2007-2008 Program We hope you enjoy this year's program. Please note the day for our monthly meetings is Wednesday (in most cases), generally the second Wednesday of the month. For reservations contact Tino Volpe (800) 225-2130 x188 or use our online reservation form. Please make your reservations no later than the Monday before each meeting. Contact one of the Chapter officers if you have suggestions for a meeting topic.

6:00 Tour and Wine Tasting; ~7:30 Dinner

Come join us for a tour of beautiful Sakonnet Vineyards followed by dinner at Crowthers Restaurant. Our tour will include a tasting from a selection of six wines.

For those attending the post-tour dinner there is a $5 additional charge for the tour and tasting. Those who are unable to join us for dinner may enjoy the tour and tasting only for $10. Everybody attending the tour will receive a Sakonnet Vineyard wine glass to take home.

Dinner includes soup or salad (garden or Caesar) and a choice of entree:
Sauteed Scrod with chourico, tomatoes, olives, and fresh parsley.
Grilled Chicken Breast with mushroom sauce, mashed potatoes, and squash.
Garlic Marinated Bistro Steak, butter roasted potatoes, and green beans.

Dinner Cost: (add $5.00 if participating in the tour and tasting)
ASM Members - $21.00
Guests - $26.00
Students, Retirees, Unemployed - $13.00

Pearson Composites, formerly a division of TPI Composites, builds vessels from 28 to 65 feet in length; and is one of the premier builders of pleasure boats in the U.S. The work force at Pearson Composites, over 200 people, is comprised of some of the nation’s most skilled and experienced craftsmen.

Pearson Composites is a leader in building boats using the patented SCRIMP infusion technology, which results in lighter, stronger hulls. Pearson was recently awarded a contract to build a new fleet of 44 foot sailing vessels for the U.S. Naval Academy.

Pearson Composites builds the Tru North line of power boats, as well as the ever popular J-Boat and Alerion Express sailing vessels.

Mr. Clive Dent, the Engineering Manager, will be our host for the evening. The tour will commence at 6:00PM sharp.

Directions:
From Providence, take Rt. 195 East (Exit 20) toward Cape Cod and Fall River Pass Exits 1 through 8 in RI. When entering MA, the exit numbers restart at 1. Take Exit 2 Route 136 towards Warren and Newport. Bear right at the end of the ramp onto Route 136 South. Go straight through the traffic light, cross Route 6, and continue on Route 136 south about one mile. As you enter the town of Warren, Route 136 becomes Market Street. Pearson Composites is on the left, a large tan building, housed within TPI Composites, across the street from the Country Inn.

Dinner to follow the tour at:

Tweet Balzano’s Family Restaurant
180 Mt. Hope Avenue
Bristol, RI 02809

Menu: Hearty Italian Soup, Chicken Parmagiana & Pasta, Dessert and Coffee.

Directions To Tweet Balzano’s Restaurant:

From Providence:

Take Rt. 95 North or South to Rt. 195 East
Take Exit 2, Warren, R.I. / US-6 E / Newport R.I.
Turn RIGHT off the exit onto Rt.136, Metacom Ave.
For 4 miles driving through Warren, into Bristol,
you will pass a Dunkin' Donuts next to a Blockbuster on your left;
go another half a mile and take a right onto Mt. Hope Avenue.

LOCATION: Colonial Restaurant & Pub, 290 Thompson Rd. (Rte. 193), Webster, MA, 508-943-4040, http://colonialrestaurant.com

TIME: Social hour 5:30-6:30 pm., dinner 6:30 pm., presentation following

MEAL: Buffet with Baked Stuffed Seafood Casserole and Teriyaki Chicken Breast

TOPIC:
The most frequently used inspection methods are, for the most part, effective and reliable. There have been instances; however, where the designated inspections were not able to detect cracks, and as a result catastrophic failures occurred. In the aviation field we are fortunate the accident reports are made public, so engineers can learn from the mistakes and take corrective actions to prevent recurrences. A number of cases where faulty inspection procedures resulted in accidents will be discussed. These cases are based on published reports and personal experiences and will deal with the crashes which involved a 707 freighter (visual examination), a DC-10 (dye penetrant), a small passenger plane (magnetic particle), a 737 (eddy currents), and a 747 freighter (ultrasonics).

SPEAKER: Arthur J. McEvily, Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut
Dr. McEvily was honored in 2006 by ASM/TMS for his contributions to theoretical and experimental aspects of fatigue and fracture over the past 50 years. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and began his career at NASA, later working for the Ford Motor Co. before joining UConn. He has been a visiting professor/researcher in India, Japan, Great Britain, the USSR, Germany and China. He is a fellow of ASM, ASME and the International Fatigue Congress.

PRICE: Members $21; Students/Retirees $13; Nonmembers $26

RESERVATIONS: Contact Tino Volpe at 401-739-9550 X188 or register on-line at http://www.metallography.com/asm/reserve.htm . Reservations required by Tues. Nov. 13.

DIRECTIONS: From Providence take 146 north. Take exit for route 16. Make left onto 16. Take route 16 to route 395S. Get off at exit 1 for 193 toward Webster. Take left (south) onto Thompson Rd. (Rte. 193) and proceed ~1/4 mile.

Late reservations may not be guaranteed a dinner placing. Reservations not cancelled 48 hours prior to the meeting will be subject to member invoicing. Non-members welcome!!!

