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VOL. 46 NO. 4 SERVING 2000 ENGINEERS & LAND SURVEYORS JUNE, 2010
HAWAII TRIG-STAR PROGRAMby Trig Star Coordinator, Kevin Kea, PLS
Our 2010 NSPS Trig-Star competition hasended at the high school level and this year wehave a new state champion. Her name is LibbyAldosa of Halau Ku Mana, a tiny school is locat-ed in upper Makiki. As a sophomore she scoreda 100 with a blistering time of 15 minutes and 51seconds. Speaking with her over the phone andfinally meeting with her I quickly found out shewas a quiet and reserved student but as you cantell, very intelligent. Libby was awarded$1,100.00 in cash and a koa plaque. Her spon-sor, Paul Donnelly of California, and the HawaiiLand Surveyors Association cover the cost for allawards and materials. Libby now moves on tothe national competition which will be held inJune. We all wish her luck as she representsHawaii!
Halau Ku Mana can also be proud for theirmath teacher Mr. Ian Onizuka. At Trig-Star wealso recognize the winning student’s teacher. Fartoo many times the teachers who put so muchtime into educating our youth do not get theaccolades they deserve, so Mr Onizuka also hasbeen awarded $600.00 in cash and a koaplaque. Thank you to all those teachers whostrive for excellence and instill that solid workethic.
Here are the top 10 students and schools inorder of finish:
1. Libby Aldosa – Halau Ku Mana, Score: 100,Time: 15’ 51”
2. Rikuro Fukusato – Maryknoll School, Score:100, Time: 41’ 48”
Math Teacher, Ian Onizuka; Trig StarChampion, Libby Aldosa; Trig StarCoordinator, Kevin Kea.
3. Kesha-Leah Reyes – Moloka’i High School,Score: 100, Time: 45’ 10”
4. Nicole Sato – Punahou School, Score: 100,Time: 46’ 48”
5. Teresa Ou – Iolani School, Score: 95, Time:31’ 50”
6. Hannah Rojeshi – Hilo High School, Score:95, Time: 50’ 18”
7. Jennifer Jaeckel – La Pietra Hawaii Schoolfor Girls, Score: 95, Time: 59’ 30”
8. Chaz Kuniyoshi – Kaimuki High School,Score: 85, Time: 26’ 02”
9. Allyn Goo – Assets School, Score: 85, Time:42’ 00”
10. John Fratinardo – Kamehameha SchoolsHawaii, Score: 85, Time: 50’ 40”
THE 2010 ASME FRANCIS RHODES MONTGOMERY DESIGN COMPETITIONThe annual ASME Francis Rhodes
Montgomery Design Competition was held May7, 2010 in Kuykendall 101 on the University ofHawaii at Manoa Campus. This annual event isco-sponsored by the Department of MechanicalEngineering (DME), University of Hawaii atManoa, and the ASME Francis R. MontgomeryFoundation (FRM). Ten project teams from theDME Capstone ME 482 Senior Design coursecompeted for the four cash prizes. First placewent to the SAE Aero Design team, in secondplace was the Wheelchair Rain Shield, third placethe Reading Rainbow Page-Turner, and in fourthplace the Low Cost Semi-Automatic VegetableTransplanter team.
Since 1987, ASME Hawaii has worked with theDME, to host the Francis Rhodes MontgomeryDesign Competition (FRMDC) for the ME 482Senior Design Course. This is a two-sequencemechanical engineering design course startingwith ME 481 and sometimes funded by variousorganizations such as REHAB Hospital of thePacific, Office of Naval Research, Boeing Co.,Ltd., and the UH Department of MechanicalEngineering.
The student project teams compete before apanel of practicing mechanical engineer judges inan oral project presentation judged on the basisof technical content, originality of concept andresolution of design problems, and effectivenessof the prototype. Besides helping to recognizeand reward innovative design efforts and thepracticality of the design, the competitionencourages the students to practice communi-cational skills to develop the ability to present adesign project in a clear and understandablemanner later in their professional careers.
The following are synopsis of the design pro-jects. The project abstracts can be found at theASME Hawaii website athttp://sections.asme.org/hawaii/frmdc.html.
The First Four Design ProjectsSAE Aero Design - This project received the
$600 first place award. Team Ko’omakani mem-bers included Alex Jurasek (Team Captain), DavidHummer (Pilot), Verlinus Lazo, DonaldMackintosh, Nakita Pineiro, and Keola Valentine.The radio controlled airplane was designed,manufactured, and tested for competition at the2010 SAE Aero East Competition where theteam won the prestigious SAE Innovation Awardbeating out 108 teams. The aircraft wasdesigned to maximize the lifting and takeoffcapabilities. The design incorporated a conven-tional aircraft configuration with a rectangularwing and tricycle style landing gear. The airplanewas constructed and assembled at Holmes Hallby the student team members.
Wheelchair Rain Shield - This project
received the $300 second place award. Teammembers included Kalani Castro, Gilbert Ignacio,and Steve Schustek. Their objective was todesign a device to protect wheelchair users fromrain. From the conventional umbrella design,improvements were made to protect the wheel-chair user from every direction, prevent waterfrom collecting in the seat, be easily deployedand retracted, fit through any ADA compliantdoorway, not inhibit normal wheelchair operation,and be sleek with geometric design. This was aRehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific in Hawaiisponsored project.
Reading Rainbow Page-Turner - This pro-ject received the $200 third place award, and theteam members were Michael Dorman, CheyneEugenio, and Melvin K. Rodenhurst III. The Page-Turner was intended for use by patients havingdifficulty turning pages of a literary source undertheir own power. The goal was to manufacturethe simplest possible design and so the team
First place SAE Aero Design team withMargaret Montgomery and James Grogan,L-R: Verlinus Lazo, Alex Jurasek, NakitaPineiro, Mrs. Montgomery, Keola Valentine,D. Bain Mackintosh, David Hummer, andJames Grogan.
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2010-2011 OFFICERSChair: John RamosVice Chair: Joseph TingSecretary: Grant Torigoe Treasurer: Samuel DannawaySOC Representative AlternateAACE M. Uyehara T. TaamACECH K. HayashidaASHRAE J. TingASCE M.Hunnemann J. KalaniASME D. Kam J. AhernCFSEI M. MestanzaEAH M. AlbrightEWBH S. HolmanFALEA S. Agraan E. PinedaHLSA W. Ing D. HirotaHSPE F. Ching K. KunimineIEEE G. TorigoeITE W. YamamotoSAME B. ZachmeierSEAOH S. DoanSFPE S. DannawayUH(assoc) S. Choi
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OFFICERS & DIRECTORSPresident: John Katahira, P.E. 596-7790Pres-Elect: Sheryl Nojima, Ph.D. 521-0306Treasurer: Douglas Lee, P.E. 523-8499Secretary: Terrance Arashiro, P.E. 533-3646Past Pres: Norman Kawachika, P.E. 531-1308Nat. Dir: Jon Nishimura, P.E. 944-1821Directors: Beverly Ishii-Nakayama 942-9100
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2008-2009 OfficersPresident Shannon Holman 593-1116
[email protected] Pres Alexi Remnek 586-4343
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This April, several ACEC Hawaii representa-tives attended the ACEC Annual SpringConference in Washington DC. In spite of therecovering economy, the conference drew morethan one thousand national and internationalattendees. Every year, ACEC Hawaii officialsmeet with our congressional delegates to discusskey national and local issues related to the engi-neering industry. (Senator Inouye andCongresswoman Hirono each gave us 1-1/2hours of their precious time.) The following are afew key congressional legislation items, advocat-ed by ACEC. • New multi-year water infrastructure pro-
gram: the House has already passed HR1262, and the Senate is poised to act on S.1005, which allocates nearly $40 billion overfive years for water and wastewater projectsand expands the use of Qualifications-BasedSelection (QBS).
