Zamrik selected as president-nominee at SAM

Redefining and reinforcing the role of engineering students, early career engineers, women and minorities within ASME — and actively promoting programs to better address their needs — are chief among the goals of ASME's newly elected president-nominee, Sam Y. Zamrik.

President-Nominee Sam Y. Zamrik

Zamrik, who is a consultant and professor emeritus of engineering mechanics at Pennsylvania State University, was selected as president-nominee by ASME'S Nominating Committee. His nomination was announced last month during the Society's Summer Annual Meeting.

Another major objective for Zamrik's presidency will be to ensure the continued efficient implementation of the Society's Continuity and Change initiative, a program that he helped launch.

As a BOG member, Zamrik, an ASME Fellow who joined the Society 32 years ago, was active in the Continuity and Change reorganization. He was chair of two critical Continuity and Change teams: the Reorganization Review Team and the Project Management Review Team.

Zamrik also served as the vice president of the Society's Council on Engineering, and had fiscal and organizational responsibility for four technical divisions. In addition, he personally recruited a group from Calgary, Canada, to form a new ASME technical division, the Pipeline Systems Division.

Zamrik served on several ASME Boards with diverse functions, including Codes and Standards, Professional Development and Publications. As chair of the Pressure Vessels and Piping Division, he developed innovative financial methods that have increased the division's custodial fund five-fold over the last 10 years.

In honor of his contributions, the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology Literature Award was renamed "The Sam Zamrik Literature Award" last year. He was the recipient of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Medal in 1996, the ASME Central Pennsylvania Section's Outstanding Mechanical Engineer of the Year award in 1992, and the Robert M. McGrattan Literature Award in 1991.

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

back to news & features