Friday ASME Luncheon

TCC students are invited to attend the ASME "senior section" luncheon at 11:30 on Friday, 30 November, at the Ole Times Buffet on North Monroe, across from Lake Ella. If you leave before the question period, you can be back in time for the 1:25 calculus classes. Doug Jones says that you can't be late for his calc III class if you leave the meeting at the same time he does. (I say this is because he drives slowly.) Click on the flyer for details.



This promises to be a very interesting presentation. The City of Tallahassee is replacing the old gas- or oil-fired boiler with a "combined cycle" system that uses a gas turbine (jet engine) to generate electricity and then uses the waste heat from its exhaust to produce steam that will generate even more electricity. This is described on page 315 of the PHY2048 textbook in Example 19.2 and the Application at the bottom of the page. Read that before going to the lecture and you will really get a lot out of the talk.

You will also get a chance to eat lunch with local professional mechanical engineers and faculty and students from FAMU and FSU who attend these talks.

Gators -vs- Noles Meeting

We had a great turnout for our 3rd annual presentation by representatives from the University of Florida and the FAMU-FSU Colleges of Engineering.

Ms. Karen Bray, the transfer advisor from UF, gave a short presentation showing videos of some student projects and an overview of the different programs offered at UF. She also distributed information about those programs and answered questions about the transfer process, scholarships, and their transfer mentor program.

Prof. Shih, the chairman of the Mechanical Engineering program at FAMU-FSU, also addressed the same questions and described the differences between the programs available at UF and the ones available at the FAMU-FSU college. Both emphasized the importance of picking a field because you enjoy working hard on those kinds of problems, not because of pay levels of today's job market. There are easier majors if you just want to make money.

There were also a number of comments from others present, both current FSU students and an FSU engineering alumnus (Doug Windham) who is now on the TCC math faculty.