Standards PM Committee Structure Proposed to Become Globally Focused 2003 Election Results of ASAE Officers Nominations Sought for 2004 ASAE Election Cooperative Standards Program Section News Minnesota Section Members to Receive Disability Income Plan Premium Credit Looking for Engineers to Highlight in Discover Issue Author’s Style Guide Updated In Memoriam Roger R. Castenson, Glenn O. Schwab ASAE Technical Library Member News William E. Splinter, Thomas Glanville, D. Brad Keleher, Harmon L. Towne Welcome New Members Events Calendar

Meetings Council Update      I want to take a few minutes of your time to update you on activities of the Meetings Council. It is the Council’s responsibility to select dates and locations for the ASAE Annual International Meeting and to approve symposiums and conferences.      During your committee meetings, I encourage you to consider planning a symposium for sometime in late 2004, early 2005, or 2006. It takes about 18 to 24 months to execute a successful symposium. Symposiums, along with the ASAE Annual International Meeting, are very important in providing cutting edge information, exposing non-ASAE members to ASAE, and providing financial support to ASAE.      The Dairy Housing Conference held in January and the Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference (AETC) and International Conference on Crop Harvesting and Processing, both held in February, were well attended, very positive, and profitable. In October, ASAE will be sponsoring a triple conference consisting of Animal, Agricultural, and Food Processing Wastes; Swine Housing; and Air Pollution which will be held in Research Triangle Park, N.C. In November, the Emerging TMDL Environmental Regulations Conference will be held in Albuquerque, N.M. In 2004, AETC and the dual conferences of the 10th National Symposium on Individual and Small Community Sewage Systems (On-site Wastewater Treatment) and the Drainage Symposium will be held.      To initiate a conference, you need to have it approved at your committee and move it forward through your division executive committee and then to the Meetings Council. This can all be done at the ASAE Annual International Meeting. Prior to the annual meeting, contact ASAE headquarters for a planning packet or go online at the ASAE Web site.      Like all our annual meetings, the Las Vegas meeting will be great. Todd Stewart, Director for the Program for International and Homeland Security at Ohio State University, will be the general session speaker along with exceptional presentations by our fellow members and guests. The meetings industry has been assured by the actions and precautions taken by all the various facets of Homeland Security that attending meetings and travel are now safer than they have been in years.      As you prepare for the annual meeting in Las Vegas, check the Web site for details. Registration, the Schedule at a Glance, and the highlights of the program are on the Web. Additional information will be forthcoming via the Web and Resource magazine. The preliminary program was sent with the April issue of Resource magazine. As last year, we will not be mailing out an expanded version of the program but will have a complete program on site and on the Web.      The registration fee is the same as last year, but ASAE’s costs are greater. As you make hotel reservations, I strongly urge you to make them at the Riviera Hotel, where the conference is being held. If we don’t make the contracted room sales, ASAE will have to pay a substantial meeting room penalty. The Meetings Council approved assessing a fee of $25 for those attendees who are not staying at the Riveria to help offset the penalty. Your room receipt will be checked at registration. I am assured that there are plenty of rooms available at the Riveria until the cut-off date of July 3.      The 2004 meeting will be in Ottawa, Canada, as a joint meeting with CSAE/SCGR, with the headquarters hotel at the Westin. The 2005 meeting will be in Tampa, Fla., and headquartered at the Marriott Waterside and Tampa Convention Center. We hope to have the 2006 meeting in the Northwest as we try to rotate the meeting regionally. Please let me or a member of the Meetings Council know of your concerns and ideas on how we can continue to improve our meetings and conferences. We need your input. James C. Converse,ASAE Fellow, Chair of Meetings Council

