The Rochester Engineer December 2022

December 2022

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Building and Testing the Webb Telescope for Space Success

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Two RES Events in Dec. - Dec. 14 (Holiday Happy Hour at Fairport Brewing) - PDH Educational Courses Dec. 15

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16 Cover Article:L3Harris - Building and Testing the Webb Telescope for Space Success 22 What's News 24 Campus News 25 Position Openings 27 Professional Firms Employee News 28 Continuing Education Opportunities (PDHs) 28 Engineers’ Calendar 43 Directory of Professional Services 44 Directory of Business Services 45 Affiliated Societies of the RES by going to scholarship application going to application instructions byscholarship going to scholarship application instructions and fill out the Eligibility and fillinstructions out the Eligibility Form. and fill out the Eligibility Form.

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2020 Adam W. Lawas Scholarship 2020 W. Lawas Scholarship (CHAAdam companies) Brandon Reiner, (CHA companies) Brandon Reiner, Mechanical Engineering University Mechanical Engineering University at Buffalo (SUNY) at Buffalo (SUNY)

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• ABCD Association for Bridge Design and Construction.................................. 39 • APWA American Public Works Association............... 38 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers.............. 32 • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers....................... 40 • ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers...... 42 • EA Electrical Association......................................... 30 • GVLSA Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association.37 • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers......................................... 34 • IES Illuminating Engineering Society...................... 36 • INCOSE International Council on Systems Engineering..................................... 31 • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society........ 33 • RES Rochester Engineering Society.................... 2-14 • TERRA TERRA Science & Engineering Fair................. 41

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The Rochester Engineer Published since 1922 by ROCHESTER ENGINEERING SOCIETY, INC.

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Board of Directors: OFFICERS: President MICHELLE SOMMERMAN, PE Bergmann Associates / msommerman@bergmannpc.com

First Vice President DENNIS ROOTE, PE CDE Engineering & Environment, PLLC / dennis.roote@cde-pllc.com

Second Vice President MIKE KURDZIEL, PhD Harris Corporation / mike.kurdziel@L3harris.com

Treasurer TBD - Dennis Roote is interim treasurer.

Immed. Past President GREG GDOWSKI, PhD University of Rochsester / Greg_Gdowski@urmc.rochester.edu

EIGHT DIRECTORS:

CORNELIUS (NEAL) ILLENBERG PE Rail Safety Consulting / nillenberg@aol.com

RICHARD E. RICE Erdman Anthony / rricesquash@gmail.com

BRETT ELIASZ, PE Bergmann Associates / beliasz@bergmannpc.com

KENTON G. HINES Merrill Lynch / Kenton.Hines@ml.com

MICHAEL DUFFY .

Bosch Security Systems, LLC / michael.duffy@us.bosch.com

STEVEN W. DAY, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology / swdeme@rit.edu

NOAH KELLY Leadership Excellence & Development Program (Engr.), Alstom noah.kelly@alstomgroup.com

LEANDRO AVEIRO Engineering Group Manager - Verification & Validation, Alstom leandro.aveiro@alstomgroup.com

Administrative Director LYNNE M. IRWIN Rochester Engineering Society / e-mail: res@frontiernet.net or therochesterengineer@gmail.com

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

The web site for the RES is: 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.

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RES News - President's Message Dear Fellow Engineers, The holiday season is upon us! There are many activities this month and another information fillled issue. Reminder - Scholarships and Professional Awards applications are open! Deadline for Scholarships is December 12th and preliminary nominations (simple form) for Professional Awards is December 8th. See page 6 and page 11 for details. This is a great opportunity for a student or engineer to be recognized for their achievements spread the word!

I am very pleased that this month a group of local engineering organizations; RES, RPE (Rochester Plant Engineers), RETA (Refrigerating Engineers and Technicians Association), ASPE, IES and ASHRAE are getting together to have a Holiday Happy Hour on Wednesday December 14th at Fairport Brewing (on University Avenue).

The cover article (starting on page 16) by L3Harris discusses the building and testing of the James Webb Telescope.

Do you know a middle or high school student that would like to participate in a Science Fair?

Would you like to be an Advisor or Mentor? Check out page 41 for information on the Terra Science and Engineer Fair.

Harold Clark, Director It’s the Gift Giving Season! trfsef@terraed.org Give the Gift of Yourself!

Influence the Future!

Your taking the time to work with a student on a Science Fair project can have a profound influence on that student choosing a STEM career.

You can choose the level of interaction: • Advisor: talk with the student about their project • Mentor: work with the student on a longer-term basis You’ll be matched with a student who registers with a Fair project in the STEM field(s) you specify.

The length and depth of the interaction is completely up to you and the student.

If interested, please register as a Volunteer at the Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair website.

Terra Fair Date: March 18, 2023 Thank you!

As always, check out the calendar (starting on page 28) followed Rochester, NY bySection various Affiliates news. A few highlights P.O. Box 23795 for December…ASHRAE meeting on Grow Rochester, NY 14692 Room Design, ASCE’s Holiday Happy Hour, www.iesrochester.org and save the dates for the 2023 Engineering Symposium in April 2023 and ABCD’s Spring IES ROCHESTER MEETINGS ARE BACK !!!

This is a great opportunity to meet engineers from various Seminar. disciplines and Affiliate Engineering Societies. See page 9 for 29,2021the - 7:00 FREE Event more information.SEPTEMBER The next day Thursday 15th isPM the RES I’m very happy to report the membership COME TOUR THE WINNER OF OUR IES ROCHESTER Continuing Education session on Solar Photovoltaics. development committee, led by RES Director EXTERIOR LIGHTING AWARD - ROC CITY SKATE Mike PARKDuffy, has been busy! Coming soon, we Details on page 8.

MEMBERS FROM THE DESIGN TEAM FROM STANTECwill AND be sending a survey to members that will FROM THE CITY OF ROCHESTER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE Welcome to all the new RES members! be used to develop a searchable membership PLEASE Director, REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG 1. Elizabeth DeBartolo,EIT, Multidisciplinary skills survey. As always, if you would like to Senior Design Program, RIT be involved, please check out the committee list on the website at www.roceng.org and 2. Sheila Ransbottom, PE, Sr. Transportation Engineer, Wendel join one. We want to make sure your voice 3. William Anterline III, PE, Senior Civil Engineer, Wendel is heard!

4. Alex Amering, Principal, Costich Engineering, DPC open to all students grades 6 to 12

Contact TRFSEF@terraed.org to connect with the regional fair

RES News - Explorer Post

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Please contact us with any questions, A few highlights from this CAREERS IN comments, or suggestions. Thank you! issue…Do you know a high ENGINEERING WHO Wednesday October 13THAT- 12:00 Noon DO YOU KNOW A HIGHSCHOOL STUDENT school student interested in a MIGHT WANT A CAREER IN ENGINEERING? WHEN Basics of Modern Theatre Lighting System Design career in engineering? RES & the WHERE Michelle Sommerman, PE Exploring Division of the Seneca - Power Distribution & Control MORE DETAILS - DMX & Networking Waterways Council are hosting an Bergmann Explorer Post, see page 10 or the - LED Theatrical Luminaires YOUNG MEN/WOMEN AGE 14-20 *PREFERENCE GIVEN TO 10-12 GRADERS*

If you do, the Rochester Engineering Society in con�unc�on with the Exploring �i�ision of the Seneca �aterways Council of the �oy Scouts is hos�ng an Exploring Post which is geared to exposing young people to as many different careers and experiences in engineering as possible during the winter months.

Wednesday Nights January to March 6:30pm – 8:30 pm

Engaging, hands on experiences include:

Engineering Careers  Chemical, Structural, Aeronautical, Software, Electrical, Optical, Nuclear and others Site Visits  Local engineering firms  Rochester Institute of Technology  University of Rochester Mentoring by Engineering professionals

Across the greater Monroe County area

Email:

Richard Repka rrepka10@gmail.com

Sign up has already started for our January 2023 session. Contact one of the following for more informa�on.

RES website for details.

Rich Repka Kodak Alaris rrepka10@gmail.com

Matthew Thurston Exploring District Executive Matthew.Thurston@scouting.org

Matthew Thurston Matthew.Thurston@scouting.org

Cost to participate: $75

Location & Details TBD - Save The Date !

RES President

June 1, 2022 - May 31, 2024

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2020 Adam W. Lawas Scholarship 2020 W. Lawas Scholarship (CHAAdam companies) Brandon Reiner, (CHA companies) Brandon Reiner, Mechanical Engineering University Mechanical Engineering University at Buffalo (SUNY) at Buffalo (SUNY) res news - application scholarship information application res - scholarship res - scholarship application information

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Technical Corner For the article this month I’d like to touch on tap changers that are associated with transformers.

Tap changers are typically utilized and installed on the primary of a transformer and are used to offset any higher or lower input voltages.

The theory is that if your primary voltage is not correct then the secondary voltage will not be correct either. The goal is to get that secondary voltage as close as possible to the rated voltage, otherwise, the equipment connected to it may not operate effectively.

One reason why primary voltage may fluctuate, and dip, is due to increased load connected to that transformer.

Another reason would be voltage drop. Our transformer might be too far away from the source that feeds it.