• New multi-year aviation bill to boost fund-ing for airport projects: both the House andSenate have passed bills (HR 915 and SenateAmendments to HR 1586) that will significant-ly increase funding for airport improvements,terminal expansions, and other aviation pro-jects.
• New six-year surface transportation pro-gram: House Transportation and InfrastructureCommittee Chairman (Congresswoman MazieHirono is on this committee) has proposed anew six-year $450 billion highway and transitprogram to replace SAFETEA LU; the SenateEnvironment and Public Works Comittee iscurrently working on companion legislation.
• Repeal of 3 percent withholding andthwarting initiatives that threaten the pri-vate sector: Repeals the onerous 3 percentwithholding mandate applied to projects tied tofederal funding. The withholding mandate isset to be enforced in 2012.
Left to Right: John Katahira, SenatorDaniel K. Inouye, Jon Nishimura, LesterFukuda, Norman Kawachika, and MarkSteiner.
***Announcement***June Membership MeetingThursday, June 3, 2010 (11:45 to 1:30)Topic: What’s New at the Department ofEducation?Speaker: Duane Kashiwai, Public WorksAdministratoracechawaii.org
Left to Right: Jon Nishimura, NormanKawachika, Janice Marsters,Congresswoman Mazie Hirono, LesterFukuda, and John Katahira
The Engineers without Borders-HonoluluProfessional Chapter is working with the University ofHawaii Student Chapter on a project for the town ofLa Pita, Nicaragua. EWB-UH plans to send a team of6 engineering students and 2 professional engineersto reconstruct a dilapidated vehicular bridge for asmall farming community. The bridge serves as thesole access to the nearby city, San Ramon, where themarket, school, and medical clinic are located. LaPita is also trying to initiate an ecotourism business,but the current bridge cannot support larger vehiclesand is at risk of failing in the near future. We are revis-ing our original bridge design to address commentsfrom the Engineers without Border’s TechnicalAdvisory Committee, and plan to travel to Nicaraguato finish the project in December. In the meantime,we are ramping up our fundraising activities for thefall; our goal is to raise an additional $12,000 by theend of the year.
The San Ramon District Mayor’s office is collabo-rating with EWB-UH and has completed the repair ofthe roads leading to the village, which were previous-ly in poor shape.
EWB-Honolulu Professional Chapter is activelylooking for a second community in the South Pacificor Southeast Asia to work with. We are looking toteam with a capable host-country non-profit organi-zation to work on a project that requires engineeringexpertise but does not require a large amount ofmoney to complete (<$100k). If you have any con-tacts or suggestions, please email [email protected].
We are also soliciting donations for the La Pita pro-ject and are available to come talk about our projectsto your company or organization. In addition, we arelooking for volunteers to help organize our fundraisingevents. If you are interested in learning more or join-ing our efforts, please contact [email protected] orgo to http://sites.google.com/site/ewbuhmain/.
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2009-2010 OFFICERSOffice Name PhonePresident Jeff Kalani 596-2928
email: [email protected] Roger Babcock 956-7298
email: [email protected] Dawn Barsana-Szewczyk 943-1133
email: [email protected] Ian Arakaki 596-7790
email: [email protected] Brian Enomoto 388-5559
email: [email protected] President Michael Hunnemann 791-3980
email: [email protected] President Troy Ching 440-4548
email: [email protected]
Hawaii Section — Younger Member ForumWeb site: http://www.ascehawaii.org/ymf.html
Incoming 2009-2010 YMFOfficers PhonePresident: Troy Ching 697-6233
[email protected]: Eric Arakawa 258-5770
[email protected]: Kurt Nagamine 533-3646
[email protected]: Lauren Arizumi 524-3771
[email protected] President: Aaron Erickson 591-2728
Next YMF General MeetingThe next YMF general meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, June 3, 6:00pm at Sam Choy’s,545-7979. If you are interested in attending tofind out what the YMF is all about, please contactTroy Ching at (808)440-4548 [email protected].
Hawaii FoodbankBy Lara Karamatsu,Community Service Chair
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 8, 2010,YMF members helped at the MapunapunaFoodbank along with various volunteer groupsfrom unions, banks, and other businesses. Workincluded putting together boxes and sorting andpacking the donations that were collected earlierthat day during the annual Letter Carrier’s FoodDrive. Members organized the donations into thepredefined categories (canned meat, assortedcan, dry goods, rice, and misc), going throughcontainer after container of food generouslydonated by the people of Hawaii. It was a goodturnout, with everyone giving a hand to reducethe amount of people in Hawaii going hungryevery day. Thank you to all the volunteers forcoming out to help with this event and to RonTanaka for coordinating this event with the YMF.
JUNE DINNER MEETINGProgram: Hydraulics Technical CommitteePresentation entitled: “Stormwater ConstructionRules“ by Joanna Seto, P.E. of Department ofHealth, Clean Water Branch. Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010Location: Treetops at Paradise Park,
Manoa ValleyTime: 5:30 p.m. - Social Time
6:30 p.m. - Dinner7:00 p.m. - Program8:45 p.m. - Adjourn
Menu: Multi-entree buffetCost: $22.00 for ASCE Hawaii Section
members$25.00 for Non-ASCE Hawaii Sectionmembers and Guests$11.00 for UH Manoa StudentChapter members
Please make checks payable to ASCE-HawaiiSection and mail to Ian Arakaki, ASCE Secretary,The Limtiaco Consulting Group, 650 Iwilei Road,Suite 208, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 postmarkedby Friday, June 11, 2010. Reservations for thedinner meeting to Brian Enomoto by Monday,June 14, 2010, by phone at 388-5559 or email [email protected].
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGLast held: May 10, 2010Next meeting: June 9, 2010
UH STUDENT CHAPTER NEWSThe University of Hawaii, American Society of
Civil Engineering (ASCE) Student Chapter wentto Las Vegas to compete in the 2010 PacificSouthwest Regional Conference. The annualconference was hosted by UNLV on April 8-10,2010 and was attended by 1,100 students from18 universities. UH took 39 students and twoadvisors to compete in 15 events including con-crete canoe, steel bridge, environmental, geot-echnical, surveying, technical paper, quiz bowl,impromptu, mystery, scavenger hunt, tug-o-war,and several sports (soccer, basketball, volleyball,dodgeball). The UH team did very well in thesteel bridge event, placing 2nd overall, therebyearning a spot at the National Student SteelBridge Competition (May 28-29, 2010 at PurdueUniversity). The steel bridge competitionincludes 6 events and the UH team (Eric
Tomishima, Reef Ozaki-Train, James Aoki,Melissa Yuen, Brent Ching) placed first in stiff-ness, first in efficiency, and second in lightness.Megan Ueno placed fifth in the technical paperand presentation. UH placed 12th overall at theconference. The UH students enjoyed the LasVegas attractions and made it back to Hawaii inone piece.
