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North West Houston Sub Section
Welcome to the website of the North West Houston Sub Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International (ASME), the Internet resource of choice for Mechanical Engineers in the North West Harris County & Houston area.
August 27, 2008 Luncheon
withCalvin Cobb, Ph.D.
Calvin Cobb & Co.
The Institute for Sustainability of AIChE has developed and published a Sustainability Index for the oil and gas industry and the traditional chemical processing industry. Sustainability--and incorporation of sustainability concepts into industrial operations--is important to the future of corporate performance, to public acceptance of industrial facilities, and to the engineering profession and individual engineers.
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) formed the Institute for Sustainability (IfS) in 2004 to promote the societal, economic and environmental benefits of sustainable and green engineering. IfS serves the needs--and influences the efforts of--engineers and scientists in industry, academia, and government. Engineers and scientists working with IfS have defined sustainability as “the path of continuous improvement, wherein the products and services required by society are delivered with progressively less negative impact upon the Earth.”
As more corporations move down a sustainable path, they are finding that they need meaningful metrics to measure their sustainability progress at many levels, from that of the practicing engineering to the CEO. The objectives of the AIChE Sustainability Index (SI) are to leverage internal technical expertise to support the implementation and alignment of sustainability and drive better reporting of technically informed sustainability data.
The SI is intended for use by executives and business managers for total company business lines. Although the initial focus is on major energy and chemical companies, the expectation is that the index will grow to embrace other industrial sectors and be global in its assessments. While the publication will be silent on individual company ratings, companies will find it useful to benchmark themselves relative to the set of companies that make up the index rating.
Here are a few web sites with additional content.....
- Calvin Cobb and AIChE
- Calculating A Comeback
- Featured Speakers AIChE
- Metrics for Energy Systems: Sustainable Energy Strategies
- Green Gas, the Sustainability of LNG
When & Where :
Stress Engineering Services Conference Center
13800 Westfair East Drive, Houston
Cost: Free Admission, and Brown Bag lunch is $12 with reservation. Membership Not Required. Bring a Guest!
Reservations Requested. Please contact Wendy Davis at 281-890-8441.
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If you would like to be placed on an e-mail update list, just send Wendy Davis a note and you will get timely reminders each month of the upcoming meeting with details of the topic and speaker.
Wednesday August 27, 2008
- 11:30 am Lunch served
- 11:45 am Announcements
- 12 noon Presentation begins
- 1:00 pm Official Meeting Closes
A few notes about our Distinguished Speaker :
Dr. Calvin Cobb is a Past Prsident of AIChE and this is a small sample of their praise for him....
"Dr. Calvin B. Cobb is as authentic as they come. An admired professional, inspiring leader, compassionate advisor, tireless volunteer, and devoted family man, there is much to learn from each aspect of Calvin's life but more to learn from the balance he strikes to weave it all together. He’s a talented artist – both a woodworker and metalworker – and an architect – building an authentic Colonial home and surrounding gardens brick by brick, board by board. He has both vision and technical expertise and has employed them all, in equal measure, to make a difference both in his life and the lives of those around him."
Calvin Cobb recently retired from a 35 year career as a consultant. The major part of his consulting career was spent as President of Wright Killen & Co., a partner at Ernst & Young, and with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He was the recent chair of the AIChE Institute for Sustainability and serves as chairman of the board for the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX.
An excellent biography with more details and tribute is found at Calvin B. Cobb from AIChE.
We meet on fourth Thursday of the month for lunch unless noted.
Your suggestions and assistance are welcome. Contact Julian Bedoya
Executive Committee for Northwest Houston Sub Section
The officers for the 2007
operating year for the Northwest Houston Sub Section of ASME are:
Chair: Dr. Rafik Boubenider
Vice-Chair: Jackie Smith, P.E.
Secretary: Ramon San Pedro, P.E.
Treasurer and Webmaster: Richard Boswell, P.E.
Arrangements: Wendy Davis
Programs : Julian Bedoya
Unless noted, all may be reached at 281-955-2900.
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