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news of Firms the... Corporate Members of the RES RES Annual Meeting | 7 Professional - Employee News | 34 Up & Coming Engineers - Meet Larry Lewis | 30 | 14 RES Board of Directors Campus News | 32 Position Openings | 36 • ABCD Association for Bridge RES President's Message Design and Construction...................................43 Notice: RES Nominations 2022-23 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers...............36 RES Annual Meeting & Award Presentations • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating RES History - May - June 1975 and Air-Conditioning Engineers........................46 • ASPE Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, Enduring the Pandemic... American Society of Plumbing Engineers.......48 RES Technical Corner by Brett Eliasz, PE • EA Electrical Association..........................................38 2022 Engineering Symposium in Rochester • GVLSA Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association..44 Get IT Done - I See Your DNA With IT! • IEEE Congratulations: 2021-22 Scholarship Recipients Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers..........................................40 Campus News • IES Illuminating Engineering Society.......................39 News From Professional Firms • INCOSE International Council Position Openings on Systems Engineering......................................33 Continuing Education Opportunities (PDHs) • IS&T Imaging Science and Technology.......................45 Engineers’ Calendar • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society.........42 Directory of Professional Services • RES Rochester Engineering Society..................... 2-11 Directory of Business Services • TERRA Affiliated Societies of the RES TERRA Science & Engineering Fair..................34 Congratulations to the Scholarship Recipients
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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 11, MAY 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, It has been my honor to be President of the RES from 2020-2022. I am very fortunate to have had an extremely talented set of officers to work with including Michelle Sommerman (1st Vice President), Dennis Roote (2nd Vice President, and Treasurer), and Lynne Irwin (Administrative Director). The Board of Directors has also provided extraordinary depth in expertise that has helped to navigate the challenges associated with the pandemic. These individuals include Joe Dombrowski (Immediate Past President), Kenton Hines, Richard Rice, Neal Illenberg, Stephen Day, Brett C. Eliasz, Mike Kurdziel, Nancy Crawford, and Timothy Howe. We could not have survived the last few years without the dedication of these individuals. To put this in perspective, the pandemic started just before my term began in May of 2020. My first inperson event will be my last Board meeting on May 25th, 2022.
(President), Dennis Roote (1st VP), and Mike Kurdziel (2nd VP). Joining them on the Board of Directors will be Steven Day, Noah Kelly, Michael Duffy, and Leandro Aveiro. I encourage you to join us at the Annual meeting in the RMSC to celebrate our successes, the new leadership, and the scholarship and professional award winners. I would also like to thank L3Harris for sponsoring the Annual meeting at the Platinum level! Your support helps us to carry out the programs and services that are dedicated to enhancing the profession and the community, while encouraging the growth and development of engineers and scientists for the future. Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the Annual meeting. I hope to see you at the meeting! All my best, Greg Gdowski, PhD RES President
Alternatively, we created virtual events to deliver pdh-credits, and to celebrate scholarships and awards. These events have functioned to help financially sustain the RES in the absence of large-scale inperson events like the Gala. More impressively, the leadership team expanded corporate membership which now includes 8 enterprise members (L3Harris, MKS Instruments, Stantec, M/E Engineering, Navitar, Bergman Architects Engineers Planners, Alstom Signaling, and Bosch). Each of these changes bodes very well for the future of the RES. Despite the pandemic, I am confident that we will be able build upon the new venues we developed and restart many of the hallmark RES events we sorely miss from our past. In many ways, it will mark a new beginning and a return to a new normal where we can resume in-person activities that serve to strengthen the engineering community within Rochester. I am thrilled that the RES will be guided by a very talented incoming leadership including Michelle Sommerman res news - president’s message
Greg Gdowski, PhD University of Rochester RES President June 1, 2020 - May 31, 2022 MAY 2022 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 5
RES 2022-23 NOMINATIONS
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Notice to All RES Members NOTICE TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ROCHESTER ENGINEERING SOCIETY
Published pursuant to Article IX, Section 1 of the Constitution
Pursuant to Article VII, Section 9 of the Bylaws to the Constitution, the Nominating Committee of, Joseph Dombrowski, PE, chair and Greg Gdowski, PhD, co-chair reported a slate of officers for the 2022-2023 RES year. Selected by the Nominating Committee for the designated offices are: PRESIDENT (2022-2024) MICHELLE SOMMERMAN, PE Project Engineer - Mechanical Bergmann FIRST VICE PRESIDENT (2022-2024) DENNIS ROOTE, PE Owner, CDE Engineering & Environment SECOND VICE PRESIDENT (2022-2024) MIKE KURDZIEL, PHD Director, Engineering, L3Harris TREASURER DENNIS ROOTE, PE Owner, CDE Engineering & Environment DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2024) STEVEN W. DAY, PhD Department Head, Biomedical Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2024) NOAH KELLY Leadership Excellence & Development Program (Engineering), Alstom DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2024) MICHAEL DUFFY Engineering Manager, Software Services Bosch Security Systems, LLC DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2024) LEANDRO AVEIRO Engineering Group Manager - Verification & Validation, Alstom 6 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
Directors who will continue in office until the expiration of their terms are: DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2023) BRETT C. ELIASZ, PE Disipline Leader - Electrical Bergmann DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2023) RICHARD E. RICE, Eng. Facilities Business Development Erdman Anthony DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2023) NEAL J. ILLENBERG, PE Principal Engineer, Rail Safety Consulting DIRECTOR (Term Ending 5/31/2023) KENTON G. HINES Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Past President who will serve as a member of the Board of Directors, pursuant to Article VIII, Section 2 of the Constitution is: PAST PRESIDENT (2020-2022) GREG T. GDOWSKI, PhD Executive Director, Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Pursuant to Article IX, Section 2, of the Constitution, additional nominations may be made by a petition signed by at least 10 VOTING members. Such a petition, together with a written acceptance from each nominee, must be filed with the RES Administrative Director no later than 12:00 noon on May 6, 2022. If there are additional nominations, ballots will be mailed to all members in good standing and ELIGIBLE to vote by May 13, 2022. If there are no other nominations received, the election will be by a vote at the annual meeting to be held on Thursday, May 26, 2022. Respectfully submitted, Lynne Irwin, Administrative Director
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RES Annual Meeting To be held Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 5:30 pm
Place: Rochester Museum & Science Center, Bausch Auditorium. Registration: IS REQUIRED. Limit of 100 attendees, be sure to register early! Time: 5:30 to 6:35 pm cash bar & hors d'oeuvres; 6:30 to ~7:30 pm RES Business/Elections and Awards
Learn About RES Activities RES Update Briefing Board and Officer Elections for fiscal year 2022-2023 www.roceng.org
April 2022
Announcing the 2021 RES Awards Recipients | 16 - 29
Award presentations of the: 2021 Engineer of the Year, 2021 Young Engineer of the Year, Finalists for Young Engineer of the Year, and Engineers of Distinction. Also see the scholarship recipients for the 2020-21 year.
Jarrod P. Adams 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Mark F. Bocko, PhD 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Maura Chmielowiec
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Lydia M. Hays
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
John W. Nieto
2021 Engineer of the Year
Jarmes P. Farnham, Jr. 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Alan Pilecki 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Thomas Howard, PhD
Jacob W. Hillmon 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Peter C. Sherer 2021 Engineer of Distinction
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Andrew D. White, PhD
2021 Young Engineer of the Year
Joseph D. Majkowski
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Sage Keefer
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Megan N. Smith
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
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Meet new and continuing officers and directors for the |7 | the fiscal year 2022-2023. You will hear a few words30from the | 32 outgoing President, Greg Gdowski, PhD and incoming President, Michelle Sommerman, PE
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Professional Firms - Employee News
Up & Coming Engineers - Meet Larry Lewis
Congratulations to the Scholarship Recipients
Campus News
Position Openings
Greg Gdowski, Phd
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Sponsorship Opportunities Available on the Website. There will be a networking period before the business meeting and presentations with a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres. We ask that you consider donating $15/person during the registration process to help us offset the costs for this program. res news annual meeting
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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, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War are now history. These experiences have changed the face of and will, no doubt, influence the future of the community. The Rochester municipal leadership and the industrial community have become immersed in the cold-war, growth economy.
“The Rochester Engineer” (May 1975) This issue of the magazine (as in the previous issue) featured “The Survival of the Bark Canoe”, this time Part Two, a twenty-page, detailed description of a wilderness canoe trip in Maine, via a hand-made birch bark canoe, by John McPhee (reprinted by permission, from The New 8 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
Yorker magazine). Also of interest in this issue are two articles by the Monroe Chapter of the NYS Society of Professional Engineers (MPES). The first, “The Role of the Committeeman – and the Need for Engineers in Politics”, describes the process by which a citizen, of any political party, can become a member of a party’s Committee(s) and become involved in the selection of candidates to appear on their party’s ballot line. It states, “Many of the issues with which local governments concern themselves are linked to engineering, sanitation, sewers, water systems and fire protection, storm water drainage, highways and traffic control, zoning ordinances, landfills, and similar activities essential to the health, safety and welfare of the public. Engineers are eminently qualified to concern themselves in these areas and would make excellent candidates, too.” In a second article, MPES calls attention to the numerous Planning and Zoning bodies for guiding community growth. It offered detailed recommendations for how a person (especially an engineer) could ask to be considered for appointment to their Village, Town or City planning entity.
June 25, 1975 (Board Meeting, Chamber of Commerce) Convened by new RES President, Jack Schickler, the Board approved one application for Regular Membership. In light of rising production costs for The Rochester Engineer, Jack Schickler proposed offering two options to RES Affiliates to help the Society offset these costs: 1.) If all members of each Affiliate (who res news - history
are not also RES Members) were to receive the magazine, the subscription price to each member would become $2.42/year ($.22/copy), or 2.) Individual subscriptions to the magazine could be solicited, by the RES, from each Affiliate member, separately. The price to each subscriber would be $5.50/year ($.50/copy). While some Affiliate representatives did not believe that their organization could afford $.22/copy, others felt that theirs could. It was decided to proceed with a letter, presenting these subscription options to the RES Affiliates. The Board, by unanimous consent, voted to join the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. RES Past President Dr. Richard Kenyon reported that, on advice from the RES’s ad hoc Selection Advisory Committee, County Manager Lucien Morin had chosen Gerald McDonald to become the new Director of Pure Waters for Monroe County.