The Hawaii Section made two Student ServiceAwards at the April 22nd dinner meeting. LoriHigashi was selected as the Outstanding Officerfor 2009-2010; she served as President this pastyear. Albert Caraang was selected as theOutstanding Non-Officer Conference Contributor.The awardees each received a check for $750.
The UH Student Chapter held officer electionsin May for the 2010-2011 year. The new officersare: Alicia Nakano, President; Albert Caraang,Vice-President; Eric Wat, Treasurer; MeganUeno, Recording Secretary; and Sean Cagadas,Corresponding Secretary. The Faculty Advisor isDr. Roger Babcock. Congratulations to the newofficers and best wishes for a successful andproductive year.
CONTINUING EDUCATIONASCE National holds more than 275 seminars
and computer workshops each year on a widevariety of technical, management, and regulatorytopics. These seminars are held in more than 45cities across the U.S. In addition, ASCE offerscustomized on-site training and many distancelearning programs, including live interactiveweb/teleconference seminars, online coursesand courses on CD, videotape, and audiotape.Please visit http://ascehawaii.org for completedetails.
ASCE HAWAII SECTION STUDENTSCHOLARSHIPS
Please help us increase our scholarshipendowment so that we can recognize deservingstudents. We continue to accept tax-deductibledonations with the goal of increasing the annualscholarships. Make your check payable to‘ASCE Hawaii Section’ and mail to: ASCEScholarship Committee, P.O. Box 917, Honolulu,HI 96808. If you have any questions, please con-tact Mike Hunnemann at 791-3980, or [email protected].
ASCE JOB LISTINGSThe following employer has an opening they
would like to fill:• Mitsunaga & Associates, Inc. (Architects, Civil
Engineers, Structural Engineers, MechanicalEngineers, and Electrical Engineers –Honolulu, HI and Seoul, South Korea)
• Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company.(Project Engineers)For more information on these job listings,
please visit the ASCE Hawaii Section website athttp://ascehawaii.org.
ASCE HAWAII SECTION’S WEBMAIL LIST –SIGN-UP AND/OR UPDATE
If you would like to receive e-mail notices ofupcoming meetings or activities, please sign-upfor the ASCE Hawaii Section’s webmail list athttp://ascehawaii.org. You may also update youremail address on that same webpage. Pleaseconsider helping the Hawaii Section reduce oper-ating costs by receiving your monthly issue ofWiliki via email.
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FROM McKINLEY TO MID-PACIFICLast month (May 2010), I gave the well-known
fact that, in 1908, what became the University ofHawaii (UH) operated in temporary structures onthe then grounds of McKinley High School thatenjoyed the use of an “imposing” buildingopened in 1908. In an article which appeared inThrum’s “Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for1909” (published in 1908), C. E. King said:
“This structure, built of hollow concrete blocks,is two stories high and contains eight properlyventilated well-equipped class-rooms, a physicaland a chemical laboratory, an up-to-date com-mercial department, a library and a comfortableand spacious assembly hall. In addition, there isthe principal’s office, ladies’ retiring room, eachprovided with all conveniences, two hat roomsfor the use of students, a private chemistry labo-ratory and a dark room connected with thechemical laboratory. The McKinley High School islocated on Victoria street, occupying the groundsbetween Young and Beretania, and facing histor-ical Thomas Square.”
The 22,548 square foot building featured officeand library furniture made of “handsome koawood,” and toilets with “enameled closets with-out wooden tops.”
In its “Retrospect for 1908,” the Almanacadded, “the contract for this building went toWm. C. Chalmers for the sum of $52,521, andwas dedicated September 11th for the openingof the school year, though not entirely complet-ed.” Master architect Harry Livingston Kerrdesigned the building.
The building is still there for all to see. AfterMcKinley was relocated to King Street, it wasoccupied by the Linekona (“Lincoln”) ElementarySchool, now in the Makiki District. In 1990, thebuilding was renovated as the “Academy ArtCenter,” the largest art private school in Hawaii.Under the administration of the HonoluluAcademy of Arts, the renovated building earnedthe 1990 preservation award of the HawaiiHistoric Foundation, an organization of which Inow happen to be a member.
By the way, the issue of the Almanac that Iquoted above was its first edition to list in its“Register & Directory” the entire faculty of the“College of Hawaii,” including the Head of theDepartment of Engineering, Prof. J. M. Young.
According to a Sept. 22, 1908 story in theEvening Bulletin (EB), “surprised because of theinterest that has been exhibited in the engineer-ing branches locally, J. M. Young, head of theengineering department of the new College ofHawaii dropped in for a chat over existing condi-tions with Marston Campbell this morning. Mr.Young is an Eastern man, being a graduate ofCornell university, and he finds that a great manyof the customs here are novel as schools areconcerned.”
Although not clarified in the story, readers ofmy Nu`uanu Dam (2006-07) and Pearl HarborDrydock (2008-09) series will recall that Campbellwas the Territory’s Superintendent of PublicWorks at the time.
The newspaper story continued by quotingYoung, “I really was surprised when I found outwhat enthusiasm there is exhibited here for thestudy of engineering. It is the usual thing for ayouthful student to fancy the courses in artsrather than the hard grind of engineering.”
In Nov. 1909, Young and Chalmers, theMcKinley building contractor, founded what wasto become a major firm, the Pacific EngineeringCo., Ltd. Young’s triple role as professor, Collegeengineer and private contractor led to a series of
what would be described as “conflict of interest”situations that have recently been documentedby Barbara Furstenberg in Vol. 42 (2008) of “TheHawaiian Journal of History.”
The Hawaiian Annual for 1910 (copyrighted in1909) featured the establishment and plannedprograms of “The College of Hawaii” by its pres-ident, John W. Gilmore, and listed both theRegents and the faculty of the institution in itsregistry. Among the latter was Arthur R. Keller,Professor of Civil Engineering. The middle initialstood for “Ripont.” Also a Cornell man, accordingto Furstenberg, Keller relieved Young of someteaching responsibilities.
The next major issue facing the College wasthe campaign to ensure support for a permanentcampus. As Gilmore put it in the Feb. 1911Paradise of the Pacific magazine, “if the Collegeis to do the work that lies before it and if it is tomeet the opportunities that are ripe, it mustreceive aid from the Legislature... The lastLegislature made provision for the purchase oflands in Manoa Valley and in accordance withthis provision some ninety acres have been pro-cured... The College now needs a permanentbuilding on these grounds with sufficient funds tofurnish it... It is reasonable to assert that theTerritory of Hawaii could not make an investmentthat would bring larger returns for the welfare andproductive capacity of its citizens.”
