Our next meeting will be Student Night on Thursday, Sept 15th, 5:30 pm at the Lowell Beer Works. We will be having 3 students presenting their work based on a student poster competition presented at our annual Vendor's Night last April 2011. ASM members are always welcome. Authors of the posters listed below will be present to receive SAMPE certificates, the top three listed will be presented.

 1/ Study of Selectively Permeable Coatings to Textiles - Joseph Sargent, Michael D. Gilbert, Emmanuelle Reynaud, Jun S. Lee, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell EIC Laboratories, Inc., Norwood, MA Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell

2/ Using the Finite Element Method to Assist in the Design of an Injection Molded Composite Baseball Bat Timothy Connelly, James Sherwood Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

3/ Effects of Processing Parameters on Coating Particles by Chemical Reaction Siqi Wei, Julie Chen Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

4/ Digital Method of Analyzing the Bending Stiffness of Non-Crimp Fabrics Dimitri T. Soteropoulos, Konstantine Fetfatsidis, James Sherwood Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

5/ Automotive Lightweight Composite Structures with Embedded Communications Alexander Petrov, James Sherwood Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

6/ Effects of Process Parameters on Stability of Cup Polyurethane Foams Zhiyuan Lan, Rahul Daga, Stephen P. McCarthy, Daniel Schmidt, Robert Whitehouse Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell Mirel Bioplastics / Metabolix, Inc., Lowell, MA

7/ Finite Element Modeling to Accurately Predict Baseball Behavior Bruan Munroe, James Sherwood Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

8/ Surface-active polymers derived from naturally occurring polysaccharides Zarif Farhana Mohd Aris, Ryan Bouldin, Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Bridgette Budhlall. Department of Plastics Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

9/ Characterization of Softball Bats and Balls for Maximum Performance Jennifer Yee, James Sherwood Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Lowell

ASM Boston activities can be seen at http://www.asm-ma.org/

The current officer line-up can be seen at http://www.bostonsampe.org/officers.htm

Please register by Monday September 12th. for STUDENT NIGHT at http://www.bostonsampe.org/reservation.htm

Regards,

John McMahon,

Secretary, SAMPE Boston