering

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Michael C. Krowl

Finger Lakes Community College Instrumentation & Controls Technology

Rebekah Bagley

Our Lady of Mercy High School Major: Chemistry / Wellesley College

Optimation Technology Scholarship

Association for Facilities Engineering

Association for Facilities Engineering

Frederick E. Bragg Scholarship NYS Association of Transportation Engineers

Paul & Claire Raynor Scholarship Monroe Professional Engineers Society

Matthew Cufari

2019 College Scholarship Recipients

Alstom Foundation Scholarship

David Fergusson Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society

Stephanie Marini

Rochester Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering

Joseph W. Campbell Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society

David Reynoso

Edward J. Ries Memorial Scholarship

Susan L. Costa Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society

Rachel Roof

Honeoye Falls-Lima High School Major: Computer Engineering / RIT

Bianca Dyer

University of Rochester Chemical Engineering

Adam W. Lawas Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society

David Lazzar Scholarship

Peter Rydzynski

Victor High School Major: Mechanical Engineering / University of Pittsburgh

Dana Eschler

Rochester Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Advertising and Public Relations

American Council of Engineering Companies Scholarship

Ariel Struzyk

American Society of Civil Engineers

James Ritzenthaler

Rochester Institute of Technology Civil Engineering

Society of Women Engineers Scholarship

Amber Smith

Alfred University Glass Science Engineering

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Civil Engineers

SUNY at Buffalo Civil Engineering

SUNY at Buffalo Civil Engineering

Nicole Gerritz

Penfield High School Major: Chemical Engineering / Cornell University

University of Rochester Mechanical Engineering

Anthony Tintera

The RES Board has Cancelled the Annual Gala for 2022 (Was scheduled for Saturday, April 2, 2022)

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RES VIRTUAL PDH COURSES

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Save the Dates!

New! RES Continuing Education Series 2 PDHs each session

Thursday, January 20, 2022 Thursday, February 17, 2022 Thursday, March 24, 2022

RES is offering these courses to support the engineering community.

Each Continuing Education Session will consist of three educational 1-hour webinars with two eligible for PDH's. Topics and costs will be announced soon.

*Dates are subject to change*

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RES News - Rochester History

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A Sampling from the Archives of the Rochester Engineering Society.

1897 - 1975 by Lee M. Loomis

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. 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, focus and infrastructure of the City of Rochester, and beyond. World War, again affected the Society, taking away many of its leaders while 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. The Second World War and the Korean Conflict are now history, and the Vietnam War has recently become a focal point. 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.

December 18, 1974 (Board Meeting, Chamber of Commerce) The Board approved applications for Regular

Membership (2), Associate Membership (1) and Junior Membership (1). Arthur W. Schuster (A. W. Schuster Co.) was elected an RES Director, to serve the unexpired term (to June 1975) of Dr. Myron Tribus, who recently departed to MIT. Dr. Robert Desmond, Chair of the RES Education Committee, reported that the focus of this committee would be changing and begin offering interested high school students information on careers in engineering, and the possibility of the RES offering scholarships to these students. The Board urged Dr. Desmond to contact local guidance counselors toward providing such information. Dr. Kenyon reported that there had been an improvement in cooperation between City Manager, Elisha Freedman and County Manager, Lucien Morin, focused on the proposed new solid waste recycling plant. This included joint support for a proposal to the National Science Foundation for funding for an “Interim Engineering and Technology Advisor”, to be employed by the City, to oversee development of the plant.

“The Rochester Engineer” (December 1974)

In this issue, RES President, Dr. Richard A. Kenyon, provided a status report on Operation RESOURCE, the 1972 RES study of the solid waste management challenges in Rochester and Monroe County. In addition, Dr. Kenyon described the engineering and legislative progress toward designing, construction, funding and oversight of this firstof-its-kind facility. At this point (1974) the County Manager’s Resource Recovery Advisory Committee had recommended the hiring of a specific, experienced contractor to design Phase I of the facility, contracts had been signed, the commencement of construction had been scheduled (1975) and a target completion date (1976-77) had been identified.

Dr. Kenyon also commended the many RES members involved in the original Operation RESOURCE effort, for their continued willingness to speak publicly about the need for this facility, and its long-term importance to our community. In an article reprinted by permission, “Reflections of a Working Scientist”, by Dr. Steven Weinberg (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979), the author, reflects on the many questions posed

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about scientists’ moral obligations to society in the “discoveries” they have made. This issue noted, with sadness, the passing of Bernard F. Perry, PE, former RES President and “1966 RES Engineer of the Year”. During his tenure as Regional Director of Transportation for New York State, Mr. Perry directed some $500 million of highway construction, in six local counties, including the Irondequoit Bay Bridge, as well as the Genesee, Eastern, Western, Sea Breeze, Keeler, Dutchtown, and Inner and Outer Loop Expressways.

January 22, 1975 (Board Meeting, Chamber of Commerce) The Board approved applications for Regular

Membership (3) and for Associate Membership (1). RES First Vice President, Jack Corson, announced that the Awards Committee had selected John M. Hoff, PE, President of the Monroe County Legislature, as the “RES 1974 Engineer of the Year”. Donald Bergmann, PE, of the RES Transportation Committee, presented a progress report on the RES Transportation Study, assessing the travel demand and socio-economic impacts of a proposed Charlotte-Henrietta Transit System, the possibility of an “auto-less core” in the middle of downtown Rochester, evaluation of inter-city passenger and freight lines, the analysis of local bus service.

Mr. Bergmann pointed out the need for more volunteers, if these efforts were to be undertaken. Elwood Dobbs (ASCE) reported that the Town of Greece was intending to form an “engineering office”, an action that would significantly reduce the authority engineers would have in that town’s government. The Board approved, and Dr. Kenyon sent a letter on this matter, to Donald Riley, Greece Town Supervisor.

Lee Loomis announced that Richard O. Simpson, Chair of the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission, would be the principal speaker at the February 18, 1975, Engineers Joint Dinner. RES Director, George Landberg, Chair of the LongRange Planning Committee, announced that the Committee’s report would be published in the March 1975 issue of “The Rochester Engineer”, and that the Committee would followed up by a survey seeking comment from the membership on how well the RES is fulfilling it constitutional purpose.

President Kenyon announced that Monroe County Manager, Lucien Morin has asked the RES to form a committee to help select a new Director for the County’s Pure Waters Division.

The members of this committee, all RES Members, included Dr. Kenyon (RIT), Keith Amish (RG&E), Robert Bouley (Xerox), Allan Gardner (Eastman Kodak Company) and Allan Radcliffe (Bausch & Lomb). Dr. Kenyon also announced that he and Elisha Freedman, with help from the RES Civic Affairs Committee, were preparing a proposal to the National Science Foundation for funding for an “Interim Engineering and Technology Advisor” to support the transfer of local technical know-how to those in Rochester’s City Government who need to make use of it.

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 current economic crises, 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 and the Korean Conflict, 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, and the ensuing prosperity of the second half of the 20th Century. We welcome your questions and comments on this series.

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RES News - Tutoring Team

Dr. Walter Cooper Academy; Recovering from the Pandemic…

The School Year is well underway, but there are challenges... Covid-19 vaccinations became authorized by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in November of this year. Since then, an increasing number of outlets, including medical facilities, local pharmacies, grocery and big box stores have been advertising opportunities for parents to bring their children (ages 5 – 11) in for a free vaccination.

It’s been nearly two months now since the Covid-19 vaccine has been offered to elementary school-age children, but the response by parents, throughout the Rochester City School District, has been quite limited. Fewer than 10% of RCSD elementary school students have received their Covid-19 vaccination.

This then raises the question of whether or not the RCSD would allow non-parent volunteers to enter the schools to tutor, in-person, students who may not yet have been vaccinated.

Regardless, the RES Board does not believe it should be putting the health of our tutors (many of them with their own health issues) at risk.

We still believe there must be a way to return to our tutoring work…In light of these challenges, we have begun exploring the possibility of launching a “Virtual RES Tutoring Team”, later this school year. Drawing from the experience gained last Spring with a group of First Graders, this “Team” would receive some training support in on-line tutoring, just as was offered to three of our RES Tutors, last April. We are in the process of surveying our active tutors and, as necessary, their employers to see if they would be willing and able to provide on-line tutoring assistance to our Cooper Scholars, via Zoom, or other pathways.

We have also been working with the South West Community Council’s (SWCC) Education Committee to explore options for recruiting, training and engaging volunteer (virtual) tutors for several of the elementary schools in the Nineteenth Ward.

