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ASME

and professional development,

codes and standards, research,

Predecessor

American Society of
Mechanical Engineers

government relations, and other

Formation

1880

forms of outreach."[1] ASME is thus

Type

not-for-profit membership
organization

conferences and publications,

an engineering society, a

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standards organization, a research

Headquarters New York City, U.S.

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and development organization, a

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Two Park Avenue

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nonprofit organization. Founded as

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an engineering society focused on

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mechanical engineering in North

Membership

140,000+ in over 150

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Languages

Catal

countries

multidisciplinary and global.

Official
language

English

ASME has over 140,000 members

President

Julio C. Guerrero

Presidentelect

K. Keith Roe

Affiliations

AIChE

Website

www.asme.org

in 158 countries

worldwide.[2]

ASME was founded in 1880 by

Alexander Lyman Holley, Henry

Deutsch

Rossiter Worthington, John Edison

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Sweet and Matthias N. Forney in

response to numerous steam boiler pressure vessel failures.[3] Known for

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setting codes and standards for mechanical devices, ASME conducts one of the

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world's largest technical publishing operations,[4] holds numerous technical

conferences and hundreds of professional development courses each year, and
sponsors numerous outreach and educational programs.

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1 ASME codes and standards

1.1 ASME boiler and pressure vessel code (BPVC)

1.2 Other notable standardization areas

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2 Notable members
3 Society awards
3.1 ASME fellow
4 Student professional development conference (SPDC)
5 Student competitions
6 Organization
7 Controversy
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links

ASME codes and standards

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ASME is one of the oldest standards-developing organizations in America. It

produces approximately 600 codes and standards covering many technical
areas, such as fasteners, plumbing fixtures, elevators, pipelines, and power
plant systems and components. ASME's standards are developed by
committees of subject matter experts using an open, consensus-based process.
Many ASME standards are cited by government agencies as tools to meet their
regulatory objectives. ASME standards are therefore voluntary, unless the
standards have been incorporated into a legally binding business contract or
incorporated into regulations enforced by an authority having jurisdiction, such
as a federal, state, or local government agency. ASME's standards are used in
more than 100 countries and have been translated into numerous languages.[5]

ASME boiler and pressure vessel code (BPVC)

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Main article: ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)

The largest ASME standard, both in size and in the number of volunteers
involved in its preparation, is the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
(BPVC). The BPVC provides rules for the design, fabrication, installation,
inspection, care, and use of boilers, pressure vessels, and nuclear components.
The code also includes standards on materials, welding and brazing procedures
and qualifications, nondestructive examination, and nuclear in-service
inspection.

Other notable standardization areas

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Other Notable Standardization Areas includes but not limited to are; Elevators
and Escalators (A17 Series), Piping and Pipelines (B31 Series), Bioprocessing
Equipment (BPE), Valves Flanges, Fittings and Gaskets (B16), Nuclear
Components and Processes Performance Test Codes.

Notable members

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The following people are, or were, notable members of ASME:[citation needed]

Dennis Assanis
Charles Brinckerhoff Richards (18331919) Founder, manager from 1881
82, Vice-president from 188890

[6][7]

Alexander T. Brown (18541929)

Ken P. Chong
Nancy D. Fitzroy[8]
Henry Gantt (18611919)
James Powers (1871-1927), inventor of the Powers Accounting Machines,
whose business was a predecessor of Sperry Rand and Unisys.[9]
John E. Leland, Director of the University of Dayton Research Institute
William Mason (18371913) engineer and inventor responsible for many
advances in the design of modern firearms[10]
Alexander C. Monteith (19021979)
Hugh Pembroke Vowles (18851951)
Samuel T. Wellman (18471919)
John I. Yellott (19081986)
Alexander Lyman Holley (18321882) Founder

[11]

Henry Rossiter Worthington (18171880) Founder[11]

John Edson Sweet (18321916) Founder[11]
Walter Polakov[12]
Frank M. White

Society awards

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ASME Medal
Honorary Member
Kate Gleason Award
Soichiro Honda Medal
Ralph Coats Roe Medal
Holley Medal
Melville Medal
Charles T. Main Student Leadership Award
Old Guard Early Career Award

ASME fellow

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ASME Fellow is a Membership Grade of Distinction conferred by The ASME

Committee of Past Presidents[13] to an ASME member with significant
publications or innovations and distinguished scientific and engineering
background. Over 3,000 members have attained the grade of Fellow.[13] The
ASME Fellow membership grade is the highest elected grade in ASME.[14]

