ASME "Lunch and Learn"

There will be a "Lunch and Learn" lecture about solar energy this Friday, August 20, at about 11:30. Food (pizza) supplied by the ASME professional chapter.

The location is the second floor conference room in the Frenchtown Renaissance building.

Students are encouraged to attend. You can usually meet some FSU and TCC students as well as engineers at these sessions.

Electric Vehicles - Lunch and Learn

Put this on your calendar if you are interested in all-electric vehicles.

Topic: ASME Lunch and Learn: Electric Vehicles

I assume the talk will be about amateur conversion of regular cars to all-electric or plug-in hybrid operation because that is what members of TAEVA (Tallahassee Area Electric Vehicle Association) do.

Speaker: Andre Smith of TAEVA

When: Friday, June 26, 11:45 to about 1:15

Where: Ole Times Country Buffet

This is located on the east side of North Monroe, just north of Lake Ella and south of Tharpe Street, across the street from the Lake Ella Publix.

Details

Lunch starts between 11:45 an 12:10. I recommend getting there by 11:45. Just go in, pay your money at the register (one price for all meals at this place), then find the engineering group in one of the private dining areas. Speaker introduction and talk will be from 12:10 to 1:00 with time to inspect the cars in the parking lot before the group adjourns at 1:15 to go back to work.

I'm hoping the all-electric Miata will be there. (An article in the paper last month showed a "shade tree" conversion that replaced the engine with a bunch of DieHard batteries and an electric motor.)

POWER PLANT TOUR & COOKOUT

REMINDER!!!!!

The Tallahassee Section ASME welcomes back the student members with a tour of the City of Tallahassee's Hopkins Plant, and cookout. Menu will be hot dogs, chips, drinks and cookies.

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

Date: Thursday, September 18th from 5:30 PM to 9 PM.

RSVP: Monday, 9/15/08 (to get an approximate head count for buying food)

STUDENTS - Please request RSVP by MONDAY 9/15 to your student Club Adviser:

(DOUG JONES ===> EMAIL: jonesd@tcc.fl.edu
Send me your name and your email address.
Subject line: HOPKINS TOUR )


Thank you in advance to Triveni Singh and the Hopkins Plant for hosting
this “Welcome Back” Students Event.


PS There is another post on this blog addressing the dress required to tour a power plant:
http://engineeringtcc.blogspot.com/2008/09/dress-code-for-power-plant-tour-thurs.html


[ The heart of this message is an email that I received from the TALLAHASSEE SECTION ASME which I modified to contain information specific to the TCC ENGINEERING CLUB. ]

-- DJ

DRESS CODE for POWER PLANT TOUR THURS. SEPT. 18.

Safety and Dress Code:

The Hopkins Power Plant 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.

SEPTEMBER ASME TOUR and COOKOUT

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ASME TALLAHASSEE SENIOR SECTION's MAY LUNCHEON MEETING

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ASME "LUNCH & LEARN" SERIES

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As you can see, Aaron will be the featured speaker at the next ASME Technical Luncheon Meeting. I urge you to come out in support of Aaron and our Club. Also, they tell me that the food is good. And I believe that there will be a discount (through ASME) for students.

ATTENTION... UP-COMING EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

[ A ] -- MESSAGE FROM VERNON BABICH --

This is a breakdown of the things we are working on up until Monday.

Today, Thursday ( 3/27/08 ), we will be selling tickets in the student union for the movie night at Movies 8. Miguel has already gotten a table. The people who signed up to help have been contacted and this is just a reminder that we need all the help we can in the union from 11:00 am until 2:30 pm.

Friday we will all be working on the solar data in the engineering room from about 1:30 until 5:00.

Saturday morning after the MESA breakfast, everyone is welcome to come and help set up the energy displays for the Stu Fac Day presentation. We will also be creating a water balloon launcher for a fundraiser during the Stu Fac Day event.

Either Saturday or Sunday we will be building a mounting board for the solar panels which we will be putting on the golf cart Monday morning.

[[ COMMENT BY DOUG JONES -- Volunteers are needed for all these projects. Please get in touch with Vernon, Aaron, and/or Miguel if you can help. ]]




[ B ] -- REMINDER FROM BEN COWART (ASME) --

Your weekly reminder that the next ASME meeting will be Friday, March 28th at the Golden Corral on North Monroe Street.



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ASME MARCH LUNCHEON

Here is the flyer for the March ASME Luncheon Meeting. Click on the image to enlarge it.

ASME LUNCHEON // FRIDAY, JAN. 25.

This should be a very interesting Luncheon Meeting. Please consider attending.
PS. Click on the Flyer to enlarge it.
DJ.

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.