“The Rochester Engineer” (June 1975) Due to his interest in the quality of budgeting and energy legislation at the Federal level, RES President Jack Schickler wrote to five elected officials, asking about continued deficit budgets, the possibility of a mandated annual 10% cut in spending until the budget is balanced, the establishment of a “sunset” provision for eliminating any Federal agency once its intended purpose had been accomplished, the inclusion of cost/benefit ratios for all proposed legislation, and the request for a report from the appropriate agency on progress in development of alternative energy resources. Jack received replies from Congressmen Frank Horton and Barber Conable, and from Senator James Buckley, which were published in this issue. Questionby-question, Congressman Horton’s response offered specific pros and cons to Jack’s inquiries. Congressman Conable’s responses were more generic, having referred Jack’s questions to the National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality and placed him on their mailing list. res news - history
Senator Buckley’s response was more a criticism of the current administration (Pres. Gerald Ford) and its penchant for “over-regulation”, e.g. seatbeltignition interlocks. Paraphrasing Shakespeare, the Senator offered, “The fault lies not in our laws, but in ourselves, that we tolerate them.” In his article, “The Engineer as Manager”, RES Past President Mark Sluis states, “Thought most engineers, from their educational and basic professional experience, develop many qualities that stand them in good stead as managers, they must develop others, in order to be fully successful managers. Key among these traits is the ability to make decisions (including risktaking), communication skills, a comprehensive outlook, an interest in people, and a desire to reach reasonable goals. Managing goes beyond an engineer’s usual vocational skills; and a manager’s tasks usually require a significant adjustment for the typical engineer…Unlike engineering, management is not – and can never be - an exact science.” In his article, “Engineers Lend a Hand Here”, Times-Union Reporter, Mike Zavadil, called out RES Member, Richard Rice, Director of Operations for Midtown Holdings, for his dedicated off-hours work, on behalf of the RES, in helping the City of Rochester write a new noise ordinance. 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 continuing prosperity of the second half of the 20th Century. We welcome your questions and comments on this series. MAY 2022 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 9
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RES News - Tutoring Team
Dr. Walter Cooper Academy; Enduring the Pandemic… As we have said, the School Year is well underway, but there continue to be challenges... Back in November, Covid-19 vaccinations became authorized. Since then, an increasing number of resources/ locations, have been urging parents to bring their children (ages 5 – 11) in for a free vaccination. The RCSD has finally been able to re-establish in-person learning, as January classes resumed. Through February and into March, in-person classes have continued. The educational progress of our students was greatly hampered by these early stop/start measures, resulting from the most recent variant of the disease. Our students have been deprived of essential support during these crucial “educational moments” in their lives. Despite the recent lifting of masking requirements, the policy remains in place that the RCSD will NOT allow non-parent volunteers to enter the schools to tutor students in-person, some who may still have not been vaccinated. Believing that there must be a way to return to our tutoring work…we had hoped to be launching a “Virtual RES Tutoring Team”, this Spring. However, we have recently been told that this cannot happen in the current school year. Our teachers are finding that many of their students, having fallen behind, are in need of more intense classroom attention. This is an overwhelming challenge which, coupled with on-going preparations for upcoming NYS Student Testing in English Language and Math, has made it impossible to create the necessary special tutoring work assignments (even if only virtual) for individual students. Isn’t there some way in which we can still help these children?... As a matter of fact, there is, most students can benefit from being read to by caring adults. Community School Site Coordinator, Michele White, has provided a list of books, broken down by grade level. These books are used to supplement classroom learning toward helping students develop a better understanding of the values of: trust, loyalty, helpfulness, friendship, courtesy, kindness, obedience, cheerfulness, personal thrift, bravery, cleanliness and reverence. We are hoping that our RES Tutors, and others, might consider agreeing to follow a prescribed protocol that lets them access a website, from the comfort of their own home or office. They would then read aloud, a values-focused text. This “reading” would then become available for students, during their non-school time, to “hear a story” from someone who cares enough to make the time to read to them. We will be reaching out to our “veteran” RES Tutors, soliciting their participation as “RES Readers”, for this special assignment. Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at…Rochester Engineering Society (585) 254-2350, via website: www.roceng.org, or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (mobile & text).
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RES - Technical Corner
Technical Corner For the article this month we will take a look at bonding the grounded conductor (i.e. Neutral) to the equipment grounding system. Where is the best place to do that and why? NEC Article 250.30(A)(1) states that the system bonding jumper shall be made at any single point on the separately derived system from the source to the first disconnecting means or overcurrent device. It also notes that if the source is located outside the building, a grounding electrode connection shall be installed. Therefore, it appears that we have 2 options for system bonding, either at the source or at the first disconnecting means. It is important to note that the main bonding jumper is a system bonding jumper, but specifically used to bond the main service entrance grounded conductor to the equipment grounding system. The intent of the equipment grounding system is to create a low impedance path back to source that would generate a quick response to a ground fault and trip a circuit breaker before someone could touch the faulted equipment and get shocked. The equipment grounding system is made up of the usually green equipment grounding conductors (EGCs), metal equipment enclosures, metal boxes, metal raceways, panelboards, and disconnect switches. Should a current carrying conductor disconnect from a terminal point and land on an equipment enclosure, the enclosure should be tied to the equipment grounding network, which is continuous using metal raceways and EGCs all the way back to the separately derived system or building source. The building source is typically a pole or pad mounted transformer that is outside the building. A separately derived system could be a dry type transformer inside the building; it could also be a generator where the neutral is switched. If you were to run an EGC all the way out to your transformer enclosure and ground bar and then bond the ground to the low potential of the transformer windings (i.e. the neutral terminal), you would have made your system bond at the source. In this scenario, there would never be any normal current on your equipment grounding system, it is completely separated from the normal power system from the point of the fault to the neutral on the building transformer. From the research that I have done, this is your most reliable, tried, and true method for ensuring a low impedance path back to the transformer and therefore fastest circuit breaker tripping and fault detection. Figure 1 (right) is an example of grounding a separately derived system, commonly a dry type transformer in a building, this is not a main bond, but rather a system bond. Notice how the equipment ground is brought all the way into the transformer before it is bonded to the neutral. I find the image to the right nicely defines the various conductors that you will see as part of a grounding system. Notice that in addition to the neutral conductor and the system bonding jumper, there is also a grounding electrode conductor tied to the lowest potential on the transformer secondary. The grounding electrode conductor is key in keeping the neutral of the transformer at ~ 0V. It is essentially holding the lowest potential of the transformer at the potential of earth. res - technical corner
Figure 1: Source website: https://www.ecmweb.com/national-electricalcode/qa/article/20900937/stumped-by-the-code-nec-rules-for-groundingand-bonding-transformers
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Due to the continuation of COVID19 the committee has decided to go virtual for everyone's safety. If you are registered and paid, we have forwarded it to the 2022 Virtual Symposium. A letter has been sent to you on how to register for this year. We hope to see everyone in-person in 2023! Please continue to stay safe and hopefully the vaccines will allow us to do so soon! Chris Devries, Symposium Chairman
The 2022 Engineering Symposium in Rochester has gone Virtual Sponsored by Rochester's Technical and Engineering Societies and RIT
Three Consecutive Thursday's
Civil and Mechanical sessions were held on April 21, April 29. May 5 is still open for registering (Registration open till midnight, May 4th)
Earn up to 9 PDHs (3 PDHs each day) Courses available in: Civil, Mechanical and Electrical.
Details on presentations and speakers is on the website.
Time: 1:00 to 5:00 pm each date. $90 Advance Registration for all 3 dates (or $30 each). Registration is on the website at www.roceng.org (Go to the calendar and then April 21, 28 or May 5th)
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I See Your DNA With IT! One of the most promising areas in science is that of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA is a self-replicating, microscopic structure that holds the recipe for creating proteins in our cells. Understanding DNA has opened new worlds in genealogy, biology, medicine, and forensics. Human DNA looks like a “ladder” with an estimated three billion base pairs making up the “rungs”. Three billion base pairs in every cell! That is a lot. If we were to count one pair per second, it would take a generously long lifespan to complete the task (ninety-five years). And that is counting them just once. How much longer to understand them or compare them? OK, what does DNA have to do with information technology (IT)? Without IT, the meaning and value of our DNA may have remained forever hidden. The sheer number of base pairs and myriad of permutations is impossible to comprehend in a brain designed to process about eight pieces of information at a time. In an earlier article we discussed fingerprinting and IT. Like fingerprinting, DNA was discovered long before we had the technology to make use of it. Discovered in 1869 (by Swiss researcher Friedrich Miescher), it was not useful for many, many decades. The challenge of understanding DNA is exponentially more difficult than fingerprints. There are 150 individual ridge characteristics on a fingerprint compared to 3,000,000,000 base pairs on a single DNA strand. Only with IT could that much data be manipulated, understood, and compared. We can now sequence DNA in as little as four hours.
No suspect could mean the case goes “cold”. Times have changed. Enter the wide adoption of DNA based ancestry services. These extremely large databases of DNA samples are quickly compared to identify your “origins”. Millions of people have submitted their DNA. The AncestryDNA database alone has over 20 million samples. Law enforcement now uses these databases to find matches for unknown suspects. Failing an exact match, it can narrow the search to a family if the suspect's cousin got their DNA profiled. Even when human DNA cannot be used, our mitochondria’s DNA can. Mitochondria, the “powerhouse” of our cells, is an independent creature with its own DNA. As mitochondria is passed directly from mother to child in the egg, it can be used to cleanly trace the mother’s lineage. Mitochondrial DNA can be found in “dead” hair where there is no human DNA. All living things have DNA, and each individual organism’s DNA is unique. So, DNA from plants and bacteria can also be used to solve crime. In one investigation, a murder dumped a body in the forest and, as he drove away, seeds from a tree fell into the bed of his truck. Forensics matched the seeds in his truck to a specific tree at the site of the murder. In another case, a murder drowned someone in a pond. Forensics tied the DNA of microscopic pond organisms on a suspect’s shoes and car rug to the pond water in that specific pond, again, tying the suspect to the crime scene. Appreciate the wonders of DNA.