Meanwhile, we are continuing to assemble our Tutoring Team, for the balance of this school year… The protocol, especially if the tutoring is done virtually, includes classroom teachers providing each of our Tutors with a lesson plan for each of the students with whom they are working. Tutors could be supporting teacher-conducted classroom lesson activities, working on-line with small groups, or (more likely) working with just one student at a time, on-line, in a prescribed learning exercise.

Even just two hours a week of your time can make a big difference in the life of a Dr. Walter Cooper Academy Scholar…

Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at…Rochester Engineering Society (585) 254-2350, or via website: www.roceng.org, or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (mobile & text). res news - tutoring team

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RES News - Call For Nominations

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Call for Nominations Richard Buckley 2020 EOY Past Engineers of the Year 13 years...(first awarded 1963) Richard Buckley Susan Houde-Walter, PhD Donald P. Nims, PE Martin E. Gordon, PE Diane M. Trentini Robert L. Clark, Jr., PhD Lalit Mestha, PhD Maureen S. Valentine, PE Sergio Esteban, PE Brian J. Thompson, PhD Gary W. Passero, PE Kevin J. Parker, PhD Satish G. Kandlikar, PhD

2021 Engineer of the Year Young Engineer of the Year and

Engineers of Distinction

Daniel Rusnack, PE 2020 YEOY Past Young Engineers of the Year -13 years... (first awarded 2007) Daniel Rusnack, PE Nick Vamivakas, PhD Brett Eliasz, PE Emily M. Smith, PE Matthew T. Sidley Danielle Benoit, PhD John Papponetti, PE Courtney E. Reich, PE Clement Chung, PE Sherwin Damdar Michael J. Walker, EIT Nathan Gnanasambandam, PhD Venkatesh G. Rao, PhD

The RES Board of Directors introduced a streamlined nomination form. A simple initial form allows an individual or organization to nominate a candidate. The RES committee will then contact the nominator if the candidate progresses to the next phase. At that point, a final form will be used to gather essential details from the nominator and candidate which will be used to determine our award recipients.

The RES will select and recognize the 2021 Engineer of the Year, Young Engineer of the Year (and Finalists for Young Engineer of the Year), and Engineers of Distinction Awards in a variety of public venues and media during the weeks before the Gala. The Award recipients will be introduced on Saturday, April 2, 2022 during the Gala at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

Visit our website at www.roceng.org and click on Engineering Awards, or call 585-254-2350 (res@frontiernet.net) to request a nomination form.

The following information is described:  Eligibility for Nomination  Awards Criteria

 Deadline for Preliminary Nominations - Friday, December 10, 2021  Deadline for Final Nominations - Friday, January 7, 2022 10 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JANUARY 2022

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Technical Corner For the Electrical article this month we will provide some discussion on whether or not service entrance conductors can be tapped.

A common application we run across these days are with solar supply side taps. These are sometimes larger solar connections where we want to tap into the service of a building and were left wondering if you can “tap a tap” to comply with the transformer secondary sections of NEC section 240.21(C).

If we were to comply with section 240, we would have to treat and define the secondary conductors as tap conductors and not service conductors. If we were to do this the transformer secondary conductors will have to land on an overcurrent protective device before they can feed alternate parallel paths or be tapped.

If we were to define the transformer secondary conductors as service entrance conductors, then the tap rules of section 240.21(C) do not apply. Think of the example where one set of service entrance conductors feeds 6 separate service disconnecting means/meter sections in a multi-tenant building. (See the many exhibits of section 230).

A common scenario is a typical pad mounted utility owned transformer with underground conductors that feed into a main distribution panel (MDP) with a main circuit Breaker (MCB).

Code Path to create a supply side tap using scenario above: 230.33 and 230.46-service entrance conductors may be spliced and tapped 230.82 (6)-Allows connection on supply side of service disconnect 705.12(A)-tap shall not exceed the rating of the service 705.20 and 21-the tap needs a disconnect 705.30-the tap requires overcurrent protection to follow section 240-BUT SINCE WE HAVE SERVICE ENTRANCE CONDUCTORS THEN THE TAP RULES DO NOT APPLY 705.31-Overcurrent protection must be located within 10 feet of the line side connection (seems like a compromise of the tap rules in section 240) Our conclusion is that we can tap the service entrance conductors which feed a building with a supply side tap without the need of terminating the service entrance conductors onto an overcurrent protection device upstream of where the tap takes place.

Photo indicates an insulation piercing supply side tap on a smaller 200A residential service.

Code references from NEC 2017

Hopefully this article finds you well and can be used as a reference for your project needs. If anyone would like to contribute to the Rochester Engineer and add an article or would like to request information on a specific topic (not limited to Electrical) just email me at beliasz@bergmannpc.com. As always, any comments are appreciated…! Thank you for reading.

Brett Eliasz, P.E., LEED AP BD+C , RES Director res - technical corner

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Celebrating 30 Years of Success John Dredger knows a thing or two about leading a multi-million dollar engineering firm. His formula is simple: "If you take care of your people, your clients, and your community, success is inevitable".

John has been with the company since 1994, and is currently at the helm of the firm that has been providing quality MEP design & technology services throughout Upstate NY for 30 years. With 4 office locations, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and the Capital District, M/E Engineering has positioned itself as a dominant force within the construction industry here in the Northeast.

30 YEARS IN THE MAKING M/E Engineering started out with "four guys in a single room", in Rochester, NY, with lofty dreams of building a successful MEP design firm to serve a variety of markets; Healthcare, Education, Residential, Industrial & Manufacturing, Research & Laboratories, Government & Institutional, and Gaming & Entertainment. 30 years later, their team of nearly 200 engineers and design professionals has worked across the Northeast to create built environments that support a sustainable future for the communities they live in, work in, and care deeply about.

Impressively, M/E ranks as one of the top 100 "MEP Giants", as listed

by Consulting Specifying Engineer Magazine.

Rochester Institute of Technology The SHED

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The Student Hall for Exploration and Development (the SHED), is a 100,000 + SF facility, soon to become the epicenter of what RIT represents with a huge makerspace, a black-box theater, a dance studio, and music rehearsal spaces. M/E Engineering provided the MEP design for the innovative building located in the heart of campus.

Michael K. Sullivan, P.E. Principal How would you describe your engineering staff?

"That's easy: Passionate, Enthusiastic, and Dedicated!"

COMPANY CULTURE For M/E Engineering, the success is not about location, location, location, but rather people, people, people. Their culture is built around one simple concept: Relationships. Obtaining excellence

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in any field starts with people, and this is at the heart of everything they do and it's also their main competitive advantage.

Mike Sullivan, Managing Principal in the Capital District office was asked how he would describe his engineering staff: "That's easy, in 3 words: Passionate, Enthusiastic, and Dedicated!".

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University of Rochester Orthopaedics and Physical Performance Center

The new 330,000 SF center is a four-story clinic building with exam, imaging, conference, and office spaces. The existing space will be renovated for a cutting-edge healthcare and patient experience. M/E Engineering designed the centralized heating/cooling plants, emergency power, UPS power, bulk oxygen storage, room pressurization control, fire pump, and all the associated distribution systems.

In order to remain at the forefront in the industry, M/E provides their employees with rewarding and successful careers.

Through working hard and having fun, they seek to offer the best working environment, while fostering career opportunities, and increasing their responsibility towards the communities in which they live. Mike added "Every successful project, whether you are designing a state-of-the-art Platinum LEED Building, or building an engineering firm, starts with a great team."

M/E ENGINEERING AT ITS CORE: Sustainability

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University of Rochester Medical Center New Emergency Department and Inpatient Bed Tower

The 550,000 SF project includes a new patient bed tower featuring patient critical care and inpatient care units, new loading dock, and parking garage. Additionally, renovations and expansion will take place to accommodate the growing community need. M/E designed new heating and cooling systems, custom air handling units, fire pump, emergency power generators, and all associated distribution systems.

They also conducted whole-building energy modeling services.

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Engineering is a wonderful profession.

The application of Math and Science allows engineers to create useful products, change the built environment, and provide shelter and working environments for the world's population.

Each year M/E Engineering is involved in over a billion dollars of construction activity, all while maintaining a commitment to sustainable design, energy efficiency and cost-saving solutions.

Few professions allow you to make a notable difference in the environment more than the construction industry.

We're committed to providing these environments in a manner that doesn't have a negative impact on our children and grandchildren…sustainability at its core.

Continued on page 14...

