Re: Stress Analysis Spreadsheet Software - Opinions

On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:56 PM, Geoff Stone DD&D Australia wrote:

> If you join IE AUst you get ASME for half price.
Please tell me you're just rubbing salt in the wound. I rather that than know it's true. I joined ASME 1963, and I was fairly active, but it seems like every year member services drop off and publications get pricier. It's getting very much like an old boys club and the not-invented-here syndrome is strong with them. The management seems stuck in the 50's and they're going through a phase where globalization is very big, and they're looking to be all things to all people and getting spread way too thin. Mechanical engineers are mainly corporate animals, and professional values invariably play second fiddle to corporate strivings, but you'd think the society would start playing to things like portable benefit plans, affordable (by individuals) continuing ed and working at making their vast amounts of information available to members, many of whom contributed the stuff they're sitting on. SOme of the problem certainly has to do with the fact that manufacturing is currently very much out of fashion, so corporate sponsorship is down, but that's a fact of life. If the society can't deal with it, it's into the bilges with it. Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.

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