Rotary Snow Plow Joins ASME Landmark Roster

Rotary Snow Plow Joins ASME Landmark Roster Rotary Snow Plow Joins ASME Landmark Roster Rotary Snow Plow Joins ASME Landmark RosterThe Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow No. 2, the first machine to reliably remove deeply packed snow from railroad tracks, welches designated as an ASME historic mechanical engineering landmark in a ceremony held in Duluth, Minn., on April 16. (Photos by Wil Haywood, ASME Public Information)The Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow No. 2, the oldest rotary snow plow still in existence, became ASMEs 257th historic mechanical engineering landmark in a ceremony held in Duluth, Minn., on April 16. The designation ceremony, which was held at the Lake oben liegend Railroad Museum, was attended by members of the Minnesota Section and University of Minnesota-Duluth Student Section as well as enthusiasts and representatives and trustees from the museum.The first machine to reliably remove deeply packed snow from railroad tracks, the now retired Snow Plow No. 2 is on p ermanent display at the railroad museum. Powered by a locomotive-type steam engine, the Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow No. 2 employed a bi-directional rotating wheel with blades, and was propelled by several locomotives. ASME Past President Richard J. Goldstein (pictured) presented the bronze landmark plaque to Timothy Schandel, curator of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, during the ceremony. The plow, which was built in 1887 by Cooke Locomotive Machine Works of Patterson, N.J. remained in service for 81 years, originally serving in the Cascade Mountain region of the western North America before it was moved east to clear railroad tracks in Minnesota and North Dakota.The Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow No. 2 was nominated for ASME landmark status by the University of Minnesota-Duluth Student Section, and championed by student section member Adam Broderius, who led the yearlong effort to have the plow designated as an ASME landmark.The bronze landmark plaque was presented t o Timothy Schandel, curator of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, by ASME Past President Richard J. Goldstein during the designation ceremony. Goldstein, an ASME Fellow and Honorary Member, served as ASMEs 115th president from 1996 to 1997. ASME History and Heritage Representative Herman Viegas also attended the April 16 event. Herman Viegas, ASME History and Heritage representative, at the April 16 landmark designation ceremony. The Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow No. 2 was the second ASME landmark to be designated in the state of Minnesota, following the Thermo King Refrigeration Unit, which was named an ASME landmark in 1996.For more information on the ASME History and Heritage Landmarks Program, and to view the complete list of ASME mechanical engineering landmarks, visit www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/about-the-landmarks-program.

Email Etiquette Tips for Job Seekers

Email Etiquette Tips for Job SeekersEmail Etiquette Tips for Job SeekersWhen you are job searching, youll likely use schmelzglas for a number of reasons. You might send anemaillelelele asking about job openings, or anemail titelblatt letter with a resumeattached. You might send networking emails asking contacts for help with your job search. You will likely also send email thank-you messages after interviews. When you use email to job search, its important that all your communications are as professional as they would be if you were writing an old-fashioned paper letter. Heres information on all you need to know about job search email etiquette,includingwhat to put in your job search emails, how to format your emails, and how to make sure your email messages are read. Email Etiquette Tips for Job Seekers Set Up a job search email account.When youre looking for a job, its a good idea to platzset up an email account just for job searching. That way your professional email wont get mixed in with your personal mail. There are a variety of free web-based email services, like Gmail and Yahoo, that you can use. Youll be able to check your email online from any computer, so using webmail is a good way to stay on top of your job search. Be sure you have an email account name that is appropriate for business use, i.e. firstname.lastnamegmail.com rather than cutegirlhotmail.com. Once youve set up the account, send yourself a few test messages to make sure you can send and receive mail. Use this email account for all your job search communications to apply for jobs, post your resume, and connect with your contacts. Be sure to check your account frequently so that you can respond immediately to employers who are interested in hiring you. Also set up your job search email on your smartphone so you can get notifications instantly. Dont use your work email account.Many companies monitor email communications, and you dont want to get caughtjob searching from work. Dont use your work email address for job searching or networking. Dont send resumes and cover letters from your work email account or use that email address when you apply for jobs online. Send your email to a specific person.When possible, send your email to a contact person, rather than a general email box. Send a copy to yourself, so you have a record of the emails you have sent and the jobs youve applied to. Use a clear subject line.Your email message needs asubject line. If you leave the subject blank, the email isprobably going to end up in a spam mailbox or be deleted. Make sure you list the position you are applying for in thesubject lineof your email message, so the employer knows what job you are applying for. You might want to include your name in the subject as well. Below are two examples of appropriate subject lines Subject Line Communications Director PositionSubject Line Marketing Associate Position / Your anthroponym Choose a simplefont.Avoid ornate, difficult-to-read fonts. Use abasic fontlike Times New Roman, Arial, or Cambria. Dont use color in your text, either. Use size 10 or 12 point, so that the email is easy to read, without being too big. Write like its a business letter.In general, your email messages should look a lot likebusiness letters. They should include words, not acronyms, slang or emoticons. The email letters should be written in full sentences and paragraphs. Begin with a salutation, and end with a send-off and yoursignature. The only difference between an email and a business letter is that in an email you dont need to include the employers contact information, the date, and your information in the top left corner. Keep it brief.People tend to skim, or even ignore,very long emails. Keep your email brief and to the point. Include a signature.Include anemail signaturewith your contact information, so its easy for the hiring manager to get in touch with you. Including a link to your LinkedIn profile is a good way to give the hiring ma nager more information on your skills and abilities. Below is a sample email signature FirstName LastNameEmail AddressPhoneLinkedIn Profile URL (Optional) Edit, edit, edit.Make sure you proofread your email for grammar and spelling errors. Clear writingis just as important in an email as it is in a business letter. Send a test message.Before you send your email, send the message to yourself to check that the formatting works. Also, make sure that any files you attached are easy to open. If everything looks good, resend the email to the employer. Email Message Content If you have a contact person, address your email to Dear Mr./Ms. LastName. If you dont, address your email to Dear Hiring Manager or simply start with the first paragraph of your message. When youapply for a job via email, copy and paste yourcover letter into the email messageor write your cover letter in the body of an email message. If the job posting asks you to send your resume as an attachment, send your resume as a PDF or a Word document. No matter your purpose for emailing, be clear about why you are writing and the purpose of your email message. Include this information early on in the email. The reader is much more likely to respond if they know, at a glance, why youre reaching out to them.