PM Committee Structure Proposed to Become Globally Focused
      Under the governance of the ASAE Standards Council, the past three years have resulted in significant changes to the ASAE standards process. These changes started with the establishment of a more effective standards process for the development of ASAE standards. In addition, the ASAE T-01 committee has recently approved detailed procedures for the national adoption of ISO standards. So why are these changes occurring?
     First, the ASAE Board of Trustees has directed the Standards Council to:
     • Develop and adopt single, international standards in concert with existing and new technology that provides benefits and value to the Society, its members, and an international community of users and impacted parties, and
     • Conduct timely standards development, applying processes to effectively utilize the skills and talents of the standards developers to foster broad participation of Society members and other interested parties.
     Second, the United States is a signatory body to the World Trade Organization. One significant obligation to the United States is the agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) that obliges the United States to ensure that technical regulations and voluntary standards do not create unnecessary obstacles to trade. The TBT Agreement recognizes the important contribution that international standards can make to improve the production efficiency and the facilitation of international trade. The agreement further recognizes that where international standards exist or their completion is imminent, that standards bodies should use them, or the relevant parts of them, as a basis for standards they develop.
     To support the United States’ obligatory recognition and use of international standards, the next step for ASAE is the revision of the Power and Machinery (PM) committee infrastructure with focus on committee alignment between ASAE and ISO/TC 23. In the current ASAE environment, PM standards collectively fall under the responsibility of both the PM committees and the T15/3 committee and are isolated from the ISO Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs). It is only through these TAGs that the United States is represented at the ISO international table. Only with the integration of the ASAE committee and the associated U.S. TAGs can ASAE move forward with an effective focus on and involvement with international standardization.      Under the new ASAE committee structure, committees that are aligned with ISO/TC 23 or subcommittees of ISO/TC 23 are designated as PM-23 committees. Further, committees that represent a special interest such as braking, become related to the parent U.S. TAG committee. As an example, PM-03/1 (Braking) becomes PM-23/04/1 (standing committee 1 of SC4 of TC23).
     When working in ISO, decisions and resolutions regarding standards occur in technical committees and subcommittees that are made up of national delegations from interested countries. Under the new reorganization, the PM-23 committees take on the role of U.S. TAGs for ISO/TC 23 and the various subcommittees. The official position of the United States for representation to ISO will be formed by the U.S. TAGs with help and advice as required from the various subcommittees. As new areas of interest appear in either ASAE or ISO, new committees can be formed to collect subject matter experts for ASAE standards and to insure that the United States opinion is advanced to ISO. As part of the standards development process, input of subject matter experts from the T15 Group – Ergonomics, Safety, and Health, will be solicited on all standards that have significant safety content.
     What is the true effect of the reorganization on ASAE? Most existing committee structures and associated functions are totally unaffected other than a few number identification changes. Many committees will be asked to become responsible for some ISO standards as well as the existing ASAE standards. Further, many committees will be encouraged to take on harmonization projects with the goal of developing one standard for the world when possible.
     As the reorganization progresses, more specific information will be communicated to committee chairs that are affected. Further, there are plans for several focus sessions at the ASAE Annual International Meeting to allow members to review and discuss this matter. We will also be providing information on future possible reorganization activities in the electronics/electrical areas and other areas where reorganization opportunities exist. We are available to answer questions and receive suggestions on how to make this realignment more effective for our Society.

Doug Durant, Chair
T-13 International Standardization
Roger Hoy, Member
ISO/TC 23/SC 3 and SC4 US TAG
Richard Straub, Chair
PM-03 Standards

2003 Election Results of ASAE Officers

Proposed New Projects      X511, Drain Restoration After Utility Construction. This standard will give guidance, design information, and restoration practices to follow after underground utilities are installed across agricultural land. Revision      X328.3, Dimensions for Compatible Operation of Forage Harvesters, Forage Wagons, and Forage Blowers. A revision is necessary because the current standard does not reflect the current practices and machinery used in forage harvesting. New machinery and techniques have been developed thus creating a need for updating S328.2 to reflect these developments. Completed Projects Withdrawal      ASAE EP288.5 DEC01, Agricultural Building Snow and Wind Loads. This Engineering Practice has become out-of-date and has been superceded by ASCE7.      For more information, contact ASAE Standards, 2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085-9659, USA; 269-428-6331 or 269-429-0300 ext. 315, fax 269-429-3852.

