2005-2006 Student Activities, Monterrey Chapter

Updated on June 25th, 2006

Monterrey Chapter's PAOE page (As June 25th, 2006)
Monterrey Chapter's reports (As June 25th, 2006)
JUNE 2006

June 1st
K-6 STUDENT ACTIVITY
(As reported on June 1st, 2006)
Talk to K-6 children
A talk was given at the “Colegio Highland” last May 19th. The speaker was Pedro "Peter" Garza, and he spoke to the children about termometers and temperature, which was very useful for the children to learn about "hot" and "cold". They learned about a mercury column behaves in a glass termometer when it is placed in cold and hot water. TRANE sponsored termometer keychains that were given to the children at the end of the talk.  (See picture)
APRIL 2006

Abril 27th
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Fernando López at CONALEP before 24 students. Title of the talk was "Accesories for refrigerations systems".

April 7th
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group 
(Note as written by the Student Advisor of the ITCM Student Branch on April 7th at 17:51)
On March 30th, 2006, the Student Branch ITCM participated in a Technical Conferences Program held during the 25th Aniversary of the CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS TECNOLÓGICOS DEL MAR Nº 9 located in Ciudad Madero, Tam. I participated with a talk titled “Refrigeration Applications”. I was supported by Gustavo Bandas, president of the student branch and the head of the metal-mechanics department of the ITCM. Attendance was about 100 students.
 I am sending pictures of the exposition
Eduardo Vega V.
Student Branch ITCM Advisor

MARCH 2006

March 27th
1 grant for a student 1 non member student (Ángel Patrocinio Támez Arroyo) that attended the Course "Fundamentals of Ventilation Systems", organized by Monterrey Chapter and  the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME-UANL) Autonomous University of Nuevo León, March 27th-31th, 2006.

March 15th
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Juan Aguilar at CONALEP before 24 students. The title of the talk was "Materials on air conditioning".

March 10th
K-12 Activity
CONALEP presented its programs before K-12 principals of Monterrey. Help given by ASHRAE, Monterrey Chapter, through scholarships was widely recognized during this meeting.

March 9th
Student night at chapter meeting
Technical session of March 9th, was declared student night

March 9th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
2 student members attended March´s technical session
Francisco Cruz and Mauricio Muñoz

March 1st
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Marisa Jiménez at CONALEP before 30 students. The title of the talk was "Air filtering".

FEBRUARY 2006

February 24th
30 Scholarships given to CONALEP students within the air-conditioning and refrigeration technician program.
30 scholarships were granted to CONALEP students that are enrolled in the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Technician program. Scholarships were delivered to  Gabriel Morales, whom is in charge of outreach affairs at CONALEP during the technical session of february 9th. Granted students are: Adán Mendoza Coronado, Alan Chrsitpher Salazar Barco, Ángel Cecilio Melitón,  Ángel García Franco,  Arnoldo Guadalupe Gaona Ramírez,  Carlos Ibrai Martínez Torres,  Daniel Antonio Varela Pérez, Eduardo Abimael Mora Rangel, Donovan Cruz Doria, Elpidio Carrizales Espinoza, Emerson Esteban Treviño Rodríguez,  Erick Iván Rocha Alvarado, Felipe de Jesús Quintana Villeda, Gerardo David Moreno Velázquez, Ismael Escareño Crispín, Jesús Alberto Sánchez González,    Jesús Alejandro Cepeda Montejano,  Jonathan Eduardo Arévalo Mendoza,  Jonathan Ernesto González Lara,  José Luis Monsivais Espino, Juan Antonio Esperanza Ramírez, Juan Daniel Araujo Domínguez, Juan Francisco Gámez Puente, Julio César Padrón Macías, Kasim Israel Alvarado Sánchez, Martín Rangel Mora, Omar Alberto Zarate Moreno, Rolando Vidal Franco Saldivar, René Antonio Cisneros Guel y Sergio Rael Treviño Rodríguez. These students received their scholarships during a ceremony headed by the director of CONALEP Monterrey I, Horacio Delgado; the Chair of Student Activities of Monterrey Chapter and Gabriel Morales. Student parents were also present in the ceremony.

