Loughlin applies family's 'can-do' attitude to association management Loughlin Born into a family of engineers and entrepreneurs, Tom Loughlin grew up in an environment of building, creating and fixing things. "There's a lot of patents between my two grandfathers, my father, myself and my brother," said Loughlin, executive director of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His own work as a mechanical engineer includes co-inventing padlocks and electronic locking systems. He applies that can-do, let's-fix-it attitude to leading associations, both ASME and the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives. Loughlin becomes chair of CESSE's board at the… Read More