There is a pretty good description and calculation example for the following formula in the video link below: Tap Percentage= (Actual Voltage-Rated Voltage)/Rated Voltage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R233i5ihF88 Typical tap percentages are plus and minus 2.5% and 5%.

Some things to look for when using taps on a transformer: FCBN-Full Capacity Below Normal FCAN-Full Capacity Above Normal RCBN-Reduced Capacity Below Normal This basically means that the kVA rating of the transformer will not change when connected to one of the taps. This is normally preferred. Reducing the kVA rating of the transformer (RCBN) could introduce some other issues as it essentially reduces what the transformer can be connected to, or in other words it’s capacity.

Some types of taps are as follows: On Load Tap Changer-OLTC-tap change completed in energized state De-Energized Tap Changer-DETC-tap change completed in de-energized state Hopefully this article finds you well and can be used as a reference for your project needs.

If anyone would like to contribute to the Rochester Engineer and add an article or would like to request information on a specific topic (not limited to Electrical) just email Brett Eliasz at beliasz@bergmannpc.com. As always, any comments are appreciated! Thank you for reading.

Brett Eliasz, P.E., LEED AP BD+C , RES Director res - technical corner

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RES VIRTUAL PDH CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES

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1 PDH Approved 1 PDH Pending

Thursday, December 15, 2022 1:00 to 5:00 pm $20 for RES Individual Members $30 for Non-members Solar Technology

1:00-2:00pm

Solar Photovoltaics 1 PDH Kathleen Connolly Bergmann Discussion on System Design, Modeling Techniques and Solar Farms from concept to closeout.

2:30-3:30pm

Community Solar Non-PDH David Plante Bergmann What it is and what are the common myths.

4:00-5:00pm

Project Case Studies 1 PDH Pending Eric Redding Bergmann A review of projects and their civil and environmental engineering aspects.

Future Education Courses Being Planned - RES is offering these courses to support the engineering community.

Each Continuing Education Session will consist of two or three educational 1-hour webinars with one or two eligible for PDH's. Registration will be on our website soon: www.roceng.org. *Date, cost, and topics are subject to change*

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RES EVENT CALENDAR - SAVE THE DATES

RES is excited to announce our 2022-2023 program year is a mix of Continuing Education and Social Gatherings!

Updates will be posted on the website calendar as they become available.

Social Gatherings are the 1st Thursday of every month at 5:00 pm Continuing Education Courses are the 3rd Thursday of every month from 1:00 to 5:00 pm

Here is what is planned so far: EVENT DATE EVENT NAME Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Social Gathering! Holiday Happy Hour 4:30 - 6:30 pm at Fairport Brewing Company, 1044

University Avenue, Rochester 14607. Cost: $15/pp

All engineers and friends are invited! This is a

great opportunity to meet engineers from various

disciplines and Affiliate Engineering Societies.

Rochester, NY Section Attendees need to register by Monday, P.O. Box 23795 th by contacting Matt Agnello from RPE Rochester, NYDec. 14692 12 www.iesrochester.org (magnello@rlkistler.com). You will receive a drink IES ROCHESTER MEETINGS ARE BACK !!! ticket (pick up at the registration desk) and appetizers.

SEPTEMBER 29,2021 - 7:00 PM

FREE Event

COME TOUR THE WINNER OUR IES Thursday, December 15,OF2022 ROCHESTER Continuing Education EXTERIOR LIGHTING AWARD - ROC CITY SKATE PARK MEMBERS FROM THE DESIGN TEAM FROM STANTECSocial AND Gathering!

Thursday, January 5, 2023 FROM THE CITY OF ROCHESTER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG

- Solar Technology

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Continuing Education - Tour NuFlow Services -

Pipeline Rehabilitation

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Social Gathering!

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Continuing Education - TBD

Thursday, MarchOctober 2, 2023 Social Gathering!

Wednesday 13 - 12:00 Noon Basics of Modern Theatre Lighting System Design

Thursday, March 16, 2023 Continuing Education - Electric Vehicles - Power Distribution & Control

DMX & Networking Thursday, April 6,- 2023

- LED Theatrical Luminaires

Social Gathering!

Thursday, May 4, 2023 Social Gathering!

Location & Details TBD - Save The Date !

Our Website For More Details Thursday, MayPlease 18,Visitwww.iesrochester.org 2023

Continuing Education - Tour - Rochester Subway

Tunnels

Thursday, June 1, 2023 Social Gathering! res news - rwa event calendar

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RES News - Explorer Post

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CAREERS IN ENGINEERING

DO YOU KNOW A HIGHSCHOOL STUDENT THAT MIGHT WANT A CAREER IN ENGINEERING? If you do, the Rochester Engineering Society in con�unc�on with the Exploring �i�ision of the Seneca �aterways Council of the �oy Scouts is hos�ng an Exploring Post which is geared to exposing young people to as many different careers and experiences in engineering as possible during the winter months.

Engaging, hands on experiences include:

YOUNG MEN/WOMEN AGE 14-20 *PREFERENCE GIVEN TO 10-12 GRADERS*

WHEN

Wednesday Nights January to March 6:30pm – 8:30 pm

WHERE

Engineering Careers  Chemical, Structural, Aeronautical, Software, Electrical, Optical, Nuclear and others Site Visits  Local engineering firms  Rochester Institute of Technology  University of Rochester Mentoring by Engineering professionals

Across the greater Monroe County area

MORE DETAILS Email:

Richard Repka rrepka10@gmail.com

Sign up has already started for our January 2023 session. Contact one of the following for more informa�on.

Rich Repka Kodak Alaris rrepka10@gmail.com

WHO

Matthew Thurston Exploring District Executive Matthew.Thurston@scouting.org

Matthew Thurston Matthew.Thurston@scouting.org

Cost to participate: $75

www.swcexploring.org

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RES News - Call For Nominations

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Call for Nominations John W. Nieto 2021 Engineer of the Year Past Engineers of the Year 14 years...(first awarded 1963) John W. Nieto Richard Buckley Susan Houde-Walter, PhD Donald P. Nims, PE Martin E. Gordon, PE Diane M. Trentini Robert L. Clark, Jr., PhD Lalit Mestha, PhD Maureen S. Valentine, PE Sergio Esteban, PE Brian J. Thompson, PhD Gary W. Passero, PE Kevin J. Parker, PhD Satish G. Kandlikar, PhD

2022 Engineer of the Year Young Engineer of the Year and

Engineers of Distinction

Andrew White, PhD 2021 YoungEngineer of the Year Past Young Engineers of the Year -14 years... (first awarded 2007) Andrew D. White, PhD Daniel Rusnack, PE Nick Vamivakas, PhD Brett Eliasz, PE Emily M. Smith, PE Matthew T. Sidley Danielle Benoit, PhD John Papponetti, PE Courtney E. Reich, PE Clement Chung, PE Sherwin Damdar Michael J. Walker, EIT Nathan Gnanasambandam, PhD Venkatesh G. Rao, PhD

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 award recipients.

The RES will select and recognize the 2022 Engineer of the Year, 2022 Young Engineer of the Year (and Finalists), and 2022 Engineers of Distinction Awards in a variety of public venues and media.

The Award recipients will be celebrated at an event in April 2023.

Visit our website at www.roceng.org and click on Engineering Awards, 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 - Thursday, December 8, 2022  Deadline for Final Nominations - Thursday, January 5, 2023 res news - call for nominations

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RES News - Rochester History

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A Sampling from the Archives of the Rochester Engineering Society.

1897 - 1976

by Lee M. Loomis 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. 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, focus and infrastructure of the City of Rochester, and beyond. World War, again affected the Society, taking away many of its leaders while 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. The Second World War, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War are now history. These experiences have changed the face of and will, no doubt, influence the future of the community. The Rochester municipal leadership and the industrial community have become immersed in the cold-war, growth economy.

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March 17, 1976 (Board Meeting, Chamber of Commerce) The Board approved application for nine Regular Memberships, two Associate Memberships, two Junior Memberships and one Student Membership. RES Treasurer, Howard Jaquith, recommended the redemption of $7,000 in Master Notes from the Kate Gleason Fund to offset the current operating deficit and anticipated future expenses. The Board approved an allocation of $50 to RES Member, Robert Freitag, in support of an RES-sponsored “Technology Contest” at the upcoming St. John Fisher College Science Exploration Days. RES Director, Richard Blazey reported success in recruiting four engineers for RES Director, George Landberg’s RES Education Committee project wherein these volunteers would be speaking to Greece Central High Students on careers in mechanical, civil, electrical and chemical engineering. President Jack Schickler reported that he had written to Rochester Mayor Thomas Ryan, declining his request for an “official” recommendation on the City’s purchase of the RG&E street lighting system. Instead, it was decided that RES Director, Ron Salzman would, at an upcoming Channel 21 program, pose a question to City Councilmen John Curran and Paul Heney, on the propriety of the City making such a purchase. RES Director, John Robertson, reported that the final three programs of the RES Luncheon series would include Monroe County Pure Waters Director, Gerald McDonald (March), Kodak office dinner and tour of Channel 21 (April), and a tour of the Strasenburgh Planetarium (May). President Schickler announced the follow slate of RES Officers and Directors: President – M. John Corson (RG&E), 1st Vice President – Dr. Douglas M. Marshall (RIT), res news - history

2nd Vice President - Elwood Dobbs (EKCo), Treasurer – John M. Robertson (Rochester Telephone), Directors – Daniel E. Turner ’78 (General Railway Signal), Lee M. Loomis ‘79 (RG&E), and Richard E. Rice ‘79 (Midtown Holdings). RES Engineers' Joint Dinner Chair, Lee Loomis, reported on the recent dinner; receipts of $4,888, expenses of $4,581.75 left a (modest) profit of $306.25.

