Sept 25 Meeting-to be a "Hands on" Experience

If you've received the monthly newsletter for September, you'll notice that the Sept.25 meeting will be held at the ABC training site with an opportunity for some "hands on" training.

Thanks to the facilities at ABC http://www.abceastpa.com/ we will have the occasion to use the refrigeration trainer to learn and review some of the basics of refrigeration. There's something about doing with your hands and seeing with you eyes that helps you learn faster and more completely and we will have that experience on Sept. 25.

Our meeting will start at 6PM and end by 8PM. We will provide light refreshments. Our presenter is Mr. Pete Snyder who is an adult HVAC instructor at Lehigh County Community http://www.lccc.edu/ College as well as a sales associate at Meier Supply http://www.meiersupply.com/

in Allentown. There is no doubt that Pete will do a masterful job instructing all of us.

Right on the heels of our monthly meeting is the upcoming EKA(Empire Keystone Ass.) fall seminar to be held in Syracuse, N.Y. on Oct. 4-5. Sporlan, Honeywell and Copeland will all be there to present important seminars on Stepper valves, VFD's and Scroll Compressors. If you are able to attend you won't be disappointed. Plus the seminars count as CEU's for NATE re certification. Check out http://www.eka-rses.tripod.com/ for more details. I plan to attend so if anybody wants to share a ride and room costs with me, I'll be more than willing to discuss it with you.

Finally, our officers are interested in starting a new self-study program this educational year (2008-2009). The last self study has ended with three members passing their CM certification. A self study can be offered for any of the training programs that RSES offers. Do you have the material but lack the motivation to finish reading and studying it? The self study can help because we agree to meet(usually every other week) and review the questions and answers to a predetermined number of chapters from the material. This helps each of us be accountable and stay on target to complete the work. And guess what? It works! Right now our chapter don't have the resources to offer an instructor led class so the self study approach is what is working for us. At some point we will probably offer both self study and instructor led classes.

Make plans to meet with us on Thursday Sept. 25 at ABC in Allentown.

Lehigh Valley RSES helps Coplay Sports!

Pictured above are two presidents. Mr. Dean Molitoris, president of Coplay sports association, and Mr. Ron Lobb, president of LVRSES.

A fire destroyed most of the Coplay Sports field house in September of 2007.The community rallied around the needs of its youth and came together with donations of time, material and expertise to help rebuild the structure, and replace lost equipment.

Mr. Ron Lobb (along with his helper) took time out of their busy schedules to troubleshoot and repair the HVAC system that supplies the meeting room and the kitchen areas.

LVRSES members also donated time to install donated refrigeration equipment that was lost to the fire.

"Education isn't just what you learn its also what you do with it."says Mr. Ron Lobb

Speaking about education the LVRSES officers are meeting next week to finalize the 2008-2009 educational calendar for our chapter. Each year it keeps getting better!. I won't go into details at this time, but I can say that we will have a lot of very good training opportunities this coming year. We will be meeting for most meetings at the ABC training center in Allentown.

In addition to our local training we are also part of a larger association in region 2 of RSES called EKA or Empire Keystone Association. As its name suggests it is comprised of chapters in New York and Pa and its purpose it to meet and offer its members educational opportunities. If you've never been to a regional seminar your missing something very special. For a very modest cost you can learn this October 4-5 about Sporlan stepper valves, Honeywell VFD's and experience a Copeland rep wax beautiful about its scroll compressors. This seminar will be held in Syracuse, N.Y.-beautiful at this time of year. Pay attention to more details to be released within a week or two.

If you noticed the August issue of RSES Journal you can some of the results of our involvement in the educational opportunities available through the RSES technical institute. Three of our local chapter members have passed the CM exam. A great accomplishment. It funny because each one of these guys is already talking about continuing on to the CMS level.

One of the things we really want to offer to our chapter members is the self study program. I'd like to see a year 1 start again this educational year. So if any one is interested contact one of your officers and express your interest.

Make plans now to get involved in your chapter. We usually meet on the fourth Thursday of each month from 6-8PM. We communicate as much as possible by e-mail with newsletters and I try to use this blog to fill in any blanks. Each one of us can benefit by investing some time in ourselves to improve our skills and learn about new technology. In this industry if you stand still you are going to eating the dust of the guy who is smart enough to be involve in education.