ENGINEERING CLUB // NEWS

1. BRIEF REPORT: On Fri., 8/24/07, I attended the ASME LUNCHEON MEETING. It was held at the OLE TIMES BUFFET near the intersection of North Monroe and Tharpe St., 11:45 till 1:00 pm. There were two TCC faculty-types present -- Beth Mann-Pace and I represented the College. Unfortunately, none of our current club members were able to make it. However, George Heller and Chris Loftis, both now at FAMU/FSU and previously officers in our Club were in attendance. There were about 20-25 people present in all.

We had a private room of adequate size; the food was good; and the presentation (12:20 -- 1:00),
The Plasma Torch Waste to Energy Project,
was very informative and interesting. I'm attaching a link to the Tallahassee Section ASME web page. If you go there and click on "Meeting Notices" and then on "Click Here For A Copy Of Ben's Presentation," you should get a pdf copy of Ben Cowart's presentation.

There are several photos in the slide-show which are not captioned. Let me try to do that here:

• slide#2 -- 4 pictures (top left; clockwise) current diverse power sources in TLH: Solar Panels; Lake Talquin Dam; Waste; ( ** I missed this one ** ).
• slide#10, #11, #12 -- a comparable 35MW plant in Japan.
• slide#13 -- a torch at the Japanese plant.
• slide#14 -- slag stream: the waste from the torch process (see slide#9).
• slide#15 -- you can cool the slag and make bricks out of it. It's all vitrified, so nothing bad can leach from it.
  

Here is your link:

http://www.sections.asme.org/tallahassee/


2. REMINDER: On the first day of class, Mon. 8/27/07, the Club will be greeting students in the breeze-way of the SM Building, handing out ENGINEERING CLUB pencils, and helping students find their science and math classrooms. Mrs. Lina Williams is spearheading this project. If you have any time to help out during the day, please contact Mrs. Williams at williaml@tcc.fl.edu.

3. REMINDER: Friday, 8/31/07, 2:30 pm SM 260 -- our first meeting of the semester. There are a lot of plans to be made. Please attend. Also, if you know of anyone who may be interested in the Club, please invite them. You might want to post some response to this blog if you'll be at the meeting, so that we can get some idea of how many PIZZAs to order!

4. NEWS: Your Chair Person, Komlan; Vice Chair, Miguel; and Secretary, Ann, will be joining 7 folks from the FAMU/FSU ASME club Fri., Sat., and Sun., 9/7, 9/8, and 9/9, for the ASME SLS (Student Leadership Seminar) at the Univ. of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. I am driving the TCC van/bus(?)

5. NEWS: Please check the official TCC ENGINEERING CLUB website at
http://www.tcc.fl.edu/index.php/tcc/about_tcc/student_affairs/departments/campus_life/student_activities_clubs_entertainment/student_organizations_clubs_teams/enginering_club
(PS For all you programmers out there -- I didn't invent that link!)

I have recently updated that page, and I've put the Club's calendar into action. So if you have any calendar items, please give them to me for posting.



DJ

ASME FRIDAY LUNCHEON

CLICK ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO ENLARGE.
PLEASE TRY TO ATTEND.
I AM SURE THAT THIS WILL BE A VERY INTERESTING PRESENTATION.
            DJ

ASME LUNCHEON FRIDAY, MAY 18

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On Fri, 5/11, I received the following NOTICE from the ASME Senior Section:

(Please note that the luncheons are now being held at the new Residence Inn on Gaines St. Also, the certification LEED AP stands for "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Accredited Professional." See http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19 for more information.)

It looks to be a very interesting event, and I urge you to attend.... Don't forget the RSVP.

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NOTICE:

As a part of the Tallahassee’s Section’s “Bring a Co-Worker With You toLunch” informal luncheon meetings, following is information about the meeting.

I apologize for this extremely short notice, but we learned just today of a speaker who is ready to present a great program to the TallahasseeSection.

Date: May 18, 2007
Location: Tallahassee Residence Inn by Marriott
600 West Gaines Street
Tallahassee, FL 32304
Tel.: 850-329-9080
Time: 11:45 AM to 1:30 PM

Fee: (Updated 5/14/07) $10.00, ASME members and non-members submitting paid new-member application; $5.00, ASME student section members; $15.00, non-members.

Program Topic: Smart District Energy - Hot, Cool and Smart; How an internet-based energy generation and distribution system can change the rules of the power game and provide more affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.

Speaker: Raymond Kaiser, LEED AP.

Raymond Kaiser is the Director, Whole System Division for Stewart Engineering, and is a LEED AP. He has worked closely with Pareto Energy to develop the Smart Energy District architecture. Currently, Mr. Kaiser provides business development and technical support to developers, municipalities, and utilities seeking to implement a Smart Energy Network. More information is available on the Tallahassee Section website: http://sections.asme.org/tallahassee


Please RSVP by May 16, 2007

To:

Sid Kamath, PE
Email: Kamaths2@asme.org
Phone: (850) 414-4276

Or:

Rick Meeker, PE
Email: Meeker@caps.fsu.edu
Phone: (850) 645-1711