I would also suggest that our understanding of DNA was greatly enhanced by our understanding of software coding. While DNA is not a software code [more of a database], it served as a handy analogy for comprehension. Like many disciplines in science, forensics is now IT based. With IT we can read and compare DNA. We can tie someone to a crime scene with microscopic amounts of DNA left at the site. Originally, the challenge was that you needed to have a suspect’s DNA for comparison. get IT done
And Think About IT!
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Congratulations to the 2021-22 Scholarship Recipients
Rochester Engineering Society Awards
Thank you to the Scholarship committee for your volunteering to interview and select the scholarship recipients for 2021-22. The Scholarship Committee consists of: Michelle Sommerman PE (Chair), Wendy Smith, Diane Trentini, Donald Nims Jr., PE; Mike Walker, and Mark Schrader, PE.
Joseph W. Campbell Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Scholarship
Anand Idris University of Rochester Optical Engineering; Minor in Computer Science
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Scholarship
Lianming Hu University of Rochester Mechanical Engineering
Christina Nguyen Rochester Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering
Susan L. Costa Memorial Scholarship
Society of Women Engineers Scholarship
Rochester Engineering Society
Maya Liseth Parada University of Rochester Mechanical Engineering
David Fergusson Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society
Calvin Nau Rochester Institute of Technology Industrial Engineering
Keith Amish Memorial Scholarship Rochester Engineering Society
Aden Crimmins Rochester Institute of Technology Computer Engineering
The CHA, IEEE, and SWE Awards are screened through the RES selection committee. Adam W. Lawas Memorial Scholarship (CHA) Tyler Rodgers Rochester Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering 14 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
Lydia Blatnik Rochester Institute of Technology Biomedical Engineering
New York State Association of Transportation Engineers Scholarship Awards
NYSATE Section 4 congratulates the Year 2021 scholarship winners. We received four applications for the 2021 scholarships. The scholorship selection committee, consisting of Chris Reed (Chairperson), Brian Sherman, Vitaliy Vysochanskyy, and Phil Klingler, reviewed each application and made awards based on academic achievement and each candidate's involvement and participation in civic and extra curricular activities. Since 1986, NYSATE Section 4 has given out over $87,000 in scholarship money.
The Frederick E. Bragg Scholarship Alexander Hutter (son of Greg Hutter) $1000
res and affiliate scholarship recipients
NYSATE Awards, continued The Robert I. Loftus Memorial Scholarship
Jason Hofmann (son of James Hofmann Jr.) $875
The Thomas. C. Lehmkuhl Memorial Scholarship Kaelyn Button (daughter of Jeremy & Jill Button) $875
Monroe Professional Engineers Society Awards
The Scholarship Selection Committee consists of Victor Genberg PE, Mark Butcher PE, Robert Marshall PE, Joe Dombrowski PE, Andrew Straub PE, and Bruce Wallmann PE.
Paul & Claire Raynor Scholarship
Monroe Professional Engineers Society Madeleine Cotter Allendale Columbia School Major: Computer/Environmental
Vastola Scholarship
Monroe Professional Engineers Society Ethan Rheude Canandaigua Academy Major: Biomediical Engineering
Bergmann Scholarship
Connor Ingham Wheatland-Chili High School Major: Survey & Geomatics
res and affiliate scholarship recipients
Erdman Anthony Scholarship
Matthew Adamson Palmyra-Macedon High School Major: Mechanical Engineering
Alstom Foundation Scholarship
Conor Bracy Webster Thomas High School Major: Astronautical Engineering
RE:Build Optimation Technology Scholarship
Emma Voglewede Churchville-Chili High School Major: Mechanical Engineering
American Council of Engineering Companies Scholarship
Cole Chiapperino Honeoye Falls - Lima High School Major: Mechanical Engineering
Edward J. Ries Memorial Scholarship Nathan Pieters Irondequoit High School Major: Electrical Engineering
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Baja SAE Collegiate Design Series takes place again in Rochester June 2-5
One hundred national and international teams converge on RIT and Palmyra for major race
Final exams and graduation may be over, but RIT Baja’s biggest challenge is just ahead. They will be among the 100 collegiate race teams coming to town for the 2022 Baja SAE Rochester competition, taking place June 2 – 5, at RIT’s Gordon Field House and at Hogback Hill Motocross site in Palmyra N.Y. The challenge is as much about daring and nerve as it is about exceptional engineering design. Event officials confirm that conditions for the off-road challenge will be exceptional—with the roughest terrain to navigate, some mud thrown in for good measure, hills to climb and obstacles to overcome. Teams from universities in the United States, Canada, India, Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela will compete. Past event champions include the University of Michigan, Cornell University, RIT, and Ecole de Technologie Superieure (Quebec). University teams from Oregon, Nebraska and Arizona have been moving up in standings and continually give favored teams a challenge. Baja SAE events are held across the country at different universities and motor cross venues. They consist of competitions that simulate real-world engineering design projects in which engineering 16 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
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students design and build off-road vehicles that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain—hill and rock climbs—acceleration and maneuverability challenges and a four-hour endurance race. Competitions provide SAE student members with a challenging project that involves the design, planning and manufacturing tasks found when introducing a new product to the consumer industrial market. Many of the teams, including RIT, build the car— from its systems to its chassis—in campus machine, manufacturing and 3D print labs. Improved system designs are often part of class and team projects where work is developed and tested on campus before being added to competition vehicles. Events during the competition highlight different steps of that development process and provide real-world experiences for team members. During competitions, all cars undergo a meticulous inspection process and are judged on frame structure, suspension, workmanship and appearance. After cancellation of events last spring as the pandemic unfolded and travel bans were put in place, SAE International, the Baja race organization, modified its competition season with hybrid events throughout the year. Static events, renamed Knowledge Events that included cost, sales, and a design review briefings, were held virtually. Baja team members, like their Formula race car team counterparts, are engineering and engineering technology students primarily, but also include participants from liberal arts and graphic design. And RIT’s car looks to be among the leaders when the flag drops. This is the 7th time the university has been the host college. The team has competed in Baja SAE competitions for more than 25 years, winning both national and international events. Opportunities to volunteer for the onsite event remain open to local and regional participants. Registration is open online: www.bajasae.net. q campis news
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Student engineers work with the city of Rochester to improve snow removal Prototype sensor suite powered by solar technology to assess high-traffic areas needing additional plow coverage
Data can help solve weather-related transportation problems, at least that is the basis of work being done by Rochester Institute of Technology students and the city of Rochester to improve its snow removal operations. Working with the city’s departments of Data Analytics and Environmental Services’ staff, undergraduate engineering students built a prototype solar monitoring system. It will provide needed information about snow build up on the city’s busiest streets and provide real-time data to staff to open high-traffic areas safely and efficiently. City of Rochester snow removal processes could be enhanced with a prototype sensor
At the end of this semester, they will suite powered by solar technology developed by RIT engineering students with members have built a high-tech sensor unit to of the city’s service team. Credit: Photo provided by the city of Rochester be installed on a city of Rochester utility pole. System data feeds will connect to the city and provide a season of information about snow fall. Data collected from the system will also be included in the city’s efforts to successfully compete for federal infrastructure funding. “It is hard to get government to invest in this type of speculative technology without seeing how it works,” said Kate May, director of the Data Analytics and Performance Department. “Having this sort of prototype in use will hopefully give us some advantage in applying for funding. We can say we tested it and we know it is a viable concept. We can evaluate this against the market. So, it gives us information.” That information gathering began in September. The engineering Multidisciplinary Senior Design Program has two parts— research and design in fall and build and testing in spring. Teams consist of students from the different engineering disciplines in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering to create value for their clients by developing all elements of a new product or process. Early design requirements and detailed drawings for the city’s system included cellular connectivity, high-tech sensors, and battery technology that can withstand low temperatures. “Initially our project was to have a snow sensor that would plug into light poles. After the first or second 18 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
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meeting, they decided they wanted it to be solar powered so that it could power itself, which threw us for a loop because solar panels in snow are not always the most optimal situation. That required a lot more research,” said Sophie Buckwalter, a fourth-year electrical engineering student from Mt. Joy, Pa., and team member. Some of that research included scouting locations of electrical poles, understanding dimensions, and researching different types of batteries to power the electronics. They asked questions about effectiveness of solar panels in a city that is not always known for its sunny days in winter. (Rochester gets, on average, 165 sunny days per year.) A battery system would be the central powering unit for the sensors, but different chemicals in batteries respond to cold weather differently. “We had to do research into what would be the best chemical make up for our battery, what is the best size, because this thing will be strapped to a pole,” said Ty Freeman, a fourth-year electrical engineering student from Puyallup, Wash. “We also had to think about weight requirements and with the solar panel, if we make it too big, it could act as a sail.” Snow removal in Rochester involves plowing and de-icing areas across the 37 square miles of the city. It entails human inspectors, data from the National Weather Service, and citizen reports through 311/ emergency calls. A supplement to this system could be a cost savings and preventive measure. Rochester averages nearly 100 inches of snow each year, substantially more than even a familiar snow city like Denver, where May had worked prior to coming to Rochester. She is responsible for implementing technical solutions that harness data to evaluate and continually improve services. “I can see this system being used in areas where there are important bus routes, things where there is extra importance, and knowing that the road conditions at that location might be strategic. That is the vision, not just saving money,” said May. “Decisions are not just based on intuition and experiences; it is also based on data and strategy.” Understanding experience and strategy is another feature of the senior design program objectives. Working with a faculty guide and the project sponsor, students learn about technical processes, user-centered design, and how to react to issues that arise. “They are learning how to build a product that can be put into an environment in a city, and they are learning about more of the considerations beyond just as an engineer—who may not be directly interacting with the public or seeing that the build environment is a living, breathing thing,” May added. “As a former student, I know the blackboard has a lot of certainties. And in the real world, things are never as clean or simple. There are always extra variables, and if you get frustrated with that, transitioning from academia to the real world, that is not going to work well. Luckily RIT engineers are pretty good at that.” Students on the city of Rochester project team include Buckwalter and Freeman, in addition to Matt Alderfer, mechanical engineering, from Sellersville, Pa.; Trevor Povlock, mechanical engineering, from Fairport, N.Y.; Alexander Guan, computer engineering, from Chattanooga, Tenn.; and Jonathan Leduc, industrial engineering, from Mendon, Mass. Several team members expect to gradate this May. Their faculty advisor and team guide is Mark Minunni. q campus news
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Constructing relationships with students and faculty is Abdullah al Faruque’s academic foundation
Abdullah al Faruque refers to himself as “just a sidekick” in the larger department of civil engineering technology.
