Student Activities

On behalf of the ASHRAE Boston Chapter, we wish to thank our student chapters and the students for their participation in our ASHRAE organization, our meetings and activities. It was a great opportunity to meet the students. We also want to thank our faculty advisors for their efforts, their dedication and enabling students to become successful engineers.

Well my duties of being the Student Activities Chairman and Board of Governors positions are coming to a close. We have launched 1 new student chapter with the assistance of Dave Goodman and the late Cheryl Rossini. We have new potential student chapter on the horizon. Our next Chairman will be Daniel Diorio. Dan will be attending the CRC meeting this summer for training. I will be around to assist Dan this next season. Please join me in welcoming Dan.

If any student chapter wants or is in need of a speaker at a student chapter meeting, please let either of us know and we will set something up.

We have more great news! A few months ago, we were contacted by students at Northeastern University. We have been working with the students to get the necessary information to start a new student chapter. This information has now been submitted to the ASHRAE headquarters for vote over the summer. We expect to be presenting this new student chapter with their banner, a check and by-laws at our October meeting this fall.

We will be forming a local YEA group. YEA stands for Young Engineers in ASHRAE. Our goal is to enable engineers age 35 and under to network with each other and with the older members in our society. ASHRAE is an aging society and we aim to engage our younger engineers, allow them to integrate and get to know the chapter at large, and to enable them to become involved in the society at all levels. The YEA group picks up where our Student Chapters leave off. So as a Student graduates and becomes an engineer, we hope they stay involved in ASHRAE and YEA is a resource there to help them in that transition. We are currently looking to plan some social activities to bring Students, YEA members and older members together and can use your help.

The Boston Chapter is looking to expand the student activities committee. We would like to increase the student attendance at our Boston Chapter meetings and our student chapter membership. We need volunteers to visit student chapters and share our knowledge. Anyone with children active in grade school, high school, boy scouts or girl scouts can educate our students, or help scouts earn badges by teaching our children about engineering, energy and/or our environment. If an opportunity comes along, even an opportunity to slip in a fifteen minute speech with QnA time in front of a class, please let us know and go for it. This activity also helps us to advance our student chapter goals of being active in the student community. We need more champions and our children really are our future!!!

We are looking for volunteers to speak at our existing student chapters.