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aeronca65t

aeronca65t

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OK, this is just for fun:

I'm giving my final exams today.
For my classes in <span style="font-style: italic">Prototyping</span> (a manual machine tool course), <span style="font-style: italic">CNC Programming</span> and <span style="font-style: italic">AutoCAD</span>.

Here's my 30 Prototyping students (below) just before I gave them a four page final.
Engineering students! Even before a final, they look relaxed and happy!
In the thirty years I've been doing this, I can honestly say I've never had a bad group.

The Prototyping class is 8 weeks and we cover everything from basic trigonometry to tool geometry, fixtures, speeds & feeds, as well as traditional, manual machining operations (milling, drilling reaming, turning, single-point threading, etc). Most are these students have little or no experience in this area, so this is sort of a "baptism by fire" for many. Along with enduring my lectures, they do lab reports, take tests and build a variety of assignments including a small vice, a V-block and the small, steam engine (run on air). Most of them are holding the steam engine in the photo.

OK, now I can <span style="text-decoration: underline">start</span> my Christmas shopping.

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And here's an animation of the simple little steam engine.
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And here's A Link to the plans for this engine.
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Nial
I must say you sound like you are one of those rare teachers that inspire students and actually teach them something useful. I had a bunch that were just hitting the marks.
 
Good lookin class there.
Could you come and re-train some of our imagineers, I mean, engineers?.... I'm gettin' tired of hearing "It worked in CAD"...
Sorry. We actually have a good bunch of guys on our team, but a lot of green ones in there. Being pretty much a custom shop, I'm the guy that gets to build the contraptions they design. It's amazing what they come up with, but there are a lot of glitches in there too, and some days it can get pretty frustrating. In the end we wind up with some really cool stuff.
Like this!
This robot will pick the part out of the mill, dunk it in a couple of washer tanks, occasionally put a sample part in a measuring device, and stack them in multiple layers in a tote. This is actually a fairly simple cell. I'm waiting for them to post a couple of our recent ones.
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One of the things I remind my friends is that I have a great group of students to work with. If they do well or learn a lot, it's largely because they <span style="text-decoration: underline">strive</span> to. I'm simply the enabler.

Ben:
That's a great demo video! I was out visiting one of my co-op students yesterday and saw a Mori-Seiki 12 pallet, robot-fed CNC mill. Cool stuff!

Speaking of my students, The Business I Visited is owned by one of my former students (who started it about 25 years ago after he graduated from our program). He has about 5 Mori-Seiki CNC Mills (some with smaller palatalized set ups) and about 12 older CNC machines. About 25 employees.
Not bad for a guy with a two-year associate degree from a community college.
 
That's awesome Nial. I helped install a 2-robot cell in Meadville PA that fed Honda wheel-bearing forged housings to 4 Mori-Seiki minivan sized Lathes. We put pneumatic auto-doors on all the lathes, and had a bunch of Flex-link conveyors feeding it all. That was the first time I had actually seen those type lathes.Very impressive units.
Good thing there are teachers like you bringing up the next generation. They gotta be on the ball these days!
 
Very cool! And a testimony to your teaching though they may be the only engineers i have ever seen who only have small vices. :whistle:
 
I sit here gigglin' my arse off.

Vision for what we NEED is in those kids' hands. Nial, you're setting them up to anticipate. A really GOOD THING!!! :laugh:


...I'd think: "Surgical Instruments" for th' clever ones. Let the specialist surgeons describe what they need, to do what they do. Let the "kids" come up with the tools that work. :thumbsup:
 
You can teel if a person is a engineer

I spot them all day long, Plant 42 (Lockeed Skunkworks)
Is full of em, and they anylize EVERYTHING.

Right on down to the grams in the box of Instant Oatmeal.

Looks like a Lively Class.

I still remember Mr. Westaway
my metal shop teacher, he made a
very big impression on me,
I fabricate alot of things
and tell the truth once in a while.
 
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