February 23rd
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Guillermo Montemayor at ITESM before 12 students. The title of the talk was "ASHRAE benefits to students". The talk was organized by the Sociedad de Alumnos de Ingeniería Mecánica, Certificación en Ingeniería Agrícola (see pictures)

February 9th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
3 student members attended the technical session on February
Francisco Cruz, Luis Magallanes and José Suárez

February 6th
1 grant for a student 1 non member student (Iván Támez) that attended the Course "Fundamentals of Hydronic Systems", organized by Monterrey Chapter and  the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME-UANL) Autonomous University of Nuevo León, February 6th-10th, 2006.

JANUARY 2006

January 26th
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Félix Rodríguez at CONALEP before 28 students and 1 teacher, Title of the talk was "Maintenance Concepts".

January 12th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
2 student members attended the Technical Session of  January
Francisco Cruz and José Suárez
DECEMBER 2005
No activities were reported
NOVEMBER 2005

November 21st
1 trip to UTT in Torreón, Coahuila for attending the Air conditioning and refrigeration week held at the Universidad Tecnológica de Torreón, two talks were given there, one by Félix Rodríguez and the other by Juan Aguilar (see pictures).

November 21st
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Félix Rodríguez at Universidad Tecnológica de Torreón before 50 students, their teachers and some visitors from the industry. The title of the talk was "Maintainament of Refrigerant Units". This talk took place as part of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Week 2005 at the Technological University of Torreón (see pictures).

November 21st
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Juan Aguilar at Universidad Tecnológica de Torreón before 50 students, their teachers and some visitors from the industry. The title of the talk was "Toys technology". This talk took place as part of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Week 2005 at the Technological University of Torreón (see pictures)

November 11th
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Félix Rodríguez at CONALEP before 35 students and 1 teacher, Title of the talk was "Refrigerant pipes".

November 10th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
2 student members attended the Technical Session of  November
Francisco Cruz and José Suárez

OCTOBER 2005

October 21st
24 Scholarships given to CONALEP students within the air-conditioning and refrigeration technician program.
These scholarships were delivered to Gabriel Morales, whom is in charge of  outreach affairs at CONALEP during the Chapter's session on October 13th. Granted students are: Ángel Cecilio Melitón, Arnoldo Guadalupe Gaona Ramírez, Carlos Ibrai Martínez Torres, Daniel Antonio Varela Pérez, Donovan Cruz Doria, Elpidio Carrizales Espinoza, Emerson Esteban Treviño Rodríguez, Erick Iván Rocha Alvarado, Erick Ernesto Zapata Becerra, Felipe de Jesús Quintana Villeda, Gerardo David Moreno Velázquez, Ismael Escareño Crispín, Jesús Alejandro Cepeda Montejano, Jonathan Ernesto González Lara, José Luis Monsivais Espino, Juan Daniel Araujo Domínguez, Juan Francisco Gámez Puente, Kasim Israel Alvarado Sánchez, Omar Alberto Zarate Moreno, Oscar de Jesús Oviedo Hinojosa, Oscar Eduardo Benavides Jiménez, Rolando Vidal Franco Saldivar, René Antonio Cisneros Guel and Sergio Rael Treviño Rodríguez. These students received their scholarships on October 21st in a ceremony presided by the principal of CONALEP Monterrey I, Horacio Delgado; Monterrey Chapter President, Félix Rodríguez; Monterrey Chapter Student Activities Chairman; Juan Aguilar and Gabriel Morales. Student parents where also present there (see pictures).

October 21st
Tech-in by members of chapter BOG, chapter committee, or chapter member per class or to an organized student group
Talk given by Félix Rodríguez at CONALEP before 28 students and 4 teachers, the title of the talk was "Refrigerants and oils" (see pictures)

October 17th
3 grants for students 2 student members (Claudia Miranda and Francisco Cruz) and 1 non member student (Patrocinio Tamez) that attended the Course "Fundamentals of Refrigeration", organized by Monterrey Chapter and held at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME-UANL) Autonomous University of Nuevo León, October 17th-21st, 2005 (see magazine note) (see pictures).

October 13th
Student member attending a chapter monthly meeting
One student member attended the Technical Session of October
Francisco Cruz

SEPTEMBER 2005
September 8th
Student night at chapter meeting
September 8th session was declared student night

September 8th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
7 student members attended the Technical Session of September
Adrián González, Alfredo García, Cyndy Iñiguez, Francisco Cruz, Jesús Guzmán, Mariel Miranda and Ricardo Magallanes (see pictures)

AUGUST 2005

August 15th
1 granted student member (Cecilia Garay) attended the Course "Fundamentals of HVAC", organized by Monterrey Chapter and held at the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (FIME) Autonomous University of Nuevo León, August 15th-19th, 2005.

