SAWE NEWSLETTER

Issue Number 3 2002-2003

The International SAWE Web Site Address is http://www.sawe.org
communication is through this newsletter, having the ability to inform
members of issues or remind them of upcoming events through another
media would be of great benefit. We publish only four newsletters a
year. Through e-mail I would like to be able to communicate with the
membership on a regular basis as a part of improving communications in general. It would not have to be long, just a here are a few
things that have gone on recently.

International President
Roger L. Belt
(181) 586-0309
roger.l.belt@boeing.com
By the time you receive this newsletter, the holiday season will be, or
will have been, upon us. My sincerest wishes for a happy and safe
holiday season to all the membership, and the best to everyone in the
coming year. This can be a trying time of year, especially for those
who find themselves away from home. Let us not forget them. For
those family and friends of our membership who cannot be with
them for whatever the reason, may their holidays be filled with joy
and may they know that there are those who miss them and care
about them.

Another reminder, Jack Wisniewski, our Awards Committee Chairman,

has sent a letter to all the Chapter Directors about awards nominations. Any member of SAWE can nominate another member for an
award. If you have someone in mind for one of these awards, ask
your Chapter Director for a copy of the nomination form and criteria.
The awards include Benefactor, Honorary Fellow, Fellow, and the Ed
Payne Award (outstanding members under the age of 35). Now is the
time to start thinking about worthy individuals who are eligible and
deserving of one of these awards. Let us not forget our
members-at-large. If you know of a member-at-large deserving of
one of these awards, please submit their name to the awards committee. They will be happy to supply you with a nomination form. If you
do not know whom to contact, send the request directly to me, and I
will see that you get the information.

You all should have received your latest Weight Engineering Journal
with the enclosed Weight Engineering Handbook update on a CD.
Hooray!!! The update has been a long time coming, but nonetheless
has been done and is in your hands. With it being committed to
electronic format, updates and additions should be much easier to
accomplish. Again, my thanks to all those who labored and toiled to
get this monumental task finished. Remember member volunteers
did this work.

Wayne Peterson, the Internet Implementation Chairman, has revised

our website at http://www.sawe.org by updating one feature and
adding a new one. Wayne has updated the members only section for
the current 2002-2003 member list. He has also added a message
board that we can use as a communication tool. You can check out
the new feature at http://www.sawe.org/scripts/yabb/YaBB.pl or
you can use the hot link on the home page. Check out this new
feature, and let us hear from you.

More good news that I can share with you is that Greg Burt has
informed me that all the SAWE papers have been assigned to volunteers for the electronic paper conversion project. My appreciation
cannot be understated to all of you that have volunteered to help out
with this very important project. Now let us follow through and
complete the scanning of the papers so that Greg can report at the
Board of Directors meeting next May that the project has been
completed.

Looking down the road, the 62nd International Conference on Mass

Properties Engineering will be here before you know it. If you are
planning to write a paper, it is not too soon to start, especially if you
have to get it approved by your company. The approval process has
become a long and arduous one. Some papers from last year are still
waiting for approval. Maybe they can be presented at the upcoming
conference. You get the point. We will also be distributing the papers
to attendees on CDs at the conference, so the papers will have to be
submitted in time to be placed on the CD. The deadline for submittal
for the best paper judging will be strictly enforced this year. Year
after year, our technical session chairs spend all Tuesday night at the
Conference reading papers to select the best paper. This is the result
of late paper submittal. This practice is not fair to the technical session chairs. The authors do not get a fair evaluation of their papers
because not enough time can be devoted to the evaluation. Because
the papers need to be available to get on the CD, we are going to hold
meeting the submission date as criteria for eligibility for being
considered in the best paper judging.

