Engineers Club

World's lightest material

2011-11-19T06:34:00.000-05:00

http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/59722-worlds-lightest-material-created

Inventors and Innovators

2011-11-16T12:01:00.000-05:00

The Myth of the Innovator Hero

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-myth-of-the-innovator-hero/248291/

University of Chicago begins a molecular engineering school

2011-03-08T06:42:00.001-05:00

University of Chicago makes its first foray into engineering

The University of Chicago is all set to launch its first ever school of engineering with the new Institute for Molecular Engineering, set up in collaboration with the Argonne National Laboratory, to explore innovative technologies that address fundamental societal problems such as energy security, health and clean water through modern advances in nanoscale manipulation and the ability to design at a molecular scale.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/120013/20110308/university-chicago-argonne-national-laboratory-institute-molecular-engineering-basic-sciences-techno.htm#ixzz1G0Y6u1bb

Important Insight on Innovation

2010-10-21T08:41:00.005-04:00

NASA helps Chilean miners

2010-08-30T08:48:00.000-04:00

New photo

2010-08-11T21:15:00.000-04:00

Because the Engineers Club building faces the north, it is infrequent that the lighting is just so that allows the optimum exposurer. As a summer storm approaches, the muted sunlight and the dark clouds over Kettering provide the perfect back drop and I was fortunate to be there with my camera.

Bloom Energy / Bloom Box

2010-03-01T13:22:00.000-05:00

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Interviews / Astronaut Michael J. Massimino - The Sensitive Explorer

2010-02-24T08:03:00.000-05:00

Excerpt:

"On my first flight Duane “Digger” Carey, the pilot, was a rookie with me; we went through astronaut training together. As pilot, he doesn’t get to do any spacewalks, so he told me that he wanted to hear everything about it when I came back in—“I want to hear everything: descriptions, details—explain everything perfectly right away,” he said. So sure enough, when I come in, Digger takes my helmet off and puts it to the side. He’s staring right at me and says, “What was it like?” He’s right in my face, and I’m stuck in this spacesuit, and all I can answer is “The Earth is a planet.”

He says, “What have you been smoking inside your spacesuit?” But that was my revelation! It is strange what goes through your mind out there. Of course, I learned that the Earth was a planet when I was a little kid; “Every good mother does fine” or “My very educated mother just gave me nine pizza pies,” whatever the planet saying is. Sure, I knew that. But when you truly see it, you realize that it is not this two-dimensional home we think it is."

Read the full Article

Large Hadron Rap

2010-02-23T18:31:00.005-05:00

Branson Unveils Spacecraft

2010-01-14T07:53:00.002-05:00

Mark Dusenberry Fund

2009-11-09T09:54:00.001-05:00

Donations to help Mark Dusenberry, Seriously injured in crash of his 1905 Wright Flyer Replica at Huffman Field in October, can be made to: The Citizens Bank, 141 N. Broadway St., New Philadelphia, OH 44663 Write "Mark Dusenberry Fund" on Memo line of any checks.

Les Paul

2009-10-26T23:11:00.003-04:00

Les Paul died this past August. He was an inventor, a recording engineer, and one of the finest guitarists the world has known.

Here is an American Masters presentation of "Les Paul - Chasing Sound"

This is a 10 minute version - the entire program can be viewed at Hulu

1935 Engineers' Club Historical Video

2009-06-22T16:43:00.004-04:00

Watch the 1935 film, in which Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds reminisce about the Engineers Club and greet Orville Wright in the Engineers Club library. Take a walking tour of the Club in 1935.

Go to http://www.engineersclubofdaytonfoundation.org/story_engineers_club.html to see this historic film.

