Just In Times
Institute Of Industrial Engineers
South Jersey Chapter No. 132 Newsletter
Chapter Gold Award
1999-2006 Winner
2001-2006 Winner
VOLUME 47
February 2008
NUMBER 2
www.iienet.org/SouthJersey
Theme:
Management
Date:
Wednesday
February 20, 2008
FEBRUARY’S PROGRAM
Social Hour: 5:30 P.M.
Presentation: 6:30 P.M.
Dinner:
7:30 P.M.
Location:
Quality Inn
531 Route 38 West.
Maple Shade, NJ 08052
(38 West meets 73 South)
Strategic Innovation Leads to Breakthroughs
Directions on Page 2.
Cost:
$25.00 (Dinner)
Free (Presentation)
RSVP: To Tom Masapollo at
Thomas.Masapollo@fluor.com
856-380-8409
By February 15, 2008
Please, everyone attending, including
Board of Directors, needs to RSVP.
Thank You Very Much!
Angelo Piro of The Alternative Board of Southern New Jersey will
provide an overview of the Strategic Innovation process. Strategic
Innovation will help companies to:
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Eliminate over-engineering of new products and services with
features that look great but don’t add value or margin.
Dramatically reduce time from concept development to
market so your revenue stream starts flowing as early as
possible.
Eliminate costly reworking of products or services.
End spending post-launch hours developing applications for
a new product or services to meet unidentified customer
needs.
Ensure that the product not only meets some of the
customer’s needs, but their most critical needs.
Innovation becomes “strategic” when it is an intentional process
focused on creating breakthroughs in the value delivered to your
customers. The Strategic Innovation ideation process will be
described, along with tools and techniques for fostering an
environment of innovation within your organization. The
presentation will emphasize the systematic generation of new ideas,
capture of the ideas, evaluation of idea potential and development of
a downstream roadmap.
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INSIDE
February Program
Speaker Bio, Directions & CAR
President’s Column
Chapter Officers & E-Week
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Career Development Article
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Chapter News
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E-Week Article & Future City Pics 7-9
January Program & Valentines
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Classifieds
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About Our Program & Speaker
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CAR ARTICLE
Strategic Innovation Leads to
Breakthroughs
Future Engineers Look At Today’s
Problems With Future Cities
Global warming is soon to become a thing of the past thanks
to innovative engineering breakthroughs in energy
generation, transportation, and manufacturing processes.
Several concepts were discussed at the 13th Annual
Philadelphia Regional Future Cities Competition for 7th
& 8th graders held at Villanova University on Saturday,
January 26th.
Angelo Piro is a Certified Facilitator with The
Alternative Board of Southern New Jersey.
The Alternative Board provides monthly peer
advisory boards comprised of local owners,
presidents and CEOs who run non-competing
businesses. Angelo is also the President of
Resonant Technology. Resonant Technology
specializes in Process Development and
Contract Manufacturing of products for the
personal care and cosmetic industries.
Angelo holds a B.S. degree in Chemical
Engineering and an M.S. degree in
Environmental Engineering, both from Drexel
University. Prior to founding his first
industrial equipment distribution company 15
years ago, Angelo held various technical and
management positions with Unilever and
DuPont.
Though still in the creative stages, the solutions were
developed and presented in a most enthusiastic fashion. The
Jake Nevin Field House on the campus of Villanova
University was full of energy that was not attributed to any
fossil fuels. The energy was the result of over 100 7th and 8th
graders from 23 schools throughout the Delaware Valley
designing their own particular, sometimes spectacular – city
of the future. Some addressed challenges; some presented
challenges. Cities were founded on mountains, in Polar
Regions, under the ocean, the moon and on planets.