Speaking of the Board of Directors meeting, the preparation time will

be here before we know it. As part of a letter that I sent to all the
Chapter Directors, I want to accomplish as much as possible at the
Board of Directors meeting; but I want to keep the length within
reason. In an effort to accomplish this, I want to start getting agenda
items on the list and have the Board do some preliminary work with
e-mail discussions. If you as a member feel that there is something
that should be addressed at the next SAWE Board of Directors meeting, by all means pass it along to your Director. If you are a
member-at-large, or anyone else that would so prefer, you can forward
your items (ideas) directly to me. Another thing that I have asked the
Chapter Directors to do is send me the e-mail addresses of all their
Chapter members. I have received some lists already but still have
not heard from many Chapters. We have never put a complete list of
SAWE members e-mail addresses together, and I think this would be
beneficial for many reasons. Since our main means of direct

In the last two newsletters, we included a Members Concerns and

Suggestions column. I still have not received any correspondence
about this column directly from the membership, so I must assume
that either it was not of interest or no one has any concerns or issues
that they want to pass along (can this really be true?). I will wait until
the next newsletter for a submittal.

was good for my company to support such activities. This also needs
to happen way ahead of time. Budgets get set early, typically the year
before! I have always thought to myself that it should be obvious to
management that mass properties offers tremendous visibility into
the programs health and that this should just be OBVIOUS to my
management. But the truth is that if you do not actually TELL them,
they do not know this. You have to communicate. OK, and you have
to remind them. And remind them again. You also have to make sure
that you are talking to the right people. I had to let them know how
important it was to our company that we have representation at a
particular conference. (By the way, I have been to two International
Conferences and several Regional Conferences on my own nickel, so
this does not always work.) In the case of the recent International
Planning Conference, I met with my upper management during
December 2001 (yes, 2001) letting them know that I was planning to
run for Executive Vice President, and asked them for their support if
I were to win. I told them all about the SAWE until I convinced
them. It took two meetings.

Remember, the door is always open here. If you have questions,

concerns, ideas, or issues, I want to know what they are. My e-mail
address is roger.l.belt@boeing.com and my telephone number is
(818) 586-0309.

Executive Vice President

Tom Koonce
(661) 572-5972
thomas.koonce@lmco.com
Since our last newsletter, I have been fortunate to attend both the
International Planning Meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, and the
Southwest Regional Conference in Carmel, California. Both events
were extremely well executed and it was obvious that the host Chapters planning paid off. The conferences combined technical exchange
with a whole lot of networking in the 1990s sense of the word. It
is a great time to be part of an organization that identifies so closely
with the needs (and frustrations) of its members...AND wants to do
something about them.

Next, I gave them a good reason to feel really guilty if they decided
NOT to send me. Over the years I became an active member in the
Society. I became a Chapter Officer, a member of the Technical
Committee, the Steering Committee, I gave presentations, wrote
papers, and ran for International office. When management hears
about how active you are in a professional society, it shows them that
you are serious about your work, that you want to go above and
beyond in your work. This encourages them to do something for you.
You will probably end up with a closer working relationship with
your boss and peers because of all of this. Since we will all be
working together for a long time to come, I figure, why not do the
best work we possibly can?

For a bit of perspective, I wanted to tell you a little of what I did to

get my management to send me to these extremely valuable professional conferences. I am sure that my actions are pretty typical of
those attendees who got their companies to pay for their way, so
maybe it will work for you too.

Finally, when I got back from the events, I wrote up a trip report that
summarized how my attendance was of benefit to the company and
to myself as a mass properties engineer. I even did this for the events
that my management did not pay for... especially for the ones they
did not pay for!

First, I started way ahead of time: I acted in a professional manner

concerning the discipline of mass properties, inside and outside of
work. Some young members of the SAWE may say that I just bought
into the system or was acting like a member of the good ole boys
when I tried to listen closely to what my boss was asking of me,
talked seriously with designers about weight savings ideas, met with
my management about why mass properties was important to their
projects success, or happened to wear a suit and tie into an important
meeting with a customer. I only think of it as behaving professionally. I tried to perform the work that was asked of me and then tried
to do at least something extra each day that was not asked or expected
of me.

So in conclusion, I hope you can see that you have to really want to
attend one of our conferences. As an active conference attendee, it
was no free ride! After all of this work just to get there, my reward
so to speak was that I got to hear technical presentations and papers
presented by the disciplines brightest and most enthusiastic members,
learning for 10 hours straight about new breakthroughs in mass properties, re-energizing me in my work when I got back home. Then I
was privileged to eat dinner and meet socially with these individuals
until VERY late in the evening, building professional relationships
that will last the next 20 years. You obviously treat your life and
work seriously enough to take part in this professional society, and I
hope this helps you attend the next conference. I hope to see you
there!

