Hudson Mohawk Section Newsletter Editor: Kris Frutschy ([email protected]) March 2013

networking social and dinner lecture event as part of Vibo- rama 2013! Dinner Talk The Future of U.S. Robotic Planetary As the millennium closed, so did the era of large planetary spacecraft that were launched once per decade. Future Exploration robotic spacecraft will have a wide range of capabilities, diverse mission objectives, and be launched almost one per Speaker: Randii Wessen, Senior Technical year. Among the many types of missions, some will be the landers and sample return missions of tomorrow. To meet Staff Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, these bold endeavors, these ambassadors from Earth will Pasadena CA. require advanced mission concepts, new operational approaches, as well as technologies that have yet to be Date: Thursday, March 21st developed. To organize this effort, the United States robotic planetary exploration program has been divided into the Time: Social at 6PM, Dinner and presentation start following themes: Earth, , Solar System, and Universe. at 7:00PM This presentation will describe each areas, the major missions currently in operations, and those being planned. It will also have a special emphasis on the quest for extra-solar Location: Holiday Inn Express, 400 Old Loudon Rd planets and the search for life in the cosmos. Latham NY, 12110 Speaker: Cost $30 discounted rate to ASME, AIAA and also: Vibration Institute (VI), and Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) members / Non-Members: $35 (choice of 1 entrée), Students, first 30 students: $10; otherwise member / non-member prices apply

RSVP: Dr. Gulshan Singh, E: [email protected] (preferred), 518-387-7030 by COB 03/15. Please indicate the entrée choice for each RSVP: CHICKEN: Chicken Cordon Bleu, BEEF: Roasted Prime Rib au jus, FISH: Sole fillets stuffed with

crabmeat. Special requests (vegetarian, gluten- free, etc.) can be accommodated, in addition to Dr. Wessen has been an employee of the California Institute the above. of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for twenty-nine years. He is currently a Senior Technical Staff Member to Summary: JPL’s Innovation Foundry. Prior to this Dr. Wessen was the Navigator Program System Engineer. This program’s goal is the detection of Earth-like planets around other stars, if they exist. He also was the Telecommunications & Mission Systems Manager for the Mars Program, the Supervisor for the Science System Engineering Group, Manager of the Cassini Science Planning & Operations Element, the Galileo Deputy Sequence Team Chief, and the Voyager Science Sequence Coordinator for the & encounters.

He co-authored the books “Neptune: the Planet, Rings and Satellites” & “Planetary Ring Systems.” He was the recipient of NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for his contributions to the Neptune Encounter and has eleven NASA Group Achievement Awards. Dr. Wessen is also a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics. Asteroid 31664 (Randiiwessen) is named in his honor. The Northeastern NY section of AIAA, the H-M Section of ASME, and the Vibration Institute are co-sponsoring a ASME 2013 fellow and Mechanics Subcommittee (D30.02). Dr. Bucinell was the chairman of the ASTM VII Symposium on Fatigue and Many congratulations to Ron Bucinell, who was elected this Fracture to be held in St. Louis on 5-8 May 1997. Dr. Bucinell year to the prestigious league of ASME fellows! Fellow Grade is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Engineering, Marquis Who’s is the highest elected grade of membership within ASME, the Who in Finance and Industry, and in Marquis Who’s Who in attainment of which recognizes exceptional engineering the World. He has authored many papers in the field of achievements and contributions to the engineering profession composite materials, has presented his work at technical symposia, and has been invited to speak at several government installations.

ASME Fellow Award & Robotic Hockey Tournament:

Prof. Ron Bucinell, ASME 2013 fellow.

Dr. Bucinell is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Berkley Davis, Glenn Saunders, Ron Bucinell, Lawrence Engineering at Union College. He served as Chairman of the Kelly (pictured left to right). Department of Mechanical Engineering from September 2005 until June 2008, and during that time was the Thomas J. Executed March 4th evening and organized by ASME-HM Ex- Watson, Sr. & Emma Watson Day Associate Professor. Comm member & US First volunteer Glenn Saunders, Since joining Union College in September of 1993, he has undergrad-ME program robotics teams from Rensselaer taught courses and laboratories in engineering mechanics, Polytechnic and Union College battled it out on-ice at Union's composite materials, design, and entrepreneurship. His other Achilles Hockey Arena, during a break in the "human" hockey responsibilities include undergraduate academic advising, team action from the same colleges. Design constraints were senior design project supervision, undergraduate research assigned to each undergrad team by their respective ME- supervision, and graduate research supervision. Dr. Bucinell dept. professors, and the competition was overseen by a was named a fellow of the Kern Family Foundation in 2011 for number of ASME-HM Senior Section volunteers, including his efforts to instill the entrepreneurial mindset in newly inducted Hudson-Mohawk ASME Fellow & Union ME undergraduate engineering students. These efforts also led Dept. Professor, Dr. Ron Bucinell. ASME-HM's Union College to him being awarded a 2011 IBM Faculty Award. He has Student Section Chair, Benjamin Rubin, proudly provided directed the International Virtual Design Studio project that is arena-wide "color-commentary," and read text over the PA- run in collaboration with the Middle East Technical University system announcing Dr. Bucinell's ASME Fellow induction, as in Ankara, Turkey; Altim University in Ankara, Turkey; and both Robo-Hockey teams entered the arena with the event ESIGELEC in Rouen, France. He also founded a chapter of judges. Engineers Without Boarders at Union College and supervised students on their trip to Boru Village in Ethiopia to develop clean water sources. He has advised the SAE Mini-Baja, Formula SAE racing, and ASME Human Powered Vehicle teams at Union College. He has taken a leadership role in developing undergraduate laboratories, a new undergraduate curriculum, and revised the graduate program for the Mechanical Engineering Department at Union College. He is the director of the engineering mechanics and composite materials manufacturing laboratories at Union College.