These students gave up much more than this one Saturday to
participate in the competition. The students typically started
their project in September soon after starting the new school
year. After school clubs were formed as students spent many
hours on their projects brainstorming/conceiving, computer
simulating, essay writing, physical model building, and
practicing their presentations. I don’t know if the learned
skills, dedication and motivation to accomplish their projects
came easily; but they did come; ensuring each student
benefited from their efforts. These students deserve the
support of their parents, mentors, Future City organization,
and the 26 professional societies and individual companies –
including the IIE – South Jersey Chapter. The balance of the
Campbells’ Soup Dollars for Doers funding was allotted to
our sponsorship. Radnor Middle School was the winner of
the Campbells’ Soup – IIE South Jersey Food
Distribution Award. And, congratulations to Our Lady
Help of Christians School, the Philadelphia Region winner.
Directions
The Quality Inn
531 Route 38 West
(Corner of 38 West & 73 South)
Maple Shade, NJ 08052
856-235-6400
From Trenton or Points North
Take I-295 South (or NJ Turnpike South/Exit 4) to Route
73 North Exit. Proceed on Route 73 North for approximately
1 ¼ - 1 ½ miles to Route 38 West. Very quickly, the Quality
Inn entrance will be on the right.
From Delaware:
Take I295 North to Route 73 North Exit. Proceed to Route
73 North for approximately 1 ¼ miles to Route 38 West. The
Quality Inn entrance will be on the right.
These students always impress with their dedication, work
ethic, ingenuity, computer literacy, writing efforts,
presentation poise, and abundance of optimism. Not only are
they going to live forever; but it’s going to be a wonderful
life – for sure!
From Philadelphia (Downtown):
Take Ben Franklin Bridge to Route 30 to Route 38 East. At
approximately 2 miles past Cherry Hill Mall, take Kings
Highway North/Moorestown Exit. Remain on the right and
exit onto Route 73 South and IMMEDIATELY exit again
onto Route 38 West (you will be following a clover leaf
turn). Quality Inn entrance will be on the right.
I’m convinced they’re right; they just need a little time to
work out the details. Thanks to Chapter members Tom
Fung, Bob Siebeneicher, John Bianchi and John
McGowan for volunteering their time to help make the
competition another success!
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Future City on the 26th at Villanova University. The
IIESJC sponsored the Campbell’s Soup-IIE Food
Distribution Award for the fourth year. The top 5
Middle Schools judged, out of the 23 participating,
were Kutztown, Hempfield Homeschool, Our Lady
Help of Christians, St. John the Evangelist and
Warwick.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Wow! The IIE South Jersey Senior Chapter is off
to a great start in 2008! If you missed our January
Joint Technical Dinner Meeting Program on the 16th
at the Quality Inn in Maple Shade, New Jersey, you
just may have missed the best program of the year.
Guest Speakers Kerry Arpajian and David Hess of
Resources Global Professionals spoke on SarbanesOxley Compliance for Supply Chain &
Manufacturing Operations. It was a most
informative and stimulating presentation on SOX’s
origin, its implementation, the economic impact it
has had and what it means to our profession and
others. The quality and quantity of questions
indicated that SOX is still a very hot topic and of
much interest.
Mathcounts 2008 will be held on February 9, 2008
at Rowan University and it is bigger than ever.
Directors John McGowan, Fred Rexon and I will be
representing the South Jersey Chapter. This year
there are 25 middle schools participating with their
167 mathletes? It still isn’t too late to volunteer for
this student outreach program. Contact anyone of us
to get the particulars and directions.
The IIE Northeast Regional Career Quest©
Workshop will be held on Saturday, February 16,
2008 at the Philadelphia University in Philadelphia.
Our host, the IIE Philadelphia University Chapter
has sent out their marketing and information packet.
Presentations on resumes, cover letters and
networking will be followed by mock interviews.
Human resources professionals will be screening
attendees to eliminate unacceptable candidates.
Professional IE mangers will conduct formal
interviews and make decisions to employ or reject.
Our IIESJC Board of Director’s Meeting on the 8th
of January was well attended. We made the pledge
to serve all of you from our respective positions and
warmly welcomed Kevin Wiker to our Board.