Student professional development conference

(SPDC)

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ASME runs the Student Professional Development Conference (SPDC), which

allows students to network with working engineers, host contests, and promote
ASME's benefits to students as well as professionals. SPDC conferences are
held in North America and internationally. The location for each district changes
every year.[15]

Student competitions

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ASME holds a variety of competitions every year for engineering students from
around the world.[16]
Human Powered Vehicle Challenge (HPVC)
Student Design Competition (SDC)
Innovative Design Simulation Challenge (IDSC)
Innovative Additive Manufacturing 3D Challenge (IAM3D)
Old Guard Competitions
Innovation Showcase (IShow)
Student Design Expositions

Organization

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ASME has five key offices in the United States, including its headquarters
operation in New York, N.Y., and three international offices in Beijing, China;
Brussels, Belgium, and New Delhi, India. ASME has two institutes and 32
technical divisions within its organizational structure. Volunteer activity is
organized into four sectors: Technical Events and Content, Public Affairs and
Outreach, Standards and Certification, and Student and Early Career
Development.

Controversy

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ASME became the first non-profit organization to be guilty of violating the

Sherman Antitrust Act in 1982. The Supreme Court found the organization liable
for more than $6 million in American Society of Mechanical Engineers v.
Hydrolevel Corp.

See also

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ASME Y14.41-2003 Digital Product Definition Data Practices

List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks
ASME Medal
ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC)

References

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1. ^ ASME. "ASME.org > About ASME"

2. ^ "About ASME At a Glance"

. Retrieved 2011-12-27.

. ASME. Retrieved 7 November 2011.

3. ^ "Setting the Standard"

. History. ASME. Retrieved 2011-10-01.

4. ^ "Welcome to the ASME Digital Library!"

. ASME Digital Library. Retrieved

7 November 2011.
5. ^ "Standards Are Global"

. History of ASME Standards. ASME. Retrieved

7 November 2011.
6. ^ Frederick Remsen Hutton, ed. (1915). A history of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers from 1880 to 1915. The Society. p. 16.
7. ^ "Machinery". The Industrial Press. 1908: 826. "Richards was one of the
founders of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1881"
8. ^ "Fitzroy, Nancy Deloye ASME President, 198687"
Archived

(cfm) . ASME.

from the original on 13 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-18.

9. ^ "James Powers"

. New York Times. 10 November 1927. Retrieved

23 February 2012.
10. ^ American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914). "Necrology"

Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (The Society)

35. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
11. ^

a bc

. ASME's 125th Anniversary. asme.org. Retrieved

"ASME Founders"

18 November 2011.
12. ^ Wren, Daniel (1980), "Scientific Management in the U.S.S.R., with Particular
Reference to the Contribution of Walter N. Polakov"

, The Academy of

Management Review 5 (1): 111, doi:10.5465/amr.1980.4288834

13. ^

a b

"Fellows"

. ASME. Retrieved 10 August 2013.

14. ^ "Award Descriptions & Applications"

. ASME IPTI. Retrieved 10 August

2013.
15. ^ "Student Professional Development Conference"

. ASME. Archived

from

the original on 23 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-27.

16. ^ "ASME Competitions"

Further reading

. ASME. Retrieved 2012-06-25.

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Calvert, Monte A. The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910:

Professional Cultures in Conflict. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1967.
Hutton, Frederick Remson (1915) A History of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. ASME.
Sinclair, Bruce. A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, 1880-1980. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1980.
John H. White (1979). A History of the American Locomotive: Its
Development, 1830-1880. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-48623818-0.

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Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Robert Henry Thurston (1880-82) E. D. Leavitt (1883-84)
John Edison Sweet (1884-85) J. F. Holloway (1885-86)
Coleman Sellers (1886-87) George Herman Babcock (1887-88)

18801899

Horace See (1888-89) Henry R. Towne (1889-90) Oberlin Smith

(1890-91) Robert W. Hunt (1891-92) Charles H. Loring (1892-93)
Eckley B. Coxe (1893-94) Edward F. C. Davis (1894-95)
Charles E. Billings (1895-96) John Fritz (1896-97)
Worcester R. Warner (1897-98) Charles Wallace Hunt (1898-99)
George W. Melville (1899-1900)
Charles H. Morgan (1900-1901) Samuel T. Wellman (1901-1902)
Edwin Reynolds (1902-1903) James M. Dodge (1903-1904)
Ambrose Swasey (1904-1905) John R. Freeman (1905-1906)

