To mark the 125th anniversary of ASME in 2005:

February

• Founders Day, February 16, was the focus of celebrations worldwide, supported by special anniversary resources, such as a video and memorabilia. Organizers should contribute photographs to the scrapbook (see the Getting Involved page).
• Engineers Week, celebrated February 20-26, has been co-hosted by ASME and corporate sponsor BP. Activities focused on EWeek's legacy partnership with Engineering Without Borders, which continues throughout the year and beyond.

March

• ASME encouraged the celebration of March 12 as Boiler Code Day (in recognition of the day that Boiler Code became an official document of ASME in 1915).

April (Scrapbook available)

• Heritage Day was April 7 for ASME, the day that the first formal organizational meeting was held at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, with about eighty engineers — industrialists, educators, technical journalists, designers, shipbuilders, military engineers, and inventors.
• The Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where ASME's first meetings were held, hosted a special ASME Heritage Day event with an April 8 performance by members of the Orchestra Inginerilor din Bucuresti (Romanian Orchestra of Engineers), entirely comprised of engineers. The Board of Governors met near Stevens on April 8, and on Saturday, April 9, the Regional Student Design Contests was held at Stevens.

May

• On May 20, ASME designated the Model T at The Henry Ford as an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

June

• The opening reception of ASME's Summer Annual Meeting was held 12 June at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa., previewing Sir Isaac's Loft following renovation and the Why Knot? machine by ASME's Seth Goldstein.
• Also on June 12 prior to the opening reception at Franklin, ASME designated the William Sellers' screw-thread standards at the Franklin Institute as an ASME Mechanical Engineering Heritage Site.

July

• On July 23, the Square-base Linotype, at the International Printing Museum, Carson City, Calif., will be designated an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

September

• Biro Ballpoint Pen Heritage Collection at the Centro Argentino de Ingenieros (CAI, Argentine Center of Engineering) in Buenos Aires will be designated an ASME Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection on September 29.

October

• ASME will host World Standards Day activities, in recognition of the collaborative and voluntary efforts worldwide as well as to raise awareness of the importance of global standardization to the world economy and to promote its role in helping meet the needs of business, industry, government, and consumers. An October 6 banquet, to be held at the US Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C., will include representatives from standards-setting societes and related government agencies. Also, a paper competition organized by the Standards Engineering Society has a submission deadline of September 2. For other information, contact Katherine Holmes at holmesk@asme.org.
• The Eiffel 1903 Drop Test Machine and 1912 Wind Tunnel at the Aérodynamique Eiffel in Auteuil, Paris, will be designated as an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

November

• ASME will hold its anniversary finale at the ASME Congress in November in Orlando, Fla.