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Previous Meetings 2008

February 28, 2008 Luncheon	The Alcoa 50,000 TON Forge Press	Wes Wells Technical Manager, Oil & Gas, Alcoa
March 20, 2008 Luncheon	Evaluation Of Load Damage In Steel Using The LCR Ultrasonic Technique	Don E. Bray, Ph.D., P. E. President and Chief Engineer Don E. Bray, Inc.
April 24, 2008 Luncheon	Gaskets and Gasket Selection	Stephen Bond, Ph.D. Vice President of Technology Flexitallic
May 22, 2008 Luncheon	Engineering Ethics and Practice Update	Charles B. Pennington, P.E. Engineering Specialist Texas Board Of Professional Engineers
July 24, 2008 Luncheon	Polite Practices in the Workplace	Peggy Vincent United Healthcare
Wednesday August 27, 2008 Luncheon	Sustainable Petrochemical Business Practices	Calvin Cobb, Ph.D. Calvin Cobb & Co.
Thursday September 25, 2008 Luncheon	3D Modeling Technologies	Danny Erdeljac, P.E. Studio Works, LLC.
Thursday October 30, 2008 Luncheon	Fuel Cells, Power for the Future	Dr. Alan Cisa Lynntech, Inc
December 3, 2008 Luncheon	New High Velocity Steel Tooth Bits	Bobby Grimes Manager, Technology Services Hughes Christensen Co.

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Wednesday
December 3, 2008 Luncheon

New High Velocity Steel Tooth Bits

with

Bobby Grimes

Manager, Technology Services
Hughes Christensen Co.

In spite of significant PDC encroachment into traditional roller-cone applications, steel tooth (ST) bits still drill approximately one-half of the total footage in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The PDC vs ST bit selection is largely driven by the type of drilling fluid specified, OBM/SBM vs WBM. Additionally, the ST bit's resistance to balling in WBM and its desirable steerability characteristics make it a viable tool in the GoM for the foreseeable future.

ST performance has increased significantly over the last decade due primarily to technical advances in life and reliability of both bearings and cutting structures. The improved bearings yield longer runs with reduced risk of failure. Increased tooth wear resistance from advanced hardfacing allows long hole sections at sustained ROP's. Despite these advances, the basic ST cutting structure has remained fundamentally unchanged for four decades.

R&D efforts from the 1990's convinced one manufacturer an extensive research effort was warranted to develop a new ST cutting structure that delivered substantial improvements in ROP without sacrificing durability. The result is a new High-Velocity Steel Tooth (HVST) bit with the industry's first significant new ST cutting structure arrangement in more than a decade. The new design bits feature a novel cutting structure with patented pyramid-shaped teeth, additional rows of teeth, wide grooves between rows, anti-tracking row(s) with tight pitches, thick hardfacing deposits, and a new bar trimmer type gauge design.

The result is a steel tooth bit that delivers significantly higher ROP and longer life than current designs, with high reliability, and predictable steering behavior for directional applications. Hole sections can often be completed with fewer bits, which further improves drilling economics. The new technology bits are having a beneficial impact on drilling economics in GoM and around the world by delivering unmatched ROP and greater footage than conventional ST bits.

This presentation will describe the new bit design's unique features and characteristics, review the laboratory and field test results, and finally present case studies documenting the performance improvements these new bits provide when compared with conventional steel tooth bits in the U.S. GoM and in Australasia (Indonesia, Australia, PNG and New Zealand).

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.

Click here for directions. .

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 December 3, 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 :

Bobby Grimes is a native Texan. He earned a BSME from The University of Texas at Austin in 1979, and a MSME from the University of Houston in 1989. He has worked on oilfield drill bits at Hughes Christensen, a Baker Hughes company, for 29 years in various roles in Research, Engineering and Marketing.

Bobby is currently Manager of Technology Services at HCC, his department includes all the various testing facilities at HCC, including the BETA test rig south of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a registered professional engineer, and a member of ASME, SPE and AADE. Bobby is currently serving as the ASME Vice President for IPTI - the International Petroleum Technology Institute. He has received several drill bit related patents, and authored numerous drill bit related technical papers.

