2018 Issue

9 we look forward to working with them in an expanded role next year. At the end of this year, our executive secretary, Susan Merrill, will retire after 23 years with the UEC. She has been our institutional memory, our compli- ance officer for keeping us within our bylaws (and Robert’s Rules of Order), and a respected colleague and friend. We will miss her. I am grateful for the participation of all of our member societies and their rep- resentatives on the board. You provide a wonderfully fertile and competent source of volunteers and leadership to perpetuate the mission of the UEC. And finally, thank-you for the generous support of our many sponsors; your financial and in-kind donations are the fuel that keep the UEC moving for- ward. If you are an engineer working in a demanding field, please consider the invitation that may be extended to you to participate in the UEC. Yes, there is a lot on your plate. You may still have children at home and other obligations to attend to. But this is something you can do and still keep your day job; that is why it’s called a “council” – a group of capable people all sharing the load to meaningfully advance engineering in Utah. * “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.” (Gandalf in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Return of the King [1965], 155) Jed Lyman, PE, is the current Chair of the Utah Engineers Council and a past president of the ASPE Inter- mountain Chapter; he is a principal at Van Boerum & Frank Associates, Inc. (VBFA) where he works as a mechani- cal engineer. American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists of Utah American Council of Engineering Companies of Utah The Utah Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The Utah Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers The Utah Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers The Intermountain Chapter of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers The Great Salt Lake Chapter of Engineers Without Borders The Utah Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Utah Chapter of the Institute for Transportation Engineers The Wasatch Chapter of the International Committee on Systems Engineering The Great Basin Post of the Society of American Military Engineers The Utah Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering The Greater Salt Lake Section of the Society of Women Engineers Utah City Engineers Association Utah Council of Land Surveyors The Governor’s office of Economic Development, STEM Action Center (associate member) Northrop Grumman BAE Systems The Utah Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers Orbital ATK Midgley-Huber, Inc. Gerald H. Piele Family American Council of Engineering Companies of Utah Colonel and Mrs. Charles Vono STEM Action Center Utah Van Boerum & Frank Associates The Utah Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering ANSYS The Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative McNeil Engineering Heath Engineering Co The Intermountain Chapter of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers Greenheck Fan Corporation Thybar Corporation UEC MEMBER SOCIETIES UEC SPONSORS