“The Rochester Engineer” (March 1976) Editor’s note: Several letters-to-the-editor (pro and con) continued in this issue, addressing the subject of “editorial & response” to a previous article by Edgar Ferrar of the Genesee Valley People’s Power Coalition, criticizing RG&E and calling for conversion of the investor-owned utility into a municipal utility.

The RES Board had decided that, while the RES would modify its editorial policy to further ensure fairness to the magazine’s contributors, the Society’s magazine would continue to print any letters on this particular topic.

The featured article in this issue, written by RES Past-President, Dr. Richard A. Kenyon, described in detail, the design, construction, operation and intended markets for the various outputs of the planned Monroe County Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). This project, emanating from a 1976 study and report by the seventyplus members of the RES’ OPERATION RESOURCE Task Force, was intended to become a revolutionary, but reliable way of dealing with the County’s 2,000 ton/week solid waste stream.

This would be done such that maximum value would be derived from separating, classifying, and repurposing the reusable elements of the waste stream. Dr. Kenyon, leader of the RES’ effort, subsequently became chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for the RRF. A Solid Waste Advisory Committee was formed to support the work of the County’s Director of Solid Waste and the County Director of Public Works. This Committee assisted in the preparation of the Request for Proposal (RFP). Later renamed res news - history

the Resource Recovery Advisory Committee, it was made an official committee of the County Legislature, responsible to the County Manager. An experienced consultant was retained to research and develop markets for the recycled materials emanating from the RRF. The RRF Advisory Committee then participated in the selection of the contractor (Raytheon Service Company) best qualified to design, construct, and then operate the facility for the first five years. Later on, in the process of identifying markets for the output of the RRF, RG&E emerged as an important partner. Included in the output of the facility would be 1,200 tons/day of refuse-derived fuel (RDF).

RG&E became involved as a possible customer for approximately one-half of this, at its coal-fired Russell Station, in Greece. At this juncture, it would be still be two years until the RRF would go into operation. Those involved in this project were very optimistic as to its eventual success in dealing with the untenable problem of the eighteen landfills in the Monroe County area, and the three, now-defunct, City of Rochester trash incinerators that had recently been closed and converted into transfer stations. In a related article by RES Member Gordon J. Keenan, a description of the successful resource recovery/municipal electric generation system in Ames, Iowa, was detailed.

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 current economic crises, 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 and the Korean Conflict, 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 post-war re-emergence of Rochester area industry, and the continuing prosperity of the second-half of the 20th Century. We welcome your questions and comments on this series.

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Dr. Walter Cooper Academy; Emerging from the Pandemic…

The 2022-23 School Year opened successfully at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, on Wednesday, September 7th with 333 eager students...

NY State Department of Education – School Receivership Dr. Walter Cooper Academy is one of six elementary schools in the City School District that have been designated as “Receivership Schools”. This occurs when a school consistently performs at low levels in student test scores (ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies), falls behind in proficiency for ESOL (non-English speaking students), or has too many (>10%) chronically-absent students.

Such schools are required to form Community Engagement Teams (CET’s) and execute a Comprehensive Education Plan to improve outcomes for its students.

In response, our School (#10), has developed such a Team (Lee Loomis serves on this Team) and has implemented a Plan to extricate itself from “receivership”.

Recent reports show that our students’ “scores” are improving and that, our English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) students are making significant progress in their English language proficiency, and that among the six Receivership Schools, our daily attendance has risen to 85.1%, second place among the Receivership Schools, eleventh place overall.

Our school’s Community School Site Coordinator, Michele White, has continued helping us plan for the resumption of the in-person operation of the RES Tutoring Team, in the Fall of 2022. She has reported recently that the teachers are in the process of assessing their students, toward identifying those in need of some “extra attention”. This will result in the assembling of a menu of teacher/student tutoring needs. From this, a weekly tutoring needs schedule will be developed. This will be circulated among our RES Tutors, and inviting our RES Tutors to volunteer for these tutoring assignments.

This is pretty much the process/protocol we were following from 2014-19, before it was interrupted, first by series of drastic 2018-19 RCSD budget cut-backs/layoffs, and then the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are looking forward to its resumption.

We have begun assembling our 2022-23 RES Tutoring Team…

Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at…Rochester Engineering Society (585) 254-2350, via website: www.roceng.org, or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com, (585) 738-3079 (mobile & text).

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Nimble by Design...

If you are an EV owner, or just observing the nuances across different EV manufacturers, you might observe what I have, some manufacturers produce vehicles that are designed to be more nimble than their competitors.

I’m not referring to nimble in the sense that the vehicle is better handling through the curves on mountain roads in Vermont, but that the vehicle platform can be adapted and upgraded.

If you own a vehicle from a legacy manufacturer such as Hyundai, Ford or Volkswagen, does the manufacturer respond to feedback about a feature you’d like to see improved? Would you expect them to implement that change on the vehicle you own, or in the next model year? Probably not likely with the vehicle you own. Many owners find that when there are important functional updates or recalls to their vehicle, it requires scheduling a visit to the dealership and may involve replacement of parts. While these brands do provide some over-the-air updates, it’s often been things like the format of the navigation screens, or changes to the menus. Both Volkswagen and Ford have provided one or two efficiency updates over the air. Even though all three of these manufacturers are utilizing their own new EV platform since 2021, they all have repurposed parts of their electronic dashboard that was previously used in gas vehicles, so you might see a message to “check fuel level” on your EV – even though you a are fully charged. These manufacturers have designed vehicles that are each great and have leading edge next generation products.

By comparison if you own a Tesla, Rivian or other “next generation” car company product, the feedback you provide could result in future changes to how your car functions. Recent examples include Rivian adding the ability for their vehicles to “kneel” when parked to make it easier for both people and dogs to get in and out. Tesla also continues to push out over the air updates to its cars, sometimes weekly. Sometimes they break things and correct it the next release. Tesla recently had a recall that was addressed by a simple over the air update, it did not cost them millions of dollars or owners the inconvenience of scheduling get IT done

an appointment. In an article published November 8th, 2022, the website Teslarati reported that Tesla’s filing of the mandatory recall included the following statement “As of November 1, 2022, more than 97% of the affected vehicles installed firmware release 2022.36.5 or a later firmware release. No further action is necessary from owners whose vehicles are equipped with firmware release 2022.36.5 or a later firmware release.”

Because both the manufacturers and vehicles are nimble by design, they are better able to respond to their customers’ needs, address safety concerns, and provide us with better products. I prefer purchasing products from organizations that are responsive, nimble, and service oriented. I look for these attributes when recommending and implementing solutions whenever possible.

Focusing on IT systems for a bit, there are many legacy applications that still function well, but they have not yet been adapted or upgraded to meet the latest mainstream privacy or authentication features that are expected in modern organizations. In today’s IT systems, developers of solutions cannot afford to sit back, they need to be both nimble and responsive to the ever-changing environment that is driven by customers, regulators, and communities demanding increased security and privacy.

Over the next few years, I’m hopeful that more organizations will embrace the value of being nimble by design, not only within their products and services, but also how they operate.

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Building and Testing the Webb Telescope for Space Success

by Tony Whitman, Chief Systems Engineer, L3Harris Technologies

Credit: NASA Engineer performing a final Foreign Object Debris inspection in Chamber A’s fifth floor at Johnson Space Center. Wrapped in the silver thermal blanketing, the Center of Curvature optical assembly (CoCoa) was built by L3Harris with subcontractor Micro Instruments. CoCoa tests on Webb’s primary mirror segments were critical because they informed engineers if all of the mirrors work together to make a telescope that has the correct shape.

The James Webb Space Telescope is hugely successful with unprecedented detail in space images to start decades of astronomical science development and the capability to see back in time to the first light emitted in our universe. Planning for this telescope began at L3Harris Technologies more than two decades ago. A project of this complexity was parsed among many entities, thousands of engineers and scientists, and tens of thousands of technicians to make this telescope a reality. L3Harris accepted the challenge of building the largest precision space telescope and testing the optical and thermal performance of the telescope at temperatures down to 18 Kelvin with the help and expertise of numerous companies and academia in the New York Finger Lakes region.

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and delivering those photons to the instruments with their detectors, mechanisms, electronics, and thermal radiators. The Optical Telescope element and Integrated Science (OTIS) instrument module combination is approximately 26 feet tall and 22 feet in diameter. Across this distance, the optical components were integrated to within tolerances on the order of hundredths of an inch and with precision of thousandths of an inch.

