Mark your calendar …
2/6 Student Night at RIT
2/11 Senior Section SPX plant tour
2/17 – 2/23 Engineering Week
2/22 Design Competition (paper airplanes in Goergen)
4/4 Roast
Responsibilities delegated this week:
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Objective |
Responsible Parties |
Date Initiated |
Date Completed |
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Show classmates sweatshirt designs |
Everyone |
1/28 |
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Discuss roast menu, costs etc. with Mel staff (Meeting Tuesday 2/5) |
Marc |
1/24 |
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Sweatshirt ordering |
George or Steve |
1/28 |
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ASME bulletin board |
Steve, Heather |
11/14 |
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ASME Sweatshirts
- A limited run is happening soon; afterwards, there will be a pre-order for everyone else.
- Show the potential designs to classmates to get feedback. A final decision should be happening soon (next week)
- People seemed to prefer gold letters to yellow (both on a navy blue sweatshirt)
Roast (4/4)
- Marc has planned a meeting with Mel staff for Tuesday of next week (2/5). Otherwise there has been no further progress from last meeting.
Engineering Week (2/17 – 2/23)
- ASME Design Competition (2/22): Paper Airplanes
o Steve wrote up some rules for the event, which I have attached to these minutes (please see the final page.)
o Participants will be required to launch their entries with a rubber band mechanism. Templates will be provided, or we could make a launcher for everyone to use.
o We discussed potential figures of merit for determining a winner:
§ Time of flight - maximize
§ (Weight of plane) x (time of flight) – maximize product
§ Linear distance flown – maximize (potentially not the best figure of merit for an indoor competition due to space limitations)
o If space in Goergen is available only on a reservation basis, we should make those arrangements soon.
ASME Student Night (2/6)
- 8:00 PM on February 6th (next Wednesday)
- Cost: $2.00 each; Includes dinner.
- Talk: Asymmetric Ply of Composites
- Let Steve know if you would like to go.
ASME Rochester SPX Tour (2/11)
- For reservations, call Chuck at 585-766-0329
- The event includes a dinner and a tour of the SPX Process Equipment Plant.
Other Business
- New Meeting Time: Wednesdays, 6:15 PM
- Correction from last week’s minutes: The Roast will be on April 4th, not February 4th.
ASME Spring Design
Competition
Paper Flight
The goal of this competition
is to design a paper airplane that will glide (not fall) for the longest span
of time. Each airplane will be
launched by its creator in Georgen Hall off the balcony to the atrium on Feb 22nd,
2008.
1.
The paper
airplane must be constructed out of the materials from the allowed materials
list.
2.
The airplane will
be weighed before flight.
3.
Teams of any size
are allowed
4.
The
airplane’s time-of-flight will be measured with a stopwatch.
5.
Contestants may
launch airplanes via a rubber band mechanism of their own design.
Materials Allowed:
Standard computer paper
80lb. Card paper
Balsa wood
Rubber bands
Tissue paper
Paper Clips
Glue
Tape
(a
selection of these materials will be available in the Hopeman 235 Office)