Chapter Membership

Committee Chairperson
Joe Ferdelman
937 224 0861
jferdelman@heapy.com

The membership committee is not only responsible for the promotion of the local chapter but also for broadening the type of membership to include all individuals concerned with the HVAC industry.  Whether you are involved in engineering, contracting, energy management, sales, operations, code enforcement, or education, or if you have an interest in HVAC in general, ASHRAE membership can provide you a wide variety of opportunities to help you pursue and keep informed of developments affecting the HVAC industry.

Member benefits include but are not limited to:

• Receipt of the ASHRAE Journal and ASHRAE Insights providing information regarding current case studies and industry developments (Monthly)
• Receipt of the current ASHRAE Handbook update (Annual)
• Networking with other persons with similar interests during monthly chapter meetings
• Membership discounts on ASHRAE publications
• Attendance of various local, regional and national ASHRAE conferences and trade-shows
• Voluntary membership to a variety of ASHRAE technical committees
• Access to 'Members Only' portion of Society web page

For member application, or for membership upgrade, e-mail or call the membership chair listed above for an application.  Alternatively, you can download a membership application or update your personal information by logging on to the ASHRAE Society web site at www.ashrae.org.  Student members desiring a membership upgrade from student member may also accomplish this at this same address.

Students desiring student membership should contact your faculty advisor.  Although there are no local dues, it is important you fill out a local membership questionnaire to ensure you are listed in the ASHRAE Dayton Chapter roster.

ASHRAE membership grades (as adopted from the ASHRAE Society Bylaws) may be granted as follows:

• Honorary Member - Any person of preeminent professional distinction as determined and elected by the ASHRAE Board of Directors
• Presidential Member - Upon the installation of a successor, the outgoing President of the Society shall become a Presidential Member
• Fellow - A Member who has attained distinction in the arts relating to the sciences of heating, refrigeration, air conditioning or ventilation, or the allied arts and sciences, or in the teaching of major courses in said arts and sciences, or who by reason of invention, research, teaching, design, original work or as an engineering executive on projects of unusual or important scope, has made substantial contribution to said arts and sciences, and has been in good standing as a Member for at least ten (10) years.  Election by the ASHRAE Society Board of Directors.
• Life Member, Life Associate Member or Life Affiliate - Each shall be a member who has been a full Member, an Associate Member or an Affiliate in good standing for an accumulative total of thirty (30) years and who has attained the age of sixty-five (65) years.  The member shall retain all the rights and privileges of the most recent membership grade.
• Member - A Member shall have the equivalent of twelve Society-approved years of experience composed of a combination of (a) completed education beyond high school, (b) work experience and (c) professional engineering or related professional registration or license issued by a legally authorized body.  All technical and scientific education shall be based on curricula approved by the Board of Directors.
• Associate Member - An Associate member shall have a total of eight Society-approved years of experience as defined in Section 2.6 of the ASHRAE Society Bylaws.
• Student Member - A student member shall be matriculated in an approved course of study in Society-related fields of education at a university, college, junior college or technical institute.  The Board of Directors may establish other criteria for acceptable student membership.

    

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