This integration was in the presence of significant structural sag due to gravity. Although the Webb launched in one of the largest rockets available, the large telescope structure needed light weighting and strength optimization to survive launch. The telescope was designed for gravity and thrust along the tangent of the primary mirror. Integration was easier with gravity perpendicular to the primary mirror. The optics needed to be located precisely

Credit: NASA This photo was captured from outside the enormous mouth of NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber called Chamber A at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Engineers and technicians inside the chamber prepare a lift system that was used to hold the Webb telescope during testing.

for zero gravity operation.

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communication with the hardware designers from other companies including international partners, and triple checking predictions. Also, the change in the structure sag was tracked every time an optical component was integrated in order to set the target location for the next optical

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component.

A partial check of the successful integration occurred during the optical test on the ground, but the true proof of this flawless integration were the perfect first pictures released from operation in space.

Testing Performance in Simulated Space Although unable to switch off gravity, the ground test simulated the temperature and darkness of space with only a handful of light sources. One of the largest vacuum chambers available in the United States was originally built to test the

Credit: NASA The Webb telescope's beautiful, golden test mirror is lowered onto a test section of backplane by a robot arm.

Apollo lunar module in the 1960s, located at the Johnson Space Center. The chamber was transformed from testing a manned mission to testing an ultra-clean and thoroughly dark optical mission. The chamber was fitted with a helium refrigerator and the interior shroud was able to reach 18 K, a temperature below the freezing point of oxygen. A liquid nitrogen shroud surrounded the helium shroud. The chamber used up to seven tankers of liquid nitrogen per day to cool the telescope down to space temperatures.

Given sensitivity of the optical test (able to detect vibrations from a person walking on the floor outside the chamber), the top of the chamber was fitted with vibration isolators to hang the optical test equipment and telescope below. Nine tons of structure and test equipment were safely hung above the multi-billion dollar telescope.

Behind and underneath the telescope were thermal simulators, thermal conduction straps, and thermal radiation sinks designed to steer heat from the instruments’ electronics towards space and away from the telescope to keep the telescope cold. The simulators replaced the tennis court-sized sunshield – too big to fit in the chamber. The infrared telescope is kept cold to prevent self-generating infrared radiation that 18 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER DECEMBER 2022

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would negatively impact science operations.

First Time Alignment of Segmented Mirror Telescope System inside a Vacuum Chamber The telescope was unfolded outside the chamber, rolled into the chamber on rails, and then suspended from the vibration isolators. The first trick was understanding where the mirrors were located after a 400F cool

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn In preparation for instrument installation, L3Harris technicians uncover the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirrors at NASA Goddard.

down. Laser measurement technology designed for human operation on a production floor aligned the mirrors for integration. That technology and humans do not operate well in vacuum.

Rather, photogrammetry was less sensitive to pressure window effects.

Photogrammetry uses a large sample of twodimensional pictures from many different angles and mathematical usage of the parallax effect to determine locations of points in three dimensions. A camera was gimbal mounted on the end of each of four windmills on the walls of the chamber near the top to allow the telescope to roll in underneath. Retro-reflector cover article - L3Harris

targets were placed on all the mirror assemblies to reflect the flashes from the cameras. This technology was capable of reaching an accuracy under one hundredth of an inch – within the capture range of new interferometry technology.

Interferometry was used to measure the optical quality from the center of curvature of the nearly parabolic primary mirror. For a smoothly varying monolithic optical surface the phase change can be traced along the surface to keep track across cycles of the laser source wavelength. For Webb, the primary mirror has segment breaks with ambiguity of the number of cycles of wavelength in the jump between segments. This was solved using the beat frequency between a fixed laser and an adjustable wavelength laser to generate an effective wavelength over a millimeter long.

The next challenge was the optical test of the rest of the telescope.

Typically, telescopes are tested using a point light source at the image which projects backwards through the telescope to generate a collimated beam from the primary mirror. Then a flat mirror larger than the diameter of the primary mirror reflects the collimated beam back through the telescope to measure the quality of the point image in the detector. This approach could not be employed on Webb.

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Instead, optical fibers were cantilevered over the top of the primary mirror in the shadow of a secondary mirror strut to inject light at a focus of the telescope to provide the sources. The formidable challenge was getting a 22-foot diameter mirror to achieve flatness and stability at the cold test temperature within a reasonable time hanging safely over the telescope with the ability to tip and tilt to move the image to the various locations on the detector. Instead, a careful test plan was engineered with the use of three sub-aperture flat mirrors built using glass with an insensitive thermal expansion curve at these test temperatures. Each of these smaller mirrors was placed at the intersection of three primary mirror segments. Then through the use of two optical testing techniques, Shack-Hartmann and phase diversity phase retrieval, the telescope was

Image credit: NASA The Webb telescope emerges from Chamber A, the massive thermal vacuum testing chamber, after about 100 days of cryogenic testing. This work was performed by engineers and technicians from L3Harris.

fully tested optically and exercised through each step of the on-orbit alignment process.

Team Successes Crews from L3Harris’ Rochester, New York facilities rotated long days and weeks at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for the meticulous telescope integration and at the Johnson Space Center in Texas for the careful test campaign. For added fun, Mother Nature threw in Hurricane Harvey in the middle of the test. The

team held the test schedule, and the Webb Telescope pictures from space proved success! q Bio: Tony Whitman, Chief Systems Engineer, L3Harris Technologies

Educated at Cornell University and the University of Rochester, Tony learned the ropes for more than 15 years at two small optical companies in the Rochester area. He was the Systems Engineering Lead for the integration and testing at the start of the Webb Space Telescope program, then became the Cryogenic Optical Test Director near the program’s end. Tony is currently the Chief Systems Engineer for the optical telescope for NASA’s next great observatory — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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Top: NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs - Glittering Landscape of Star Birth.

Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. Webb’s new view gives us a rare peek into stars in their earliest, rapid stages of formation. For an individual star, this period only lasts about 50,000 to 100,000 years. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Right: Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, from the ELA-3 Launch Zone of Europe’s Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded within a cloud of material feeding its growth.

Ejections from the star have cleared out cavities above and below it, whose boundaries glow orange and blue in this infrared view.

The upper central region displays bubble-like shapes due to stellar “burps,” or sporadic ejections. Webb also detects filaments made of molecular hydrogen that has been shocked by past stellar ejections.

The edges of the cavities at upper left and lower right appear straight, while the boundaries at upper right and lower left are curved. The region at lower right appears blue, as there’s less dust between it and Webb than the orange regions above it. Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; IMAGE PROCESSING: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI) cover article - L3Harris

This Webb telescope image depicts IC 1623, an entwined pair of interacting galaxies which lies around 270 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cetus. The two galaxies in IC 1623 are plunging headlong into one another in a process known as a galaxy merger. Their collision has ignited a frenzied spate of star formation known as a starburst, creating new stars at a rate more than twenty times that of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus & A. Evans; Acknowledgement: R. Colombari DECEMBER 2022 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 21

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AIA Rochester Names Honor Award Winners Five awards to be presented at Annual Business Meeting

The Rochester chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA Rochester) recognized five Honor Award recipients at its Annual Business Meeting at The Little Theatre on October 27, 2022.

David Beinetti, AIA, LEED AP receives the prestigious AIA Rochester Medal of Distinction.

David Beinetti, AIA, LEED AP, former President and Chief Marketing Officer and Current Principal at SWBR, received the prestigious AIA Rochester Medal of Distinction, which recognizes a lifetime of achievement in architecture including service to the profession, the chapter, and the community. This award is the highest honor that AIA Rochester can confer on one of its members.

Beinetti has been at SWBR since 1979 and is a longtime AIA Member. His professional work is in education, housing, and workplace industries. Outside the firm, he is a community leader driving for significant and positive improvement to the built environment in the City of Rochester and throughout the State of New York. “His leadership is inclusive, contagious, and genuine. Leaders in our community hold Dave in the highest regard and value his ongoing contribution to improve our community and lives through use of sustainable practices in design.” said Jennifer Takatch, AIA, 2021 Medal of Distinction recipient. Beinetti has lent his professional skills as a member of the Board for Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, NAIOP Upstate New York, Design Build Institute of America Liberty Region - Upstate NY Chapter, Monroe Community College Fund, and Rochester Sustainability Collaborative to name a few. Beinetti has won many awards and accolades; most recently he received AIA New York State’s 2020 Schwartz Community Development Award. Robert Duffy, President and CEO of the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce, noted that, “For over 40 years, Dave has committed himself and his work to enhancing the community around him.

Not interested in making a quick buck or applying for self-congratulatory prizes, but instead to teaching the next generation of architects how to be the best at what they do.”

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Sara DeSalvo, AIA, of Dwyer Architectural was awarded the 2022 Emerging Architect of the Year Award.

This award recognizes the efforts of emerging leaders within the chapter who have contributed their time and talent towards the improvement of the architectural community and have made considerable Sara DeSalvo, AIA receives advances in their professional the 2022 AIA Rochester career.

As a rising architect, Emerging Architect of the DeSalvo has already made Year award. notable contributions to the field. DeSalvo is currently serving the AIA Rochester Board of Directors as Communications Director and interim Social Media Director and is active with the AIA Golf Tournament for Scholarships and the Women in Architecture Committee. DeSalvo serves as a mentor to students and the next generation of architects in many facets; most notably through her work as a BArch Program mentor to students at Alfred State College, as an NCARB Advisor and as a member of the Accreditation Board at Alfred State College. “Sara is a great role model for all aspiring architects. She is a born leader possessing a dynamic, contagious positive attitude with a passion and desire to succeed, not only for herself but for all those around her,” says Kimberly Dwyer, AIA, EDAC, Managing Partner at Dwyer Architectural.