Director Wiker is very enthusiastic and will do a
great job for us as the Director of the Employment
Assistance Network. You can reach Director Wiker
at kwik12@comcast.net.
The expanded South Jersey Chapter region’s Zip
Code listing has been finalized and submitted. We
anticipate approval by the end of the month. Our
IIESJC General Membership will grow by some 80
members. They will be coming from the
Pennsylvania counties of Bucks, Delaware,
Montgomery and Philadelphia and New Castle
County, Delaware. Please note that our Chapter Web
Site is still out of date. We are in the process of
bringing it up to date.
Remember, you need to register with our IIESJCEAN, if you wish to post or receive career
opportunities via the Internet. If you were registered,
please reregister now. Wiker has created the email
address iie132_jobs@comcast.net for your
convenience for all IIESJC-EAN activity. Wiker
plans to expand activities in this important area for
your benefit.
Your IIE Membership in the South Jersey Senior
Chapter has greater value when you actively
participate. Do not hesitate to contact any one of us
to make suggestions or bring your concerns or
interests to our attention. Together, we can and will
achieve our goals in 2008 and beyond. We hope to
see you at our February 20, 2008 Technical Dinner
Meeting on Strategic Innovation.
The IIESJC Board approved funding for the
IIE Philadelphia University Chapter’s hosting of
the IIE Northeast Region Career Quest©
Workshop. Treasurer Huysie wrote out checks for
$250 for IIEPUC, $200 for 2008 Philadelphia
Regional Future City Competition and $50 for
Engineer’s Week.
Sincerely yours,
We continue to be impressed by the middle school
kids who participate in the Future City
Competition. IIESJC Directors Tom Fung, John
Bianchi, John McGowan and I were Special Award
Judges during the 2008 Philadelphia Regional
Bob Siebeneicher
Paul Robert Siebeneicher, II, CMfgE, CSI, F.IIE
2008 President – IIE South Jersey Senior Chapter
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Officers & Directors
2008 IIE South Jersey
Senior Chapter No. 132
NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK
President – Paul Robert Siebeneicher, II
Director of Career Development
Director of Constitution & By-laws
(W) 856-969-8907, (C) 609352-1957, (H) 856-235-9446
bobsiebeneicher2@aol.com
Vice-President - Fred Rexon
(W) 856-428-7400
fredrexon@precisionautomationinc.com
Secretary - Gene Wrotny
unlvnellis@yahoo.com
Treasurer - Rick Huysie
(H) 856-931-7352
Director of Membership - Frank Ward
(W) 856-401-0466
fcdward@verizon.net
Director of Engineers’ Week - John
McGowan
Director of Chapter Activity Record
john.p.mcgowan@lmco.com
Newsletter Editor - John McGowan
(H) 973-626-3373
john.p.mcgowan@lmco.com
Director of Programs - Tom Masapollo
(W) 856-273-6622, x5109
tmasapollo@comcast.net
Web Site Master – Bob Siebeneicher
Director of Employment Assistance
Network – Kevin Wiker - (W) 856-802-6469
kwik12@comcast.net
Director at Large – Marven Chin
(H) 856-863-9503
mmchin8893@comcast.net
Director at Large - Frank Garcia
(W) 800-959-0310
captfg@uscom.com
Director at Large – Tom Fung
(W) 856-342-3974
tom_fung@campbellsoup.com
Director at Large – Fernando Tovia, Ph.D
(IIE PUC Faculty Advisor)
toviaf@philau.edu
Director at Large – Liz Thompson
(Philadelphia University/Student Affairs)
Director at Large – Ed Ball
(W) 215-781-0500
eball444@yahoo.com
Director at Large – John Bianchi
(H) 973-626-3373
jb_lean_ie@verizon.net
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speaking skills that evening turned this Chapter member
off, instead of turning him on. Turning a listener into a
critic is a definite disconnect.