2009-06-22T16:29:00.004-04:00

Watch The Wright Brothers ~ In Flight. Vintage footage includes 1908-1909 flights at Fort Myer, France and Italy – as well as the first motion pictures taken from an airplane. This is a new edit of century-old motion picture footage, made for the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation. Dayton's legacy of innovation goes far beyond the Wright Brothers. The Foundation wants to capture the stories of Dayton's living innovators in their own words and pictures with a multimedia website. Dayton Innovation Legacy will be an internet resource that anyone can access. See more at www.DaytonInnovationLegacy.org

Whazzit - solved

2009-04-07T15:03:00.004-04:00

It's a knife cleaner and polisher - used before the days of stainless steel. Curt Dalton provided the attached photo from this website www.sensationpress.com/victorianknifecleaners.htm
Several of you came close - guessing that it's meant to polish, grind, or clean something. The Hervey Bay Historical Museum in Australia responded with gratitude for the Dayton Engineers Club solving their puzzle. They plan to refit the machine with rubber rollers to make it work.

Whazzit?

2009-03-28T16:52:00.005-04:00

The Hervey Bay Historical Museum in Australia is using "Ropewalk" for ropemaking demonstrations. Now, they've passed on a puzzle to Dayton's engineers.

Brian Taylor writes:
"I am trying to identify a piece of machinery we have.
It is marked "Follows & Bate Ltd Manchester."
It is marked at the other end "The Handy" "No 2"

The original rollers were some rubber compound and have been replaced with steel.
One similar to this was on E-Bay as a Victorian Candy Roller.
To operate properly it would seem to need a third roller but there is no provision for this.
At first glance it appears to be a mini mangle [wringer] of some kind but closer inspection reveals that both rollers actually rotate in the same direction so could not feed stuff through.
The 3rd gear is part of it and causes the rollers to rotate in the same direction.
There is NO provision for a third roller, which would make it all work ok.
I have asked numerous people but no one can help."

It does look like a wringer, press, or rubber-maker - but is so small it appears to sit on a kitchen table - and the third gear makes the rollers roll in the same direction. That's the puzzle.

Post a comment here or email Kate@StoryOfRope.org if you can explain it!

First Flight

2009-03-02T01:38:00.001-05:00

This is a colorized version of the Wright's at Kitty Hawk upon their first flight. This image is cropped to 1680 x 1050, a common size for desktop wallpaper. To download full size, just double click on the photo.

Foundation has new Website

2009-02-09T22:12:00.000-05:00

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation invites all members to visit its new website to learn more about the charitable activities of the Foundation. Stay tuned for future historical projects planned for this new site. www.EngineersClubFoundation.org

Ropewalk in Park City Film Music Festival

2009-01-15T15:19:00.000-05:00

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation's historical documentary film "Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History" is screening at the Park City Film Music Festival and is mentioned at the Film Dayton Blog.

To view this Blog Post, visit:
http://filmdayton.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2613931%3ABlogPost%3A561

And, the Ropewalk website is updated with a new look, and more educational material. Check out the captioned photo galleries, a pictorial synopsis, and a resource page with many links to ropemaking, knottying, and historical sites and references.

Have a look: www.StoryOfRope.org

FORUM Planned

2008-10-31T18:30:00.000-04:00

On October 30th, at the Ideas Team Meeting, a proposal was presented to create a FORUM sponsored and operated by the Engineers Club for member and non-member participants.

The FORUM has a dual purpose.

The first is to promote the Engineers Club most valued asset, the combined knowledge and experiences of the membership and create a point of access to these resources not only to Club Members but also to the Dayton community. It is to say, the FORUM is to take networking to a higher level in a structured setting and provide a foundation for mentoring.

The second purpose of the forum is to highlight and demonstrate the benefits of the Engineers Club. It can be considered to be a model of the Engineers Club which will encourage membership growth, new professional and personal relationships, and an increase in participation in Engineers Club programs.

Other purposes can be summed up as creating solutions to various membership and growth challenges the Engineers Club has faced for decades.