The Hawaiian Annual for 1913 published ayear later (in 1912) contained a follow-up articleon the College by Professor of Botany andHorticulture Vaughan McCaughey announced“the completion of a new building, the first of thepermanent buildings, erected on the collegecampus in Manoa Valley.” This Main Building(later named “Hawaii Hall”) “is built of concrete,and the architectural features are mainly Greek.
[It] houses all of the departments of the Collegewith the exception of that of chemistry, the engi-neering shops and certain of the agricultural andhorticultural enterprises.” A drawing of “TheCollege of Hawaii Proposed Plan of Campus”was included.
The College campus is abutting the Mid-Pacific Institute, which the Thrum’s Annual for1912 describes as the “consolidation ofKawaiahao Seminary and Mills School.”
Put in the vernacular of the day, “beautifully sit-uated at the mouth of Manoa Valley, Honolulu, isthe Mid-Pacific Institute, the completion of whichdates from September 12, 1910, with the open-ing of Mills School as its Boys’ Department. Itsally, the Kawaiahao Seminary, forming the girls’branch, with Miss M. E. Bosher as its new princi-pal, moved thither and took possession ofAtherton Hall at the opening of 1909.”Established in 1865, the Seminary was originallyintended mainly for Hawaiian girls, whereas theMills Institute was founded in 1892 primarily forChinese boys.
In 1912, the main campus of the University ofHawaii moved from the grounds of McKinleyHigh School on Victoria Street facing ThomasSquare to a place adjacent to the newly-mintedMid-Pacific Institute “in green Manoa Valley...where mountain winds and showers refresh herfertile lands,” as the school’s alma mater pro-claims.
Do you know of a civil engineering accom-plishment or event that your fellow ASCE mem-bers might find interesting? Please send a briefdescription to C.S. Papacostas (fax 956-5014,email [email protected]). Previous arti-cles in the series may be found at the Section’sweb site. Just point your browser tohttp://www.ascehawaii.org.
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2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS &DIRECTORSPosition Officer PhonePresident Ron Iwamoto 486-5202
[email protected] Vice President Brian Ide 536-2108
[email protected] Karl Umemoto 536-2626
[email protected] Patrick Calizar 235-5590
[email protected] John Cheung 848-2032
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[email protected] Les Kempers 682-6000
[email protected] President Myles Shimokawa 593-0933
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2010/2011 Officers & Board of DirectorsPresident Jeoffrey Cudiamat, P.E.
[email protected] Pres Dean Doi, P.E.
[email protected] Tim Goshi, P.E. Tel: 791-3966
[email protected] Ethan Okuna, P.E. Tel: 945-0198
[email protected] Dennis Hanatani, P.E. Tel: 737-9488
[email protected] Glenn Isidro, P.E.
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATIONCODE EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE HSA:
The Hawaii Pacific Steel Framing Alliance willhold two important membership gatherings thisJune:• Wednesday, June 9, 2010, Honolulu Country
Club. Dinner Meeting with Mark Nowak, presi-dent of the National Steel Framing Alliance(Washington, D.C.) to talk about “The NewState Energy Code: How It Affects SteelFraming.” The meeting is from 5:30pm-8pm.Registration starts at 5pm.
• Thursday, June 10, 2010, BIA-HawaiiConstruction Training Center, Waipahu,Hawaii. “Seminar on International EnergyConservation Code and Its Impact onHawaii” Mark Nowak, president of theNational Steel Framing Alliance (Washington,D.C.) and Mike Moore of Newport Ventures.The seminar will be from 8:00 am until 12:00pm and includes continental breakfast.Registration starts at 7:30am. To register for either of these events or for
more information, please contact Mardie Torresat (808) 728-7142 Email: [email protected]
2010 JOINT HSA/CFSEI INSTALLATIONDINNER
The Joint HSA/CFSEI Installation Dinner washeld on April 9,2010, at the newly built BIA
HIGHLIGHTS OF BOD MEETINGMay 13, 2010Committee Reports:
General Membership Meetings/TechnicalSeminars/Events:• Ian Robertson and Gary Chock will do a pre-
sentation on the tsunami damage from theFebruary 2010 Chilean earthquake. This will bea lunch presentation at the Pagoda Hotel onMay 28, 2010.
• Simpson Strong-Tie Engineers will present aseminar on wood connectors, light gauge steeland concrete issues and IBC 2006 codechanges on June 29, 2010 at the PagodaHotel. The speakers will be Jeff Ellis, DamonHo and Jason Oakley from Simpson Strong-Tie. The next General Membership Meetingwill be held in conjunction with this seminar.Registration information will be sent out soon.
• Joint SEAOH/ASCE dinner meeting is sched-uled for July 15, 2010 at Treetops Restaurantin Manoa. Program details and registrationinformation will be announced later.
• Concrete Anchor Provisions and Design – S.K.Ghosh and Bret Turley, ACI 318 Building Code,Appendix D Cast-In-Place and post installedanchors (tentative July 22, 2010)
• The following seminars are anticipated to bepresented later in 2010: ACI 318-08 BuildingCode (August), Fiber Reinforced ConcreteDesign (Sept), AISC Design Seminar (Fall2010)Notice: Members without email are reminded
to check the SEAOH website for informationregarding upcoming events and activities.
Building Code Committee:• Gary Chock will be the new committee chair-
person. Many thanks to Glenn Miyasato forchairing this committee for the past few years.
• Hawaii County – SEAOH has submitted a posi-tion statement to Hawaii County that supportsa requirement to have a licensed Hawaii archi-tect or structural engineer review new installa-tions of photovoltaic and solar panel systemson the roofs of residential structures in theCounty of Hawaii. The review would includeconsideration of a continuous load path in thestructure.
2010 Annual Convention Update:This year’s annual convention (jointly with
CCPI’s Annual Meeting) will be on October 8 andOctober 9 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resortand Spa, Tapa Tower. The theme of this year’sconvention will be disaster preparedness, mitiga-tion and response. Performance Based TsunamiEngineering guidelines will be presented by IanRobertson and Gary Chock. Besides the techni-cal sessions, exhibits and networking opportuni-ties, this year’s event will provide various socialactivities and a chance to rediscover Waikiki. Thetraditional CCPI Pinkball golf tournament will beon the afternoon of October 7, and the 2ndAnnual Canoe Race between teams fromSEAOH and CCPI will be on the afternoon ofOctober 9. Affordable hotel room rates will beavailable. Look for our registration materialscoming soon!
Other Business:• 2011 Annual Convention in Japan: The con-
vention committee is tentatively looking at a 5-day trip to Northern Japan in September orOctober, 2011. Committee chairperson MylesShimokawa is working closely with GeorgeNishimura on a possible itinerary. More infor-mation will be announced in the upcomingmonths.
• NCEES Structural P.E. Exam: NCEES is intro-ducing a new 16-hour Structural P.E. examina-tion starting in April 2011. The current examwill be offered for the last time in Oct 2010.
