Rochester Engineering Society Magazine November 2014

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NOVEMBER 2014

Engineers Must Engage the Public on Climate Change | 8

Also in this Issue:

The American Electric Utility: an Awakening Giant | 16

Engineering and Public Policy Issue The Rochester Engineer Published since 1922 by

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Volume 93, Number 5, NOVEMBER 2014 3,500 to 4,000 Monthly Circulation ISSN 0035-7405

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Feature Article 1: The American Electric Utility: An Awakening Giant | 16

Feature Article 2: A Call for Technical Engagement in the Policy Making Process | 48

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4 • Invite us to come and tell you about the RES Tutoring Team Program 5 • Call for Nominations - 2014 Engineer of the Year, Young Engineer of the Year, and Engineers of Distinction 6 • RES Scholarship Application Information 8 • Engineers Must Engage the Public on Climate Change (cover) 10 • The Limited Monopoly - Appeals Beyond the USPTO - the "End of Line" in Patent Prosecution

News items and articles are invited. Materials should be submitted to the executive director at the society’s office, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607; Phone number (585) 254-2350, e-mail: res@frontiernet.net.

12 • Get IT Done - What are the Odds?

The web site for the Engineers’ Center is at: www.roceng.org. The deadline is the 10th day of the month prior to the issue. Unless otherwise stated, opinions expressed in this publication are those of contributors, not of the Rochester Engineering Society, Inc. Advertising information may be obtained by contacting the office of the Rochester Engineering Society or going to the website at www.roceng.org.

14-15 • Position Openings

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Board of Directors:

OFFICERS: President MARY STEBLEIN, PE LaBella Associates / mary.steblein@swe.org First Vice President ADAM CUMMINGS, PE Barton & Loguidice, PC / ACummings@bartonandloguidice.com Second Vice President TBD Treasurer MICHAEL V. TRIASSI Optimation Technology, Inc. / mike.triassi@aol.com Past President EDWARD HENSEL, PhD, PE Rochester Institute of Technology / Email: echeme@rit.edu DIRECTORS: CORNELIUS (NEAL) ILLENBERG PE Alstom Signaling, Inc. / Email: neal.illenberg@transport.alstom.com JON KRIEGEL Retired / jkriegel@rochester.rr.com SCOTT GRASMAN, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology / Email: ESTHER BETANCOURT Harris Corporation / RICHARD E. RICE, PE MJ Engineering / rrice@mjels.com CASEY DILL Arnold Magnetic Technologies / casey.dill@gmail.com CARL J. PILLETTERI, PE cjpill@rochester.rr.com DIRECTOR to TBD Administrative Director LYNNE M. IRWIN Rochester Engineering Society / e-mail: res@frontiernet.net

13 • Get to the Point! - Managing Technical Professionals: Communication and Interpersonal Skills

18, 22 • News From Professional Firms 20-21, 31 • Campus News 21, 27, 32 • What's News 24 • Continuing Education Opportunities 25-26 • Engineers’ Calendar 28-30 • Professional Firms - Employee News 50 • RES Individual Membership Application 51 • Rochester Engineer Advertising Rates 52-54 • Directory of Professional Services 54 • Directory of Business Services 55 • Affiliated Societies and Corporate Members of the RES

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• ABCD Association for Bridge Construction and Design.....................41 • AFE Association for Facilities Engineering..................................... ++37 • APWA American Public Works Association...........................................44 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers............................................36 • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers....................................................33 • ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers....................................39 • EA Electrical Association.......................................................................35

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• GVLSA Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association.............................45 • IES Illuminating Engineering Society....................................................40 • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.................46-47 • INCOSE International Council of Systems Engineering...........................34 • IS&T Society for Imagins Science and Technology.............................42 • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society......................................38 • RES Rochester Engineering Society.................................................... 3-7 • SWE Society of Women Engineers........................................................43

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President’s Message http://www.aiche.org/community/committees/public-affairsinformation-committee-paic

Mary Steblein, RES President 2014 - 15 The focus of this month’s issue is Engineering and Public Policy.

The Rochester Engineering Society has not focused specifically on Public Policy, but it seems that many of our affiliate organizations have well-developed programs. The majority of my experience with public policy related to engineering is based on my membership in the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

First -what is Public Policy? An applicable definition seems to be: “Public policy is an attempt by a government to address a public issue by instituting laws, regulations, decisions, or actions pertinent to the problem at hand.1” Organizations may develop “position” statements in response to public policy which may concern or impact their members.

Many organizations have established public policy statements.

ASCE, for example, has developed 163 policy documents, ranging in topics from Continuing Professional Development for Licensure (PS 425) to Floodplain Management (PS 421). ASCE encourages members to learn about and participate in public policy efforts by joining their Key Contact Program (http://www.asce.org/ keycontacts).

SWE has focused on the advancement of women in engineering.

Their Government Relations and Public Policy Committee “educates members about public policy matters relevant to women in engineering, provides tools that allow members to participate in public policy discussions and educates other professional societies and policy makers on matters relevant to women in engineering.”

The three main focus areas are currently: “Strengthening America’s schools”, “How Title IX can be applied to STEM fields” and “Strengthen the STEM workforce by ensuring equal opportunity for women in STEM education and careers,” all of which are supported by general position statements.

Many other affiliates have public policy websites. I would encourage you to educate yourself regarding the public policy statements of any organization you belong to and I’ve included a few links for some of our affiliate organizations:

http://www.apwa.net/be_involved/Priorities-and-Positions/ Public-Policy-Advocacy-Priorities https://www.ashrae.org/government-affairs/public-policy-issuebriefs-letters--testimony https://www.asme.org/about-asme/get-involved/advocacygovernment-relations/programs-public-policy-society-policies http://www.ies.org/public-policy/ http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/guide/ It’s clear that engineers can influence public policy, by coming together and developing policy statements, advocating for particular legislation – especially effective as a group, but also valuable on an individual level, and being active in congressional visits both in Washington DC and at home. Being active in the political process can help increase the visibility of engineers, and provides a way to share expertise in developing public policy statements or commenting on public policy issues. We have the background to understand today’s public policy issues – and we’re trained to identify problems and analyze/optimize solutions. I’d like to challenge you to think about how you can translate these skills to positively impact the world of public policy issues.

I hope that you enjoy the articles in this month’s issue about public policy. As a reminder, we are soliciting articles for upcoming issues of the Rochester Engineer, in the following topics: Engineering Entrepreneurship (articles due in early December) and 25 Years of E-Cubed Fair – A tradition of STEM Outreach (due early January).

Please coordinate with RES’ Administrative Director, Lynne Irwin, if you are interested in submitting an article, res@frontiernet.net.

I’d like to remind everyone that the nomination process is ongoing for the 2014 Engineer of the Year, 2014 Kate Gleason Young Engineer of the Year and the 2014 Engineers of Distinction.

Visit the website at www.roceng.org and click on “Call for Nominations,” to check out the eligibility criteria and complete a preliminary nomination for the outstanding engineers in your life.

There are many engineers out there who deserve recognition for the amazing things they have accomplished in their careers and for our community.

While you’re at the website, check out the Scholarship application, and send a link to the application to anyone who might be interested. Please encourage undergraduate students who have completed two years (or achieved Junior status) to apply for a meritbased scholarship through the Rochester Engineering Society. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-public-policy.htm

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RES News SAVE THE DATE 113th RES ANNUAL GALA Saturday, April 11, 2015 Rochester Riverside Convention Center 123 East Main Street, Rochester

Details will be updated on the website at www.roceng.org Sponsorship Opportunities Available Join the “RES Tutoring Team” Help a Rochester Child Learn to Read Whether or not you think you have the time to commit to it right now, please contact us and learn about this successful program, and the opportunity it offers us to “make a difference” in Rochester’s City Schools. Let us come and meet with you, your business associates, family members, friends, and neighbors. Even just two hours a week can make a big difference.

The RES Tutoring Team at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy currently includes full-time employed Professional Engineers, recently-graduated engineers, retired engineers, retired school teachers, U of R undergraduate engineering students, RIT undergraduate, and graduate engineering students and local business employees using their "flex-time" to spend a few hours a week as tutors. The new school year has begun, and we are seeking more dedicated people willing to make room in their busy lives for this important opportunity to "give back" to our community, for next year. We now have more than 20 local students and professionals tutoring at #10 School this Fall, but we still need more. We are currently scheduling presentations to local engineering and architectural firms, to tell their employees about this important opportunity. We need your help...can we schedule one with yours?

Schedule a presentation to learn about the school, the Volunteer Program Leaders, Administrators and Dr. Walter Cooper (RES 1996 Engineer of the Year). Hear about the training each tutor will receive. Please contact the RES office and let us know you’re interested in tutoring at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy - School #10, 353 Congress Avenue (in the 19th Ward, one block North of Genesee Park Blvd., between Post Avenue and Virginia Avenue).

The RES Tutoring Team is affiliated with…

Friends of Educational Excellence (FREE) Partnerships, (585) 218-0038 via email: bpollock@freepartnerships.org, via website: www.freepartnerships.org Reach the RES Tutoring Team at the Rochester Engineering Society, (585) 254-2350 via website: www.roceng.org or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (cell) 4 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | NOVEMBER 2014

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RES News Call for Nominations 2014 Engineer of the Year 2014 Kate Gleason Young Engineer of the Year and

2014 Engineers of Distinction A couple of years ago the RES Board of Directors introduced a streamlined nomination form.

A simple initial form allows an individual or organization to nominate a candidate. The RES committee will then contact the nominator if the candidate progresses to the next phase. At that point, a final form will be used to gather essential details from the nominator and candidate which will be used to determine our finalists.

The RES will select and recognize the finalists for the Engineer of the Year, Young Engineer of the Year, and Engineers of Distinction Awards in a variety of public venues and media during the weeks before the Gala. The Award recipients will be introduced on Saturday April 11, 2015 during the Gala at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

Visit our website at www.roceng.org and click on Call For Nominations, or call 585-254-2350 (res@frontiernet.net) to request a nomination form.

The following information is described:

Eligibility for Nomination Awards Criteria

Deadline for Preliminary Nominations - Friday, December 19, 2014 Deadline for Final Nominations - Friday, January 9, 2015 res news - call for nominations

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RES News SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION INFORMATION The Rochester Engineering Society (RES) is an umbrella organization for engineering societies in the Rochester area. The goals of the society are: to advance the art and science of engineering for the general public welfare in Monroe County and the adjoining counties; to foster in practicing and prospective engineers excellence as professionals, as citizens, and as individuals; and, to promote communication and cooperation among all branches of engineering.

Multiple scholarships, sponsored by a variety of organizations and administered through the RES, are awarded annually at a minimum of $1,000 each to recognize outstanding engineering, engineering technology, science or technology students. These are merit-based scholarships. Scholarships from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) require applicants be student members of their respective organization. Eligibility: Applicants must meet the following qualifications: 1. Be an undergraduate student in good standing who has completed two years and/or achieved Junior standing in an ABET-accreditd engineering, engineering technology, science or technology program.

2. Have an overall grade point average of 3.0 out of 4.0 (or equivalent) or better.

3. Plan to continue engineering, engineering technology, science or technology studies in an undergraduate ABET accredited program in September following presentation of the award.

4. Be a resident of Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Wayne, or Wyoming Counties of New York or enrolled in an ABET-accredited engineering, engineering technology, science or technology curriculum in a college in those counties. The Rochester Chapter of IEEE allows applicants from Corning and Alfred sub-chapters.

5. Not be a previous recipient of this scholarship.

Application: Applicants must submit the six required items listed below, postmarked no later than Friday, January 16, 2015. All items must be submitted in one package or envelope. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that all the necessary data are submitted by the deadline in one package and will be immediately disqualified from judging, with no further follow-up, if these instructions are not followed. The applicant should notify those persons supplying reference letters that timely response is critical. Reference letters may be submitted in individually sealed envelopes within the application package. Deliver or mail all items by Friday, January 16, 2014 to: The Rochester Engineering Society, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607.

Required Data and Instructions 1. Certificate of Interview from a member of the Scholarship Committee - Request an appointment for interview by sending an email to the Scholarship Chairperson, Barry Quinn, at barryquinn@aol.com. In your email, include your full name, phone number, and the day(s) and time(s) you are available for an interview. Attach your resume to the email. Contact Barry Quinn at 585-737-1117 if you have not received a reply within three days. The interviewer will provide a certificate that the interview was conducted after August 15, 2014 and before January 10, 2015 (interview deadline).

2. Transcript - Official copy of applicant’s current transcript showing grades for the entire enrollment in current school and if a transfer student, courses taken and accepted from his/her prior college or university.

3. Resume - The same resume the applicant would use if applicant were applying for employment. Be sure to include the following information: name, permanent address, school address, college, degree and program, anticipated date of graduation, and any professional society memberships.

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Rochester Engineering Society. This letter shall not be more than one typewritten page in length and should discuss the applicant’s position with respect to the following: a. Why the applicant is studying engineering and chose his/her particular field. b. Why the applicant is applying for the scholarship. c. The applicant’s involvement in professional society activities, the leadership positions held and describe active involvement in other extra-curricular activities. d. Statement that the scholarship will be used in engineering, engineering technology, science or technology studies in an undergraduate ABET-accredited program in September, 2015 should an award be presented.

5. Reference Letter #1 - Letter from the applicant’s faculty advisor in his/her current school. This letter should indicate the applicant’s standing in the class relative to other students, his/her course load and involvement.

6. Reference Letter #2 - Letter from a current or former employer who is not a relative, OR, a professor of engineering, science or technology in whose class the applicant has been or is presently enrolled. res scholarship application

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Rochester History Continuing with the historical sampling of the earlier writings on behalf of the Rochester Engineering Society, the years following "The Great War," into and through the “Great Depression,” continued to be a time of reaching out for the maturing Society, both locally and nationally. The meeting minutes describe a series of technical discussions and presentations intended to broaden the technical horizons of the membership (especially the CE's, ME's and EE's). The RES affiliated itself with a number of National technical societies, adopted local Affiliated Societies, frequently held joint meetings with them and continued taking action on a growing list of public matters. Certain issues of standardization, some crucial to public safety, became the responsibility of the RES and its affiliates. Once again war affected the Society, taking away many of its leaders and providing opportunities for others to step forward to fill these vacancies. In an effort to provide even greater perspective on the happenings and concerns of the day, a synopsis featuring selected items from "The Rochester Engineer" has become an integral part of this series. In the pervasive economic downturn of the “Great Depression,” the magazine offered classified advertising for unemployed engineers, technicians and draftsmen and took other steps to try to deal with the crisis. Still, it continued its effort to shape the function, purpose and infrastructure of the City of Rochester, and beyond. The Second World War and the Korean Conflict are now history. These experiences have changed the face and, no doubt, the future of the community. The Rochester municipal leadership and the industrial community have become immersed in the cold-war, growth economy.

“The Rochester Engineer” (March 1958)

A joint dinner meeting of the RES, AIEE and IRE, held in the RG&E Auditorium, featured a presentation, “To See Where You Can’t Be” by General Electric’s Manager of Sales, Charles J. Simon. It was a slide presentation on GE’s newest commercial-industrial product, closedcircuit TV. A second joint meeting (RES and ASME) this month featured Dr. Lewis D. Conta, Chair, U of R Division of Engineering, who spoke on “Rockets and Space Flight.” His talk covered various types of jet propulsion devices, and the unique characteristics of rockets, which make space travel possible. (Editor’s note: This was approximately five months after the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik I, its 24” diameter, low-earth-orbit satellite that initiated the “Space Race” segment of the “Cold War” between the USA and the USSR.) This month’s RES luncheon meeting series included “Highway Progress and Future Construction Plans for This Area” by Bernard F. Perry, District Engineer, NYS Department of Public Works. (Editor’s note: This was one of the first public presentations on the proposed Eastern Expressway CrossOver, later to become known as Rochester’s “Can of Worms.”) Another RES luncheon meeting this month featured Rochester construction giant, Emil Muller, and his presentation, “Big Game Hunting in the Yukon,” illustrated with color motion pictures.