Second, I found out exactly who the people were that approve the
money for such trips. I already knew that attending SAWE professional conferences helped me be a better mass properties engineer,
but I had to convince the people controlling the purse strings that it

to see it progress. Unfortunately, my good intentions are constrained

by the other priorities in my life. All volunteers face the same constraints. Family and work must come before altruism. However, if
everyone elected not to volunteer because they were unwilling to
make the effort for fear of falling short of their own, or others,
expectations, then we would have no Society. That is patently unacceptable.

Vice President, Technical Director

Brett L. Anderson
(714) 896-6360
brett.l.anderon@boeing.com
This is the time for all of us to get focused on the tremendous
opportunities we have in front of us this year. The 2003 International
Conference is just around the corner and every indication is that it
will be a technical showcase for our Society. Our Session Chairs are
pulling together the technical program as we speak, and it looks as if
we will have more diverse representation than ever. I am really looking
forward to this conference.

I applaud the tremendous efforts most of our volunteers make and get
concerned when others cast negative comments their way. Could
things be better? YES, and we are working on it. But this society has
been run on the backs of dedicated volunteers who made me feel
welcome and want to contribute as a young engineer. The benefit
I get from being an executive officer is the camaraderie of some of
the most dedicated individuals I know. They set high goals and have
very high expectations of themselves. If they fall short, should we
castigate them for the failures or applaud the attempt?

Part of the opportunity before us is the challenge of migrating from a

paper-based society to a media based one. Greg Burt, in Wichita,
Kansas, has been doing a great job of converting the old papers into
a digital format and our Board of Directors has directed that the 2003
conference will only accept electronic papers for consideration for
recognition and distribution at the conference. These are critical first
steps and by the time you read this, our instructions to authors will
hopefully be revised to reflect these changes. Like many of you, I
also received my CD of the SAWE Weight Engineers Handbook.
What a phenomenal piece of work our volunteers accomplished. This
reference is now a part of my digital library and I take it with me
everywhere and have already referenced it twice in contract proposals. These sorts of challenges represent the real opportunity for our
organization to grow and change with the times.

Get involved and make a difference. Nothing was ever accomplished

on the sidelines.
That is my exhortation and, therefore, it is time for me to encourage
everyone out there to run for office and volunteer. The reward comes
from knowing that you made a difference! This particular position is
one appointed by the President and approved by the Board of Directors.
Often the selection is made based on the volunteer record of the
individual being considered and the willingness to assume the
responsibilities. If you are interested in getting involved at the
leadership level of SAWE, my advice is to get started now at the
Section, Regional, and at the committee level of this organization.
You may be the best volunteer for the job; but if our elected officers
are not aware of your ambitions and capabilities, it will not help you
get involved in the areas of your interest.

This forum is for you, our membership, to get a sense of what the
leaders you elect. or are appointed by your representatives. are doing
on your behalf. Because of that, I want to include an edited excerpt
from a correspondence I had with part of our Board and membership.
The background was a discussion on the perquisites of being an
officer in this society and if our leadership was in sync with the
member needs. In addition, it raises the concerns that many organizations are having about volunteers, how to attract them and keep them
active and motivated.

Senior Vice President

Tom Schultz
(636) 925-3335
thomas.m.schultz@boeing.com

The issue is how can we as an organization motivate volunteers

and continue to get new members involved. Our industries are going
through huge transformational changes. everyone on my team is
expected to do more, work harder, and frankly spend some of their
own precious time to ensure the success of our projects. The reward
for this sacrifice is keeping your job.

As we approach the holidays (indeed, they may be over by the time

you read this) and look forward to the 62nd International Conference
in New Haven, Connecticut, it is not too soon to begin thinking
beyond that to future conferences. It is with great pleasure (and a
healthy dose of relief!) that the Board has accepted and approved a
bid from the Baltimore/Washington Chapter to host the 64th
International Conference in 2005. As we are still looking to create a
process for planning and hosting a conference without a local host
chapter, I have promised Dominick Cimino and Chris Filiopolous the
full support of the Society wherever and in whatever form they require
assistance, to help begin to integrate the Board into conference
planning in a more hands-on way.

