Clemson University Rockwell Automation Lab

Randy Collins

Plant (lab) tour of the new Rockwell Motors and Drives Laboratory at Clemson University.  A generous equipment donation from Rockwell Automation Power Systems has enabled the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University to develop a new motors and drives laboratory using state-of-the-art industrial motor controls. As a result, a laboratory has been renovated and equipped with three-phase power to house the workstations.  Laboratory experiments are tailored toward supplementing junior and senior-level undergraduate lecture classes.

The purpose of the workstations is to enable students to explore the operation of ac and dc motors when fed from state of the art adjustable speed drives. The workstations contain ac and dc motors, ac and dc drives, measuring instruments, data acquisition and control, a computer and laser printer, and a digital oscilloscope.

Where: Riggs Hall, Clemson University.  Actual meeting location will be posted on the front door to Riggs on the night of the meeting.

When: Thursday, September 23, 2004

Agenda:

6:30 Social/gathering ½ hr

7:00 Introduction and lab tour

Directions from Anderson or Greenville: turn left on Hy 93 (either from Hy 123 or Hy 76).  Come to the second light (from Hy 76) and make a left.  Proceed straight at the stop sign and follow the road around a slight left curve.  Straight at the next stop sign and the ECE building is straight ahead.  Park only in non-service or handicap parking spaces (more are along the right side of the building.  Enter through the front door to see the meeting room location.

Directions from Seneca: Exit on Hy 76 from Hy 123.  Follow the above directions from there.

Employment Central

Lee Stogner

Each month we will highlight Upstate companies that are hiring electrical engineers.  Please reply to l.stogner@ieee.org if your company has current openings that will benefit our membership.

Fluor Corporation

Hayssen Corporation

Rockwell Automation - Power Systems

http://domino.automation.rockwell.com/applications/cz/careerzone.nsf/$lookup/experienced.external or http://www.rockwellautomation.com/careers

From Outsourcing to Plagiarism: The Candidates for President-Elect Respond

Offering Consultants a Helping Hand

In the Mood for Moog

http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org

IEEE-USA TODAY'S ENGINEER

Topics: Offshore outsourcing, Ethics, and Tech education for kids.

Also for a "World Bytes" column on at-will employment, part two of the "Engineering in Pop Culture" feature on the Straphanger Centennial, and a "Backscatter" column on picking a winner, read the latest edition of *IEEE-USA Today's Engineer* online at: http://www.todaysengineer.org

NSPE, IEEE-USA TO SPONSOR ONLINE SEMINAR ON OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING

NSPE and IEEE-USA will join forces to present an online seminar on "Outsourcing and the U.S. Engineering Community," on 22 September, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. This seminar will help you understand the policy implications of this issue, and how it could affect your career.

To learn more, or sign-up, visit: http://www.nspe.org/education

Interested in automation?  IEEE has a new journal: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), an exciting new journal from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

T-ASE reaches beyond mass production to include interdisciplinary approaches from computer science, control systems, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering, operations research and other fields.

With such a wide scope, this new journal should be of interest to many of your readers -- both as subscribers and as potential authors.

Lee Stogner

Chair, IEEE-USA Government Activities Committee

As Chair of the IEEE-USA Government Activities Committee, I want to make you aware of a new web site that encourages Engineers to participate in the upcoming elections.  The site is called, "Engineering the Vote", and can be found at, http://www.engineeringthevote.org/

Additional detail on what IEEE-USA is doing to promote issues that are important to Electrical Engineers can be found at, http://www.ieeeusa.org/COMMITTEES/gac/

Please explore these two web sites and encourage all of your fellow Engineers to make their vote count.