August 25th
Chapter activity with student branch including meetings, technical programs and technical tours
A talk given by William T. John from EBM México, entitled "La nueva era en motores para ventilación" (The new age in motors for ventilation) before 40 students and 3 faculty members. The event was organized by the UANL student branch (see pictures).

August 11th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
7 student members attended the Technical Session of August
Ana Cecilia Garay, César Zavala, Francisco Ortiz, Manuel Sepúlveda, Rodrigo Díaz, Jesús Guzmán and José Suárez

JULY 2005

July 14th
Student members attending a chapter monthly meeting
5 student members attended the Technical Session of July
Alejandro Esquivel, Claudia Miranda, Enrique Flores, Francisco Cruz and Ricardo Rodríguez


2004-2005 Student Activities, Monterrey Chapter

Closed on June 30th, 2005

Monterrey Chapter's PAOE page (As June 25th, 2005)
Monterrey Chapter's reports (As June 25th, 2005)

May 27th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Talk "ASHRAE in the community" given by Ricardo Arellano, President of Monterrey Chapter, before 35 attendees at CONALEP.

May 19th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Student Branch at UANL organized a workshop regarding the use of the calculator TI89 /Voyage 200 from Texas Instruments, given by Ricardo de la Garza González. Approximately 40 persons attended  and learned how to get the best from those equipments. (See picture)(See note in Ingenierías magazine).

May 19th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
The Student Branch at UANL also organized a series of two conferences about pipe joining and refrigeration systems. First one was given by Nicolás Suárez from Victaulic, and in the second conference the speaker was Felipe Cerda from Frigus Bohn. Attendance was about 30. (See add) (See pictures).

May 16th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Meeting for giving direction to the specialization program considered within the ASHRAE-UANL agreement.
The meeting was attended by:
Ing. Rogelio G. Garza (Dean of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering UANL)
Dr. Alan Castillo (Sub director of the graduate department at FIME-UANL)
Ing. Roberto González (Governor ASHRAE Monterrey)
Ing. Leopoldo Flores (Outreach affairs ASHRAE Monterrey)
Ing. Félix Rodríguez (President Elect ASHRAE Monterrey)

May 12th
STUDENT MEMBERS ATTENDING THE MONTHLY TECHNICAL SESSION
9 student members attended the technical session celebrated las May 12th. Daniel Chapa, Juan Bernal, Alfredo García, Hugo Chamorro, Alejandro Esquivel, Cyndy Iñiguez, Luis Magallanes, Mariel Miranda y José Castro.

May 12th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Talk "Energy saving in air conditioning systems" given by Eduardo Vega from Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero before 180 persons. (See add) (See pictures).

April 29th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Talk "Condenser failure diagnosis in condensers, flow restrictors and evaporators" given byr Félix Rodríguez at CONALEP before 34 students.

April 21th
STUDENT MEMBERS ATTENDING THE MONTHLY TECHNICAL SESSION
7 Students attended the technical sesion last April 21st.. Francisco Cruz, Manuel Sepúlveda, Jorge Gómez, Hugo Chamorro, Alejandro Esquivel, Cyndy Iñiguez y Enrique Flores. (Pictures of some of them arriving to the meeting).

March 15th
K-12 STUDENT ACTIVITY
Secundaria No. 24, "Guillermo Prieto" (this is the name of the K-12 school) organized a Cultural and Sport Week and invited parent whom are related to educational environment for giving a talk encouraging students to stay at school and continue in the task of persuading a career. The talk was given by the Student Activities Chairman before 60 students (see pictures).

March 10th
STUDENT NIGHT AT CHAPTER MEETING
Las chapter meeting was declared "Student Night". In this event the scholarships for the CONALEP students were given to authorities of this school. Pedro Buendía and Bernardo Gonzalez, respectively the head of outreach affairs and training. (see pictures). The short talk was given by the Student Activities Chairman (see transparencies).