April 28, 1958 (Board of Directors Meeting, Hotel Sheraton) The Board moved to raise the annual RES membership dues by $2.00, to $17.00 per year. The RES House Committee reported on its investigation of the possible purchase of the Elk’s Club building on North Clinton Avenue. It was felt that the necessary repairs and alterations, in addition to the purchase cost, would make this unfeasible for the Society. The Board accepted the report, with its recommendation. The Policy Committee provided a preliminary report on suggestions for reorganization of the Society, and it proposed a special meeting of the Board be held to hear and consider recommendations. The Board moved to schedule such a meeting on May 16, 1958.

“The Rochester Engineer” (April 1958)

April 1958 was a busy month for the RES and its Affiliates. RES, res news - history

A Sampling from the Archives of the Rochester Engineering Society...1897 - 1958

by Lee M. Loomis

together with ASME and AIEE hosted a dinner meeting and presentation, “Testing Tomorrow’s Aircraft” by William J. Walker of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. A color movie of the Wind Tunnel Aviation Test Facility and its systems approach to the evolution of airborne electrical systems was featured. Ernest K. Smith, assistant. civil engineer, Eastman Kodak Company, and Commander of the Civil Engineering Corporation of the USNR, addressed a joint meeting of RES and ASCE on, “The Civil Engineer in the US Navy.” Roger E. White of Litton Industries spoke to a joint meeting of the RES and IRE on, “Traveling Wave Tubes in System Design.” These devices are employed in radar counter-measures and communications systems. The feature article in this issue, “Life Evaluation of Petroleum Lubricants

by Rotary Bomb Method,” by Norman F. Prince of Davis-Howland Oil Company provided insight into the accelerated testing methods for determining durability of lubricating oils.

May 16, 1958 (Board of Directors Meeting, University Club) This special meeting of the RES Board of Directors was called to consider a recommendation from the Coordination Study SubCommittee of the RES Policy Committee designed to increase the number of professional societies connected with the RES. It allowed and invited, “any Local Section, Chapter or Group of a Professional Society to become a Cooperating Society of the RES.” The accompanying changes in the RES By-Laws provided for elected/ appointed representation from these Cooperating Societies on the RES Board. This Cooperation or Affiliation shall be approved by a majority vote of the RES Membership. The recommendation further specified that any elected representative of a Cooperating or Affiliated Society must have been a member of the RES for the preceding five years. The Board agreed to present these changes to the RES Membership at a future Society meeting, called expressly for that purpose.

“The Rochester Engineer” (May 1958)

The U of R announced the establishment of a new College of Engineering, combining the existing Departments of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering with a new Department of Electrical Engineering. Programs in engineering have existed at the U of R since 1910, and over 1500 engineering degrees have been conferred since then. In 1954, the U of R was listed as third in the nation for number of graduates listed in that year’s issue of “Who’s Who in Engineering.”

Expectation was that the total student enrollment at the University would reach 2500, by 1965. The 1958-59 RES officer candidates included President – Alfred V. Dasburg, General Railway Signal Company, First VP – Jasper Willsea, Willsea Works, 2nd VP – Charles F. Starr, Consulting Engineer, Treasurer – Norman H. Davidson, RG&E, Directors – Harvey J. Klumb, RG&E (retired) and Carl F. Weber – Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Subsequent articles in this series will describe the RES' continuing outreach to other technical societies as it considered its role in this and the larger community, along with more of the activities of the RES as it moved to be of greater service to its membership, especially those suffering from the current economic crisis, and adopted a greater role in shaping the future of the City and its environs. Noted also, will be the contributions made by RES members in the struggle to meet the challenges coming out of World War II, as well as a hoped-for period of post-war growth and prosperity.

These articles will also feature an impressive array of RES activities in support of postwar re-emergence of Rochester area industry.

We welcome your questions and comments on this series.

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Engineers Must Engage the Public on Climate Change

by Bill Bishop, PE, CEM, LEED AP There is a recent pattern of politicians claiming, “I’m not a scientist,” when asked about climate change. This is only a slight improvement over the flat-out denial that climate change even exists, let alone that it needs to be addressed, and ignores the fact that elected officials have the vast resources of our scientific and academic institutions at their disposal.

As discouraging as this is, I am hopeful. A June 2014 poll found that 61% of Americans say that climate change is occurring and that action should be taken.1 Politicians are being forced to consider legislation, but they’re waiting for a window of opportunity when their vote to act won’t be met with a vote for their primary challenger. Legislators in all parties, but especially those in conservative districts, need to be persuaded to act by their constituents. This requires a public that understands the science and has a simple, effective free-enterprise solution that they can advocate.

I would argue that engineers, perhaps more than any other profession, are in the best position to engage the public. People want to hear about the science, and possible solutions, from the ones they trust. And, they trust engineers. We have the educational background needed to understand the science, experience working with clients, business people, scientists, civic leaders and engineers from other fields, and experience with identifying problems and formulating solutions. We can break complex problems down into simple components, and explain them in layman’s terms. It is a Fundamental Canon of the Code of Ethics for Engineers that we shall “hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.” There is arguably no greater long-term threat to public welfare than climate change.

I am not a climate scientist either. Like most engineers, my college coursework included chemistry, physics, advanced mathematics, heat transfer and thermodynamics. I have spent much time in the last several years learning what I can about the science of climate change, including reading peer-reviewed journal articles and books. While I do not particularly enjoy public speaking (or potentially making a fool of myself ), I feel the obligation to inform other engineers of the seriousness of the problem, and have given several presentations on climate change in an effort to empower others to act.

We just had the highest global May, June, August and September average temperatures, and 2014 is on track to set another record high for global temperature. It has been nearly 30 years since we had a month that was below the 20th century average temperature for that month.3 Global warming and increased GHG will cause several important negative climate impacts for humans and all other life, many of which are already observable. Sea level is expected to rise at least three feet by the year 2100, and keep rising up to dozens of feet if all fossil fuels are burned, eventually causing the loss of coastal cities worldwide. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, so we expect more extreme rain events and flooding. The storm surge and flooding in New York City caused by Hurricane Sandy helped make it the second costliest hurricane in U.S. history. At the same time, higher temperatures will increase evaporation, intensifying drought, and leading to more frequent forest fires that are hotter and more destructive. The number of extreme heat waves is increasing. Here in the Rochester area any weather patterns that are “not normal” can be devastating to our farmers. In the past three years, we’ve had a late spring freeze that damaged the apple crop, a hard winter that damaged grape vines, and waterlogged crops from a cool, wet summer. Changing weather patterns will cause food shortages, freshwater scarcity, and spread of infectious diseases. The geopolitical and security implications of these impacts have been identified by the Joints Chiefs of Staff as significant challenges to our military.

Global warming is a key contributor to species extinction, with mountain and polar species particularly vulnerable. Doing nothing means many of us will live to see an ice-free Arctic, with the

So, what does the science say?

Climate change is happening; it is not natural and we are causing it primarily by burning our once-in-a-civilization supply of fossil fuels as fast as we possibly can. The fundamentals of the greenhouse effect have been known since the 19th century starting with the work of Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall and Svante Arrhenius.2 Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mostly CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels, has enhanced the greenhouse effect, causing global warming. Following a sharp temperature spike to the hottest year on record in 1998 (caused by the strongest El Nino event ever recorded) , global temperatures have remained high and continue to increase.

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preferred narrative. Add countless blogs by non-scientists, a 24-hr news cycle that only pays lip-service to climate change, always maintaining false balance by presenting “the other side”, and editorials that masquerade as science presented without accountability, and it is no surprise that we find ourselves in a quagmire of “analysis paralysis.” While 97% of climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming, the public thinks that number is more like 55%.4 Only when we acknowledge the reality of climate change as documented by the wealth of scientific evidence, does it make sense to discuss solutions. Thankfully, the discussions seem to be heading in that direction. For some, though, the problem seems too big and the cure worse than the disease.

corresponding loss of Arctic species. The diverse marine ecosystems of coral reefs (that we have been working hard in this country to protect) are highly vulnerable to the combination of ocean warming and ocean acidification from CO2 absorption.

Ecosystem degradation and mass extinctions are not mere aesthetic losses - they impact the resilency of all life on Earth, ourselves included.

There is nothing political about the science. But our ideological biases get in the way when we consider solutions. We have to reduce fossil fuel use (not energy in general) and voluntary efforts by individuals are just not going to make a big enough difference. Solutions will require some form of government legislation and changes in practice by the largest energy users.

There are those who oppose government interference with the free market, and also those who sincerely believe that humans cannot possibly impact the planet. And plenty of people make their livelihoods and a lot of money off of fossil fuels. So these biases can make it hard to find common ground with those who want to accelerate the transition to renewable energy sources.

The science gets muddied by a combination of deliberate distortions and willful ignorance, happily perpetuated by “think tanks,” news organizations and powerful individuals who attempt to spin the science to match their cover article

There is a pervasive, false assumption that any serious effort to slow global warming will be too expensive. That we can’t risk hurting the economy and causing a global collapse. How can we rapidly reduce fossil fuel use, promote energy efficiency and renewables, decrease the energy use intensities of manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and the building stock, while reducing the impact of rising prices? And how do we do this in a way that gets all businesses and countries to participate, while minimizing the role of governments, respecting personal choice and freedoms, and letting market forces determine the most economically efficient paths toward a lowcarbon future?

Greenhouse gas emissions are a form of what is known in economics as externalities – costs that are not paid for by the producers of the emissions. Economist Nicholas Stern of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change called this “the biggest market failure the world has seen.”5 If the very real costs incurred by all of us due to climate change were reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, they would not be so inexpensive. Why can’t we solve the problem through individual actions?

The reason voluntary efforts don’t work is because of a principle known as the Tragedy of the Commons. The air that we breathe, the atmosphere which sustains life on our planet, is shared by all of us. Nobody owns exclusive rights to it. We have little incentive as individuals to limit our pollution, because then we bear the costs as individuals while others receive the benefits (if any) for free.

Solutions to this market failure must therefore involve some form of payment for carbon emissions. We need not rely on biggovernment answers, however, as there is a free-enterprise solution on the table that even conservatives can champion, because they

invented it.

Two alternative market-based policies that have been proposed to curb GHG emissions include “fee-and-dividend” and “cap-andtrade.”

• Carbon fee-and-dividend is a simple idea – collect a fee (tax) on all fossil fuels and keep it revenue-neutral by reducing other taxes or distributing cash payments to taxpayers.

A fee is collected for all fossil fuels at their source (the point of first sale in the country) – the mine, well or port of entry. The fee is uniform, in dollars per ton of CO2 emissions for each type of fuel. The public does not pay the fee or tax, but prices would be expected to rise based on the quantity of fossil fuels used to grow/manufacture, and transport those goods. The carbon fee would start low and rise gradually, giving a clear price signal that can be incorporated into business planning, and giving consumers time to alter their purchasing decisions. The approach is straightforward and does not require a large bureaucracy to implement.

Under fee-and-dividend, 100% of the collected fees are distributed uniformly to the public, via debit cards or sent directly to bank accounts. The fee would start low, say $10 to $15/ton of CO2, (tCO2) and increase by a fixed amount or percentage over inflation, each year. As an example scenario, at the time the fee reaches $200/ton (in 2035 if the fee increases $10/year starting 2016), a family of four would receive about $4,800/year.6 Prices for fuels would go up accordingly - gasoline would cost an extra $1.80/gallon at a fee of $200/tCO2.

• In cap-and-trade, the government sets a limit (cap) on carbon emissions, selling (or giving out) a specified amount of emissions permits representing the emissions limit. Holders of permits that use less than their allowance can sell (trade) their permit to a buyer that wants a higher allowance. A cap-and-trade system was implemented in the U.S. in the 1990s, with mixed success, to limit sulfur dioxide emissions from coal power plants to reduce acid rain.

How do these two policies compare in complexity, effectiveness and respect of the individual? Cap-and-trade is complex, with highly-paid lobbyists fighting for favorable conditions for their clients, and requires the creation of carbon markets with thousands employed to conduct the trading, their profits added to fuel prices we all would pay.

Its effectiveness is limited, as it is applied only to certain sectors, deliberately uses only modest carbon caps so price signals are muted, includes carbon offsets that don’t actual reduce emissions, and is very difficult to implement and enforce on a global scale (the Kyoto Continued on page 14...

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The Limited Monopoly® Appeals Beyond the USPTO - the "End of the Line" in Patent Prosecution

by John Hammond, PE and Robert Gunderman, PE Patent Prosecution and Appeal – a Review

As our regular readers may recall, several of our past columns have covered patent prosecution1 and appeal2 in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. To summarize the former, prosecution of a patent application begins when a Patent Examiner studies the application, searches for prior art, and makes a determination on whether or not to grant a patent on the invention as defined by the claims. In most instances, the Examiner finds at least some basis to reject one or more claims in the application, and issues an Office Action that sets forth the rejections and their statutory basis.

At that point, the Applicant has the option of filing a response to the Office Action that may include an amendment of the claims, supporting arguments to challenge the rejections, or other evidence in support of patentability. In the best case scenario, the Examiner will then find that the claims are allowable, and issue a Notice of Allowance. With payment of an issue fee to the USPTO, the Applicant will be issued a patent. At times, however, the Examiner will find further grounds for rejecting the claims (often by doing further prior art searching), or the Examiner may issue the same rejections if the arguments are found “not persuasive.” In either case, the Examiner will issue a second Office Action, which is usually a Final Rejection.

As we have noted in a previous column3, “Final” rejection is not the end of the road, and is not really final at all. The Applicant has a first option of filing a Request for Continued Examination (with payment of a fee), and continuing on with further amendments of the claims, arguments, or other evidence.

In response, the Examiner may then issue a Notice of Allowance, or yet another Office Action with the same or further rejections of the claims. In a worst case scenario, the Applicant and the Examiner engage in multiple cycles of Office Actions and Responses without arriving at an agreement that the application contains patentable subject matter.

At some point in the prosecution process, the Applicant (often through the advice of his patent practitioner) reaches the conclusion that the application is not advancing toward an allowance with the particular Examiner assigned to the case. This conclusion can often be reached through an interview4 with the Examiner to discuss the rejections made in an Office Action. The Applicant may strongly believe that the Examiner is in error in making or maintaining the rejections of the claims. It is quite possible for an Examiner to make a number of errors in rejecting claims, including not applying the 10 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | NOVEMBER 2014

“The process of Appeal, both within the Patent Office and in federal courts, has a major effect on how our patent laws are interpreted and applied.” statutes correctly, not interpreting the prior art correctly, and/or not understanding the Applicant’s invention as defined by the claims.

When an Examiner “digs in,” and refuses to concede to an Applicant’s arguments, rather than continuing on with the Office ActionResponse churn, it may be better for the Applicant to pursue a second option, which is to file an Appeal. Under current appeal practice, once the claims of an application have been twice rejected, the Applicant may pursue an Appeal before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board5 (PTAB) by filing a Notice of Appeal and an Appeal Brief, which contains arguments by the Appellant (formerly the “Applicant”) as to why the Examiner has erred in rejecting the claims.

The Examiner then files an Answer to the Appeal Brief.

The Appeal is heard within the PTAB by a Board of three administrative law judges. The judges may rule in favor of the Appellant, they may affirm the findings of the Examiner, or they may remand the application back to the Examiner for further action. They may also split a decision, ruling in favor of the Appellant on some of the claims, and affirming the Examiner’s findings on others.

In the worst case scenario, the Board affirms the Examiner in full, and the claims in the application remain rejected. For most Appellants, this is the end of the line in prosecution of the application. From this point, continuing on with prosecution becomes that much more expensive (having not been cheap to have come this far), with the odds of obtaining a patent becoming much lower as well.

See You in Court

However, the Appellant still has two remaining options for further appeal. Both are litigated outside of the USPTO. A first option6 is to appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).

The CAFC, which was created by statute in 1982, hears a variety of appeals from certain administrative agencies of the federal government (as well as appeals by parties opposing rulings by those The Limited Monopoly

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agencies). Appeals of decisions within the USPTO by the PTAB are among those heard by the CAFC. When an appeal is filed in the CAFC, the Appellant is represented by an attorney (or often a team of attorneys), while the USPTO is represented by attorneys from the Office of the Solicitor. The opposing attorneys argue the case, and a panel of three judges from the Court issues a ruling. (We note that litigation before the CAFC is highly complex, and that a detailed discussion of the possible proceedings is beyond the scope of this column.) The Court may issue its mandate and opinion in favor of the Appellant, it may affirm the findings of the PTAB, or it may remand the application back to the PTAB for further action.