• Congratulations to Steve Baldridge who wasrecently named Small Business Person of the
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Construction Training Center of the Pacific locat-ed in Waipahu. Guest speakers included Ms.Alicia Maluafiti of “Go Rail, Go” and Mr. KirkCaldwell, Managing Director, City & County ofHonolulu, both of whom discussed the need forthe City to move forward with the proposed railtransit project. Installation ceremonies were heldfor the 2010/2011 Officers and Directors of boththe HSA and CFSEI-Hawaii Chapter.
Year. Steve will represent Hawaii in theNational SBA competition in Washington DCon May 23 to May 29, 2010.
New Member Applications• Applications for SEAOH membership from
Bryan Lum (KAI Hawaii), Kristin PachecoBoerstler, Drew A. Fagent and Fernando I.Frontera (Baldridge & Associates) were unani-mously approved.
• New member application from Jillian Santo(Iwamoto & Associates) for grade of AlliedMember was received and is open for com-ments from the membership. Her applicationwill be voted on at the July 2010 board meet-ing. Please notify any SEAOH officer prior tothe July 2010 board meeting if you wish tocomment on this prospective member. Missing Members: Please contact
Membership Chairperson, Jiabao Chen (Ph: 791-3945 or email [email protected]), or any ofthe SEAOH officers if you have a new mailingand/or email address.
The next SEAOH Board of Directors andOfficers meeting will be held on Thursday, June3, 2010, at the office of Iwamoto & Associates,LLC. Contact SEAOH President Ron Iwamoto(486-5202, [email protected]) for more infor-mation.
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2009-10 OFFICERS President Albert Hahn, P.E.Pres.-Elect Dicson AggabaoVice Pres. Michael ChangSecretary Barry Jim On, P.E.Treasurer vacant
BOARD OF GOVERNORSMember Joseph K. Ting, P.E.Member Kevin Saito, P.E.Member William Lee, P.E.Member Paul Scott
ASHRAEAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-ConditioningEngineers, Inc. Hawaii Chapter
P.O. Box 3916, Honolulu, HI 96812-3916
Hawaii SectionThe AmericanSociety of
Mechanical Engineers
Website: http://sections.asme.org/hawaii
2009-2010 OfficersChairperson Edmund Chang 543-4227
[email protected] Derick Kam 848-6966
[email protected] Derek Sato 543-4108
[email protected] Treasurer Kevin Dang 737-1708
The Society of
FIREPROTECTIONENGINEERS
www.sfpehawaii.org
OFFICERSPresident Melvin K. Harano, P.E. 848-6966
[email protected] Robert T. Bigtas, P.E. 526-9019
[email protected] Derick Kam 848-6966
[email protected] Samuel S. Dannaway, P.E. 526-9019
AGENDA for June 10, 2010 Fun Evening atOutrigger Canoe Club5:00 - 5:30 PM – Registration5:30 - 6:30 PM – Installation of Officers6:30 - 7:00 PM – Attitude Adjustment7:00 - 9:00 PM – Buffet Dinner / “Just Like Vegas”
COSTS:RSVP (Pre-registration): Email Roland [email protected] and remit payment viaPayPal at www.hawaii.ashraechapters.org.ASHRAE Members: $60 per personMembers from any Hawaii Council ofEngineering Societies: $60 per personNon-Member of the above organizations: $65per personNo RSVP (Registration on-site):Regardless of Members or Non-Members: $75per person
Hawaii SFPE is planning to run a FireProtection PE Exam Study Course to prepareengineers for the October 2010 Exam. Thecourse will consist of 10 or 12 weekly two hoursessions covering all topics covered by theexam. Course participants must have their owncopy of the SFPE Fire Protection PE Exam StudyGuide available at www.sfpe.org. There will beno charge for the course but participants will beexpected to teach one or more modules to theother students. The course is expected to startlate this summer. Please email Sam Dannaway [email protected] if you are interested in partic-ipating.
NEXT ASME-HAWAII SECTION EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE/GENERAL MEETINGDate: July 13, 2010Time: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pmPlace: Hawaiian Electric Ward Avenue CafeteriaAgenda: Derek Sato - First meeting for our newChairman of the Hawaii Section, 2010-2011.
Members and guests are invited. There will befree pizza and soft drinks as usual. Please con-tact Derek Sato or Kory Ikeda for directions andfor more information, such as parking.
MAY 11, 2010 MEETING HIGHLIGHTS• Engineers Week Banquet – Approved. ASME-
HI Section will pay 50% of members banquetrate, for those members registering and sittingat the Section table. In addition, up to $400annually will be allotted for Student Sectionmembers’ participation/attendance.
• Francis Montgomery Design Competition heldMay 7, 2010 – James Grogan reported on thecompetition. See front-page article. He alsodiscussed ways to improve the competition,such as more planning and getting Universityof Hawaii at Manoa officials to attend.
• Dinner Meetings – Raymond Liu, SectionChairman 2003-2008, will be looking intofuture Hawaii Section dinner meetings otherthan the meetings at HECO’s Ward Avenuecafeteria. Speakers and restaurants will bereviewed for possible future programs.
• 2010 Leadership Training Conference, March12-14, DFW Airport – Derek Sato attendedand represented the Hawaii Section. He pre-sented his thoughts, observations and opin-ions.
ASME FRANCIS MONTGOMERY DESIGNCOMPETITION
The Hawaii Section thanks the participantsand coordinators of the May 7, 2010 FrancisMontgomery Student Design Competition: Dr.Ron Knapp for organizing the competition withhis students and the Department of MechanicalEngineering, LCDR Casey Cutler for filling in whileDr. Knapp was away, to all the students for theirprofessional presentations, Mrs. MargaretMontgomery for her support at the competitions,James Grogan for coordinating the competitionfor the Hawaii Section, the judges Ron Flegal,Kristi Kawakami, and Roman Reyes for their pro-fessional and consistent scoring, and Derick Kamfor ensuring that the Francis Montgomery Fundwas in order.
2010-2011 HAWAII SECTION OFFICERS &DIRECTORS
Beginning July 1, 2010, the Officers &Directors of the Hawaii Section will be
Chairman: Derek SatoVice-Chairman: Derick KamTreasurer: Kevin DangSecretary: Kory IkedaDirector: James GroganDirector: Chester KaitokuImmediate Past-Chairman: Ed Chang
2010 CFSEI National Convention The CFSEI conference, show and national
annual meeting will be held on May 26 – 27,2010 at the Omni Hotel, CNN Center in Atlanta,GA. The education sessions for design profes-sionals, suppliers and construction professionalswill be conducted by nationally and international-ly known speakers on cold-formed steel framingconstruction and design. Also, a mini-tradeshow will be included, as well as networking ses-sions and CFSEI committee meetings. The con-vention program/registration form has been pub-lished and has been sent via email to all CFSEIHawaii members. Also, additional information,including a full conference schedule and registra-tion forms, has been posted at www.cfsei.org.
CFSEI TECHNICAL SEMINARCFSEI Hawaii held a cold-formed steel struc-
tural design seminar on April 6, 2010 at thePagoda Hotel. Attending were members ofCFSEI and SEAOH and structural engineers fromthe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and NAVFACHawaii. Speakers were Roger LaBoube, PhD.,P.E., Professor of Civil Engineering and Directorof the Wei-Wen Center for Cold-Formed SteelStructures at Missouri University of Science andTechnology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla)and Mr. Jeff Ellis, P.E., S.E., Code Report &Branch Engineering Manager For SimpsonStrong-Tie Co.