We as a society also ask for the same sacrifices, but our benefits are
distinctly less tangible. What is the real benefit of membership or
volunteering? I can state as a fact, that the benefits have been very
tangible in my case, but they occurred out of sequence with my
activities and many individuals would not see a cause and effect
relationship.
Why then, do people volunteer? Often it is not to get something, but
to give something back. I receive no perquisites or fringe benefits
for my participation. Most of us at this level of the society do not. We
volunteer, frankly, because we believe in the societys vision and want

As we look beyond 2005, it is time to start thinking about bids for

2006 to be presented at the New Haven Board of Directors meeting.
I know there is at least one chapter already considering bidding. And

Miguel had previously organized a complimentary four-course dinner

on Monday evening for all participants and their guests complete
with both red and white wine with dinner and closing with champagne. This event was intended as a mixer, and it truly was. This was
quite an impressive beginning to the organization for this Regional
Conference.

in the wake of the highly successful Central European Regional

Conference, we may realistically expect a bid for a European conference. I urge all potential bidders to begin laying out your presentations now, and to look at all the information a conference bid requires. In this era of reduced travel budgets and decentralized mass
properties groups, it is not an exaggeration to say that conference
attendance is directly related to the cost of attending, and all options
to make the conference more economical need to be considered. It is
easy to say that company travel budgets do not know or care how
much the hotel rooms or airfare are, but the managers who approve
the travel and control those overhead funds DO notice such details,
and we do not want to price our retirees or anyone paying their own
way out of our conferences.

The presentations began at 0830 Tuesday morning following a half

hour of registration. There were 70 participants from seven countries
representing 13 companies, one technical university, one airline and
one Spanish Air Force representative. The program consisted of 13
presentations divided into three themes: Weight Optimization, Weight
Control, and Weight Estimation. The program had been advertised on
the Central European Chapter website for some time. I feel this helped
the attendance. I got approval to attend based on the information
from the website. Each and every presentation was preloaded from a
CD to a laptop for viewing by the audience. We had our usual morning
and afternoon coffee breaks. The two-hour complimentary seafood
luncheon was provided in a private room of the hotel and was excellent. The program concluded at 1900 followed by cocktail hour of
Spanish Wines and Tapas. Everything was very professionally done!
I hope some can be repeated at our International in May.

It is also time for those who would like to run for international office
to step forward and identify themselves. I will be stepping down as
Senior Vice President after the New Haven conference, and I can
truly say that I have enjoyed holding this position immensely. As the
Society looks toward the future and the challenges that face us, it is
clear that fresh ideas and new perspectives will be necessary to help
us adjust to the way business and engineering are and will be done.
While international offices do carry some responsibility, none of the
jobs are all that difficult and are certainly learn-on-the-job situations.
(There are certainly those who would say that if I can do this job,
anyone can!) So even if you have never held any kind of international or chapter office at all, do not let that stop you from throwing
your hat in the ring. We need your help!

Wednesday morning bus transportation was provided to the Spanish

Air Museum truly an impressive collection of flight. We viewed
three large hangers of vehicles plus an impressive outside collection
in three large collection areas. One needs to see it to believe it.
There was a lot of enthusiasm toward the future from all the attendees.
Tentatively, the United Kingdom Chapter may do the next regional in
2005 and there is thought of the Central European Chapter bidding
on the 2006 International Conference.

Past President
Ronald L. Fox
(562) 982-7244
ronald.l.fox@boeing.com

Vice President Training

John Hargrave
(310) 331-5368
hargrjo@mail.northgrum.com

Andy Schuster, Jerry Pierson, Robert Brown, and Ron Fox attended
the Central European Conference November 12-13, 2002. Miguel
Mascaray of Airbus, Spain, organized the event. It is my understanding the event will be presented in the next issue of the Journal.
However, I was so impressed with this event, I thought it worthy of
mention in the Newsletter also.

SAWE Training Program

We have four courses being offered at the International Conference
in New Haven, Connecticut, next May. They are: Basic Moment of
Inertia, Advanced Mass Properties Measurement, Helicopter
Preliminary Design, and Aircraft Weight and Balance. Basic Moment
of Inertia is scheduled for Saturday, May 17. Advanced Mass Properties
Measurement is scheduled for Sunday, May 18. At this time,
scheduling for the Helicopter Preliminary Design and Aircraft Weight
and Balance courses is contingent upon some pending facilities
information, but one will be Saturday and the other Sunday. The
Training Program web site schedule will be updated as soon as that
information is firmed up so check it as you make your conference
attendance plans.