As a second option, the Appellant may file a civil action7 against the Director of the USPTO in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. This option may only be pursued if the Appellant has not first appealed his case before the CAFC; doing so precludes the option of filing the civil action in the District Court.

When such a civil action is filed, the Appellant is suing the USPTO to withdraw its ruling by the PTAB, and issue a patent. As done in practice before the CAFC, opposing counsel for the two parties argue their case before the Court, and a ruling is issued. The Court may rule in favor of the Appellant, or in favor of the USPTO, in which case a patent is again denied.

SCOTUS – the Final Destination

When a ruling against the Appellant has been issued, whether by the CAFC or by the District Court, the Appellant has one final option: appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. Of course, this is a very rare occurrence. There must be the confluence of several key circumstances: • The patent being pursued must have a very high economic value in order to justify the extreme expense of further litigation at this level, and the Appellant must have deep pockets to have come this far, and to be willing to continue onward.

• The Appellant must believe that there is a strong case to be made before the Court, and there is a reasonable chance of success in overcoming all of the previous adverse rulings.

• There must be a truly unique issue to be argued before the Court – an issue that has not been settled by prior precedents and case law from previous court decisions.

• The Court must agree to hear the case. The Court denies hearings of many cases, and filing an appeal to the Supreme Court certainly does not mean that the case will be heard as a matter of right.

With regard to the third criterion above, the “unique issue” to be argued often is a case where a groundbreaking invention has been made, and the technology involved “outruns” the applicable laws. In other words, the invention is such an advance that there is uncertainty as to how the existing patent statutes apply, and there is no case law upon which to rely. In particular, 35 U.S.C. 101, which is directed to defining what subject matter is patentable, has been a key statute argued previously before the Supreme Court.

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Chakrabarty. Anand Chakrabarty, a biochemist at General Electric, developed a genetically modified bacterium in the early 1970s that could break crude oil down into harmless byproducts. In June of 1972, Chakrabarty applied for a patent on his invention. The USPTO rejected his application on the grounds that the subject matter was non-statutory. Chakrabarty appealed repeatedly, ultimately taking his case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor. Chakrabarty’s

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patent issued in March of 1981. The Court found that “His claim is not to a hitherto unknown natural phenomenon, but to a nonnaturally occurring manufacture or composition of matter – a product of human ingenuity…” In hindsight, it is easy to see that the Court was dealing with complex issues involving a breakthrough technology: the USPTO had never examined a patent application for such a life form before. A difference of opinion arose as to whether it was patentable, and there were no prior court decisions to provide guidance.

In another case from 1972, Gottschalk v. Benson, the Court found in favor of the USPTO, ruling that a process claim directed to a numerical algorithm was not patentable because "the patent would wholly pre-empt the mathematical formula and in practical effect would be a patent on the algorithm itself." The Court found that if such a patent were issued, it would be directed only to an abstract idea. (More recently, the court has issued another landmark ruling in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International. In Alice, the Court ruled that patents held by CLS Bank International were invalid because their claims were drawn to an abstract idea, and implementation of the idea on a computer was not enough to transform that idea into a patentable invention. This ruling is already having an effect on the prosecution of software patent applications in the USPTO, and will likely also result in many issued patents being found invalid.)

An Ever Changing Landscape

Patent prosecution before the USPTO, and the process of Appeal, both within the Office and in the courts, continues to have a major effect on how our patent laws are interpreted and applied.

Additionally, patent litigation between opposing parties, and not involving the USPTO, also plays a major role. We’ll discuss aspects of case law resulting from patent litigation in a future column.

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PHOTO CREDIT: United States Supreme Court building under construction in 1933. Courtesy of Architect of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. (www.aoc.gov) Authors John M. Hammond P.E. (Patent Innovations, LLC www. patent-innovations.com) and Robert D. Gunderman P.E. (Patent Technologies, LLC www.patentechnologies.com) are both registered patent agents and licensed professional engineers. They offer several courses that qualify for PDH credits.

More information can be found at www. patenteducation.com. Copyright 2014 John Hammond and Robert Gunderman, Jr. Note: This short article is intended only to provide cursory background information, and is not intended to be legal advice. No client relationship with the authors is in any way established by this article.

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What Are The Odds?

— Lindsay Monchecourt Well known author and speaker, Ali Binazir recently wrote an article entitled: “What are the odds that you exist, as you, today?” In the article Binazir attempts to quantify the probability that you came about and exist, as you today and reveals that the odds of you existing are almost zero.

In fact, the article goes on to state that scientists calculate the probability of your existing as you, at about one in 400 trillion (4×1014). Binazir breaks down the factors that contribute to this likelihood such as: the odds of your lineage remaining unbroken for the length of human existence, your parents meeting and staying together long enough to have you and the most unlikely probability is the exact physiological elements unifying to begin the creation of you. Let me be the first to congratulate you on your achievement.

Considering the odds, I suggest that being born at all allows for a possible measure of greatness inside of each of us. This is something that I believe, absolutely. My children leave the house with this message each morning.

What do we do with those little seeds of greatness every day? Do we nurture them? Is the challenge too daunting so we wind up ignoring that they are even there? Do we press onward striving toward excellence as a means of bringing those seeds to harvest?

We are fortunate to be in information technology. It’s an industry where those seeds of greatness find fertile soil. While there are a number of fulfilling industries to participate in, information technology is chock full of stories of garage startups that become successful megabusinesses. I think it’s pretty cool that those stories continue today. Let me share mine with you. In 1999, 22-year-old me designed a web application. Remember, this was a time when the first iterations of websites were making their way onto the Internet and Macromedia Flash, a multimedia platform used for creating animation was cutting edge. We could do things like make our automotive client’s new design appear as though it were 12 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | NOVEMBER 2014

bursting through the screen! It was a thrilling time in the evolution of technology.

In 1999 I was 22 years old and the seed that I was convinced was My Seed of Greatness, the seed that I had been waiting for, took the form of ORTISA: Online Real Time Interactive Scheduling Agent. It was a web application designed to enable consumers to schedule their own appointments in the professional services industry.

Fifteen years ago that seed was planted, watered, given sunlight and grown by our development team. Our team worked tirelessly as my patent attorney pursued a patent.

Thousands of hours and even more thousands of dollars later, the attorney called. There was someone in California who registered the same idea three months ahead of me. I was bummed.

We never did get that product to market, but fifteen years later I still think about ORTISA. I am immensely thankful for the experience because it helped form a rock solid foundation and the belief that I should never be afraid to try something new and follow my dreams. My love for technology started back then and continues to this day.

The odds of me being me are infinitesimal. The odds of me getting to do what I love in technology? I don’t even want to contemplate the odds of that happening.

Think about IT.

Lindsay Monchecourt is a Technology Consultant and Guest Columnist this month from Entré Computer Services, www.entrecs.com

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Managing Technical Professionals: Communication and Interpersonal Skills The following article describes an issue many engineering teams face but don’t handle very well. Keep in mind that RGI “puts the P in the PE” and we can help improve your interpersonal communication skills.

By Tuna B. Tarim. (Reprinted with permission.)

Past President, IEEE Technology Management Council Manager, WW Design Automation, Analog Design Services, Texas Instruments, Inc. In previous articles, I have implied that communication and people skills are a must have for technology managers, and I even mentioned that hearing the following from managers is not uncommon: “It’s not the technical work that’s challenging, it’s the people stuff!” The “stuff” that is being referred to here are the typical “people behavior” you see in your teams: “John is in a mood today, keep your distance from him”, “can someone tell Shirley that she speaks too loud in her cubicle and I can’t focus on my work?”, “Matt talks about religion at work and it offends me because I’m an atheist; he needs to stop talking about religion in the work place”, “Thelma took all the credit to the work that I did and now everyone thinks she came up with that idea”, … How many of you managers, have come across complaints such as these at work, and what have you done about them? The answer better not be “nothing, I don’t have time to deal with this childish behavior, I have work to do”.

The truth is, dealing with this “childish behavior” is part of your job. While for an accomplished technologist the technical challenges are fun to deal with and the more challenging the issue is the more fun it becomes, the accomplished technologist who does not have the necessary communication and people skills to manage the team will struggle to deal with the “people behavior” listed above. Your team members are real people and real people have emotions, emotions that you need to learn how to deal with so your team can function properly.

Communication and interpersonal skills go hand in hand and technology managers need to improve their skills for both! You need to learn how to communicate because your comments carry more meaning then they used to now that you are a manager. Always avoid gossip and always have your facts straight. Learn how to listen and learn how to be quiet, and realize that the two are not the same thing. get to the point

Improving your communication skills will also help with your interpersonal skills: Your interpersonal skills will help you build relationships, not only with your own team members but also with people outside your organization.

These interpersonal skills will also help you deal with the negative people in your team. Negative people can poison your entire organization very quickly if not dealt with carefully and urgently. Interpersonal skills will also help you deal with conflict within and outside your organization. Even if you are lucky enough that you have never had to deal with conflict in your team, this skill might come in handy one day. One critical aspect of being a manager is to know how to give performance feedback – both positive and negative – to your team members.

We dedicated one of the previous articles to providing performance feedback and it is important to know that having the interpersonal skills will be very helpful in successful delivery of performance feedback, or any kind of feedback for that matter. This feedback will help set direction for your team members and help them towards success in their careers so never underestimate the power of good communication and interpersonal skills.

As managers, we always need to be conscious about setting an example for our team members. Learning to better communicate and interact with people will be tremendously helpful in doing so. Good communication within the team paves the way for listening to and understanding each other, avoiding misunderstandings, and creating a fun environment to work in. And when people enjoy their work environment the possibilities are endless.

RGI Learning offers workshops in conflict resolution and communicatons skills.

Please email me at LisaM@rgilearning.com with questions or comments for a future article. Online instruction on how to write effective reports and proposals is available at www.rgilearning. com.

© 2014, RGI Learning Lisa Moretto is the President of RGI Learning, Inc. For 20 years she has helped engineers improve their oral and written communication skills. Visit www.rgilearning.com or call (866) 744-3032 to learn about RGI’s courses.

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Cover Article: Engineers Must Engage the Public on Climate Change, Continued...

Protocol being the prime example).

Carbon fee-and-dividend is simple and can be implemented without increasing the size of government or a grand international agreement.

It just needs bold leadership from a key nation willing to pressure the global marketplace. Fee-and-dividend is effective, because there is a clear, simple price signal that individuals and business alike can use for financial planning and purchasing decisions. Increased fossil fuel prices will drive energy efficiency gains and development of renewable energy sources. New and advanced technologies will be developed based on their cost-effective ability to reduce emissions, not because they have been selected and incentivized by a government program. Fee-and-dividend is a conservative, market-based policy that puts real money in people’s pockets and lets individuals decide how, if any, to alter their purchasing habits. The policy affects everyone, and is a form of progressive taxation (affecting the poor and middle classes the least, with about 60% of people paying less in added costs compared to their dividend payment).7 The fairness and transparency of a 100% emissions tax makes it more likely to be supported and less likely for legislation to be quickly overturned,. There are crucial border adjustments made when goods are sold to or purchased from countries that don’t implement similar policies, for economic competitiveness. China would quickly find it in their best interest to follow suit, leading countries all over the world to do the same or suffer real economic consequences.8 Fee-and-dividend is the way to go. Plenty of policy makers are already supportive and the word is getting out. In British Columbia, which implemented a carbon tax in 2008, fuel use has dropped 16%, compared to a 3% increase in the rest of Canada, without hurting the economy.9 Economic studies find that a revenue-neutral carbon tax implemented in the U.S. would both effectively reduce CO2 emissions and provide economic benefits, including millions of new jobs and higher GDP.10 Climate change is an urgent problem that threatens our very way of life.

Engineers can play an important role communicating with the public and business and political leaders, explaining the science and advocating for policy changes. Engineers will certainly be involved implementing the solutions – finding ways for businesses to operate with lower energy intensity and improving products to be more energy efficient. A revenueneutral carbon fee & dividend tax is a simple, market-based solution whose time has come. We can avoid the worst impacts of global warming, while transitioning to a more sustainable economy.

1. http://mashable.com/2014/06/18/poll-americans-favor-obama-climate-plan/ 2. http://www.skepticalscience.com/two-centuries-climate-science-1.html 3. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/8 4. http://www.skepticalscience.com/tcp.php?t=home 5. http://darp.lse.ac.uk/papersdb/Stern_(AER08).pdf 6. http://citizensclimatelobby.org/remi-report/ 7. Hansen, James. Storms of My Grandchildren. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2009.

8. http://www.carbontax.org/issues/carbon-tax-myths/ 9. http://skepticalscience.com/BCCarbonTax2.html 10. http://www.remi.com/carbon-tax-study

Bill Bishop is a Senior Energy Engineer at Pathfinder Engineers & Architects LLP, where he has been performing building energy modeling and energy audits for seven years. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager, and both an ASHRAE Building Energy Assessment and Modeling Professional. He can be reached at bbishop@pathfinder-ea.com, or at his blog, efficiencyofeffort.com.

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Position Openings

Airosmith Development is GROWING! We have an immediate need for a Project Manager WNY New York. The position will report to the President and be responsible for managing for a subset of site acquisition, leasing, zoning, and permitting activities related to utility infrastructure projects within a geographic footprint or region. These projects typically involve site development services to build or modify networks. Responsibilities will include project management, monthly forecasting and client development.

Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate: • • • •

Expertise and/or experience related to utility deployments.

Manage 50-100 sites depending on the project.

Have in-depth knowledge on all levels of the leasing, zoning, and permitting processes.

Understand internal and external expectations related to schedule, processes and quality.

Please sent your resume to Mona Samaan, VP of Operation msamaan@airosmithdevelopment.com

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Hunt Engineers, Architects & Land Surveyors, PC, has an opportunity available for an Electrical Engineer (EIT) in its Rochester, NY office. Position requires engineering and design experience with a focus on lighting, power distribution, fire alarm/security, energy efficiency, sustainability, and cost effective solutions. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to organize and present design information to clients, and collaborate with all other disciplines to create constructible designs.

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Familiar with AutoCAD, Revit, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and proficient knowledge of lighting and electrical calculation programs. The ideal candidate will have the ability to:

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Perform design functions including equipment selection, system sizing, load calculations, product specifications, and design layouts for electrical systems.

Be able to lead and influence the technical design solutions on prospective projects.

Incorporate a strong working knowledge of building and energy codes.

Prepare design documents for senior engineering and client review.

Team with and support cross-discipline colleagues per direction of project leads.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and 3 - 5 years of related experience is required.

LEED AP certification, or interest in gaining, a plus.

Email resume to: rusnackd@hunt-eas.com, or mail to: Dan Rusnack, PE, HUNT Engineers, 4 Commercial St., Ste 300, Rochester, NY 14614 or apply online at: www.hunt-eas.com. position openings

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The American Electric Utility: an Awakening Giant

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By Dr. Eric Hittinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology To this day, electric distribution utility companies have a reputation for being conservative, risk averse, and tied to the technologies and market structures of the past. While reasonable, this approach has limited the progress in alternative generation technologies, electricity demand response, efficiency investment, and a variety of other approaches to electricity service. However, change is coming for the electricity industry.

With support from regulators, policy makers, and customers, electric utilities are experimenting with new technologies and revenue streams. Electric companies are the experts of system operation and have the ability to borrow large amounts of capital at low rates. If utility companies discover real benefits to innovation, we could see a wave of utility-driven experimentation and significant changes to the way that we produce and consume electricity. Such a shift would be of tremendous value as society faces issues such as climate change, energy security, and an aging infrastructure.

