Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Club Announcements

From Gillian ...

(1) FSU Advising Day

Wednesday is FSU Advising in the SU ballroom from 10-2pm. This is a chance for all of you to speak to an advisor from the FSU Engineering Program, to see what classes you'd need and how many attempts that you're allowed.

(2) Club meeting Friday

We have a meeting this coming Friday at 2pm in SM260. I will e-mail the agenda tomorrow or Thursday. We'll be covering Spirit day, the solar cart, and the upcoming Hopkins Power plant tour. Also, those of you who attended the Latin Festival can sign the form for personal points and SOC points.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Hopkins Power Plant tour / ASME welcome party

From Ben Cowart for ASME student members, but I believe any TCC students interested in mechanical engineering are welcome to attend and get recruited. (Student memberships are cheap.)


September 30, 2009

Topic: Tour of AB Hopkins Power Plant
Host: Triveni Singh, City of Tallahassee

Agenda

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Introductions, Announcements, and Recognitions
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tour
6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Dinner and Q&A
7:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Clean-up

The Tallahassee Sections welcomes back the student members, with a tour of the Hopkins Plant and cookout. Students, please RSVP to your student Club Advisor NLT Monday, September 28th, so that we can get an approximate head count for buying food. Thank you in advance to Triveni Singh and the Hopkins Plant for hosting this “Welcome Back” Students Event.

The Plant is located about 5 miles west of Capital Circle SW on 1125 Geddie Road, between US 90 West (W. Tennessee) and HWY 20, Blountstown Highway.

Safety and Dress Code:

This is an operating power plant, please do not wear shorts or loose fitting shirts. Shoes must be closed toe preferably leather. If you have a hard hat and safety glasses, please bring them, as the plant has a limited number.


Please contact Gillian if you plan to attend. They want an RSVP head count so they can plan for the right amount of food.

Detailed directions are in this article from 2008.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Rocket Team Meeting

UPDATED:
The meeting is Thursday, 9/17, at 3:00 in the SM260 conference room.

Gillian sent out an e-mail requesting a meeting of team members early this week to set the budget and finalize our entry by Friday. Check your mail for details.

FSU Advising Day

I just got an e-mail saying that FSU Advising Day will be Wednesday, 23 September.

This is the perfect time to meet with an academic adviser from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and plan the transition between TCC and FSU (including when it might be appropriate to dual enroll while finishing your math at TCC).

Advisers will be available from 10 to 3 in the SU Ballroom. You can make an appointment through the Success Center, but you need to bring a copy of your unofficial transcript because they don't have access to that info.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Hopkins Power Plant - ASME tour and cookout

UPDATE (9/16):

The tour will be on Wed, 9/30.

Details will appear in a new posting.


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E-mail from the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) local section had the following information about the planned tour and cookout at the Hopkins power plant. I expect we will get final details in a week or so.

You should go on this tour even if you have seen the plant during one of the city's regular October open house events. They give a better, more detailed, tour to engineers -- plus you can talk to FAMU-FSU students, some from TCC!

Date and time:

Thursday, 9/24, from 5 - 7:30

Sadly, this conflicts with my night class so I can't be there except maybe at the end. I haven't seen the final result of the "repowering" project, but maybe I can see that if they have the public open house in October.

Other details:

I don't have them, but clearly they plan to tour the Hopkins power plant, which is quite convenient to campus (5 miles west of Capital Circle SW, between HWY 20 and US 90 on Geddie Road). You can see more detailed directions and a Google map by following this link to info about a previous tour, and you can read information about the dress code for the tour by following this link.

In past years they wanted RSVP information by the preceding Monday (meaning by 9/21) so they could get enough food. Stay tuned for more details.

Thursday, September 10, in SM116

There is a club meeting scheduled for Thursday, 9/10.

The meeting will be in classroom SM-116 because the conference room is in use all day by the Science and Math Division Dean.

Primary item of business will be deciding on what competition to enter, because some of those deadlines are very close.