Pre-registration began on Monday, November 11, 2002. The registration fee was 30 Euros ($30 US). The registration packet included the
following:
A card stock, 4-sided, 4-color program
Hard copies of each paper bound in a 2-ring white binder with a
4-color insert both end and front
A souvenir mouse pad advertising the CE Chapter event
Two pads of paper. One advertising the CE Chapter and one
advertising Airbus
Color clip-on badges (same 4-color theme) that distinguished
presenters from participants
All this was presented in a hard plastic snap shut carrying case
with a handle.

Each of these courses is an excellent opportunity to learn from noted

industry experts. The Advanced Mass Properties Measurement
course is developed and taught by Kurt Wiener, Chief Engineer at
Space Electronics in Berlin, Connecticut. This course was prepped at

the New England Regional this October. Its objectives and topics
provide the student with a deeper understanding of relating physical
mass properties to actual measurements. Mr. Wiener has engineered
many practical solutions to difficult real world problems and this
course relates those experiences in both classroom examples and
laboratory measurements.

of the curriculum. There is no shortage of opportunities or ideas for

training. Please consider sending in a proposal for a course. See the
website (www.sawe.org) for details and guidelines.
Course Development is a two-step process with an inaugural course
being offered at a regional conference at a lower cost. This provides
regional conference attendees with a training opportunity and it gives
the instructor experience to improve upon both the material and his
instructing skills. It also enhances membership benefits of attending
the regional conference. Lessons learned from this course prepping
are incorporated into the presentation, material, and teaching style.
This process has proven invaluable to increase the quality of the
courses. It has provided not only feedback regarding the presented
material, but has improved aspects like maximum class size, quantity
of material, appropriateness of example problems, and handling of
laboratory procedures. After the initial offering of a course, it is
considered to be matured, and the full price of $150 is charged
thereafter. The lessons learned process continues with mature classes
and generic improvements and experiences are shared among the
instructors.

Basic Moment of Inertia is taught by Wayne Clay of Lockheed

Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. This course lays the foundation of
mathematical understanding of mass moment of inertias and their
relationships in a classroom setting and then moves students into the
laboratory where they conduct experiments to demonstrate and measure inertias. This course offers students experience with physical test
set up and measurement of inertias. While many engineers deal with
analysis and calculate inertias with CAD modeling automation, this
is an opportunity to gain fundamental understanding at a deeper level.
Space Electronics is the host facility for these two courses.
The Helicopter Preliminary Design course was prepped in the fall
of 2001 at the Southwest Regional in Palm Springs, California. The
instructor, Luis Lucero of Boeing Helicopters, has developed a very
good one-day course of lecture, example problems, and sizing routines
to give the students understanding of the primary design parameters
in initial helicopter sizing and design. This course begins with how
helicopters fly to technical details of specific rotor blade sizing. It is a
very good course for both the novice and experienced engineer. It
will be held at the Omni Hotel.

Course Topics are chosen using the following criteria: mix of other
courses being offered, perceived need for the course, projected interest,
and forecast of success potential. Student interest of from 10-15
students is needed to cover course expenses. Topics of general rather
than niche interest are targeted to satisfy the needs of the majority of
members.

The Aircraft Weight and Balance course is taught by Tom Oole,

recently retired from the Air Force at Wright Patterson in Ohio. This
SAWE course also provides successful candidates with certification
to weigh USAF aircraft. It takes students through documentation,
safety practices, and procedures for weighing, tracking, and reporting
actual weight and balance of aircraft. The course includes classroom
lecture and films as well as actual aircraft weighing demonstration in
a hangar. It has been a very popular course and Mr. Oole has many
years of instructional and practical experience in this field.