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M/E Engineering - Celebrating 30 Years of Sucess; continued

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MOVING FORWARD Thirty years ago, projects were hand drawn with ink on Mylar and CAD was something people talked about, but not developed to the point of being useful. Now M/E produces full 3-D coordinated BIM models with clash detection, energy modeling and integrated computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling applied to the BIM models. The advancement of technology has revolutionized the industry. On the cutting edge, CFD modeling allows M/E to create dynamic models of ventilation air patterns, temperature/ humidity gradients, cleanroom effectiveness, enhanced lab safety, simulate industrial process environments and model fire/smoke events. The engineer can now apply the best practice design principles and model their effectiveness with real time BIM models. Truly amazing.

GIVING BACK At its core, the commitment to the people of our organization, the people of our community, and to future generations mandates that we give back to the people who have been integral to the success of M/E Engineering. To that end, M/E Engineering has consistently been involved in supporting philanthropic efforts that make the communities we live and work in a better place for all who live here. Some of the notable causes we've committed to throughout the years are: •

Rochester General Hospital Sands-Constellation Center for Critical Care

© Kim Smith

The seven-story, 312,000 SF facility features (23) multi-disciplinary operation rooms, (108) acuity-adaptable patient rooms, (20) private postpartum rooms, and (14) special care nursery rooms. The MEP design included (12) custom air handling units, new emergency generators, and we utilized 404 nm wavelength light fixtures to continuously disinfect airborne bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAI). All utilities in the center are supplied by a new central plant that was designed by M/E as a separate project.

"This is a crucial project for our long term success," says Eric Bieber, MD and CEO for Rochester Regional Health. "Truly, this is a complete overhaul of the entire hospital and will set the stage for other major projects across the entire system."

M/E Engineering Scholarships assist mechanical and electrical engineering students at RIT and MCC learn and become the future engineering leaders of tomorrow. A preference is given to RCSD graduates who may not have been able to afford the cost of this education on their own.

These programs have been in place for over 15 years.

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Anthony V. Thomas, P.E. LEED AP Vice-President "I'm proud of our strong history of giving back to the communities we serve. It's a wonderful thing to represent our employees in support of causes that make a difference in the lives of others."

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M/E Engineering Scholarships at Binghamton University helps women and minorities obtain success in this sector of the engineering community.

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Continued fundraising support for the MCC Foundation and RIT's Nathaniel Rochester Society.

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Sponsor of the RCSD Green Schools Program which provides funds for providing information to students and staff regarding energy usage and conservation.

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Corporate sponsorship for the annual United Way Campaign, the Strong Museum, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, the Hochstein School of Music, Lollypop Farm and numerous K-12 School District functions.

• Sponsorship of RIT's

Innovation and Creativity Festival.

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Support of the Rochester International Jazz Festival since its inception.

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Support of our local Health Care agencies that provide care and support for those that reside in our community.

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Support of several agencies that assist those members of our community who have developmental issues.

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Support of the Ronald McDonald House through donations and Board Participation.

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Participation in the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge - promoting health and fitness in the workplace and commitment to the community and best environmental practices.

• Participation in the Ride for

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Syracuse University, College of Law Dineen Hall

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M/E Engineering provided the mechanical, electrical, and fire protection systems for this 200,000 SF, five-story academic building.

The architectural design and its systems support and enable the facility to be part of SU's goal of having a carbon neutral campus by 2040. Toward that end, M/E performed integrated modeling to parallel design and optimize energy efficiency, helping the project achieve LEED Gold Certification through the US Green Building Council.

Conventus Center for Collaborative Medicine, Buffalo, NY

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The seven-story, 470,000 SF Center for Collaborative Medicine, located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, serves clinical, ambulatory care, lab, and medical office space. The building is connected to the John R. Oishei Children's Hospital of Buffalo and adjacent to the University of Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Bio-Medical Sciences. It is a LEED Certified Platinum Core and Shell Building.

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Due to the continuation of COVID19 the Convention Center was not available to host the Symposium in April 2021. The committee has re-scheduled the Symposium a second time for everyone's safety. If you are registered and paid, we have forwarded it to the 2022 Symposium. If you would like a refund contact Lynne at RES (res@frontiernet.net or therochesterengineer@gmail.com or 585-254-2350). She will do refunds on a monthly basis.

We hope to see everyone in person next year! Please continue to stay safe and hopefully the vaccines will allow us to do so soon! Chris Devries, Symposium Chairman

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 Courses available in: Civil, Electrical, Lighting, Mechanical, HVAC, and Plumbing.

Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center 123 East Main Street, Rochester, NY Time: 7:30 am to 6:30 pm $140 Advance Registration (Plan to go back online ~February 1st 2022) $20 Student Registration; $170 AFTER April 1, 2022 and at the Door Registration will re-open online at www.roceng.org about ~February 1st 2022

The Monroe Chapter of NYSSPE, in accordance with ADA compliance, will make every attempt to provide reasonable accommodations for those requiring additional services to participate in our educational programs. If you should require such services, please contact Lynne Irwin at the Rochester Engineering Society (res@frontiernet.net or 585-254-2350) to request support by April 1, 2022.

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Connect with IT! Author James Clear wrote that “Humans are herd animals. We want to fit in, to bond with others, and to earn the respect and approval of our peers. Such inclinations are essential to our survival. For most of our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in tribes.

Becoming separated from the tribe—or worse, being cast out—was a death sentence.” To prevent a separation, we need to continually reinforce social bonding through communication and trust between the community members.

Social media sites play on our innate biases including our “negativity bias”. According to psychologist Rick Hanson, “a negativity bias has been built into our brains based on millions of years of evolution when it comes to dealing with threats. Our ancestors lived in difficult environments.

They had to gather food while avoiding deadly obstacles.

Noticing, reacting to, and remembering predators and natural hazards (negative) became more important than finding food (positive). Those who avoided the negative situations passed on their genes.”

Regrettably for our schedules, that requisite social bonding takes a lot of time. In 1992, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar identified “a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size”. Further, Dunbar postulated that humans can comfortably maintain about 150 stable relationships [“Dunbar’s Number”] by devoting “as much as 42% of the group's time to social grooming.”

We are also pattern seeking creatures who often see patterns where there are none. Couple this with our negativity bias and we can easily become emotionally engaged by the content served. But this is a chimera.

While social media surrounds us with people labeled as “friends”, many of us are willing to jettison our own family members when they do not belong to the correct social media tribe. Are our online friends really friends? Social media-based friends only know the on-line you, polished and curated. How would they react if they knew the “real” you like your family does?

Dunbar’s Number was a manifestation of the physical world, and we have since created tools that break that paradigm. Information Technology (“IT”) in general, and social media specifically, provide a means to defeat Dunbar’s Number. Through IT, we bidirectionally communicate with millions. Early on, electronic bulletin boards allowed us to reach mass audiences. Later, email allowed us to target specific recipientss with the information for instant delivery anywhere on Earth.

Social media has moved us to an entirely new level by creating artificial “tribes” and populating them with people with similar interests and views. This was a dramatic leap in communication vehicles. Social media allows for bidirectional, instantaneous mass-communication. That is an amazing vehicle and could help all of humanity.

Regrettably however, social media may separate us more than unite us.

This is no surprise as social media platforms were designed for monetization and not social betterment.

Algorithms keep us engaged by continually reinforcing our beliefs [regardless of accuracy] and surrounding us with likeminded individuals. However, societal issues arise when we each only see what we expect to see and are rarely exposed to dissenting views. (Remember “I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it” from an earlier article?) get IT done

James Clear wrote that "Your actions are a consequence of your thoughts. Your thoughts are a consequence of what you consume. And in the modern age, what you consume is largely a consequence of how you select and refine your social media feed. Choose better inputs. Get better outputs."

We all need support and appreciation, and we all want to be “right” (whatever that means). But please remember that a friend in the hand is worth a whole clan in the online bush.

Connect with IT but be careful!

And think about IT!

Think About IT!

Tony Keefe, COO, Entre Computer Services www.entrecs.com

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By Michelle Sommerman, PE, RES 1st Vice President & Scholarship Committee Chair

Stephanie Marini Recipient of the

David Fergusson Memorial Scholarship in 2019 Aspects of college; skills Rochester Institute of Technology Degree: B.S. Cum Laude in Mechanical Engineering Technology & Minor in Communications in 2021

learned, coursework, or extra-curricular activities that helped shape their career Stephanie’s involvement on the RIT Hot Wheelz team throughout her

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Currently an Associate

and hone many skills that prepared

Manufacturing Engineer at L3Harris Technologies

her for working in industry; hands on experience, leadership, teamwork, communication, working with multiple disciplines.