Career Development
THE OBVIOUS CHOICE
In January 2008 we discussed Preparation & Reality
Check from Bryan Dodge’s and David Cottrell’s
booklet Becoming The Obvious Choice. Column 2
will address the areas of Connection & Unravel.
Before we go on though, we need a Brevity 101
refresher. Okay, you completed your Reality Check
and now know who you really are from your Talent
Test, Values Test and Desire Test. You now have your
goals set and are prepared to make the sacrifices
necessary to achieve them. Are you the “Change Agent”
of the future?
Connection – “Connecting is the art of communicating
with shared understanding, mutual vision and shared
credibility.” says Dorothy Nevell. You need to master
Speaking, Writing and Listening to become a successful
Connector. Communications is as much an art as it is a
science and it needs to be mastered before you take on a
leadership role. A Master Connector will be a better
listener than a speaker, a better speaker than writer, and a
skilled writer that has clarity and conciseness.
Speaking – Many people are uncomfortable when
speaking, yet we begin talking as a child and talk to
communicate throughout our lives. Still, speaking can be
stressful. Many of us do not want to speak before an
audience, whether made up of friends or strangers. Well,
speaking to small groups or even a roomful is required for
advancement in most companies. Sooner, than later, as a
leader you will be asked to “say a few words” about your
project, or team or department or company.
Public speaking skills do not come natural, but they can be
developed. I recommend that you do it the easy way, by
attending classes with Toastmasters International or Dale
Carnegie. I did it the hard way, accepting an invitation to
be a guest speaker for a South Jersey Chapter technical
dinner meeting. My drama class in high school and my
speech course in college had not prepared me for public
speaking. After my presentation, one of the senior members
of the Chapter called me aside and very bluntly told me
that, “I have never been so embarrassed, because of your
poor speaking skills. Never get up in front of me again to
give a talk.”
Writing – The hardest lesson for me to learn and practice as
a communicator is to be clear and concise. I still have to
work at it, but have improved. We engineers sometimes feel
we need to go into detail for those non-engineering types.
But, when we do, we lose our readers. A rule of thumb is to
keep your sentences under 15 words. You will want to try
and keep your paragraphs short, 3 to 4 sentences.
No matter what you are writing, a memo or a report, you
objective is clarity. You accomplish clarity through
simplification. Everything written must be relevant to the
subject. If not, the reader will not comprehend the idea you
need to communicate or worse, become confused.
Listening – Effective connecting is 75% of your time
listening, 10% of your time thinking about what you have
heard and 5% of your time talking. Most
miscommunications occur, because we are not good
listeners. Listening effectively requires time, patience and
total concentration. Make eye contact, encourage questions,
permit interruptions and summarize the main points that
needed to be communicated.
Unravel – “Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated
to the simple.” C. W. Ceram. The average person does not
understand complicated processes. As a practicing
industrial engineer, you must be skilled at simplifying
processes. Failure to do so will frustrate and handicap the
performance of those you need to lead and support.
Successful people are those that can solve problems. Poor
performers look for scapegoats and place blame, when they
should be finding the “root” cause of the problem. Most
organizations have plenty of people who can make things
worse. Your goal is to standout as a person who has taken a
situation, unraveled the complexities, discovered the real
facts, kept a cool head and followed a logical process to
solve the issue.
Winning organizations’ number one objective is to fix the
problem, not waste time fixing blame. Unraveling is
accepting total responsibility for any situation, regardless of
the circumstances. Eliminating blame from your problem
solving approach will support you becoming The Obvious
Choice.
The IE is the “Change Agent” of the future! Make Your
Career Happen! Educate, Proliferate . . . . . or Vanish! ©
Once I got over my embarrassment and disappointment, I
called my critic several days later. After apologizing, I
asked him to critique my public speaking. Every area
criticized was noted. I promised him that if I ever had the
opportunity to speak in front of him again, that he would
not be embarrassed or disappointed. Surely my lack of
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Paul Robert Siebeneicher,,
CMfgE, CSI, F.IIE
Director of Career Development – IIE-SJC
Copywrited 2008 – All Rights Reserved
Your support of your professional society is
greatly appreciated. We value your
Membership!