Conference Host Committees provide key support to training courses

by supplying facilities, audio-visual, transportation, registration,
planning, budgeting, and other support. They also participate in
choosing the training course topics for their conference to ensure
interest from that portion of the potential attendance.
For further details about the SAWE Training Program refer to the
web site at http://www.sawe.org/training/training.html. You can
review the schedule, course descriptions, instructor backgrounds,
course attendees listing, and general information. The Attendees Listing
documents each students participation as well as provides a
comprehensive history of the courses we have offered to date. The
General Information page documents the following aspects of the
SAWE Training Program: Vision Statement, Instructor Procedures,
and Courses Present and Future. Vision Statement lists the vision
statement, purpose, objectives, values, and possibilities. The Vision
Statement is: The SAWE Training Program will provide membership
with career enhancing learning opportunities related to a broad
spectrum of mass properties engineering applications. Instructor
Procedures documents the step by step guidelines for instructors from
course proposal to delivery. Courses Present and Future lists courses
that have been developed to date, courses in development now, and a
list of ideas for courses in the future.

Regional Conference Courses. Any chapters considering hosting a

regional conference are urged to consider offering a training course
as part of your schedule. Contact VP Training
(hargrjo@mail.northgrum.com)to discuss whether you would like
an existing course or would like to develop a new course for future
international conferences. A goal of the SAWE Training Program is
to offer a training course at every conference, including regionals. I
hope that some chapters will want to base hosting a regional conference around offering a training course. This would provide more
opportunities to develop classes and also give chapters an alternative
to a day of technical presentations.
The SAWE Training Program is still very new and there are many
ideas for new courses and opportunities that have not yet been
developed. There is also a goal for diversity in product that needs to
be expanded. Some of the basics such as Weight Control, Weight
Allocation, Parametric Weight Estimation Development, and Value
of a Pound remain as highly requested training course topics and
need an instructor to step forward. Product fields such as aircraft,
automotive, and spacecraft need courses to broaden the applications

The SAWE Training Program courses are offered especially for you,
the SAWE membership. They are the product of a team of dedicated
individuals comprised of the instructors, host chapter volunteers, the
BOD, and the VP Training. Please take advantage of the unique
opportunities they provide for you.

Company Membership: Our company membership remains at

twenty-six, one less than we had last year at this time. We sincerely
appreciate the support of all of our company members.

Executive Director
Franklin B. Gattis
(860) 633-0850 (T)
(860) 633-8971 (F)
saweed@aol.com

Change of Address: Please keep the International office up to date

on your address. We want to make sure you get all of the correspondence and we need your current address to do that. I really hate
having to pay our mail carrier to get your new address. Just send me
e-mail at saweed@aol.com and I will get our records up to date.

Scholarship for Children and Grandchildren of SAWE Members:

As reported earlier, the Board of Directors has approved five new
$1,000 scholarships for the 2003 school year. Changes from last
years program include an increase in the maximum age to 25 and
elimination of the requirement that recipients be dependents of
members. Scholarship Management Services (SMS) will administer
the program again for the 2003 school year. As was the case last year,
in no instance does any member of the SAWE play a part in the
selection of the winners. Applications will be accepted starting
February 1, 2003, and must be postmarked no later than April 1, 2003.
Additional information and application forms will be posted on the
SAWE website (www.sawe.org) by the end of December. Hard copies of the applications will be mailed to each member, along with the
2003 Conference Announcement and election material, in early
February.

New Members
Welcome
P. Brian Duffy
Gregory Games
Michael Hiersig

ML
LA
CE

Brian Johnstone
Michael Matoi
Ronald McGee
Bernd Psyk

LA
LA
LA
CE

Reinstated Members
Welcome Back

Five $1,000 scholarships were also provided in 2002 to children and

grandchildren of SAWE members. Last years program was initiated
very late in the year, resulting in a very short period to prepare the
applications. Consequently, only seven applications were received
for the five scholarships awarded last year. Nevertheless, the
applications received had excellent credentials.

Emil G. Bantz
Aaron Carter
Richard E. Gainer
Darren Gamble
Michel Heese

Here are some statistics provided by Scholarship Management Services

for the 2002 scholarship recipients:

SL
LA
LA
UK
CE

Randall J. Hein
Robert J. Hundl
Bell Lee
Tracey Nakadate
David Oakey

LA
TX
LA
LA
LA

Members on the Move

Daniel T. Rowley

SV to LA

By Gender: 2 male, 3 female

By Application Status: 2 HS Senior, 3 Undergraduate

Receipts and Disbursements: Although Financial results from the

61st International Conference in Virginia Beach are still not yet
complete, preliminary indications of our financial results for the
20022003 fiscal year continue to be excellent, with a projected Net
Annual Gain of $7,652 versus $3,352 set as a budget.

