SME Downriver Detroit Chapter 198

Welcome to Downriver Detroit Chapter 198

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Welcome to SME Downriver Detroit Chapter 198 Webpage. Our mission is to provide networking and quality programs to our membership and manufacturing professionals. We invite you to participate in our chapter events during the course of the year and we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.

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We have started of the New Year and are looking forward to many exciting events and meeting more of our chapter members!

The New Year has brought in a new slate of Officers for Chapter 198. The incoming officers are:

Chair – Mary Finkel
1st Vice Chair/Chair-Elect – Dawn Buchanan
2nd Vice Chair – Roger Ward
Secretary – George Diehl
Treasurer - George VanSach

We also have the following Committee Chairs:
Certification - Mary Finkel
Programs - Mark J. Lewkowicz
Honors and Awards - Roger Ward
Student Chapter Liaison/Monroe County Community College - Michael
E. Timko, CMfgT
Student Chapter Liaison/Henry Ford Community College - Darren
Hanna

We are seeking members to participate in the above committees, or if you would like to partake in a great opportunity to build your leadership skills, we invite you to lead a committee as we serve as your coach!
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact us at smechapter198@gmail.com.

TECHNICAL MEETINGS

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Please check back for our next event!

Announcements

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Special Membership Rate

SME’s Board of Directors has approved a specially discounted membership rate for those displaced workers in particular need of SME’s products, services, and networking. Unemployed manufacturing professionals can apply for a membership with full benefits by contacting SME for a special $30 rate for a six month membership. If still unemployed after that time a subsequent request may be made. If your membership is due for renewal, contact Customer Care at (800) 733-4763 for additional information.

Education Foundation - Scholarships!

Since 1998, the Foundation has provided over $3.5 million dollars in financial aid through its various scholarship programs. The Foundation awards scholarships to graduating high school seniors, current undergraduates, and masters or doctoral degree students pursuing degrees in manufacturing and related fields at two-year and four-year colleges.

Downriver Detroit Chapter 198 and Ann Arbor Chapter 79 have created a partnership by merging the Education Foundation funds of each chapter therefore providing more available funds to the SME Education Foundation for future scholarship recipients. Making more scholarships available to the students will create manufacturing, technical, and engineering opportunities for the future. More information about this venture can be found here.

To find out more information about how to apply for this SME Education Foundation scholarship opportunity, as well as other opportunities, click here, call (313) 425-3300, or E-mail: foundation@sme.org

Foundation online scholarship applications must be submitted every year by February 1.

Certification

Are you a certified manufacturing professional? If not, then consider becoming one. SME offers certifications as a Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT), Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE), Lean Certification, and Six Sigma Certification. Being certified is a great way to show your knowledge and skills in this ever more competitive world. If you are already certified attend our chapter technical meetings and earn recertification credits.

Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT)

Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE)

Lean Certification

Six Sigma Certification

Why earn your Certification? Here are the top reasons:

• Upgrade Your Knowledge – The educational requirements of certification are one more reason to continuously maintain and upgrade your knowledge.

• Leadership Recognition – Your certification shows employers you are a leader in your field. Let them know about your achievement.

• A Sense of Achievement – Enhancing your self-confidence and helping you excel at your job.

• An Elite Group – Individuals holding certifications form an elite group of professionals who have demonstrated their manufacturing knowledge.

• Portable, Career Credential – When you change jobs, your certification credentials travel with you. They look good on your resume and show you are serious about your career.

• Validate your Lean experience – Align to the Lean knowledge and competency standard, develop career milestones and share Lean knowledge through mentoring others.

For more information click here .

Downriver Detroit Chapter 198 Past Chapter Chairs

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Listed below are the chairmen who have provided the leadership for the chapter during the last 40 years.

John Nagle 1969-1970

Al Chendes 1970-1971

Lee Dodds 1971-1972

Douglas Booth 1972-1973

Phil Blair 1973-1974

Robert Hough 1974-1975*

Fred Sheill 1975-1976

Ed Rhodes 1976-1978*

Ken Wright 1978-1979

Pierre Moncion 1979-1980

Roy E. Glover 1980-1982*

William H. Cioch 1982-1984

Mark J. Lewkowicz 1984-1986

Peter R. Baird 1986-1987*

Phillip E. Mitchell 1987-1988

Gary H. Paelicke 1988-1990

John M. Boerger 1990-1991

Brian McDonald 1991-1992

Janet Hutria 1992-1994

Clif Basely 1994-1996

John Liu 1996-1998

David Hunter 1998-2004

David L. Wild 2004-2009*

Michael E. Timko 2009-2010
Mary Finkel 2011-

Deceased*

Downriver Detroit Chapter 198 2011 Officers

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CHAIR
Mary Finkel
mjfinkel@att.net
(734) 658-2205 (H)

1st VICE CHAIR – CHAIR ELECT
Dawn Buchanan
dawn.buchanan10@gmail.com

2nd VICE CHAIR
Roger Ward
reward4scouts@yahoo.com

TREASURER
George Vansach, PE, CMfgE
gvansach@hotmail.com
(313) 531-8024 (H)

SECRETARY
George Diehl
gdiehl180643mi@comcast.net

CERTIFICATION
Mary Finkel
mjfinkel@att.net
(734) 658-2205 (H)

PROGRAMS
Mark J. Lewkowicz
(734) 941-0418 (B)

HONORS AND AWARDS
Roger Ward
reward4scouts@yahoo.com

STUDENT CHAPTER LIAISON
MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Michael E. Timko, CMfgT
metimko@wowway.com
(313) 204-0129 (C)

STUDENT CHAPTER LIAISON
HENRY FORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Darren Hanna
dhanna01@gmail.com