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In The News NEWS AND TRENDS Energy forum: wide range of views Briefly • Online job seekers looking for engineering jobs can now have job alerts sent to their mobile devices via text messaging. MEP Jobs, an online job board and resume bank, has added the text message service to job seeker accounts. For more information, go to www.mepjobs.com. Emerson Network Power introduced Data Center Assessment, an on-site data center assessment designed to analyze heat removal from sensitive heat-generating computer equipment and assess the capacity of electrical systems and the quality of power provided to the data center. For information, go to www.liebert.com. ASHRAE and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) are making it easier for their members to join their respective groups. Under a new agreement, ASHRAE members who hold professional engineering designations can join CIBSE without undergoing the normal qualifications review. Likewise, CIBSE members can join without undergoing ASHRAE’s admissions and advancement review. For more information, go to www.ashrae.org. • his year’s 18th Annual Energy Efficiency Everyone has an opinion on it … but expects Forum, in June at the National Press someone else to do something about it,” noted Club in Washington, D.C., co-sponsored U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman in his by Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, and the U.S. keynote address. Energy Assn., couldn’t have been more timeBut the secretary’s remark notwithstanding, ly. Major congressional hearings on energy the diverse views expressed by forum speakers convened the same day. are tied together by a And the forum followed common note of activ“There is a difference immediately upon the between energy independence ism and optimism about G-8 Summit’s discussions the ability to get serious and energy security.” on climate change. about energy efficiency. Over the nearly two “Market enablers will be decades that this event has been staged, one key, under the headings of technology, policy of its strengths is the diversity of opinions that and incentives,” said Omar Siddiqui, chief stratare represented here. “I’ve come to the conegist for energy efficiency, EPRI. clusion that energy policy is like the weather: (Continued on page 14) T Washington inspires eWeek National Engineers Week, scheduled for Feb. 17 to Feb. 23 in Washington, D.C., traces its roots back to 1951. It was founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers and has grown to a coalition of more than 70 engineering societies and more than 50 major corporations and government agencies. eWeek is celebrated around the time of George Washington’s birthday, as America’s first president was a military engineer and a land surveyor. On June 9, 1778, at Valley Forge, Pa., General George Washington issued a call for engineers and engineering education. This order is considered the genesis of a U.S. Army Engineer School, which found its permanent home at Fort Belvoir, Va., where Washington practiced surveying. In 1794, President Washington established a Corps of Artillerists and Engineers to be educated and stationed at West Point in New York, which later become the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. From transportation to education, Washington’s engineering vision proved to be ahead of its time. After his death in 1799, many of the technologies he supported provided an impetus to the American Industrial Revolution. Events September - October 2007 • 9/13 - 9/14 Green Building Intl. Conference www.construction.com/event Hangzhou, China 10/14 - 10/19 SFPE Professional Development Conference www.sfpe.org Las Vegas 10/23 Danfoss Symposium: Overcoming Communications Barriers to Energy Efficiency www.envisioneering.danfoss.com/symposium Washington, D.C. For a complete listing of events go to www.csemag.com and click Events. FOR MORE NEWS STORIES GO TO: CSEMAG.COM Consulting-Specifying Engineer • AUGUST, 2007 13 http://www.mepjobs.com http://www.liebert.com http://www.construction.com/event http://www.sfpe.org http://www.ashrae.org http://www.envisioneering.danfoss.com/symposium http://www.csemag.com http://www.csemag.com

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Contents M/E Roundtable Giants 100 Pullout Poster Giants Stand Tall: CSE Giants 100 Report Electrical Design for Tall Buildings HVAC and Fire Safety for Elevator Systems How to Beat the Codes GAS Technology Supplement Recovering Waste Heat from Boilers New Applications for Tankless Water Heating Systmes Techniques Improve for Powder Coating MDF New Tools Available for Heat Treating Steel Direct Drive Engines

Consulting-Specifying Engineer - August 2007

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