Here are two examples.
1. People do not join because the value of membership is an unknown quantity and quality and very hard to realize without experiencing it. The forum, being a micro sample will demonstrate the value of the Engineers Club at every meeting.
2. People do not join because it requires a long-term commitment – and the value of the return on commitment investment is unknown. The forum provides a 12 week commitment where the return on the time investment will result in opportunities for structured networking, personal and professional growth, and new relationships.

The FORUM will meet weekly for 12 weeks sessions, twice per year. Each meeting will consist of 6 short presentations.
1. Report from a Engineers Club committee head or representative
2. Presentation from a Dayton area non-profit organization
3. Three presentations by FORUM members
4. Presentation by the FORUM’s Sponsor for that evening

The presentations by FORUM members will be based on 5 basic topics.
1. Ice-breaker, a personal introduction
2. A personal interest
3. An inspirational Biographical presentation focusing on a challenge that was overcome
4. A historical look at technological changes
5. Vision – Technologies and social changes to come

This concept is given to a small committee to evaluate. We want to make sure that each aspect effectively serves the dual purpose of the FORUM.

We will provide more information as the plan comes together.

Glen Miranker Speaks to Barn Gang

2008-10-30T18:45:00.000-04:00

From the November Report by John Bosch

By any measure an expert would claim that it was virtually impossible to solve the Nazi secret code.
Glen Miranker, VP Research, Ret. for the Apple Corporation gave a comprehensive technical presentation of The Enigma Machine: How Dayton Cracked the Code. Glen began by talking about the origin of the Enigma machine as a commercial product in the late 1920’s from which several models were developed for the German military. The M4 (model 4) with an additional forth cyphering wheel was the most sophisticated and was used by the German navy. To put some perspective on the task of solving the problem, Glen mentioned that the number of solutions possible for breaking the German code in a single message would exceed the number of atoms in the universe. With the staggering losses of ships early in 1942 meetings were set up between the English and the United States to review the status of code breaking. On September 4, 1942 NCR was given a cold start to design and build code-breaking machines with Joe Desch in charge. Incredibly, the first machines were shipped just eight months later in May 1943. They weighted 5000 pounds and were 10’ wide, 7’ high and 2’ deep. A total of 96 were built. The machines worked extremely well and gave the allies the benefit of decoding German messages soon after they were sent. Debbie Anderson, daughter of Joe Desch, made the introduction.

For more information - click on the Link to Dayton Code Breakers website as well as blog.

Ropewalk receives Award

2008-10-05T22:06:00.000-04:00

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation received a 2008 Award of Excellence in History Outreach from the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums (OAHSM), for the documentary film, "Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History". An enthusiastic group of 10 attended the awards luncheon at the Ohio History Center on October 4, 2008. Bill Hagenbuch and filmmaker Steve Fetsch accepted the award on behalf of the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation. Film collaborators Chuck Buchanan, Lyric Rillera, Mikki Hearsum, Mark Martel, and Kate Hagenbuch represented the Engineers Club. Greene County Public Library Head Archivist Deanna Ulvestad lent her support, as well as Club members Chuck & Betty Martel.

The OAHSM History Outreach Awards, presented annually since 1959, recognize projects that have educational content, that have contributed to the promotion and understanding of local and state history, and that have had an impact on the community.

The Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation has pledged to donate 500 Ropewalk DVD’s free of charge to libraries, museums, historical societies and schools. This helps fulfill the educational mission of the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation, for historical preservation and education in science and technology.

Dayton Art Institute Director, Jan Driesbach Speaks to Barn Gang

2008-09-16T18:41:00.000-04:00

The Dayton Art Institute, founded in 1919 celebrates the greater Dayton community's connection to fine art from around the world.

Janice Driesbach, Director (right) addressed the Barn Gang today with an excellent presentation of the history, current educational programs, special exhibits, plans for Octoberfest, and future exhibits for 2009.

Ms. Driesbach also reached out to club members for help in solving structure and physical plant maintenance problems at the institute which was built in 1930.

