Monthly Meeting Announcement

Columbia Chapter of Professional Engineers of Oregon       

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 Program

 PEO Members and Engineers in the Columbia Chapter area welcome!

52 years as an Engineer and

Why Murphy was an Optimist

Location: We will deliver the program via our Zoom link. The registration Zoom link is provided, below.

Non-members are welcome to attend at no cost, but there will be a nominal charge if a PDH certificate is desired. 

Program Abstract:  52 years as an Engineer and Why Murphy was an Optimist

This program will dwell heavily on what I learned over my 52 years as an engineer with a heavy emphasis on many of the failures and things that went wrong along the way. This presentation will not be heavy on graphs or data – failures will be explained with enough technical detail to give a basic understanding of the failures and solutions. Sprinkled between the failures are some of my lessons learned and the paradoxes that stymied or rewarded me in my engineering career. This material will be most useful to the younger engineers and entertaining for the senior engineers.

Speaker: Ralph Cohen, PE, Principal (and only) Engineer at Ralph M Cohen Consultancy (Portland, OR)

Bio: Ralph M Cohen Consultancy was founded 2006 with clients in energy, systems troubleshooting, high purity piping, bulk gas systems, industrial HVAC, and specialized software development. Clients included Sematech/ISMI, Solarworld USA, Evans Components, Victaulic, Dockweiler AG, 3 confidential semiconductor manufacturers, and FTD Solutions.

Prior experience includes 20 years in facility design and construction at Intel, 5 years at Texas Instruments, short stints with design consultants, Peace Corps/West Africa, and Koppers Co. (industrial particulate collection with electro-static precipitators). Co-inventor of “Ecopurge” – a weld purge gas reduction/productivity improvement device.

Register in advance for this meeting with the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcOmrpzMpGdTsSomuNDKjmypVtm8xldk9

Program arranged by Ralph Cohen, PE