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SPED Forms Non-Profit Piping Design Foundation

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SPED Forms Non-Profit Piping Design Foundation for Wider Public Outreach

 February 20, 2023, Houston, TX: A new tax-exempt organization, the SPED Piping Design Foundation, has been formed. The foundation was established to “further the art and science of piping design and educate the public on its principles and practices.” The foundation has received approval as a tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization, which is reserved for non-profit organizations benefiting the public at large. In contrast, the Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (SPED) is a 501(c)6 organization, a non-profit existing for the benefit of its members. As a result, donations to the Foundation are tax-deductible for most taxpayers.

The foundation has been a dream of many in SPED, most notably, Kerry Millen, current SPED Board Member and Past President and Past Treasurer. “We’ve long needed this foundation to address accreditation and other educational programs for students at colleges and universities,” said Kerry. “A 501(c)3 organization can accept grants and donations to fund these important outreach needs.”

The need for the foundation became clearer after a series of outreach events in 2022, in Egypt, Spain, Canada, South Africa and Indonesia. Many university programs there need start-up support for training to faculty and local graduates. SPED membership and course fees are not sufficient to fund major outreach programs. Special attention will be given to countries requiring local content of engineering services. Corporate donations are needed for these initiatives.

Programs planned for the new foundation are:

• New graduate training, 

• Train-the Trainer training,

• Training Program Accreditation,

• Curriculum Content Grants, etc.

 

Our first financial contribution is from Dr. William Beazley, former longtime SPED Executive Director, current board member and SPED ambassador in the amount of US$6212. Thank you sir!

Support is welcome from all individuals and organizations.

 

For more information, contact:

Catherine V.D. Walt - Executive Director

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SPED Piping Design Foundation

https://spedfoundation.org/

Read more: SPED Forms Non-Profit Piping Design Foundation
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Pipe Route Checking Tips & Tricks - L&L Webinar

6 February 2023 from 12h00 to 13h00 (SAST - South Africa)

This seminar will provide a brief overview of pipe route checking methods and techniques. It will cover the things that will present and find mistakes in layouts, with particular emphasis on digital piping models.

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What to expect when attending:
 
Introduction
Gathering Documents
Avoiding Mistakes
Finding Mistakes
Tracking progress
Takeaways
Q & A Session
 
Participants will learn & benefit from:
 
How to select documents that contain information to cross-check.
How to avoid mistakes
Necessary cross-checks
Finding inherent mistakes
Tracking checking progress
Other tips and tricks
 
SIGN-UP HERE:
 
https://forms.gle/Aj6qNq8YPHaKbi2H9

http://www.chempute.com/training.html

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SPED Outreach, Spain 2023

 

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SPED Executive Vice President Javier Rubio and SPED Ambassador Dr. William Beazley at Enginyers Industrials de Catalunya ( EIC) offices in Barcelona, Spain. 

Dr. Beazley met with Francesc González, Director, AQPE – Agency for Qualification of Professional Engineers, Pere Homs I Ferret, Director General, Enginyers Industrials de Catalunya Jeronimo Farnos Marsal, Managing Director, Technip Energies Iberia SAU

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With Alex Atkins, iMechE Chairman for Spain and Portugal

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With Alex Atkins, iMechE Chairman for Spain and Portugal

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Meeting with Isabel Jurado is the Vice Manager of Loyola University in Seville, Spain

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Meeting with Jose Manuel Galan of ESI the State University of Seville

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Meeting with Aurelio Luis Azaña García, CEO-President, AZCATEC TECNOLOGÍA E INGENIERÍA S.L, at the Seville Fair

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  Meeting with the Dean of College of Industrial Engineers of Western Andalusia, Juan Carlos Duran at the Seville Fair

 

 

 
 
 
 
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The World’s Best Piping Program is Almost a Secret

The World’s Best Piping Program is Almost a Secret

  • What is arguably the world’s best piping program is so obscure that it is almost a secret. With about 300 students enrolled, the Piping Engineering program at Indonesia’s Politeknik Perkapalan Negeri Surabaya (PPNS) might have struck the perfect balance between piping engineering and design content for a 4-year degree. Because it serves the Indonesian shipbuilding industry and described in Bahasa Indonesia, it seems to escape notice from the English-Speaking world.