CHAPTER NEWS
Member News
IIESJC Member and NAPP Senior VP Joseph
Polidoro will be the Guest Speaker at the AIST
February 11, 2008 Dinner Meeting at the
D’lgnatzio’s Towne Restaurant, 117 Veteran’s
Square, Media, Pa 19063. His presentation will
be Giving Electric Reliability a Boost. Call
Megan A. Preston at 856-829-6801 to make
reservations.
CAREER CENTER
South Jersey Chapter Employment
Assistance Network
Are You Looking For A Job?
Do You Know Of A Job Opportunity?
Contact The SJC Employment Assistance Network:
Email your name or any hot opportunities to
Kevin Wiker at: kwik12@comcast.net
Or iie132_jobs@comcast.net
Member News? – Contact the Newsletter
Editor with any news you would like to share.
Reminder! The South Jersey Chapter Board of
Directors adopted a resolution to discount dinner
meetings for unemployed Chapter Members in
good standing to $10. This applies to programs
hosted by the South Jersey Chapter. Currently, the
cost of dinner meetings is $25 for Members. If
unemployed, you can’t beat this price for a great
dinner anywhere.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Mr. Richard T. Huysie reports a
Treasury Balance of $2,703.17 as of
December 31, 2007 for the IIE South
Jersey Senior Chapter No. 132.
MEMBERSHIP
As of 01/04/2008 the SJ Chapter has 58 Members.
There were NO new members in December.
About Our Next Meeting:
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Plant Tour Promises to Measure-Up
You can renew your IIE Membership online
anytime! Members can now renew their IIE
Membership online. From the home page, go to
"Manage Your Membership" and select "Renew Your
Membership." It is that easy!
Our March program will be a joint meeting with
the South Jersey Section of ASQ and will feature
a plant tour of Transcat – a leading calibration
and measuring facility. Transcat is located on
Springdale Road between Routes 73 and 70.
Please note that this is a change in program and
a change in date (Tuesday).
The program will be held on TUESDAY, March
18th at Transcat in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Please Don’ t Go!
John Bianchi
William Bruno
Marypat Cooper
Frank DeFelice
Keith Fell
H.L. Newman
William Tahirak
Save this date!
Don’t forget to renew your IIE Membership!
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2008 FUTURE CITY Competition
– Philadelphia Region
IIE-SJC Members Tom Fung, Bob Siebeneicher, and John
Bianchi were Special award Judges at the 16th Annual
Philadelphia Region Future City Competition.
Tom Fung and Bob Siebeneicher listen to students
responding to their question related to IIE-SJ’s Campbell
Soup – IIE Food Distribution Special Award.
John Bianchi listens to a response as Bob Siebeneicher and
Tom Fung inspect a Future City Model.
John Bianchi asks a question to students about
communication in their Future City for Verizon’s Special
Award (Innovation in Communication).
Regional Winners
IIE-SJ Chapter Members John Bianchi, John McGowan, Tom
Fung, and Bob Siebeneicher
Our Lady Help of Christians School
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and institutional discrimination, have been
offered as causes for the startling disproportion.
GIRLS ARE READY FOR ENGINEERING IF
ENGINEERS ARE READY TO SHARE
Recent surveys, however, refute most of those
theories, including the ones that question girls’
academic readiness to study engineering when
they leave high school. Girls and boys take
requisite courses at approximately the same
rate, with girls’ enrollment often exceeding that
of boys. While 60 percent of boys take Algebra
II, for example, the enrollment rate for girls is
64 percent. Similarly, 94 percent of girls and 91
percent of boys take biology while 64 percent of
girls and 57 percent of boys take chemistry. In
the one science course – physics – where boys’
enrollment exceeds girls, the rate is 26 percent
for girls and 32 percent for boys. Still, less than
two percent of high school graduates will earn
engineering degrees in college.
