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Welcome to SME's South Bay Area (Los Angeles County - CA) Chapter 153, We Are a Platinum Chapter!
Los Angeles - Home of the California Science Center - Samuel Oschin Air and Space Pavilion!
VISION
To develop 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 establishment of the "Educational and Professional Succession" senior SME chapter is to shepherd the associated student chapters and affiliates, providing a conduit of connectivity ensuring the success of the participants. The SME student chapters collaborate and support each other with mentorship from the senior chapter as the students ascend through education and into the workplace. This two-way collaboration fuels the educational and professional succession as we develop our manufacturing and engineering workforce.
Purpose
Advance manufacturing and attract future generations of chapter and society members
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. Karen makes sense out of building the education to profession succession. Ask her about our pre-apprentice engineering and manufacturing program called Aero-flex. Contact Karen @ klatuner@elcamino.edu
- Scholarships available through SME Education Foundation https://www.smeef.org/
- Engage in student competitions: design, fabricate, build and compete
- 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
- Develop and advance your technical/professional skills
- Access to professional leadership materials, both on this website in the Files Section and on the Discord server "smevirtual" located in the Professional Improvement channels. Joining Discord is just a click away: Join Discord
Not able to attend a local chapter's events? We've got you covered with the new SME Virtual Network. Stay connected with like-minded members from around the globe using popular web platforms like YouTube, Discord, Reddit, and more. Click the link below to explore!
You can reach the SME VN with a single click: Go to SME Virtual Network
SME VIRTUAL NETWORK - You/Tube Playlist
Designed to inspire SME student chapters and SME student-supported groups in terms of project ideas that we could help them with, sponsor and build open-source content around.
That playlist is here: Go to SME VN YouTube Channel If files do not appear type in "SME Virtual Network" in the search box!
Check out our event photos. View by specific event.
Refer to the "files" section for past meeting minutes and to access "Leadership" topic files.
Please join our LinkedIn group page, titled South Bay Area (Los Angeles County, CA) Chapter 153, for our latest activities and announcements
LinkedIn Chapter 153 Page
Discord #chapter153 has been launched, includes student chapter channels.
You can join the Discord chat by visiting: Join Discord
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Contact Information
Category:
Chapters
Description:
Chair
Don McKinzie
Email
Chair-Elect
Mark Edmonds
Email
Secretary
Ron Way
310.660.3593 or 3623
Email
Treasurer
Karen Latuner
310.660.3593, Ext. 3520
Email
Webmaster
Ron Gill, HSME, CMfgE
909.239.9998
Email
Student Chapters
California Polytechnic State University S012
Trian Georgeou
602.323.6191 (C)
tgeorgeo@calpoly.edu
California State University, Northridge S327
Bingbing Li, PhD
818.677.6229
bingbing.li@csun.edu
Note: The use or release of an SME member's contact information, for commercial purposes, is contrary to SMEs policy and is prohibited.
Torrance, CA 90506 United States
Don McKinzie
Chair-Elect
Mark Edmonds
Secretary
Ron Way
310.660.3593 or 3623
Treasurer
Karen Latuner
310.660.3593, Ext. 3520
Webmaster
Ron Gill, HSME, CMfgE
909.239.9998
Student Chapters
California Polytechnic State University S012
Trian Georgeou
602.323.6191 (C)
tgeorgeo@calpoly.edu
California State University, Northridge S327
Bingbing Li, PhD
818.677.6229
bingbing.li@csun.edu
Note: The use or release of an SME member's contact information, for commercial purposes, is contrary to SMEs policy and is prohibited.
Torrance, CA 90506 United States
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Public
Location:
Torrance, CA 90506, United States
Members:
160