The academic world fights two main trade-offs in its mandate to prepare students for a meaningful career:

 

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Figure 1 Interest was high among PPNS piping students in the recent SPED outreach by Bill Beazley.

  • Engineering Depth or Domain Breadth? College-Level engineering courses prefer to re-derive fundamental equations and principles so the Engineer can tailor them to the situation at hand. 4-Year Engineering Programs are frequently squeezed by core courses that are unable to start without sufficient math and science, leaving little time for application courses. Knowing that few practitioners need calculus-based physics has led to Engineering Technology programs with less math and science more lab time and more courses in application areas.
  1. General Fundamentals or Application Details? There is the problem of which applications to give focus to. Should the graduate be a generalist or a specialist? The colleges prefer to leave it to the employers to reduce theory to practice, while employers prefer a graduate productive from the first day of employment. Since few companies will commit to employment years in advance, colleges produce generalists that can find work in whatever is recruiting at graduation.

So, picking the right blend of focus and depth is always a problem academicians.

The Piping world adds a third problem, Engineering and Design domains are synergistic but not the same. Piping Engineering is concerned with applied physics and chemistry, while design is concerned with piping representations and the “ilities” (fabricate-ability, constructability, maintainability, operability, etc.) While each benefits from knowledge of the other, there is usually not sufficient time to cover both in standard 60-120 hour degree programs. As a result, piping programs must focus mainly on engineering or design.

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Figure 2 Pipe marked by students for ultrasonic testing.

PPNS Piping Engineering has chosen the technician’s compromise of applied engineering. They’ve condensed math and science core courses to two courses in math and two in Physics to make room for more lab time, an incredibly broad array of applications. (Most technology programs make this compromise by advance math and science further in application courses.) Almost every core technology course has a laboratory component, including:

  • Measurement tools, work bench equipment and machine tools
  • Welding and quality assurance by non-destructive test (NDT) and destructive test.
  • Laboratory evaluation of various types of pumps
  • Pipe fabrication and bending
  • Steam boiler

The application topic become very specialized:

 

  • Ship Propulsion
  • Codes and Standards of Ship’s Piping Systems.
  • Marine Engineering Systems
  • Pump and Compressors
  • Refrigeration (HVAC)
  • Automatic Control Systems
  • Sanitary Drainage Systems
  • Steam Generation Systems
  • Process Technology
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Thermal Piping Design
  • Design of Pressure Vessels and Steam Power Plants
  • DFKI (design, fabrication, Construction, Inspection) of Tank and Pipe

 

It’s clear they have shifted to a strategy of multiple applications with a heavy shipbuilding theme.

So why isn’t this huge program better known? First, the curriculum and textbooks are all written in a non-European language, Bahasa Indonesia. It’s hardly a small language, as Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation at 275,501,339 people, behind China, India and the United States. But most of their descriptive material will not show up in common search engines. Much instruction is still conducted in English in order to enable them to read and understand the piping codes.

Second and most important, their approximately 75 annual graduates do not get placed outside of Indonesia. The shipbuilding and other local industries pick them up. A handful of graduates eventually accept jobs overseas to escape the US$250/month pay for a typical engineer in Indonesia.

For more information, consult: Ir. Eko Julianto, M.Sc., FRINA, Director, Surabaya Shipbuilding State Polytechnic, Jl. Teknik Kimia, Kampus, ITS, Surabaya, Indonesia, Telp: +62 031 5947186, Fax: +62 031 5942887. www.ppns.ac.id, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Read more: The World’s Best Piping Program is Almost a Secret

SPED Software Review Webinar - 3D Pipe Tools and Point Cloud Tools - 14 October 2022

 

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Video recording of this event is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TRTmp-T7lo&ab_channel=SPEDSocietyofPipingEngineersandDesigners

Read more: SPED Software Review Webinar - 3D Pipe Tools and Point Cloud Tools - 14 October 2022
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