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Atlanta Metro
Chapter News & Events:
The Atlanta Metro Chapter meetings are
open to engineering professionals, students, and
other interested public and are held monthly,
September through June, on the second Monday of
each month. The
meetings start with networking at 6:00 pm,
followed by dinner and the speaker.
Presentation: The Offshore Gulf Oil Incident
By: Erik Milito
Director of Upstream and Industry Operations
with
The American Petroleum Institute, Washington,
D.C.
(See Below)
Mr. Milito's presentation will address the
actions taken by the government and industry to
improve offshore operations in the wake of the
Gulf incident and the potential impacts of those
changes.
Monday, September 13th, Gather 6:00 - 6:20
Location: ASHRAE
Headquarters Building,
1791 Tullie Circle, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30329
(near I85 & North Druid Hills Road)
Let us know
if you are coming! We need to plan
for the right amount of food. ($15 cost).
Please e-mail:
dhoward@mayberryelectric.com or call Drew
Howard at 404.456.4337 only if you plan to
attend.
Get a PDH. Remember Georgia PE's need 15 per
year to maintain their Georgia PE license
BRING A FRIEND -- Meet old friends --
Meet some new people -- Network
Date: Monday September 13th, 2010
Time:
Gather
......................................................6:00pm
Announcements and
Introductions..............6:20pm
Dinner........................................................6:30pm
Brief Presentation of Interesting and Useful
Internet
Site............................................................7:10pm
Presentation................................................7:20pm
Adjourn......................................................8:30pm
Erik Milito's Bio:
Erik Milito is Director of Upstream Operations
for the American Petroleum Institute. Erik
Milito’s work covers regulatory and legislative
matters related to domestic exploration and
production, including access to domestic oil and
natural gas resources both onshore and offshore.
He is based at the national office in the
Washington D.C. area. He previously served as
managing counsel at API covering a host of
issues, including oil and gas leasing, royalty,
environmental, fuels, transportation, safety,
and civil justice reform. Prior to joining API,
Mr. Milito served more than four years on active
duty in the U.S. Army as a judge advocate, and
an additional four years in the U.S. Army
Reserve, resigning at the rank of Major. He was
assigned to active duty tours in Hawaii, Korea
and Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and he
served as a prosecutor, defense attorney and
command advisor. Mr. Milito was awarded the
Meritorious Service Medal and Army Commendation
Medals during his military tenure. After leaving
the Army, he was a career attorney with the
Solicitor’s Office of the U.S. Department of the
Interior, working on royalty, employment law,
and disability access issues. Mr. Milito earned
his juris doctor from Marquette University Law
School, where he was a member of the law review,
and a bachelor’s degree in business
administration from the University of Notre
Dame, which he attended on an R.O.T.C.
scholarship. Milito has authored and co-authored
several papers related to natural resources
issues and has served as a guest speaker on
multiple occasions.
API:
American Petroleum Institute has more than 400
member companies, which represent all sectors of
America’s oil and natural gas industry which
supports 9.2 million American jobs – including
170,000 in the Gulf of Mexico related to the
offshore development business – and provides
most of the energy America needs. API has been
the leader for nearly nine decades in developing
voluntary industry standards that promote
reliability and safety through proven
engineering practices. API’s Standards Program
is accredited by the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI), the authority on U.S.
standards, and undergoes regular program audits
to ensure it meets ANSI’s Essential
Requirements. API’s standards are developed
through a collaborative effort with industry
experts, as well as the best and brightest
technical experts from government, academia and
other stakeholders. API maintains more than 500
standards – recommended practices,
specifications, codes, technical publications,
reports and studies – that cover all aspects of
the industry, including 240 focused on
exploration and production activities. Overall,
nearly 100 API standards are referenced in more
than 270 citations by government agencies,
including USEPA, the Department of
Transportation and OSHA, in addition to MMS.
Complementing the standards program, API has a
separate industry quality program. First
established in 1924, the API Monogram Program
provides for the consistent and reliable
manufacture of equipment and materials in
accordance with our standards and recommended
practices. The program grants manufacturing
licenses for more than 70 API equipment
specifications.
About the Atlanta Metro Chapter
The 500 member Atlanta Metro Section of the
Georgia Society of Professional Engineers serves
registered professional engineers and developing
engineers by providing networking opportunities
and continuing education opportunities for
members.
The local section also serves the wider metro
Atlanta community as an information resource and
contact for the engineering profession. Members,
locally and across the state actively support
MATHCOUNTS, a nationwide competitive program that
has promoted excellence in middle school studies
of mathematics for over twenty years. The Atlanta
Metro Section has also produced a full-color
brochure explaining the field of engineering to
students in lay terms, which is available free of
charge to interested students. The GSPE also
awards engineering college scholarships each year.
GSPE members are often asked to address school
classes to talk about applications of science and
technology.
The Georgia Society of Professional Engineers is a
state affiliate of the National Society of
Professional Engineers (NSPE), and a participant
in the Georgia Engineering Alliance. The National
Society of Professional Engineers is the
recognized voice and advocate of licensed
Professional Engineers. Founded in 1934, NSPE
strengthens the engineering profession by
promoting engineering licensure and ethics to
assure the public’s safety, enhancing the engineer
image, advocating and protecting PE’s legal rights
at the national and state levels, publishing news
of the profession, providing continuing education
opportunities, and much more. NSPE serves some
50,000 members and the public through 53 state and
territorial societies and more than 500 local
chapters.
To assure the public safety, all of 50 states and
the United States territories have laws requiring
registration of all individuals and firms engaged
in providing engineering services. Prior to
becoming a Registered Professional Engineer a
candidate must have the required educational
background, gain professional experience and pass
a rigorous exam. The Georgia State Board of
Registration of Engineers and Land Surveyors is
part of the Secretary of State office.
Please see these websites for additional
information:
Georgia Society of Professional Engineers:
www.gspe.org
National Society of Professional Engineers:
www.nspe.org
MATHCOUNTS: www.mathcounts.org
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