Minnesota Section
     On March 7, 2003, the Minnesota section hosted a luncheon and tour of Rahr Malting in Shakopee, Minn. A total of 22 members participated.
     Rahr Malting Company has the world’s largest singlesite malt house. Five malt houses at the site are fully integrated into one infrastructure with the process in each controlled automatically and linked together on a single electronic data highway. Rahr has over 156 years of malting history.
     The participants began at the top of the 84-meter (275-foot) tall tower and followed barley through the various steps to produce malting. The grain’s condition was examined at each step to watch the changes taking place.

Minnesota Section members tour the Rahr Malting Company in Shakopee, Minn. (Photo courtesy of John Brach)

     Newly elected Section officers were also announced at the luncheon. Roger Ruan is the new section chair, replacing John Brach. The vice chair for programs is Ron Leaf. Vice chair for membership is Chris Beach. Jun Zhu was elected to the position of vice chair for awards. Sonia Maassel Jacobsen was re-elected secretary- treasurer, and John Brach will be editor of the Agrineer newsletter.
Sonia Maassel Jacobsen
Section Secretary

Roger R. Castenson, 59, former executive vice president of ASAE from 1986 until 1996, died March 31 in Austin, Texas, of cancer.      Castenson was a senior consultant with Marketing Partners, Inc., specializing in strategic planning, marketing, market research, and organizational development for membership organizations. Through that association he provided services to a number of professional societies.      He served as ASAE manager of membership activities from 1973 to 1980. From 1981 until 1986 he served as manager of special projects for the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He had been a member of ASAE for 30 years.      Castenson graduated in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Texas A&M and received a master of business administration degree from Michigan State University in 1977. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran.      Survivors include his wife, Louise, and two sons, Carl of Dallas and Eric of Austin.      Memorials may be made to St. Mary’s Catholic Center, 603 Church Ave, College Station, TX 77840 or Hospice Austin, 4107 Spicewood Springs Road, Suite 100, Austin, TX 78759.

ASAE Fellow Glenn O. Schwab, P.E., 83, of Powell, Ohio, died March 12, 2003.      Schwab was Professor Emeritus of agricultural engineering at The Ohio State University and was recognized worldwide as an expert in soil and water conservation and drainage. He lectured and taught in numerous countries overseas and authored several textbooks in agricultural engineering.      Schwab was elected to ASAE Fellow in 1970 and had been a member of ASAE for 55 years. In 1968, he received the ASAE Hancor Soil and Water Engineering Award. He was a veteran of World War II and was inducted into the Overholt International Drainage Hall of Fame.      Survivors include his wife, Edith; two sons, Richard of Wheaton, Ill. and Lawrence of Columbus, Ohio; a daughter, Mary Kay Schwab of Reynoldsburg, Ohio; and two grandchildren.      Memorial contributions may be made to the Glenn O. and Lois S. Schwab Scholarship Fund (#606411) in care of The Ohio State University Development Fund, P.O. Box 710811, Columbus, OH 43271-0811.

