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                                                                                                                          MAY 2014

                   New York City College of Technology
                      NSPE & ETA Student Chapters
                                             Submitted by Prof. Hamid Marandi
The NSPE (National Society        audiences to share the benefits    Plains in New York on April 7,     Fernando Hernandez
of Professional Engineers) and    of ETA membership and              2013.                              President of NSPE
ETA (Electronics Technicians      certification. As the largest                                         Student Chapter
                                                                     The main goal of this student
Association) Student Chapters     ETA Student Chapter, with more     chapter is to benefit all of its   Altaf Raffik
at NYCCT currently collaborate    than 150 active members,           members through industry           Vice President of NSPE
on all activities and are both    Student Chapter #145 encour-       exposure and support in            Student Chapter
advised by Professor Hamid        ages all members to seek ETA       achieving a professional
Marandi. The NYCCT ETA-Inter-     certifications from Associate to                                      Blaise Tega
                                                                     engineer licensure for those       President of ETA
national Student Chapter won      Master levels.                     who are interested.
the outstanding student chapter                                                                         International Student Chapter
                                  The NSPE Student Chapter was       This semester we hope to
award among all the ETA           founded in fall 2013 after suc-    participate once again in the      Brian Rojas
chapters in the US in 2012.       cessfully competing in its first   Engineering Technology Project     Vice President of ETA
                                                                                                        International Student Chapter
This chapter plays an important   competition. The NYCCT NSPE        category of the College Project
role for engineering technol-     Student Chapter was awarded        Exhibit at the Engineering Expo    Professor Marandi
ogy students at the New York      Second Prize in the Engineering    on March 30; in addition we        NSPE/ETA Advisor
City College of Technology.       Technology Project category of     will be participating in Milton    ETET Department
They are involved in campus       the College Project Exhibit at     F. Lunch Engineering Ethics        Room: V 724
workshops and orientations        the 10th Annual Engineering        Contest in spring 2014.            Phone: 718.260.5312
and speak in public to general    Expo, which was held at White                                         nspenycct@outlook.com

NSPE & ETA International
Chapters Meeting:
The Latest Developments
in Optical Communications
Presented By: Professor Mynbaev
11th Annual Engineering Expo
  Spring 2014

Engineers are always looking for
a way to achieve maximum effi-
ciency in their projects to benefit
society. For our project, we used
two 9 Volt/1 Watt solar panels to
convert sunlight energy to electri-
cal energy, which in turn charged
6 nickel metal hydride (NiMH)
rechargeable batteries in series
with an maximum output of about
8 volts. The solar panels were
posted on a platform made out of
ABS material which was 3D
                                      printed. We constructed the project so that the         maximum light source . The rechargeable batter-
                                      panels can be rotated horizontally as well as           ies provide sufficient voltage for a USB Hub for
                                      vertically using two standard Servo Motors              charging phones and other devices and power
                                      programmed using Basic Stamp 2. The solar               a DC motor, which is attached to a fan. This fan
                                      panels are connected to Analog/Digital convert-         can be switched on and off, and is connected to
                                      ers. There are two solar panels in series for a         a potentiometer which varies the fan speed. This
                                      maximum output of 18 Volts that detect light and        is a prototype of a system that can be used in
                                      use it to . charge the batteries after finding the      homes for emergency power.

                                                                            Engineering
                                                                               Expo

VANASSA MEJIA, RICHARD CAZALES, AMREEN AKBAR                                   This project is a miniature scale of a large Solar Panel battery bank charger.
Not just a smile: a helping hand from SADHA
    By Angela Vazquez, SADHA 2015 Class President
    an Prof. Anna Matthews, RDH, MS, SADHA Faculty Advisor

Our City Tech student club, Student Ameri-      al help of our Senior Class President, Kristen   congenital palate and lip defects. Our club
can Dental Hygienist Association (SADHA),       Adams, and our enormously helpful Senior         has also organized an event where student
is the student component of the American        College Lab Tech, Mr. Robert Mahalko, our        volunteers arranged oral care packages for
Dental Hygienist Association. This associa-                                                      our U.S. soldiers serving overseas, as well as
tion represents dental hygienists on the fed-                                                    a similar event following Hurricane Sandy,
eral level, and aids dental professionals                                                        to benefit the residents of Brooklyn who suf-
in all efforts to improve public oral health                                                     fered during and in the aftermath of the storm.
through promoting education, establishing                                                        Volunteers from our student club also partic-
licensure, and regulating practices and re-                                                      ipate in local Health Fairs around the city,
search. All dental hygiene students at NYCCT                                                     promoting oral health and distributing donat-
are members of SADHA. As oral health pro-                                                        ed oral care products. Most recently, a small
fessionals, we believe that promoting good                                                       group of students joined a faculty member
oral health and providing health education                                                       and club advisor, Professor Anna Matthews,
are our main roles in society. As a club, we                                                     in the Autism Resource Fair in Staten Island,
participate in many local and state events,                                                      as well as the Family Resource and Transi-
providing education and aiding in disease                                                        tion Fair conducted by the Staten Island De-
prevention.                                     student club members volunteered their time      velopmental Disability Council. SADHA has
                                                to produce 500 oral care packages to send
As many at City Tech know, we frequently                                                         many more upcoming events and volunteer
                                                to very grateful families in the Philippines.
organize toothbrush sales, which serve as a                                                      opportunities planned for the coming months.
                                                Traditionally, our club makes a donation to
fundraising tool to support our many causes                                                      We look forward to sharing our future accom-
                                                an organization which aims to benefit the
and activities. This past October’s Halloween                                                    plishments with you, and take pride in rep-
                                                global population of those in need of oral
toothbrush sale coincided with a devastating                                                     resenting our home turf, City Tech, in all our
                                                health services. One such organization
typhoon in the Philippines. With the funds we                                                    endeavors
                                                is the Smile Train, an organization which
raised that day, and with the organization-
                                                helps children around the world born with