All aspects of modern electricity markets are strongly affected by the creation of the “regulated vertically-integrated monopoly” structure established in the 1920s. Before this time, electricity was mainly unregulated, and fierce competition between diverse firms occurred (Hirsh, 2002). Recognized as a natural monopoly, regulated utilities were granted the exclusive right to sell power over a given service area and a guaranteed rate of return on investment in exchange for oversight by state regulators. This public utility model was wildly successful for decades. Utilities could invest for the long term, and banks were happy to lend to an entity that was guaranteed a profit and had no competition.

Regulators ensured that service was offered to all citizens, even those that the utility would prefer not to serve. Due to economies of scale and improving technology, electricity rates fell for decades and reliability improved. But long-term success produced stagnation and an inability to deal with change.

External forces changed the situation in the 1970s and 80s. Oil price shocks, environmental pressures, and general interest in deregulation of industry made academics

and policy makers question the wisdom of continuing the vertically-integrated structure. Since that time, most areas of the United States have deregulated their electricity systems, breaking apart generation, transmission, and distribution into separate entities and creating markets for electricity.

While this created competition on the generation side, most distribution companies operate much the same way as they have for decades. While deregulation was a big change for the industry, it has maintained two important limitations to innovation: the legal monopoly provided to distribution companies for the distribution of electricity and the “top down” model of electricity supply wherein electricity is produced by large generation companies and unidirectionally transported to consumers.

The risk aversion and lack of change in the electricity industry is partly caused by their legal and political environment. There is a tremendous pressure from the public, via regulators, to minimize costs, except those costs that are required to maintain service and reliability. Additionally, distribution companies often find that existing regulation that narrowly defines their activities (some of which was written fifty or more years ago to protect the utility) now limits their ability to offer new services or utilize new technologies.

Regardless of the specific causes of this stagnation, the effects are stark. The electricity industry spends less than 1% percent of sales revenue on research and development, one of the lowest rates of any industry (Jamasb & Pollitt, 2008). While many industries have been reshaped by the information revolution, the operations and equipment used to distribute electricity have changed very little in fifty years. Most residential customers in the US still have old fashioned electric meters that must be manually read by a utility employee (US Department of Energy, 2014). In a time when automobiles have iPhone apps and Bluetooth integration, the most detailed data that most customers can get about their energy use comes in a monthly bill.

Efforts to change the relationship between consumers and their electricity have often

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had to work around the utility. Selfgeneration of electricity, often done with solar photovoltaics, has become the domain of third-party companies. However, the utility has the money to install photovoltaics and the knowledge of where best to place them and how to integrate them. Independent firms are also at the forefront of efficiency investment.

Some of this work is resulting in actual energy savings far lower than claimed – in New York State, realized electricity-related energy savings in the Home Performance with Energy Star program was only 35% percent of projected savings (MEGDAL & ASSOCIATES, LLC, 2012). While there is nothing fundamentally wrong about outside parties offering these services, the electric utility already has the necessary knowledge, capital, and a trusted relationship with the customer.

Despite their history, electric companies are coming around. Excited by new smart grid technologies, empowered by new regulatory efforts, and catalyzed by passionate young people entering the industry, distribution companies are starting to reinvent themselves.

Many utilities are experimenting with demand response and real-time pricing programs, searching for a successful new structure. The rollout of smart electric meters continues, if slowly. Approximately 30% of the US has smart meters, which allow both the utility and customer to better understand electricity consumption patterns. Smart meters also enable real-time pricing of electricity, allowing customers to participate in electricity markets and shift their consumption patterns to reduce their total bill.

Demand response programs, where customers change their consumption in response to varying prices or other incentives, have been successfully used for decades with industrial customers. But engaging with residential customers is more difficult. The most feature article

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established method for residential engagement is direct load control, where the utility has direct control over a customer's device (normally the air conditioning). The utility offers the customer a discount on electricity in exchange for the right to turn off the load a few times each year. Florida Light and Power has operated a successful direct load control program, with about one million participating homes, for over twenty years (Houseman, 2009).

It will also give utilities a new class of asset with which to experiment.

And here in New York, the Public Service Commission is working on an entirely new set of guidelines for electric utilities, called Reforming the Energy Vision (New York State Public Service Comission, 2014).

This plan, currently in draft form, would require utilities to offer realtime price data to customers and to charge or pay customers based on the true cost or benefits of their activities. This allows utilities to open up sub-markets for electricity services, paying for things like the value of photovoltaics reducing peak load or deferring the charging of an electric car until the middle of the night.

In some cases, regulators are requiring utilities to act. In others, utilities are taking the lead. These trends could result in real change in the way electricity is consumed – the first real change in one hundred years.

Figure 1: Smart meter deployments have been increasing rapidly, thanks in part to the Smart Grid Investment Grant program under the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009. There are more than 40 million residential smart meters in the US. However, this is only about 30% of the 132 million US households. (US Department of Energy, 2014) Smart meters coupled with real-time prices enable more complex residential demand response. While engineers and technology-focused consumers may happily make direct changes in consumption patterns, most customers want some technological assistance. This may come via text message alerts to the customer's phone, but the more interesting approach is to have smart appliances that communicate with the electric company and automatically reduce or defer electricity use until less expensive periods. Under this system, your refrigerator's defrost cycle and your dryer's startup would be delayed until the very low electricity prices in the middle of the night.

But these advanced technologies are not needed to achieve savings.

As consumers, we have very little feedback on our consumption of electricity. We get a monthly bill, but don't know what devices are using the electricity and when they are using it and this leads to poor decision-making. A grocery store provides a useful analogy: imagine if Wegmans neither displayed prices on the items at the store nor at checkout but instead just sent you a monthly bill showing the total cost of all your purchases. It would be impossible to make informed comparisons and grocery bills would inevitably increase. While this is the status quo in electricity, smart meters enable real customer feedback.

Research has found that merely providing consumers with data describing their real-time electricity use can reduce total consumption by 7% (Faruqui, Sergici, & Sharif, 2010).

Other policy efforts are driving change in utility distribution. In California, the State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 2514, allowing the Public Utility Commission to mandate that electric utilities install 1,300 MW of energy storage in the state by 2020 (California Public Utilities Commission, 2013). This energy storage will likely be in the form of distributed storage, at the sub-station level or below, used to optimize grid operation and defer installation of new transmission lines. feature article

Utilities have attempted to remain invisible to consumers, but consumers are increasingly looking for control and information about their lives. I imagine a future where the utility becomes a partner, enabling the needs and desires of the customers. In the future, the electric company may automatically analyze your energy use patterns and make suggestion on prudent efficiency investments. Or perhaps they skip that step entirely and directly offer you the energy services that you want rather than electricity supply -for example, offering air conditioning as a service. Whether that happens, the critical point is that the electric utility company is our gateway to the grid and has the knowledge and resources to enact real change. And it appears that this long-slumbering giant may finally be awakening.

Works Cited

California Public Utilities Commission. (2013, October 17). Order Instituting Rulemaking Pursuant to Assembly Bill 2514 to Consider the Adoption of Procurement Targets for Viable and Cost-Effective Energy Storage Systems.

Retrieved from Southern California Edison: https://www.sce.com/wps/wcm/ connect/435ea164-60d5-433f-90bc-b76119ede661/R1012007_StorageOIR_ D1310040_AdoptingEnergyStorageProcurementFrameworkandDesignProgram. pdf?MOD=AJPERES Faruqui, A., Sergici, S., & Sharif, A. (2010). The impact of informational feedback on energy consumption—A survey of the experimental evidence.

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LaBella Associates Announces Two New Offices Expansion in Ohio and North Carolina

LaBella Associates announces the opening of two new offices, bringing the firm’s presence to a total of thirteen locations in the United States and Spain.

our healthcare studio,” Healy said. “We look forward to offering LaBella’s full-service approach with local personnel as our Cleveland practice develops.”

The new Cleveland, Ohio office opened for business October 1, 2014, and is the firm’s first location in the state of Ohio. Initially the office will offer architecture and interior design services, with a focus on healthcare design. “Our healthcare practice in New York has steadily grown,” President Robert A. Healy said. “Our Cleveland office will allow us to expand services to additional healthcare systems in both New York and Ohio.” The new office will be regionally managed by Matthew Metyk, a project manager with over 15 years of healthcare design experience. His work can be seen at the Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth, and University Hospitals of Cleveland, among others. “Matt’s expertise will be a tremendous asset to the continued growth of

LaBella’s North Carolina service area has been expanded by the acquisition of Roger Layman Architecture, an architectural practice headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina. Focusing on commercial projects, RLA’s team of architects and interior designers will be the foundation of the new Davidson office. “Roger’s built a successful practice for over a decade because he embodies LaBella’s commitment to long-term client relationships,” Healy said. “His decision to join the LaBella team will provide new opportunities to our growing presence in North Carolina.” q

SWBR Architects Named in Top 300 Architecture Firms List -Rochester-Based Firm Ranked 197 on National List Based on Revenue SWBR Architects announced it has been named on the Top 300 Architecture Firms list by Architectural Record. The list ranks the top 300 architecture firms throughout the United States based on annual revenue for architectural services performed in 2013. There are approximately 22,000 architecture firms throughout the United States.

In 2013, SWBR Architects secured a total of $11,990,000 in total architectural revenue, ranking the firm 197th in the country. The firm’s design revenue totaled $12,380,000. Architectural projects accounted for 97 percent of design revenue.

Data for the list is collected by McGraw Hill Construction’s Research and Analytics group. The top three architecture firms on the list were Gensler in San Francisco, CH2M Hill in Englewood, Colorado, and AECOM Technology Corp. in Los Angeles, California.

SWBR Architects has completed award-winning projects throughout the Northeast and the Rochester region including Rochester Institute of Technology’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability, DePaul Riverside Apartments, Baptist Health Assisted Living and Nazareth College Peckham Hall’s Integrated Center for Math and Science. q News From Professional Firms, continued on page 22...

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Campus News RIT student attempts ‘longest motorized bicycle journey’ for Guinness World Record Troy Rank rode his electric bike across the U.S.—logging 4,400 miles in 30 days Troy Rank spent the month of August on his electric bicycle, riding 25 miles per hour, logging 150 to 200 miles a day, in an attempt to beat the Guinness World Record for “longest motorized bicycle journey.”

During his round trip—from his hometown in Walworth, N.Y., to Boulder, Colo., and back— Rank logged in 4,400 miles in 30 days, breaking the previous 4,200-mile record accomplished in several months’ time.

The Rochester Institute of Technology graduate student, who is completing an MS degree in entrepreneurship at Saunders College of Business, said the entire travel cost for electricity was, believe it or not, just under $20.

“I stopped at gas stations and got permission to use electricity located behind soda or ice machines; the battery pack costs about 15 cents to recharge,” said Rank, who earned an engineering degree from Clarkson University in 2007 and works as a systems engineer for GE-MDS in Rochester. “I stayed at state parks along the way and it was a self-sufficient, fully unsupported solo trip; I had no backup of transportation with a tech crew following my progress.”

According to Rank, eligibility for the Guinness World Record requires several steps. “I had to have a GPS tracking system, a witness log where people would sign the date and location of places I stopped at, a daily video blog, and a daily personal log with logistics of the trip.”

Rank, who built his “e-bike” from scratch, claims he wasn’t sore because he rides his bicycle every day—rain, shine, snow—to work and to classes at RIT. As he explained, the bicycle is powered by a battery pack with a motor inside the rear wheel, and all you have to do is adjust the throttle on the handlebar to make it go. For his trip across the country, Rank used back roads and bike paths suitable for electric bikes. “The best part is you are in the moment; things aren’t just whizzing by—like they do in a car at 65 miles per hour. I saw some amazing landscapes because the trails off the highways force you to see how the country stitches together. It’s also where I encountered the kindness of strangers—people who helped me along the way and were excited to see me accomplish my personal goal.”

Rank submitted his completed data of his trip to Guinness World Records and said it will take a few months to review. In the meantime, he’d like to “raise awareness about electric bicycles and how efficient and useful they are.”

“If I had time I’d go all over the world, but I don’t know if my wife, Kerra, would like me gone for longer than a month—although she is my biggest supporter.” q

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LinkedIn Ranks RIT Among Best Colleges for Software Developers LinkedIn University Rankings show RIT software development grads land desirable jobs Rochester Institute of Technology is one of the top schools to study software development and land the job you want, according to new rankings from LinkedIn.

Software development is a major part of the computing discipline, needed in areas varying from computing security to game design and development.

RIT ranks 25th for how successful new graduates are at securing desirable software development jobs. The university also ranked 13th for recent graduates who land those desirable software development jobs at new startup companies.

“With RIT’s career focus, highlighted by required cooperative education experience, our students are prepared to be productive from the first day of work in software developer positions at established companies or start-ups,” said Jim Vallino, professor and chair of the Department of Software Engineering.

“We are always pleased when we get feedback highlighting the success of our graduates,” said Andrew Sears, dean of RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.

“Software development is a great example, since students from across the college pursue careers in this area.”

RIT’s interdisciplinary approach to software development stems from the Golisano Computing College, where all of the college’s 17 undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. degree programs incorporate software development into the curriculum.

LinkedIn, the business-oriented social networking service used mainly for professional networking, analyzed the employment patterns of more than 300 million LinkedIn members to find which schools are best at launching graduates into desirable jobs.

To find the top schools for software developers, LinkedIn University Rankings identified the top startups and companies where software developers are choosing to work. Next, they found people on the

website who work as software developers and identified where they went to school.

Finally, for each school they found the percentage of these alumni who have landed software development jobs at those startups and companies, and compared the percentages to come up with the list.

“It was particularly gratifying seeing RIT on the list for start-up companies, but I am not surprised given the number of graduates I have visited that are working for start-ups or starting their own successful companies,” Sears said.

To see the full list of “Best Schools for Software Developers,” go to linkedin.com/ edu/rankings/us/undergraduate-softwareengineering?trk=edu-cp-rank-cat.

To see the full list of “Best Schools for Software Developers at Startups,” go to linkedin.com/edu/rankings/us/ undergraduate-software-engineeringsmall?trk=edu-cp-rank-cat. q Campus News, continued on page 31...

What's News "Last Week Tonight" Features SWE Scolarship Progam More Than $3 Million Awarded To Date The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is proud to encourage more women to pursue rewarding careers in engineering through a host of scholarship opportunities. With a single application, traditional and returning engineering students can make their dreams a reality through the SWE Scholarship program. As mentioned on John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” on HBO September 21, SWE has awarded more than $700,000 in financial aid this year alone.

more than 1,000 women in pursuit of careers in engineering. Each year, SWE volunteer members review an ever-growing number of applications. The committee bestows financial aid upon women pursuing ABET-accredited baccalaureate or graduate programs in preparation for careers in engineering, engineering technology and computer science in the United States and Mexico. In 2014, SWE disbursed more than 230 new and renewed scholarships valued at more than $721,000.

“Our scholarship program is the backbone of our mission of providing a voice and a place for women in engineering,” said Karen Horting, SWE’s CEO and executive director. “Coupled with our professional development offerings, mentoring program and networking opportunities, we provide a powerful array of tools to help women excel in engineering.”

Freshman scholarship applications are accepted through May 15, and applications for sophomores through graduate students are due Feb. 15. To learn more about the program and eligibility requirements, visit SWE.org/Scholarships. The program is supported through grants, organizations and individuals. To contribute to the SWE scholarship fund, visit SWE.org/Donate. q

SWE has provided scholarships since its inception in 1950. In the last six years SWE has awarded more than $3 million to well campus news | what's news

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Rochester Firm Volunteers Services to the Charles Settlement House as Part of Company-Wide Community Service Day Nearly 5,500 Stantec employees volunteer in their communities across the globe.

Volunteers from Rochester design firm Stantec spent a day helping out at the Charles Settlement House, the only comprehensive human service provider centered in Northwest Rochester offering neighborhood-based programs for children, teens, families and seniors.

This effort was a part of Stantec in the Community Day, a firm-wide service day when nearly 5,500 Stantec employees volunteered in their communities around the world.

“This day of volunteering not only further supports Stantec’s commitment to community, but it also brings our team members together to make a coordinated, local impact,” says Stantec president and chief executive officer Bob Gomes. “Our employees have been serving their communities for decades, but bringing them together on one day like this just emphasizes what a difference we can make.”