Thanks to Debbie Anderson (left) for arranging the event.

Visit the Dayton Art Institute website for more information.

Col. Greg Johnson, Astronaut

2008-08-08T05:50:00.000-04:00

A small slide show of last night's event with guest, Col. Greg Johnson, an Astronaut and Space Shuttle Pilot of Mission STS-123.

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Excerpt from Col. Johnson's Bio

NASA EXPERIENCE: Selected by NASA in June 1998, he reported for training in August 1998. He completed Astronaut Candidate Training in 2000. Following initial training and evaluation, astronaut candidates receive technical assignments within the Flight Crew Operations Directorate before being assigned to a space flight. In 2000, Johnson was assigned as a Technical Assistant to the Director, Flight Crew Operations Directorate (FCOD). In conjunction with that position, Johnson was assigned to the Shuttle Cockpit Avionics Upgrade (CAU) council – redesigning cockpit displays for future Space Shuttle missions. His design and evaluation work with CAU has continued to the present.

In 2001, Johnson was reassigned from FCOD to the Space Shuttle Branch, where he’s held various positions including direct support to the crews of STS-100 and STS-108, chief of shuttle abort planning and procedures for contingency scenarios, and ascent procedure development. He also was a key player on several “tiger teams” during the investigation into the cause of the Columbia accident in 2003. Johnson was the astronaut representative to the External Tank (ET) foam impact test team that eventually proved that ET foam debris on ascent could critically damage the shuttle’s leading edge thermal protection system. In 2004, Johnson was designated as the Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Safety Branch, focusing on all aspects of Space Shuttle, ISS, and T-38 safety, with special emphasis on improving specific operational procedures and techniques to make astronauts safer in all three vehicles. In 2005, Johnson was appointed as a crew representative supporting the design and testing of NASA’s newest spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle. In early 2007, Johnson was selected to pilot Endeavour on the STS-123 mission that launched in March 2008. On that mission, he logged over 378 hours in space.

SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Johnson was pilot of STS-123 Endeavour (March 11-26, 2008) which completed both launch and landing at night. It was the 25 th Shuttle/Station assembly mission. Endeavour’s crew delivered the Japanese Experiment Logistics Module – Pressurized Section, the first pressurized component of JAXA’s Kibo Laboratory, and the final element of the station’s Mobile Servicing System, the Canadian-built Dextre, also known as the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator. In addition to pilot duties aboard Endeavour, Johnson was a primary robotic arm operator, employing both the Space Shuttle and ISS robotic arms in support of numerous tasks throughout the mission. The STS-123 crew performed a record five spacewalks while docked to the station. The crew also delivered Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Garrett Reisman, and returned to Earth with ESA’s Léopold Eyharts. The mission was accomplished in 250 orbits of the Earth, traveling over 6 million miles in 15 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes and 54 seconds.

Thanks, Col. Johnson, for a great time.

Events Calendar

2008-08-06T15:41:00.000-04:00

We have an events calendar with a temporary home. It's located at the bottom of this page and is provided to the Engineers Club free through Google Calendar.

Notice that the Barn Gang events are loaded through September and we hope to have the committee meetings schedule on this in short order.

If you need - you can create your own Google calendar and while viewing your calendar, you can overlay the Engineers Club Calendar over your own to make sure that you can avoid creating schedule conflicts.

If you are a committe head and need to collaborate on the calendar, drop me a note at pfarrier@paraklesisconsulting.com

Greg Johnson, Astronaut

2008-08-06T08:48:00.000-04:00

Fairborn, Ohio native and Astronaut, Greg Johnson, the Pilot of the Space Shuttle "Endeavour" on the Shuttle Mission STS-123 this past March 11 - 26 will be speaking this Thursday evening on August 7, 2008.

Arrive early and enjoy Hors D'Oeuvres and Cash Bar in English Room.

