Bulkeley Named Society of Manufacturing Engineers President for 2001

    DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 29 Peter Z. Bulkeley, Ph.D., FSME,
of Sequim, Wash., has been named president of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers (SME) for 2001.
    Dr. Bulkeley, who joins three officers and three elected directors to form
the SME Executive Committee, continues to serve as a member of SME's Board of
Directors, the governing body for the international Society.
    Recently, SME's Education Foundation granted $387,000 to Washington State
University and SME plans to hold its 2001 Annual Meeting and Manufacturing
Leadership Forum in Seattle May 29-June 3 at the Westin Seattle Hotel.
    As SME's 69th president, Bulkeley, professor emeritus in manufacturing
engineering, Boston University, Mass., will work to make SME more agile,
leaner and more responsive to its members' professional needs.  "Our members
hear that it's not business as usual at SME, and indeed it's not.  We're
looking at ways SME can play a more active role in assisting members to
maintain career-long employability and portability," says Bulkeley.
    "Rapid change has become a way of life at SME.  It energizes and is
beneficial.  In an increasingly complex world, we are building a stronger
Society, one with staying power for the years ahead."
    An SME member since 1980, Bulkeley was elected to the SME College of
Fellows in 1998 and to the SME Board of Directors in 1995.
    While at Boston University, Bulkeley introduced the nation's first weekend
Executive Master of Science Program in manufacturing engineering for working
engineers.  He led the development at Boston University of a new production
technology laboratory, in partnership with Germany's Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
A pioneer in the use of interactive videoconferencing to deliver graduate
education to engineering professionals, Bulkeley was also co-founder of the
Collaboration for Interactive Visual Distance Learning, a consortium of
universities in this field.
    Bulkeley's background in industry includes senior management experience in
high-tech firms.  He served as vice president of technical operations and
director of Mech El Industries in Woburn, Mass., where he led the development
team that created the first fully software-controlled automatic wirebonding
machine.  As vice president of operations of Sutter Biomedical of San Diego,
Calif., he led development of the first microprocessor-controlled apparatus
for patient treatment in the orthopedics industry.  He was also among the
founding group of the Mayfield Fund of Menlo Park, Calif., a leading
California venture capital firm.
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    SME, headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., is the world's leading professional
society serving the manufacturing industries.  Through its publications,
expositions, professional development resources and member programs, SME
influences more than 500,000 manufacturing executives, managers and engineers.
Founded in 1932, SME has members in 70 countries and supports a network of
hundreds of chapters worldwide.