Dr. LaBoube’s presentation was on Cold-Formed Steel Design and Behavior with empha-sis on the new 2007 edition of the NorthAmerican Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members (D100-07).Topics included member design, brace designand connection design with design examplesbased on the AISI Cold-Formed Steel FramingDesign Guide (D110-07).
Following lunch, Mr. Ellis made a presentationentitled Lateral Systems for Cold-Formed Steel,in which several lateral force resisting systemstypically used in cold-formed steel constructionwere reviewed. Several design examples werepresented from the recent CFSEI publication,New Shear Wall Design Guide (CFSFW09),which is based upon the 2006 IBC.
A set of design standards (that included the
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Hawaii Society ofProfessional Engineers
A state society of the National Society of Professional Engineers
P.O. BOX 3774 HONOLULU, HAWAII 96812
WEB SITE www.eng.hawaii.edu/~hspe2009-2010 Officers and DirectorsPresident Florence Ching, P.E.
[email protected] Pres. Elect Majella Stevenson, P.E.
[email protected] Vice Pres. Kurt Kunimune
[email protected] Secretary Marc Botticelli, P.E.
[email protected] Treasurer Nathan Yuen, P.E.
[email protected] Pres. Manny Lanuevo, P.E.
[email protected] Chapter DirectorsHonolulu Enrique Che, P.E.
[email protected] Darren Okimoto, P.E.
[email protected] Island Galen Kuba, P.E.
[email protected] Nancy Burns, P.E.
Introduce a Girl (Student) to EngineeringDay (IGED) by Lynn Fujioka, SWE-HI
IGED is an outreach event that celebrates theexciting field of engineering and is traditionallyhosted every February by the University of HawaiiSWE Collegiate Section in honor of NationalEngineers Month and Engineers Week.
This year’s IGED was held on April 17th, 2010at Waipahu Intermediate School. The cafeteriawas filled with over 200 middle school students,parents, and teachers exploring basic engineer-ing concepts, engineering careers, and highereducation opportunities through a variety ofhands-on activities, demonstrations, and presen-tations led by more than 50 volunteer engineer-ing students and professionals.
IGED participants constructed newspaperbridges (structural), assembled miniature solarcars (alternative energy), compounded glue andborax into GAK! (polymer science), and designedself-propelled toothbrush heads (robotics).
Participants also spoke with UH engineeringmajors about their college projects. Projects dis-played included the ASCE Student Section’snationally competitive Steel Bridge, the SAEStudent Section’s Mini-Baja off-road vehicle, andthe IEEE Student Chapter’s CubeSat satellite.
While explaining their work, Pearl Harbor NavalShipyard engineers and mechanics remindedstudents of the importance of school, self-disci-pline, and safety.
In addition to supporting their students duringthe activities, parents and teachers attended aDiversity Workshop to learn about the value ofdiversity, how to find local resources, and how tofoster student interest in engineering.
Guest speakers were Ron Flegal (LeewardCommunity College), Dr. Olga Lubecke (UH SWEHawaii faculty advisor and UHM professor), Dr.Bruce Liebert (Dean, UH Student Services) andLynn Fujioka (Project Manager, Women inTechnology/MEDB).
IGED successfully motivated students, teach-ers, and parents to think about engineering in afun and interactive way, and was made possibleby grants and services from: The UH SWECollegiate Section; The UH Office of StudentExcellence, Equity & Diversity; the UH College ofEngineering; The Women in TechnologyProject/MEDB; the proposed SWE HawaiianIslands professional section; Pearl Harbor NavalShipyard volunteers; Leeward CommunityCollege; The National Science Foundation; andWaipahu Intermediate School.
Visit www.SWE-HI.org to find out more aboutSWE-HI, or to RSVP to the next SWE-HI GeneralMeeting.
SWE - Hawaiian Islands SectionP.O. Box 61728Honolulu, HI [email protected]
Executive Committee:President: Pearl YamaguchiVice Pres.: Julie HerrSecretary: Rena ChockTreasurer: Ruthsenne GagarinCharter Sec. Rep.: Amy WeintraubAlt. Charter Sec. Rep.: Cody Aihara
The HSPE Kona-Kohala Chapter has beeninvolved in an engineering mentoring programwith the West Hawaii Exploration Academy. Theidea was to introduce young minds to the con-cepts involved in engineering. The goal was tocreate a basic but intuitive feel for engineering instudents at an early age. The class is comprisedof 6th and 7th graders. Last quarter’s programwas on structural engineering. This quarter isabout civil engineering.
The civil engineering program began, as manycivil projects do, with a survey. The class wasconducted outside to survey a lava bubble locat-ed next to the classroom. After collecting data, atopographical map of the bubble was distributed,but scaled up to represent an island that wascalled “Fantasy Island”. This island became thebasis for the rest of the class’s civil developments.
In the next session the class created a foamcore model based on the topographic map. Themodel helped illustrate the relationship between a2-dimensional topographic map and the real
3-dimensional world. All other work bouncedback and forth between the model and the mapto exercise the students’ ability to visualize 3-Dfrom 2-D. At the end of this session, three watertanks were placed, one at the 500 foot elevationand two smaller tanks at the 300 foot elevation.
Third session was focused on water distribu-tion. The class chose which of the three tankswould be the best for their building site and ranpipes from tank to the site on the model. The kidslearned how to calculate static pressure and fig-ured out the pressure at their particular site. Theyalso developed an understanding of pressurebreaks.
The fourth session was about hydrology. A daywas spent talking about how rainfall rechargesthe aquifer and how development without mitiga-tion can lead to more run-off resulting in less re-charge and potentially more flooding. The stu-dents designed drywells based on a hypotheticalregion of “Fantasy Island” with various develop-ment types.
The fifth session was a field trip to a waste-water treatment plant and a drinking water well.The students learned to appreciate the intimateconnection between their drinking water sourceand their waste water effluent.
The last session rounded out the instructionwith wastewater treatment. Various treatmentmethods were reviewed, including individual sys-tems such as cesspools and leach fields, as wellas collection systems. The students chose vari-ous systems for their modeled project site, basedon the site’s attributes.
This has been a fulfilling experience for theengineers and surveyors involved. Hopefully theseeds have been planted that will generate somefuture engineers for the Big Island. Many thanksfor the volunteer hours and resources provided byWes Thomas Associates, Kona Wai Engineering,LLC, Hawaii Water Service Company, and WesleyR. Segawa and Associates, without whose gen-erous efforts, this experience would not havebeen possible. Thanks also to West HawaiiExplorations Academy for allowing the engineersto share their knowledge and excitement with thestudents.
Individuals or organizations interested in help-ing the West Hawaii Explorations Academy maycontact Ms. Sara Medeiros [email protected] or at 808-327-4751, duringschool hours.
