Below is a summary of your chapter's activities for 2004/05. We have compiled the main features of each chapter meeting along with the winners of various awards, other activities and events which took place outside of regular meetings, the names of persons serving on the executive committee as well as other persons and organizations that played a prominent role in this year's activities.
| Meetings | Officers | Awards | Membership |
October 2004
No meeting this month.
Download/view October's Newsletter (pdf document)
November 18, 2004 - Plant Tour, Joint Meeting with NACE
Location: United Airlines Maintenance Depot, SFO
Speaker: Byron May
Affiliation: United Airlines
March 2005
No meeting this month.
Download/view March's Newsletter (pdf document)
May 11, 2005 - Student Awards Night, Joint Meeting with
ACerS
Sponsor: Buehler, LTD., Jamie Sandoz
Location: Cafe California, Davis, CA
Speaker: Alan Cassell
Affiliation: NASA-AMES
Title: Carbon Nanotechnology Towards Applications for Space Applications
Download/view May's Meeting
Announcement (pdf document)
The executive committee for 2004/05 was:
Chair: Mike Meier, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Treasurer: Chuck Morones, P.E., California Department of Water
Membership: Rich Stellina, retired
Publicity: Paul Tibbals, P.E., Pacific Gas and Electric
John Dorn Award: This award is given to a Ph.D. student in the last year of his or her studies. This year the award went to:
 | Jill Johnsen, U.C. Davis. |
Scholastic Achievement Award: This award is given to outstanding students from U. C. Davis and U. N. Reno. This year awards were given to:
| U.N. Reno: Matthew Goodale, Gabriel Rojas-George, Yon Sohn |
| U.C. Davis: Tammy Siliznoff, Tien Tran, Pragati Jain |
Outstanding Community College Student Awards
This award is given to outstanding students in academic and technical programs at
regional community colleges. Two nominations from each school are considered. This year
the awards were given to:
| Los Medanos College: Jeffery Phillips, Nickolas E. Kurzadkowski (Instructor: Andy Ochoa) |
| Sierra College: Phuc Ton (Instructor: Debbie Hill) |
| Solano College: Kristine Haunschild, Christian Des Champs (Instructor: Melanie Lutz) |
| Yuba College: Harpreet Dhanda, Yara Alcala (Instructor: Steve Klein) |
Membership Awards: Each year at the end of our season we recognize the various achievements of members from our chapter. This year the following awards were presented during the June meeting:
| 5 Years: Peter Zwigl, Will Glesener, Dan LaRochelle, Kelly A. Walden, Steve Petterson, Kristo Regio, Marc Detert, Philip H. Booker, R. Scott Dufault, Perry Martin |
| 15 Years: Michael D. Baldwin, Rajan Varadan |
| 25 Years: Fredrick P. Brechtel, George E. Tardiff, Ph.D., Dennis A. McGuire, Dushyant Mammohan |
| Life Awards: Zuhair Munir, FASM |
Sustaining Members - The Chapter's sustaining members are:
| Conam Nuclear, Inc., Benecia, member since 1964 |
| Coulter Steel and Forge Co., Emeryville, member since 1957 |
| FTI-Anamet Corp., Hayward, member since 1989 |
| Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical, Pleasanton, member since 1957 |
| Primex Technologies, San Leandro, member since 1978 |
| Thermo-Fusion, Inc., Hayward, member since 1984 |
| University of California, Davis, Shields Library, member since 1981 |
| Wyman Gordon Investment Castings, San Leandro Division, San Leandro, member since 1979 |
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