Patenting Selling Product Foreign Countries

Patenting Selling Product Foreign Countries Patenting Selling Product Foreign Countries In the past, while the international marketplace increased the potential for greater sales, it also raised the stakes for protecting intellectual property.A product may be protected by a patent in the manufacturers home country, but patent protection did not cross borders. A seller had to go through the patent process in each country where protection of IP rights is desired. Under an international agreement known as the Paris Convention, the patent application in each country had to be filed within a year of the filing at home. So if a manufacturer applied for a U.S. patent and a year goes by without filing for protection anywhere else, the intellectual property will be protected only in the United States. The manufacturer had effectively donated the design of the product to the rest of the world.Filing patent applications in all the likely overseas markets could cost into the hundreds of thousand s of dollars.There are a number of critical timing issues that new product introducers had to consider as they attempted to capture intellectual property rights and facilitate an early sale. Generally, the drivers for an overall IP protection strategy for a new product were(1) The existence of the one-year Paris Convention, which allowed patent applicants to file in other countries within one year of the domestic filing date(2) The potential to attract foreign purchasers or licensees within the first one-year period after filing and(3) The provision of a more rapid and, hopefully, more efficient license or sale of the product in each country.During leiter I, the following tasks would have needed to be completed1. Completely finish the product.2. Complete a comprehensive business plan3. Gather all information needed to promote the product.4. Identify competitors, customers, and related entities for(a) Product-related trade associations(b) Product-related professional associations(c) Related government branches, elected officials and bureaucrats, including test organizations and standards-setting groups (local, state and federal)(d) Related trade shows (very important for leiter III activities after filing)(e) All trade-related magazines, including paid and free subscriptions, trade sales, and trade-related product publications, especially those which may carry a nachrichten story relating to the product after the patent is filed(f) All newspapers and magazines in any way related to the applicant or product, including those associated through geography or language, for example(g) A list of product endorsers, particularly those who might endorse without compensation, and even local elected officials, comedians, radio personalities, and other public figures.These efforts should not have been limited to home country or home language. Where the product admitted to use anywhere, the entire world should have been considered the potential market and the information dat abase should have been expanded accordingly.5. Integrate information gathered in Steps (1) through (4) to determine which markets to enter. Using all of the above information, make a list of why the product is better than others currently available, comparing all versions of the product (both high-end and basic) to the next-best alternative. This information will be used by the patent attorney in drafting the case.To begin Phase II, they needed to submit all product information, especially the information outlined in Step 5 above, to the patent attorney and allow two months for the patent to be completed (both first and final drafts), executed by the inventor and then filed.During Phase II, there should have been no disclosure or transmission of information, but fully prepare all media which can possibly be used to market the product so that it will be ready for dissemination immediately after the patent application is filed.Trade shows should have been scheduled during Phase III, o nly after the patent is filed, yet you should have tried to attend trade shows in the first year early enough so that you had enough time in the year left over for negotiation, but not so early that the publications wouldnt have time to publish your news items.You should have chosen shows early in the Phase III cycle to allow sufficient time to determine what foreign distributors were interested in your product. You would need to have made all the relevant foreign filings within your deadlineone year from the home country filing date.Filing the patent was a prerequisite for beginning Phase III absolutely no activities in Phase III should have taken place until it could be established with certainty that filing had occurred. To do otherwise would forfeit rights in other countries. It may have been preferable to devote a few days after the patent filing to secure a postal or computer filing receipt or other proof of filing in hand.Once the patent filing could be established with certa inty, youd begin Phase III which entailed all aspects of selling and marketing the product.Adapted from a Mechanical Engineering web exclusive by Curtis L. Harrington and Kathy E. Harrington.Filing patent applications in all the likely overseas markets could cost into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.