	ASAE Fellow, William E. Splinter, P.E., was recently named the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement’s 114th honoree. “Splinter has made considerable contributions to the development and advancement of Nebraska agriculture, the engineering field, the university, and the state,” says Bob Fritschen, secretary/treasurer of the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement.      Splinter was head of the Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska where he was also a professor. Since his retirement he has been instrumental in developing the Larsen Tractor Museum and was hired by the University Foundation to assist in developing the university’s Technology Park. He is currently interim director of the Nebraska State Museum.      Splinter earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Michigan State University. He was ASAE president in 1978-79 and has been a member of ASAE for 52 years. He was elected ASAE Fellow in 1974.
Thomas Glanville, associate professor in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department at Iowa State University, was recently honored for 25 years with the university. Glanville, whose speciality is water quality and composting, is also programs chair for the Iowa Section. He has been a member of ASAE for 22 years.
	D. Brad Keleher, P.E., senior engineer at Deere & Company Technology Center, Moline, Ill., was recently elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors for the Society of Automotive Engineers.      Keleher received his bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering and his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois. He facilitates a team at Deere that links engineering specialties companywide; integrates new design technologies and practices in the company’s design, production, and product development processes; and develops a vehicle cooling systems community of practice. Keleher has been a member of ASAE for 24 years and served as chair of the Quad City Section.
	Harmon L. Towne, P.E., was recently honored with a Corbett Award by the Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) Associates board of directors. Towne is vice president of engineering and product development at Brock Manufacturing, Milford, Ind., and a lecturer at Purdue University.      The Corbett Award recognizes GEAPS associate members for extraordinary volunteer leadership contributions on behalf of their entire organization.      GEAPS Associates Board President Tom Runyon cited Towne’s far-ranging influence as an innovative designer of grain-storage and handling systems as well as his commitment to industry safety. He also noted Towne’s work emphasizing safety in grain-bin entry, bin rescue, inspection, aeration, and loading and unloading. Towne has been a member of ASAE for 40 years and was ASAE president in 2000-01.

ASAE welcomes the following new members who joined the Society, reinstated a lapsed membership, or upgraded to full membership from student/preprofessional membership in February and March. When available, the member’s place of employment has been provided. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to these new and returned members of our Society.

New Members for February Charles A. Adeola Richard Yele Akinbamowo, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development John D. Anderson, AGCO Corp. Gaurav Arora, Chore-Time Brock Satish Bal, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Heidi R. Balestrieri, John Deere Des Moines Works Charles A. Bamidele, African Business & Engineering Management Limited Thomas E. Droppo, Combar Ltd. Kristen M. Dudley, California Polytechnic State University Philip C. Eby, Penn State University Marcia I. Endres, University of Minnesota Vagelis A. Evagelidis Keith R. Fuhrman, CNH Sant S. Garg, Engineering Solutions Inc. Corinne G. Graham, R.M. of Hanover Michael C. Greene Will M. Gutowsky, Turner Collie & Braden Megan K. Hamilton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dennis R. Hermesch Bill A. Hood, Vermeer Manufacturing Co. Yiyuan Jiang, Northeast Agricultural University Victor B. Johnson, General Chemical Samuel T. Jones, Kennewick Irrigation District Paulo A. Kagoda, Rwenzori Highlands Tea Company Limited Jung Hun Kim, Tong Yang Moolsan Company Ltd. Khanh Hong Le, Ministry Agriculture & Rural Development Michael A. Lieberman, USDA-ARS Thomas E. Madsen, Eco-Dan A/S Michael E. Massonne, DLZ Indiana LLC James A. McGarry, Miami County Sanitary Engineering Department Meghan L. McKelvey, GZA Geoenvironmental Inc. Steven D. Mickelson, Equipment Design Service Michael Miling, Feyen Zylstra Electric Patricia Miller, West Virginia University Extension Service Bhavishya Mittal, Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies Moses O. Olateru, Terudee Farms Ltd. Keshaw P. Pandey, Indian Institute of Technology Mandy L. Parks, CH2M Hill Brian Alex Peters, U S Sugar Corp. Kendrick E. Richardson, Engineering Experts Inc. Chris Roberson, Prime Metal Buildings Dennis E. Schoenmaker, John Deere Welland Works Shane M. Scott, CNH Global NV Cristopher J. Skonard, University of Nebraska Dirk C. Spencer, Alabama A&M University Eric R. Steigman, CNH Global NV Kamlesh N. Tiwari, Indian Institute of Technology Samuel K. Turay, St Francis Secondary School Brenda I. VanCleave, USDA-NRCS Michael S. Vasquez, University of Minnesota Hong Yang, North Carolina A&T State University Ilhami Yildiz, DeCloet Greenhouse Manufacturing Ltd. Derrick L. Yoder, Arcadis Nathan P. Zacek, Cactus Feeders Cory A. Ziegler, AGCO Corp. New Members for March Marialuci F. Almeida, Bunge Corp OCOE Nathaniel O. Bailey, Florida A&M University Donald Scott Bell, Farm Land Insurance Companies Nevzat Beyhan, Bulent Yazar Sarika S. Bhatt, John Deere Commercial Products Matthew L. Bischoff, Oil System USA Jamie A. Bober, Crystals International Inc. Ismail Bogrekci, IFAS, University of Florida

