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Hello Nebraska ASHRAE mem-ber,

The past few weeks have been refreshing, as summer quietly transitions into fall. I want to ex-tend a thank you to all those who attended last month’s meet-ing about Natatorium Design. I apologize that our meeting ran a little long. This month we are going to allow attendees who arrive early to start going through the buffet at 11:45 am, so the speaker can start on time. I’m happy to share that the Ne-braska Chapter was awarded $1,250 of Society President Tim Wentz’s Chapter Opportunity Fund. The Chapter Opportunity Fund is money set aside for chapters to use in a meaningful, creative way to energize their chapter and/or to improve their communities by demonstrating the impact of ASHRAE. Be-cause the Nebraska Chapter

has struggled with membership growth over the past five years, our proposal was to use our por-tion of the fund to develop a dis-play booth that could be used to promote ASHRAE and encour-age membership at various events, including E-week, career fairs, science fairs, and other opportunities that arise. We will create a committee to oversee this activity, so if this is some-thing you may be interested in helping with, please let me or another board member know. Our next major event is the high-ly anticipated 2016 ASHRAE Trapshoot Contest at the Papillion Gun Club. The event will take place on Thurs-day, October 20 at 1 pm. All money raised at the trapshoot goes toward the ASHRAE Stu-dent Scholarship Fund. Please see the attached flyer for regis-tration information.

Speaking of scholarships, if you are a student member or have a college engineering student in your life, ASHRAE (at the socie-ty level) has various scholar-ships ranging from $3,000 to $10,000 available. Scholarship applications are now being ac-cepted and must be submitted by December 1, 2016, for con-sideration. For additional infor-mation, visit www.ashrae.org/scholarships . The next Omaha Section chap-ter meeting is October 11th at Anthony’s Steakhouse. Note that the Lincoln Section is host-ing Octourfest on October 12th at the CRES Plant with happy hour to follow. As always, Omaha Section members are welcome to attend. I’ll see you there! Sincerely, Jessica Errett ASHRAE President 2016-17

October 2016 Focus on ASHRAE Technology & Membership Education Volume 58, Issue 2

President’s Message

In This Issue

• Omaha Mee�ng - Tuesday , October 11

• Lincoln Mee�ng - Wednesday , October 12

• ASHRAE Trap Shoot Event - Thursday, October 20

• Meeting Information 2

• Trapshoot Event 3

• October Calendar 4

• Grassroots Update 5

• Future Meetings 6

• SmartEnergy Expo 7

• SmartEnergy Expo Form 8

REMINDERS

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OMAHA — Rooftop Optimization Strategies & Technology with

Dr. Lixia Wu

Tuesday, October 11th, 2016

Anthony’s Steakhouse — Buffet ($18)

Dr. Lixia Wu is currently the Director of Engineering at Bes-Tech, Inc. Before that she worked at the En-ergy System Lab at UNL. She earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Archi-tectural Engineering program in 2010 with an emphasis on automated supervisory control optimization and linearization for HVAC&R systems. Dr. Wu has worked on various building commissioning and ret-rofit projects in various phases from energy audits to project implementation to after care during the last six years. Since joining Bes-Tech, Lixia lead the engineering team to help clients on cost-effective ener-gy conservation projects for various medical, institutional, and commercial facilities with different energy management systems. Those projects have achieved 15%-55% energy savings with a typical payback of 3 to 4 years.

LINCOLN — OcTOURfest—CRES Plant with Rhett Zeplin

Wednesday, October 12th, 2016; 3:00PM at CRES

Plant (near Lincoln Wastewater Emergency)

Happy Hour to follow at Hop Cat in Haymarket

For more information or to register for either meeting visit our website www.neashrae.org

October Meetings

Student Chapter Needs UNO will be participating in the Green Impact Campaign's Kilowatt Smackdown Challenge. They will

be competing against other schools to see who can complete the most energy

assessments within their area. If you know of anyone whose business in Omaha would be inter-

ested in having a free assessment completed on their building, please have them contact

uno.ashrae@gmail.com for more information.