Upcoming Programs
We meet on fourth Thursday of the month for lunch unless noted.
2008 Meetings

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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Thursday
October 30, 2008 Luncheon

Fuel Cells, Power for the Future

with

Dr. Alan Cisar

Lynntech, Inc

Fuel cells have been a few years in the future for at least the last twenty years. We are seeing more of them entering service, but not the numbers predicted even ten years ago. After a short overview of fuel cell fundamentals this talk will discuss the challenges that need to be overcome for fuel cells to become a major factor in electrical power generation and research at Lynntech.

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday October 30, 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. Alan Cisar is a Senior Research Scientist and the Manager of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage at Lynntech, Inc. in College Station, TX He has 20 years of experience with fuel cells. He is the principal investigator on many SBIR and BAA contracts dealing with PEM fuel cells and alkaline fuel cells using a variety of fuels, improved PEM fuel cell performance, improved fuel cell components including membranes and catalysts, and energy generation and storage systems.

He is the inventor of the light-weight monopolar PEM fuel cell stack based on using the electrode as the primary structural element that is at the core of Lynntech’s FlatStackTM technology. Prior to his employment at Lynntech Dr. Cisar was involved in the development of a variety of products, including ion exchange membranes at Dow Chemical. He received an S.B. from MIT and a PhD from Iowa State University, both in Chemistry.

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Thursday
September 25, 2008 Luncheon

3D Modeling Technologies

with

Danny Erdeljac, P.E.

Studio Works, LLC

Danny will be showing a video and speaking about the different 3D modeling technologies available to many different industries.

Studio Works owns 5 different 3D scanning systems:

A state of the art Leica HDS laser scanning system used to model and analyze off shore and on shore oilrigs, machinery and automobile or motorcycle accident scenes.
A structured light scanning system used to model and analyze smaller objects up to approximately 20 feet in size. It can have an accuracy of less than a thousandth of an inch.
A Nikon total station laser scanner.
A Sokia laser prismless total stationwith Carlson data aquistion system
A Faro Technologies digitizing system

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday September 25, 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 :

Danny Erdeljac has over 30 years of experience working in the field of Mechanical Design Engineering. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston and a traffic accident reconstruction certification from Northwestern University Center of Public Safety. He spent a number of years with M.W. Kellogg and Dow Chemical Company. Danny has devoted the majority of his professional career as owner of Studio Works, a Houston based company, which provides 3D modeling, animation and video production services to a wide variety of clients including the engineering, automotive and broadcast industries.

Danny is involved in many scholastic and community activities, including the Industrial Advisory Board with the University of Houston School of Engineering, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the American Motorcycle Association, the Trail Riders of Houston and the Blue Ribbon Coalition.

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Wednesday
August 27, 2008 Luncheon

Sustainable Petrochemical Business Practices

with

Calvin 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.....

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

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Thursday
July 24, 2008 Luncheon

Polite Practices in the Workplace

with

Peggy Vincent

United Healthcare

This program takes a serious look at how the use of good and poor manners impacts the work environment. Special attention is paid to “tricky situations” and the appropriate courtesies regarding communication with clients and management, as well as the appropriate use of electronic communication and voice mail.

Here are some web sites with additional content.....

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday, July 24, 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 :

Peggy Vincent, MS, is a trainer and wellness coach based in Houston. She specializs in motivating her audiences with information that is timely and relevant. She believes that individuals can choose to lead healthier lives by making better lifestyle choices.

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Thursday
May 22, 2008 Luncheon

Charlie Pennington

Engineering Ethics and Practice Update

with

Charles B. Pennington, P.E.
Engineering Specialist
Texas Board Of Professional Engineers

This presentation will update you on recent changes to professional engineering laws and rules, important issues related to engineering practice and ethics, and other issues related to being a Professional Engineer in Texas.

Charles Pennington will bring us recent news about the issues we all have interests in. Bring your questions and opinions to share with everyone.

If you would like to contact Charles, you may do so via email at charles.pennington@tbpe.state.tx.us or by phone at (512) 440-7723.