Outside of the profession, she has given back by volunteering for numerous charitable events, such as the American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure, The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to end ALZ, and has been a member or leader of a CANstruction team since 2006, where cans and donations support our local Foodlink food bank.

Christina Fluman, Assoc. AIA receives the AIA Rochester Volunteer of the Year Award.

Christina Fluman, Associate AIA, of Edge Architecture received the 2022 Volunteer of the Year Award.

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was responsible for the planning and execution of the 2022 AIA Rochester Design Awards, which recognizes excellence in design by local architects. In addition to her efforts to promote architecture within the Rochester area through leading the Design Awards program, Fluman and a colleague demonstrated their capability to produce excellent architecture by winning AIA Rochester’s 2022 Designers Unleashed: Ideas Competition. Outside of the profession, Fluman coaches and mentors young athletes to both improve their soccer skills and help promote positive life values, she works with the Cancer Community Center of Rochester through Edge Architecture and has been helping them redesign a large portion of their community spaces for their members, and she also served as a panelist for the 2022 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist Fellowship program as part of the Architecture/ Environmental Structures/Design Guidelines category.

Andrew Petrosky, AIA was presented with the Past President’s Medal.

Petrosky led the chapter in 2021, through the second year of COVID-19. Even though the challenges of a second year of COVID-19 had to change the delivery and format of some events, he remained focused on creating opportunities for the chapter while keeping the chapter in a good financial position.

Cannan Alexander & Scott (CAS Reps) received the Allied Member of the Year Award.

CAS Reps has been an unwavering supporter of the chapter's endeavors both as an underwriter and as a participant. CAS Reps is a manufacturers’ representative firm Andrew Petrosky, AIA receives the Past President’s specializing in building enclosure products for the commercial and residential construction Award industry, where their mission is to educate, inform and consult with architects, developers, and contractors to increase the awareness of premium products. Since 1999, CAS Reps has been growing, learning and sharing their expertise, so the industry can mature and progress collectively into a better educated and informed building industry.

In addition to the accolades, the Annual Business Meeting included a review of the chapter's 2022 events, the announcement of the 2023 AIA Rochester Board of Directors, and a keynote lecture by Kamal L. Crues, P.E., the ROC the Riverway Program Manager for the city of Rochester, NY. q

Dan Cannan of Cannan, Alexander & Scott, which receives the Allied Member of the Year Award.

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RIT engineering alumnus is part of DART team that changed the speed and path of an asteroid Dmitriy Bekker helped develop imaging and targeting technology for the DART spacecraft

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman On console in the mission operations center at Johns Hopkins APL, Dmitriy Bekker (left), Carolyn Ernst (DRACO instrument scientist) and Zach Fletcher (DRACO instrument lead engineer) take a closer look at the images the spacecraft's onboard camera DRACO returned of the asteroid just seconds before impact.

It is a powerful thing to redirect a 525-foot asteroid with a spacecraft moving at 14,000 mph, and Dmitriy Bekker was one of the engineers who made it happen.

Bekker ’07 BS/MS (computer engineering) is part of the DART – Double Asteroid Redirection Test team that impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26. Its mission was to test asteroid deflection technology—a means to defend Earth by changing the motion and speed of an asteroid.

“This was a test of planetary defense technology. We collected data from this impact so that we have a better idea of how to do this in the future if our planet is ever threatened,” said Bekker, an embedded systems engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL). The lab is one of NASA’s partners in the

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development of technology and scientific instruments for space missions.

Last fall, NASA launched the DART spacecraft, built at JHUAPL. DART headed toward the Didymos asteroid system millions of miles from Earth, where it encountered the moonlet Dimorphos. While there was no danger to Earth from this asteroid, it was selected to measure how the small moon’s orbit would change due to the impact of the spacecraft. NASA predicted a 10-minute orbital change; DART shortened the orbit by 32 minutes.

“What was really impressive was that we had Hubble, James Webb, and other telescopes all over the world observing and watching this pre-planned, cosmic fireworks display that we all had a big part in.”

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Position Openings...Pages 27 - 29 We are seeking a Design Engineer/Project Engineer to join our team to assist the Transportation Group in our Rochester Office. Lu Engineers provides all employees an excellent benefits package.

This position will be provided a very competitive compensation package including a hiring bonus.

Requirements: • • •

Bridge Design

B. S. Civil Engineering Degree 4 – 12 years of Transportation Engineering experience designing highways, streets, culverts and bridge capital improvement projects for municipalities or government transportation agencies NYS P.E. preferable

Desired Technical Skills Include: • • • • •

Design of highway, street, bridge and culvert projects (all aspects of preliminary and final design to produce bid ready documents) Preliminary Design Approval Document preparation including technical studies not limited to (Drainage Reports, Traffic Studies, PETSR, etc.)

Detailed Design of Construction Plans Construction Cost Estimating

Highway Design

Lu Engineers is a full service transportation, civil and environmental engineering firm, headquartered in Rochester, NY with additional offices in Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Albany & NYC.

Desired Software Experience Includes: • • • •

CAD Software (Microstation, AutoCAD, InRoads) Roadway Modeling, Traffic Analysis & Modeling (HCS, Vissim, Synchro, Simtraffic, etc) Drainage Design (HEC-HMS,\ HEC-RAS, etc.)

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Sidewalk Design

Interested candidates are invited to send a cover letter and resume (include Design Engineer in the subject line) to:

Jonathan Ottman jottman@luengineers.com

Lu Engineers is an equal opportunity employer.

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Propulsion Lab, where he would eventually be hired after graduation.

Bekker worked on the imager DRACO—the Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical navigation—and led the development of the high-tech camera’s embedded processing system that was used to analyze images and assist with targeting. He also had a role in developing the displays and screens to visualize the data coming back to Mission Control from the spacecraft.

“Many folks in computer engineering go to companies like Microsoft, Intel, or Micron, to name a few,” said Bekker, who is originally from Brighton, N.Y., and who often comes to campus to represent Johns Hopkins APL at the annual Career Fair. “For those that come from a similar background of computer engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering like I experienced here at RIT, there’s a career path out there that needs this background in engineering to contribute to fundamental research.”

“We had a great team designing, building, and testing the spacecraft,” he said. “Once we launched and were in space, we had to practice operating the spacecraft. It was like learning to drive a car.”

Except that the car was a 1,300-pound spacecraft.

He learned to “drive” through a combination of coursework at RIT and several diverse and challenging co-ops at some of the top research labs in the country—what he termed an engineering wonderland. At Brookhaven National Lab, Bekker worked on data acquisition software for a large laser system. He then moved to a program at NASA Armstrong Research Center, working on instrumentation for research aircraft, and later interned with the NASA Jet

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And to contribute to work on new space missions.

DART resonated with people because of its easy-tounderstand objective. It was simple in its focus of hitting an asteroid, checking if the technology works, and improving for the future.

“NASA is interested in enabling commercial industry to get us back to the moon. And Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is proposing the instrumentation that might go into these projects,” said Bekker. “I often say that the projects I am working on now, even the DART mission, they all feel like larger and longer senior design projects.” q position openings

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Professional Firms Employee News B&L News Barton & Loguidice Welcomes Director of Risk Management Barton & Loguidice (B&L), a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that provides technical solutions to public and private clients throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, welcomes Mary-Beth Rumble to the firm as director of Risk Management. In this position, Rumble joins the firm’s Corporate Team and will be based in the Rochester office.

Mary-Beth Rumble

“Mary-Beth brings a wealth of industry knowledge and experience to the firm in all areas of design firm risk management,” said President and CEO John F. Brusa, Jr., P.E. “Our staff as well as our clients will benefit greatly from her leadership and oversight of B&L’s risk management program including proactive staff education and training.”

Rumble has an extensive background in insurance and risk advisory with a focus on the Architectural and Engineering (A&E) industry. She was formerly a Principal of Poole Professional, where she worked with many A&E firms on various insurance and contractual needs and risk management trainings. She is graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in industrial engineering. q position openings | professional firms employee news

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Speaker: Chuck Nora/Paul Stewart, Desert Aire Place: Strathallan, 550 East Avenue, Rochester, NY Details will be on the website: www.rochesterashrae.org.

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Virtual PDH Continuing Education Courses – “Solar Technology” - 1 PDH Approved, 1 PDH Pending

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Place: Zoom Meeting Time: 1:00 to 5:00 pm.

Cost: $20 for RES Individual Members/$30 for Non-members Registration: Registration will be on the website calendar. Details still being finalized.

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

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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) EXCOM Meeting

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Cost: $20 for RES Individual Members/$30 for Non-members Registration: Registration will be on the website calendar. Details still being finalized.

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Panel Discussion on INCOSE’s Systems Engineering Professional Certifications and the INCOSE Institute for Technical Leadership (TLI)

Speakers: One of our ESEPs and two CSEPs discuss their experiences.