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Co-op experience at a GM manufacturing facility was also instrumental in her transition from student to a fulltime position in the industry.

Job responsibilities Stephanie works in the division at L3Harris that supports manufacturing of satellites. She is head Mechanical Engineer for ODU satellite assembly. In that role she regularly checks-in with the operators on the manufacturing line regarding any problems, develops process improvements to support the operators, and initiates changes to any problems that may occur on this product line. The ability to be hands-on in a work environment (which L3Harris encourages) really appeals to Stephanie, harkening back to her days in the Hot Wheelz club. She wants to have a complete understanding of the manufacturing process.

Advice for someone pursuing a career in engineering Jump right in, get out there and ask questions! Learn things outside of your job description.

As a footnote, I remember interviewing Stephanie for a scholarship. It is fantastic to see a scholarship recipient contributing to and working in the local industry. That’s what these scholarship awards are all about!

If you know of a student in grade 6 through college or a past RES scholarship recipient who should be highlighted in this column, please contact Lynne Irwin at the RES, res@frontiernet.net.

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Cyber+AI: Making Understanding Cyber Attacks Easier Through Self-Learning AI

By Stephen Moskal To most people the concept of a cyber-attack is often viewed as some foreign adversary behind a glowing screen performing some “hack,” granting them unauthorized access to a victim’s critical database. While certain aspects of the “Hollywood” depiction is accurate, it should be no surprise that cyber-attacks occurring in the real world are extremely complicated, more cleaver, and most importantly difficult to detect. Modern cyber-attacks are comprised of many steps, as often the actual target of the attacker requires knowledge about the target, access to other machines, and exploitation of core services. The idea of the “Cyber Attack Kill Chain” was developed by Lockheed Martin originally to help describe and generalize the process of a typical cyber-attack.

Figure 1 - Each stage in the kill chain describes a key step an attacker takes to achieve their objective. To minimize impact, we want to detect the attack as early as possible and “cut the chain.”

Security Operations Center’s (SOC) deploy tools on such as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to monitor the network for suspicious behavior, logging “alerts” any time the incoming traffic matches a known signature of an attack. However, IDS’s often generate hundreds of thousands of alerts per-day and become overwhelming for some SOC’s to trace down each step the adversary took to achieve their goal. We found that the descriptions contained within the alerts that describe the potential attack activities to be cryptic and difficult to research, which significantly increases our time taken to mitigate the threat.

For example, an IDS may produce an alert with the description of: “ET EXPLOIT Possible CVE-2014-3704 Drupal SQLi attempt URLENCODE.” One may ask: “What does this mean? What is the attacker capable of if this happens? How do I stop it?” The analyst must research the “CVE” (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) to identify that this allows the attacker to run unauthorized code to escalate their user privileges on that machine. This happened to be an easy case as the alert contained a link to the vulnerability description, however this is quite rare and many times one must resort to blogs and forums to understand the impact of the alert. We ask: “Can we leverage AI to interpret these complex attack descriptions into the more intuitive kill chain stages?

We present our process called “PATRL” which translates cyber-attack descriptions into attack stages using the concept of “Pseudo Active Transfer Learning.” Advancements in deep learning AI has made it possible to create a model that can learn the language structure of text sources and transfer valuable information embedded within 20 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JANUARY 2022

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large bodies of texts to aid in solving other problems. This technique of transfer learning is one reason why we have seen difficult problems like real-time translation become much more accurate. We use this technology to help us translate cyber-attacks into a more intuitive description.

Figure 2 - PATRL uses deep neural network AI to "learn" about cyber-attacks from text and use that knowledge to interpret attack stages.

We use texts from CVE’s, cyber-specific blogs/forums, and Wikipedia to create a cyber-specific language model that potentially contains all the information needed to decipher the attack descriptions. This will aid the attackstage interpretation model, requiring a fraction of the labelled data normally needed. Much of the natural language processing is handled by the language model. This alone achieved us exceptional interpretation ability over conventional classification techniques.

However, as our cyber-language model could contain a “limitless” amount of information that is present on the internet, we thought that we could use the un-labelled alert descriptions to use as extra training samples. Normally, ”Active Learning” improves accuracy by having a person label new data when the model reports that it is not confident with its prediction. We thought to automate this process by having the model self-label data to create additional training data, which is why we call it ”Pseudo-Active Learning.”

PATRL can classify the attack stage of the 70k defined IDS alerts with 87% accuracy using only 1,000 labelled attack descriptions and 1,500 “pseudo-labels” (self-labelled data). This allows for analysts to quickly determine the described Figure 3 - Pseudo-Active Learning is a self-learning process attack stage from intrusion alerts or threat reports, ("semi-supervised") and learns more from the language model with unlabelled data. reducing the time needed to research each description. Detailed technical details can be seen in the proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security as “Translating Intrusion Alerts to Cyberattack Stages using Pseudo-Active Transfer Learning (PATRL)”. q Stephen Moskal is a Ph.D. of Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and has a background in Computer Engineering. Stephen's research focuses on leveraging ML/AI to extract, interpret, and simulate cyber attacker behaviors. He has taken a post-doctorate position at MIT to continue this line of research.

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Resonating Sounds: Team completes international aural heritage research and sound capture

Three faculty-researchers record aural histories to preserve unique sounds of classic environments and improve sound technologies (Below) Sungyoung Kim, associate professor in the College of Engineering Technology, adjusts the room sensor to assess tones within the Rochester Savings Bank. The work was part of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to preserve the unique sounds of classic environments and improve sound technologies.

Photo by A. Sue Weisler

Members of the research team are: (front, from left) Professor Miriam Kolar, Xuan Lu, Associate Professor Sungyoung Kim. (Back row, from left) Jacob Cozzarin, Professor Doyuen Ko, and Rai Sato.

Photo by A. Sue Weisler The researchers “excited the room.”

The room was the ornate, vaulted lobby of Rochester Savings Bank, one of the city’s most historic buildings. “Exciting the room” was an engineering process to capture unique sound characteristics of rooms and buildings.

The researchers are Sungyoung Kim, project leader and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering technology at Rochester Institute of Technology; Doyuen Ko, associate professor of audio engineering at Belmont University in Nashville; and Miriam Kolar, the Five College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at Amherst College.

Through the project, the three developed a set of tools using advanced augmented and virtual reality technology to preserve and replicate acoustics of historical venues. Their work was part of an international project bringing attention to the overlooked work in preserving aural heritage.

Working in this area since 2020, the three faculty-researchers had received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to focus on spaces considered culturally, architecturally, and temporally distinct examples of rare aural heritage: • American recording studios in Nashville’s Historic Music Row, designated in 2015 by the National

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Trust for Historic Preservation—an example of a small room venue; • The former Rochester Savings Bank located in Rochester, N.Y., and listed on the National Register of Historic Places with historical significance for art, architecture, and commerce—an example of large and public space acoustics; and • The 3,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site at Chavín de Huántar, Peru, one of the best-preserved examples of pre-Columbian architecture in the Americas—an intersection of archaeology, ancient American prehistory, and interior architecture.

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Bergmann Finalizes Agreement to Join Colliers Engineering & Design Size and scope of combined organization provides significant benefits to clients and employees

National architecture, engineering and planning firm Bergmann has joined Colliers Engineering & Design.

With today’s finalized agreement, Bergmann’s more than 450 employees in 14 regional office locations become part of Collier Engineering & Design, creating a combined entity with 1,800 employees and 60 office locations nationwide.

of services and innovative solutions for clients, opens new growth opportunities for the firm, and facilitates numerous career opportunities for employees.

The new entity brings together the experience, services, and expertise of two nationally ranked, highly successful firms to create a much larger, diversified organization.

Bergmann brings a depth of experience in architectural design, building engineering, and design-build, rounding out Colliers Engineering & Design’s multi-discipline engineering services and experience with advanced design technologies, and complementing the firm’s extensive geographic footprint.

“The combined entity generated by Bergmann joining Colliers Engineering & Design establishes us as a dynamic A/E firm that can serve our clients through a truly complete line of services,” said Kevin L. Haney, PE, president and CEO, Colliers Engineering & Design.

“Leveraging this diverse level of capabilities under one roof promises to increase our market share while creating endless opportunities for our clients and employees.”

With today’s announcement, Colliers Engineering & Design provides an even greater depth and breadth

Bergmann will be rebranded as Colliers Engineering & Design at the end of 2022. q

Bergmann leadership, employees, and office locations have been retained, ensuring a seamless transition and enabling the firm to continue doing business as usual.