Additional information is found online at these web sites:

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday, May 22, 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 :

Charles Pennington has provided engineering expertise since 2002 to the Board investigators. He participates in outreach programs to educate the public and licensed engineers on engineering matters pertaining to the Engineering Practice Act. Mr. Pennington is also engaged in the research and development of policy advisories for the Board.

Prior to his three-year career with the State of Texas, Mr. Pennington was a mechanical engineer with Applied Materials for ten years. Mr. Pennington has 25 years of mechanical engineering experience in the semi-conductor, robotic and construction industries.

Congratulations to NWHSS Member Dr. Joe Fowler, President, Stress Engineering Services, for being honored with the Geoca Mechanical Engineering Award at the 4th Annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Petroleum Technology Institute Best Mechanical Engineering Awards Reception during OTC on May 5, 2008.

Several Members of NWHSS received prestigious awards at the South Texas Section ASME Honors & Awards Banquet in April for their outstanding service to oue ASME community. We know you will want to congratulate these folks on their award and their recognition.

Ryan Schmidt received the Past Chairman’s award
Chris Alexander received the Meritorious Service Award for his work in leading the Pressure Vessel seminar.
Terry Lechinger received the Alan J. Chapman Award. Dr Chapman was a distinguished heat transfer professor at Rice, and was Rice’s NCAA representative for many years.
Clint Britt received the W.R. Woolrich Engineer of the Year Award. Dean Woolrich was he Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas in the 1930’s and 40’s.

Outstanding Service may never be more appropriately defined than by the dedicated leadership and long time service to ASME of Clint Britt. As organizer of the annual Trade Show put on by the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Technical Chapter, our Educational Fund for College Scholarships has not only thrived and been distributed each year, the fund has nearly tripled from what Clint helped create over 20 years ago. Our goal for this scholarship program benefitting our local ME college students is to be self sustaining. We will be there soon, and we can always remember the extra efforts by so many to get there!

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Congratulations to NWHSS Member Dr. Joe Fowler, President, Stress Engineering Services, for being honored with the Geoca Mechanical Engineering Award at the 4th Annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Petroleum Technology Institute Best Mechanical Engineering Awards Reception during OTC on May 5, 2008.

Several Members of NWHSS received prestigious awards at the South Texas Section ASME Honors & Awards Banquet in April for their outstanding service to oue ASME community. We know you will want to congratulate these folks on their award and their recognition.

Ryan Schmidt received the Past Chairman’s award
Chris Alexander received the Meritorious Service Award for his work in leading the Pressure Vessel seminar.
Terry Lechinger received the Alan J. Chapman Award. Dr Chapman was a distinguished heat transfer professor at Rice, and was Rice’s NCAA representative for many years.
Clint Britt received the W.R. Woolrich Engineer of the Year Award. Dean Woolrich was he Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas in the 1930’s and 40’s.

Thursday
April 24, 2008 Luncheon

Gaskets and Gasket Selection

with

Stephen Bond, Ph.D.
Vice President of Technology
Flexitallic

Gaskets are often one of the last items in a design to be considered. In the grand scheme of things, gaskets are a relatively low cost item; however the consequence of using a gasket incorrectly (or even the wrong gasket) can be very expensive.

We will review the function of a gasket in a joint, along with the main types of gaskets available today. The pros and cons of certain designs will be discussed, along with typical applications and application criteria for each gasket type. We will concentrate somewhat on newer gasket materials and designs.

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday, April 24, 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 :

Stephen Bond is a relative newcomer to Flexitallic and to Texas, joining Flex and moving to Texas in October 2006 after 11 years in the automotive sealing field, all for the same company, but comprising four roles in three locations, on two continents (5 years in the UK and 6 years in the mid west of the USA). Before joining the automotive industry, the speaker worked for 4 years in industrial coatings in northern England.

Educated at Aston University, Birmingham (England, not Alabama), he graduated with a BS in Applied Chemistry and then a Ph.D. in Chemistry, specializing in mineral chemistry. The speaker has published around a dozen papers in peer reviewed journals and is the holder of six patents to date.

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Thursday
March 20, 2008 Luncheon

Don Bray

Evaluation Of Load Damage In Steel Using The LCR Ultrasonic Technique

with

Don E. Bray, Ph.D., P. E.
President and Chief Engineer
Don E. Bray, Inc.

