Group News
Welcome to SME's Los Angeles County Chapter 153. Proudly Serving All Los Angeles and 4 Counties North of L A Future home of the California Science Center - Samuel Oschin Air and Space Pavilion, under construction and scheduled to open in June 2025!
VISION
Developing America’s future workforce of manufacturing and engineering technologists by engaging them in critical reasoning and problem-solving skills through partnering industry with education.
MISSION
The mission of the "Educational and Professional Succession" senior SME chapter is to provide the associated student chapters and affiliates, a conduit of connectivity, ensuring their success through workforce development programs and initiatives. We do this through collaboration between the SME student chapters and our educational and business partners to understand their needs and provide solutions. We partner with business and educational partners to develop grants and workforce development programs that align with the current needs in Manufacturing Engineering careers. This provides human resources with relevant skills and education to ensure successful entry into higher education and the future Manufacturing, Engineering workforce.
We strive to collaborate and support each other with mentorship from the professional/senior chapter as the students ascend through education and into the workplace. This multifaceted collaboration fuels educational and professional succession as we develop our manufacturing and engineering workforce.
Purpose
Advance manufacturing and attract future generations of chapter and society members.Prime School Chapter Sponsor
Hawthorne High School. Students in the SME PRIME network receive hands-on training on modern equipment, and learn about technology and processes through tailored curriculum that is informed by local manufacturing companies in their communities.
Chapter Projects
STEM focused “Electromagnet Build Challenge”. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the electromagnet. Please check out our interactive website and enter the "Build Challenge" today.
https://www.electromagnet2025.org
Chapter Membership Benefits
- Membership in Chapter 153 facilitates a career pathway to professional success. We “serve” our country by collaborating with industry to create a workforce. We create career success stories to professional success.
- Scholarships available through SME Education Foundation https://www.smeef.org/
- Engage in student competitions: design, fabricate, build and compete
- Contact Skills USA for details: Home | SkillsUSA
- Student chapters, both 2-year community and four-year institutions
- Boeing Member Center - Boeing employees only. SME offers unique opportunities for members of companies that become Corporate Members.
- Build your technical/professional networks & communities
- Please visit and join our Chapter LinkedIn Website: SME 153 LinkedIn Page NOTE: LinkedIn membership required
- Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP So Cal)
- Led by the Price School – USC Center for Economic Development
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Los Angeles – Las Vegas Section
- DaVinci Schools – Hawthorne and El Segundo
- Lennox Academy Mathematics, Science and Technology Academy
- South Bay Aerospace Alliance
- Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman, University. The Shah Family Endowed Chair in Innovativeness, Professor Pradip K. Shukla, Ph.D., CPIM.
- American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI)
New Addition - 03/25: Presentation, Documenting Our Support of Orange County Chapter 233's “Cal State Fullerton Event
03-21-2025 -Advanced Manufacturing and Biotechnology Expo 2025, " Posted Under Files
Announcement - Congratulations Chapman University's Student Chapter for holding their Official Kickoff Meeting! Friday, March 14 2025
New Addition - 02/25: Presentation, in both Power Point and Adobe formats, Documenting Our Tour of Student Chapter S012-Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is Posted Under Files
New Addition - 2024: SME Chapter 153 YouTube Channel
- Please subscribe Channel dashboard - YouTube Studio
Check out our event photos. View by specific event.
Refer to the "files" section for past meeting minutes, partial record up to 2014, and to access "Leadership" topic files. Archived meeting minutes, if available, will be furnished upon request. NOTE: due to a previous SME Connect database crash many historical files, including meeting minutes, were permanently lost.
Historical Chapter 153 "News Flashes" file folder added. Thank you Mr.Timko, previous Chapter Officer for these scans from the 1980s!
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Contact Information
Category:
Chapters
Description:
Chair
Tim Engel
Chair-Elect
Donald McKinzie
Webmaster/Past Chair
Ron Gill - HSME, CMfgE
Treasurer
Karen Latuner
Secretary/Member Recruitment
Glen Chapple
Student Chapters
California Polytechnic State University S012
Trian Georgeou
602.323.6191 (C)
Email
California State University, Northridge S327
Bingbing Li, PhD
818.677.6229
Email
Note: The use or release of an SME member's contact information, for commercial purposes, is contrary
Tim Engel
Chair-Elect
Donald McKinzie
Webmaster/Past Chair
Ron Gill - HSME, CMfgE
Treasurer
Karen Latuner
Secretary/Member Recruitment
Glen Chapple
Student Chapters
California Polytechnic State University S012
Trian Georgeou
602.323.6191 (C)
California State University, Northridge S327
Bingbing Li, PhD
818.677.6229
Note: The use or release of an SME member's contact information, for commercial purposes, is contrary
Access:
Public
Location:
Torrance, CA 90506, United States
Members:
209