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Clean Reliable Modern Energy Speaker Series
ASME Philadelphia and Engineering for Change hosted the first mini-Impact.Engineered event on February 23rd 2021
A day in the life of an M.E. 2020
We continued our yearly tradition virtually this time on September 29th! A day in the life of an M.E. is an event geared towards acquainting current students to recent mechanical engineering grads, who are in the early stages of their career.
2020 panelists
Michael Abosch – Michael is the currently working as a Technical Specialist with Lucid Motors, CA and is involved with mechanical design, simulation and analysis of rotating equipment. Michael enjoys tennis, hiking and tinkering with robots in his spare time. 
Lidiya Shutaya – Lidiya is the currently working as a Continuous Improvement Engineer with PennEngineering, PA and is involved with fastener manufacturing, value stream mapping and tooling development. Lidiya enjoys woodworking, watching a Marvel comic and a good board game in her spare time. 
Michael Buss – Michael is currently a propulsion design engineer and a recent graduate from Drexel University . During his free time, Michael enjoys snowboarding, skateboarding and his own words “Rocket stuff”. 
Arulselvi Selvaraja – Selvi is a Mechanical Engineer at Load Control Technologies, and ASME Philadelphia’s Outreach Director and Website administrator. During her free time, Selvi enjoys landscape photography, writing poems or having her nose in a manga. 
Valentina Alayon – Valentina is a Strategic Projects Specialist at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) headquarters. Her role works with the membership and marketing teams to develop and assess new member benefits and programs along with produce the implementation plans to introduce those specific benefits to market. Through her outreach she helps create awareness of programs to new and existing members. In December 2017, Valentina graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. During her time at UNLV, Valentina worked on a variety of projects including the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition and Society of Automotive Engineers Baja Competition. She also was an Engineering Student Ambassador spearheading development and growth of the program to increase recruitment of high school students. Her involvement with ASME began as a student where she served as student chair and vice-chair of her ASME student chapter. She was the lead student organizer for the first U.S. based ASME E-Fest West. Currently, Valentina relocated to Florida from NYC where she’s enjoying the warmer weather and working from home.
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
February 22, 2020, ASME Philadelphia Section participated in the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at the Franklin Institute to help celebrate Engineers Week 2020. Our activities included building a spaghetti tower and driving a racing robot on loan from Drexel University’s ASME Student Organization. Everyone had a great time!
Get Your Pitches Ready
On Nov. 15th 2020, ASME Philadelphia hosted their inaugural Engineering Slam competition. University design teams from Drexel University, Swarthmore College, Thomas Jefferson University and Villanova University competed to pitch their ideas to get some funding. The students had 15 minutes to convince the judges they had the winning idea. ASME Philadelphia provided the funding and the awards committee ( Marcus Besser, Fred Willis, Antonios Kontsos and Arulselvi Selvaraja) judged the competition along with Director of the Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship Charles Sacco. It was a fun night of engineering, pizza and friends.
A Day in the Life of an M.E. – 2019
ASME Philadelphia’s student social was held on September 24th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Dave & Buster’s in Philadelphia.
What a night! Thanks to our special guest speakers Matt Matwiejczyk, Kade Anthony, Enerel Munkhzul, Valentina Alayon, and Arulselvi Selvaraja for being open and answering the tough questions, especially about diversity in the workplace, mental health, and work-life balance.
ASME Awards Dinner – 2019
The ASME awards dinner took place at the Sonesta Hotel in Philadelphia on April 16th, 2019. The keynote speaker, Mr. David Yoel from American Aerospace Technologies, Inc. gave us valuable insight into unmanned aviation. The collegiate teams funded by ASME Philadelphia during 2018-2019 presented their projects during the ceremony, and Mr. Jagteshwar Boyal from Drexel University and Ms. Caroline Lowndes from Temple University were recognized as Outstanding student section leaders. Dr. Marcus P. Besser was also recognized for his exceptional service as Secretary of ASME Philadelphia during the Awards dinner.
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