Please save the date of September 17, 2010,for the HSPE Educational Foundation GolfTournament - a Fundraiser for MATHCOUNTScompetition and for Scholarships – at the WaikeleGolf Course. Please consider playing, sponsoringand/or donating to the worthy cause of promot-ing science, technology, engineering and mathe-matics to our local middle school students.Notices of the tournament will be sent out in thenot too distant future. For more informationplease contact Kurt Kunimune, HSPE Vice-President at [email protected]!
2007 CFS Design Guide, 2nd Edition, the 2007Lateral Design Standard, and the CFSEI ShearWall Design Guide) was handed out to those whoordered these standards by March 19.
Membership We are thankful to all members for supporting
the CFSEI-Hawaii chapter in 2009 and encour-age you to renew your membership for 2010.Membership application forms were distributedat the April 6, 2010 CFSEI technical seminar. Toobtain a membership application form, pleasecontact Glenn Isidro by phone or email. Or visitwww.cfsei.org for the membership applicationform or for paying your membership dues for2010 online.
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Making GAK! Photo courtesy of SWEHawaii, Collegiate Section.
Assembling solar cars. Photo courtesy ofSWE Hawaii, Collegiate Section.
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P.O. Box 4135, Honolulu, Hawaii 96812Website: http://www.falea.org
2008-2010 Officers and BoDirectors President: John C. RamosVice Pres/Pres Elect: Elvi B. PinedaSecretary: Zosima S. AgraanTreasurer: Marisol TaconAsst. Treasurer: Nicolo A. OrenseAuditor/Bus. Mngr: Angelie L. LegaspiPublic Relations Officer: Joey G. ResurreccionPast President: Napoleon Q. AgraanBoard of Directors: Ramon B. Bonoan Jr.
Eugene N. CalaraJeoffrey S. CudiamatVergel G. Del RosarioMarcelino C. LabasanJojo Lopez
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po box 4353, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813An association for Hawaii’s Engineers and ArchitectsWEB address: http://eahawaii.googlepages.com/home
2009 – 2010 OfficersPresident C. S. Papacostas 956-65381st VP Aaron Erickson 591-27282nd VP Andrew Keane 531-3017Treasurer Tit Mun Chun 839-4812 Secretary Gary Yamamoto 485-2777Director Howard Wiig 587-3811Director Andy Keith 543-4523Director Ardalan Nikou 523-8874Past Pres Michael Albright 848-0751
HIGHLIGHTS – APRIL/MAY ACTIVITIES BOARD of DIRECTORS’ MONTHLY MEET-ING, May 5, 2010:
Treasurer’s Report: Marisol gave an updateof current balances to both FALEA andFoundation. There are still several receivableswhich will be followed up on. She again remind-ed the Board that receipts are required for reim-bursement of authorized expenses in behalf ofthe organization. The President also reported thatthe FilCom Center will be giving us a $500 checkto help defray the cost of building the Float forthis weekend’s parade.
Committee Reports: INFO & PUBLICATION– Website is current. Joey can put in photos ifyou have any to share the membership. Suzie,our HCES representative, attended the May 4thHCES meeting. TRAINING/PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT –FALEA will host a get-togetherfor the recent FE Review attendees and volunteerinstructors. More details later.
Unfinished Business: FALEA GOLF TOUR-NAMENT – Thanks to all for another successfulevent. We now have money to continue fundingour scholarship program. FILIPINO FIESTAPARADE – May 8, the date of the parade, hascome and gone so fast...but it’s over and againthanks to all for the hard work and dedication ofthose who stayed up until late in the night to helpbuild and set up the float for the following day’sparade in Waikiki. Many thanks specially to RogerUrbi, a past president of the organization, and hisstaff for letting us use his flatbed truck for thefloat, and his facility in Waipahu for all the pre-parade preparations activities. Thanks also to theparade volunteer marchers who had to get upearly, and to the Bicol Club members who let usshare their area for the post-parade picnic atKapiolani Park. SUMMER FROLIC – Elvi gave anupdate on the proposed Camping at Bellows. It’sbeen changed to a possible one-nighter onlyinstead of 2 nights. This will be Saturday night,July 2. More info later as we finalize the reserva-tion process.
New Business: Coming up is our AssemblyMeeting in August to elect new Officers andDirectors for the 2010-2012 administrative year,and our Inaugural Banquet on October 2, 2010,at the Pacific Beach Hotel. Mark your calendars.
Next Meeting: June 3, 2010 at APB’s.
If you want to receive a weekly email meetingannouncement or want program details ContactSam Gillie ([email protected] 543-4739)or any of the EAH officers.
Please enjoy our new abbreviated WEBaddress; our website can now be accessed athttp://EAHawaii.org
The new location is at the Fort Street Grill in theTopa Tower in the AMFAC Center (this is the Ewatower on Fort Street). $2 validated parking will beavailable in the AMFAC parking (enter fromNimitz). The WEB site has been updated to pro-vide directions and a Map. If you have questionsplease call Sam Gillie (543-4739) or any of theEAH officers.
Meetings are held from 12:00 - 1:00. Lunch isavailable for $10,(EAH members) and$12,(Guests).
UPCOMING MEETINGSJune 4, Clark Hatch, “Fitness Ambassador to
Asia.”June 11 - No meeting in observance of
Kamehameha dayJune 18, To be AnnouncedJune 25, To be AnnouncedIf you are interested in speaking to the EAH or
would like to hear a specific talk, we welcomeyour input. Please contact June Speaker ChairLee Mansfield [[email protected]], orAaron Erickson, EAH 1st Vice President forspeaker engagements.
PREVIOUS MEETINGSMeeting Notes for April 16th, 2010
Ms. Elizabeth Corbin, Manager, Science &Technology Branch, State of Hawaii, Departmentof Business, Economic Development & Tourism.Title: “Why Is Science Technology Industry Goodfor Hawaii”
Ms. Corbin gave a detailed overview to theEngineering, Science and Technology opportuni-ties Hawaii can offer. The tech industry in Hawaiicontributed $3 billion dollars in 2007, provided31,000 jobs and has grown at about 3.3% and isprojected for continued growth. Every high techcenter is supported by a nearby university andHawaii’ UH has provided 246 million dollars in2009 for Extramural Research Awards. Theareas of Hawaii’s strength are Geophysics,Planetology, Agricultural biotech, Astronomy,Marine Biology and Ocean Sciences, CancerResearch, Defense and Aerospace and LifeSciences. Some of the involvements are seedcrop development, plant disease, aquaculture,Manuna Kea Science Reserve with 12 worldclass astronomical facilities and likely the ThirtyMeter Telescope will be added; Maui SpaceSurveillance; Pacific Missile Range Facility;Natural Energy Laboratory (NELHA); John ABurns School of Medicine; Hawaii Institute of
Marine Biology and others. Mr. Corbin’s talk willbe available at the EAH WEB site.
Meeting Notes for April 23rd, 2010 Andrew Kona Prudy; Boys and Girls Club
Hawaii Ewa Beach Clubhouse. Title: “Boys andGirls Club of Hawaii”
This year EAH made its first Peter BurkScholarship Award of $2,000 to a member of theBoys and Girls Club; engineering studentJonathan Straley. Mr. Prudy told the membersabout the history of the Boys and Girls Clubs inHawaii. It started in Hawaii in 1977, so 33 yearsago. The Ewa Beach club started in 1989. Thestarted in a school classroom, but had to moveto a temporary building, but they are now in apermanent building that Geoffrey Patersondesigned.
