Feigel named President-Nominee

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

Smooth implementation of ASME's current reorganization project, reaching out to industry and keeping tabs on how globalization is affecting engineers individually and the profession overall are among the goals of ASME's newly named president-nominee, Richard E. Feigel.

Feigel, an ASME Fellow who joined the Society 26 years ago, was selected as the president-nominee by the Nominating Committee. His nomination was announced last month during the Summer Annual Meeting.

Currently vice president of Engineering and director of Corporate Risk Analysis at the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co., Feigel is responsible for a $35 million international inspection and engineering business and the development and delivery of technical training to 700 engineers and technicians worldwide.

His activities within ASME span several levels, from serving as an at-large member of the Board of Governors (2000-03), to senior vice president of Codes and Standards, to his participation on innumerable boards and committees. Currently, Feigel is serving as a member of the Board on Government Relations and chairs the Codes and Standards Technology Committee.

Accomplishing his goals will involve several methods: maintaining close contact with volunteers and staff who are responsible for the implementation of the reorganization project and ensuring that communications through ASME are open; seeking consensus on innovative approaches to serving and growing the ASME membership; focusing resources to address strategic priorities and initiatives, including establishing working liaisons with industry associations; and initiating objective study of the effects of globalization, its impact on members and the benefits and the costs of possible Society initiatives and responses.

Feigel will be on the ballot that will reach the voting members of ASME in the September issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine.

 

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