Richard Laudenat Named ASME President-Nominee

Richard Laudenat Named ASME President-Nominee Richard Laudenat Named ASME President-Nominee Richard Laudenat Named ASME President-NomineeJune 15, 2018 (Left to right) ASME President-Nominee Richard Laudenat, ASME President Said Jahanmir, and ASME immediate Past President Charla Wise at the Presidents Dinner, which was held June 5 during the ASME Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.ASME Fellow and former Board of Governors member Richard Laudenat, P.E., was named president-nominee of ASME at the ASME Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Nominating Committee announced Laudenats selection as the Societys next president during the Presidents Dinner, which was held June 5 at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver.Laudenat, a resident of East Haddam, Conn., is a former plant manager with FirstLight Power Resources Inc. in New Milford, Conn. He retired from the company in 2015. Laudenat, who spent much of his career at Northeast Utilities in various engineering, project manag ement and operations positions, has more than 40 years of experience in the power industry working on simple cycle combustion turbine projects, power plant cycle optimization, oil-fired boiler design and construction, nuclear power plant design and construction, and hydro-electric plant operations.A member of ASME for the past 27 years, Laudenat was a member of the ASME Board of Governors from 2012 to 2015. He also served as senior vice president of the ASME Knowledge and Communities Sector from 2006 to 2010, vice president of the Energy Conversion Group from 2001 to 2004, chair of the Nuclear Engineering Division from 1999 to 2000, chair of the Council on Engineering Finance Committee from 2002 to 2004, and vice chair of the Sector Management Committee in 2010. ASME President-Nominee Richard LaudenatHe was also a member of a number of ASME groups and committees, including the Council on Engineerings Grant Management Committee, the Energy Committee, the ASME Nuclear Heat Exchanger Committee, the Planning Committee for Codification Standardization Research, and the Gas Turbine Divisions Electric Utilities Committee. He was named a Fellow of ASME in 2004 and received the ASME Dedicated Service Award in 2010.Laudenat, who is a registered Professional Engineer, earned a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hartford in 1972 and a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Hartford in 1975. He received an M.B.A. in management from Rensselaer at Hartford in 1982.