ASME conference will focus on regional empowerment and economic growth

ASME International will join Team Delta on Jan. 25-26 for a conference in Vicksburg, Miss., to discuss "Regional Empowerment, Economic Growth: Accessing Technology in the Delta Region."

Team Delta is a technology-based economic development alliance in the Mississippi River Delta.

Team Delta and the ASME Accessing Technology Symposia is a cooperative alliance with the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority, Mississippi Technology Inc., Louisiana Partnership for Technology and Innovation, Southern Technology Council, Regional Technology Strategies, Enterprise Corp. of the Delta, Entergy Corp. and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The conference will focus on technology tools for building a community technology cooperative, provide information and resources for accessing state and federal technology assistance and transfer programs, and discussions on workforce readiness and successful working public/private partnerships in science, math, engineering and technology education.

For more information about the summit, contact Reese Meisinger (meisinger@asme.org) or Allian Pratt (pratta@asme.org), or visit www.asme.org/gric.

Society raises concern over OSHA's failure to use the latest revisions of ASME codes

ASME's Council on Codes and Standards (CCS) recently released a position statement expressing concern that references to ASME codes in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations are not current and may affect worker safety by failing to acknowledge advances in technology.

OSHA references ASME codes and standards in several of its regulations, but many of those references have become outdated and do not incorporate the latest revisions to the codes and standards.

Noting that the council has developed and implemented rigorous procedures of review and code revision for standards, the CCS has offered to work with OSHA to review and revise regulations, identify differences between the old and updated codes and standards, and evaluate the potential impact on safety and cost.

The position statement (No. 00-33) is available to review online at www.asme. org/gric/ps00.html.

Fourth Annual Summit on State of Technology in Maryland

ASME International will join Casper Taylor, speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates; Michael Miller, president of the Maryland Senate; the Greater Baltimore Technology Council; the High Technology Council of Maryland, and John Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies to sponsor the "Fourth Annual Summit on the State of Technology in Maryland" on Feb. 5 in Annapolis, Md.

The summit will focus on technology transfer, and topics will include commercializing the discoveries made in universities, federal laboratories and corporate laboratories.

Speakers include Kumar Barve, D-Md., Maryland House of Delegates; Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., and Sen Paul S. Sarbanes, D-Md.

For more information about the summit, contact Reese Meisinger (meisinger@ asme.org) or Allian Pratt (pratta@asme.

org) or visit www.asme.org/gric.

— Kathryn Holmes
ASME Government Relations

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