The 23 Stantec volunteers served lunch, interacted with senior citizens and did yard work, on this second company-wide service day. Last year, volunteers helped clean up and clear the historic High Falls stone dust trail in preparation for its rehabilitation as an asphalt trail with a river view from its original industrial use as coal loading area.

“We love being a part of the community and take pride in supporting its

important service organizations,” says Stantec’s Malinda Gaskamp. “It’s particularly special knowing that the work of our volunteers is part of a greater effort by the Charles Settlement House to enrich the lives of folks living in Northwest Rochester. ” Some other examples of Stantec in the Community Day events around the world include: • In New York City, volunteers stripped and repainted a 140-year-old wrought-iron fence that surrounds Christopher Park in Greenwich Village.

• In Sarasota, Florida, employees planted wildflower seeds to help replenish the struggling wildflower ecology.

• In Thunder Bay, Ontario, the Stantec team painted a mural in the downtown that showcases the community.

• In Vancouver, BC, volunteers will be serving as the “sherpas” who accompany people with limited mobility to experience hiking trails.

Stantec’s over 90 Rochester employees regularly volunteer with the United Way, American Heart Association, and Open Door Mission, among others. The firm’s recent local work includes the Inner Loop East transformation and the Holy Rosary Housing infill project. q

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Continuing

Education Opportunities

Wednesday, November 5

Monroe Professional Engineers Society (MPES)

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Use of Seals in New York (How not to get in trouble with the office of professional discipline and others) 1 PDH Credit Speaker: John F. Liebschutz, Esq. Place: Valicia’s Ristorane, 2155 Long Pond Road, Greece, NY Time: 11:30 am Cost: $25 per person (includes buffet lunch). Check or cash at the door.

Reservations: Contact Joe Dombrowski by October 8th at 585-288-5590 or jdombrowski@meeengineering.com.

Wednesday, November 19

American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE)

Mixing Valves 1 PDH Credit Pending Speaker: Peter Gobis, Leonard Valve Place: Valicia’s Ristorante, 2155 Long Pond Road, Gates Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm.

Cost: $20 per person (no credit cards) Reservations: Contact Adam Kramer at 585-341-3163 or akramerrr@ibceng.com by November 14th.

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Monday, November 10

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

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Vibration Isolation for HVAC 1 PDH Approved Speaker: Richard Sherren, PE, Chief Product Engineer, Kinetics Noise Control Place: Mario’s Italian Steakhouse, 2740 Monroe Avenue, Rochester Time: 12:00 pm with buffet lunch served.

Cost: $25 Reservations: Contact Tim Duprey by noon, Thursday, November 6 to tduprey@rochester.rr.com.

Details and reservations available on the website at www.rochester.ashraechapters.org.

Project Management Institute (PMI)

The Voice of the Customer 1 PMP PDU Credit Speaker: Terry Callanan, Chief Quality Officer, Carestream Health Place: Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue, Rochester Time: 5:15 to 8:00 pm. Dinner provided. See website for menu choices.

Cost: $25 member, guests of members, $35 non-members.

Reservations and details at www.pmirochester.org.

To post continuing education opportunities on this page please contact the Rochester Engineering Society, 585-254-2350, or email: res@frontiernet.net.

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The engineering societies are encouraged to submit their meeting notices for publication in this section. The deadline for submitting copy is the 10th of the month prior to the month of publication. Please email to: res@frontiernet.net. The meetings offering PDHs are highlighted in blue. Details about the meeting and affiliate (if in this issue) are on the corresponding page listed next to the affiliate name.

Monday, November 3

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

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38th Annual IEEE EDS Activities in Western New York Conference – Measurement Technology Tour in the morning.

Topics & speakers: “Electronics on Anything,” by Prof. John Kymissis, Columbia University; “GaN-based Semiconductors for High-Efficiency Photonics and Electronics,” by Prof. Jing Zhang, RIT; and “Overview of Photovoltaic Research at Natcore,” by Dr. David Levy, Natcore Technology Location: CIMS Facility at RIT. Time: Tour in the morning, Technical presentations at 1:00 pm For information and to register for the event go to the website: http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/eme/EDSWNY

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Rochester Section Meeting Place: Hibachi Sushi Buffet Restaurant, South Town Plaza on Jefferson Road (Route 252), Jefferson Road, Rochester.

Time: 12:00 noon.

Comment: Any IEEE member is invited to attend and to participate, or just to observe. Lunch is $3 for IEEE member. No reservation or RSVP is needed, just show up.

Website: http://rochester.ieee.org.

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Wednesday, November 12

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Use of Seals in New York (How not to get in trouble with the office of professional discipline and others) 1 PDH Credit Speaker: John F. Liebschutz, Esq. Place: Valicia’s Ristorane, 2155 Long Pond Road, Greece, NY Time: 11:30 am Cost: $25 per person (includes buffet lunch). Check or cash at the door.

Reservations: Contact Joe Dombrowski by October 8th at 585-288-5590 or jdombrowski@meeengineering.com.

The Determination of Humidity Limits to Prevent Colorant Bleed in Inkjet Prints Speaker: Eugene Salesin & Daniel Burge, Image Permanence Institute, RIT Place: Room 1275 of the Carlson Center for Imaging Science, RIT Campus.

Time: 6:00 pm Comments: Everyone is welcome to attend. Parking is available in the F lot, just north of the building. No meeting reservations are required.

Friday, November 7

Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

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IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop (WNYISPW) - Workshop comprises of both oral and poster presentations. Keynote speaker topic: “Visual Signal Analysis and Compression: Focus on Texture Similarity” Keynote speaker: Prof. Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas of Northwestern University.

Place: Rochester Institute of Technology Website: http://rochester.ieee.org.

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Overview: Lighting Incentive Programs Speaker: Martin Fanaro, NYSERDA and representatives from RG&E and NYSEG Place: RIT Inn & Conference Center, 5257 West Henrietta Road, West Henrietta Time: 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Registration opens at 11:30 am Cost: $25 per person. Payment required at the door (cash, check or credit card).

Reservations: email to ceckert1@rochester.rr.com or call the IES office, 585-766-0329 by November 5th with your luncheon choice (Cheeseburger on Kaiser Roll, Grilled Chicken Sandwich, or Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken).

Monday, November 10

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) p43 American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Meet and Mingle at Genesee Brewery (Tour) Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) p33 Location: Genesee Brewery, 25 Cataract Street, Rochester Vibration Isolation for HVAC 1 PDH Approved Speaker: Richard Sherren, PE, Chief Product Engineer, Kinetics Noise Control Place: Mario’s Italian Steakhouse, 2740 Monroe Avenue, Rochester Time: 12:00 pm with buffet lunch served.

Cost: $25 Reservations: Contact Tim Duprey by noon, Thursday, November 6 to tduprey@rochester.rr.com.

Details and reservations available on the website at www.rochester.ashraechapters.org.

Tuesday, November 11

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Medium Voltage Splices & Terminations Place: Wishing Well Party House, 1190 Chili Avenue, Gates Time: Vendor Displays at 4:30; Presentation at 5:00 pm Guests welcome at $15 each!

Details at www.eawny.com.

Time: Tour from 4:00 to 5:00 pm; then networking while sampling the variety of products that Genesee Brewery produces from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. If you can’t make the tour, join for the tasting only.

Cost: Cost is $5/member, $10/non-member.

Register for the tour and tasting on the website under Events. www.swerochester.org.

Saturday, November 15

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

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Annual Dinner Meeting: Practical System Engineering Through Case Studies Across the Full Life Cycle Speaker: Thomas J. Barnard, PhD, worked at Lockheed Martin Place: Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center, 801 University Avenue, Syracuse Time: Refreshments at 5:00, Dinner at 6:30 pm, presentation to follow dinner.

Cost: $25 per person (non-members and spouses welcome) Reservations: Contact Rick Zinni by Thursday, November 4th (or earlier if possible), rzinni@gmail.com.

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Tuesday, December 2

Wednesday, November 19 American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE)

Mixing Valves 1 PDH Credit Pending Speaker: Peter Gobis, Leonard Valve Place: Valicia’s Ristorante, 2155 Long Pond Road, Gates Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm.

Cost: $20 per person (no credit cards) Reservations: Contact Adam Kramer at 585-341-3163 or akramerrr@ibceng.com by November 14th.

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ROC the Day for SWE SWE is participating for the third time to raise funds for the annual scholarship. Visit www.rocthday.org on 12-2-14 and select Society of Women Engineers Rochester Section to make a donation.

Monday, December 8

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Tour of Lakelands Concrete Products Inc. Place: Lakelands Concrete Products Inc., 7520 East Main Street, Lima Dinner: Avon Inn, 55 East Main Street, Avon Cost: $25 for Members; $30 for Non-members.

Time: Tour at 5:30 pm; Dinner about 7:00 pm (Dinner choices – please choose one – Chicken Cordon Bleu, Haddock w/White Wine Hollandaise, or Roast Sirloin) Reservations: Contact Craig Avalone, CHA by November 12th at CAvalone@chacompanies.com or 585-232-5610 ext. 287.

Speaker: Bob Cooney, Cooney Coil and Energy Place: Mario’s Italian Steakhouse, 2740 Monroe Avenue, Rochester Time: 12:00 pm with buffet lunch served.

Cost: $25 Reservations: Contact Tim Duprey by noon, Thursday, December 4th to tduprey@rochester.rr.com.

Details and reservations available on the website at www.rochester.ashraechapters.org.

Thursday, November 20

Tuesday, December 9

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association (GVLSA)

Saturday, November 22

Rochester Mini Maker Faire

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Monday, December 1 and December 8 p46

Computer Society/Computational Intelligence Society Meetings on Genetic Algorithms Speaker: Peter G. Anderson, RIT Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) Place: Golisano Hall, Room 70-3000, RIT Time: Pizza and drinks at 6:00; Presentation at 7:00 pm Website: http://rochester.ieee.org.

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1 PMP PDU Credit Speaker: Terry Callanan, Chief Quality Officer, Carestream Health Place: Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue, Rochester Time: 5:15 to 8:00 pm. Dinner provided. See website for menu choices.

Cost: $25 member, guests of members, $35 non-members.

Reservations and details at www.pmirochester.org.

Wednesday, December 10

This festival will celebrate those who love to make, create, learn, play, invent, craft, hack, build, think and be inspired by science, technology, engineering, arts, music, and crafts.

Details at www.makerfairerochester.com.

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Project Management Institute (PMI)

Board of Directors & General Membership Meeting – Open Discussion of the proposed new GVLSA Survey Standards & the Ongoing Strategic Planning Process of GVLSA and NYSAPLS Place: 40 & 8 Club, 933 University Avenue, Rochester Time: Board of Directors meeting at 6:00; General Membership Program at 7:00 pm Website: www.gvlsa.com

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ASCE Rochester Holiday Party – Honoring Edwin S. Anthony as ASCE 2014 Engineer of the Year Place: Rochester Club Ballroom, 120 East Avenue, Rochester Further details to be advertised via email and ascerochester.org.

The RES website (www.roceng.org) has a calendar of events for meetings that are received or updated after the deadline.

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What's News New Report Highlights Value of Solar Heating and Cooling With projected savings in some cases as high as $1.5 million, a new report released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) illustrates the benefits achieved by utilizing solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems for U.S. businesses and commercial buildings.

The first-of-its-kind report, which focuses on both energy and cost savings, was conducted with the help of the U.S. Solar Heating & Cooling Alliance, a division of SEIA. The report says that there are now more than 1,700 companies nationwide that specialize in solar heating and cooling technologies.

“From hotels to grocery stores to breweries, solar heating and cooling technology is proven to lower energy use and save money for America’s commercial buildings,” said Rhone Resch, SEIA president and CEO. “And not only can SHC improve businesses’ bottom lines, solar is a zeroemission, renewable resource that helps protect our environment. This important new study should be taken as a handbook for any commercial building owner or business with significant heating, cooling, or hot water use.”

The report, “Saving Money and Energy: Solar Heating & Cooling Is Paying Big Dividends for U.S. Businesses,” details dozens of examples of SHC applications, including a system installed last year on the Duffield Regional Jail in Duffield, Virginia, that is expected to save the county an estimated $1.5 million over the life of the project.

In another example, the owner of the NOMAD Aquatic Center in Huntersville, North Carolina, told researchers his bills had reached $12,000 a what's news

month before the installation of 269 solar collectors — the estimated return on investment (ROI) for that SHC system is just one year. At the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, water in guest rooms is heated with an SHC system as part of the hotel’s environmental initiatives. The 40-collector system offsets an estimated 40 metric tons of carbon emissions each year and has a four-year estimated ROI. Given that HVAC systems are major energy users — representing an estimated 35 percent of energy usage in commercial buildings — the potential benefits of SHC technology, both in terms of dollars saved and carbon emissions reduced, are substantial. The Solar Heating and Cooling Roadmap, released last year, found that investment in SHC could create 50,250 new American jobs and save more than $61 billion in future energy costs through the installation of 100 million new SHC solar panels nationwide.

“Today, approximately 44 percent of all American energy consumption nationwide is attributable to heating and cooling,” said Mike Healy, SHC Alliance chairman. “According to projections by BEAM Engineering, ramping up the installation of SHC systems across America would allow the U.S. to generate nearly 8 percent of its total heating and cooling needs through clean, affordable solar energy.

SHC is the most efficient renewable technology for generating thermal heat and costs are as low as 6 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh).”

For more information, visit www.seia.org.

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Professional Firms Employee News MRB Group's Clem Chung Recognized for Presentation Clement Chung, P.E., a project manager at MRB Group, was recently honored with a special invitation to attend the American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exposition, – ACE 14 –, held in Boston, MA, to display his presentation titled “Planning Around Critical Water System Component Downtime.”

After originally presenting his work in a peer-reviewed competition at the New York Rural Water Association’s 35th Annual Technical Conference in April, Chung was asked to also present at the NYS AWWA’s Water Event & Expo in May. At that event, Chung's presentation was selected through audience evaluation as "the best Young Professional presentation," and was chosen to represent the NYS AWWA at the national ACE14 held in June.

Chung's topic regarded the many lessons he says he learned while developing and executing a bypass operations plan when preparing for a Water Storage Improvement Project for the Village of Geneseo, New York.

"I was very excited to be chosen by the group and given the opportunity to go to Boston to talk about my project,” Chung said of the event. “Not only was it an honor to be selected, but the process reminded me how planning and teamwork between engineers and other community stakeholders are important components of successful projects," he said.

This is not the first time Chung's professional endeavors have received recognition. In 2012, Chung was honored by the Rochester Engineering Society for his personal achievement, receiving the Kate Gleason Award naming him Young Engineer of the Year. The award was partly in recognition of the many professional and community organizations to which Chung has tirelessly committed his time.

As a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers for over ten years, Chung has held a number of leadership positions, including serving on the Board of Directors for 28 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | NOVEMBER 2014

the Rochester Section, and as Chair of the Committee for Younger Members, which represents more than 21,000 young civil engineers around the world. Chung is also the Advisory Committee Chair for the Rochester City Coalition, a collaboration of over 40 young professional groups in Rochester, as well as serving on the Steering Committee for the Finger Lakes STEM Hub, which advocates for more effective science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in the nine county area.

"I'm grateful to MRB Group for the continued support of my efforts," Chung said. "The firm recognizes how investing in young professionals fosters advancement, raising the bar for all professional engineers." Chung believes engineers can contribute to society with more than just technical achievements. "We have the power to effect change - and make the world a better place," he said.

Chung has worked for MRB Group as part of the firm's professional staff for five years. The firm specializes in supporting public and private sector clients with engineering and architecture, and has served the Rochester area since 1927, originating with the engineering and surveying firm of Meloy Smith Engineers.

Today, MRB Group is supported by more than 50 professional and engineering staff members located across the state, providing expertise in municipal services and managing public assets such as water and distribution systems, wastewater treatment and collection systems, and municipal infrastructure communities depend upon daily. q

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Teresa Buechel Hired as Building Information Modeling Designer at Erdman Anthony Teresa Buechel was recently hired as a Building Information Modeling (BIM) designer in the facilities engineering and design group in the Rochester office of Erdman Anthony.

