Northeast Wisconsin History 2025 Archive

ANNUAL CRC REPORT - 2025

Chapter #107

CHAPTER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES

Monthly speaker series
- Consistently 10-15 people
- Approximately 50% virtual, 50% physical with food provided
President's dinner, December 2024
- - Considering moving to November to reduce snow storm interference
Sample presentations:
- ASHRAE 36 Guidelines
- 3rd party commissioning by Alan Eber
- Hybrid boiler systems
Menasha Maplewood School Tour

CHAPTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Building Operational Decarbonization presentation by Mick Schwedler
- Social hour after presentation at X-Golf (indoor driving range - well received by those that attended)

MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION

Steady membership though we struggle with a large geographical area for meeting attendance
No apparent attendance benefits from virtual meetings
- Not sure if it's a spam filter issue for newsletter, lack of interest in topics, lack of time
- Considering Postcard delivery at beginning of next year

	2024-25	2023-24	2022-23
Area-Assigned Members (without students)	166	162	150
Chapter Dues Paying Members (CDPM)	119	119	107
New Members to Date (AAM)	24	24	15
Members Delinquent to Date (AAM)	6	9	5

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Currently no student chapter
UW GB has a general engineering degree but we have not had much success in getting interest
Local Tech Schools do offer HVAC trade degrees, but there is generally not much interest there
We do offer a $1,500 scholarship for engineering (interest in HVAC) - generally no takers.
- ASHRAE endowment
- 33% of endowment accumulated
- Will look at ways to better advertise this

RESEARCH PROMOTION

Golf Outing with 50/50 cash raffle (June)

	2024-25	2023-24	2022-23
Chapter Goal	3,800	3,000	2,500
Total Dollars Collected	Goal Expected	Goal Achieved	Goal Achieved

YEA (Young engineers in ashrae)

32 Members considered YEA
No specific activities held this year

Government Affairs

Eric Erdman replaced Mike Wolf in 2023

	2024-25	2023-24
# of GAC Activities	1	1
# of Officials Identified	1	1

chapter HISTORY

Chapter Historian retired a few years ago, we've been looking for someone to hold the position long term since then
Chapter dates back to 1969
- First President Warren Hahn
Website maintains chapter presidents and newsletters

COMMUNICATIONS

Newsletter emailed out monthly
https://www.newiashrae.org/
- Currently does not link to the regional website at all
Current webmaster is non ASHRAE member and will be with us for about 2 more years unless we find a replacement sooner

Highlights

Golf outing per usual is expected to go great
We pulled together and survived this year
- Last year our treasurer ghosted us after a job change
- Our chapter historian retired
- Our previous webmaster no longer had time to assist us, so we had to come up with someone who was willing to help
- This year we took on two new board members, we went backwards a bit, but we are finally moving in the right direction again

success stories

Golf Outing is usually very successful.
- Wonderful sponsors
- 2023 - approximately 110 golfers

lessons learned

Things we are doing to try to improve:
- Already in contact with people about joining the board for next year
  - Typically this happens in summer for our chapter
- Already generating ideas for meeting topics and presentations
  - This year, some of this was too close for comfort
- Already reaching out about a possible training seminar for next year
  - We are going to reach out again in a few more weeks and then move on to the next idea we have