Time: 6:00pm Foundry Tour, 7:00pm Glass Blowing

Followed by: Dinner at Kartabar Restaurant, 284 Thayer St 401-331-8111
Select: Pan Seared Shrimp & Three Cheese Tortellini or
Stuffed Chicken Breasts or
Grilled Marinated Vegetable Kabobs
…..All with soup, salad & fixings

Cost: ASM Members: $22.00, Guests: $28.00, Spouses, Students, ASM Retirees: $15.00

The tour will include a glass blowing demonstration.

The Glass Department offers training to undergraduates through its four-year BFA program and to graduate students pursuing professional studies in its MFA program. The department also offers individualized training in glass to students preparing for graduate and professional studies through its one-year Post-baccalaureate Program. Since 1968, RISD has been dedicated to the development of glass art, and its glass department is widely recognized as a leader in preparing artists for careers in glass.

The Glass Department considers glass to be an artist’s material having remarkable and complex expressive range, as well as a studio discipline with limitless potential and a unique history that incorporates sculpture, architecture, design, craft and decorative art. The department is a media-specific sculpture program that combines this rich and diverse heritage with an unending material and process investigation of glass, and a corresponding commitment to conceptual development and artistic criticality. Glass majors are asked to value and nurture their native curiosity as the basis for a personal aesthetic that engages a wide world through continual experimentation and artistic striving. Advanced students are encouraged and assisted to broaden their perspective and experience through internships, travel and exchange programs, and workshop participation.

An essential feature of the Glass Department curriculum is an extensive roster of visiting artists and critics who represent a rich diversity of views and art activity, both within and apart from the contemporary glass movement. Visiting professionals present lectures and workshops, engage in studio collaborations with department students, participate in group or individual critiques and share in conducting the weekly department assembly. In this regard, the Glass Department benefits greatly from a close association with its many accomplished alumni — Dale Chihuly, Howard Ben Tré, Dan Dailey, Toots Zynsky, Therman Statom, Judith Schaechter, Ruth King, Michael Scheiner, Jack Wax and others at the forefront of contemporary glass art and education.

Lambri Zerva is a 1989 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He currently holds the position of Supervising Civil Engineer with the RIDOT Highway Engineering Section and is a Licensed Professional Engineer. Mr. Zerva is the Design Project Manager on the Relocation of Interstate 195 project (I-WAY) and has held that responsibility since 1995. He also manages the Blackstone River Bikeway and has managed road improvement projects in every city and town in the state.

Menu: Italian buffet
Price: Members $21; Students/Retirees $13; Nonmembers $26

When analyzing ISO 9001: 2000 compliance confidence costs for improvement opportunities - applying lean tools can create full-scope process-approach QMS audit models providing many benefits over traditional auditing: Improved audit effectiveness, Continuous compliance sampling, Reduced documentation, Superior reporting tools, Fewer meetings, Greater employee buy-in and More responsive QMS improvement cycles.

Speaker Bio:
Mr. Dell started working life as an Electro-Mechanical Engineering Designer in England, was Chief Draughtsman - Transformer Engineering for Reliance Electric and a Small Power product designer for Canadian General Electric where he “graduated” into manufacturing & quality engineering becoming Quality Manager for the Distribution & Specialty Transformer Division.

Prior to his consultancy, he was the North American Director Quality Assurance - SAB-Nife Corporation, manufacturing Uninterruptible Power Supply systems and Batteries for Nuclear Generating Stations. His many years experience have provided product design, quality and management solutions for organizations in Austria, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Holland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Sweden and the United States of America. He has personally designed and implemented Quality Management Programs for 48 companies covering a wide spectrum of standards

Peter has been actively involved in the “World of Standards” as: Contributor to CSA CAN-3 Z299 National Quality Standards (The model used to create the original ISO 9000 standards), Member - EEMAC Committee on Quality Assurance TC 176\ISO, Member - CSA Policy Advisory Board for Registration and Auditing, Instructor - Quality Management Institute in Canada, Member - CSA Technical Committees C22.2 No. 107 and C232-90\107\S14

He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer & Certified Quality Auditor

Menu: Italian buffet
Price: Members $21; Students/Retirees $13; Nonmembers $26

A tradition of superior quality for over 50 years, Bach Knives supplies tooling worldwide to the plastics, metal processing, converting and recycling industries. Mr. Robert Whiton, Vice President of Sales and Engineering, will provide insight and commentary into the company’s philosophy, there sales approach, markets serviced, products supplied and the challenges they face. Bob will also discuss how their knives and saws are used, together with an overview into the types of alloys utilized in manufacturing their knives and the reasons why. He will also review the attributes of a high quality industrial knife, discuss failure analysis as it relates to Bach’s products, and touch on trouble-shooting their customer’s shearing and cutting processes.

Speaker Bio:
Mr. Robert Whiton has been with Bach Knives for over 15 years. Bob began his tenure with Bach as a regional sales engineer covering the New England territory. He spent time as the Metal Division Manager and National Sales Manager. Bob has a Bachelor of Science degree in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Menu: Special Menu.
Price: Members $21; Students/Retirees $13; Nonmembers $26

Cost: Members -$49, Guests $55, Retirees $35.

Reservations start Friday March 21 for all, on line preferred. Bus leaves 10:30 off I-195 Exit 2.

Additional details will arrive in the April meeting notice.

Topic: New technologies used on Boeings new 787 aircraft as well as new business models that Boeing will be deploying in order to remain competitive in today’s global market.

Location: Spumoni's Restaurant
Details pending.