Buechel is a graduate of SUNY Alfred State College with degrees in both architecture and interior design.

In addition, she has recent experience as a project assistant with a regional electrical contractor. In her new role, she will utilize this mix of education and experience to support the firm's scan-to-BIM services.

Erdman Anthony regularly provides building modeling services for internal and external clients, and Buechel’s addition will allow the firm to continue to provide this diverse range of quality infrastructure solutions to its clients. q Teresa Buechel

Passero Welcomes Steven Trobe and Promotes David Cox Passero's architecture department welcomes Steven Trobe, RA as senior project architect. Steve is a Licensed Professional Architect in New York and New Jersey with over 30 years of architectural design expertise for various types of projects including K-12, college and university, general construction, design-build, and new and renovation projects. Steve is also experienced in the areas of master planning, feasibility studies, conceptual Steven Trobe, RA designs, space planning, programming, budgeting, consultant selection and management, design management and construction management for multiple clients, and for large design and construction ventures. He holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University, and has served as president of Graywood Design since 2007. The firm is pleased to have Steve aboard and we look forward to the opportunities that his experience and contacts in the education market present.

Passero also announces the promotion of David Cox, PE from the position of project engineer to project manager in the civil engineering department.

He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York and Pennsylvania. For the past four years at the firm, Dave has worked on a wide-range of highprofile and award-winning projects, including residential, mixed-use, and institutional projects. In addition to his development as an engineer and David Cox, PE project manager, Dave is pursuing his MBA to further enhance his strategic business management and leadership skills. Dave serves as a teacher and mentor to developing engineers. He is well-respected by his colleagues and clients alike, and is an eight-time recipient of the Passero Associates Cornerstone Award, seven of which he received for Exceptional Client Service. q

Hunt Elects New Officers to Board of Directors Hunt Engineers, Architects & Land Surveyors, PC (HUNT) announced the election of two officers to its Corporate Board of Directors.

Firm principal Christopher Bond, PE, was elected Vice President, and principal Darin Rathbun, PE, was chosen as Corporate Secretary.

Christopher Bond, PE

“Both of these professionals serve key roles in ongoing projects and the future direction of HUNT,” said company President Dan Bower.

Bond joined HUNT in 1988 and currently is the director of structural engineering. He also leads the company’s Professional Council (PC), the leadership group that manages workload and professional operations of the firm. His professional work has covered bridges and building structural work for several core professional firms employee news

HUNT clients. He is secretary of the Board of Directors for the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC NY) and is acting chair of the Planning Board for the Village of Watkins Glen.

Rathbun joined HUNT in 2000 and is the office manager for the Towanda, PA, office. He is also a structural engineer and has led many project teams for industrial, educational Darin Rathbun, PE and private projects. This work has included forensic engineering, where structural problems are suspected, emergency response for structure failures and the demolition of structures with connections to adjacent facilities. q Professional Firms Employees News, continued on page 30...

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Professional Firms Employee News SmartEdge Announces Additional Staff Members

SmartEdge also announced that David Malinowski has joined our company as a project manager in our Tonawanda, New York office.

SmartEdge announced that Danny Friend has joined our company as the general manager of the Energy & Commissioning Group in our Tonawanda, New York office.

Dan comes to SmartEdge after a very successful career in the Energy & Building Automation Industry during which time he has held multiple Danny Friend senior-level positions, such as branch manager, systems branch manager, and Regional energy performance contracting manager.

Dan has a BS degree in engineering and management from Clarkson University.

David Malinowski

Dave has over 27 years of experience in the field of HVAC and includes working at local major mechanical contractors, serving as a project manager. Dave has managed various design-build and Bid-Spec projects across the State of New York.

Dave is a graduate of Lewiston Porter High School and has an AAS in electro-mechanical drafting from Alfred State College. q

SWBR Architects Hires Interior Designer SWBR Architects, a Rochester, New York-based firm, recently announced the addition of certified and award-winning interior designer Corina Folts, CID, NCIDQ, as an interior designer.

As one of SWBR’s interior designers, Folts is responsible for finish and furniture material selections for SWBR’s clients. She will be involved in all phases of design, conducting product research, estimating, managing schedules, applying code reviews and presenting interior design recommendations.

Corina Folts, CID, NCIDQ

Folts is a certified interior designer by the University of the State of New York Education Department, as well as the National Council for Interior Design Qualification. In addition, she is the recipient of several designrelated awards.

Folts received a bachelor of science in interior design from the University of Pittsburgh. q

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Campus News Grapes of Wrath’: Stomping out grape disease one vineyard at a time Genetic profile of grape crown gall disease could increase crop production Cracking the genetic code of a common disease affecting grape production could improve vineyard management and help protect the multibillion-dollar industry that includes raisins, juice, jam/jelly, fresh grapes, grape-seed extract and oil, vinegar and wine.

A Rochester Institute of Technology scientist and an RIT alumnus are close to completing the genetic blueprint, or microbiome, of grape crown gall tumor disease—the bane of vineyards worldwide. Their study focuses on 16 grape varieties, including Cabernet Sauvignon and Riesling, from vineyards in the New York Finger Lakes Region, Cornell University’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., and Missouri. Grape varieties Muscat Ottonel, Vitroblack and Muscat of Alexandria were also sampled from vineyards in Hungary, Tunisia and Japan, respectively.

According to the Congressional Wine Caucus, a coalition of U.S. representatives and senators, the U.S. wine, grape and grape products industries yielded more than $162 billion annually to the U.S. economy in 2007. More recently, in February, the New York Wine and Grape Foundation reported a $4.8 billion economic impact on New York state, based on 2012 data.

“We are about six months away from having the data to completely describe the bacterial microbiome of grapevine tumors,” said Michael Savka, professor of biological sciences in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences at RIT, and organizer and contributor of the international study. “By understanding the microbial composition of the diseased state on and in the grapevine crown gall tumor, we can begin to formulate informed biological control treatments—better mixtures of protective bacterial species—to reduce the infection that leads to the development of crown gall tumors in vineyards.”

The total environmental DNA of grape crown gall tumor disease is revealed in the genetic profile based on 52 tissue samples of crown gall tumor taken from 16 grapevine species. The infected grape species were grown in five geographical locations and on four different continents, including North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. A complete ecological understanding of the microbial

population associated with Agrobacterium vitis could improve disease management and crop production of all varieties of grapes, Savka said.

Grape crown gall is a chronic disease that lacks effective treatment and is difficult to eradicate. Bacteria enter the vine through grafts or wounds and spread through the plant’s vascular tissue. The systemic infection develops into swollen knots, or galls, that starve the plant of water and nutrients necessary for proper growth and development.

The sometimes-latent disease can kill vineyards, stress mature vines and persist in soil and in decaying plant matter for years.

Central to the study are the contributions of Savka’s collaborator and former student, Han Ming Gan, research fellow at Monash University Malaysia and a 2008 RIT biotechnology alumnus. Gan, an expert in next-generation DNA sequencing platforms, developed a technical approach that separates DNA of bacteria from close relatives in the archaea—a group of single-celled microorganisms—from plant cell DNA. He identified a core microbiome common to all 52 sampled tumors that consists of three different species of Agrobacterium, one species of Erwinia and Novosphingbium, and one member from Enterobacteriaceae and Microbacteriaceae.

“Now that we have defined the core microbiome of crown gall tumor, the next step would be to predict the role the other non-Agrobacterium strains in the crown gall based on their identity,” Gan said.

The team is also assessing whether differences exist in climate, grape cultivar and in tumor type. Additional samples have been collected this year in Hungary and Tunisia, Savka noted.

Findings from the study were published as part of the proceedings of the American Society for Microbiology 2014 meeting in Boston.

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What's News Rochester Mini Maker Faire Invitation I am one of the co-chairs for the Rochester Mini Maker Faire. As I grew up attending the E3 Engineering Fair at RIT for many years, I would like to invite you to attend the inaugural Rochester Mini Maker Faire.

The Faire is scheduled for Saturday November 22, 2014 from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

The festival will celebrate those who love to make, create, learn, play, invent, craft, hack, build, think and be inspired by science, technology, engineering, arts, music, and crafts.

There will be over 75 Makers and thousands of attendees of all ages attending the faire. The day will be filled with exciting exhibitions, demonstrations, and hands-on activities for all ages. In addition, there will be interesting presentations, speakers, live music, and visual and performing arts.

Tickets for the event can be found online or purchased at the door: https://rochesterminimakerfaire. eventbrite.com Please feel free to contact me with any questions about the Faire.

Hope to see you there!

Keep on Making, Dan Schneiderman, Co-Chair 585-478-6898 @rochmakerfaire www.makerfairerochester.com

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American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: www.rochester.ashraechapters.org President's Message: Fall is officially upon us. At our lunch meeting on October 6th Mr. Bob Bechtold, HARBEC Plastics presented on the subject of Sustainability, Cogen Energy, Economics of Energy in Manufacturing and Challenges of Delivering Energy Across Lot Boundary Lines.

This meeting was very well received and enjoyed by all who attended.

Thank you Bob for the excellent program content and presentation.

Mark Kukla our Rochester Chapter Publicity Chair had the following statement regarding the presentation: “Everyone really enjoyed your presentation yesterday at Mario’s. The work that you have done in the last fifteen years to move sustainable manufacturing forward is incredible. I just think that if more people did what you are doing, our country would be in a lot better shape. I will bet that some people will move in that direction after yesterday’s presentation.”

During this meeting I also had the honor of presenting Mr. Dave Porter, Bergman Engineering with a regional technology award. This award was chosen from multiple submissions from within ASHRAE Region I. The project submitted was Green Data Center Free Air Design and Heat Recovery System at RIT. Highlights of Dave’s award winning design included: Decrease in energy demand; Increase of heat transfer to adjacent labs; Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; and, Improvement of indoor air quality when compared to traditional data center design.

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November ASHRAE Meeting (1 PDH Approved) Monday, November 10, 2014 Location: Mario’s Italian Steakhouse 2740 Monroe Avenue, Rochester Time:

12:00 PM with Buffet Lunch Served

Cost:

$25.00

Speaker: Mr. Richard Sherren, PE, Chief Product Engineer Kinetics Noise Control Topic: Vibration Isolation for HVAC Please RSVP by noon Thursday, November 6th to Tim Duprey, tduprey@rochester.rr.com.

Reservations: www.rochester.ashraechapters.org

Also at this meeting we had attendance from our student chapter at MCC. I would like to thank Bill Horton from MCC and Chris Lukasiewicz our Student Activities Director for coming up with some exciting new opportunities for our student members.

This year the Rochester ASHRAE chapter has been invited to participate as a sponsor in the Finger Lakes First LEGO League Challenge. This exciting program encourages children to engage in team work, science, and technology, and compete against teams throughout our region. We have also been invited to participate in a program that the Seneca Waterways Explorers Council is interested in starting this year, an engineering competition at the high school level, where kids can come and learn about some aspect of engineering and different professions in the area. If you are interested in volunteering at either of these events please contact Ed Burns.

Are you planning on attending this year’s ASHRAE 2015 Winter Conference in Chicago, January 24th28th? Chicago also serves as the site of the AHR Expo, January 26th-28th, co-sponsored by ASHRAE and held in conjunction with the Winter Conference. It’s not too early to plan your trip if you are planning to attend.

Do you know someone or does your firm have an intern that may be considering an ASHRAE scholarship?

ASHRAE is currently accepting applications for 8 regional/chapter and university-specific scholarships and 12 undergraduate engineering scholarships. Through its scholarships, ASHRAE seeks to motivate students and prospective students worldwide to pursue an engineering or technology career in the HVAC&R field. The Society’s Scholarship Program also serves the public interest by aiding in the education of men and women to become qualified to practice as engineers in HVAC&R. ASHRAE is seeking your assistance in making student members aware of this financial assistance.

Isolation - HVAC Noise and Vibration Control presented by Mr. Dick Sherren Kinetics Noise.

Thank you to Chris Walter, our Chapter president-elect and program chair, for the excellent work in preparing this year’s program topics and content. I have to say the program content presented at our Clambake, and the program presented recently at our October meeting, have been excellent. If you have not yet been able to join us at a meeting this year please consider joining us as the presentations have been outstanding. Details are on the ASHRAE website, and I hope to see you all there.

Please check out our chapter website at www.rochester.ashraechapters.org or if facebook is your preferred method of communication take a moment to “like” us www.facebook.com/#!/ ashraerochester.

Our November lunch meeting will take place November 10th at Mario’s on Monroe Avenue. The program topic will be Vibration Edward J. Burns, Rochester ASHRAE President

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International Council on Systems Engineering www.incose/org/flc

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Rochester Section

American Society of Civil Engineers www.asce.org Board Editorial

By Katherine C. Dugan, PE, M.ASCE, Rochester Section Vice President

ASCE Rochester Holiday Party

Enjoy an evening of fine dining and socializing with your engineering colleagues as we honor the

2014 Engineer of the Year - Edwin S. Anthony

Date: December 10, 2014 Location: Rochester Club Ballroom, 120 East Avenue Further details to be advertised via email and ascerochester.org.

NYS Bridges Presentation Highlights Critical Need for Infrastructure Funding Over 50 civil engineering professionals and students were present to hear a discussion of “The State of New York Bridges” by NYSDOT Deputy Chief Engineer of Structures Richard Marchione, P.E. as part of our October Meeting. He explained current bridge rating standards and reviewed the statistics of bridges across New York State and the vital importance of proper funding.

ASCE Government Relations is the advocacy arm for ASCE and works to achieve a favorable Richard Marchione P.E., explains Work Types associated with New policy environment for the betterment of the civil engineering profession and the nation’s infrastructure. York bridge ratings ASCE members are encouraged to play an active role in that mission. Read more about effectively influencing your elected officials at http://www.asce.org/GovernmentRelations/Key-Contact-Program/Key-Contact-Program/.

RMSC Holiday Science and Technology Days

ASCE Rochester Civil Engineering Scholarship Award

Once again we will be hosting a hands-on booth at the Holiday Science and Technology Days at the Rochester Museum and Science Center and are looking for volunteers to help show inquisitive youngsters what civil engineering is all about! Tentative dates are December 29th and 30th from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day.

Please consider donating a few hours over the holidays to help out at the booth during one (or more) of these times. For more information please contact Bill VanAlst at 585-272-7310 or wvanalst@larsen-engineers.com.

Do you know a deserving college sophomore, junior or senior in a Civil Engineering program? The Rochester Section will again be offering our annual scholarship to candidates who exemplify scholastic achievement, personal merit and extracurricular leadership. All applicants must be studying in an A.B.E.T. approved program of Civil Engineering or Civil Engineering Technology and must either be a resident of New York State or a non-resident studying in New York State.

For more information please contact Rick Bennett at Rbennett@fisherassoc.com.

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Association for Facilities Engineering 2014/15 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Josh Murray R L Stone Co. Inc. (585) 203-1222 joshm@rl-stone.com VICE PRESIDENT Matthew Knights Ultrafab Inc. (585) 924-2186 ext. 221 mknights@ultrafab.com SECRETARY Frank St. George J.T. Mauro Co. (585) 210-4491 fstgeorge@jtmauro.com TREASURER Craig Avalone CHA Companies (585) 232-5610 CAvalone@chacompanies.com ASSISTANT TREASURER Dennis Roote CDE Engineering & Environment, PLLC (585) 330-6986 dennis.roote@cde-pllc.com IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Dan Friday YMCA of Greater Rochester (585) 341-3121 danf@rochesterymca.org DELEGATE DIRECTORS Joseph R. Graves – RMSC Fred Schreiner – Buckpitt and Co. Mark Ramsdell – Haley & Aldrich CHAPTER HISTORIAN Joe Dioguardi – MicroMod CHAIRMAN, EDUCATION COMMITTEE Thomas Coburn The Gleason Works (585) 461-8073 tcoburn@gleason.com CHAIRMAN, COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE Bryan D. Stalk Crosby-Brownlie, Inc. (585) 325-1290 bstalk@crosbybrownlie.com CHAIRMAN, MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Kurt Finkbeiner (585) 671-7771 kfinkbeiner@rochester.rr.com

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November 2014 Meeting Notice Date/Time: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 – 5:30 p.m.