March 10th
SCHOLARSHIP TO A TECH OR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT
21 scholarships were assigned today to CONALEP students that are involved in air-conditioning and Refrigeration technician studies. This support has become practically a tradition in that school. The scholarships were received by CONALEP authorities during the student night. The recipients, because their high record, are: Arnoldo Guadalupe Gaona Ramírez, Bruce Angel Marroquín Sánchez, César de Jesús Quiroz López, Donovan Cruz Dorias, Eliud Alejandro Gómez Banda,  Elpidio Carrizales Espinoza, Emerson Esteban Treviño Rodríguez, Erick Iván Rocha Alvarado, Felipe de Jesús Quintana Villeda, Ismael Escareño Crispín, Jonathan Ernesto González Lara, José Luis Monsivais Espino, Juan Daniel Araujo Domínguez, Luis Alberto Treviño Barrón, Omar Alberto Zárate Moreno, Oscar de Jesús Oviedo Hinojosa, Oscar Eduardo Benavides Jiménez, Ricardo Barrasa Macías, Rolando Vidal Franco Saldivar y Sergio Rael Treviño Rodríguez. (see pictures)
March 4th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Talk "Diagnóstico de fallas de compresores" (Compressors failure diagnosis) given by Félix Rodríguez at CONALEP before 26 students.

March 4th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
ITESM students organized a "Mechanical Weekend" (see advertisement)

February 24th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
The Student Branch ITESM organized conferences about refrigeration. According  to Cecilia Garay (ITESM Branch President) about 40 persons attended the conferences. It was opened with and invitation to join ASHRAE. The conferences where:
1) Components in the Refrigeration Systems given by Jorge Osuna
2) Maintenement and food storage given by Ing. Enrique Garay de la Garza
3) Cold rooms instalations by Felipe Cerda Cruz
(see pictures).

February 17th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Visit to CONALEP for defining amount and names of the persons that earned a scholarship that the chapter is giving. Authorities were invited to receive the check on March 10th, during the student night..

February 15th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Talk about ASHRAE at Laguna Section given by Rodolfo Soto Moreno and Fermín Gajón at Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna before 35 attendees. Octavio Rodríguez Campean has been proposed as the student branch advisor.

February 4th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Talk given by Félix Rodríguez at CONALEP entitled "Mantenimiento Preventivo" (Preventive Maintenance) before 35 students (see pictures).

February 4th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Student meeting at ITESM branch for defining the activities that will take place during the Engineering Weekend.

February 3rd
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
CONALEP and ASHRAE authorities met for defining a plan for the conferences that will be given at CONALEP (see pictures). Talk given on February 4th was planned within this cycle (see pictures).

February 3rd
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Student meeting at UANL branch for defining a course about enthalpic wells and one proposal from Texas Instruments for helping students to get the most from their programmable calculators.

January 22th
K-12 STUDENT ACTIVITY
The Mexican Academy for Sciences (MAS) is participating in a program with the purpose of promoting creative participation and reflexion of K-12 students. The Chairman of Student Activities at the Monterrey Chapter is an active member within MAS and gave a talk entitled  "La tecnología aplicada a los aparatos domésticos modernos" (Technology applied to modern appliances) in the Secundaria No. 23, "Francisco I. Madero" (This is the name of the school). The principal, Jesús Sánchez; the MAS president, Nohemi Weltzman and around 100 students of the third grade (ranging fifteen years old) attended the talk (see pictures).

December 15th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Meeting among Arq. Eliza Vázquez Covarruibas, Academic Superation Affairs at Facultad de Arquitectura de UANL (School of Arquitecture at the University Autonomous of Nuevo León), Arq. Esthela Tijerina, Committee of Technology Transfer, Monterrey Chapter, and Dr. Juan Aguilar, Student Activities Chairman at the same chapter. The purpose of the meeting was to define the mechanism for involving students of that school into the UANL branch.

November 4th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Authorities of CONALEP (Technical School) were present with the Governors Meeting of November 4th. The main idea was to introduce its new Dean,  Horacio Delgado. He attended with Pedro Buendia and Bernardo Gonzalez, whom are in charge of outreach and training respectively. The Dean is very interested in knowing the previous arrangements and maintaining a good relationship with ASHRAE, Monterrey Chapter. He thankful and explained how useful are the scholarships that were given recently by the chapter (see October 22th note below) to 14 students. Ricardo I. Arellano, President of the chapter let them know what the chapter expect from the relationship among CONALEP and ASHRAE and some ways for improving it. Some background of the working aspects with other deans was given in order to maintain continuity over the work and achievements of the past. Donald Hay (Treasurer and Governor) talked about specific actions that reveal the essence of the relationship. Juan Aguilar, Student Activities Chair, addressed an issue that was already explained to the former dean of CONALEP about the new schemes for offering scholarships and what our expectations are about students that receive one of these grants. The idea is to involve school authorities, teachers and students more and more. We believe that it was very important to have CONALEP authorities in our meeting, because that express by itself that they are committed to hold ASHRAE ideals within their activities. They expressed that they recognize the importance of the ASHRAE support to students through scholarships, equipment donations and very especially time dedicated to visits, courses and talks. We offer them to send (actually it was already sent at this moment) a guide of the scholarships policy that is currently under consideration by the chapter board. We are looking forward to have a stronger and renewed links with this institution.

