Summer Outing to Reading Phillies – Date Change to July 27th

By John Day | Published: January 30, 2012

Please note that the date for our outing to the Reading Phillies has changed from August 3rd to July 27th. An email on the details for this outing will be sent to the membership in the spring.

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Lehigh Valley ISA Section Student Scholarships

By John Day | Published: October 10, 2011

Each year, the Lehigh ValleyISA section awards 6 scholarships to local University and Trade School students with an interest and aptitude in the field of Instrumentation and Controls. We have modified our scholarship process this year. Highlights are as follows:

  1. We will award two $1000 Charles F. Homewood Memorial scholarships to deserving students at Lehigh and Lafayette University.
  2. We will award four $250 Nicholas A. Stangil Memorial Scholarships to deserving students at Northampton Community College, Lincoln Technical Institute, and Pennsylvania State University Berks Campus.
  3. We will NOT be having our December Honors and Awards Banquet this year – scholarships will be awarded at our April 2012 section meeting
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Lehigh Valley ISA Section President’s Year in Review 2010-2011

By John Day | Published: August 10, 2011

Thanks to everyone for another great year with the Lehigh Valley ISA.  We had some great things this past year:

  • Our section membership is slightly down this past year – we have approximately 140 members.
  • Our section finances are doing well. We have a section budget for our upcoming 2011-2012 year.
  • We held 8 section meetings last year. This included 2 tours, 1 vendor’s table top show, 2 technical talks, 1 Joint meeting with the Philadelphia ISA section, 1 Golf outing and 1 Baseball outing.
  • Our section awarded 6 scholarships to local college students at our annual Honors and Awards Banquet in December. These were awarded to students with an interest and aptitude in the field of instrumentation and control systems. We are looking to modify our scholarship awards in the upcoming year – please stay tuned for details.
  • Our section awarded 3 scholarships to local middle and high school students at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science fair in February. These were awarded to students with science projects related to the automation and control field.

 

Thanks to all of the many people who volunteer their time over the year to make all of this possible.  We hope you had a chance to participate this year, Our new calendar of 2011-2012 events is posted online at www.lvisa.org under the events tabs. Please check it out when you have a chance. If you would like to become more involved with the section committee, events planning, or scholarships – please let me know.  The section is only as good as its members make it.

Best Regards,

John Day

Lehigh Valley ISA 2010-2011 Section President

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New section meetings have been posted for the upcoming year

By John Day | Published: July 29, 2011

Register online using the events tab.

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2009-2010 Lehigh Valley ISA Section Year in Review

By John Day | Published: August 31, 2010
  • Our section membership has stayed relatively constant this past year – we have approximately 160 members.
  • Our section finances are doing well. We have a section budget for our upcoming year.
  • We held 10 section meetings last year. This included 4 tours, 1 vendor’s table top show, 3 technical talks,  1 non technical talk, 1 Golf outing and 1 Baseball outing.
  • Our section awarded 6 scholarships to local college students at our annual Honors and Awards Banquet in December. These were awarded to students with an interest and aptitude in the field of instrumentation and control systems.
  • Our section awarded 3 scholarships to local middle and high school students at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science fair in February. These were awarded to students with science projects related to the automation and control field.
  • Our section participated in the planning and execution of the ISA Mid-Atlantic “Applications in Automation Conference” held in Delaware in March.
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2010 ISA Standards and Practices Board

By John Day | Published: August 25, 2010

Our Standards and Practices Chair, Warren Weidman, has provided a list of new and revised ISA Standards. This is located under our “Resources” page for review.

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2010 – 2011 Section Calendar

By John Day | Published: August 25, 2010
    Lehigh Valley Section Members,
    We are developing a new meeting schedule and will have it posted in early September. The section meetings will include plant tours, technical presentations, vendor table top show and web seminars. Please let us know if there are other meeting topics of interest.
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March 9th ISA Pittsburgh Education and Product Symposium

By Melvin Foo | Published: February 10, 2010

The ISA Pittsburgh Education and Product Symposium is being held next month.

When: Tuesday, March 9th 2010

Location:

Regional Learning Alliance at Cranberry Woods
850 Cranberry Woods Drive, Cranberry Township, PA 16066
(Directions can be found on our website www.isapgh.org)

Description:

12 three hour symposia dedicated to our industry topics, given in state-of-the-art class rooms. Each class is limited to 25 students. New this year – National ISA Sponsored Class “Safety Instrumented Systems – The Must Know for Implementation (EC50C)

Topics:

Best Practices for Applying EtherNetIP, Improving Calibration Productivity, Instrument & Control Drawings & Symbology, Intro. To Control Valve Architecture & Selection, Troubleshooting Tools for Hi Volume Batch in Food Industry, Wireless Mesh Networking with I/O Radios, Intro. To Regulator Types and Applications, Level Measurement Best Practices, Nuclear Renaissance II, PLC-Based Simulation Speeds Operator Training & Cert., Screw It In, Don’t Screw It Up. Quick Disconnects, WirelessHART Device Networks

Symposium Topics details and registration form:

Download here

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ISA Applications in Automation Conference

By Melvin Foo | Published: January 27, 2010

ISA Applications in Automation Conference
Wilmington, DE
March 23 – 25, 2010

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A New Year, a new website!

By Melvin Foo | Published: January 27, 2010

A New Year, a new website! I have decided to revamp the website to make it more functional as the old one was just a little clunky and cluttered. It was also not user friendly at all from a coding perspective.

Our website is now running on the ever popular Wordpress platform and allows for easy on-the-fly changes and WYSIWYG content addition. I believe the current site navigation is better and links are easier to find too. Using the Wordpress platform gives us the capability to add news and articles in blog style fashion, make the site Search Engine Optimized, add social media capabilities and make this site mobile phone friendly.

We hope you like the simplicity and functionality of the new design. Any comments or changes, please let me know in the comments area below. Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you at future ISA Lehigh Valley section events.

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