Tour: Lakelands Concrete Products Inc. Lakelands Concrete Products specializes in Architectural Precast Concrete. Whether you are looking for versa-set utility buildings, retaining walls, electrical products or septic systems we have what you need. Many of our utility products are in stock!

Directions: (7520 East Main Street, Lima, NY 14485) From Rochester: Take I-390 South 21.3 mi Take exit #10/US-20/RT-5/Avon/Lima toward US-20/RT-5/Avon 0.2 mi Turn left (east) onto Avon-Lima Rd (US-20) 4.4 mi Arrive at 7520 E Main St (US-20).

Dinner: Avon Inn (55 East Main St, Avon, NY 14414) Dinner Selections (Please choose one): • Chicken Cordon Bleu • Haddock w/ White Wine Hollandaise • Roast Sirloin

Directions to Dinner (from Lakeland Concrete): Take E. Main St. (Lima, Rt. 5 & 20) west bound, and proceed approximately 7 miles into the village of Avon.

You are now on East Main Street (Avon). Avon Inn is located on the left hand side at 55 East Main St. just before the traffic circle.

Cost: Members - $25

Non Member - $30

Please RSVP by November 12th to: Craig Avalone CHA Companies (585) 232-5610 CAvalone@chacompanies.com

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Monroe Professional Engineers Society

A Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607 Dedicated to Professionalism in Engineering in the Interest of Public Safety and Welfare www.monroepe.org

2014-15 Officers: President Joe Dombrowski, PE, President-elect Chris Devries, PE, Treasurer Neal Illenberg, PE, Membership Chair Joe Dombrowski, PE

Frequent readers of this column have seen variations on the following before: The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) is a co-sponsor of MATHCOUNTS. This program stimulates America's 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and teachers to excel in math, and recognizes and rewards them for achievement.

Analogous to a school athletics program, MATHCOUNTS volunteers coach "mathletes" throughout the fall at the school level to compete as individuals and teams at the chapter, state, and national level. At the competitions, students are challenged by math problems they would never experience in the classroom. Since its inception in 1983, over three million students have participated in MATHCOUNTS. Volunteers from the Monroe Professional Engineers Society (MPES) administer the annual local competition to be held annually the first Saturday in February at RIT. Each year, several teams from local junior high schools participated. The top three teams advanced to the state competition. Volunteers are needed for the local one-day competition; please contact William McCormick, P.E. at (585) 427-8888.

Now, an additional request: Bill has been behind the scenes at MATHCOUNTS for the past 15 years, and we thank him for his service. Bill would like to have an understudy this year and bow out next year; thus we are looking for a volunteer to fill his shoes. If you can assist, please contact Bill at the number above or contact me at the number or email below. Support is guaranteed from the MPES as well as our undying gratitude.

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An ethics based course, worth 1 NYS PE PDH, qualifies for the Ethics-based PDH requirement.

Date: November 5, 2014 Title: "Use of Seals in New York (How not to get trouble with the office of professional discipline and others," Presented by: John F. Liebschutz, ESQ. at 11:30 am at Valicia's Ristorante, 2155 Long Pond Road, Rochester NY. Cost: $25 each (includes buffet lunch); payable by cash or check at the door.

Contact: Joe Dombrowski at (585) 288-5590 or jdombrowski@menngineering.com for reservations at least one week in advance.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact me or any other board member with any questions.

Joe Dombrowski, P.E., President jdombrowski@meengineering.com

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American Society of Plumbing Engineers www.aspe.org President: ALAN SMITH, P.E. IBC Engineering, P.C. 3445 Winton Place, Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Technical: ADAM KRAMER IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Legislative: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E. Clark Patterson Lee 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Vice President Membership: DOUG MEIER Twin”D” Associates 1577 Ridge Road West Suite 116B Rochester, NY 14615 585-581-2170 Treasurer: TERRY BROWN, CPD M/E Engineering, PC 150 North Chestnut Street Rochester, NY 14604 585-288-5590 Administrative Secretary: ED YELIN, PE, CPD Erdman Anthony and Associates 146 Culver Road, Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14620 585-427-8888 Education Chairman: ROBERT J. WIND JR., P.E. Harris Corporation Rochester, NY Newsletter Editor: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110 Affiliate Liaison: ADAM FRENZEL Empire State Associates 181 Bay Village Drive Rochester, NY 14609 585-602-0271

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President's Message The 2014 Convention is now in the history books. We thank the past Society President, Bill Hughes, for his service and leadership and welcome the new Society President, Mitch Clemente. We also wish Executive Director, Jim Kendzel, best wishes with his future endeavors. Jim has resigned from his position and a search for a new Executive Director has begun.

Several By-Laws were amended at the ASPE Convention in October. One By-Law change that will have a positive impact to all Chapters is that any member in good standing may hold a Chapter office. Previously the Chapter President, VP Technical and VP Legislative had to be Full Members.

A number of local vendors and manufacturer’s representatives were in attendance at the two day Expo that followed the Convention. We thank those that went to Chicago and appreciate your support.

Alan Smith, P.E.

Rochester Chapter President

Meeting Notice – Save the Date Topic: Mixing Valves Speaker: Peter Gobis, Leonard Valve

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Time: 12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m.

Place: Valicia’s Ristorante, 2155 Long Pond Rd., Rochester 14606 (just north of Route 31, Gates) Credit: PDH Approval Pending (call or e-mail for confirmation after November 14th)

Cost: $20.00 (member or guest), check or cash at door.

RSVP: To Adam Kramer (585-341-3163) or akramer@ibceng.com

by November 14th.

Future meetings: December 17th (Wed.), January 21st (Wed.) (Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society)

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Illuminating Engineering Society - Rochester Chapter P.O. Box 23795, Rochester, NY 14692 585-7766-0329 - www..ies-rochester.org

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Rochester Chapter

Society for Imaging Science and Technology Website: http://rochesterengineeringsociety.wildeapricot.org/ISandT Save the Dates: 2014-15 Meeting Schedule December 10, 2014 January 14, 2015 February 11, 2015 March 18, 2015 April 15, 2015 May 13, 2015

Our meetings are held at 6:00 pm in Room 1275 of the Carlson Center for Imaging Science on the RIT campus.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Parking is available in the F lot, just north of the building. No meeting reservations are required.

November IS&T Meeting - Wednesday, November 12, 2014 The Determination of Humidity Limits to Prevent Colorant Bleed in Inkjet Prints

by Eugene Salesin and Daniel Burge, Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology Abstract: The purpose of the project was to determine the absolute ceiling limits for temperature, humidity, and time combinations to prevent noticeable colorant bleed in photographs and documents printed with inkjet digital technologies. The research focused on a variety of dye printers and papers because it was known from previous work that these printer/paper combinations produced prints sensitive to humidity. The results of this work are intended to help cultural heritage institutions that collect these materials develop policies for use and care to prevent damage to their collections. The results may also benefit commercial services that offer prints made with these processes, as well as artists and photographers and the general public.

In this so called “humidity limits” study a series of nine different dye printer/paper sets were included along with one pigment printer/paper combination to serve as a control.

Specimens were treated to twelve different time, temperature, and humidity regimes covering a span of time from one day to four weeks, temperatures from 15°C to 35°C and relative humidities (RH) from 60% to 90%. The tests included measuring Delta E with a spectrophotometer for a checkerboard target and line width changes with image analysis software for a CMYK line target. Analysis of the data from the humidity limits study indicated that the behavior of the

inkjet dye printer/paper combinations to the various treatment conditions were quite variable.

Because institutions collections could contain prints similar to a very sensitive print in this study, a very conservative approach should be taken for their care. However, the results of this study indicate that inkjet dye prints, even the most sensitive ones, are relatively safe from significant humidity bleed if kept at 65% RH or less.

Speaker Biography: Dr. Gene Salesin, Research Assistant, received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1960 and 1962, respectively. He retired in 1997 after 36 years of employment in the research laboratories and several manufacturing divisions at Kodak. He held a management position during his last few years there, leading the staff involved with providing the technical instructions and specifications for the manufacture of black-and-white films. Dr. Salesin joined IPI in 2004 and has been involved in the permanence properties of magnetic tape and digital prints at IPI since then. He has co-authored ten papers on the permanence properties of digital prints since 2007.

Rochester Chapter IS&T Council 2014-2015

Here are our recently elected officers. They are: President, David Odgers (Xerox retired); Program Chairman, Robert Patti (Kodak retired); Director, Michel Molaire at Molaire Consulting; Treasurer, James M. Gotta (Xerox retired); Recording Secretary, Joanne M. Weber (Kodak retired); Councilor, Bruce H. Pillman (ITT Excelis Geospatial Systems); Councilor, Natalie Russo (Applied Imaging, Inc.); and, Councilor, Beilei Xu (Xerox).

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Society of Women Engineers c/o RES at the RMSC, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 www.swerochester.org ASPIRE • ADVANCE • ACHIEVE facebook.com/SWE-Rochester The Society of Women Engineers inspires women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders; expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in the quality of life; and demonstrates the value of diversity.

Message from President

T.E.A.M.: Together Everyone Achieves More….With lofty goals this year to increase membership, find more ways to connect with the community, and build our scholarship fund; the leadership TEAM has coordinated a variety of events, activities and programs to connect current and future members. We held our first Explorers Post Night - one of a TEAM of six different companies coordinated by a TEAM of members, lead by Casey Daggett, who are educating and inspiring future engineers. It will take a TEAM to promote the upcoming ROC the Day Campaign on Dec 2nd, to successfully raise funds for our Scholarship Fund and Outreach projects. SWE Rochester TEAM highlights: welcome to MacKenzie Zimmerman - new Meeting Chairperson, thank you to Rebecca Glitch who has added MCC Counselor to her U of R Counselor duties, SWE members have volunteered to join the RES Gala TEAM; kudos to Donna Jones, Mary Steblein, and myself who invested in a Leadership weekend hosted by the SWE Region E Leadership TEAM; and thank you to Marca Lam for creating an email version newsletter. We are surrounded by many talents on the SWE TEAM who are enthusiastically coming together to provide value for others. To learn more, check out the calendar of events on our website, Facebook updates, join our mailing list OR become a member of the SWE Rochester TEAM. ~ Jodi Carville

SWEet Engineer - Member Highlight: Donna M. Jones

Current SWE Positions: Rochester Section Treasurer Education: MS EE North Carolina A&T State University Employer: HCL Technologies, LTD Title: Configuration Manager Number of Years in Position: 1 year at HCL, 14 years at Xerox Corporation Other Professional Affiliations: Black Women’s Leadership Council, National Society of Black Engineers, National Association of Professional Women, and International Leadership Women’s Association Why my job is SWEet: Today’s business world is global. I am fortunate to interface with people all over the world every day. Engineers are problem solvers – whether it is technical or personal. We change the world around us, we actually define the future or should I say we ‘design’ the future today. Technology is ever changing and I get to add my ideas to the pool for consideration.

Words of Wisdom to someone starting in this field: Your career is what you make it! Understand the unique opportunities that are available to you and determine how you best fit in. And always make time for networking. You never know what you might learn, who you may be able to assist, or who can be of help to you in the future.

Something other SWE members may not know about me: I was a pretty good shot with an M-16 rifle in my days with the Army and I am a blue belt in Karate.

Meet and Mingle at Genesee Brewery, Nov. 12th, 4-6 pm

Join us for a tour of the Genesee Brewery (4-5 pm) and then networking while sampling the variety of products that Genesee Brewery produces (5-6 pm). If you can’t make the tour, join us for the tasting only. Cost is $5/member, $10/non-member. Register for the tour and tasting on our website under Events.

ROC the Day for SWE on 12-2-14

The United Way of Rochester is holding its 3rd Annual ROC-the-Day Fundraiser for local non-profits and charities. SWE is participating for the third time to raise funds for our annual scholarship. Visit www.roctheday.org on 12-2-14 and select Society of Women Engineers Rochester Section to make a donation and be our ROC Star!

Engineering is SWEet Explorer’s Post Underway On Sept. 30th SWE hosted its first Engineering is SWEet Explorer Post at SPX. Twelve young women toured the factory and R&D lab as well as listened to a presentation and demonstration given by SPX employees. This is the first of a series of company visits for the high school girls. Each one will enrich their minds and help guide them into being a passionate engineer.

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Genesee Valley Branch

American Public Works Association Website: www.apwa.net Geoffrey Benway, PE Genesee Valley Branch President Serving Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne County

Our Shared Public Works

New York Chapter Conference

Our greatest public works project was created 10,000 years ago from the movement of glaciers. If you have not guessed by now, I am referring to the Great Lakes. This magnificent connection of five lakes plays a vital role in our recreation and commerce needs as well as providing a drinking water source for more than 45 million people located in 2 countries. The Great Lakes have survived numerous sunken ships, environmental assaults from humans and industries, invasive species, and neglect. This is no way to treat the largest supply of freshwater in the world! Previous federal funds and protection laws have been focused on areas such as Puget Sound, Chesapeake Bay, and the Everglades. With the creation of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in 2010, we finally have focus (and funds) to protect our valuable resource.

CORRECTION!!! The 2015 conference will be held in Utica, NY on April 23rd & 24th. The Education Committee is busying assembling an impressive list of topics and speakers.

Please check the Genesee Valley Branch Facebook page for more information. This year we will have a separate track on Leadership. This is valuable training for all levels of employees to facilitate the development of leadership skills.

Please consider sending your up and coming leaders to this great program developed by APWA. The other tracks will be Regulatory Issues and Engineering/Technology. Of course, PDH credits will be provided. The event will be at the newly restored Hotel Utica, which is offering rooms for $99 a night for attendees.

The recently published GLRI Action Plan II outlines actions that a number of Federal agencies plan to implement. While it is always a bit unnerving when I see any federal program that is under so many federal agencies (Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Services, National Parks Service, USGS, and the Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance), I can only hope that meaningful funding is provided for meaningful projects.

During FY 2015 – 2019, the primary goals include cleaning up Great Lakes areas of concern, preventing and controlling invasive species, reducing nutrient runoff, and restoring habitat to protect native species. Current funding only allocates $475 million a year, which is not a bad start. As residents of this diverse and magnificent natural resource, we are all a part of protecting the Great Lakes. This truly is a great PUBLIC works!

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NY Chapter News Thanks to APWA National, the NY Chapter will have a new website that will provide information on all five of the branches. Maureen Donoghue, our Chapter Administrator, is busy learning the many tools that comes with the new website template. Eventually, this will allow easy access to news and provide a simple registration process for our programs. This should be up and running by 2015.

The NY Chapter is looking for volunteers to act as a liaison to the Fleet Committee, Young Leaders Committee and a Chapter Historian. If you have an interest please drop me an email and I will pass it on. Responsibilities include keeping in touch with critical issues that are important to the committee. This is an important service for APWA to better serve its members.

Genesee Valley Awards Be sure to send your nominations for great projects and personnel. What are you waiting for?

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Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association Website: www.gvlsa.com

Year 2014 Officers President John F. Gillen, LS Vice President Roy B. Garfinkel, LS Secretary Robert J. Avery, LS Treasurer Michael A. Venturo, LS

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2012-2014 David J. LaRue, LS Gregory D. Bell, LS 2013-2015 Michael C. Bodardus, LS Jared R. Ransom, LS 2014-2016 Clifford J. Rigerman, LS Joseph J. Hefner, LS

Robert B. Hatch, LS, ex officio

Year 2014 Meeting Dates November 20, 2014 Board of Directors & General Membership Meeting 40 & 8 Club, University Ave., Rochester, NY Open discussion of the proposed new GVLSA

November Board of Directors & General Membership Meeting

November 20, 2014 at the 40 & 8 Club 933 University Avenue, Rochester

Survey Standards & the Ongoing Strategic Planning Process of GLVSA and NYSAPLS

Board of Directors Meeting at 6:00 pm General Membership Program at 7:00 pm

December 6, 2014 Annual Meeting The Depot, 1 West Main Street Shortsville, NY 14548 Installation of 2015 officers

The general membership meeting will be an open discussion of the proposed new G.V.L.S.A Survey Standards & the Ongoing Strategic Planning Process of G.V.L.S.A and NYSAPLS.