Dr. Bucinell is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York. He is currently a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM), American Society for Engineering Education, Engineers Without Boarders (EWB), and Sigma Xi

(Honorary Research Society). He is a past member of RPI and Union robo-hockey teams. American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and served as a Co-Editor for the Journal of Composite Technology and Research. He is past chairman of the ASTM D30 Ring and Filament Wound Test Methods Task Group (D30.04.05) and past Chairman of the ASTM D30 Research

Hudson Mohawk Section Newsletter Editor: Kris Frutschy ([email protected]) March 2013

MiSci tour GE Science Bowl

Executed March 2nd morning, a long-time goal of ASME Hudson-Mohawk Section - to have a visible section presence at this important middle and high school level competition - Chris Hunter (closest to table) leading tour. was accomplished. Local MakerSpace President Thomas

rd Tongue assisted ASME-HM's Section Chair in coordinating A Jan 23 tour of the Museum of Innovation and Science with GE Global Research senior staff. ASME-HM's Treasurer (MiSci, formerly the Schenectady Museum) was enjoyed by - Mike Brilliant - was an active judge-volunteer at the 2013 ASME members and guests. Following a pizza meal, Chris event, and stopped by ASME-HM's table to provide an update Hunter, Curator of Collections and Exhibitors, pulled out some on the student competition action. Pictured here next to of the pictures, publications and hardware for all to see. He ASME's table are some of the students, captivated by some explained how the Edison General Electric grew into the cool "maker-tech" Tom and his group brought to the 2013 General Electric (GE) Company we now know. The evolution Science Bowl. Volunteers from U.S. government contractors of recording business – records – movie cameras and the Bechtel (West Milton Nuclear Laboratory), Knolls Atomic evolution of radio and television into NBC, the power turbine Power Laboratories, NASCAR Women, "miSci" / Schenectady growth from the hydro and steam turbine generator to create Museum, and the Edison Tech Center Museum were also in the power industry, and the other electrical appliance (irons, attendance. This event was also supported directly by the stoves, hair dryers) and lighting was reviewed. Items we U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). viewed were a book of the popular Friday Works News, ASME papers donated on the technology of turbines, a picture book showing the being of GE aircraft engines (Larry Bells 1st jet powered airplane), and the beginning of GE Save the date 4/24: Digital Manufacturing talk health systems (X-Ray, to MRI scanners), and autographs for by Professor Suman Das. GE founders. The early and later electric car projects were discussed. These items are a part of the Museum’s What if you could “print” an airplane engine? Such an idea collection of documentation on how products were developed, may not be all that far off from reality! On April 24, the NENY changed, and marketed that have been reviewed by countries Section of AIAA and the ASME H-M Section are teaming up around the world. Many thanks to Chris and the MiSci team! to bring Prof. Suman Das from Georgia Tech to the Capital Region District. Prof. Das is Director of the Direct Digital Manufacturing Laboratory and Research Group at Georgia Tech. The event will be held at the Italian-American Community Center with a plated dinner. More details to come in March. For further information, please contact Dr. Gulshan Singh, E: [email protected] , P: 1 518-387-7030.

Link to ASME-Hudson Mohawk full calendar of events: http://sections.asme.org/hudson-mohawk/CalendarOfEvents.html

Letter from the Chair Once each newsletter is posted on the Section's web page, an e-mail notification and link to the above website is sent to I am very happy to report to section membership, that after a members who have e-mail addresses in the ASME member long absence, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers database. If you are an active member of ASME and did not had a *2-Day* booth-presence at the annual Capital Region receive an e-mail notification, please go to the ASME web site Engineers' Week NSPE-sponsored event, held at the Albany and update your membership information. Marriott Hotel on Wolf Road! http://members.asme.org/myasme/login/myasme.cfm

A big section thanks goes out to Ex-Comm volunteers / booth staffers Michael Ostrelich, Wayne DeLaCroix, Glenn Saunders, Holger Lukas, as well as to sister-society volunteer and booth-mate Tom Cascino (American Society of Highway Engineers), and lastly, also to ASME.org NYC-HQ paid-staffer Michael Kreisberg.

The Marriott's parking lot was jam-packed on both days, with ~600 engineers attending on Thursday and the same number repeated on Friday, with many ASME recruiting applications distributed and our membership benefits well-communicated by our volunteers.

Slide from Ray Misiewicz on NR1 research submarine.

At the end of day-one, our Technical Chapters Chair, Lewis Stitt, organized a "piggy-backing," evening, across-the-street dinner talk by distinguished KAPL submarine nuclear design veteran, Ray Misiewicz, on the topic of "NR-1: America's Inner Space Shuttle." We were reminded that the U.S. Navy's Admiral Hyman Rickover *was key* to the development and funding of this amazing miniature submarine, which served both scientific-knowledge and national security purposes for many decades.

Watch this space, because, like with Hollywood, it's "Awards Season" for ASME Hudson-Mohawk, and our section excitedly looks forward to publicly honoring long-serving and distinguished Hudson-Mohawk membership, from both academia and industry!

Sincerely, Lawrence Kelley Chairman - Hudson-Mohawk Section The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Phone (518) 812-1268 [email protected]

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