A Link to his Bio

Barn Gang - This Tuesday

2008-07-27T09:44:00.000-04:00

July 29
Planning New Systems for the USAF

presented by:
Joe Lusczek, Jr., Technical Director
Aerospace Systems Design and Analysis - WPAFB

Introduction by Walt Hoy

3D Digital Model

2008-07-21T22:14:00.000-04:00

So far...

a work in progress.

Dr. Michele Wheatly to Speak on STEM

2008-07-21T10:40:00.000-04:00

Science - Technology - Engineering - Math

An excerpt from Dr. Wheatly's speach given in September of 2007 provides some insight as to what will be presented at the Barn Gang on July 21.

There has been a growing national and regional
awareness that STEMM, long acknowledged for providing post WWII economic
prosperity, has become threatened by the STEMM competitiveness of other nations.
There is now serious concern about the lack of preparation and lack of interest
in students at all levels going into STEMM fields. This has been sensationalized
in both the popular press, for example, Thomas Friedman's best seller, "The
World is Flat" and the National Academies "Rising Above the Gathering Storm".
Technological and social shifts have leveled the economic world, enabling less
developed nations to compete with the United States for corporate investment and
jobs. For the first time since the Sputnik era, STEMM has become the focus of
the national agenda and conversation with The America Competes act authorizing
$43 billion dollars over 3 years for a plethora of math and science education,
research and development initiatives.
Following suit, the Ohio General
Assembly has recently made a historic investment in higher education,
appreciating that Ohio's competitiveness in the global economy is directly
related to the knowledge skills and creativity of our workforce. It is
anticipated that eighty percent of the students in Ohio who pursue higher
education will be educated in our public universities. WSU, therefore, is poised
to play a major role in growing the knowledge economy in the Dayton region
through State initiatives such as Turnaround Ohio, Third Frontier and most
recently "House Bill 119", better known as "the Ohio Innovation Partnership".
This latter program is a $250 million dollar investment in the next biennium to
make an unprecedented commitment to statewide STEMM education spanning from the
early childhood classroom to the university research laboratory. These
initiatives all point to the impetus to grow research in fields that will lead
to economic development, and to graduate more Ohioans with higher education
degrees particularly in the STEMM fields. Over the next few months Ohioans will
be galvanized by the media attention to these initiatives, and nowhere is this
more needed than the greater Dayton region.

The additional M is for Medicine.

Engineers Club in 3D on Google Earth

2008-07-20T22:42:00.001-04:00

A 3D digital model of the Engineers Club is being created and will have multiple uses. One use is to place on Google Earth so a quality and proper representation can viewed along with the satellite image of Dayton.

Other uses can be in designing and presenting landscaping ideas. There is serious discussion of placing banners on or around the building to promote what the Engineers Club stands for in the community. We can actually place these banners in 3D and look at them from several angles.

This is a work in progress - and you can see the development of the model take place and the final installation on Google Earth.

This service is being provided free of charge.

John Fleischman to Speak July 24

2008-07-10T21:15:00.000-04:00

John Fleischman -- Science Writer
Aviation Heritage Speaker Series
July 24, 2008, 7:00 pm

John Fleischman, who likes to write about science and has made a career out of it, will talk about his most recent book, Black & White Airmen: Their True History, at the Engineer s Club, 110 East Monument Avenue, Dayton, Thursday, July 24th at 7:00pm.

The Engineers Club s Cyber Pub will be open to the public prior to the presentation. Plan on an entire evening out by starting with dinner before hand. The evening menu consists of pub food such as mini burgers, turkey club and chicken wings. No reservations are required for the pub.

His newest non-fiction book for older children is titled Black & White
Airmen: Their True History, published last June. Fleischman says, It is about flying, WWII, segregation, and friendship. And it has a happy ending. Copies of this book will be for sale at the talk, and Fleischman will be available for booksignings.