Place: Attendees can attend via zoom or in-person at L3Harris Technologies, 1680 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610 Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm (eastern).

Cost: No cost to attend.

Registration: Attendees need to pre-register by sending an email to: Teresa.Froncek@incose.net and state whether you will attend via zoom or in-person. The zoom link will be sent out a few days before the meetings.

Thursday, December 15

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Holiday Happy Hour

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Place: St. Paul Proper, 187 St. Paul Street, downtown Rochester.

Times: 5:00 to 9:00 pm Cost: $15 for ASCE Members, $20 for Non-members; $10 for Students includes: pizza and wings, door prizes, games and giveaways. Pay online via PayPal is preferred, cash/check at the door accepted. Don’t forget to bring a new pair of winter gloves or winter hat and receive a token for a free pint of beer, well drink, or glass of wine. Donations go to the local Veterans Outreach Center. STEM Toys will also be accepted and donated to the Pirate Toy Find – receive 2 free drink tokens for this donation!

Reservations: via Constant Contact invite or by emailing ascerochester@gmail.com.

Thursday, December 15 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Award and Volunteer Recognition Dinner Place: Ellison Park Pavilion Lodge Time: 6:00 to 9:00 pm Registration: Registration at https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332191.

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Speaker: TBA Place: TBD. Cost is $25.

Reservations: David Jereckos, djereckos@ibceng.com or 585-341-3168. Additional details will be available on the website at www.aspe.org/rochester.

Tuesday, January 3

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Place: Hybrid, via WebEx and in-person (see vtools for venue and WebEx login) Time: 11:50 am to 1:00 pm Registration links for our events are at: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332190

Thursday, January 5

Rochester Engineering Society (RES)

Monthly Social Gathering – Looking for a Co-Sponsor

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Place: TBA Time: 5:00 pm Registration: Please register so we know how many people are attending! www.roceng.org and go to the calendar.

ADDITIONAL MEETINGS WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE CALENDAR

Support Your Affiliate Attend A Meeting The RES website (www.roceng.org) has a calendar of events for this month's meetings and meetings that are received or updated after print deadline. Please refer to the website for updated information. If you wish to be listed in the calendar please send details to res@frontiernet.net.

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Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/Chapters/ChapterSites/finger-lakes/chapter-home Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING http://www.incose.org/ChaptersGroups/Chapters/ChapterSites/finger-lakes/chapter-home

Upcoming March Chapter Meeting: March 17, 2022 September Chapter Meetings

December Chapter Meeting

 “Introduction Railway Signaling and Train Architecture Control for Rapid Transit”  Architectureto Tutorial – Rolf Siegers, INCOSE Working By StuartCo-chair Landau, Senior Train Control Systems Engineer . Group We aresignaling offering an allows Architecture this September.

Planned dates Monday,  Panel Discussion ontutorial INCOSE’s Systems Engineering Professional Railway safe operations of multiple trains onarethe sameSeptember tracks and 19, and Thursday, September 22. Both sessions will be from 11 am to 1 pm (eastern). Rolf

Siegers, capacity co-chair of of thethe Architecture WG, be the presenter.

Itbe willabevery a virtual meeting (zoom). to optimizes tracks.

Thiswill presentation willTechnical brief introduction Certifications the Institute for Leadership (TLI) There will be no cost toand attend for INCOSE Finger Lakes Chapter regular/senior/student members. Cost its basic principles and Four howPDUs they can have been implemented over the last several will be $10 for all others. be earned!

These two sessions will provide attendees with an overview of key elements of the architecture Wewith will have onetechnologies, of our ESEPs and two CSEPs discuss their experiences with decades various from mechanical devices to microprocessordiscipline. Topics covered will include: •

Terminology/Definitions

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Process: developing, documenting, assessing, and governing architectures

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Architecture credentials (certifications and certificates)

based obtaining equipment. ofsystem, the principles varies across typesfrom of the • Synergies across software, and enterprise architecture theApplication certifications, lessons-learned, etc.

They will different take questions railways;•here we willstandards focus on rapid transitand which includes subways metros, Architecture (e.g., 42010/20/30) frameworks (DoDAF, TOGAF, and UAF, etc.) audience.

Weskills willofalso have our current member of TLI cohort 8 discuss his • Role and the architect and will cover wayside signaling, cab signaling, and the latest Communications• Architecture professional organizations Basedexperiences Train Control (CBTC). with the application • Learning more about architecture process, getting employer buy-in, and the current  AnnualHe Meeting Program to befrom Announced program. will also– take questions the audience.

Our annual meeting will be on Thursday, September 15. It will be virtual and go from 6:00 – 7:30 pm (eastern). There is no cost to attend.

Meetings begin at 6:00 pm (eastern) and run to approximately 7:30 pm (eastern)

Attendees needare to pre-register.

To register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net All meetings being held virtually until further notice.

This meeting will be on Thursday, Dec 15, 6 – 7:30 pm (eastern).

The link will be sent out a few days before the meeting. can attend via zoom or, if a US Person, in-person at L3Harris Technologies WeAttendees use zoomFor fornon-FLC our monthly meetings. members attending the tutorial, instructions on Rochester, NY (will 1680 University Avenue, Rochester NY, 14610). sending payment be out after is received.

• There is no cost to attend forsent anyone, butregistration pre-registration is required. © 2022 INCOSE Finger Lakes Chapter

oAttendees To register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net need to pre-register.

To register, send an email to Teresa.Froncek@incose.net whether youdays will before attendthe via meeting zoom or in-person.  The linkand will state be sent out a few The zoom link will be sent out a few days before the meeting.

For in-person attendees (L3Harris): Further instructions will be sent out before the meeting

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Those attending in-person must register by noon, Dec 14.

There is no cost to attend the meeting.

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American Society of Civil Engineers http://sections.asce.org/rochester/home

‘TIS THE SEASON… HOLIDAY HAPPY HOUR

Cost: $10 (students), $15 (members), $20 (non-members) includes: Pizza & Wings, door prizes, games & giveaways.

Pay online via PayPal is preferred, cash/check at the door accepted.

Don’t forget to bring a new pair of winter gloves or winter hat and receive a token for a free pint of beer, well drink, or glass of wine. Donations will go to the local Veterans Outreach Center to keep our hero Vets warm!

S.T.E.M. Toys will also be accepted and donated to the Pirate Toy Fund – receive 2 free drink tokens for this donation!

RSVP: via Constant Contact invite or by emailing ascerochester@gmail.com

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 5:00 – 9:00pm

ST. PAUL PROPER

187 ST. PAUL STREET Downtown Rochester

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657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607 Dedicated to Professionalism in Engineering in the Interest of Public Safety and Welfare 2022-2023 Officers: President William J. Grove, PE, President-elect Robert K. Winans, PE, Vice-President Kenneth Rea, PE, Secretary Martin E. Gordon, PE, Treasurer Christopher R. Devries, P.E., Membership Chair Vacant Past Presidents: Michael O. Ritchie, PE, Christopher V. Kambar, P.E., David C. Roberts, PE, Directors: Barry J. Dumbauld, PE, Donald P. Nims, Jr., PE, Douglas R. Strang Jr, PE, Joseph Dombrowski, PE, David C. Roberts, PE, Neal Illenberg, PE,

Access the information for Covid-19 Small Business Legislation (https://www.quorum.us/spreadsheet/external/GQuvKPGmWdIYzQPSUkaO/) Click here for NSPE Covid-19 Resources (https://www.nspe.org/resources/coronavirus-covid-19-resources) Continuing Education/Examinations/Registrations: (http://www.op.nysed.gov/COVID-19.html)

2023 ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM The 2023 Engineering Symposium has been tentatively scheduled for Tuesday April 25, 2023.

Message from the MPES President I recently attended the NYSSPE Fall Meeting in Saratoga Springs. It was my first NYSSPE meeting. I found the meeting to be very well organized and I really enjoyed the speakers and the subjects that they presented. It was also a great opportunity to network with other engineers and vendors of some of the products we use in the profession.

The organizational meeting on Saturday was quite interesting. I now have a much better sense of the NYSSPE organizational structure. I would highly recommend that you attend the NYSSPE Annual Conference, June 8-10 at the Hyatt, 125 E. Main St., Rochester, NY, and experience it for yourself.

A topic of discussion that came up at the NYSSPE organizational meeting was the lack of race, gender, and age diversity, not only in NYSSPE, but across the entire engineering field. As I looked around the room at the Saratoga Springs meeting it was quite clear to see, as it was nearly all older white men. We can certainly do better. If you are reading this and you are on the fence about getting involved in a local engineering society, just do it! If you are already involved, please encourage other engineers to join you. Often all it takes is for you to ask them. If they need more convincing, just remind them that engineering societies are great opportunities to network with people with similar interests and to learn more about how best to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Who could say “no” to that?

Respectfully, Bill Grove, PE

As always, we encourage active membership in the Monroe Professional Engineers Society. We are constantly striving to improve your membership but we always need more help. If you are interested in becoming an active member or have any questions, please email me at grove.engineering@yahoo.com or contact MPES through our website at www.monroepes.org/contactus/.

