The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences is looking for door prize donations for its JSM mixer. It also announces an FTC short course taught by John Cornell and Greg Piepel.

This year, the ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences will sponsor four roundtables. Read on to find out what’s planned.

Winson Taam, section chair, highlights events coming up in 2013 that section members may be interested in. Also, David Edwards provides a summary of the 2012 Fall Technical Conference.

SPES Chair Angela Dean summarizes 2012 and introduces the new officers for 2013. She also invites submissions for the 57th Annual Fall Technical Conference.

The 2012 Statistics in Chemistry Award was presented to Scott Allen of Novomer, Inc. and Bradley Jones of SAS Institute, JMP Division, for their work developing novel catalysts used to sequester CO₂ by incorporating it into new thermoplastics that are up to 50% by weight CO₂.

SPES will offer the short course “Generalized Additive Models and Their Extensions: The Penalized Regression Spline” at JSM this year and “Optimal Design of Experiments: A Case-Study Approach” at the Fall Technical Conference. Read on for details.

The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences is seeking nominations for the 2012 Statistics in Chemistry Award. Past award winners have addressed a wide range of topics, including calibration methods, recursive partitioning, and forensics.

Russ Lenth, section chair, thanks members for trusting him to serve and addresses several key themes that inspired the year, including passion, nouns and verbs, and making a difference.

JSM 2010 was full of events and successes for the section. Read about their sponsored rountables and invited, contributed, and topic-contributed sessions. Also, find out what was discussed at the executive committee meeting and learn what you need to do to participate in JSM 2011.

The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences will sponsor a one-day short course, Short Course on Logistic Regression Analysis, given by Richard Lynch at the Fall Technical Conference, which will take place October 7–8.