Abdullah al Faruque refers to himself as "just a sidekick" in the larger department of civil engineering technology.
as managing projects in different communities and countries.
“I work with the best,” he said proudly of his faculty peers, who are as strong as I-beams at teaching students the best ways to engineer structures from buildings to bridges. Faruque has established himself as more than a sidekick. He is an engineering professional who has shaped a challenging and caring classroom environment and has seen program graduates become successful in the highly competitive engineering and construction fields.
Abdullah al Faruque, associate professor in the College of Engineering Technology, was named one of RIT’s outstanding faculty. He is being honored with a 2022 Eisenhart for Outstanding Teaching. Credit: A. Sue Weisler/RIT
For this, Faruque was honored with the 2022 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching. Given as one of RIT’s highest recognitions for tenured faculty, it acknowledges those who excel at teaching and enhancing student learning. The associate professor in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology (CET) combines the seriousness needed to share meticulous engineering concepts and still make room in classes to add a personal touch. “There is no doubt that RIT can make students successful on the professional level, but I want them to be people that can contribute good to society,” said Faruque, who has been with RIT since 2008. He teaches a wide range of civil engineering technology analysis and design courses in the areas of structure, hydraulics, and soil mechanics in CET’s Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety. Faruque brings more than 22 years in design, construction, management, administrative, and managerial experiences to his classes. Each class combines technical concepts with interpersonal topics such as dealing with bosses and co-workers as well 20 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
“There are many ways one can approach the design. A good designer must understand the location of the project to check if they have the infrastructure or equipment or expertise to build, or you must adapt your design according to the potential of that community? Always, people come first and you need to provide the best for them,” he said. Finding solutions to class problems are not always straight-forward, and he is humble—a missed part of a mathematics equation, for example, will happen. But it shows humanness, not failure, he explained. Students see that he can be gently teased, and to him, this is an invitation to laugh and solve problems together.
“They may be watching a mistake made, but they end up contributing to a solution,” he said. “That is a very entertaining class where everyone participates in one way or another.” Faruque was exposed to both academic and nonacademic knowledge at an early age. After college and with some local experience, he left his homeland of Bangladesh to become part of what he called the “civil engineering wonderland” in East Asia, specifically working in Singapore, Malaysia. “That was the time of exceptional growth in that region,” he said. Afterward, he emigrated to Canada where he combined work with graduate studies at the University of Windsor (Ontario). Teaching followed a professional career and Faruque is committed to working with the next generation of builders with heart. “I tell my students, whatever you do, do it from your soul,” he said. continued on page 21 campus news
Campus News Satish Kandlikar recognized as a top researcher in his field by Research.com RIT mechanical engineering faculty ranked 31st in U.S. and 54th in world of more than 3,600 international researchers. Satish Kandlikar, professor of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, has been recognized by Research.com as one of the country’s top researchers in his field. This first edition of the national and international rankings of more than 3,600 mechanical and aerospace engineering scientists from around the world included Kandlikar, who ranks 31st in the U.S., and 54th in the world ranking. Research.com is a central portal with links to numerous peer-reviewed journals, national and international conferences, and a repository of new research by scientists since 2014. Scholars were ranked according to disciplines and within each of these categories by scientific contributions to specific fields based on research findings, journal publications, conference proceedings and citations, as well as awards and achievements. Kandlikar has made pioneering contributions in the area of pool boiling heat transfer and fuel cell technology. He has also developed infrared imaging technology to better detect breast cancer, specifically tumors hidden behind dense tissues. This latter research was just recently funded with a grant from the National Science Foundation under an SBIR grant. The technology has been developed at RIT in conjunction with partners at Rochester General Hospital.
Satish Kandlikar, professor of mechanical engineering at RIT, was recognized as one of the top researchers in the country by Research.com. Credit: ASW/RIT
He has published nearly 300 journal and conference papers. Research. com indicated that his more than 23,000 citations were by peer researchers from universities such as Purdue to those in Singapore and Switzerland. Kandlikar is a fellow member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and founded the ASME Heat Transfer chapter in Rochester, N.Y. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including RIT’s Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching and Trustees Scholarship Award. He has made significant contributions to STEM education, as founder of RIT’s E-cubed Fair, an event hosted annually at the university since 1991 with the support of engineers and scientists from RIT, Nazareth College, and other institutions. In 2020, he was named one of RIT’s Distinguished Faculty given to tenured faculty who have shown continued excellence over their careers in teaching, scholarly contributions, lasting contributions in creative and professional work, and service to both the university and community. Outside of the university, he has been recognized as the 2008 Engineer of the Year Award by the Rochester Engineering Society and received the Heat Transfer Memorial Award from ASME. q
Abdullah al Faruque’s academic foundation, continued That sentiment has been noticed by peers. “Abdullah engages learners by building relationships, meeting them where they are with what they need. He is the same generous person with his colleagues, mindful of our collective efforts for departmental success,” said Jennifer Schneider, Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking, and professor in CET’s Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety Department. “It is us who are grateful for the opportunity to call him colleague and friend.” q campus news
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Computer chip technology aligns with RIT’s microelectronic engineering program growth Annual conference showcases student-researchers along with industry professionals discussing trends, capabilities, and challenges Research findings and signs of computer chip industry demands were the top subjects at the 40th Annual Microelectronic Engineering Conference April 8 at RIT. With indications of growth and novel functions being developed, there were also discussions of the pressing need for even more skilled workers in the field to sustain that expected growth. “We’ve all done such a good job engineering these things,” said Gary Patton, holding up an iPhone, “that no one thinks about what’s inside of them anymore.” Only recently has the importance of computer chips, also referred to as semiconductors or integrated circuits, been seen more clearly as limits to chip manufacturing has impacted the mass production of automobiles and myriad other regularly used devices. “How does the world know about our business? It has to come from us. Now is the right time. We have to infuse the industry with new talent,” said Patton, corporate vice president and general manager of Design Enablement & Component Research, Intel. “And we have to call on governments, companies, and academia to market the vast potential of the computer chip industry and the many applications that rely on the little squares inside that power devices.” The 2022 conference showcased some of that new talent, the innovations for those little squares inside electronic devices, and the challenges RIT could help the industry overcome going forward. More than 75 students, faculty, alumni and corporate partners attended the conference, including David Kewley who described work being done at Micron Technology Inc. in the area of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography—a technique to expose minute circuit patterns using and managing the unpredictability of light. The industry demands are intense, and company engineers are developing and testing new products and applications almost simultaneously. 22 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
Congressman Joe Morelle, right, honored Lynn Fuller, RIT engineering professor emeritus, with a U.S. Congressional Recognition for his leadership in building the university’s first microelectronic engineering program. Credit: Scott Hamilton/RIT
“We are living with problem statements,” said Kewley, senior manager, Mask Technology Programs, Micron. He demonstrated how Micron is utilizing EUV in manufacturing and overcoming cost and engineering challenges through new control strategies to detect possible defects in the photomasks (the plate used to build integrated circuits.) Kewley was followed by RIT undergraduate student Austin Whitaker, who detailed the viability of quantum dot film for infrared photodetection, one aspect of the highly complex CMOS image sensor processing. Whitaker was only one of five students on the program with 10 professionals from companies such as IBM, Northrup Grumman, Axcelis, and Qorvo that presented research findings and industry trends. Whitaker, who is from Mexico, N.Y., will graduate in May with a degree in microelectronic engineering and begin work at Gigajot Technology in Pasadena, Calif. According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, U.S. semiconductor companies have 47 percent of the global chips sales market, but only 12 percent are campus news
Members of a university-corporate panel discuss the Future of Semiconductor Education (left to right) Professor Patrick Fay, electrical engineering, University of Notre Dame; Professor Santosh Kurinec, microelectronic engineering, RIT; and Professor Jesus del Alamo, electrical engineering, MIT. They were joined by Reinaldo Vega ’04, ’06, senior engineer, IBM Research; and Gary Patton, VP, Intel. Credit: Elizabeth Lamark/RIT
Reinaldo Vega, alumnus of RIT’s microelectronic engineering program and IBM Research leader, discussed workforce preparation and industry trends at the recent Microelectronic Engineering Conference. Credit: Elizabeth Lamark/RIT
manufactured in the U.S. for products as varied as automobiles to medical devices. “What is the percentage of four-year, U.S. colleges with actual clean room facilities?” asked Reinaldo Vega ’04, ’06 (microelectronic engineering), one of five professionals on the “Future of Semiconductor Education” panel. He said that less than 2 percent of the nearly 3,200 public and private institutions have these important facilities. A handful allow undergraduate students access where they can learn the complexity of the wafer development process and how refined it needs to be to have the integrated circuits functional. At RIT, first-year microelectronic engineering students take classes in the clean room located in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering. “But even more, fab-less companies need semiconductor literacy. It is not just about processing wafers, it is about understanding technology development cycles, all the things that are part of technology development. Having that will make you a very powerful employee in the workforce,” said Vega, a senior engineer, device performance lead for IBM Research. He referred to companies that integrate computer chips into equipment but do not make their own, relying instead on purchasing them from companies such as Global Foundries, an international computer chip fabrication enterprise. Santosh Kurinec, a professor of microelectronic engineering, and another panelist, agreed. “There are some high school physics courses where semiconductors are not even mentioned in the textbooks,” she said. “We are a global industry, but we have to have more development at home.” Kurinec will represent RIT on the newly established American Semiconductor Academy. She has advocated for an educational roadmap for prospective students, similar to strategic plans to advance the industry. Giving people a look “under the hood” at what makes devices work may be a means to entice new talent to the field. “What should we be teaching students who are going to be building the next generation of computer chips? We need to keep our focus on that,” she said. “We have to tell students these are the problems we need to solve.” q campus news
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Engineering technology students advocate for new collaborative robot for project course
Empire Automation Systems donates high tech equipment to support hands-on learning experience There were no robots available for the class. But when Don Davis and Brian Guy were approached by undergraduates in the engineering technology robotics class for support, they found a way to improve the situation. Davis ’91 (manufacturing engineering technology) and Guy, chief executive officer and sales engineer with automation and control systems provider Empire Automation Systems, donated a high-tech collaborative robot at the start of the spring semester. The solution made it possible for the students to learn first-hand how to design, test, and build a fully functional, automated assembly system.