Faced with a profound lack of women engineers,
the National Engineers Week Foundation is
calling upon its professional community to
discard the myths of what’s holding girls back
and focus instead on fighting the problem
during Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day,
slated for Thursday, February 21, part of
Engineers Week 2008, February 17-23.
Further,
assertions
of
the
effects
of
institutionalized discrimination – certainly a
major factor historically – seem undercutting
compared to professions such as medicine and
law that also were largely bastions of men a
generation ago yet now have a majority of
women pursuing those degrees.
“Girl Day,” as it’s known among engineers, is
the only outreach of its kind aimed at and
organized by a single profession. On February
21, 2008 and in programs throughout the year,
women engineers and their male counterparts
will reach as many as one million girls with
workshops, tours, on-line discussions, and a
host of hands-on activities that showcase
engineering as an important career option for
everyone.
Instead, experts contend that the major culprit
is one of perception among girls and the people
who influence them, including teachers,
parents, peers, and the media.
In short, girls have to perceive they can be
engineers before they can be engineers.
According to the National Engineers Week
Foundation, nothing conveys that message as
effectively as mentors and role models and no
program more effectively brings girls and role
models together than Introduce a Girl to
Engineering Day, now in its 8th year.
The Engineer Your Life campaign and coalition
launches on Wednesday, February 20 as part of
Girl Day 2008. An outgrowth of the
Extraordinary Women Engineers Project (EWEP),
Engineer Your Life aims to make a national
impact on the way engineering careers are
presented, particularly to college-bound high
school girls. Three new messages developed
and tested by EWEP – creativity has its rewards,
explore the possibilities, and make a world of
difference – form the centerpiece of the national
campaign. The Engineer Your Life web site, a
guide to engineering for high school girls, is at
www.engineeryourlife.org.
A 2005 EWEP study found that exposure to role
models is essential to drawing young women
into the profession. High school girls react
positively to first-person stories about how
engineering “makes a difference” and offers a
monetarily and personally rewarding career. The
study also notes that since few of their
influencers – whether it’s a parent, a favorite
teacher or MTV – understand or even have
knowledge of engineering, chances are it’s not
on the student’s radar. In other words, if a girl
hears about engineering, most likely an
engineer is the one who told her.
Currently only 20 percent of engineering
undergraduates are women. Only ten percent of
the engineering workforce are women. For
years, false notions of girls’ innate inability in
math, lack of science preparation in high school,
and assumptions about the effects of historical
“There are countless television shows featuring
doctors, lawyers, police and other professions, so
a child readily grasps that these may be career
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paths,” explains Terry Lincoln, Global Signature
Programs Manager at Agilent Technologies. “Unless
we directly reach these girls with engineering, they
won’t get it, and we will miss up to half of all
potential engineers. It’s not just the right thing to do,
it’s crucial to the success of our company and to our
country. Agilent is proud to be a part of these
programs.”
the Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA (CIE-USA)
and IBM.
The Engineers Week coalition comprises more than 75
engineering, professional, and technical societies and more
than 50 corporations and government agencies. Founded by
the National Society of Professional Engineers, the coalition
is dedicated to sustaining and growing a dynamic
engineering profession by ensuring a diverse and welleducated
future
engineering
workforce,
increasing
understanding of and interest in engineering and
technology careers among young students, and promoting
pre-college literacy in math and science. Among the oldest
of America’s professional outreach efforts, the coalition also
raises public understanding and appreciation of engineering
contributions to society through year-round innovative
programming and celebration. Co-chairs of Engineers Week
2008, February 17-23, are the Chinese Institute of
Engineers-USA (CIE-USA) and IBM.
Agilent Technologies, Inc. and the S.D. Bechtel, Jr.
