3 Mar 2025
PSEC on WebEx
Started at 6:00 pm
Attendees
Luis Leon ASMI
Sam Gheesling ASME
Andrew Gall SME
John Schaufelberge WSPE
George Bondor SAE
Dave Butcher IEEE
Mike Visser SEAW
Kelsi Bonner SWE
Souri ASME
Approval of Feb Meeting Minutes
Approved, 1st Sam, 2nd Luis
Societies Activities
AIAA: Patrick, report?
ASMI: Luis, (American Society of Materials International) Nothing in March, AWS at Seattle Marriott Tukwilla, April 7th trustee meeting, National will be there
SAMPE: Tiffany,
WSPE: John, March 18th @ Razzis, Math Counts awardsl
ASME: Sam, Board meetingFeb 25th, next is last Tuesday of month is the next board meeting .
ASCE: Paul Grant
ASHRAE: Kathi, potential getting a rep back help out Kathi
SME: Andrew, two dates for Nucor Steel
SAE: George, 2/28 lunch and learn on Mountlake – 520 project WSDOT, it was a great meeting went over the history of the bridge and challenges met and overcome
INCOSE: Paul, update needed
IEEE: Dave, changing of guard at IEEE new leadership, have technical chapters and interest groups, business meeting is next Tuesday March 11.
IISE: Kaz,, Nucor Steel tour excellent and popular
* Rescheduling to April: Lumen Field Tour (2:30 – 4:00)
Attendees will purchase tickets on their own.
RSVP by attendees emailing iisepsboard@iisepugetsound.org
* May 2: Launching a UW IISE Awards Night!
IISE is inviting other student engineering organizations to consider joining
SWE: Kelsi. went to ASCE mentoring event, volunteering at the Central Sound Engineering fair, attending the Gymnastics events at UW Mach 8th, upcoming speaker event with Sound Transit, workshop at expanding your horizons conference at Edmonds CC April 3rd.
SEAW, Mike – May 28th summer social at the Rainier’s’ Brewery
SHPE: Stef, update needed
reps@pseconline.org is our distribution list
General
Treasurer’s Report: David Butcher
State Filing $20
McCormick $2500
IOU Engineering Fair ASME one booth
Need dues from ASME, AiAA, SMPE, SME, ASCE
Planning for 2025/26
Reviewed the Anderson School for 2025, did not have 4/26 available we may take a look for 2026.
Sam/Andrew requested 2025 (Boeing) Sponsorship
No sponsor – Boeing
Tiffany requested funds from Crane, Alexander (SME) from Kenworth
Paul and Mike to ask Engineering Fair sponsors from Civil Engineering Firms
IISE Liability – Kaz
Inclusion of PMI, Computer Programmers, do we need change by laws
Engineering Fair
2025 PSEC Engineering Fair Tickets, Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite
Sold 9, booths, $2100 income (after returning $100 to ASHRAE)
Cost $2255
Andrew to contact ASHRAE that they overpaid $100
Retrospective – poor traffic, need to advertise to schools next year, really need someone else to own this. Need K-12 outreach or someone to take over the
Banquet:
Museum of Flight firmed up for April 26th Sam to sign off.
Sam signed contract we are on, deposit paid $2500
Next steps will be to work with McCormick’s on reviewing menu
Chef mentioned that the entre would be $1-2 more
We are settled on the menu, no Hors D’oeuvre, no flowers,
Sponsors Already Asked for: Boeing $’s/Crane $’s
Andrew to follow up with Boeing (Paul Cavanaugh) – He said no
Alex is asking from Kenworth, can we ping some of the construction/structural firms (Paul)?
Tiffany to check again for 2025 (march time frame)
Lost $6k Last Year
Andrew to send out budget to propose higher cost tables for next year, investigate ways to conserve $’s
Per John’s budget, we will charge $120 per person. We will eliminate Hors D’oeuvre and Flowers
Need to design, get, purchase, centerer pieces (Andrew to research)
Need replacement for the boutonnieres, special badge, different color or a ribbon (Andrew to Research)
Without a sponsor we need to charge over $150 cost per , price at $1500 a table/10 and $155 individual, late fee is $175 individual, Luis 1st and Sam 2nd, approved
Time to start arranging Speakers: Want confirmed “stat” so we can start advertising
New 520 Bridge Portage Bay – Skanska George, sent an email, – no one got back to George
Seattle Waterfront – John will follow up if George is unsuccessful
Sound Transit Light Rail/Redmond, West Seattle – Pamela Deputy program director,
Boeing Gap Management, Steve Chisholm – Andrew (sent note to Steve March 3rd)
Luis is going to talk to Blue Origin
Souri talk, Autev start up engineering firm
Nominations have been received
Have nominations for five awards, no industry engineer of year
John is tabulating scoring, he will then notify the nominating organizations, 2 days later he will send to PSEC Reps
TO DO
Luis Event Brite
John will get picturs and bios, send to Kelsi and Dave to upload
Dave and Kelsi to upload to the website
Andrew to announce on linked in
John, Suzanne to work the back table and bring the meal tickets
Andrew to bring the name badges, and special badge for award winners, color or ribbon et cetera.
Andrew to order centerpieces
Once we have speaker will announce then as well.
Production of the Program Dave
Picture taker Dave
Sam has started work on the presentation already
Mentor nights
Green River November 7th
UW Main Campus – Engineering Exploration Night – January 22nd at 5:30 pm
Nice event – UW alumni only 30+ mentors 250 students
Edmonds – Tiffany working with Su Nelson, February 18th – 6 pm to 8 pm.
(7) mentors signed up, 26 students, nice event good questions diverse group of mentors
UW Bothell – Forrest Zhang IEEE UW Bothell student
https://forms.gle/Hvn3PUx42LqfuUzTA sign up before 2/27
Date and Time: Thursday, March 6th, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: UW Bothell, ARC Outlook, 18225 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011
Attire: Business casual
Food and refreshments: Provided
Guest parking: Provided
WSU – Everett – Tiffany, Tiffanie’s contacts (Orego, Camille” <camille.orego@wsu.edu>, “McGinn, Matt” <matthew.r.mcginn@wsu.edu>) Rick Flores M.Ed (He/Him/Él)MESA Program Director rick.d.flores@wsu.edu
March 27th
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-psec-wsu-everett-engineering-mentor-night-tickets-1252599471739?aff=oddtdtcreator
Highline – April 17th Thursday
Luis in communication will get on it
Tacoma Community College – Luis/Kaz, they are going to join at Highline missed it but might, Andean Farella (sp)
Officers
We need volunteers on our board
This year’s PSEC Officers slate is:
Past President: Kathy Shoemake
President: Andrew Gall
Treasurer: David Butcher
Secretary: George Bondor
Still looking for
President Elect
Need a webmaster
Need Engineering Fair chair
K-12 Activities Chair
Meeting ended at 7:02 pm
Next meeting 2 Apr 2025 at Razzis