Victor Halfmann, Alex Harris, and Samuel Ologun were three of the nine students who helped set up a collaborative robot donated recently by empire Automation Systems. Credit: Provided
“Don and I both are passionate about helping people and sharing the technology,” said Guy. “We see the demand in industry, the labor shortages, and we are on the verge of a pretty amazing automation revolution. This was a robotics class that didn’t have a robot, and we were able to help the students and we are excited to hear that their project is going well.” In 2019-20, the College of Engineering Technology (CET) launched its robotics and manufacturing engineering technology undergraduate degree program. Featured as a new economy major, a fast-growing, multi-disciplinary field, interest resulted in many more students and a focus on skills needed for advanced manufacturing. The college worked as fast as it could to acquire necessary equipment. With help from today’s students who advocated for an additional robot, they paved the way for classmates of tomorrow. The ABB Robot installed in CET’s Automated Systems Control Lab is being used in a senior-level, project-based course. Students are developing a new toy production system which involves moving Lego-like blocks along a conveyer. It sounded simple but meant integrating technology from sensors and actuators to programmable logic controllers to coordinate multiple assembly functions. “This is something you will do in industry. It’s not extensive now, but you can explode this; it’s definitely something 24 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
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you’d see at Amazon or any big manufacturing sites,” said Joe Bilby, a fifth-year manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology student who rallied his classmates to ask for the robot. Together they prepared a presentation for the CET dean and Empire Automation leadership that included a project plan with system requirements and an explanation of how the equipment will improve their understanding of implementing robotics technology. Automated systems can be simulated, however, building a system by hand is essential, said Bilby. “Even though our system is smaller in scale, it is a lot of the same processes and technologies that you would see in big companies. I learned some of the control panel build stuff from my father, who has been in industry for almost 30 years now, and through my co-ops,” said Bilby, who will graduate in May and start work at Liberty Pumps. “I think this helped contribute to how that panel came out. It is the brains of the whole cell; without that, nothing would work.”
Undergraduates students who built the new robotic system are (from left) Alex Johnson, from E. Quague, N.Y., Audra Hale, Joseph Bilby, Alec Harris, Spencer Vang, Max Morales, Victor Halfmann, Muniyath Chowdhury and Samuel Ologun. Credit: Provided
Students had assigned responsibilities and installed electronics, sensors, and other programmable components. Walking into the lab where they worked was similar to a corporate setting with team discussions about system status and test results.
“The course helps students understand aspects of a project that can be automated, and when manual assembly is needed,” said Audra Hale, class project manager. She did a co-op at General Motors on one of the company’s engine assembly lines and will work after graduation in May at PEKO Precision in a similar capacity. “The major, and this class, puts importance on connections between different engineering fields. This is about making all the teams work together like a real department.” Davis agreed. “I have been in this game for almost 30 years, and every year I get more excited about the opportunities coming forward with automation as the U.S. is on-shoring manufacturing again. The ease of implementing robotics is easier and less expensive than it’s ever been,” said Davis. “I am a big believer that the more we help people, the more we all learn and the more we all succeed. It’s about helping the students, helping RIT, and other schools in the robotics field.” Members of the team are: Alex Johnson, from East Quague, N.Y.; Audra Hale, from Belchertown, Mass.; Joseph Bilby, from Hilton, N.Y.; Alec Harris, from Syracuse, N.Y.; Spencer Vang from Libertyville, Ill.; Max Morales from Framingham, Mass.; Victor Halfmann from Bloomfield, N.Y.; Muniyath Chowdhury from Queens, N.Y.; and Samuel Ologun from Nigeria. q campus news
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Passero News Passero Associates Celebrates 50 Years A truly historic day for Passero Associates, April 15, 2022 marks our 50th Anniversary in operation, to the day. Together we thank Gary Passero for his vision, diligence, and fortitude throughout the years, and we thank the countless staff members that have made Passero what it is today, and what it will be for years to come. What began as one man’s vision in a oneroom office, using slide rules in 1972, has transformed into nine offices with over 130 dedicated professionals using virtual reality and three-dimensional design 50 years later. Throughout the decades, Passero Associates has continued to provide exceptional service, delivering successful projects that make our clients and staff proud. We thank our clients, and the dedicated people within Passero, for helping us to achieve 50 successful years as a firm, while maintaining Gary Passero’s original Core Values in business. April 15, 1972: Gary W. Passero begins Passero Associates, providing civil engineering services from a one-room office on Lake Avenue, in Rochester, New York. April 15, 2022: Passero Associates now provides engineering, planning, architecture, surveying, program management, construction management, 3-D visualization and virtual infrastructure services throughout the eastern and midwestern United States. With a staff of over 130 professionals, located in nine offices, Passero proudly serves our clients and communities, partnering together to achieve their goals. Office Locations: Rochester, NY | St. Augustine, FL | Dayton, OH | Charlotte, NC | Hudson Valley, NY | Albany, NY | Atlanta, GA | Burlington, VT | Cincinnati, OH Core Values: Excellence | Integrity | Servant Leadership | Work-Life Balance | One Firm Focus Firm Leadership: Andrew Holesko, CEO | Jess Sudol, President | David Passero, CFO Jeff Bonecutter, Vice President | Pete Wehner, Vice President | Brad Wente, Vice President Service. Solutions. Results. www.passero.com
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Optimation News Optimation Receives Safety Award of Merit from Fabricators & Manufactures Association
Optimation Technology was recently chosen to receive a 2022 Safety Award of Merit from the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA). Open to all FMA company members, the FMA/CNA Annual Safety Awards recognize metal fabrication companies that adhere to excellence in safety. Sponsored by CNA, the endorsed business insurance carrier for FMA, the Awards are designed to promote safety in the industry, and winners are selected by the FMA Safety Council. The Safety Award of Merit is given to companies posting an injury and illness incidence rate for the reporting period that is better than the published Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) rate by 10 percent or greater, based on their NAICS code. “I congratulate Optimation Technology on winning a Safety Award of Merit,” said Edward Youdell, president and CEO of FMA. “Safety is clearly a priority for the company. They set a good example for others in the industry. FMA and CNA are proud to recognize all our safety award winners.” To be eligible to receive recognition, companies were required to submit OSHA Form 300A, Summary of WorkRelated Injuries and Illnesses, for the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021. Firms of all sizes were eligible. Winners were selected based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code categories and BLS injury and illness incidence rates. The complete list of 2022 award winners has been published on FMA’s blog at www.fmamfg.org/blog. q news from professional firms
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Technical Corner, continued Often, the main bond will occur at the first disconnecting means. In other words, in your main panel, the equipment ground bar and enclosure are bonded to the neutral bar and therefore the grounded conductor from the service entrance transformer needs to be sized to handle its normal current load as well as any fault current, given that faults will jump onto the neutral at this point and take the neutral back to source. The reason this is done, as I understand it is two-fold. Typically, the raceway from the service entrance transformer to the main panel is not metallic and therefore cannot be used as part of the equipment ground system. Therefore, the electrician would have to run a supply side bonding jumper from the main panel to the transformer enclosure and then perform the main bond at the transformer as shown in the image above. To save costs, the main bond is done at the first disconnecting means and the neutral, which must be run anyways, is used as the return path back to source. 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 RES magazine and add an article or would like to request information on a specific topic (not limited to Electrical) Brett Eliasz, P.E., LEED AP BD+C , RES Director position openings | res technical corner
Joshua Doores, Electrical Engineer, Colliers Engineering & Design
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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
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Due to the continuation of COVID19 the committee has decided to go virtual for everyone's safety. If you are registered and paid, we have forwarded it to the 2022 Virtual Symposium. A letter has been sent to you on how to register for this year.
Support
We hope to see everyone in-person in 2023! Please continue to stay safe and hopefully the vaccines will allow us to do so soon! Chris Devries, Symposium Chairman
Your
The 2022 Engineering Symposium in Rochester has gone Virtual
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Three Consecutive Thursday's
Civil and Mechanical sessions were held on April 21, April 29. May 5 is still open for registering
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To post continuing education opportunities on this page please contact the Rochester Engineering Society, 585-254-2350, or email: therochesterengineer@gmail.com
Engineers’ Calendar
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.
Tuesday, May 3
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) EXCOM Meeting
Tuesday, May 10 p 40
Place: Hybrid, via WebEx and in-person (see vtools for venue and WebEx login) Time: 11:50 am to 1:15 pm Registration links for our events are at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/307431. 30 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER MAY 2022
Society for Imaging Science & Technology (IS&T) p 45 HDR Image Quality Assessment
Speaker: Anustup Choudhury, PhD, Dolby Laboratories. Place: Zoom Meeting. To receive the zoom details to join this program email: rochesterist@gmail.com. Time: 6:00 pm Details: http://roceng.org/ISandT
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Friday, May 20
Monday, May 16
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
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Electrical Association (EA)
p 38
ASHRAE Picnic / Golf Tournament
Casino Night – To Benefit the Kessler Burn Center at URMC
Place: Ravenwood Golf Course, 929 Lynaugh Road,
Place: The Strathallan, 550 East Avenue, Rochester,
Victor, NY
NY
Time: Golf registration – 9:30 to 10:45 am; Shotgun start
Time: 6:00 to 10:00 pm
at 11:00 am; Picnic from 4:00 to 7:30 pm. Dinner served
Cost: $65/Ticket. Receive $500 in betting chips to
by Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.
play craps, texas hold' em, blackjack, three card
Please see page 46 in this issue for additional details
poker, intersect poker & let it ride. Also features hors
and forms to purchase tickets and be a sponsor. Also,
d'oeuvres, food stations, dessert and coffee.
you can refer to the website for additional details:
Tickets and additional details on the website at
www.rochesterashrae.org.
www.eawny.com or by calling 585-382-9545.