Piping and pressure vessels are on occasion subjected to overload that may affect their ability to perform the role for which they were designed. A combination of velocity change and frequency analysis for near surface longitudinal (LCR) waves is used to evaluate load damage past the yield point in 4140 steel.

Prior work has shown that loading past the yield point affects the velocity in the bar. Further, frequency analysis has been shown to predict the fracture toughness in AISI 4137 steel used in offshore drilling. The present project joins these two approaches and uses velocity measurement and frequency analysis at different locations in the steel bar. Some locations were subjected to post-yield loading and others were not. Discussion on applying the technique to detecting hydrogen attack is included.

Addtional information is avaialble at the speaker's website.

Click thumbnail to enlarge photo.....

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.

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday, March 20, 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 :

Don E. Bray is President and Chief Engineer of Don E. Bray, Inc., a private research an engineering firm serving various industrial clients. The firm has conducted research in ultrasonic flaw and material characterization for major US companies.

He served as the Vice President of Pressure Technology Group in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has served as Chairman of the NDE Engineering Division of ASME. He has been engaged in NDE application and research for over forty years and has held engineering positions with the Southern Pacific Railway Company in Houston, Texas, USA and the U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, D. C., USA, and more recently was Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. His academic degrees include a Ph.D. in Mech. Engr. from The University of Oklahoma (1977), M.S. in Mech. Engr. from The University of Houston (1969) and a B.S. in Mech. Engr. from Southern Methodist University (1961). He holds Fellow Membership Rank in the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

In 1999, he delivered the Mehl Honor Lecture to the Fall Conference of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing in Phoenix in 1999 and the Keynote address for the June 2007 ICPIIT Conference in Houston.. In 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SPIE. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Texas and Oklahoma, and is the author of three textbooks, three encyclopedia chapters, a computer-based tutorial on ultrasonics, and numerous technical publications in the field of nondestructive evaluation. His principal research is in ultrasonic inspection, specifically in using critically refracted longitudinal (LCR) or surface skimming waves in ultrasonic inspection.

Additionally, he has served as a consultant to the Papua New Guinea University of Technology in Lae, Papua New Guinea and the University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

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Joint Meeting with
Petroleum Technical Chapter

Thursday
February 28, 2008 Luncheon

The Alcoa 50,000 TON Forge Press
and some comments on Aluminum Drill Strings

with

Mr. Wes Wells
Technical Manager, Oil & Gas
Alcoa

The Alcoa 50,000 TON Closed Die Forge Press in Cleveland, Ohio was recognized as an ASME Historic Landmark in 1981. Our speaker was once actively involved in managing the operations of this very large forge press. He is now the Technical Manager of the Aloca drill string developments.

He will describe the forge history, ownership, size, weight capabilities, and how parts progress going from drawing to forgings. This will feature industrial programs that the 50k ton press has supported.

Please visit these web sites for more information on this topic, and for current events during National Engineers Week....

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 Jack Smith PE at 281-955-2900

Click here for directions. .

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.

Thursday, February 28, 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 :

Wes Wells has 21 years experience with Alcoa at 3 different plant locations. From 2004-2007 was the operating manager of their A Plant- home of the 50K press. He is currently supporting Alcoa's growth initiative in Oil and Gas, and is a voting member on ISO 15546 - Aluminum drill pipe committee. Wes is a 1987 graduate in Metallurgical Engineering from Ohio State University. He likes old cars.

Upcoming Programs
We meet on fourth Thursday of the month for lunch unless noted.
2008 Meetings

Your suggestions and assistance are welcome. Contact Rafik Boubenider

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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Notes about this Website

This website is Under Development and will continue to evolve for North West Houston Members. This is posted on ASME servers.

Please send all feedback/correction/omission/suggestions to NWHSS webmaster Richard Boswell.

Our goal is to make this NWHSS site reasonably useful and active asap. Thank you for your help.

All Officers and Members are requested to submit content.

Please send NWHSS webmaster email with attached files in Word or text to include on this site.

Enjoy!