Campus News Resonating Sounds: Team completes international aural heritage research and sound capture; continued While several aspects of the project were postponed during the pandemic, the team had worked in Rochester before international travel was curtailed.

Once they resumed work, they compiled results that include technology methods to capture sound and to assess how sound impacts human experiences. Their protocols for the aural preservation can be a model for future aural heritage data collection and preservation.

“Concert halls and auditoriums need this technology to provide performers with various acoustic settings for specific purposes,” said Kim. “The technology can ‘transform’ an auditorium into a preserved church or concert hall venue virtually and instantly. Since, it can be applied for existing spaces, many choose to renovate their acoustics using this technology so that those spaces can be multi-purpose and multifunctional.”

Ko agreed. “We wanted to ‘excite’ a room as much as possible and the room would give us back the information it has. We want to capture those characteristics. We have sophisticated ways to mimic the process with the signals Sungyoung was explaining. We have those kinds of tones we broadcast all over the place and then capture the response of the tones coming back from the walls and ornaments and balconies.”

The project focused on auralization rather than visualization of soundscapes so that people can experience the target space even if that space is one day damaged or decommissioned.

Auralization is a process to simulate a unique acoustical environment, or a sound field, in a virtual or physical space. Currently, preservation of images and visual information is a research trend, yet without appropriate auditory information, visual representation of

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cultural heritage in any format could mislead users. Auralization is equally important to visualization for the seamless re-creation of environments, Kim explained.

“Different sound impressions can be heard — but acoustics also shape behavior in a setting, and we have been looking at some of the reasons why structures are built in certain ways,” he said. “Acoustical information shapes experiences. And part of our work is to enhance those experiences and to be able to replicate them should there be a loss.”

More results of the preservation work can be found in a recent paper by the researchers.

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IBC Engineering News IBC Engineering Welcomes New Staff

IBC Engineering, an engineering consulting firm specializing in innovative design building systems, recently hired 6 new employees.

Rick joined IBC as the HVAC Department Manager in January 2021. He brings 32 years of diversified experience in consulting, construction, equipment sales and application engineering. Rick enjoys project management, including the entire process starting with client focused scoping and project initiation, enabling project team collaboration all the way through design and construction.

Richard Blanch, PE Rob Eimer recently joined IBC as an HVAC Engineer III. He has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia and has 11 years of HVAC design experience with a variety of different project types. His responsibilities include HVAC systems design, drafting support, and project coordination. Rob obtained his Professional Engineering Licensure in 2018.

Rob Eimer, PE Brady Miller recently joined IBC as an HVAC Engineer I. He graduated from the Alfred State Mechanical Engineering Technology BS program in May of 2021. His responsibilities include design and drafting of HVAC systems. Brady has been working on a variety of higher education and K-12 projects to begin his career.

Brady Miller Melissa Fawley recently joined IBC as an Administrative Assistant/Construction Administrator. She has over 6 years of experience in the Construction Management field.

Her responsibilities include Construction Administration for both Buffalo and Rochester jobs, Specifications and BCS Reports.

Melissa Fawley Dan Cimino recently joined IBC as a Plumbing/Fire Protection Engineer II. He has a BS degree from UB in Mechanical Engineering and has over 12 years of experience in the design field. Dan has worked on various project types including healthcare, higher education, municipal projects, and K-12 schools. His responsibilities include design and analysis of plumbing/fire protection systems, code research, planning and coordinating work with clients, and engineering analysis.

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David Grainge II

David Grainge recently joined IBC as a Plumbing & Fire Protection Engineer I. He has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University and has two years of experience in Plumbing, HVAC, and Fire Protection system design. David has worked on a variety of projects, including commercial office space, light industrial, healthcare, assisted living, and K-12 work. q

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Don't Forget to check out the last issue with the cover article from Howard Ressel, PE, Retired from NYSDOT

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December 2021

The Unfinished Outer Loop Finally Gets Finished The story of the Outer Loop and the Genesee Expressway (I-390)

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The Bridge through Genesee Valley Park Photo credit: Peter Burke, L3Harris Technologies Inc.

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- Employee News | 24

 Position Openings | 26 - 29

 RES Call for Nominations | 6

 RES Gala | 7

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We are actively hiring talent at all levels across our firm and office locations, including Bridge Project Manager, Transportation Project Manager, Resident Engineer, Office Engineer and Bridge & Highway Engineers in New York.

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Professional Firms Employee News SWBR News SWBR Employee Receives New York State Architectural License SWBR announced that Peter Foti recently received a New York State Architectural License from the New York State Education Department. As a project architect in the firm’s Workplace studio, Foti is responsible for drawing, detailing and developing final construction documents on science, technology and commercial projects. He also manages and maintains SWBR’s digital assets, including standard Revit templates and 3D modeling software.

Minimum requirements for licensure include a degree in architecture and experience Peter Foti

under a licensed architect based on level of education. Foti completed the required National Council of Architectural Registration Board (NCARB) exams and holds a bachelor of arts in financial economics from the University of Rochester and his master of Architecture from the University at Buffalo. He is also a Rochester Institute of Technology adjunct professor. q

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Continuing Education Opportunities Go to the RES Website for Updated Details On All Meetings - www.roceng.org BE SURE TO CHECK IF A MEETING IS STILL SCHEDULED BECAUSE OF COVID-19

Monday, January 10

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Topic TBD – 1 PDH Credit Anticipated

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Speaker: TBD Place: Blades Restaurant, 1290 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 Time: 12:00 noon.

Registration details on the website at: http://rochester.ashraechapters.org.

Thursday, January 13

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Place: RIT Inn & Conference, 5257 West Henrietta Road, Henrietta, NY 14467 Time: Social hour at 5:30; Cash bar from 5:30 to 7:30; Buffet dinner from 6:30 to 7:30; Presentation from 7:30 to 8:30 pm.

Cost: Members & Non-members - $45/Students - $15 Registration: Please register by January 10, 2022 at https://www.abcdwny.com/events Additional Information: Contact Steve Gauthier at sgauthier@labellapc.com or 585-295-6657.

All attendees – please observe and adhere to current NYSDOH & Monroe County COVID19 protocols for public indoor settings.

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) p 32 Engineered Geogrid and Slope Retention Systems 1 PDH Approved

Speaker: Presentation provided by Tensar Place: Video Conference (Microsoft Teams) Time: Lunch hour, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm Cost: ASCE Members & Non-Members – Scholarship fund donation of $10-$20 recommended & appreciated.

Engineering Students – Free.

Registration: Send an email to: ascerochester@gmail.com.

Website: https://sections.asce.org/rochester.

Due to the continuation of COVID19 the Convention Center was not available to host the Symposium in April 2021. The committee has re-scheduled the Symposium a second time for everyone's safety. If you are registered and paid, we have forwarded it to the 2022 Symposium. If you would like a refund contact Lynne at RES (res@frontiernet.net or therochesterengineer@gmail.com or 585-254-2350). She will do refunds on a monthly basis.

We hope to see everyone in person next year! Please continue to stay safe and hopefully the vaccines will allow us to do so soon! Chris Devries, Symposium Chairman

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 Courses available in: Civil, Electrical, Lighting, Mechanical, HVAC, and Plumbing.

Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center 123 East Main Street, Rochester, NY Time: 7:30 am to 6:30 pm $140 Advance Registration (Plan to go back online ~February 1st 2022) $20 Student Registration; $170 AFTER April 1, 2022 and at the Door Registration will re-open online at www.roceng.org about ~February 1st 2022 The Monroe Chapter of NYSSPE, in accordance with ADA compliance, will make every attempt to provide reasonable accommodations for those requiring additional services to participate in our educational programs. If you should require such services, please contact Lynne Irwin at the Rochester Engineering Society (res@frontiernet.net or 585-254-2350) to request support by April 1, 2022.

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The engineering societies are encouraged to submit their meeting notices for publication in this section. The deadline for submitting copy is the 10th of the month prior to the month of publication. Please email to: Therochesterengineer@gmail.com. The meetings offering PDHs are highlighted in blue. Details about the meeting and affiliate (if in this issue) are on the corresponding page listed next to the affiliate name.

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EXCOM Meeting Place: Hybrid, via WebEx and in-person (see vtools for venue and WebEx login) Time: 11:50 am to 1:00 pm Registration links for our events are at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/289456

Monday, January 10

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Topic TBD – 1 PDH Credit Anticipated Speaker: TBD Place: Blades Restaurant, 1290 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 Time: 12:00 noon.

Registration details on the website at: http://rochester.ashraechapters.org.

