J. Robert Sims Named ASME President-Nominee

J. Robert Sims Named ASME President-Nominee J. Robert Sims Named ASME President-Nominee J. Robert Sims Named ASME President-Nominee(Left to right) ASME Immediate Past President Marc Goldsmith, new ASME President Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb and President-Nominee J. Robert Sims Jr. at the Presidents Dinner on June 25. During the Presidents Dinner at the Annual Meeting, the ASME Nominating Committee announced the selection of J. Robert (Bob) Sims Jr. as ASME president-nominee for 2014-2015. The Committee also announced the nominees for seven other ASME positions, including the next three members of the Board of Governors.Sims, a senior engineering fellow with Becht Engineering Co. Inc., is a renowned authority in risk-based technologies, high pressure equipment, mechanical integrity evaluation and Fitness-For-Service analysis, including brittle fracture analysis. Before joining Becht Engineering in 1998, he worked for mora than 30 years with Exxon (now ExxonMobil), the last 10 years as a pressure equipment specialist with worldwide responsibility for standards and improving equipment integrity. ASME President-Nominee Bob Sims Sims, who is an ASME Fellow, has served in a variety of ASME offices during his more than 30 years as a member. These positions include member of the Board of Governors (2010-2013), senior vice president for Standards and Certification (2005-2008), vice president for Pressure Technology Codes and Standards (1999-2002), and chair of the Pressure Technology Post Construction Committee (1995-2001). He is past vice chair and current member of the ASME/API Joint Fitness for Service Committee and a member of a number of Standards and Certification committees and subcommittees. In addition, he received the Melvin R. Green and the J. Hall Taylor Codes and Standards Medals, as well as a Dedicated Service Award. Sims represented the Board of Governors on the ASME Presidential Task Force on Response to Japan Nuclear Power Events. He has more than 30 publications and two patents and is a frequent speaker and chair in technical forums. The Nominating Committee also announced the names of three Board of Governors members and four vice presidents who will begin their three-year terms at next years Annual Meeting, following membership approval by proxy ballot this autumn. Urmila Ghia, John Goossen and John Tuohy are the three Board of Governors nominees. The four vice president nominees are Kenneth Bayne, the International Petroleum Technology Institute Ralph Hill, Nuclear Codes and Standards John Mulvihill, Global Communities and Joel Feldstein, Pressure Technology Codes and Standards.