                                                From Kitchen to Classroom
                                          Authors: Professor Patrick O’Halloran / Professor Thomas Wilkin
                           Becoming a certi-    an Associate in Applied Science (AAS) or a       York City Public School teacher is currently
                           fied public school   four year program leading to a Bachelor of       $45,320. Teaching positions also have
                           teacher might not    Technology (BTech) degree are eligible for       other valuable employee benefits.
                           be the first ca-     the program. Essentially, students holding       Professor Patrick O’Halloran, of the-
                           reer choice in the   an Associates or Baccalaureate Degree with       Hospital     Management         Department,
                           minds of Culinary    30 credits in the culinary content area can      and Professor Tom Wilkin, of the CTTE
Arts professionals, but it is worthwhile to     take 20 credits of Education courses, includ-    Department, work cooperatively to ensure
consider. A unique program collaboration        ing internship and student teaching, and         that all Hospitality Management Depart-
exists at the New York City College of Tech-    become a certified CTE teacher. The Educa-       ment students are aware of the teaching
nology in downtown Brooklyn, NY. Two of         tion courses focus on Methods of Teaching        option and give it full consideration in their
the departments in the School of Profession-    and other education related courses. The         career decision-making process.
al Studies----Hospitality Management and        internship is a 2-days-a-week, 6-hours-a-
Career and Technology Teacher Education,        day assignment in a public school working        For further information please email
have been collaborating successfully in re-     with a licensed culinary teacher. Following      Dr. Wilkin at twilkin@citytech.cuny.edu or
cent years in providing culinary arts profes-   successful completion of the internship, the     Professor O’Halloran at
sionals an achievable path to becoming a        student enters student teaching, which is a      pohalloran@citytech.cuny.edu
licensed New York State teacher of Culinary     3-days-a-week, 6-hours-a-day, in-depth ex-
Arts. In New York City, and State, there are    perience of teaching under the direction of
CTE (Career and Technical) High Schools         a cooperating teacher/mentor. Following
which employ teachers of various trades.        this, the student need only completed the
                                                                                                 Professor
Teaching Culinary Arts is a viable option in    mandated state licensing exams required
                                                                                                 Thomas Wilkin
the Food Service Occupational arena and         of all teachers. The education course work
is a classification that is licensed by New     prepares the students for success in the li-
York State.                                     censing exams.
In the Hospitality Management/CTE part-         This unique program has provided a
nership, students have a number of options      number of Hospitality Management/Cu-
to consider in becoming a certified CTE         linary Arts students with an interesting ca-
Teacher of Culinary Arts. Students pursuing     reer option. The starting salary of a New
Money Matters
  From the desk of Prof. Patrick O’Halloran
  Email: pohalloran@citytech.cuny.edu