Bruce Bogart, Brinly-Hardy Co. Mohammed Borhan Lorenzo E. Brescia, Nestle David C. Brown, DC & DG Brown Richard K. Byler, USDA-ARS Matthew S. Davidson, The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg Adnan Degirmencioglu, EGE University Huong Thi Do, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Jason D. Donaldson, Brown Mckee Inc. Patricia Borucka, ABE Marketing Adahi Botou, University of Tsukuba Lindsey B. Brown, Michigan State University Adria N. Carlson, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Moumita Chakravartty Mark G. Crawford, Simpson Strong-Tie Jillian E. Davenport, CH2M Hill James M. Dorfler, Sauer-Danfoss Curtis G. Dowding, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Eric W. Dunker, Agprofessionals LLC Timothy D. Earley, University of Illinois Jonathan C. Epler, AGCO Corp. Theresa L. Ervin, CDM Federal David G. Freise, Kansas Departmentn of Health & Environment Dale J. Garber, USDA-NRCS William R. Goldberg Laura S. Gregory, Murphy Brown-Virginia Division Wagnat Mohammed Ali Hakiem Samuel J. Hall, Helsel Inc. Joseph H. Harrison, Washington State University Curt Heimer, Kaeb Sales Inc. Henry F. Higartner, SepTech Solutions Inc. Nicholas C. Jasper, Alliance Engineering of Oregon, LLC Suraweth Krishnasreni, Thai Society of Agricultural Engineering Ben J. LaGasse, USDA Babar Mahmood, Unitec Institute of Technology Marty D. Matlock, University of Arkansas Stephen R. McDonald, Carlisle Power Transmission Edwin D. Medina, Sugar Farms Cooperative Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California-Davis Yoshitaka Motonaga, Niigata University Jacqueline M. Norman, John Deere Harvester Works Adebayo O. Ogidan, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Krushna N. Patil, Oklahoma State University Christopher K. Pearce, AGCO Corp. Frederic Pelletier, Universite Laval Donald E. Pepper, Don Pepper Enterprises Hilary L. Porter, Erick Nielsen Enterprises Inc. Gordon T. Poss Ram Kishor Purohit, MBM Engineering College Cherri Ribblett, Avery Dennison International Timothy B. Rush, Oleon Marco Schinetti, COBO SpA Greg W. Schrader, FMC Corp/ Dale Slusser, Loudoun County Health Department Richard C. Smith, Bassett Healthare/NYCAMH Ellis B. Sprague, Greenhouse Supply Inc. Steven M. Sundvor, Bobcat Co. Robert Gregory Swain, Swain Consulting Services Inc. Behrang Tagahmadi Ross D. Theilen, Weyerhaeuser Co. David F. Toler, Forensic Engineering Sciences Inc. Ole Ugelvig Eduard NJ Van Ouwerkerk, Iowa State University Michael Thomas Venem, Hearing Components Rakesh B. Verma, Tractors & Farm Equipment Ltd. Ginger I. Wingate, University of Nebraska Hong-Sun Yun, National Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute

ASAE Conferences and International Meetings
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