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National AAAEA Newsletter |
December 2007
Issue 2 Vol 1
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Newsletter Committee
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Maha Alsadi - Chair
George Ghareeb - CoChair
Bilal Almasri
Salah Issa
Mustafa Mahamid
Mohammad Kleit |
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Dear Colleague,
With great pleasure, I introduce to you the
second issue of AL-MUHANDES with activities by
our engineering communities across the country,
from the first election in the Tri-States
(NY-NJ-CT), to the semi-annual meeting in
Chicago, to seminars in Texas and Michigan, to
the one-day technical conference in Chicago, to
selection a steering committee in Orlando, FL,
to a social meeting Fort- Lauderdale, FL, and to
the LabNet joint event in the Silicon Valley,
CA.
I would like to thank and congratulate all our
associations for the great job in November.
Especially to the Tri-states on their first
election on November 4th, 2007 and to
the AAAEA-Chicago for the semi-annual meeting
which was attended by over 250 people on
November 2nd, 2007.
As November is the Arab Heritage month in
Chicago, Mayor Daley held a reception for the
Arab community and recognized the AAAEA for
their activities and for the services they
provide in Chicago. Congratulations to the
AAAEA on that.
In conclusion, November was a busy month with
about 10 activities across the country.
On a different note, the national committees are
working hard on all aspect to accomplish their
tasks. The newsletter committee has issued the
first and the second issues; the mission
statement is being finalized; the logo and the
name committees are working hand in hand to
finalize the name and the logo by the end of the
year.
Finally, I hope we are meeting your
expectations, please feel free to contribute in
any aspect and be part of our national efforts.
Sincerely;
Mustafa Mahamid, PhD, PE
National Steering Committee Chairman
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National Arab
American Engineers & Architects, (NAAEA)
Name
& Art-Logo Competition
"Who better to illustrate NAAEA's
character, culture and spirit than our own
members???"
The
National Arab American Engineers & Architects
Association (NAAEA) is looking for a brief
catchy name and a logo for the Association.
Names and logos can be submitted separately.
The person who submits a name or logo that gets
selected will win $100.00. All members are
encouraged to participate; name and logo should
be simple, unique, meaningful, and memorable.
Click
here to read the Entry Guidelines
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 AAAEA-IL
Semi-Annual Dinner Meeting -2007
"...the
event was classy and superb...it was well planned
and well executed...something to be proud of...",
"...the event was well organized and a success...",
"...The semi annual meeting was excellent..."
That's how some of our guests described the Arab
American Association of Engineers and Architects
semi-annual professional meeting. The meeting
was held on Friday, November 2nd 2007
at the Drury Lane in Oakbrook, Illinois. With
an overall ticket sale of 260, and over 240
guests in attendance, this year scored highest
compared to all previous years.
The evening started with a briefing on the state
of the association by Jamal Grainawi, AAAEA
President. GM Sadat, Career Enhancement
Committee Chairman, gave an overview of the
types of services offered by the association to
its members. Abder Ghouleh, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees, reported on the status of
university chapters, with the two major one's
being UIUC and IIT student chapters. George
Ghareeb, Peoria Chapter President, briefed the
audience on the strong growing Peoria Chapter.
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Message from AAAEA-IL President
Recently I was thrilled to accept the Leadership
Award on behalf of AAAEA from the Mayor of
Chicago and Commission on Human Relations
Advisory Council on Arab Affairs during the Arab
Heritage Month. This honor really has to do with
effort from all our Executive Board, past and
present and the Board of Trustees, who help keep
this association on a steady course; our
volunteers who donate their time for our
programs and special event that help us
provide reach our goal by providing programs and
services to our members and community.
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 Open
Source : the basics you must know
Since the beginning of the software
industry, nearly every software company in
the world has followed the same business
model: developed software by the company's
own employees, closely held intellectual
property, delivered software in binary
format to clients, and licensed software to
users to run on their own computers. Today,
however, that model is being challenged by a
new paradigm: open source. Developed and
maintained by volunteers across the world,
distributed to users at no cost, and
available in source code form, open source
software is radically different from its
proprietary counterpart. Each of the new
characteristics of the open source software
forces organizations to develop new ways of
thinking about how they procure, implement,
test, and deploy software.
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 Engineers
without Borders Seminar
By Eyad Ghani, P.E., WAAEA Secretary
Wisconsin Arab American
Engineers & Architects (WAAEA) sponsored a
seminar about Engineers without Borders. The
event, which coincided with the 2007 WAAEA
general membership meeting, was held on May 6th
2007 at the College of Engineering, University
of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
The keynote speaker, Mr. Mike Paddock,
P.E., P.S., CH2M HILL is a co-founder of the
Wisconsin's Engineers without Borders - USA
(EWB-USA) professional chapter. Marissa
Jablonski, co-chair of the University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee Student Chapter, gave an
update on a water treatment project UWM is
working on in Guatemala.
EWB-USA is a non-profit humanitarian
organization established to partner with
developing communities worldwide in order to
improve their quality of life. Mike talked
about his experience on number of projects
designing and implementing engineering projects
in developing communities around the world. He
has worked and supervised many projects where
there is great need in areas ranging from
renewable energy to clean water to sustainable
enterprise development.
At the end of the seminar, both Mike and
Marissa answered questions from the audience.
Opportunities for similar projects in the Arab
world were also part of the discussion.
For more information on EWB-USA visit their
website at www.ewb-usa.org
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Florida's Latest News
We (Florida Arab American
Engineers & Architects) held a meeting on Friday
11/09/2007 for the engineer, architects, and
computer professionals, at UCF in Orlando,
Harris Corporation Engineering Center Building
(HEC) Room # 450 located on the main UCF Campus.
The meeting covered the progress on the national
level, and also discussed the local progress and
challenges. We selected a new steering committee
with the following members:
Dr. Jamal Nayfeh, Dr.
Ahmad Sleiti, Dr. Issa Batarseh, Taleb Shams,
Salah Saidallah, Mahmoud Ayyash, Alex Yassein
Before the committee
starts moving, we would like to hear from the
members who missed the meeting. Our next steps
will focus on contacting members and developing
a social gathering. Please reply to
alexjr29@yahoo.comwith
your comments and concerns.
Best regards,
Alex Yassein
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 Tri-State
(NJ-NY-CT) Elections
Congratulations and
thank you all for making AAAEA Tri-state 1st
election a success in all aspects.
The nominees were
asked to present themselves, talk about their
vision for AAAEA and answer questions.
Subsequently, the qualified members were asked
to cast their votes on the ballots which were
collected and counted. As a result, the members
have selected Fuad Issa as President, Shukri
Abuhuzeima as Vice President, and Mohammad H. Abdeljelil
as Public Relations officer. Yosrey Bekhiet and
Naser Hamoudeh remained from the steering
committee as Secretary and Treasurer
respectively. The voter turn out was 62%.
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