Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Chapter 69

Minutes of the Executive Board Meeting

March 8, 2006

Technical Presentation:

The presenter for the evening was Thomas Hebel of Bonal Technologies.

His presentation was on Improving Distortion and Service Life of Metal Components by Using Sub Harmonic Vibrations. A very informative presentation showing the many uses for this technology. Awards chairman, Viktor Astakhov, presented a certificate of appreciation from Chapter 69 to Thomas. Dinner and socializing followed the technical presentation.

Chairman, Gary Shepperd began the meeting at 7:50 p.m.

Meeting Attendees:

Gary Shepperd-Chairman, John Dinovski-Chair Elect, CMfgE, Jack Wagner-Treasurer, CMfgE, Alan Wolfe-Secretary, Scott Manning-Programs Chair, CMfgT, Jack Day-CEM, CMfgE, Doug Ruffley – Communications Chair, Viktor Astakhov - Awards Chair, PhD,

Richard Bailey-TCN Chair, CMfgE, Phil Crockett, CMfgE, Paul Drallos, PhD, Robert Petrach, CMfgE, Vern Speidel, CMfgE, PMP, Gary Gathen, William Thomas, Bruce Ryan, Liz Ryan, Cheol Lee, Thomas Hebel

Chapter Business

Secretary's Report

A motion made by Robert Petrach and seconded by John Dinovski accepted the February minutes.

Treasurer's Report

Jack Wagner gave the report and noted that we are in good financial shape for this year. Jack mentioned that our account with SME headquarters is balance to $0.00

Gary Shepperd talked about the Chapters fund request to headquarters.

Funding was drastically cut down, with a majority of them not approved.

Membership Committee:

Cathy DeNardo was absent. Gary reminded everyone to sign in and that name badges were available for $8.

Programs Report:

Scott Manning gave report and has April and May Technical Presenters lined up.

Certification Report:

Larie Smith was absent. Larry needs volunteers for the review sessions and with the certification exams.

Communications Report:

Doug Ruffley wrote about our March Technical Presentation and contacted six newspapers to have the articles printed. Doug received these contacts from SME Headquarters.

Bulletin Report:

Gary Shepperd notified everyone that Joel no longer wants to be the Bulletin Editor. The new Bulletin Editor will be Paul Drallos. The talk is of going to an email and website bulletin only. We're planning on a bulletin, more likely an e-mail format for April.

Student Chapter Report(s):

Jennifer Warstler was absent.

Wine Tasting – As Jennifer was absent we are not sure of the plans for April 22.

Old Business:

We are looking for a new TCN Coordinator.

Vern Speidel is thinking about taking the Best Practice Position.

See new business about the Funding request.

New Business:

Gary Shepperd talked about the response he received from Dave Moulton at

SME Headquarters about the funding request that Robert Petrach and Gary has been working on and submitted.

The response from SME was not what we hoped for.

The Chapter will be receiving a check for $350 from SME

for the year, supposedly all Member Council decisions are final.

There was discussion on how we are going to handle this problem.

If we cut back on services that we as a chapter supply to our members we should have the funds to run the chapter through 2007.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:12pm by a motion from John Dinovski and seconded by Scott Manning.

Respectfully submitted,

Alan Wolfe