The Peoria Chapter of ASM International
September 13, 1999 at the Paradice
Hotel, Room E
Presenting:
Laser Materials Processing: From Chips to Ships
Mr. Paul Denney
Laser Processsing Team Leader
Edison Welding Institute (EWI)
Technical Chairman: Greg Holloway
Laser Processing Team Leader
Fabricated Structures – Tech.
Center
Caterpillar Inc.
Coffee Talk: Gary Yerby
“Life in China – Hai
Keyi”
Social Hour 4:30pm Dinner 5:30pm
Coffee Talk 6:30pm
Technical Talk 7:00pm
Adjourn
8:00pm
Prepaid
Reservations Required!! Reservations are $12.00. Contact
Krisie Rolli at (309) 578-8219 or your local Peoria Chapter ticket salesperson. Please make all checks payable to "Peoria
Chapter - ASM".
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Abstact:
In the short 30 year history of lasers, solid state and gas lasers have gone from novel laboratory demonstration machines to become integral tools on manufacturing floors. Lasers are used on everything from welding of electronic components (“Chips”) to cutting of steel plates for ship structures (“Ships”). Paul will present on the basics of laser processing before discussing the various specific processes including welding, cutting, cladding, and heat treating. The talk will conclude with the latest advances and possible new applications for lasers.
About Our Speaker:
Mr. Paul Denney has been involved in the development and implementation of laser materials processing for over 14 years. Before his current position at EWI, which he began in June 1998, he was Department Head for the High Energy Processing Department and the Director of the Navy MANTECH’s Laser Application Research Center (LaserARC) at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State. Prior to Penn State he was a research engineer at the Westinghouse Electric Research and Development Center in Pittsburgh, a metallurgist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., and a product metallurgist at CF&I Steel Corp. in Pueblo, Co. Mr. Denney holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and an M.S. in Metallurgy, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Coffee Talk:
Gary Yerby is presently the Materials Technology Manager at AsiaTrak (Tianjin) Ltd., a Caterpillar company in the People’s Republic of China. The title of Gary’s talk means that life in China has good aspects and bad aspects. Gary will present his brief experience in the country including construction and manufacturing start-up at AsiaTrak, daily life in Tianjin, and some of his travels around China.
Season Tickets:
Season
tickets are now available for the 1999-2000 program year.
The cost is $40.00 for four meetings. Plus
you receive an added bonus!! Each season
ticket holder will get a $10.00 discount for a ticket to Social Night in February! Contact Krisie Rolli at (309) 578-8219 or your
local Peoria Chapter ticket salesperson. Please
make all checks payable to "Peoria Chapter - ASM".
Congratulations to Jackie
Earle:
Jackie Earle will serve a
three year term on the national Chapter Council. The
Chapter Council consists of
20 members, and is responsible for chapter policy
and governance issues,
including reviewing the quality level of chapters, acting
as primary liaison between
the chapters and Materials Park and reviewing funding
proposals
related to these activities.
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Peoria Chapter ASM
International 1999-2000 Officers
Russ
Harrell..................... Chairman
Ron Streib....................... Vice Chairman
Krisie Rolli...................... Secretary
Scott Wiseman.................... Treasurer
Executive Committee
Dave Stephenson.................. (2000)
Iqbal Shareef.................... (2000)
Ed O'Neil........................ (2000)
Dick VanPelt..................... (2000)
Dave Gromer...................... (2000)
Fritz Grensing................... (2001)
Jackie Earle..................... (2001)
Sam Banerji...................... (2001)
Paul Bierma...................... (2001)
Eric Michelfelder................ (2001)
John Shellcrosslee............... (2002)
Gerry Hoeft...................... (2002)
Sheryl Tipton.................... (2002)
Dave Bowman...................... (2002)
Dr. Robert Bohl.................. (2002)
Program |
Mike Pershing |
Finance |
John Shellcrosslee |
Membership |
Jennifer Mager |
Publicity |
Paul Hoernlein |
Arrangements |
Andy Franks |
Reception |
Krissie Rolli |
Student Activities |
Chad Miller, Matt Kiser |
Education |
Ken Burris |
Long Range Planning |
Ed O'Neil |
MEI |
Ron Morgan |
Sustaining Members |
Tim Van Den Avond |
Young Members |
Kevin Hayes, Chad Seibenaler |
Yearbook |
Mike Johnson |
Auditor |
Linda Harrell |
Historian |
Richard Van Pelt |
Nominating |
Jackie Earle |
Trivia:
The Main
Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built,
engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the
building.
But what ...
is it good for?' --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip
Canadian and
Japanese mathematicians have calculated the value of pi to a new world record of almost
4,294,967,286 decimal places. At 4,294,967,286 decimal places, a print-out of the number,
expressed at six digits per centimeter, would stretch more than 7,000 kilometers. The
calculation was completed on a HITAC S-3900/480 vector supercomputer and took 56 hours.
One out of
every 100 little specks on a fuzzy tv screen is caused by nuclear energy from the big
bang!
Jupiter is just about as large in diameter as a gas planet can be. If more material were to be added, it would be compressed by gravity such that the overall radius would increase only slightly. A star can be larger only because of its internal (nuclear) heat source. But Jupiter would have to be at least 100 times more massive to become a star.