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.

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.

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.

First meeting of Fall 2009

Our first meeting of the year will be this Thursday at 2:30 in the Science and Math conference room, SM260. This room is just to the left of the receptionist.

See you there!

Internships ...

I got the following e-mail today:

According to an article in Forbes Magazine (July 7, 2009 written by Joyce Lee), large scale internship programs can lead to full-time employment, even in a tough economy. CollegeGrad.com completed a survey of businesses that consistently use interns and assembled a list of 213 businesses hiring more interns in the past 12 months than anyone else in the U.S. Although layoffs are common and our nation has a 9.5% unemployment rate, CollegeGrad.com concluded that internship offers have been reduced by only 8%.

The TCC Internship Program is proud to agree with the CollegeGrad.com survey. Our very first intern in 2007, John Lawless, was offered permanent employment with his Internship Provider, Coaxis International. Since interning and accepting their offer, John has been promoted to management and is now supervising TCC interns.

Many of our local businesses are in need of entry-level staff but simply don’t have the budget to hire them. Their solution is internships. The TCC Internship Program has become a common outlet for organizations to pre-screen candidates and bring in fresh talent.

Faculty referrals are critical to our program’s success and we truly appreciate your support. Please let your students know that we are currently accepting Fall applications and premium internships fill quickly. For more information on the TCC Internship Program or to request an in-class presentation contact Christy Mantzanas at (mantzanc @ tcc.fl.edu).