Dinner will follow the tour at Tony Rome’s Globe Hotel & Restaurant about 8 PM.

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Abstract:
Sewage treatment is something we often take for granted. Nevertheless, it is vital to our society. There may be instances in which hazardous waste enters the sewage system. This poses issues that must be understood for a reliable sewage treatment operation. The speaker will discuss some of these challenges and methods to mitigate them.

About our speaker:
Mr. Charles Alessi is Deputy Commissioner, Dept. of Environment and Planning for Erie County. His responsibilities include planning, financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance of sewage facilities which include approximately 1000 miles of sewers, 100 pumping stations, 5 waste water treatment facilities, and sludge a disposal site.

Mr. Alessi holds BS Chemical and MS Civil Engineering degrees from State University of New York at Buffalo. In addition, he is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. Mr. Alessi has published several papers and received various honors.

Holiday Inn Amherst
Niagara Falls Boulevard, at 1-290
Amherst, NY

Abstract:
Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, BalaDyne Corp. has created breakthrough technology for the machine tool, turbomachinery, and aerospace industries.

When BalaDyne was incorporated in 1981, active balancing systems were only used on precision grinding machines. After developing proprietary fluid technology for grinders, the company went on to pioneer the application of active balancing systems to industrial fans, reactor cooling pumps, turbo-machinery, turning equipment, tool holders and high speed machining.

BalaDyne became a wholly owned subsidiary of Lord Corporation on March 30, 2001. Lord's extensive background in vibration accommodation and control for aerospace and industrial markets promises to extend BalaDyne's breakthrough technology to a wide array of new applications.

About the speaker:
Thomas E. Schulte--Founder
Mr. Schulte, a founding partner of BalaDyne, works in strategic business development in the machine tool industry. This includes new product initiatives, OEM alliances, and international alliances. He received his Master's Degree in Engineering from the University of Detroit in 1975. Prior to founding BalaDyne in 1981, Mr. Schulte was a design engineer at Ford Motor Company.

Abstract:
Motor vehicles are an important part of our society; we depend on them to get us safely to our destination. Engineers design these vehicles and analyze their performance and characteristics to provide a safe means of transportation.

During use however, human interaction, environmental conditions, and the vehicle’s own characteristics may result in an accident, oftentimes serious.

Typically, the police are one of the first respondents to the scene and sometimes they will also reconstruct the accident. The NYS police have vast experience in this. The cause may be human error, environment, or vehicle related. Therefore, the reconstruction might provide some lessons learned for both driver education and for designing safer vehicles.

About our speaker:
Trooper Ken Dubrinski is an Accident Reconstructionist with the NYS Police at their Batavia office. This office serves the eight counties of Western New York. In addition, they provide accident reconstruction support for local police departments. This office typically reconstructs nearly 100 accidents per year. Trooper Ken Dubrinski has been a trooper for 18 years. He has been reconstructing accidents part time for 11 years and for two years now he has been reconstructing accidents full time. We are privileged to have Trooper Dubrinski as our guest speaker!