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Swanson School of Engineering First Year Conference, presentations and awards in Benedum Hall, Saturday, April 9, 2016. 216263
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.
The College of Engineering dedicated this newly renovated space thanks to a generous donation from Steven and Barbara Kohler. Barbara is the daughter of the late Aaron Friedman, a former College of Engineering faculty member who grew up in Detroit, served in the U.S. Navy and was a successful entrepreneur.
Swanson School of Engineering First Year Conference, presentations and awards in Benedum Hall, Saturday, April 9, 2016. 216263
Paul Cederna, the Robert Oneal Collegiate Professor of Plastic Surgery and a professor of biomedical engineering, feeds a bipolar electrode and coiled wire through a tunneler rod during a surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI on October 24, 2018 for an advanced prosthetics study at U-M.
In this major advance for mind-controlled prosthetics, U-M research led by Cederna and Cindy Chestek, associate professor of biomedical engineering, demonstrates an ultra-precise prosthetic interface technology that taps faint latent signals from nerves in the arm and amplifies them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.
For in-depth coverage of the research:
spotlight.engin.umich.edu/mind-control-prosthesis/
Photo: Evan Dougherty/University of Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing
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.
Swanson School of Engineering First Year Conference, presentations and awards in Benedum Hall, Saturday, April 9, 2016. 216263
An Engineering grad poses for photos at Fall Convocation at the University of Toronto on November 18, 2014.
Photo by Roberta Baker – Engineering Strategic Communications
Professor Vicki May works on wind turbines with high school students in Thayer's first Summer Engineering Workshop.
Photo by Kathryn LoConte Lapierre.
From the section on transporter bridges. The Newport Transporter Bridge still operates, run as a charitable organisation, open in the summer months. It was built in 1906. The Widnes-Runcorn Transporter Bridge was built in 1905, the first of its type in Britain and the largest in the world. It closed in 1961 and was demolished.
A very informative boys’ (in those days!) book on engineering feats published in the late 1920s or early 1930s by Ward, Lock & Co of London and Melbourne. Although it is not dated, it is possible to ascertain the rough period from the content. The Hudson River Bridge in New York is shown, described with an artist’s impression of the “proposed” bridge which was actually completed and opened to traffic in 1936.
This building is one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever come across - such an amazing design. Taken in: Pretoria / Main Campus / University of Pretoria
Your local experts in the South Island for all your fabrication and engineering needs. www.toddengineering.co.nz/structural-engineering-dunedin
The College of Engineering dedicated this newly renovated space thanks to a generous donation from Steven and Barbara Kohler. Barbara is the daughter of the late Aaron Friedman, a former College of Engineering faculty member who grew up in Detroit, served in the U.S. Navy and was a successful entrepreneur.
The College of DuPage Engineering Club hosted the inaugural Engineering Expo. The competition featured high school students competing in several activities, including: making paper towers; creating motorized cars; and developing new shipping packaging and testing its strength with an egg and a catapult.
Nearly 120 students, teachers and others attended Portland District’s Engineering Day event Feb. 18. During the day they rotated through a series of hands-on workshops and discussion panels and also toured the Park Avenue West Tower construction site hosted by TMT Development, KPFF and Hoffman Construction. The Society of American Military Engineers provided a complimentary luncheon and sponsored a mini job fair staffed by local engineering firms and Oregon state University. Students were split into groups during the day and were mentored by more than a dozen of the District's Engineer-in-Training employees. Students from 25 high schools participated some coming from far away north as Tacoma, Wash. and east from Hood River, Ore.
Dr. Jeffrey Siegel, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin displays equations relating to the ideal gas law in office.
Dr. Siegel recently received the Early Career Award from the International Society of Exposure Analysis to research the efficacy of particle removal in ion air purification devices.
His research interests include design of energy-efficient buildings, indoor air quality, and indoor particle dynamics. He is currently interested in resuspension of particles from building surfaces, protecting buildings.
Future engineers receive their education in international degree programmes at Valkeakoski Campus.
Valkeakoski Campus offers two degree programmes in the field of engineering:
- Degree Programme in Industrial Management and Engineering
- Degree Programme Automation Engineering
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/
Engineering Welcome Home Reception during Union College REUNION on Friday, May 19, 2023, in Schenectady, N.Y.
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Title: Mining Engineering Department, Mine Surveying Squad
Date: 1903
Description: Researchers and a professor showcasing surveying equipment for Iowa State College's Department of Mining Engineering, Summer Camp, Boone, Iowa, 1903.
ID: 11-04-F.ChemEng.836-01-01
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Rachel Akers (civil engineering) is working with Hazen and Sawyer, a Detroit-based consulting firm, on water and wastewater projects. Last year, she did a co-op with DENSO International North America in safety, health and environment.
Engineering Welcome Home Reception during Union College REUNION on Friday, May 19, 2023, in Schenectady, N.Y.
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The International Festival for Business (IFB) is the UK’s most significant international trade and commerce showcase since 1951.
Hosted in the Liverpool City Region there will be 250,000 visitors from more than 100 countries across 50 days during June and July 2014. It will comprise well over 100 business focused events, underpinned by a major cultural programme.
The UKTI Brazil Oil & Gas Marine Engineering Forum on 13th June 2014 at IFB enabled participants to learn more about key Brazilian offshore supply and subsea support opportunities.
Participants in the Q&A from Left to right are Carlos Patricio Prado Rodriguez, Bernardo Garcia Moura, Marco Aurelio de Andrade Barros, Luis Fernando Padilha Silva and Marcio de Abreu Grove.
Graduate student Kimon Drakopoulos (in green) presents his work on the LinkedIn social network to members of Asuman Ozdaglar's (in red) research group in a lab in the Connection Science and Engineering Center.
Photo: M. Scott Brauer
High school students in Thayer's first Summer Engineering Workshop.
Photo by Kathryn LoConte Lapierre.