College Students GPA: 3.648 Average, 3.25 low 3.93 high

High School Seniors GPA: 3.74 Average, 3.68 low 3.80 high
High School Scholastic Aptitude Test Scores (combined SAT scores):
1,128 Average, 1,015 low 1,240 high.

A major reason for the larger than expected net annual gain is that no
transfer is required to the Scholarship Fund from the General Fund, a
gain of $3,000 relative to budget. Also, projected expenses for International Training are some $3,600 less than expected. On the negative side, account interest and dividends are about $1,700 below
projections as interest rates continue to fall. Also, the 2002 International Conference income is projected to be about $1,300 less than
budgeted. Other income and expenses are pretty much in line with
expectations. Second Quarter 2002-2003 Statement of Receipts and
Disbursements follows.

Chapters: Los Angeles, St. Louis, Texas, and Seattle (2)

Country: All applications were from the US.
Individual Membership: We continue to slowly regain the members
lost with the new fiscal year, and our membership now stands at 775,
which is about 7% less than at this time in 2001 when we had 830
members. In 2000, we had 814 members, 820 in 1999, and 828 in
1998. We need to redouble our efforts to regain our membership. A
special thanks to the Los Angeles Chapter for their outstanding job in
signing up 10 new or former members this period.

SOCIETY OF ALLIED WEIGHT ENGINEERS, INC.

SECOND QUARTER STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
2002-2003
2nd QTR
ACTUALS
TO DATE
RECEIPTS
Dues ...................................................................................................................................................... $20,063.00
Technical Paper Sales ................................................................................................................................ 1,668.54
Weight Engineers Handbook Sales............................................................................................................... 320.00
2002 International Conference ................................................................................................................ 25,362.27
2003 International Conference ...................................................................................................................
Weight Engineering Journal Advertising ....................................................................................................
Credit Card Program ..................................................................................................................................
Job Opportunities Advertising ....................................................................................................................
Account Interest and Dividends ................................................................................................................ 2,023.97
International Training ................................................................................................................................ 4,950.00
Miscellaneous ............................................................................................................................................ 356.51
TOTAL RECEIPTS ................................................................................................................................. 54,744.29
DISBURSEMENTS
Roster Printing ...........................................................................................................................................
Technical Publications Index/Bylaws .........................................................................................................
Weight Engineers Handbook Printing ....................................................................................................... 1,943.25
Weight Engineering Journal Printing......................................................................................................... 4,239.21
Weight Engineering Journal Postage ......................................................................................................... 730.69
Newsletter Printing .................................................................................................................................... 763.20
Newsletter Postage .................................................................................................................................... 401.78
General Postage......................................................................................................................................... 862.84
2002 International Conference .................................................................................................................. 806.32
2003 International Conference .................................................................................................................. 1,000.00
Bonding and Office Insurance ................................................................................................................... 176.00
Liability Insurance......................................................................................................................................
International Election .................................................................................................................................
Tax Return and Audit ................................................................................................................................ 600.00
Chapter Projects .................................................................................................................................................
Office Equipment ...................................................................................................................................... 21.19
Web Site Expenses .................................................................................................................................... 95.94
Vendor Coordinator Expenses ............................................................................................................................
Plaques, Awards and Certificates............................................................................................................... 1,708.75
Los Angeles Post Office Box .................................................................................................................... 70.00
Office Supplies .......................................................................................................................................... 699.79
Computer Programming and Assist ....................................................................................................................
Vice President Publications Honorarium ................................................................................................... 5,550.00
Vice President Publications Expenses ....................................................................................................... 3,487.36
Executive Director Honorarium .............................................................................................................. 14,299.98
Executive Director Travel Expenses.......................................................................................................... 1,025.09
International Training ................................................................................................................................ 4,835.47
International Committees ...................................................................................................................................
International Office Expenses.................................................................................................................... 860.37
International Office Relocation ..........................................................................................................................
Transfer to Scholarship Fund from General Fund ..............................................................................................
Miscellaneous ............................................................................................................................................ 2,438.71
TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS................................................................................................................. $46,615.94
NET ANNUAL GAIN .......................................................................................................................................