Support Your Affiliate Attend A Meeting engineers' calendar

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Association for Bridge Construction and Design (ABCD)

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Overview of the CM-6 (CM-1 Gas Pipeline Replacement)

Oatka Creek Pupe Bridge Project – 1 PDH Credit Pending Speakers: Waylon Lunn from LaBella, Robert Fleming PE from Bergmann, and Eric Yahn PE from BVR Construction.

Place: RIT Inn & Conference, 5257 West Henrietta Road, Henrietta, NY 14467 Time: Social hour at 5:30; Cash bar from 5:30 to 7:30; Buffet dinner from 6:30 to 7:30; Presentation from 7:30 to 8:30 pm.

Cost: Members & Non-members - $45/Students - $15 Registration: Please register by January 10, 2022 at https://www.abcdwny.com/events Additional Information: Contact Steve Gauthier at sgauthier@labellapc.com or 585-295-6657.

All attendees – please observe and adhere to current NYSDOH & Monroe County COVID19 protocols for public indoor settings.

Wednesday, January 19 American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) Guide to HDPE Interceptors

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Speaker: TBA Place: Webinar Reservations: Reservations to Dave Jereckos, 585-341-3168 or djereckos@ibceng.com by January 17, 2022 Chapter website: https://www.aspe.org/rochester/events.htm

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Engineers’ Calendar, Continued Thursday, January 20

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) TBA

Wednesday, January 26 p 31

Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Commercial/Industrial Lighting Rebates!!

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Speaker: Engineering Team from Franklin Energy

Speaker: TBD

Location: Dinosaur BBQ (Upstairs Meeting Space),

Place: Meetings are being held virtually until further

99 Court Street, Downtown Rochester

notice.

Time: 12:00 Noon.

Time: Meetings begin at 6:00 pm and run to

Please register for this event on the ‘events’ page of our

approximately 7:30 pm.

website at: www.iesrochester.org.

Registration: To register, send an email to Teresa.

Froncek@incose.net and a link will be sent out a few days before the meeting. There is no cost to attend for anyone, but pre-registration is required.

Wednesday, January 26

Monday, February 7 Electrical Association (EA) Electrical Week Luncheon

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Speaker: TBA Place: Cobblestone Creek Country Club

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) p 32 Engineered Geogrid and Slope Retention Systems 1 PDH Approved

Time: Noon to 1:30 pm

Speaker: Presentation provided by Tensar

or the website at www.eawny.com.

Cost: Table of 8 - $260/member or $280/non-member or $35/member or $40/non-member.

For more information and registration call 585-382-9545

Place: Video Conference (Microsoft Teams) Time: Lunch hour, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm Cost: ASCE Members & Non-Members – Scholarship fund donation of $10-$20 recommended & appreciated.

Check out the calendar on the website for additional

Engineering Students – Free.

meetings scheduled in January & February

Registration: Email to: ascerochester@gmail.com.

Website: https://sections.asce.org/rochester.

The RES website (www.roceng.org) has a calendar of events for this month's meetings and meetings that are received or updated after print deadline. Please refer to the website for updated information.

If you wish to be listed in the calendar please send details to res@frontiernet.net.

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Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/Chapters/ChapterSites/finger-lakes/chapter-home

Upcoming January Chapter Meeting

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Thursday, January 20, 2022  TBA

Meetings begin at 6:00 pm and run to approximately 7:30 pm All meetings are being held virtually until further notice.

We use zoom for our monthly meetings.

• There is no cost to attend for anyone, but pre-registration is required. o To register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net  The link will be sent out a few days before the meeting. © 2022 INCOSE Finger Lakes Chapter

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Rochester Section

American Society of Civil Engineers Email us: ascerochester@gmail.com

E n g i n e e re d Ge og ri d a n d Slop e R e te n ti on Sy s te m s

Our next PDH series presentation will cover engineered geogrid and slope retention systems. The presentation will be provided by Tensar, who have proprietary and made-to-specification geogrid and slope retention systems on projects all over the country. Presentation details will be ironed out in the coming weeks…look for more updates via email & on our website.

DATE: LOCATION: TIME: COST:

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Video Conference (Microsoft Teams) Lunch Hour 12pm – 1:00pm Members & Non-Members: Scholarship fund donation of $10-20 recommended & appreciated Engineering Students: FREE We wish you a happy and safe holiday season!

Thank you for sticking with us through another tough pandemic impacted year. We will see you in 2022 with bigger, better & hopefully in-person events!

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657 East Avenue, Rochestter, New York 14607 Dedicated to Professionalism in Engineering in the Interest of Public Safety and Welfare 2021-22 Officers: President Michael O. Ritchie, PE, President-elect Bill Grove, PE, Vice-President Robert K. Winans, PE, Secretary Martin E. Gordon, PE, Treasurer Christopher R. Devries, PE Past Presidents: Christopher V. Kambar, PE , David C. Roberts, PE, Directors: Barry J. Dumbauld, PE, Donald Nims, PE, Joseph Dombrowski, PE, Jim Drago, PE, Neal Illenberg, PE, Douglas R. Strang Jr., PE

MPES SCHOLARSHIPS

MPES sponsors two annual scholarships for local college students to study Engineering. To ensure that this organization can continue to provide scholarships to deserving students for years to come, we are seeking donations from local engineering firms, RES and MPES members. For more information on how to make a donation please email mritchie@costich.com.

UPDATE - NYS IN-PERSON PDH GUIDANCE

The Chapter continues to navigate these unprecedented times we are all experiencing. We continue with the short term, our goal to provide online PDH opportunities in addition to the content available with your national membership. Questions have been posed as to how PDH content is applied to the NYS Continuing Education requirements for continued NYS licensure.

As per NYS Board of Education: “Some regulations restrict licensees to a certain percentage of self-study for continuing education requirements.

In response to the evolving situation with the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), and for those licensees whose registrations are due to renew March 1, 2020 – July 1, 2022, the Department will grant an adjustment to all licensees to complete up to 100% of the continuing education as self-study, provided that it is taken from a Department-approved provider and is in an acceptable subject area for the specific profession.

Additionally, the Department will grant an adjustment to all licensees, regardless of registration renewal date, to utilize self-study for any coursework taken during the period from March 1, 2020 – July 1, 2022, provided that it is taken from a Department-approved provider and is in an acceptable subject area for the specific profession.

Coursework taken outside that timeframe must meet the continuing education requirements in each individual profession’s laws and regulations.

NYSED is working closely with other New York State agencies and the Governor’s Office to tackle issues relating to COVID-19. Please continue to monitor the Department’s website for updated guidance.”

Reference: http://www.op.nysed.gov/COVID-19.html Guidance from NYSSPE: Live interaction webinars are considered “in person”, provided you can ask the speaker questions. Either verbally or through the chat, is approved the same as an in-person seminar. Participants do not have to take a quiz, but still require Q&A. Attendance documentation from online is required. If it is recorded, the attendees need to watch and complete a quiz, considered self-study.

As always, we encourage active membership in the Monroe Professional Engineers Society. We are constantly striving to improve your membership but we always need more help. If you are interested in becoming an active member or have any questions, please email me at mritchie@costich.com or contact MPES through our website at www.monroepes.org/contactus/.

Mike Ritchie, PE, President, MPES mpes news

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2022 EAWNY EVENTS Whether you have been part of the Electrical Association in the past, or not, we hope you will consider joining us for any or all of these great events!

Enjoy networking opportunities, camaraderie and even learn a thing or two!

Electrical Week Luncheon

Monday, February 7, 2022 from Noon-1:30PM at Cobblestone Creek Country Club Join nearly 200 people from the Electrical Industry as we celebrate Thomas Edison. Enjoy a delicious luncheon while you hear from a prominent member in our community.

In addition, at the luncheon we will present four scholarship awards to area students.

Table of 8 $260/member or $280/non-member ~ $35/member or $40/non-member

18th Annual Bowling Party

Thursday, March 24, 2022 from 6-9PM at Empire Lanes Every March people in the Electrical Industry…contractors (union & non-union), distributors, engineers, end users, reps & more all gather for this fun and competitve night out! Recruit a team of 4 bowlers, put on your matching shirts & come knock down the pins! Food provided along with shoes & 3 games. Awards for best AND worst scores! $160 Team of 4 ~ after 3/1/22 price increases to $180 Team of 4

3rd Annual Casino Night to benefit the Kessler Burn Center at URMC Friday, May 20, 2022 from 6-10PM at The Strathallan Don't miss this FUNdraising night out!! Casino Night is open to all as we bring awareness and funds to the Kessler Burn Center at URMC. Includes $500 in gaming chips, hors d'oeuvres, food grazing stations, dessert, coffee AND awesome prizes! Whether you know how to play the tables or not the professional dealers will help you play Craps, Texas Hold’em, Blackjack, Roulette & Let It Ride! $60/ticket ~ Sponsorships Opportunities Available

42nd Annual Golf Invitational

Monday, July 11, 2022 at LeRoy Country Club ~ 10AM Shotgun Start This golf outing has been around for more than FOUR decades…and that's for good reason! We have a blast!