Wednesday, May 18
American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE)
Monday, May 23-Wednesday, May 25 p 48
Pumping Systems
p 40
STRATUS Conference, Syracuse, NY
Speaker: Liberty Pumps, Twin D Associates
45 talks on UAVs and Remote Sensing, conference
Place: Webinar
sponsorships available.
Reservations: Reservations to Dave Jereckos, 585-341-3168 or djereckos@ibceng.com by May 16th. Chapter website: https://www.aspe.org/rochester/events.htm
See the website for more information – http://stratus-conference.com/
Thursday, May 26
Thursday, May 19
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Rochester Engineering Society (RES) p 33
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Annual Meeting Place: Rochester Museum & Science Center, Baush
Your Systems Engineering Future: Some Assembly Required
Auditorium, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Speaker: Michael J. Vinarcik, ESEP
Business and Award Presentations at 6:30 pm.
Time: Meetings begin at 6:00 pm and runt to
Reservations: Reservations are required with a
approximately 7:30 pm
limit of 100 attendees, so be sure to sign up early!
Registration: All meetings are held virtually until further
Sponsorships available on the website at
notice. We use zoom for our monthly meetings. There
www.roceng.org (click on annual meeting). This is our
is no cost to attend but pre-registration is required. To
first in-person event since 2019, and look forward to
register send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net
seeing everyone! If you have questions email Lynne at
and a link will be sent out a few days before the meeting.
res@frontiernet.net.
Time: Cash bar and hors d'oeuvres at 5:30 pm; RES
Engineers' Calendar, continued on page 32
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Engineers’ Calendar, Continued Thursday, May 26
Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association (GVLSA) Pre-Emption Line Survey
Wednesday, June 22 p 44
Place: Other Half Brewing, 6621 State Route 5 and 20, Bloomfield, NY 14469 Time: 6:00 to 8:00 pm Reservations: There is no cost to attend this event. Registration will be emailed to the GVLSA members approximately 1 week prior to the event. Others may contact Vice President Matt Palmer at moalmer@bmepc.com. Details: www.gvlsa.com.
Tuesday, June 7
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) EXCOM Meeting
p 40
p 43
Place: Terry Hills Country Club, Batavia, NY Time: Registration beginning at 11:00 am; Lunch beginning at 11:00 (Halfway House); Shotgun Start at 12:00 pm; Keg beer starting 1 hour before dinner, Steak Dinner at 5:30 pm; Awards following dinner. Cost: $125 per person (includes lunch, golf with cart, keg beer, dinner, and prizes). Dinner only is $40. $200 Hole sponsorships available. Registration: Register online at www.abcdwny.com from May 23rd through June 17th. Additional information: Contact Jason Messenger, PE, 585-748-0596 or jmessenter@luengineers.com.
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Place: Penfield Country Club, 1784 Jackson Road, Penfield, NY 14526 Times: Cocktails & hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 pm; Dinner, Coffee, Dessert at 6:30 pm; Award Ceremony at 7:30 pm. Cost: Members $55, Non-members $65, Students $20. Table of 8 - $400, ASCE Life Members complimentary. Reservations: Link to be emailed to the membership // jrodems@bergmannpc.com
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
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IES Annual Golf Tournament
Place: Stafford Country Club (joint venture with IES Buffalo Section) Space is limited, register now! For full details and online registration visit the website at: www.iesrochester.org.
The RES website (www.roceng.org) has
Wednesday, June 22
23rd Annual Scholarship Golf Outing
p 36
Banquet to Celebrate 52nd Engineer of the Year – Thomas Frys, PE
Monday, June 27
Place: Hybrid, via WebEx and in-person (see vtools for venue and WebEx login) Time: 11:50 am to 1:15 pm Registration links for our events are at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/307431.
Association for Bridge Construction and Design (ABCD)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
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
Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/Chapters/ChapterSites/finger-lakes/chapter-home Upcoming March Chapter Meeting: March 17, 2022
Upcoming Chapter Meeting: May 19, 2022 “Introduction to Railway Signaling and Train Control for Rapid Transit” By Stuart Landau, Senior Train Control Systems Engineer Railway signaling allows safe operations of multiple trains on the same tracks and “Your Systems Engineering Future: Some Assembly Required” optimizes tracks. ESEP This presentation will be a very brief introduction to By capacity Michael of J. the Vinarcik, engineering continues to evolve as a discipline. must its Systems basic principles and how they have been implemented overPractitioners the last several adapt to the continued growth in system complexity and the shifting expectations decades with various technologies, from mechanical devices to microprocessorof stakeholders, customers, and colleagues. This presentation will examine based equipment. Application varies across different types ofVision current trends and aspects of of the the principles recently released Systems Engineering railways; will focus on rapid transit which includes subways and metros, 2035. Ithere will we discuss key areas of personal development for today’s systems to facilitate upskilling, and suggest a shift andengineers, will cover identify waysideresources signaling,available cab signaling, and the latest Communicationsin focus that will enable them to establish and maintain their leadership as key Based Train Control (CBTC). members of system development teams.
Meetings begin at 6:00 pm (eastern) and run to approximately 7:30 pm (eastern) Meetings begin at 6:00 pm (eastern) and run to approximately 7:30 pm (eastern) All meetings are being held virtually until further notice. All meetings are being held virtually until further notice. We use zoom for our monthly meetings. We use zoom for our monthly meetings. • There is no cost to attend for anyone, but pre-registration is required. • There is no cost to attend for anyone, but pre-registration is required. o To register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net o To register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net The link will be sent out a few days before the meeting The link will be sent out a few days before the meeting © 2022 INCOSE Finger Lakes Chapter
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Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair A wide range of projects from 77 students representing 20 schools and homeschools were recognized on April 2nd at the virtual Terra Awards Ceremony. Highlights include:
Harold Clark TRFSEF Director trfsef@terraed.org
Advancement to the Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair Nishant Lahiri (gr. 11) of Corning, Polyethyleneimine Impregnated Cellulose Adsorbents for Integrative Carbon Dioxide Capture Competing in the NYS Science Congress Madeleine Cotter (gr 12) of Rochester, Training Artificial Intelligence Agents in Game Environments Wimeth Dissanayake (gr 12) of Rochester, The Effects of Quantum Dots on Photosynthesis in Immobilized Chlorella
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r Competing in the Genius Olympiad Micah Kim (gr. 11) of Rochester, Smart Safety Wearables Sean Markidis & Rowan Nordquist (gr 11) of Rochester, A Look at Rochester’s Water Quality Middle Schooler going to the Broadcom Masters Marielys Veliz (gr. 7) of Rochester, My Travel Gravity Shower
Earning the St John Fisher College Scholarship for a free course Amy Feng (gr. 12) of Pittsford, Extending Choice Probability to High Dimensional Neural Data Other Special Awards A variety of Special Awards recognizing unique aspects of projects were also presented to 11 other projects All 66 projects can be viewed at the Fair Website, Fair/Showcase, Keyword: FairDay
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Rochester Section
American Society of Civil Engineers sections.asce.org/rochester
The Rochester Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers is pleased to announce the
52nd ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Honoring;
Thomas Frys, P.E, M.ASCE
Tom currently serves as the Director at the Monroe County Department of Transportation. A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, Tom previously worked for several consulting firms as a Transportation Project Manager and Design Engineer. Tom’s ASCE involvement included serving on the board for seven years with roles ranging from President in 2007 to Continuing Educational Chair. Between 2008 and 2014 Tom served as the Awards and Prizes Chairman where he organized ASCE’s Engineer of the Year recognitions and the RIT and MCC student awards.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Penfield County Club 1784 Jackson Road, Penfield, NY 14526 RSVP: Link to be e-mailed to membership // jrodems@bergmannpc.com Banquet Program: 5:30 pm - Cocktails & Hors d’Oeuvres 6:30 pm - Dinner, Coffee, Dessert 7:30 pm - Award Ceremony
Cost: Members $55, Non-Members $65, Students $20 Table (of 8) $400, ASCE Life Members complimentary Cash bar // 2 Drink tickets per person
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Stay tuned for future events including PDF presentations and annual golf tournament! asce news
Rochester Section
American Society of Civil Engineers www.asce.org
Zico Arachie
Philip Bezas
Robert Schneider
Zicoraebubechukwu Arachie (RIT ’24) – $2,500: Zico, a member of the RIT Honors Program and Dean’s list is currently working as a Civil Engineering Co-op with LaBella. He is involved in a host of on-campus organizations including the National Society of Black Engineers, Associated General Contractors, Organization of African Students, College Activities Board, and Student Life Center. After graduation, Zico is considering pursuing a masters degree in Structural Engineering with the ultimate goal of building a career as a practicing engineer in the Civil/Structural field. Philip Bezas (RIT ’25) – $1,500: Philip is a first-year student who is active on campus as a notetaker, intramural athlete, and a member of the financial management/stock club. He is looking forward to his future co-ops and exploring various cities and types of work within the civil engineering field. Philip is currently interested in a career in construction management but remains open to where his degree and experiences will take him. Robert Schneider (Clarkson ’23) – $1,000: Robert is heavily involved on campus including Clarkson ASCE student chapter Vice President, Concrete Canoe SPEED team captain, NY Water Environment Association, and Associated schools of Construction. Robert has plans to complete the FE exam this spring and will be interning with Kokosing Construction on the Arlington National Cemetery Expansion. He is interested in the heavy civil industry, land development design and geotechnical engineering. SAVE THE DATE: Annual Scholarship Golf Tournament Webster Golf Club // Friday, July 22 // 12pm start Contact Josh Rodems to register or sponsor jrodems@bergmannpc.com // (585) 498-7944 asce news
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Rochester, NY Section P.O. Box 23795 Rochester, NY 14692 www.iesrochester.org
IES ROCHESTER SECTION OUR ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT IS ONCE AGAIN A JOINT VENTURE WITH THE IES BUFFALO SECTION - SAME LOCATION AS LAST YEAR !
