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2007-2008
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Brian McGaulley
President
Gannett Fleming, PBS
919-859-4880
Charles D. Bissell
Vice President / President Elect
610-212-8030
Anthony J. Sandone, P.E.
Alternate Delegate/ Past President
Schering-Plough Corp
908-740-6315
Mark A. Best
Delegate/Past President
& Section Treasurer
Gannett Fleming, PBS
856-802-9930
Jim Talbot
Secretary
215-643-1524
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Robert H. Swan Sr.
Past President & Historian
Advanced Controls Engineering
215-674-4782
Brian McGaulley/
Anthony Sandone Programs
Samuel M. Herb, P.E.
Website & Newsletter Editor
215-345-1464
Brian McGaulley
Webmaster
Ray Peacock
Advertisement
215-325-1450
Jeffrey Miller
Education Program
215-652-9545
Jim Talbot
Membership
215-643-1524
Edward M. Lempa
Arrangements
215-637-5534
John (Jack) N. McGrath, P.E.
Scholarship Award
Student Sections
Student Bowl Liaison
215-236-4224
Charles D. Bissell
Engineers Week / Awards
610-212-8030
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SEPTEMBER
2001 SECTION MEETING

The Kick Off Meeting
for this year took place at Siemens Energy & Automation in Spring House, PA
. The meeting began with a social hour featuring demonstrations by ANDOVER
CONTROLS, HONEYWELL, JOHNSON CONTROLS, & SIEMENS BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES.
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Johnson Controls |
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Siemens Building Technology |
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SOCIAL HOUR
Ed
Gregg, the ISA Philadelphia Section President welcomed back the members of the
section and made a few announcements on current ISA events. Over 60 ISA members
attended Wednesdays meeting. Ed called for a moment of silence for those
involved in September 11th's tragic events and proceeded on to introduce the evening's
Speaker John Demsy,PE. SPEAKER:
JOHN DEMSY, PE.
John
Demsy, PE, is an Engineering Manager at Andover Controls in Kennett Square, PA.
BSEE -Drexel University, Phila. PA
MSCE (Systems Engineering) -Stanford University, Palo Alto,CA
Professional Engineer registered in Delaware
18 yrs designing & programming
Building Automation Systems for Encompass.
Specializes in open protocol systems integration using Andover Controls.
3 yrs controls engineer for TKLP, Phila, PA, (A&E)
5 yrs Chief Engr for DE Dept of Health & Social Services
Topics
that were covered included...
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Building Automation vs
Process Control
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History of Direct Digital
Communications
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Methods of Digital
Communications
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Building Automation
Systems protocols
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Proprietary & Custom
Drivers
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ModBus RTU & TCP
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BACnet
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LONworks
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OPC
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Details of OPC
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Steps
to specify an open system
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