October 29th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Ing. Félix Rodríguez gave a talk entitled "Normas básicas para un buen servicio" (Serviceable Basic Standards) at CONALEP (technical school) before 37 students of technical education.

October 25th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Meeting at ITESM for having the new Student Board 2004-2005 of the ITESM Branch (see pictures)
It is very interesting the way for the operation of the student associations in this institution. Besides the ASHRAE officers, there are two more members in the board, one general chairperson and one chairperson for activities pro-México that ensure that link between the student association and the institution. Authorities of ITESM were present, besides the Faculty Advisor of the ITESM Student Branch; Dr. José A. Manrique, and the Student Activities Chairman; Dr. Juan Antonio Aguilar Garib. The meeting took place at the "Centro Estudiantil" (Student Center) and the board is conformed by:
Ana Cecilia Garay Chaparro (President)
Omar Laguna Garrido (President Elect, Vice-President)
Héctor Carriedo Santa Cruz (Secretary)
Rodrigo Díaz (Treasurer)
Francisco Franco Alanís (General Chairman)
Yolima Flores Ibáñez (Chairwoman for Activities pro-México)
The President addressed a message about the environmental issues trough healthy competitions, which allows sharing of valuable information among the members. Among other activities, the new board is seeking to promote thermodynamic enjoying, promote young students participation trough talks given by professional members. Installation of a "Thermodynamic Day" with competitions and time sharing activities. She expressed her wish of having contact with the other student branches.. (see pictures).

October 22th
SCHOLARSHIP TO A TECH OR UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING STUDENT
14 scholarships were deliver today to students of CONALEP that are persuading the title of air conditioning and refrigeration technician. This support has become practically a tradition in this institution. Monterrey Chapter is seeking for having a wider scholarship program aimed to more institutions.

October 19th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Meeting in Torreón, Coahuila with professors at the Universidad Tecnológica de Torreón (UTT, Technological University of Torreón) and Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna (ITL, Technological Institute of La Laguna) (see pictures).

Attended by:

Ing Ricardo Ramírez Vargas (ITL)
Ing. Francisco Rodríguez Rubio  (UTT)
Ing. Pablo González Rodríguez   (UTT)
Ing. Rodolfo Soto Moreno  (ASHRAE SECC LAGUNA )
Ing. J. Félix Rodríguez Laveaga (ASHRAE MTY)

People of UTT exposed their intention for having a student branch. The necessary information is being sent at the time that these lines are being written.


October 19th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Talk given at the Universidad Tecnológica de Torreón (UTT) before 60 students about ASHRAE and the benefits that are derived from it. People from the Instituto Tecnológico de la Laguna (ITL) were also present. The talk was given by Félix Rodríguez (see pictures).

October 19th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Talk given by Esthela Tijerina at the Facultad de Arquitectura de la UANL. The subject was Sustainable Construction before approximately 100 students and professors. One important issue is that we had the presence of the Dean of  that school and the person in charge of the student affairs (Arq. Vázquez). At the end of the talk the Student Activities Chair, Monterrey Chapter addressed a message to the students inviting them to join ASHRAE within the UANL Student Branch. Success of this talk is a result of the meeting that we had one day before with the Dean of the Facultad de Arquitectura (see activity below).

October 18th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Meeting with the Dean of the Facultad de Arquitectura de la UANL for promoting the talk of the following day (see note above) and emphasize how interested we are in having their participation in the Monterrey Chapter.

Meeting was attended by:

Arq. Esthela Tijerina (TEGA)
Dr. Juan Antonio Aguilar Garib (Student Activities Chairman)
Arq. Raúl Cepeda Badillo (Dean of the Facultad de Arquitectura de la UANL)

Result of this meeting was clear the following day with a full auditorium were even the Dean attended and expressed his support publically.