JOIN US ON MONDAY JUNE 27TH AT STAFFORD COUNTRY CLUB SPACE IS LIMITED REGISTER NOW !
FOR FULL DETAILS AND ONLINE REGISTRATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG DON’T FORGET TO SUBMIT YOUR LIGHTING PROJECTS FOR OUR ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN LIGHTING AWARDS - DUE BY MAY 6TH. VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS. Please remember to visit our website at www.iesrochester.org
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May 2022 Newsletter Section Officers Chair Eric Brown Vice Chair Kelly Robinson Treasurer Howard Bussey Secretary (Vacant)
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
Student Groups
Message from the Chair
Dear Colleagues, IEEE Region 1 held a half-day virtual Board of Governors meeting on April 10th. The meeting touched on various efforts at the Region level to promote professional development, Young Professionals, and Women In Engineering (WIE). Region 1 created its own Professional Activities Committee for Engineers (PACE) to financially support section-sponsored professional development, soft skills training, or precollege activities. RES member organizations interested in co-sponsoring these events should contact me to further discuss the opportunity. Additionally, a short training session on running effective meetings under Robert’s Rules of Order was recorded that may interest RES members. Recordings of the meeting and training sessions are available on the Region 1 website (r1.ieee.org). This year’s installment of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) STRATUS Conference will be held May 23-25 at SUNY ESF in Syracuse. More information is available on the conference website, stratus-conference.com Our next ExCom meeting will be on June 7 from noon to 1 pm. Please register in advance at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/311467 (vTools #311467). In-person attendance details will be updated on the registration page. Stay healthy and best regards,
Univ. of Rochester Ming-Lun Lee RIT Jamison Heard
TRFSEF Finalists & Awards Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Regional Science and Engineering Fair
Committees Awards Jean Kendrick Communications Christine Frayda Howard Bussey Newsletter Mark Schrader PACE Bruce Rubin
Liaisons RES Greg Gdowski RCSS William Brewer
A wide range of projects from 77 students representing 20 schools and homeschools were recognized on April 2 at the virtual Terra Awards Ceremony. The highest awards are shown below. •
Advancement to Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair: Nishant Lahiri (gr. 11) of Corning for Polyethyleneimine Impregnated Cellulose Absorbents for Integrative Carbon Dioxide Capture
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Competing in the NYS Science Congress: Madeleine Cotter (gr 12) of Rochester for Training Artificial Intelligence Agents in Game Environments
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Competing in the Genius Olympiad: (Two Projects) 1. Micah Kim (gr. 11) of Rochester for Smart Safety Wearables 2. Sean Markidis & Rowan Nordquist (gr 11) of Rochester for A Look at Rochester’s Water Quality
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Competing in Broadcom Masters: Marielys Veliz (gr. 7) of Rochester for My Travel Gravity Shower
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Earning the St John Fisher College Scholarship for a free course: Amy Feng (gr. 12) of Pittsford for Extending Choice Probability to High Dimensional Neural Data
A variety of Special Awards recognizing unique aspects of projects were also presented to 11 other projects.
To see all projects, go to https://ny-trfsef.zfairs.com, Select “Fair” & “Showcase” & use keyword FairDay.
Announcing The IEEE Scholarship Finalists Congratulations to the 2022 winners of the two $1,500 RES-IEEE Scholarships: Anand Idris, who is studying Computer Science and Optics at the University of Rochester, and Christina Nguyen, who is studying Electrical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Anand Idris
Christina Nguyen
STRATUS Conference, May 23-25, Syracuse, NY There will be more than 45 talks on UAVs and Remote Sensing. Conference sponsorship is available. See the website: Stratus-Conference.com for more information and for registration.
Joint Conference on Electrostatics, Sunday June 12 http://electrostatics.org/jointconferenceonelectrostatics.html The IEEE Rochester Section Power and Energy Society and Industry Applications Society Joint Chapter hosts the virtual attendance. The cost is $25 for virtual attendance for all three tutorials. Gas Discharge and Electrical Breakdown presented by: Prof. Akira Mizuno, Toyohashi University of Technology, & Prof. Shesha Jayaram, University of Waterloo Electrostatic Instruments and Measurements presented by: Prof. Mark Horenstein, Boston University, & Prof. Maciej Noras, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Electrostatic Processes presented by: Dr. Kelly Robinson, Electrostatic Answers, Rochester NY.
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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.
CHANGES TO ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM IN ROCHESTER Due to the ongoing threat of Covid, this year’s Engineering Symposium in Rochester will be held virtually and is scheduled for three consecutive Thursday afternoons (4/21, 4/28 and 5/5). Registration is now open on the RES website, www.roceng.org (bottom of home page or go to April 21st on the calendar).
ASCE – REPORT CARD FOR AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE ASCE released their annual Report Card for America’s Infrastructure. ASCE gave America’s Infrastructure a score of C-. This is the highest score ASCE has given in 20 years. Up from a D+ in 2017. Infrastructure supports nearly every aspect of life. Our pipes deliver drinking water to homes and hospitals. Airports, railroads, and inland waterways transport goods from farms and manufacturing plants to store shelves. The roads that crisscross the country allow us to get to work and school safely, and the network of transmission and distribution lines keeps the lights on and our electronics charged. Dams enable consistent water supply in arid climates, and levees hold back floodwaters to protect rain-soaked communities. Since ASCE began issuing the Report Card in 1998, the grades have struggled to get out of the D’s. However, more recently, decisionmakers at all levels of government have recognized the critical role our infrastructure plays in supporting our quality of life and economy. Voters and lawmakers alike have championed smart infrastructure policy and increased investment in our multimodal freight system, drinking water networks, and more. This down payment on our infrastructure bill has contributed to modest but meaningful improvements. – ASCE Executive Summary.
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
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23nd Annual Scholarship Golf Outing Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Save the date as the Association for Bridge Construction and Design would like to welcome everyone to participate in our annual Scholarship Golf Tournament. The tournament proceeds will benefit the ABCD Scholarship Program. The Western New York Chapter plans to award scholarships to students in a bridge related curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Terry Hills Country Club; Batavia, NY
Highlights • Registration beginning at 11:00 AM
• Keg beer starting 1 hour before dinner
• Lunch beginning at 11:00 AM (Halfway House)
• Steak Dinner at 5:30 PM
• Shotgun Start at 12:00 PM Location
• Awards following Dinner
Contact Information
Terry Hills Country Club 5122 Clinton Street Road Batavia, NY 14020 Phone: (585) 343-0860
Cost
$125 per person (includes Lunch, Golf Jason Messenger, PE with Cart, Keg Beer, Dinner, and Prizes) Phone: (585) 748-0596 $40 (dinner only) Email: jmessenger@luengineers.com $200 Hole Sponsorships available
Register Online at www.abcdwny.com May 23rd thru June 17th abcd news
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Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association Website: www.gvlsa.com
Facebook: facebook.com/GVLSA
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups/8212223
Year 2022 Officers
Board of Directors
President Justin M. Roloson, LS Vice President Matthew R. Palmer, LS Secretary Martin J. Gotwalt, LS Treasurer Michael A. Venturo, LS
2019-2022 Gregory T. Pauly, LS Jeffrey A. Tiede, LS 2019-2022 Christopher T. Locke, LS David L. Standinger, LS 2020-2023 Robert J. Avery, LS Nathan M. Dunn, LS Jared R. Ransom, LS
May 2022
Jared R. Ransom, LS, Ex-officio
Keith Burley, LSIT 2022 - Associates Representative David Zuber, LSIT - Website Administrator
Upcoming Events 2022
Pre-Emption Line Survey
May 16, 2022 Pre-Emption Live Survey 6:00 to 8:00 PM Other Half Brewing 6621 State Route 5 and 20 Bloomfield, NY 14469
by John Marks, Historic Geneva
Thursday, May 16, 2022 Time: 6:00 to 8:00 PM Other Half Brewing
6621 State Route 5 and 20 Bloomfield, NY 14469
Professional Affiliations New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Inc. National Society of Professional Surveyors Rochester Engineering Society
There is no cost to attend this event. Registration will be emailed to all GVLSA members approximately 1 week prior to the event. Others may contact Vice President Matt Palmer at mpalmer@bmepc.com to register for this event.
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Rochester Chapter
Society for Imaging Science and Technology Website: http://roceng.org/ISandT
Our meetings are being held by zoom. Please email rochesterist@gmail.com to get the details to join this programs.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 Time: 6:00 pm HDR Image Quality Assessment
by Anustup Choudhury, PhD, Dolby Laboratories
Abstract:
We propose a framework to combine various image quality metrics using a full reference approach for High Dynamic Range (HDR) Image quality assessment (IQA). We combine scores from metrics exclusively designed for different applications such as HDR, Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and color difference measures, in a non-linear manner using machine learning (ML) approaches with weights determined during an offline training process. We explore various ML techniques and find support vector machine regression to be the most effective. To improve performance and reduce complexity, we use the Sequential Forward Selection technique during training to include a subset of metrics from a list of quality metrics in our model. We evaluate the performance on five publicly available calibrated HDR databases with different types of distortion (including different types of compression, Gaussian noise, gamut mismatch, chromatic distortions and so on) and demonstrate improved performance using our method as compared to several existing IQA metrics.
Biography: Anustup Choudhury received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles in 2012 and 2007 respectively. He is currently a Staff Researcher at Dolby Laboratories. His research interests include image/video analysis and processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, computational photography and machine learning. His work has been published in the proceedings of reputed conferences and journals such as ICIP, ICPR, CVPR, ICCV, CSVT and JOSA A. His papers have received special recognition as the best journal paper in SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal 2021, as one of the best papers in IEEE BTAS 2007 and as a top 10% paper at IEEE ICIP 2015. He is an inventor of multiple patents and is a member of IEEE.