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December 2022 Newsletter Section Officers Chair Eric Brown Vice Chair Kelly Robinson Treasurer Howard Bussey Secretary (Vacant)

Chapters & Groups AES & COMSOC Cristiano Tapparello CS & CIS Bo Yuan EDS & CSS Sean Rommel EMBS Cristian Linte GRSS Emmett Ientilucci LIFE Mark Schrader APS & MTTS Danielle Walters Photonics Bruce Smith Parsian K. Mohseni PES & IAS Jean Kendrick Kelly Robinson SPS Alex Byrley Eric Zeise TEMS Paul Lee Young Professionals Eric Brown

Student Groups Univ. of Rochester Ming-Lun Lee RIT Jamison Heard

Message from the Chair Dear Colleagues, The Rochester Section’s 2022 Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop (WNYISPW) took place on Friday, November 4. Thanks to the great work of Eric Zeise, the Rochester Section Signal Processing Chair and Section Secretary, and the workshop committee members, the event was a great success with over 80 registered attendees. It was a great example of the breadth of IEEE with signal processing topics from looking within the human body to looking back in time through the depths of space. Stay tuned for the 2023 edition of the WNYISPW. On December 11, the IEEE Rochester Section Young Professionals will host a Buffalo Bills Tailgate before the NY Jets vs. Buffalo Bills game in Orchard Park. The event is open to IEEE members and non-members. Advanced registration is required (vTools #332193) and does not include a game admission ticket.

On Thursday, December 15, the Rochester Section will hold our Award and Volunteer Recognition Dinner (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332191). We will recognize the 2022 IEEE Region One William Terry Distinguished Service Award recipient, Dr. Santosh Kurinec, our 2022 Student Scholarship recipients: Anand Idris and Christina Nguyen, and the invaluable volunteers that keep the Rochester Section running.

The next Rochester Section ExCom meeting will be on Tuesday, January 3, from noon to 1 pm (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/332190). Please pre-register on vTools using the above link.

Stay healthy, and best regards,

Committees Awards Jean Kendrick Communications Christine Frayda Howard Bussey Newsletter Mark Schrader PACE Bruce Rubin

Liaisons RES Greg Gdowski RCSS William Brewer

2022 Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop The 2022 IEEE Western New York Image and Signal Processing Workshop was a resounding success on Friday, November 4th. With two keynote addresses, six invited speakers, six shorter presentations and twelve poster presentations. Two of the presentations were remote. A very wide variety of topics were covered for which image and signal processing are essential. We had 81 registrants, 15 remote participants, and 43 student registrants.

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We greatly appreciate support of our corporatesponsors: sponsors:Orolia Orolia(underwriting (underwriting major We greatly appreciate the the support of our corporate majorworkshop workshop cost), Vanteon (major help with logistics), L3-Harris (underwriting student costs), and cost), Vanteon (major help with logistics), L3-Harris (underwriting student costs), and SRC SRCInc. Inc. In addition, our heartfelt thanks to all of presentersand andattendees attendeeswho who helped helped make this In addition, our heartfelt thanks to all of thethe presenters make this We greatly appreciate thesuccess support of our corporate sponsors: Orolia (underwriting major workshop workshop an outstanding for the IEEE community and the Rochester Section in particular.

We greatly appreciate the support of our corporate sponsors: Orolia (underwriting major workshop outstanding the IEEE community and thestudent Rochester Section in workshop particular. cost),an Vanteon (majorsuccess help withfor logistics), L3-Harris (underwriting costs), and SRC Inc. cost), Vanteon (major help with logistics), L3-Harris (underwriting student costs), and SRC Inc.

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In addition, our heartfelt thanks to all of the presenters and attendees who helped make this

In addition, ouran heartfelt thanks to all for of the presenters and and attendees who helped make this workshop outstanding success the IEEE community the Rochester Section in particular. workshop an outstanding success for the IEEE community and the Rochester Section in particular.

IEEE Rochester Section Recognition Dinner

IEEE Rochester Section Recognition Dinner IEEEVolunteer Rochester Dinner The IEEE Rochester Section andSection Awards Recognition Recognition Dinner will be held on Thursday 12/15 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm at Ellison Park Pavilion Lodge

The IEEE Rochester Section Volunteer and Awards Recognition Dinner will be held on Thursday IEEE Rochester Section Recognition Dinner Rochester Section Volunteer andPavilion Awards Recognition Dinner will be held on Thursday 12/15 The fromIEEE 6:00pm – 9:00pm at Ellison Park Lodge 12/15 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm at Ellison Park Pavilion Lodge

The IEEE Rochester Section Volunteer and Awards Recognition Dinner will be held on Thursday 12/15 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm at Ellison Park Pavilion Lodge

We welcome and celebrate the return to in person events!

EE’s inspire the future!

We welcome and celebrate return personevents! events!

We welcome and celebrate the the return to to in in person

We welcome and AN celebrate the return ENGINEER to in person events!

ARE YOU ELECTRICAL THAT CAN AFFORD TO SPEND 2

HOURS, ONE DAY A YEAR, TO INSPIRE HIGH SCOOL STUDENTS TO PURSUE A CAREER IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING?

The Rochester Engineering Society Explorer post is looking for 1-2 engineers to host a 2-hour mee�ng, on a Wednesday night of your choice, in January, February or March. The event should include a brief review of: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)

Your educa�on Your experiences as an engineer (posi�ve or nega�ve) A general descrip�on of what an Electrical Engineer does Why you selected Electrical Engineering A demo of some sort or a tour of your facility

The event can be held at your facility or at the Boy Scout headquarters in Henrieta. I will help you with your plans and presenta�ons. Our Explorer post consists of approximately 20 Senior High school students with an interest in engineering (16-18 years old).

For more information contact: Rich Repka rrepka10@yahoo.com Rochester Engineering Society ieee news

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www.iesrochester.org

Thank you to our Torchbearers!

Support the IES Rochester and receive tickets to lunch events, the annual golf outing and sponsorship recognition!

Find out more by visiting our website!

UPCOMING HAPPY HOUR!

Lunch Meetings starting in the New Year Wellness in the Workplace:

Strategies for communication, mindfulness, improving emotional and physical health and improving work relationships

Wednesday December 14, 2022 Fairport Brewing Company University Ave Location Look for our email with more details!

STAY CONNECTED! Join our mailing list to receive the latest communications from the Rochester IES! Have an idea or topic that has been intriguing you that you would like to see as a lunch program?

We’d love to hear from you!

www.iesrochester.org

Lighting Controls topics including: Current Energy Code Requirements Creating a Sequence of Operations Power of Ethernet (PoE)

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Visit our website for more information and to register for upcoming events!

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

Facebook: facebook.com/GVLSA

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups/8212223

Year 2022 Officers

Board of Directors

President Justin M. Roloson, LS Vice President Matthew R. Palmer, LS Secretary Martin J. Gotwalt, LS Treasurer Michael A. Venturo, LS

2019-2022 Gregory T. Pauly, LS Jeffrey A. Tiede, LS 2019-2022 Christopher T. Locke, LS David L. Standinger, LS 2020-2023 Robert J. Avery, LS Nathan M. Dunn, LS Jared R. Ransom, LS

December 2022

Jared R. Ransom, LS, Ex-officio

Keith Burley, LSIT 2022 - Associates Representative David Zuber, LSIT - Website Administrator

Upcoming Events 2022 December 15, 2022 Annual Meeting/Holiday Party Time: 6:30 pm 40 & 8 Club 933 University Avenue Rochester, NY 14607

Annual Meeting/ Holiday Party Time: 6:30 PM

Thursday, December 15, 2022 Professional Affiliations  New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Inc.  National Society of Professional Surveyors

40 & 8 Club 933 University Avenue Rochester, NY 14607

 Rochester Engineering Society

Details on the website/Facebook/LinkedIn (see above)

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Representing Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne County

Genesee Valley APWA 2022 Awards Call for Nomination The Genesee Valley Chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA) is pleased to announce that nominations are now being received for the 2022 Awards.

Recognition of the dedicated public works professionals throughout our industry and successful public projects that improve the lives of those around the communities should be made. It is up to you to think about deserving public works personnel and public works projects that are worthy of recognition. Take the time to review the categories and submit your nominations.

A complete list of the categories being considered for both employees, individuals and projects can be found at the APWA New York website at http://newyork.apwa.net.

At this point we are planning on an IN-PERSON Awards Banquet scheduled for Thursday January 26, 2023 at the RIT Inn and Conference Center.

Nominations will be received in electronic form ONLY with NO paper submissions by Friday December 9, 2022 at 5 pm. The nomination forms and supporting information should be provided as a PDF with photographs provided in a JPEG format.

Nominations shall be provided to: Paul Chatfield, P.E., Awards Committee Chairman MRB Group 145 Culver Road, Suite 160 Rochester, New York 14620 Telephone: 585-381-9250 (Office) or 585-506-6059 (Cell) Email: paul.chatfield@mrbgroup.com Please consider submitting an application as we look to recognize the best of public works in our area.

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Friday, March 31, 2023

SAVE THE DATE! EARN PDH CREDITS!

