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About JEC > |
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During 1982 and 1983 a number of engineering organizations formed a joint
council in order to assist these organizations to achieve their own
individual goals. The key activities of this organization can be summarized
as follows:
- Supporting participation by Members in programs to
encourage students to pursue engineering and other scientific careers.
- Disseminating information to those member organizations
that desire facts which may be used to identify students who could be
considered for academic scholarships.
- Producing and distributing a calendar of Member
activities.
- Developing resource information for program chairpersons
regarding speakers and topics of interest to the engineering community.
- Providing a forum for introducing and considering matters
of general interest to the engineering profession.
- Furthering the public welfare by identifying, making
known, and promoting local professional Member organizations as sources of
expertise to assist in the solution of public problems of an engineering
natures.
- Channeling or directing to the proper member
organization, or other technical sources in the absence of local membership
of a particular discipline, requests for technical information.
- Managing the preparation and distribution of an area wide
roster of individuals who are members of participating organizations of the
Joint Engineering Council.
- Encouraging high standards of Professional Ethics.
This new website is designed to capture many of those
early ideals of the organization. Since we are a volunteer organization, it
is the responsibility of each member organization to keep its information up
to date.
The annual engineers directory and the president’s dinner
are two responsibilities that that are still done the old fashioned way. We
have generally had 80-85% attendance at the president’s dinner. However, we
contract the directory publishing, and secure a small (typically $500) fee
each year. Not all member organizations are allowed by their national
organization to submit their member databases into a combined directory.
As part of our student outreach program, the JEC has
supported UMKC’s Center for Construction Excellence, Middle School Design
Build Competition the last few years in early March. We have hosted several
formats of teacher workshops and tours, as part of the SERVE (Science
Educators Request Volunteer Engineers).
Patrick Mizik
2004 JEC President |
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JEC Officers and Directors > |
Pat Mizik >
ASM International representative since 1992, and JEC
president since 2001,
Pat previously served as JEC vice president in 1999 & 2000, as well as
treasurer from 1993-1995.
Pat holds a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University,
a M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas, and is a
licensed P.E. in the state of Missouri. Pat has worked over 20 years in the
materials engineering field dealing with quality issues, solving
manufacturing problems related to forming, joining, machining, and heat
treating of metal components and their related failure analyses.
Pat previously worked at Allied-Signal (Honeywell) Kansas City Plant. |
Chester Bender >
Project Manager/Engineer since
1999 with Ponzer Youngquist Engineers in Olathe, Kansas. Working primarily
on drinking water treatment and distribution systems for municipalities and
rural water districts. 1980 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia
with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. 1985 graduate of the
University of Missouri-Kansas City with a Masters in Business
Administration. JEC representative for the Kansas City Section of ASCE
(American Society of Civil Engineers) and the Kansas City Chapter of CSI
(Construction Specifications Institute). Also serves as the treasurer of the JEC. |
Jim Berard >
Jim is a past chair of the KC
Section of IEEE and is currently a Director of the Kansas City JEC. Jim's EE
degree is from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute) and
he holds an MBA degree from the Rockhurst University Executive Fellows
Program. Jim works for SKC Electric, the nation's 26th largest electrical
contracting firm, as Industrial Division General Manager. Jim also Chairs
the JEC "SERVE" Sub Committee which assists area grade school science
teachers to enhance their understanding and teaching of engineering and
scientific principles. |
G. Michael Miller >
G. Michael Miller, CPE, MPM, graduated at
Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Building
Construction and has a Masters of Project Management Degree from Keller
Graduate School of Management; a division of DeVry University Inc. After
college, he was a Senior Civil/Structural Engineer for Lutz, Daily and
Brain Consulting Engineers (LD&B). During those double-digit inflation
years, for LD&B he managed, designed, inspected and monitored several
power plant construction projects throughout the Midwest.
Now, as a Certified Plant Engineer, he is working as a Construction
Technician for the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU). Where
his role is to assist in the design and planning for civil and
structural capitol improvement projects, manage, monitor, coordinate and
facilitate maintenance and emergency projects for the BPU at the Nearman
Creek Power Station. He has accumulated a total of thirty years of
experience in the Power Plant Industry. |
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