As we approach our next election cycle, we would be interested in hearing from individuals willing to help out the Chapter. Please contact our Nominations Chair for details, at matt.ochs@xerox.com. is&t news
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Rochester Chapter
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: www.rochesterashrae.org
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President's Message We are continuing to partner with our friends from the Greece Chapter of ASHRAE. We have been sharing ideas together in an effort to help them grow their chapter. On April 11th Meier Supply hosted a presentation titled “New Technologies in Refrigeration” led by Mike Nohle, and it included a catered dinner and a tour of their facility. Many thanks to Mike for putting this together! This month will be our annual golf tournament at Ravenwood on Monday May 16th, and will be catered by Dinosaur-BBQ. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for this event please contact Jim Browe (jbrowe@rfpeck.com). Please join us as we welcome our ASHRAE Society President Mick Schwedler to Rochester on June 8th. Matt Kremers has lined up a cruise of the Erie Canal on the Colonial Belle, from 3:30pm – 5:30pm. Tour starts at Packett’s Landing and will include Hors d’oeuvres with a cash bar. Look for invites from our new website at www.rochesterashrae.org. The ASHRAE Rochester Chapter is still working on re-establishing yearly scholarships aimed at college students with a focus in mechanical engineering, specifically HVAC or a related field such as an energy program. We will soon be asking local MEP firms to nominate any of their interns, students or co-op’s that they employ for receiving some financial assistance in their studies in our industry. Finally, our new website at www.rochesterashrae.org has been officially launched! If you do happen to come across the old website, there is a link that will redirect you to our new site to get information on upcoming chapter meetings, current officer list and contact information, chapter newsletters, and more. If you are a member of our Rochester Chapter, you will need to complete a one-time registration process to gain access to the website and for attendance to upcoming events. Also take a minute and like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/#!/ashraerochester. Scott G. Edwards, 2021-2022 ASHRAE Rochester Chapter President
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MONDAY, MAY 16, 2022 ASHRAE Picnic / Golf Tournament To be held at Ravenwood Golf Course Reservation Deadline is… May 9th, 2022
MONDAY, MAY 16, 2022
ASHRAE Picnic / Golf Tournament To be held at Ravenwood Golf Course Reservation Deadline is… May 9th, 2022
Picnic: 4:00 PM-7:30 PM Four Man Scramble and Ravenwood Optional Skins Game 2022 PICNIC CocktailsASHRAE & Hors d’oeuvres 4:00-5:30 PM Golf Course Dinner: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Golf includes: FORM 929 Lynaugh Road SPONSORSHIP Dinner Served By: o Golf Picnic: 4:00 PM-7:30 PM Four Man Scramble and Victor, NY 14564 Ravenwood Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Monday May 16, 2022 o Cart
Optional Skins Game o Driving Range Prizes Golfoincludes: Beer & food at the turn o Golf o
Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres 4:00-5:30 PM
Golf RegistrationGolf 9:30 Course – 10:45 am Juice, Scones and Coffee Served 929 Lynaugh Road 11:00 am - Shotgun Start
Dinner: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Dinner Served By: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Victor, NY 14564
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Golf Registration NO 9:30 TICKETS – 10:45 am WILL BE SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED AT THE o DOOR! Driving Range o Prizes Juice, Scones and Coffee Served o R.F. Beer &PECK food atCO., the turn 11:00 am - Shotgun Start TICKETS WILL BE MAILED TO YOU OR CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE INC.
NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD OR DISTRIBUTED AT THE DOOR!
Please include check and make payable to: Address where you would like your picnic tickets sent to: TICKETS WILL BE MAILED TO YOU OR CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE R.F. PECK CO., INC. “ASHRAE – Rochester Chapter” Picnic: 4:00_________________________________________ PM-7:30 PM Company: Thank you in
Ravenwood Golf Course Attention: Kacie Sutton Mail prior to May Road 9 , 2022 to: 929 R.F.Lynaugh Peck Co., Kacie Inc. Sutton Attention: R.F. Peck Co., Inc. 889 Atlantic Avenue Victor, NY 14564
Please include and make payable to: Address where you would like your picnic tickets sent to: Return thischeck form…. Cocktails & Hors d’oeuvres 4:00-5:30 PM – Rochester Chapter” advanced for Mail prior“ASHRAE to May 9th, 2022 to: Contact Name: ______________________________________ Company: _________________________________________ Dinner: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Return this form….
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Contact Name: ______________________________________ Address: Dinner___________________________________________ Catered By: long standing Address: ___________________________________________ Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
ASHRAE City: ________________ State: _________ Zip: __________
889 Atlantic Avenue Rochester, YorkPM 14609 11:00 AMNew – 4:00 - Golf
City: ________________ State: _________ Zip: __________ Rochester Chapter
Rochester, New York 14609 Any questions, call (585) 685-8705 Any questions, call (585) 685-8705 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Picnic Email: ksutton@rfpeck.com Email: ksutton@rfpeck.com
Phone: (Work) _______________ (Home) ________________ tradition. Phone: (Work) _______________ (Home) ________________
Ticket Request Request Form Ticket Form
Event
AmountEach Each Fee Fee Amount
Event Please include check (on notes put what
Golf $100.00 sponsorship you made) and make payable Golf $100.00to: Picnic Rochester Chapter $65.00 ASHRAE
Picnic
Mail to:
$65.00
Golf and Picnic (SAVE $10.00) Attention: Jim Browe Total amount enclosed:
$155.00
Golf and Picnic (SAVERF$10.00) Peck Company, Inc. $155.00 Golfer #1 Golfer #2 889 Atlantic Ave. Total amount enclosed:
Rochester, NY 14609 Golfer #1Golfer Golfer Golfer #6 Any questions, call#5 Jim at (585) 697-0836 ext. #2 101 Email: jbrowe@rfpeck.com
Golfer #5
# Attending Total # Attending Total Please fill out so we can correctly$recognize you or your company: $
$ $
Company: _________________________________________ OR: OR
$ Individual Name: ____________________________________ OR: $
$ Address: ___________________________________________ Golfer #3
Golfer #4
$
City: ________________ State: _________ Zip: __________
Golfer Golfer #7 #3
Golfer #8
Golfer #4
Phone: (Work) _______________ (Home) ________________
Golfer #6
Sponsorship Form
Sponsorship
Golfer #7
Golfer #8
X for Sponsorship
Sponsorship Amount
Major Door Prize Sponsor – Gift/Item or Cash Donation- $200 or more. Gold - $250.00 - Hole Sponsorship and Recognition at Picnic Silver - $150.00 - Hole Sponsorship Bronze - $100.00 - Recognition at Picnic
$250.00 $150.00 $100.00
Prize Sponsor - $175.00 - Longest Drive Prize Sponsor - $175.00 - Closest to Pin
$175.00 $175.00
Total Check Amount:
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President/Education Chair: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110 Vice President Technical: DAVE JERECKOS IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 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 Affiliate Liaison: REBECCA KOLSTAD Kolstad Associates
President's Message With COVID restrictions being lifted we are working hard to find a meeting location. COVID is still out there, believe me I know from experience. The May meeting will still be online. We will let you know if anything changes as meeting time gets closer. ASPE’s has several Training and Certification Programs: • The ‘Green Plumbing Design (GPD)’ which is being transitioned to an online course and certification. • Medical Gas Training and Certification Program. ASPE assist in the design of the training part of this certificate program. Visit our web page for Links to Engineering Societies, Publications and State Codes and Engineering Tools. The Green Plumbing Design (GPD) certification program is available as an online course and certification test for GPD credential. ASPE Member $500 – Non-Members $600. Additional information is on the ASPE website. The ASPE Rochester Golf Outing is June 9, 2022 at Victor Hills. Sign up as a team or individually. Sponsors are welcome. Look for flyer in the mail. ASPE Convention/Expo is being held September 16-21, 2022 in Indianapolis. Please feel free to contact myself or any Board Member with questions or concern.
David W. Myers
Rochester Chapter President
Meeting Notice – Save the Date Topic:
Pumping Systems Meeting Notice
– Save the Date
Speaker: Liberty Pumps, Twin D Associates Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Date: May 18, 2022 RSVP: Time:
To Dave Jereckos (341-3168), or djereckos@ibceng.com by May 16, 2022. To Be Announced
(Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society)
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Engineering Architecture Survey Planning Construction Observation
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Campus News | 18
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Professional Firms
RES Continuing Education Education Series | 7
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Directory of Business Services Advisors
Investment products and services are offered through Wells Fargo Advisors, a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.
Philip J. Welch
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Wells Fargo Advisors
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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
ARE BACK !!!
President, Rob Gleason
SEPTEMBER 29,2021 - 7:00 PM
FREE Event
COME TOUR THE WINNER OF OUR IES ROCHESTER Sheet MetalPARK & Air-Conditioning EXTERIOR LIGHTING AWARD - ROC CITY SKATE Contractor’s Association MEMBERS FROM THE DESIGN TEAM FROM STANTEC National AND Rochester, Inc. FROM THE CITY OF ROCHESTER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE Executive Director, Aaron Hilger PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG Imaging Science & Technology,
Rochester Chapter
President, Bruce Pillman
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Rochester Chapter President, Mike Benedict
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
Institute of Industrial and Systems Location & Details TBD - Save The Date ! 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
Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair
Director, Harold R. Clark, PhD
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Celebrating 30 Years!
BE SURE YOU CONTACT YOUR AFFILIATE BEFORE ATTENDING ANY EVENTS. WITH THE COVID19 CRISIS MANY EVENTS ARE BEING CANCELLED, RE-SCHEDULED OR VIRTUAL! WE HOPE EVERYONE STAYS SAFE AND HEALTHY! ~ RES Board of Directors
Rochester | Buffalo | Syracuse | Capital District www.meengineering.com
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Announcing the 2021 RES Awards Recipients | 16 - 29
Jarrod P. Adams 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Mark F. Bocko, PhD 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Maura Chmielowiec
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Lydia M. Hays
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
John W. Nieto
2021 Engineer of the Year
Jarmes P. Farnham, Jr. 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Alan Pilecki 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Thomas Howard, PhD
Jacob W. Hillmon 2021 Engineer of Distinction
Peter C. Sherer 2021 Engineer of Distinction
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Andrew D. White, PhD
2021 Young Engineer of the Year
Joseph D. Majkowski
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Sage Keefer
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
Megan N. Smith
2021 Young Engineer of the Year Finalist
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|7
Up & Coming Engineers - Meet Larry Lewis | 30 Campus News | 32
Professional Firms - Employee News
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Congratulations to the Scholarship Recipients | 14 Position Openings | 36
