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( No. 12)
Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Online Newsletter of the Detroit Chinese Engineers Association (DCEA)
DCEA Web Site: http://www.wwnet.net/~dcea
Mail Address: P.O. Box 1595, Warren, MI 48090
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Table of Contents
[DCEA News]
1. The First DCEA Advisory Council Meeting
2. DCEA Board Meeting (4/10/99)
3. Board Member, Rong Chen's Resignation
[Community News]
1. Annual "Soup Kitchen" event
2. 15th Annual OCAPA'99 Symposium Annoucement
[Auto Industry Trends]
1. Call for Help: Consultants Needed For Technical Center Development
in China
[DCEA Corporate Sponsors]
[Sign On/Off Instructions]
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DCEA News
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1. The First DCEA Advisory Council Meeting
The Advisory Council of DCEA Held Its First Meeting at the Annual
Conference
Despite of the severe snow storm and terrible traffic condition, the
Advisory Council of DCEA successfully held its first meeting at
Lawrence Technological University on Saturday, the March 6 of 1999.
This newly established council is composed of 13 previous presidents
of DCEA. They are, with the year when they acted as the DCEA
president, Dr. Litton Lee (1982), Dr. Robert Lo (1986), Dr. David
Chang (1987 and 1988), Dr. Songling Young (1989), Dr. Janilla Lee
(1990), Dr. Jerry Chen (1991), Dr. Jamie Hsu (1992), Dr. Hwa-Sun
Hsieh (1993), Dr. Bong-Hwa Sun (1994), Dr. ShanShih (1995), Dr. Paul
Wu (1996), Dr. Simon Tung (1997), and Dr. Chin Kuo (1998).
The objective of forming the Advisory Council includes, but is not
limited to, leveraging council members' experience, talents, and
networks to help DCEA 1) to better serve its members and the
community/society as a whole, 2) to attract more members and make
the organization grow, 3) to keep DCEA's continuity, and 4) to
promote technical exchanges and relations with Mainland China,
Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
The DCEA Strategic Planning & Public Relations Committee, chaired by
Dr. Yilong Chen, a current board member of DCEA, is responsible for
communicating with the Advisory Council. Other members of this
committee include Professor Chin Kuo, Dr. Simon Tung, and Dr.
Houchun Xia.
Eight Advisory Council members attended the first meeting. They are
Dr. Litton Lee, Dr. Robert Lo, Dr. David Chang, Dr. Songling Young,
Dr. Jerry Chen, Dr. ShanShih, Dr. Simon Tung, and Dr. Chin Kuo. A
lot of ideas, suggestions, and advices were presented and discussed
at the meeting. Some of them will be further discussed and
implemented after the next DCEA Board meeting, and the rest need
more studies.
Thanks to all Advisory Council members for their enthusiasm and
support. We believe that your involvement will make DCEA even better
and stronger.
The Strategic Planning & Public Relations Committee of DCEA
(Report submitted by Dr. Yilong Chen)
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2. DCEA Board Meeting
The DCEA Board of Directors Meeting was held on April 10, at
Lawrence Technological University. All current board members
attended this meeting. The current DCEA President, Dr. Jie Cheng,
and Vice President, Dr. Tai Chan, presided this meeting.
Board members reviewed this year's Spring Technical Conference held
on March 6, summarized the lessons learned for future reference and
improvement. Strategy and Planning Committee Chair, Dr. Yilong Chen,
reported the first DCEA's Advisory Council meeting. Recommendations
from the Advisory Council were reviewed and discussed with necessary
action items generated. The budget proposal presented by Treassurer,
Dr. Kingman Yee, was reviewed and approved. Board members, then,
reviewed and approved the events planning for the rest of 1999:
- Technical Committee (Nancy Wang):
The 1999 Fall Workshop (a half of a day event) is tentatively set
on either Oct. 2, or Oct. 9. Potential topics include networking,
career clinic, health seminars, immigration/citizenship tips,
Fengshui, investment/retirement seminars, etc.
- Publication Committee (Zach Fu):
planning to publish on-line newsletters monthly, and mail
hardcopies out twice per year to these members without email
accounts.
- Membership Committee (Patrick Cheung):
Planning to have three regular mailings for membership activities.
Also, Board accepted Rong Chen's resignation. DCEA will co-sponsor
this year's Soup Kitchen event held on May 10th. DCEA will also send
Jie Cheng, Tai Chan, and Simon Tung to attend OCAPA'99 in Ohio to
promote friendship.
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Board Member, Rong Chen, Resigned:
DCEA Board Member - Technical Committee, Dr. Rong Chen, has decided
to resign after serving on the board for the last two years. Dr.
Rong Chen contributed to the DCEA tremendously while serving in the
membership Committee and most recently Technical Committee. His
contributions and enthesiastism to the DCEA activities will be
greatly missed. Let's wish Rong the best in his professional career.
The DCEA Board accepted his resignation.
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Community News
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1. Annual Soup Kitchen Event:
DCEA and CAGD will co-organizing this year's Soup Kitchen to be
held on May 10th.
Soup Kitchen is an event in which volunteers serve Chinese food to
the homeless people living in shelters in the Detroit area. The food
are donated by local restaurants or other charities.
We strongly encourage our fellow DCEA members to volunteer to help
this event. These who are interested in participating, please
contact Dr. Jie Cheng (Tel: 313-248-1433, Email: jcheng1@ford.com)
for details.
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2. The 15th Annual OCAPA'99 Symposium
The 1999 Annual Symposium of the Ohio Chinese American Professional
Association (OCAPA) will be held from June 11~12, at the Chemical
Abstracts Service (CAS) Building, Columbus, Ohio. The theme for this
year's symposium is "Pursuing Balanced Excellence: Integrating
Technology and Culture in the 21st Century". The Symposium covers a
variety of topics including inspirational speeches, seminars, paper
presentations, panel discussion and interactive activities for
participants.
Seminar topics include:
- Engineering & Science
- Health & Medical Science
- Information Technology
- Telecommunication
- Finance & Business
- Education, Sociology & Culture.
DCEA Board members, Jie Cheng, Tai Chan, and Simon Tung will
participate officially. We encourage fellow members to attend,
particularly if the topics are of interests to you. Please contact
Dr. Tai Chan (Tel: 810-986-2518, Email: tchan@notes.gmr.com) for
detail.
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Auto Industry Trends
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1. Call for Help: Consultants Needed for the Development of
Technical Centers in China:
Consultants are needed to advise a Chinese company on how to
develop and build a technical cente from clean sheet. Please
contact Dr. Yilong Chen (Tel: 810-986-4508, Email: ylchen@gmr.com)
for details.
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The 1999 DCEA Corporate Sponsors:
On behalf of all DCEA members, We recognize and appreciate the
1999 corporate sponsors for their sustained surports to DCEA:
Altair Engineering, Inc.
CGN and Associates
Ford Motor Company
General Motors Corporation
Giddings & Lewis, Inc.
Optimal CAE, Inc.
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