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In its 22nd year, the Engineering Expo is the college’s premier community outreach event. On average, the college welcomes more than 1,500 K-12 students from Miami-Dade and Broward County schools (elementary, middle, and high school) to the FIU Engineering Center to engage with FIU student organizations, researchers and staff, and to discover the endless possibilities of pursuing a degree in engineering or computing.
Still obviously under construction, but it looks like a pretty interesting (and pretty imposing) building. Looks like there'll be a LOT of glass, and the view from this side (out onto the river) will be nice.
The Tool is a sixty-inch triple chrome-plated adjustable pipe wrench, forged by the Ridge Tool Company of Elyria, OH, USA. It is the only known fully chromed pipe wrench of its type in the world, and is the mascot of the University of Waterloo Engineering Society. Its history goes back to the early days of the University.
In the late 1960s, the Engineering Society had no official mascot. Being barely 10 year old, the Society decided to begin the process of selecting and acquiring an object that would become the Society’s official mascot and icon – something to represent the immense pride and spirit that Waterloo Engineering had.
Several ideas were discussed, but the two most popular ideas for a mascot were a pipe wrench (a symbol of the “Plummer and Proud of It” attitude championed by Ken Loach, Chemical ’71), and a sword. Through a public vote in meetings of both Society “A” and Society “B”, it was determined that the wrench would be the mascot, and it would be big.
Jim Pike, Society “A” President at the time, then began the search for the new mascot, and while on a co-op work term, found a suitable choice: the Ridge Tool Company’s straight pipe wrench model No. 60. However, at a cost of $350, it was unattainable for the young Engineering Society.
Jim decided to send a letter to the Ridge Tool Company and explain what they wanted to do, what the wrench would mean to the society, and if they would donate one. The company’s response was an overwhelming “yes” with only two conditions: that it would be known as “The Ridgid Tool”, and that it would retain its original orange colours out of respect for the Ridge Tool Company.
The Tool was chromed within a few hours of Pike picking it up from the supplier in the summer of 1968, although he admits that he “should have had a Chemical Engineer along to explain what happens to orange paint in a chrome dip.” As for the name “The Ridgid Tool”, he won’t say what exactly happened, except that it did get lots of mileage and notoriety before the official name change.
With The Tool coming to the University of Waterloo, it was determined that a group of dedicated students was needed to protect it and thus, the Action Committee was formed. It was their duty to be the official guardians of the Tool in public and in private. Over time, these students came to be known as Tool Bearers, and the Action Committee was dissolved. There are no publicly known details about the Tool Bearers today, except that whenever the Tool is around, they are as well, silently guarding it in their black and gold uniform.
Engineering Welcome Home Reception during Union College REUNION on Friday, May 19, 2023, in Schenectady, N.Y.
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University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering graduates were honored at the college's convocation ceremony on May 16, 2014 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Center. For more photos go to www.flickr.com/photos/eaauh/sets/72157644709831944/
Professor Vicki May shows admissions officers from the University of Toledo around the Summer Engineering Workshop at Dartmouth, inspiring ideas for their own future design workshop.
Photo by Kathryn LoConte Lapierre.
University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering graduates were honored at the college's convocation ceremony on May 16, 2014 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Center. For more photos go to www.flickr.com/photos/eaauh/sets/72157644709831944/
Designing amazing machines
Sometimes I recall these years now, when I was a student of engineering, designing amazing machines, dreaming to do important work, so willing to put my heart blood into “things”.
Designing machines and inventing things actually became my profession for a while. And I actually left my mark, so to speak, in this crazy field. But I soon found it strangely unsatisfying to contribute to the “mechanization” of the world, to the endless creation of unnecessary things. Instead of making things and changing things I wanted to understand things, and this great investigation became my life.
Engineering is still in my blood, as it obviously is in the genes of our entire species. But I don’t see the world as a playground to be changed and adapted to our wishes and therefore in need for skills how to do that. I don’t think the world is in any real need of our improvements and creations.
In its 22nd year, the Engineering Expo is the college’s premier community outreach event. On average, the college welcomes more than 1,500 K-12 students from Miami-Dade and Broward County schools (elementary, middle, and high school) to the FIU Engineering Center to engage with FIU student organizations, researchers and staff, and to discover the endless possibilities of pursuing a degree in engineering or computing.
The Remotely Operated Cable Laying System ROCLS can be deployed under ROPOS or lowered to the seafloor independently and picked up there by ROPOS.
My wife's grandparents took a road trip between his posting in North Africa and his being stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. He was in the 30th Engineering Battalion, where his job was interpreting aerial reconnaisance and making maps for the invasion of Japan that never happened.
Rogelio Alberto Casas Served in the U.S. Army with the 30th Engineering Battalion, Company B, which was tasked with map making. He was originally stationed at Fort Belvoir, then was sent to North Africa to make maps for the invasions of Sicily and Italy, then was stationed at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii for the last year of the war.
He had grown up in Spain and had seen combat with the Republican Army against the fascists. He eventually had to escape the country by foot over the Pyranees Mountains after the collapse of the government and made his way to New York. By accident, he had been born in Puerto Rico while his mother was accompanying his father on a business trip and so he had U.S. Citizenship.
He was an artist and had taken a course in cartography before graduating from Columbia University in 1942 so he was assigned to this unit which was heavy with artists, as can be seen from many of his photos. As part of reproducing maps, the unit was able to easily make photo prints. This resulted in Rogelio returning from the war with many hundreds of photos showing personal and cultural scenes from North Africa, the U.S. and Hawaii.
After the terrors of the Spanish Civil War (in which nearly all of his childhood friends were killed) his lot kept getting better. He married Constance Berry, whom he met in New York City, and lived with her at Fort Belvoir until shipping to North Africa. Although he lived in field conditions there, he never had to see combat again. By the time he was stationed in Hawaii, his photos suggest a nearly resort-living environment at Schofield Barracks. He finally returned home to his wife, finished his Doctorate and became a Humanities Professor at Dartmouth for a few years and then the University of New Hampshire at Durham for the majority of his career.
Cleaning solar panels is often not worth the cost, researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego found.
becasue they are inherently more flexible.
a different 1:30 second video that covers slightly different points but basically same. how to tell this story quickly in short form... or maybe it's more complicated than that. one way or another current power supply waste rate seems pretty high.
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