UNO ASHRAE has begun to implement guest lecture speakers from industry within their

general meeting times. If anyone is interested in participating, please email uno.ashrae@gmail.com to

see what available meeting times they offer.

CRES Plant

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GRASSROOTS GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY

Earlier this week, the US House of Representatives passed by an overwhelming vote of405 to 5, the bipartisan Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R.5587), which would reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act through Fiscal Year 2022, and provide increased support for science, technology, engineer-ing and mathematics (STEM) education.

“ASHRAE commends mem-bers of the US House of Rep-resentatives for passing this bipartisan bill that would mod-ernize career and technical education and provide re-newed strength that will pre-pare students for in-demand careers,” said ASHRAE Presi-dent Tim Wentz in the Socie-ty's press release. “We strong-ly encourage the Senate to build on these efforts and take bold action to provide further support for STEM education.

Such action would help meet the workforce pipeline need for an estimated 115,000 new HVACR technicians by 2022, which will be created through growth and retirements.”

While the outlook remains

uncertain, it appears unlikely

that the Senate will act this

year on similar legislation,

which means that discus-

sions will continue into the

next Congress.

US House of Representatives Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Im-

prove Workforce Preparedness

The activities of the Federal government regard-ing IAQ can be challenging to parse, yet they are important to understand. Helping to improve this situation, Janet McCabe, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Acting Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, recently joined Cole Stanton of the Indoor Air Quality Associa-tion, and Mark Ames of ASHRAE to discuss how

Congress, the Federal government, and States endeavor to improve indoor air quality at the IAQ 2016 Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. In the near future this panel discussion, along with oth-ers from the conference will be available online.

EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Speaks on the Federal Government's Role in Indoor Air Quality at IAQ

2016 Conference

MORE ARTICLES

To find a full list of updates visit www.ashrae.org/government-affairs/

government-affairs-updates or subscribe to receive information on activities

within Congress and Federal agencies from the

ASHRAE Washington office.

Membership Promotion

Philip Prest

Research Promotion

David Kros

Nick Mandel

Student Activities

Meagan Kurmel

Jim Butler

Webmaster

Eric Granzow

Omaha Technology

Transfer

Aaron Rasell

Lincoln Technology

Transfer

Will Morris

Abby Visty

Grassroots

Tyler Glesne

Historian

Jim Ellis

Special Events

Kyle Heberly

Aaron Rasell

Newsletter

Sara Robbins

Reception (OMA)

John Nebbia

Callen Schwank

Reception (LNK)

Abby Visty

Faculty Advisors

David Yuill

Josephine Lau

Tim Wentz

Chapter

Officers President

Jessica Errett

President Elect

Tom Lewis

Secretary

Shaun Nienhueser

Treasurer

Chris Hawk

1st Board Member

Chris Beaty

2nd Board Member

Jake Kopocis

Board Ex-Officio

Tyler Glesne Visit us on the web at www.neashrae.org

Chapter Chairpersons

Future meetings (Topics subject to change)

Omaha Lincoln

Nov. 8th VRF Roundtable Discussion

11:45am

Anthony’s

Nov. 9th Heat Recovery Chillers with

Jay Eldridge

12:00pm

Valentino’s

Dec. 13th Technical Committee Intro

11:45am

Anthony’s

Dec. 14th State Fire Code Regulations with

Doug Hohbein

12:00pm

Valentino’s

Jan. 10th Nebraska Energy Office Presenta-

tion

11:45am

Anthony’s

Jan. 11th ASHRAE Standard 170 with

Eric Granzow

12:00pm

Valentino’s

Feb. 14th Contracting Law with

David Houghton

11:45am

Anthony’s

Feb. 15th Student Presentation

12:00pm

Valentino’s

Mar. 14th Technical Session with

Bill Bahnfleth

11:45am

Anthony’s

Mar. 15th BIM Coordiation with

Todd Shakelford

12:00pm

Valentino’s

Apr. 11th UNO Student Chapter

& Tim Wentz

11:45am

Anthony’s

Apr. 12th Distinguished Lecturer

12:00pm

Valentino’s

May 13th Burlington Building Tour TBD May LES K St DEC Plant Tour TBD

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