Save the Dates 2015 NYSAPLS Conference January 21-23 Turning Stone Resort & Casino Verona, NY

December Annual Meeting December 6, 2014 The Depot 1 West Main Street, Shortsville, NY

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Cost for the event is $25 per person, which includes hors d'oeuvres, a choice from three entrees, and dessert.

We will be installing the 2015 officers at this meeting.

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Rochester Section

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The new Rochester section web site is at: http://rochester.ieee.org (always check the web PDF edition for late changes and additions)

Jacob Z. Schanker, P.E., Newsletter Chair E-mail: j.schanker@ieee.org

Rochester Section Meeting – Tuesday, November 4 at Noon The next monthly Rochester Section business meeting is on Tuesday, November 4, at 12:00 pm, at the Hibachi Sushi Buffet Restaurant in South Town Plaza on Jefferson Road (Route 252) just west of West Henrietta Road (Route 15). Any IEEE member is invited to attend. Lunch is only $3 for IEEE members. No reservation or RSVP is needed, just show up.

IEEE EDS Activities in Western New York Conference – Nov. 3 The 38 Annual IEEE EDS Activities in Western New York Conference will be held on Monday, November 3rd in the CIMS facility at RIT. The forum this year will be a bit different based on feedback from last year’s event. This year’s event will include a Measurement Technology Tour in the morning, and the technical presentations will begin at 1PM. th

As usual, we have an excellent lineup of invited speakers: Electronics on Anything Prof. Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY GaN-based Semiconductors for High-Efficiency Photonics and Electronics Prof. Jing Zhang, Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology Overview of Photovoltaic Research at Natcore Dr. David H. Levy, Director of Research and Technology, Natcore Technology, Inc., Rochester, NY We are soliciting abstracts for poster presentations, which will be presented during the mid-afternoon coffee break. Poster presenters will participate in the 1min / 1slide “Nano-Flash” session which has been a big hit in past events. This is a great opportunity to prepare for upcoming national conferences sponsored by IEEE, MRS, SPIE or other professional societies. Submission can be done electronically to the conference chair (see below) using MS-Word or pdf formats. Abstracts must be submitted by Thursday, October 30th to be included in the proceedings. Nano-Flash slides should be in PowerPoint or pdf formats.

See the latest information and register for the event on our website: http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/eme/EDSWNY

Computer Society / Computational Intelligence Society Meetings on Genetic Algorithms Dates: Monday evenings, December 1 and 8.

Time: Pizza & Drinks 6:00, presentation 7:00 PM. Location: Golisano Hall, room 70-3000, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Speaker: Presented by Peter G. Anderson, RIT Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) Abstract: Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are among a growing body of problem solving techniques inspired by natural systems, biological, sociological, chemical, physical, etc. GAs are based on the evolutionary idea of survival of the fittest and are implemented as algorithmic problem solving by selective breeding. A GA uses a population of dozens or hundreds of proposed solutions to a problem and repeatedly creates new solutions (children) from pieces of the relatively better individuals (parents), injecting a small amount of error (mutation) into the new individuals. Surprisingly, this often works.

These algorithms can often be very effective to find maxima of continuous functions in cases where calculus cannot easily be applied, and also to quickly find acceptable sub-optimal solutions to difficult (i.e., NP complete) combinatorial problems such as scheduling, bin packing, traveling salesperson, map coloring, etc.

The first of the two talks gives an introduction to the basic algorithm along with variations and tuning parameters and surveys some applications.

In this portion, solutions to problems will be represented by bit strings, a familiar object that is easy to create randomly, crossover (sexual reproduction) and mutate.

The second talk covers more interesting variations and applications. We give special attention to permutation-based problem solutions and how to perform crossovers on permutations.

About the speaker: Peter was a member of the Computer Science faculty at RIT for 25 years, concentrating on graduate education, CS Theory, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, and GAs . He continues to actively advise Graduate CS students, pursue research in Fibonacci Numbers, and march with the Pittsford Fire Department Band.

New free E-Book for members in November IEEE-USA will offer “Writing for Success - An Engineers Guide -- Volume 2: The Road to Excellence” by Tom Moran.

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Message from Section Chair Greg Gdowski Everyone has heard the phrase “location, location, location” when looking at real estate. My message for this month is “communication, communication, communication.” If you are receiving email notifications from IEEE, you will have noticed a considerable increase in the notification of upcoming events. I have always found the RES publication to be an enjoyable read that keeps me current on engineering issues important to the Rochester region. However, I must confess that my schedule limits my time to enjoy this simple pleasure to the occasional Sunday morning when the issue just happens to be sitting in the right place at the right time. Sometimes, I even find myself reading issues that are months perhaps even years old. I suspect I am not the only one in this boat.

In fact, I wonder how many IEEE colleagues will even mention my writing of this at the next IEEE Excom meeting. If you are like me, you will find that email notifications of upcoming events are the one saving grace that keeps you informed. You will find that many Chapters and groups have events that are highly relevant to your expertise even though you may be a member of only one Chapter that is focused on a specific discipline. There are some truly remarkable events that occur in Rochester that are run by several IEEE Chapters and groups.

If you are an IEEE member and you are not receiving emails, you are likely missing many of these opportunities because you are like me and you read yearold RES publications. Communication, communication, communication – it is a two way street! Last month at the monthly Rochester IEEE Section Excom meeting we nearly filled the conference room at the Hibachi Sushi Buffet! I had the pleasure of meeting new people spear heading local startups, including Fatima Razic (see FotoFit below) and Robert Handsfield. We learned that some of our upcoming events, including a tour of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics held by the Antennas & Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques Society was nearly at capacity a week before the meeting. Finally, we received some spectacular reports of events held and being planned by the student IEEE group at the University of Rochester. Don’t miss the next event! Please visit the IEEE website (http://www.ieee.org) and make sure your account is enabled to receive email.

Imaging, Art Restoration and Analysis, and Astronomy

Perhaps the most fantastic news this month was the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to the Inventors of the Blue LED! Congratulations to Shuji Nakamura, Isamu Akasaki, and Hiroshi Amano on a remarkable innovation that has truly transformed the Globe. It is perhaps a bit ironic that it was awarded in Physics, and why did it take the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences so long to recognize this achievement? The three lighting luminaries, all of whom are IEEE members (Akasaki is a Life Fellow), have won multiple IEEE awards including the IEEE Edison Medal and numerous IEEE Photonics Society Awards. The announcement of the Nobel Prize was a great day for IEEE --- but the truth is we recognized the significance of their achievements well before the Nobel Prize was awarded! In fact, IEEE has also recognized many of the innovators behind the LED that preceded Nakamura, Akasaki, and Amano! If you have not heard or read about the recently awarded Nobel Prize, I encourage you to read more about it at IEEE where we have known about these individuals for some time.

I am often asked about the value that is returned for being an IEEE member.

In many cases, we measure this value in terms of the access to IEEE journals, the number of local meetings that are held, and the discounts that are offered to IEEE members at these meetings. An often forgotten benefit of IEEE membership is the exclusive discounted services that are available. In many cases, these discounts are far better than you can receive on your own. There are a host of substantial discounts for life, home, and auto insurance that can save you far more than the cost of IEEE membership. If you currently have Travelers or Liberty Mutual as your insurance provider, I encourage you to compare your rate to the discounts offered to IEEE members. IEEE also has a negotiated discount program with USP where you can receive up to 35% shipping charges.

Buying a new PC? IEEE also has negotiated discounts with Lenovo, Dell and HP business products.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/inventors-ofblue-led-win-nobel-prize-in-physics

Other Exciting Upcoming Events to Get on Your Calendar!

The IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop (WNYISPW) Friday, November 7, 2014, at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. The WNYISPW is a venue for promoting image and signal processing research in our area and for facilitating interaction between academic researchers, industry researchers, and students. The workshop builds off of 16 successful years of the Western New York Image Processing Workshop (WNYIPW). The workshop comprises both oral and poster presentations.

Topics include, but are not limited to: - Formation, Processing, and/or Analysis of Signals, Images, or Video - Computer Vision - Information Retrieval - Image and Color Science

We are pleased to announce that the IEEE Keynote Speaker will be Prof.

Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas of Northwestern University, who will deliver the lecture: “Visual Signal Analysis and Compression: Focus on Texture Similarity.”

Are You A New Student or Are You New to the Area?

If you are a new student (graduate or undergraduate) in the Rochester area, there really is no reason why you should not join the IEEE Society. The engineering community extends well outside your campus, and IEEE is by far the best way to get to know them. Joining is easy and the dues for students are remarkably low ($32/yr)! If you are an undergraduate or a graduate student and would like to become an IEEE member, I can help. Undergraduate and Graduate Student members must carry at least 50% of a normal full-time academic program as a registered graduate student in a regular course of study in IEEEdesignated fields. The designated fields are: Engineering, Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Physical Sciences, Biological and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Technical Communications, Education, Management, and Law and Policy. Please join today and let us help you get connected!

Host A Meeting!

As Section Chair, I am putting out a challenge to our entire Rochester engineering community. If you find that you cannot attend many of the IEEE meetings because they are offered at inopportune times or are located too far away, why not consider hosting an IEEE event at your company? Or, if you are a member of another professional society and have wondered why more IEEE members don’t come to your events, why not consider having a joint event? I am more than happy to facilitate networking events at your company or in conjunction with other engineering societies. Let’s collaborate and make Rochester a better place for engineers to live and work.

IEEE Benetis Challenge!

https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/discounts/index.html

Join Us At The Next EXCOM Meeting

If you are looking for a cheap $3 lunch, join us for the next monthly Rochester Section IEEE Executive Committee meeting. It will be from 12-1pm on October 7th at the Hibachi Sushi Buffet in Southtown Plaza (3333 W. Henrietta Rd, Henrietta, NY). Please join us to learn more about the Society and how you may contribute.

Startup Opportunities for Engineers!

FotoFit is an early-stage, high-tech startup with proprietary technology focused on making online shopping for clothes easy and efficient for both consumers and retailers. It allows online shoppers to find well-fitting jeans without having to try them on. The company does this by asking consumers to submit a picture of their best-fitting jeans as a baseline for determining key measurements that affect fit, feel and comfort. FotoFit uses those measurements to scour their large database of brands/styles and finds great fitting jeans for each consumer.

Consumers will get a customized list of jeans with links to stores that carry the merchandise of their choice. FotoFit is expanding their team and is looking for engineers with imaging or computer science background. For further info email FotoFitJeans@gmail.com. (www.fotofit.co).

- Applications of Image and Signal Processing, including: Medical Image and Signal Analysis, Audio Processing and Analysis, Remote Sensing, Archival Imaging, Printing, Consumer Devices, Security, Surveillance, Document

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A Call for Technical Engagement in the Policy Making Process As an undergraduate student in bioengineering, I was attracted to the “can it be done?” aspect of the engineering problems faced in class. At the same time, I was bothered that there was little discussion of the larger social context in which technology was used. While engineering education has changed since I went to school, there is still a need for engineers to be informed about the policy making process and learn about the role they can play in this process.

There are several reasons for this, as outlined below.

First, engineers can help inform policymakers about the accuracy of scientific information and about new technological developments that can drive changes in policy considerations. Some readers will be familiar with former Senator Ted Stevens’ remarks that the internet is simply “a series of tubes.” Although somewhat comical, this type of simplistic analogy is less of a problem than distortion of science we are seeing, for example, in the current debates on climate science. In recent hearings for the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, John Holdren had to remind some Committee members misrepresenting scientific information to “look at the scientific literature rather than the public comments” in order to understand the state of climate science.

The science of climate change and many other areas of technology policy is complex and we desperately need unbiased experts informing policy discussions in these areas. This is why our Public Policy department offers a MS degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy. This degree program builds on Rochester Institute of Techology’s (RIT) strengths as a technological university, enabling students to interact with faculty members and researchers who are experts in most scientific and technological fields.

These experts also contribute to policy solutions that are dependent on the advent of new technologies, such as battery technology in the case of clean energy or medical information technology in the case of affordable health care. These technological advancements then drive new public policy options.

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From Left to Right: Nathan Fisk, Visiting Assistant Professor, Public Policy; Steve Weinstein, Professor and Department Head, Chemical Engineering and BS/MS Chemical Engineering Program Champion; Eric Hittinger, Assistant Professor, Public Policy and BS/MS Program Coordinator; Sandra Rothenberg, Professor and Chair, Public Policy

Second, while engineers can provide solutions to today’s social, economic and environmental problems, they also need to understand the context in which these solutions will be used.

In his classic essay article on the tragedy of the commons, Garret Hardin states that “an implicit and almost universal assumption of discussions published in professional and semi popular scientific journals are that the problem under discussion has a technical solution.” He goes on to argue that population growth is an example of a problem for which there is “no technical solution.” I might be kicked out of RIT if I were to say technology is not at least a part of the solution to most problems. It is, however, just as important to realize that any technical solutions must be integrated into a complex system of social, humanistic, and behavioral activities. Just as important as technical training, therefore, is the training in social science offered in Public Policy, which helps engineers understand and shape social and political systems in a way that encourage responsible use of existing technology, as well as effective implementation of new technology.

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Third, engineers bring to the table the analytic skills needed in policy analysis. Our MS degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy emphasizes the importance of systems and decision analysis, and offer an interdisciplinary set of skills that include those that are perhaps less familiar to engineers, such as qualitative data analysis. At the very heart of the program are analysis, problem solving, and optimization among a complex set of stakeholder demands. This focus on problem solving makes engineering students ideal for the program.

policy. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science & Technology.

Dr. Samuel McQuade is an expert in cyber security and is an author of several books, including Understanding and Managing Cybercrime. My own research focuses on how regulation impacts technology innovation, primarily in the automobile and printing industry. One study, partially funded by the NSF, looked at how corporate product development strategies in the automobile industry are able to lead to success in the face of regulatory uncertainty.

Fourth, from a business perspective, engineers need to navigate an environment that includes both market and nonmarket component (one of which is regulatory) (Baron, 1995). For example, I know a medical electronics company that sells a number of non-invasive medical technologies.

The CEO is an engineer who had little knowledge of FDA regulations and processes. As a result, the company is now on the verge of bankruptcy due to the costs of regulatory compliance. Attention to regulatory issues early on and an overall understanding of how the regulatory system works may have helped this small business owner manage the process better, and at lower cost.

At the curricular level, the Public Policy Program is developing a series of BS/MS degrees with each department in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

This degree is currently in place for undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and we plan to have one fully in place for all engineering departments by the end of 2015. If you would be interested in working with students in this program, or just want more information, please visit us at http://www. rit.edu/cla/publicpolicy/. q

Lastly, engineers can help policymakers understand the innovation process so policies can be designed to facilitate these processes, and not constrain them. For example, a long standing complaint with regulations that require “best available control technology,” (regulations that require the use of a particular technology) is that they prevent companies from experimenting with innovative ways to meet performance goals. While the actual relationship between regulation and innovation is complex (Wiener, 2004; Gerard and Lave, 2007), engineers can help policymakers design regulations that encourage innovation.

The Public Policy Department at RIT conducts research and offers curricula that sit at the intersection of technology and policy. Dr. Eric Hittinger, for example, is conducting research on policies and technologies that allow for better integration of renewable electricity into the grid. He recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in partnership with the Golisano Institute of Sustainability to look at the effect that emerging technologies will have on the development of the electric grid. Dr. Ron Hira has testified before Congress on offshoring, immigration and competitiveness feature article

References Baron, D.P. (1995). “Integrated strategy: Market and non-market components,” California Management Review, 37(2): 47-65.

Gerard, D., and Lave, L. (2007). "Experiments in technology forcing: comparing the regulatory processes of US automobile safety and emissions regulations." International journal of technology, policy and management, 7(1): 1-14.

Wiener, J. B. (2004). "The regulation of technology, and the technology of regulation."

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Affiliated Societies of the Rochester Engineering Society American Consulting Engineering Companies of New York President, David J. Meyer, 585-218-0730 Email: dmeyer@pathfinderengineers.com

Association For Facilities Engineering, Rochester Chapter President, Dan Friday, 585-341-3225 Email: danf@rochesterymca.org

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