Skemp is ASME's president-nominee

Henry Baumgartner
ASME NEWS

At ASME's Summer Annual Meeting in New Orleans last month, the Nominating Com-

mittee chose Susan H. Skemp as ASME's president-nominee. Upon election at the Congress in November, she will serve as president-elect before taking office next June as ASME's 121st president.

Skemp, who has been an active member of ASME for 20 years, has been a member of the Board of Governors (BOG) since 1998, and served as vice president, Member Interests and Development, from 1994-97. Last year, she served as the BOG liaison to the Committee on Finance and Investment. Over the years, Skemp has served on many other ASME councils, task forces and committees.

She is currently employed as manager of advanced technology planning at Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp.

Skemp's goals include building better bridges to midlevel industrial management and university management, thereby enhancing the role and value of the practicing engineer as well as that of ASME to the engineer.

Her other goals are to expand global agreements and relationships to ensure the growth of ASME programs, products and services; to enhance the prestige of ASME as a premier mechanical engineering organization; and to provide for a truly inclusive organization.

Skemp also intends to aggressively pursue emerging technologies and new business opportunities to support the spectrum of member interests, and to promote a greater voice on issues affecting engineers, education and public welfare.

To help accomplish these goals, Skemp plans to foster new partnerships and acquisitions to ensure the viability of current ASME products and services as well as its emergence into new technological and business platforms.

She also wants to spearhead a network of intrasociety and intersociety experts to raise the voice of consciousness on issues affecting engineers and to advance public awareness of the engineering profession. And she sees a need to develop a strategic plan to ensure a smooth transition to a new executive director in 2002.

Skemp's overall objective is to grow ASME into an agile organization that can make fact-based decisions, while capitalizing on the strengths and expertise of the membership and staff.

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