October 14th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
Meeting with the Board of ITESM and UANL Branches
Right after the Technical Session that is described below in the student night, we had a meeting..

Attendees:

Cecilia Garay (Incoming President ITESM Student Branch)
Cyndy Iñiguez (President Elect UANL Student Branch)
Enrique Flores (Secretary UANL Student Branch)
Alejandro Esquivel (Treasurer UANL Student Branch)
Ricardo I. Arellano (President Monterrey Chapter)
Juan Aguilar (Student Activities Chairman)

The idea was to discuss about the date for having the new ITESM Student Board. It is very important to be aware that these students are supported by its school, and that in order to have the its full support, they observe rules and procedures that are given for all the associations that exist at ITESM. Cecilia and Ricardo exposed how the system is and talked about their experiences for having an strong student branch. Definitely, the incoming board is already working, and we would have the formal ceremony shortly.
Other point that was discussed is what both branches are doing regarding the ASHRAE 2005 Student Design Project Competition. We were discussing different schemes, but at the end the students will decide by themselves which is the best way for achieving their goals supported by their Faculty Advisors within each student branch.
We spoke a little, about inviting other students from institutions, other than those that have a branch already. The agreement points were that a date for the changing of student board at ITESM is imminent, that the incoming student board is working on following the school procedures in order to keep the branch strong, that both branches will discuss and propose, separately  within their own branch which would be the strategy for participating in project proposals and competitions (see picture).


October 14th
STUDENT NIGHT AT CHAPTER MEETING
We had our Technical Session entitled "Heating: Engineering Basic Concepts and Equipment" given by Renzor Ray. This session was also declared as "Student Night". All the no member students that attended the meeting and joined ASHRAE at the site paid the student member fee and got a pass for the upcoming November Technical Session. An especial invitation was addressed to the student boards and faculty advisors to be there for endorsing student activities. Invitation to students was not limited to the schools with a student branch. The Student Activities Chairman gave a short talk inviting the student to join ASHRAE and showed them what has been achieved in this few months. Part of the message was oriented to the role that the professional members have in showing the true value that being an ASHRAE member involves. 18 Students attended the session, 10 were members already and 1 joined at the site. We had a serious conversation with Mr. Tirado, whom has good contacts at Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) and would try to persude these person that in other times have exposed their intention for having a student branch (2 students of UDEM attended the session)..
Members of ITESM and UANL Student Branch were there. Right after the technical session, these members, the Student Activities Chairman and the President of the Chapter stayed there for a small meeting (at least that was the idea, but we stayed longer, about an hour after everybody left) regarding the new board at ITESM and the ASHRAE 2005 Student Design Project Competition. The chairman proposed several way of working, although both, the Student Activities Chairman and the President of the chapter encouraged the student to make their own decisions. There is no doubt, this session and meeting were highly productive (see pictures)

October 1st
PAOE
With the activities that are shown below among other criteria given by ASHRAE (see our PAOE page) we reached PAR and uploaded our information on the ASHRAE Web page already. We have here 50 points because we were the first ones (This was checked by myself) to have our PAOE points on the ASHRAE web site, and 25 more because we achieved this goal before November 1st.  (Point reports can be seen here). Thank you very much to all of the persons that helped to accomplished this challenge. We will update these points as soon the Region VIII Student Chair allows us to do it.

September 29th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
ITESM meeting including Vice-Chair introduction to ITESM Faculty
This meeting was one of the points of agreement of the meeting held on Sept. 20th.

Attendees:

Ricardo I. Hinojosa (President, ASHRAE Monterrey Chapter)
Carlos Huerta (Governor)
Enrique Garay (Governor)
Juan Aguilar (Student Activities Chair)
Silvia Estrada (Vice Chair of Student Activities)
Alejandro García (Faculty, ITESM)
Jorge Osuna (ITESM-ASHRAE link)
Carlos Rivera (Faculty, ITESM)
In this meeting we discussed about the competitive environment that we expect to develop between all the Student Branches, in order to have a very active student community. Silvia Estrada was presented as Vice-Chair of Student Activities and faculty agreed to promote ASHRAE activities among their students.