PROJECTED
AMOUNTS

BUDGET
2002-2003

$30,500
4,600
1,000
25,500
16,100
6,200
600
4,400
5,350
1,000
$95,250

$30,500
4,250
1,000
26,800
16,100
6,200
1,000
6,100
5,250
1,000
$98,200

100
2,500
18,000
3,000
2,150
800
3,500
806
3,500
176
950
370
600
150
750
500
70
1,709
70
1,700
100
7,250
3,487
23,500
1,025
4,835
600
2,000
3,400
$87,598

100
2,500
18,000
3,100
1,950
800
3,600
1,100
3,500
176
950
370
625
100
750
500
70
1,700
805
2,000
100
7,250
3,500
23,500
600
8,502
600
2,100
3,000
3,000
$94,848

$7,652

$3,352

SAWE 2002-2003 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Date (2002)
12/2
12/2
12/2
12/13
12/16

Nominations for International Officers Received by Executive

Director
Call for Award Nominations (Fellow, etc.) Mailed to Directors by
Awards Committee Chairman
2003 Conference Announcement Data Mailed to VP Technical
Director by Session Chairmen and Conference Chairman
3rd Newsletter Mailed to Members by Executive Director
2nd Journal to Printer by Executive Director

Date (2003)
1/6
1/20
2/10
2/10

2/10
2/10
2/18
2/28
3/10
3/14

3/14
3/14
3/14
3/24
3/24
3/28
3/28

Event

Date (2003)
4/1
4/1

4/7
4/7

Event

2003 Conference Announcement Data Mailed to Executive Director

by VP Technical Director
2003/2004 Election Data to Printer by Executive Director
2nd Journal Mailed to Members by Executive Director
3rd Journal Inputs Received by VP Publications - contains more
of papers from the International Conference and original (or reprint)
material received from the membership.
3rd Quarter Financial Statement to President by Executive Director
Election Ballots , 2003 Conference Announcement, and Scholarship
Material Mailed to Members by Executive Director
4th Newsletter Inputs Received by VP Publications
Dues Packages Mailed to Chapter Treasurers by Executive Director
4th Newsletter to Printer by Executive Director
2003 Conference Program Received by VP Technical Director
from Session Chairmen, Conference Chairman, Vendor Coordinator,
and President
Executive Director Requests Chapter Status & 2003/2004 Chapter
Officers from Chapter Directors
Executive Director Requests Annual Reports from International
Officers and Committee Chairmen
Executive Director Invoices Members-at-large & Company
Members for 2003/2004Annual Dues
Annual Reports Mailed to Executive Director by International
Officers, and Committee Chairmen
Agenda Items Mailed to President by International Officers,
Committee Chairmen, and Chapter Directors
4th Newsletter Mailed to Members by Executive Director
2003 Conference Program Data Mailed to Executive Director by
VP Technical Director

4/14
4/15

Event

Application Deadline for SAWE Scholarships for Children of

Members
Papers to be considered for the Mike Hackney Best Paper Award
and Student Paper Awards should be completed and submitted to
Session Chairman no later than 1 April 2003. Contact session
chairman or Vice President Technical Director if you are not able
to meet these deadlines.
2003 BOD Agenda to BOD Members by President
International Officers and Committee Chairman Reports Mailed
to BOD by Executive Director
3rd Journal to Printer by Executive Director
Election Ballots Counted by Executive Director

5/1

Copies of Technical Papers (40 copies) to be presented at the

International Conference are sent by the authors to the Technical
Papers Chairmans address as shown in the Direction to Authors.
5/1
2003/2004 Chapter Status Reports Due to Executive Director
from Chapter Directors
5/12
4th Quarter Financial Statement to President
5/16
Arrival & Hotel Check-In for 2003 SAWE Board of Directors
Meeting, Omni Hotel, New Haven, Connecticut
5/17
2003 SAWE Board of Directors Meeting (additional meetings as
required 5/18- 5/21)
5/17-5/18 SAWE Training Classes
5/18-5/22 62nd Annual SAWE International Conference, Omni Hotel, New
Haven, Connecticut
5/18
Hotel Check-in and Conference Registration
Annual Reception
5/19
Technical Sessions
5/20
Government/Industry Day
5/21
Technical Sessions
Awards Banquet
6/16

3rd Journal Mailed to Members by Executive Director

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