Web tool turns planning for meetings into big picture for organizers
A new ASME-created Web tool gives those organizers access to the big picture, leaving less room for important pieces of the planning process to fall through any cracks.

By focusing on content, Michigan Section sees meeting attendance swell and interest by members increase
Last November, ASME's Southeastern Michigan Section was in dire straits. Active membership in the Society's third largest section had dwindled to about eight members. Five months and a lot of communication and strategy development later, Tom Libertiny, the current section chair, said active members now number around 50.

Section joins forces with students during Engineers Week
A Town Hall Meeting was sponsored by the ASME Tallahassee Section, and by the student sections at Florida State and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) as part of Engineers Week 2002.

Bobsled Start Simulator helps U.S. Olympic Team bring home the gold
With the assistance of a Bobsled Start Simulator designed by a team that included five ASME members, US Olympians ended a 46-year medal drought in bobsled competition.

Clarke Scholarships given to six institutions for 2002-03
ASME will distribute $36,000 in scholarship money to six universities that won a Clarke Scholarship because of their mechanical engineering or mechanical engineering technology department's support of ASME activities.

ASME research task force leaders gain perspective on 2003 federal budget

The Council on Engineering's Inter-Council Committee on Federal Research and Development (ICCFRD) convened Feb. 13-14 in Washington to gain perspective on President Bush's fiscal year 2003 budget request.

Scholarship fund grows as members continue to sign up new recruits
The membership recruitment campaign that ASME started in August has brought in a total of $12,339 as of Feb. 28. For the month of February alone, $1,141 was raised.

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