Scholarship recipient Jonathan Straley talkedabout his experiences with the Boys and GirlsClub and how it changed his life. He was living ina foster home that simply provided him room andboard, but no emotional family support. His realmother and father were not able to provide forhim and he had little to no contact with them. Theclub essentially, became his family. Growing uphe watch a lot of television, but there was onecartoon where a boy who had a secret laborato-ry, where he would build fabulous machines anddevices. The boy always talked about math andscience were the greatest thing in the world.Jonathan took that to heart and it lead him intoelectrical engineering. Jonathan said that gettingthe scholarship was the first time he has everreceived such a gift. This meeting recording willbe available at the EAH WEB site.
Meeting Notes for April 30rd, 2010 Nominations for EAH’s 2010 to 2011 Officer
and Directors are open. Contact MichaelAlbright.
Speaker: Ryan Umemoto. Title: “LEDLights.”
Ryan provided a brief overview to the LEDlighting products from South Korea, which he isstarting to promote in Hawaii. The fixtures areself-contained so require no outside or internalballasts. The fixtures are more expensive thancompact fluorescents fixtures (CFL), but theyhave a longer life and are more energy efficient,pay back on a lighting project investment isbetween 5 to 7 years. Ryan had several exam-ples of flood lights, regular incandescent lights,and T8 –Tube and different light colors to showthe variety of fixtures available. This meetingrecording will be available at the EAH WEB site.
Meeting Notes for May 7th, 2010 Jenna King – Pacific Biodiesel. Title:
“Greasing the Way to Hawaii’s Future” Jenna King provided the EAH membership
with a history and overview of her father’s startingand development of the production of renewablebiofuels in Hawaii and the start up of PacificBiodiesel. Her father worked at the City land filland thought there must be a better way of dis-posing of the waste greases and oils that are col-lected from Hawaii’s restaurants grease trap.She explained the chemical process they usewhich strips the glycerol molecules from the longchain hydrogen-carbon molecules. Once this isdone and with adequate filtering for water andother impurities what basically remains is bio-diesel, which can be burnt in all diesel engines.There are currently four plants around the coun-try, Oregon, Texas and two in Hawaii. They willbe opening a new plant on the Big Island. Theyhave another company that builds plants aroundthe country and one in Japan. The bio-diesel isbio-degradable in water. It burns with loweremissions. They process about 3.8 million gal-lons per year of waste oils. This meeting record-ing will be available at the EAH WEB site.
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The Hawaii ITE had its monthly luncheonmeeting on April 28, 2010, at the City’s Frank F.Fasi Municipal Building. Attendees were remind-ed that the election of new officers are comingup, and everyone is encouraged to get moreinvolved with ITE!
Natasha Soriano, the University of Hawai‘i’sITE Student Chapter President, gave a brief pre-sentation on the Traffic Noise Analysis &Abatement Policy Update and Guidelines she iscurrently working on with Professor Prevedouros.She handed out the draft of the policy and guide-lines along with a review survey for ITE membersto complete.
Jeff Chang, Airport Division EngineeringProgram Manager, from the State Department ofTransportation spoke about the StatewideAirport Modernization. The goals of the modern-ization plan is to accommodate future needs,meet heighten security requirements, and createa good experience for passengers. To be green-er, vender operated photovoltaic systems will beinstalled at 5 airports. At the Honolulu Inter-national Airport (HNL) the new mauka concourseis the 1st major renovation in 15 years. The taxi-ways will be widened and accommodations willbe for 5 wide or 10 narrow body planes. Theinterior will have more moving walkways and asustainable design utilizing day light and an airand duct shaft column support. The hope is toachieve LEED silver certification.
concentrated strictly on magazines. The Page-Turner uses four page securing mechanisms anduses a sticky substance as the page grabber.This also was a Rehabilitation Hospital of thePacific in Hawaii sponsored project.
Low Cost Semi-Automatic VegetableTransplanter - $100 was awarded to the fourthplace team of Christopher Calpito, RolandConsidine, Justen Dela Cruz, and CoreyKaneshiro. The project goal was to design andfabricate a semi-automatic vegetable trans-planter that suits the needs of Mr. OwenKaneshiro, Kaneshiro Farms, LLC. Current veg-etable transplanters use complicated and expen-sive mechanisms more suitable for larger farmsor are overly simple and do not provide adequatetransplanting capacity. The project transplanteruses track and field discuses to cut trenches forthe seedlings to land in the soil. Seedlingcarousels are loaded by workers and dropseedlings into tubes at set intervals and into thetrenches. Covering mechanism consists of aseries of plates dragged behind the transplanter.
Other Design Projects:Other projects included:
• Hawaii Baja – Design and fabricate an all-ter-rain vehicle and compete in the May 2010 BajaSAE competition at the Hannegan Speedwayin Bellingham, Washington.
• Team Rehab, Exercise Machine – Designand build exercise equipment tailored to theneeds of a client with quadriplegia. Team
Second place Wheelchair Rain Shield teamwith M. Montgomery and J. Grogan, L-R:Steve Schustek, Kalani Castro, JamesGrogan, Mrs. Montgomery, and GilbertIgnacio.
Third place Reading Rainbow Page-Turnerteam with M.Montgomery and J. Grogan, L-R: Melvin Rodenhurst, James Grogan, Mrs.Montgomery, Cheyne Eugenio, and MichaelDorman.
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members included Matthew Asada, GinoDelprado, and Wilfredo Dinong.
• Mechanical Pill Dispenser with Reminder– Design and build a mechanical pill dispenserwith reminder including two separate modulesfor dispensing and timer. Team membersincluded Ryan Hong, James Linden, andCassie Oda.
AcknowledgementsThe FRMDC was established in 1987 in mem-
ory of Francis Rhodes Montgomery to further thefield of Mechanical Engineering. It is aimed at thestudent of Mechanical Engineering with the goalof recognizing and rewarding innovative designefforts, the practicality of the design, and the abil-ity to present the design in a clear and under-standable manner.
Present for the competition was Mrs. MargaretL. Montgomery, the widow of Francis R.Montgomery, and Board member of the founda-tion who has supported the competition since itsinception.
Coordinating this event for the foundation withDr. Ronald Knapp and LCDR Casey Cutler wasJames F. Grogan, ASME-HI Past-Chairman andcurrent Section Director. The judges includedASME-HI members Ronald M. Flegal of LeewardCommunity College, Kristi Kawakami of HawaiianDredging Construction Company, and RomanReyes of Oahu Plumbing.
For those who were not aware, originaltrustees of the Francis Montgomery Foundationincluded Major General Robert G. F. Lee,Adjutant General Department of Defense, State
of Hawaii; Brigadier General Gary M. Ishikawa,Deputy Adjutant General, Department ofDefense, State of Hawaii; and Kent Murata ofMarine Corps Base Hawaii.
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