September 23th
CHAPTER INVESTMENT IN STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Among other investments, we granted access to the Seminar given during the AHR EXPO México 2004 to students in 5 courses.
Gaspar Díaz (1 course)
Alejandro Esquivel (2 courses)
Enrique Flores (2 courses)
See conference program

September 22th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
UANL meeting. Conference given by Hugh McMillan.
This morning we have the signature of an important agreement between Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, ASHRAE International and ASHRAE Monterrey Chapter (see pictures). This document was signed by the President of  UANL, José Antonio González Treviño; the Director of Region VIII of ASHRAE, Hugh McMillan, and the President of ASHRAE, Monterrey Chapter, Ricardo I. Arellano.  This general agreement will make the relationship between ASHRAE and UANL even stronger for achieving their missions and accomplishing their goals. This event was witnessed by high authorities of the UANL, ASHRAE and about 80 persons among students and faculty (see UANL news note).
Right after this event, Hugh McMillan gave a conference (see picture) to approximately 40 students and some faculty for showing them what ASHRAE has meant for him, what ASHRAE is expecting from us, how ASHRAE could help us in our career development and the importance of the Student Branches in Monterrey. Some of the attendees were ASHRAE members. They the chance to show to Hugh McMillan their most recent achievements, such as a course related to steam generators, and the implementation of the now functional UANL Student Branch Web Page. The members had also the chance to invite the students to join ASHRAE and attend the Technical Session.

September 21th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
UANL meeting for installation of the new student board 2004-2005 (see pictures)
This meeting was called for having the Change of the UANL Student Branch Board. The idea was to introduce the new board to Hugh McMillan, Director of Region VIII, whom would be in Monterrey the following day for signing and agreement with the UANL and for attending the opening of the AHR EXPO México 2004.

The board is form by:

Hugo Chamorro (President)
Cyndy Iñiguez (President Elect)
Enrique Flores (Secretary)
Alejandro Esquivel (Treasurer)
Among students and faculty members we had the presence of Hugo Rivas, whom is the Subdirector of Student Development (Something like student affairs which include all of the extra school activities) of the Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, as an school authority and as a representative of the Dean of the School. He gave a very encouraging speech to the student inviting them to take the chance that the school and ASHRAE are offering to them as part of their educational background, which certainly would be very useful in the future.  Juan Aguilar, the Faculty Advisor (And Head of the Department of Thermal Engineering at FIME-UANL), and Ricardo I. Arellano (President of ASHRAE, Monterrey Chapter) were also present. Both acknowledged the aid given by the school, this meeting was one of the first events in the pretty new room named “Sala de Usos Múltiples, Subdirección de Desarrollo Estudiantil” (see pictures)
Very effusive thanks were given to Laura Grimaldo and Mónica Montes for their help as former board member. Laura Grimaldo promised to stay in touch with us.

September 20th
CHAPTER ACTIVITY WITH STUDENT BRANCH INCLUDING MEETINGS, TECHNICAL PROGRAMS AND TECHNICAL TOURS
ITESM new student board meeting

This meeting was attended by:

Ricardo I. Arellano (President, Monterrey Chapter)
Juan Aguilar (Student Activities Chair, Monterrey Chapter)
Cecilia Garay (Incoming ITESM Student Branch President) She is the doughtier of  Enrique Garay, another ASHRAE member.
Héctor Carriedo (Incoming ITESM Student Branch President Elect)
Omar Laguna ((Incoming ITESM Student Branch Secretary)
This meeting was dedicated to discussion for inviting students from semesters earlier than 7th , in order to have the same member active longer. One point of agreement was to have a meeting with faculty member for introducing the new Student Activities Vice-Chair, Silvia Estrada, and to ask them to give promotion to ITESM Student Branch.

August 10th
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Conference at UDEM (Universidad de Monterrey): Subject Sustainable Construction, given by Esthela Tijerina* before 50 attendees.

August 9th,
TECH-IN BY MEMBERS OF CHAPTER BOG, CHAPTER COMMITTEE, OR CHAPTER MEMBER PER CLASS OR TO AN ORGANIZED STUDENT GROUP
Conference at ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey): Subject Sustainable Construction, given by Esthela Tijerina* before 70 attendees.

*Esthela Tijerina is a Monterrey Chapter ASHRAE Member and a Committee Member. She has been looking to join the interests of arquitects with mechanical and civil engineers. A newspaper, due to the importance of this subject worldwide interviewed her. See note.
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