19001920

Frederick W. Taylor (1906-1907) F. R. Hutton (1907-1908)

Minard L. Holman (1908-1909) Jesse M. Smith (1909-1910)
George Westinghouse (1910-11) Edward D. Meier (1911-12)
Alexander C. Humphreys (1912-13) William F. M. Goss (1913-14)
James Hartness (1914-15) John A. Brashear (1915-16)
David S. Jacobus (1916-17) Ira N. Hollis (1917-18) Charles T. Main
(1918-19) Mortimer E. Cooley (1919-20)
Fred J. Miller (1920-21) Edwin S. Carman (1921-22)
Dexter S. Kimball (1922-23) John L. Harrington (1923-24)
Fred R. Low (1924-25) William F. Durand (1925-26) William L. Abbott

19201939

(1926-27) Charles M. Schwab (1927-28) Alex Dow (1928-29)

Elmer A. Sperry (1929-30) Charles Piez (1930-31) Roy V. Wright
(1931-32) Conrad N. Lauer (1932-33) A. A. Potter (1933-34)
Paul Doty (1934) Ralph E. Flanders (1934-36) William L. Batt (193637) James H. Herron (1937-38) Harvey N. Davis (1938-39)
Alexander G. Christie (1939-40)
Warren H. McBryde (1940-41) William A. Hanley (1941-42)
James W. Parker (1942-43) Harold V. Coes (1943-44)
Robert M. Gates (1944-45) Alex D. Bailey (1945-46)
D. Robert Yarnall (1946-47) Eugene W. O'Brien (1947-48)

19401959

Ervin G. Bailey (1948-49) James Todd (1949-50)

James D. Cunningham (1950-51) J. Calvin Brown (1951-52)
Reginald J. S. Pigott (1952-53) Frederick S. Blackall Jr. (1953-54)
Lewis K. Sillcox (1954-55) David W. R. Morgan (1955-56)
Joseph W. Barker (1956-57) William F. Ryan (1957-58)
James N. Landis (1958-59) Glenn B. Warren (1959-60)
Walker L. Cisler (1960-61) William H. Bryne (1961-62)
Clifford H. Shumaker (1962-63) Ronald B. Smith (1963-64)
Elmer O. Bergman (1964-65) Henry N. Muller (1965-66)
James H. Harlow (1966-67) Louis N. Rowley Jr. (1967-68)

19601979

George F. Habach (1968-69) Donald E. Marlowe (1969-70)

Allen F. Rhodes (1970-71) Kenneth A. Roe (1971-72)
Richard G. Folsom (1972-73) Daniel C. Drucker (1973-74)
Richard B. Robertson (1974-75) Charles L. Tutt, III (1975-76)
Earle C. Miller (1976-77) Stothe P. Kezios (1977-78) Orval L. Lewis
(1978-79) Donald N. Zwiep (1979-80)
Charles E. Jones (1980-81) Robert B. Gaither (1981-82)
Serge Gratch (1982-83) Frank M. Scott (1983-84) George Kotnick
(1984-85) Leroy S. Fletcher (1985-86) Nancy D. Fitzroy (1986-87)

Richard Rosenberg (1987-88) Ernest L. Daman (1988-89)

19801999

Charles O. Velzy (1989-90) Arthur E. Bergles (1990-91)

Nathan H. Hurt (1991-92) Joseph A. Falcon (1992-93)
John H. Fernandes (1993-94) Paul J. Torpey (1994-95)
Daniel T. Koenig (1995-96) Richard J. Goldstein (1996-97)
Keith B. Thayer (1997-98) Winfred M. Phillips (1998-99)
Robert E. Nickell (1999-2000)
John R. Parker (2000-2001) William A. Weiblen (2001-2002)
Susan H. Skemp (2002-2003) Reginald I. Vachon (2003-2004)

2000present

Harry Armen (2004-2005) Richard E. Feigel (2005-2006)

Terry E. Shoup (2006-2007) Sam Y. Zamrik (2007-2008)
Thomas M. Barlow (2008-2009) Amos E. Holt (2009-2010)
Robert T. Simmons (2010-2011) Victoria Rockwell (2011-2012)
Marc Goldsmith (2012-2013) Madiha Kotb (2013-2014)
J Robert Sims (2014-2015)
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