It’s not often that we can        profile companies also cited      was downgraded during
gain investment insights from     the negative impact of weath-     the month by all three major
an 18-year-old wunderkind.        er on future earnings.            credit rating agencies as a
                                                                    result of its large debt bur-
Many of us marveled at the        Looking at the bigger picture,    den and multi-year recession.
performance of American           however, helps us regain our      But municipal bond market
Mikaela Shiffrin at the Sochi     sense of balance. U.S. stock      investors have been thinking
Winter Olympics, where she        prices appear to be looking       longer term and appeared
became the youngest Olym-         past weather disruptions and      to take the downgrades in
pic slalom champion. What         have rebounded back to near       stride by noting Puerto Rico
makes Shiffrin remarkable         record highs following a soft     is not reflective of the over-
is not only her success, but      start to the year. We see un-     all market. Just a couple of
also her approach to the          derlying strength in most eco-    weeks ago the broader bond
sport. Unlike many of her         nomic indicators including        market appeared to corrobo-        friendly legislative environ-
peers, while training she         a continued recovery in the       rate the move in stock prices      ment may be developing. I
focused more on technique         housing market, which is sup-     by ignoring another batch of       continue to expect a 10 –
and practice—the discipline       ported by easier mortgage         weather-impacted data and          15% gain for U.S stocks in
of ski racing rather than on      availability, limited home        anticipating better growth.        2014, as measured by the
competing. When Shiffrin          inventory, and near record        Bond investors also refo-          S&P 500 Index. (Derived
lost footing and became           housing affordability. Absent a   cused on a Federal Reserve         from earnings per share for
airborne on the course, she       severe storm in March, we ex-     that remains on schedule to        S&P 500 companies growing
was able to regain her po-        pect more clarity on the health   reduce bond purchases and          5 – 10% and a rise of half a
sition quickly as she had         of the overall U.S economy in     eventually raise interest rates    point in the price to earnings
practiced her recovery many       April, when March economic        in late 2015.                      [PE] ratio.)
times before. Throughout all      data are released, and we
of her training she took the      still expect economic growth,     Policymakers in Washington,        As we look back at the con-
long-term view.                   as measured by real gross         D.C. appear to be taking           cerns we’ve had during the
                                  domestic product (GDP), to        the longer view as well by         past month, we realize just as
It can be difficult to take the   reach 3% in 2014, based           focusing less on partisan dif-     Mikaela Shiffrin did on her
long-term view in investing,      upon many of the drags of         ferences and more on overall       gold medal run that we’ve
particularly when we are          2013 fading, including U.S        economic health. Congress          been here before. We know
challenged by bumps on the        tax increases and spending        agreed to a “clean” debt           we can trust the discipline
slope. February, for example,     cuts and the European reces-      ceiling increase without links     and practice of sound invest-
proved investors with mixed       sion, and growth accelerat-       to the Affordable Care Act or      ing and stay focused on long
signals. Colder and snowier       ing from additional hiring        the Keystone XL pipeline. This     term goals. Even those of us
than usual weather adverse-       and capital spending by           “clean” bill acted as a positive   who are industry veterans can
ly affected many economic         businesses.                       for the stock market, which        take a lesson from the young
reports, causing uncertainty                                        may have rallied on the per-       champion.
over the health of the econ-      The bond market also hit          ception that a more business
omy to linger. Several high       some bumps, as Puerto Rico
B.J. Denihan Lecture Series – Spring 2014
                                                                         The guest speakers were:
On Thursday March 27, 2014, the first
ever hospitality industry round table
forum titled “Getting Started in the
Front of the House” took place at New
York City College Of Technology in
Namn 225. A capacity audience was
present as the industry professionals
chronicled their rise from entry level
positions to senior management within
the industry. The forum, was hosted
by Professor Patrick O’Halloran of the
hospitality management department
and sponsored by The Denihan Hos-
pitality Group (DHG). Guest speakers                 Erika Frias                    Kevin Mejia                         Noel Nelson
were Erika Frias Edison NY Times                Edison NY Times Square              Affinia Dumont                      Affinia Dumont
Square, Kevin Mejia (Affinia Dumont),
Noel Nelson (Affinia Dumont), Ekland
Skifteri (InterContiental Times Square)
and Nicole Young (Sheraton NY Times
Square). Members of the audience
included Su Mui (Bentley Hotel), Dynia
Mariano (Double Tree), Fiona Cameron
Williams (FCW Consulting), and
Carlos Santiago (Bear Dallis Associates).
At the conclusion of the presentations an
enlightened question-and-answer session
took place.

                                                                   Ekland Skifteri                  Nicole Young
                                                             InterContiental Times Square      Sheraton NY Times Square

                            Denihan Hospitality Group has been
                            owned and operated by members of the
                            Denihan family since 1963, when patri-
                            arch and founder Benjamin J. (“Bud”)
                            Denihan Sr. entered into the world of
                            hospitality by building New York’s first
                            apartment hotel, which is today Affinia
                            Gardens on East 64th Street. Constructed
                            on the former site of the family’s exclusive
                            laundry and dry cleaning business which
Bud established in the1930’s, the property was the first development
for Denihan. Today, this leader in owning and operating upper
upscale and luxury boutique hotels boasts a portfolio of 15 properties        Back Row:
in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Miami.                            Noel Nelson – Affinia Dumont, Deannie Joseph – B.J.D. Club
                                                                              Sec, Jovany Bravo – B.J.D. Club PRO, Laura Chierchia – B.J.D.
Bud’s legacy continues today under the watchful eyes of two of his            Club Pres, Thomas Quinn – B.J.D. Club Tres, Kevin Mejia –
children, co-CEOs Benjamin Patrick Denihan and Brooke Denihan                 Affinia Dumont, Professor Patrick O’Halloran
Barrett. In early 2006, Patrick and Brooke consolidated ownership
and continue to propel Denihan onto the national hospitality scene            Front Row:
with continued expansion outside of New York. Today, Denihan owns             Su Mui – Bentley Hotel, Dynia Mariano – Double Tree,
and/or manages $1 billion in assets, comprised of The James and               Nicole Young – Sheraton NY, Erika Frias – Edison NY,
Affinia brands, and luxury independents including The Benjamin and            Professor Ekland – Skifteri InterContiental, Carlos Santiago –
                                                                              Bear Dallis Associates
The Surrey, both located in Manhattan. The Denihan Family is the
sponsor of the B.J. Denihan Scholarship program for Hospitality
Management students.
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@ the Library

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