Middle school outreach program is a model for other ASME sections
During the ceremony at the Detroit Ritz-Carlton Hotel in April, the ASME Detroit Section awarded $100 cash prizes to three area middle school students who had written essays on the subject "Why I Want to Be an Engineer."

ASME E-Library expands to 75 titles
The ASME E-Library is a members-only benefit that allows you to access online engineering publications to help answer questions and find practical solutions to daily on-the-job problems.

Valuing volunteerism
The ASME Foundation recently received a $1,000 cash gift from ExxonMobil Foundation. This contribution was a matching gift for hours volunteered to ASME by Philip Grossweiler, an ExxonMobil retiree and ASME member.

ASME member named president of Norfolk State
Carolyn W. Meyers, Ph.D., an ASME member and past vice president of the Board on Minorities and Women, was named president of Norfolk State University effective July 1, 2006.

DeVries selected as dean of engineering and IT at UMBC
Last month, Warren R. DeVries began his tenure as the new dean of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).