The ASME Sabine Section Newsletter
ASME Sabine Section OCTOBER 2008
The ASME Sabine Section Newsletter
ASME Sabine Section OCTOBER 2008
ASME Sabine Section ONLINE!
This newsletter and other Sabine Section items of interest can be viewed from the web site online at the URL:
http://www.sections.asme.org/sabine/
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Inside This Issue |
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1 Local News Summary |
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2 International News |
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3 Meeting Information |
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4 Sponsors |
Local News Summary
o How to Engineer the Properties of Steel
On Thursday, October 23, 5:30 PM, the Sabine Section will hold the October general meeting. Details of the meeting are presented below.
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Chair Patrick Berken Vice Chair Roy Breaux Treasurer Mark Reynolds Secretary David Haby |
International News
o NO NEWS THIS MONTH
o SOUTH TEXAS SECTION--MEETINGS
Due to the proximity of Houston and the large number of ASME activities hosted there, a meetings link is provided.
http://www.asmesouthtexas.org/meetings.php.
MEETING INFORMATION
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October Meeting
How to Engineer the Properties of Steel
Thursday October 23 the Sabine Section of ASME will meet at 5:30 PM in Room 2603 Cheery Engineering Building, Lamar University. Dr. Bhaskar Yalamanchili will address the subject of how to engineer the properties of steel. Professional engineers will be awarded 2 PDH credit for participation in the meeting.
The speaker is a ferrous industry professional with an impressive combination of plant experience and education. While he is the Director of Corporate Quality for Gerdau Ameristeel, Dr. Yalamanchilli has recently won the 2008 Mordica Memorial Award for highest technical achievement in steel and wire industry. He is responsible for coordinating process/product quality and quality assurance of Gerdau's 18 plants.
Dr. Yalamanchilli had previously served as Manager, Product Development & Technology, for Gerdau's plant in Beaumont, Texas, where he had served in quality assurance when it was the North Star Steel Beaumont plant.
Prior to joining North Star, he was chief metallurgist for Iron & Steel Company of Trinidad and Tobago, developmental and melt shop metallurgist at Atlantic Steel, rolling mill metallurgist at Hyderabad, and quality control metallurgist at Mukand Iron and Steel in Bombay.
His degrees are listed as Doctor of Engineering, Lamar University; M.S. degree in process metallurgy, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S. degree in physical metallurgy , Indian Institute of Technology; and B.S. degree in metallurgy, Banaras Hindu University.
Dr. Yalamanchili has published 26 technical papers, and holds a patent in producing low carbon wire rod with boron. He is a past chairman of the West Indies Chapter of ASM, past chairman for American Society for Quality Control, Beaumont, a past president of the India Association of Southeast Texas, and an active WAI member for 15 plus years.
The Cherry Building is east of the new dining hall and south of the Gray Library on the Lamar Beaumont campus, see Dining.gif . Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 22, by email to Gene_Martinez@msn.com or by phone (409) 722-5109 so that we may make adequate preparations and PDH certificates.
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visit our sponsors on the Sabine Section Web Page. ASME Sabine Section is now online! The newsletter reaches engineers in
the Golden Triangle area, and countless others over the Internet. Make your
business noticed by all these professionals through sponsoring the ASME Sabine
Section. For sponsoring information or for comments to the web site/newsletter
editor, please contact Gene Martinez at mailto:gene_martinez@msn.com. Current sponsors are BEAUMONT MACHINE WORKS, CDI
ENGINEERING, EAGLE PRO ENGINEERING, FABRICON INTERNATIONAL, ENGLOBAL, RAS
Process Equipment, STANDARD ALLOYS, PUFFER.SWEIVEN, and ADVANCED RUPTURE DISK.
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