Price Includes: 18 Holes of Golf, cart, coffee and donuts at registration, lunch at the turn, beer on the course, buffet dinner and prizes.

EAWNY Members $380/foursome by 6/20 ($400 after 6/20) ~ Non-Members $400 by 6/20 ($420 after 6/20)

4th Annual Rochester Red Wings Family Fun Night

TBD Grab the family and come watch the Rochester Red Wings! Price includes game ticket & private picnic at The 10th Inning Bar. Enjoy burgers, hot dogs, mac & cheese, potato salad & watermelon. $35/Adult ~ $15/Children 12 & Under

65th Annual Clambake

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at The St. Paul Exempt ~ Doors open at 4:30 Join more than 300 people as we enjoy the best Clambake in town!!! Price includes 3 dozen steamed clams, chowder, pulled port, italian sausage, chicken, hot dogs & hamburgers, pasta salad, potato salad, macaroni salad, baked beans, salt potatoes, corn on the cob, soda, beer and desserts!!! $65/Member ($70 after 8/23) ~ $70/Non-Member ($75 after 8/23)

FOR MEMBER PRICING JOIN EAWNY TODAY AT WWW.EAWNY.COM More information on these events as well as the Education Calendar can be found at www.eawny.com or by calling 585-382-9545.

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Rochester, NY Section P.O. Box 23795 Rochester, NY 14692 www.iesrochester.org

GREETINGS FROM THE IES ROCHESTER SECTION

JANUARY 2022 MEETING

COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL LIGHTING REBATES!!

THE IES ROCHESTER SECTION IS PROUD TO HOST THE ENGINEERING TEAM FROM FRANKLIN ENERGY. TOPICS TO BE COVERED INCLUDE… NYSEG/RG&E C&I Rebate Program overview Available lighting & controls rebates Best practices / case studies Rebate calculator tutorial(s)

Wednesday January 26, 2022 - 12:00 Noon Dinosaur BBQ (Upstairs Mtg Space) 99 Court Street - Downtown Rochester $35 includes lunch PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT ON THE ‘EVENTS’ PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE AT www.iesrochester.org ies news

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January 2022 Newsletter Message from the Chair

Section Officers Chair Eric Brown Vice Chair Treasurer Secretary Paul Lee

Chapters & Groups AES & COMSOC Cristiano Tapparello CS & CIS Bo Yuan EDS & CSS Sean Rommel EMBS Cristian Linte GRSS Emmett Ientilucci LIFE Mark Schrader APS & MTTS Danielle Walters Photonics Bruce Smith Parsian K. Mohseni PES & IAS Jean Kendrick Kelly Robinson SPS Alex Byrley Eric Zeise TEMS Paul Lee Young Professionals Eric Brown

Dear Colleagues, The Rochester Section Officer Elections for 2022-2023 were delayed as the board sought volunteers. Developing future section leaders from our young and mid-career professionals is a high priority for the Rochester Section. Members have many leadership opportunities in the section within the technical societies and affinity group. Please get in touch with me or Mark Schrader at m.schrader@ieee.org if you are interested in volunteer opportunities.

Rochester will soon have a new IEEE Milestone recognizing the work of Steve Sasson and other Kodak Engineers that created the First Hand-Held Solid-State Still Camera. The public dedication and unveiling of the plaque at the Kodak Center will take place on April 26, 2022, as part of the Rochester Section Joint Chapters Meeting (JCM). We would like to recognize all of the Kodak Engineers and Technicians that had a hand in the early development of the digital camera, so please share this exciting information with past Kodak colleagues. Additional JCM and dedication ceremony details will be forthcoming.

Our next Hybrid ExCom meetings will be on January 4th from noon - 1 pm (vTools# 289456).

Attendees may join in person at Tandoor of India, and all may attend virtually via WebEx. Family-style lunch at Tandoor is $10 for IEEE members and $15 for non-members.

Stay healthy and best regards,

Student Groups Univ. of Rochester Ming-Lun Lee RIT Jamison Heard

Committees Awards Jean Kendrick Communications Christine Frayda Howard Bussey Newsletter Mark Schrader PACE Bruce Rubin

Future IEEE Milestones – Submit Your Suggestions In addition to the first hand-held solid-state still camera, Rochester has been home to other significant innovations that may warrant submitting as a new IEEE Milestone application. Please communicate your ideas for future milestones to me (Mark Schrader) at m.schrader@ieee.org for consideration by the committee.

Liaisons RES Harold Paschal RCSS William Brewer

On Display @ Kodak Center

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Power Engineering and Industrial Applications PES/IAS Chapter Prof. Ilya Y. Grinberg, Ph.D., Director of Power Center for Utility Exploration, at SUNY Buffalo State, will present a talk: Smart Grid, Smart Grid Lab, Microgrid Testbed. His talk will be presented on Monday, February 28, 2022, 7:00PM – 8:00 pm EST

Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Regional Science and Engineering Fair (TRFSEF) Several members of the IEEE Rochester Section are serving on the TRFSEF Organizing Committee, and attended the Maker Fair to help promote science, engineering, and the Science Fair using games and building activities. Middle and High School students should consider registering to do a research project for the Fair. Doing a Science Fair project and participating in the Fair helps build skills necessary for learning, problem solving, and communication. Check out the website at https://terrafairs.org/trfsef.html to learn more and register.

Radio People and Radio Devices The 200 Year Path of Human Endeavor and Radio Technology Report from Mark Schrader, LM Chair: The Antique Wireless Museum tour on December 4 was well appreciated by all attendees. Of the exhibits, Voice of America station was one of the newer and larger additions. The tour guide and museum experts provided an in-depth insight on everything from the wired telegraph to radio to TV – with demonstrations of spark transmitters, and the best Zenith vacuum tube radio ever made. Radio technology covered earliest radios, Ham radio, teletype, military, and broadcast receivers of all technologies. There was even a reproduction of the Titanic’s radio room, which is considered the most accurate model in existence.

1Atwater Kent Radios

Camera WHAM Ch 5 1949

Titanic Radio Room

Zenith 10-S-669

EX-COM Meetings & Events At our EX-COM meetings, we review plans for upcoming Rochester meetings within our Section, Chapters, and groups. If you are looking to become more engaged in IEEE in the Rochester Section, please plan on attending EXCOM hybrid meetings! which serve as an excellent platform for networking with fellow engineers online or face-to-face during lunch.

The table below summarizes the upcoming events for the IEEE Rochester Section. To find additional details and register for any event listed below, please go to the hyperlink in the "Event" column or visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/vtools# (where vtools# is the number shown in the "vTools #" column below) Event

EXCOM Meeting

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vTools #

289456

When Tuesday, January 4, 2022, 11:50 – 13:00

Where Hybrid, via WebEx and in-person. Please see the vTools notice for the venue and WebEx login.

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January – Time to register kids for The Science and Engineering Fair!

As we head into the New Year, our resolutions can impact our local community. You can mentor a child you know (your own children or grandchildren, kids at the youth center, or even just students at a nearby school!). By helping them register for the TRFSEF, you encourage them to start a project that challenges their minds.

Harold Clark, Director Rochester Finger Lakes Fair trfsef@terraed.org

Many people assume that science fair projects take a full school year in order to have a lasting impact on a student’s life. But don’t worry! There are many valuable project experiences that can easily be completed in just a month or less. Here are some resources that can make the process both simple and fun!

TerraFairs.org > International Journal for High School Research > Webinar series and blog > Videos about the fair experience

ScienceBuddies.org > Project ideas and how-to’s > Career videos > Ask an Expert > Teacher and parent resources Society for Science > Science News for Students

Terra Fair Date: March 19, 2022 open to all students grades 6 to 12 ny-trfsef.zfairs.com

NASA & Cornell Citizen Science > Data access useable for projects

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Rochester Chapter

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: https://rochesterashrae.org/

President's Message

Our meeting in December was titled “Buildings Are Our Best Medicine” presented by Dr. Stephanie Taylor, ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer. The discussion was on mutating versions of a virus in the familiar Coronavirus family, which has created chaos in our communities and in the entire world. Thank you to everyone that attended.

