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Apr 9, 2008, 11:21:05 AM4/9/08

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Last evening's meeting at Ivar’s Pier 54 was fairly well attended and fascinating. We had a tag team of speakers. First we heard from Marcia Ratan about the City of Seattle's efforts to recycle waste food and the means of collecting it. We even heard from our waitress, who explained how Ivar’s participates in the waste food collection program. Then we heard from Jerry Bartlett who gave a photographic tour of the Cedar Grove composting process. Simply fascinating!

Our Section Chair, Laura Cruz, announced that we are looking for volunteers to provide guidance and program for the coming year. We are looking for fresh ideas and new people to step forward to the positions of Chair and Vice-Chair. Several of us are willing to continue in roles such as Andrew and Karl helping with Program, Laura as Treasurer, and George as Secretary. Search yourself and see if you want to the make the commitment to help improve our Section, because it doesn’t happen at all without our own effort!

Next month’s meeting is the Annual Student Papers - four short presentations presented by UW chemical engineering students. Don’t miss it at the Ivar’s Lake Union, May 13^th.

Everett Community College SWE club has invited any member of AIChE to come to dinner and chat with students interested in engineering the evening of Friday May 16^th at the college in Everett. Contact Heather Bird, President of the EvCC Interest Group for SWE at bea...@mindspring.com (I’d go myself, but I have a conflict!)

Kelly Griswold, President of the Puget Sound Engineering Council announces that there will be an “Order of the Engineer” ceremony for qualified students and working engineers at the University of Washington Waterfront Activity Center at 6 – 7:30 pm (same time as our own meeting!). Deadline for applying is April 24^th at http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=156117 Cost of the meeting (including stainless steel ring) is $12 for students and $17 for working engineers. Eligibility includes graduates of ABET-accredited engineering programs, and students within two terms of graduation in an ABET-approved program and registered professional engineers.