Text Box: The Philadelphia Engineer Founding Chapter 1934              November 2007

Text Box:       November Meeting Our November meeting will feature our own Leonard Bernstein, P.E., F.NSPE.  As President of the state PSPE, Len will address our membership on “What a P.E. License & P.S.P.E. do for you!”  The meeting will be held at the Hilton Philadelphia Airport, 4509 Island Avenue, (215)937-4515. Also this is Presidents’ Night and all PSPE past presidents and tech society presidents invited as well as all candidates for Engineer of the Year.  As usual, our Officers and Directors will be having an open Board Meeting at 5:00 P.M., the meeting social hour will begin at 6:00 P.M., dinner will be served at 7:00 P.M. and our speaker will present his remarks at 8:00 P.M.  Call 215-985-5701 with your reservation, or email info@engrclub.org     October Meeting October 4's Chapter meeting featured Dr. Joe Martin discussing bridge safety.  Fortunately, Joe was prepared with handouts for everyone since the Spaghetti Warehouse meeting space was not  conducive for a digital projector.  The theme of the presentation was using modern instrumentation and monitoring devices to measure the 'health' of a bridge similar to what is done in the medical profession.  Steel bridges almost never fail, but when they do - not surprisingly - it's at the weak points: the bolts, pins, welds, plates or other connectors that hold steel struts together. continued on page #4   2007-2008 Program October 4 - Bridges in Philadelphia - Dr Joseph P. Martin, P.E.     Spaghetti Warehouse November 1 - What can a P.E. License & P.S.P.E. do for you? -     Leonard Bernstein, P.E., F.NSPE Phila. Water Department     Hilton Philadelphia Airport December 6 - Outstanding Engineering Achievements     McCall’s Country Club January - Board Meeting Only - Date and Location TBD February 20 - Young Engineer of the Year Installation -     Joint with Engineers’ Club (host)     Racquet Club at 215 South 16th Street in Philadelphia March 6 - Continuing Education for the P.E. - Al Tantala, P.E.     Location To Be Determined April 10 - Joint Meeting with A.S.C.E.     Program and Location To Be Determined May 1 - Awards Dinner - McCall’s Country Club

Text Box: President’s Message Greetings to my fellow professional engineers!  The Fall season is upon us and as usual, it brings the start of the fiscal year for PSPE.  As you know, we had the first general membership meeting of this administrative year on October 4, 2007 and it was a very successful meeting.  The location, Spaghetti Warehouse, was interesting and spacious.  Our honored guest speaker, Dr. Joseph Martin, P.E., Professor of Civil Engineering at Drexel University, gave us a very interesting talk about bridges in Philadelphia.  You can read more about this meeting in this issue.   PSPE, like any other organization, is seriously dwindling in membership.  There are various reasons for this decline but I need not discuss them here.  However, it is important to work towards increasing membership.  It has never been this easy to sign-up new members, through the NSPE website.  Therefore, I seek your help in recruiting new members to join our chapter.  Please encourage your engineer-friends and colleagues to join the Society.  I believe there are thousands of Engineers (and hundreds of them with P.E. license) in Philadelphia County.  I am therefore requesting your help in getting more engineers and engineering students to join the Society.   The next general membership chapter meeting, on November 1, 2007, will feature our top officer at the State PSPE level.  PSPE President, Leonard Bernstein, P.E., F. NSPE, will discuss the state of the state society, issues affecting the engineering profession and legislative issues affecting the engineering society.  I am sure this meeting is going to be very informative, so come one come all.  The upcoming meeting has been designated as Past Presidents Night.  I am hereby inviting all chapter past presidents to come out and be recognized at this special meeting.  Last but not the least, we are also inviting candidates for the 2008 Engineer of the Year (EOY) in Delaware Valley to come and present themselves to their constituent, many of whom are delegates and will be voting for the EOY in the following week.  Details of this meeting are provided in this issue.  Please call Richard Mulford, P.E., at (215) 985-5701 to make your reservation.  I hope to see you there! Many thanks, True True (``````````` (``````````` 0 310 3123002 457200 clip_image001.png

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