JANUARY NEWSLETTER

ASHRAE 2021-2022 Meeting Schedule Date Monday, 12/13/2021

Event

Theme

Location

(PDH Pending)

Blades

(PDH Pending)

Blades

64th Annual ASHRAE Valentines Dinner Dance

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Strathallan 9th Floor

TBD

Membership Promotion

Presented by: TBD

(PDH Pending)

Joe Harding Memorial Ski Day (week of recess

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TBD

Resource Promotion

Healthy Building Presented by: Stephanie Taylor, Distinguished Lecturer TBD

Monday, 1/10/2022

Friday, 2/11/2022

Presented by: TBD

Monday, 2/14/2022

Friday, 2/25/2022

Monday, 3/14/2022

Presented by: TBD Updates on Refrigeration Codes/Standards Presented by: Ivan Rydkin, Daikin

Blades

Hunt Hollow 9am-4pm

Blades

(PDH Pending)

Refrigeration The ASHRAE Winter Night Monday, TBD Conference and AHR Expo 4/11/2022 (PDH Pending) Refrigeration Tour (Location TBD) is quickly approaching th Monday, Annual ASHRAE Golf Outing and Picnic 9:30 AM Golf on January 29 through --5/16/2022 (Ravenwood Golf Course) 4:30 - 8:00 Picnic nd February 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ASHRAE Learning Institute is offering many courses during the conference. You can join in-person or virtually this year, so if you would like to attend the conference or any of the courses, more information can be found at https://ashrae.org/conferences OR at http://ahrexpo.com.

Save the date! On Friday, February 11th, 2022 the Rochester ASHRAE Chapter will be hosting its annual Valentine Dinner Dance at the Strathallan. Jody and Matthew McGarry put on a fantastic event, so please consider contributing to this event and joining us! It is a terrific time with fantastic food, music and fun.

Please check out our new website at www.rochesterashrae.org for information on upcoming chapter meetings, current officer list and contact information, chapter newsletters, and more. We are continuously working on and updating the new website, so please be patient as we work through emails and registering for events the rest of the year. Also take a minute and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/#!/ashraerochester.

Updated 11/15/2021

Scott G. Edwards 2021-2022 ASHRAE Rochester Chapter President

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Friday, April 1, 2022

SAVE THE DATE! EARN PDH CREDITS!

The 2022 Spring Seminar will be held at Batavia Downs and offered virtually (due to COVID-19).

ABCD’s Spring Conference will be held in-person and virtually on April 1, 2022. This has proven to be a very popular event, where attendance has grown to over 100 professionals, from inspectors to engineers to contractors. We are interested in all aspects of bridge construction and design, from lessons learned to the latest research, codes and design parameters, constructability and construction techniques.

If you have an interesting topic that would benefit the Bridge Community, consider submitting a presentation for our Spring Seminar.

For additional information contact: Jonathan Herman, P.E. Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. (GPI) (716) 982-8658 jherman@gpinet.com

Tomas Andino, P.E. City of Rochester (585) 428-6535 Tomas.Andino@CityofRochester.Gov

Association for Bridge Construction and Design Western New York Chapter www.abcdwny.org

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Association for Bridge Construction and Design Western New York Chapter

Website: www.abcdwny.org

January Meeting, Thursday January 13th, 2022

OVERVIEW OF THE CM-6 (CM-1 Gas Pipeline Replacement) OATKA CREEK PIPE BRIDGE PROJECT 1 PDH Credit (pending) The Association for Bridge Construction and Design invites you to attend our first meeting of 2022 on January 13th, 2022. The meeting will consist of a social hour with cash bar, buffet dinner and a presentation on the conception, design and construction of the Oatka Creek Pipe Bridge as part of RG&E’s CM-1 Gas Pipeline Replacement Project.

Representatives for RG&E, the design engineer and contractor will discuss the challenges of this project and how those challenges were overcome. The meeting will be held at The RIT Inn & Conference Center in Rochester, NY. All members, non-members and students are invited to attend.

As Covid-19 continues to cause great concern throughout the United States and New York, ABCD of Western NY requests that all attendees to please observe and adhere to current NYSDOH & Monroe County COVID-19 protocols for public indoor settings.

Highlights: • Social Hour: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

• Cash Bar: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

• Buffet Dinner: 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

• Presentation 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. by: - Waylon Lunn – LaBella Associates - Robert Fleming, PE – Bergmann Associates - Eric Yahn, PE – BVR Construction, Inc. • Location: RIT Inn & Conference Center 5257 West Henrietta Road Henrietta, NY 14467 • Registration begins at 5:30 p.m.

Cost: • Members & Non-Members: $45 • Students: $15

Please RSVP by January 10, 2022 at: https://www.abcdwny.com/events

Contact Steve Gauthier at sgauthier@labellapc.com or 585-295-6657 for additional information. abcd news

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President/Education Chair: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110

President's Message

Vice President Technical: DAVE JERECKOS IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590

ASPE’s has several Training and Certification Programs: • The ‘Certified Plumbing Design Technician (CPDT)’ • The ‘Certified in Plumbing Design (CPD)’ Registration is now open.. Exam will be held via remote proctor on April 11-22, 2022 • The ‘Green Plumbing Design (GPD)’ which is being transitioned to an online course and certification.

• Medical Gas Training and Certification Program. ASPE has negotiated the means for ‘ASSE 6000 Medical Gas’ training and certification program to be developed and published.

Vice President Legislative: ALAN SMITH, P.E. IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Membership/AYP: TRAVIS JESSICK Dave Gooding Inc 173 Spark Street Brockton MA 02302 585-794-8845 Treasurer: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E., CPD CPL 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Administrative Secretary: ADAM KRAMER Bergmann 280 E. Broad Street Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14604 585-498-7802 Newsletter Editor: CHRIS WOLAK Victaulic Fairport, NY 14450 484-350-1954

COVID is still creating issues with restaurant staffing. The January Technical Meeting will still be a Webinar. In person meetings and presentations are being planned. We will alert you if this changes

Visit our web page for Links to Engineering Societies, Publications and State Codes and Engineering Tools.

As a Member of ASPE you may also download the ‘ASPE Plumbing Engineering and Design Handbook of Tables’ App. to your phone or I Pad. Next ASPE Convention will be September 16-21, 2022 in Indianapolis.

Please feel free to contact myself or any Board Member with questions or concern.

Please take the time to get Flu and COVID vaccinations.

Stay healthy and please enjoy the upcoming Holidays.

David W. Myers

Rochester Chapter President

Affiliate Liaison: REBECCA KOLSTAD Kolstad Associates

Meeting Notice – Save the Date Meeting Notice – Save the Date

Topic: Guide to HDPE Interceptors Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Speaker: To be announced.

Date:

January 19, 2022

RSVP: Time:

To Dave Jereckos (341-3168), or djereckos@ibceng.com To Announced

by Be January 17, 2022.

(Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society)

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Affiliated Societies of the Rochester Engineering Society American Consulting Engineering, Companies of New York

Executive Director, Karen Lynch

Electrical Association

American Public Works Association Monroe County/Genesee Valley Branch

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association

President, Alex Strasenburgh

Chairman, Peter Vars, PE,

New York State Association of Transportation Engineers, Section 4 President, Paul J. Spitzer PE

President, Jared R. Ransom, LS Rochester, NY Section

P.O. Box 23795 Rochester Plant Engineers Rochester, NY 14692 President, Brian Laurer www.iesrochester.org

American Society of Civil Engineers, Rochester Section President, Andrew Wojewodzic

Illuminating SocietyMEETINGS of North IESEngineering ROCHESTER America Inc., Rochester Section

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Society of Plastics Engineers, Engineers, Rochester Section Rochester Section Wednesday October 13 - 12:00 Noon Chairman, Eric Brown President, Brett Blaisdell Basics of Modern Theatre Lighting System Design - Power Distribution & Control - DMX & Networking - LED Theatrical Luminaires

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rochester Section Chairman, Berto Perez

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Engineers, Rochester Chapter Please Visit Our Website For More Details President, Tim Gallman www.iesrochester.org

American Society of Plumbing Engineers, Rochester NY Chapter President, David Myers

Society of Women Engineers.

Rochester Section President, Marca J. Lam

International Council on Systems Engineering, Finger Lakes Chapter President, Teresa Fronk

Association for Bridge Construction and Design

Monroe Professional Engineers Society

President, David Jenkinson, PE affiliated societies of the rochester engineering society

President, Mike Ritchie, PE

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