Foundation are lead sponsors for Introduce a Girl to
Engineering Day, with additional funding from the
Motorola Foundation.
Girl Day is also part of the foundation’s many
diversification efforts, including the recent founding
of the Engineers Week Coalition Diversity Council, a
coalition of businesses, professional societies, and
academic and advocacy organizations committed to
increasing
underrepresented
minorities
in
engineering. The Council, headed by the foundation,
IBM, and 13 Founding Partner organizations, met for
the first time in Washington in October.
Upcoming Programs
Date
Program Topic
Location
3/18/08 Plant Tour – Transcat
4/17/08
5/21/08
More
than
100
corporations,
organizations,
government agencies and schools pulled together for
Girl Day 2007. ExxonMobil hosted middle school girls
at their Houston and San Juan, Puerto Rico facilities.
Young women were invited to experience engineering
first-hand at Argonne National Lab in Illinois, the Port
Authority of New Jersey and New York, and Los
Alamos Labs in New Mexico. Universities such as
Purdue, Penn State, Arizona State, and California
State at Chico introduced middle and high school
girls to engineering. The National Coalition of Girls
Schools sent copies of the EWEP book, “Changing Our
World, True Stories of Women Engineers,” to
member schools with tips on getting involved in Girl
Day.
Cherry Hill, NJ
Joint Mtg. w/ASQ + SJMCA
TBD
Scrap Metal Recycling Industry Quality Inn
A Card Sender
A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged,
balding man standing at the counter methodically placing
"Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over
them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying
scent all over them.
His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the
balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says
"I'm sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"
For its part, the National Engineers Week Foundation
offered grants to local Girl Scout troops to stimulate
activities in connection with the PBS television
programs “Design Squad” and “Cyberchase,” and
coordinated interviews with women engineers at
www.engineergirl.org.
"But why?" asks the man.
"I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies.
A month after Girl Day comes the 4th annual "Global
Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering,"
a 24-hour Internet and teleconference running from
Noon (EDT) Wednesday, March 26 through Noon
(EDT) Thursday, March 27 at www.eweek.org.
Presentations and Q&A sessions originate from points
around the globe to heighten awareness of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics issues
among pre-college, college, and young career
women. Honorary Chair of the 2008 Global Marathon
is Judy Spitz, Senior Vice President and CIO of
Verizon Business.
Radnor Middle School – Winner of the Future City
IIE-Campbell’s Soup Food Distribution Award
Visit
www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/2008_nationalpled
geroster.shtml to access Girl Day activities
nationwide. Co-chairs of Engineers Week 2008 are
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Last Month’s Meeting ….
Knocked Off Our SOX
Our January meeting had a most insightful presentation on
the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements established to ensure
adequate corporate financial processes are in place. Big or
small’ these regulations affect all public companies – though
to varying degrees. Costs can be huge; non-compliance
worse.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and
less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gérard
Our meeting was well attended with 25 members from the
chapter and the South Jersey Section of the ASQ (12 IIE/13
ASQ). Our thanks go to Kerry Arpajian and Dave Hess of
Resources Global Professionals for sharing their knowledge
and experiences with the Sarbanes-Oxley process. If you
have unanswered questions pertaining to your company’s
SOX programs, you can address them with Dave or Kerry.
Kerry Arpajian
Dave Hess
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like
unrequited love.~ Charlie Brown
Love is not blind -- it simply enables one to see things others
fail to see. ~Anonymous
Kerry.Arpajian@resources-usa.com
(215)523-5187
david.hess@resources-usa.com
(215) 523-5180
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are
loved- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of
ourselves. ~Victor Hugo
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more
you have. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people
are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being
brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you
don't risk everything, you risk even more. ~Erica Jong
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~
George Sand
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Program Director Tom Masapollo (left) presents gifts of
appreciation to Kerry Arpajian (center) and Dave Hess (right)
Lockheed Martin
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