Fleischman s first non-fiction book for older kids, Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science, won many awards such as the Notable Children s Book and Best Book for Young Adults. Fleishman is working on his third nonfiction book for older children about animals that have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine (You thought only people won them?).

For more information about this talk and other future speakers coming to the Engineer s Club call Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park at 937.225.7705.

The Speakers Series is designed to offer the public a variety of knowledgeable speakers addressing topics related to aviation history through engaging discussion and often first-hand accounts. It is sponsored by the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and the Engineers Club of Dayton. The Engineers Club is located at 110 East Monument Avenue, Dayton. This event is free and open to the public and seating is on a first come, first served basis.

Vision and the Wrights

2008-07-10T20:12:00.000-04:00

The following is from an article I read in the Fall of 2003.

It is difficult to imagine the incredible changes that lay before the world
100 years ago at the outset of human flight. A taste of that time and of the
mental gymnastics through which it took a man’s mind were recorded in, of all
places, a beekeeping magazine. In the January 1, 1905, issue of Gleanings of Bee
Culture, Amos Root gave his account of the startling sight of an airplane in
flight:
“When it first turned that circle and came near the starting point, I
was right in front of it; and I said then, and I believe still, it was one of
the grandest sights, if not the grandest sight, of my life. Imagine a locomotive
that has left its track, and it is climbing up in the air right toward you—a
locomotive without any wheels, we will say, but with white wings instead. . . .
Well, now imagine that locomotive, with wings that spread 20 feet each way,
coming right toward you with a tremendous flap of its propellers, and you will
have something like what I saw. . . . I tell you friends, the sensation that one
feels in such a crisis is something hard to describe” (reported in Air &
Space/Smithsonian, March 2003).
Today, a century after those preliminary
flights of the Wright brothers’ Wright Flyer, the sight of an airplane hardly
turns a head. A dream that might have been dismissed over the millennia with the
assertion that “if God had meant man to fly, He would have given him wings,” has
become our commonplace reality.

From: "A Wright Mind", Vision Magazine, Fall - 2003

Thanks to Paul

2008-06-26T10:25:00.000-04:00

Thanks Paul for setting up this blog. We should invite members of the various committees to participate as well as our current "communication writers" Hap Cawood, Dick palmer and Ben Graham. Perhaps each committee can have a sub blog. We also need a plan to roll this capability out to all memebers in conjunction with the club runner plan

Barn Gang

2008-06-24T21:30:00.000-04:00

The Citizens Motor Car Company, a Packard dealership presented a 1931 Packard and Al Hounshell as the speaker for Tuesday's meeting.

Mr. Hounshell, a guide at America's Packard Museum and a Chauffeur, gave us a historical look at Packard as the manufacturer of one of the finest automobiles produced in the first half of the 20th century.

After the presentation, our group was invited to the museum that houses over 40 historical cars. The museum is located on South Ludlow, just south of the downtown area.

Weblog Launch

2008-06-19T08:01:00.000-04:00

As a companion to the Club's new website and Club Runner program, a weblog or "blog" as some folks call it can serve a unique and valuable service in communicating ideas, activities, and news.

All committee chairpersons and other assigned volunteers are able to contribute postings as they desire. The latest posting is always on top.

Within the postings, they may include photos, drawings, sound clips, and videos. The blog is immediately updated with each new posting or other feature that is added to the blog site.

Feeds can be created so that an individual can be alerted to any updates.

Although you may read and contribute, I believe a review of how to post and do many other things can help make this a powerful program in informing and energizing the club.

Before I go, at the bottom of each post, you will see the word "comments". When someone wants to comment on that particular posting, all they have to do is click on that word and they will be able to write in their comment. Writing a new posting in response to a previous post is discouraged. Use the comment section for that.

And one more thing. As one is writing their post, they will see at the bottom of the window, "Labels for this post:" Labeling helps index and makes it easy to find when doing a search for an older posting.

Your ideas and comments are welcome.

That's it for now.