The 2023 Spring Seminar will be held at Batavia Downs and offered virtually ABCD’s Spring Conference will be held in-person and virtually on March 31, 2023. This has proven to be a very popular event, where attendance has grown to over 100 professionals, from inspectors to engineers to contractors. We are interested in all aspects of bridge construction and design, from lessons learned to the latest research, codes and design parameters, constructability and construction techniques.

If you have an interesting topic that would benefit the Bridge Community, consider submitting a presentation for our Spring Seminar.

For additional information contact: Jonathan Herman, P.E. Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. (GPI) (716) 982-8658 jherman@gpinet.com

Tomas Andino, P.E. City of Rochester (585) 428-6535 Tomas.Andino@CityofRochester.Gov

Association for Bridge Construction and Design Western New York Chapter www.abcdwny.com

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Rochester Chapter

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: www.rochesterashrae.org

President's Message We are very excited to report that the Rochester ASHRAE Chapter has had a great start to 2022. The Chapter is very encouraged by the meeting attendance so far. For the 2021-22 year we were struggling to hit 40 members in attendance. For the November meeting our attendance was 90! This is really great news for us since it was a risk for the chapter to use the Strathallan for meetings if attendance did not increase.

Great job by Jim Parks for setting up a great program and his work to choose our new venue. Thank you to our membership for showing up to support our Distinguished Lecturer Paul Torcellini for his presentation on “How Do We Get To a Decarbonized World.”

For the first time in more than a decade we are very pleased to announce that for 2022 we have selected recipients for the Charles Lynch Memorial Scholarship and the Jack Betlem Memorial Scholarship.

This is truly a highlight for the Chapter this year. Two students at MCC have received a scholarship to help them on their way to the field of HVAC. Credit to Mike Benedict for his hard work to keep pushing this past the finish line. We will be welcoming

DECEMBER NEWSLETTER

ASHRAE 2022-2023 Meeting Schedule Date Monday, 9/12/2022

Monday, 10/17/2022

Event

Monday, 12/12/2022

Monday, 1/9/2023

Friday, 2/?/2023

IAQ

Presented by: David Bennett - DriSteem

PDH Approved

Strathallan

History Review Strathallan

Presented by: ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Paul Torcellini

PDH Pending

Grow Room Design PDH Pending

Strathallan

PDH Pending

Strathallan

6?th Annual ASHRAE Valentines Dinner Dance-

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Strathallan 9th Floor

Presented by: Chuck Nora/Paul Stewart, Desert Aire Hybrid Boiler Systems for Decarbonization Presented by: Ken Eggleston, Mestek

Topic: TBD

Membership Promotion

Presented by: TBD

(PDH Pending)

Friday, February TBD

Joe Harding Memorial Ski Day (week of recess)

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Monday, 3/13/2023

Women and STEM: Enhancing Innovation and Sustainability through Diversity Presented by: ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Theresa Weston

Resource Promotion

Monday, 2/13/2023

Monday, 4/10/2023

Monday, May TBD

Location White House Lodge

Humidification 101

"How Do We Get to a Decarbonized World?"

Monday, 11/14/2022

Theme

Fall Social at The White House Lodge

Strathallan / Hyatt

Hunt Hollow 9am-4pm

Strathallan / Hyatt

(PDH Pending)

Refrigeration Tour TBD

Refrigeration Night

Presented by: TBD

(PDH Pending)

Annual ASHRAE Golf Outing and Picnic (Ravenwood Golf Course)

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9:30 AM Golf 4:30 - 8:00 Picnic

the scholarship recipient at a future chapter meeting.

I would like to thank every one of our members for supporting ASHRAE. For anyone considering joining ASHRAE or getting involved at a higher level within the chapter don’t hesitate to reach out to us! Please enjoy the Holiday season and we look forward to seeing everyone in 2023.

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Matthew Kremers ASHRAE Rochester Chapter President 2022-2023

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Harold Clark, Director It’s the Gift Giving Season! trfsef@terraed.org Give the Gift of Yourself!

Influence the Future!

Your taking the time to work with a student on a Science Fair project can have a profound influence on that student choosing a STEM career.

You can choose the level of interaction: • Advisor: talk with the student about their project • Mentor: work with the student on a longer-term basis You’ll be matched with a student who registers with a Fair project in the STEM field(s) you specify.

The length and depth of the interaction is completely up to you and the student.

If interested, please register as a Volunteer at the Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair website.

Terra Fair Date: March 18, 2023 Thank you!

open to all students grades 6 to 12

Contact TRFSEF@terraed.org to connect with the regional fair

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President/Education Chair: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110 Vice President Technical: DAVE JERECKOS IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Legislative: ALAN SMITH, P.E. IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Membership/AYP: TRAVIS JESSICK Dave Gooding Inc 173 Spark Street Brockton MA 02302 585-794-8845 Treasurer: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E., CPD CPL 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Administrative Secretary: ADAM KRAMER Bergmann 280 E. Broad Street Suite 200 Rochester, NY 14604 585-498-7802 Newsletter Editor: NADIA THOMPSON Turner Engineering 359 West Commercial St, Ste 2190 East Rochester NY 14445 (585) 381-3360 Affiliate Liaison: REBECCA KOLSTAD Kolstad Associates

President's Message We have now had a couple of in-person meetings that have gone well. The Board met and agreed to raise the cost of attendance to $25 so we can break even. The December meeting will be at Three Heads Brewing.

The ASPE is now accepting applications for the Alfred E. Steele Scholarship. This program is open to ASPE family members enrolled in Engineering at College.

The Green Plumbing Design (GPD) certification program is available as an online course and certification test for GPD credential. ASPE Member $500 – Non-Members $600. Additional Information is on the ASPE website.

Membership is growing.

I would like to welcome our newest member to The Rochester Chapter of A.S.P.E: Trevor Sax, IBC Engineering.

Please feel free to contact myself or any Board Member with questions or concern.

Rochester Chapter website is at www.aspe.org/rochester.

Dave Myers, Chapter President (Chapters are not authorized to speak for the Society)

Meeting Notice – Save the Date Topic:

To be determined.

Speaker:

To Be Determined,

Date:

December 21, 2022

RSVP:

David Jereckos: djereckos@ibceng.com (585) 341-3168

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L3Harris' operations center on Jefferson Road in Rochester features approximately 573,000 square feet of manufacturing space

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Senior Vice President - Investments

Wells Fargo Advisors

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Affiliated Societies of the Rochester Engineering Society American Consulting Engineering, Companies of New York

Electrical Association

Executive Director, Karen Lynch

President, Alex Strasenburgh

American Public Works Association Monroe County/Genesee Valley Branch

Monroe Professional Engineers Society

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association

Chairman, Peter Vars, PE,

President, Jared R. Ransom, LS

President, Mike Ritchie, PE

New York State Association of Transportation Engineers, Section 4 President, Christopher Reed

Rochester, NY Section

American Society of Civil Engineers, Rochester Section President, Andrew Wojewodzic

P.O. Box 23795 Rochester, NY 14692 www.iesrochester.org

Illuminating SocietyMEETINGS of North IESEngineering ROCHESTER America Inc., Rochester Section

ARE BACK !!!

President, Jennifer Abraham

SEPTEMBER 29,2021 - 7:00 PM

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Rochester Chapter President, Matt Kremers

FREE Event Rochester Plant Engineers

COME TOUR THE WINNER OF OUR IES ROCHESTER President, Brian Laurer EXTERIOR LIGHTING AWARD - ROC CITY SKATE PARK MEMBERS FROM THE DESIGN TEAM FROM STANTEC AND FROM THE CITY OF ROCHESTER WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.IESROCHESTER.ORG

Imaging Science & Technology, Rochester Chapter President, Bruce Pillman

Sheet Metal & Air-Conditioning Contractor’s National Association Rochester, Inc. Executive Director, Don Fella

Wednesday October 13 - 12:00 Noon

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rochester Section

Institute ofBasics Electrical and Electronics of Modern Theatre Lighting System Design Engineers, Rochester Section Chairman, Eric Brown- Power Distribution & Control

Chairman, Berto Perez

- DMX & Networking - LED Theatrical Luminaires

Society of Plastics Engineers, Rochester Section

Location & Details TBD - Save The Date !

American Society of Plumbing Engineers, Rochester NY Chapter

Please Visit Our Website For More Details www.iesrochester.org

Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, Rochester Chapter

President, David Myers

President, Tim Gallman

Association for Bridge Construction and Design President, Ashley Freeman PE

International Council on Systems Engineering, Finger Lakes Chapter

affiliated societies of the rochester engineering society

President, Teresa Fronk

President, Brett Blaisdell

Terra Rochester Finger Lakes Science & Engineering Fair

Director, Harold R. Clark, PhD

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Celebrating 30 Years!

John R. Hoff, PE

RES Past President (1984) 1974 Engineer of the Year John passed away peacefully at home with family on November 24, 2022, after a blessed 97-1/2 years of life.Obit at: https://www. democratandchronicle.com/ obituaries/rdc179188

Rochester | Buffalo | Syracuse | Capital District www.meengineering.com

www.roceng.org November 2022 Alstom Audio Frequency Track Circuit Technology: Innovation in Urban Transit Train Control | 16

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 Two RES Events in November - Nov. 3 (Happy Hour at Three Heads Brewing) - PDH Educational Courses Nov. 17 | 8 & 9    

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