Society of Manufacturing Engineers

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Society of Manufacturing Engineers

• Purdue Student Chapter
• Call Out
• 02/03/2009

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Meet Us

• Faculty advisor
• Professor Bradley C. Harriger, CMfgE, MFET
• President
• Vukica Jovanovic
• Vice President
• Dustin Wise
• Treasurer
• Brandon Taylor

http//www.getinvolved.purdue.edu/ http//web.ics.
purdue.edu/sme
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SME 75 years

• Founded in 1932 with 33 members
• originally named the Society of Tool Engineers
• A year later, it was renamed
• the American Society of Tool Engineers
• It finally became
• SME in 1969

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SME Where Manufacturing Comes Together

• SMEhttp//www.sme.org
• the world's leading professional society
• advancing manufacturing knowledge and
• annually influencing more than
• half a million manufacturing practitioners

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SME Global

• Headquartered in Michigan
• the Society has members in
• more than 70 countries and
• represents manufacturing practitioners
• across all industries

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Member Benefits

• Communities
• Publications
• Expositions
• Professional development resources
• SME Jobs Connection

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Technical Community Network

• Automated Manufacturing Assembly
• Forming Fabricating
• Industrial Laser
• Machining Material Removal
• Manufacturing Education Research
• Plastics, Composites Coatings
• Product Process Design and Management
• Rapid Technologies Additive Manufacturing

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SME Forums

• http//forums.sme.org/
• E.g.
• SME Lean Certification Discussions
• Robotics Motion Control Tech Group
• Simulation Tech Group
• Forming Fabricating General Discussions
• Cutting Tools Tooling

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Communities Local Chapter

• More than 200 senior chapters
• represent small regional areas
• 200 Student chapters worldwide
• All SME members
• automatically become members
• in the nearest chapter when they join
• Lafayette Chapter 268

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Industry Focus Areas

• Find out what people in these industries are
  doing and connect with your peers and colleagues
• Aerospace Defense
• Medical
• Motorsports
• Oil Gas

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Workforce Development

• Lifelong learning programs
• Certification and skills assessment
• Technical resources
• Publications
• Industry expertise through the members

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Professional Development

• Training
• Webinars
• Feb 19 2009
• Transition from Rapid Prototyping to Direct
  Manufacturing
• Course Catalog

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Technical Information Publications

• One of the world's largest publishers of
• manufacturing-related technical information and
• industry news
• Produces
• hundreds of DVDs and
• interactive CD training programs
• on various manufacturing topics

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Purdue Chapter Activities

• This cartoon, showing a machine that helps a
  numbskull become an engineer, was drawn for
  Purdue students by Rube Goldberg in the early
  '50s.
• According to Goldberg Seal balances ball and
  applauds self, causing string to start one-man
  band. Co-ed, hearing music, does Charleston,
  kicking over oil lamp and burning string,
  dropping basketball on switch, which starts
  atomic machine, lifting numbskull so he can crib
  answers and become a successful engineer. (Rube
  Goldberg is a trademark of Rube Goldberg Inc.)

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Rube Goldberg Competition

• Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg,
• college students compete to
• design a machine that uses
• the most complex process
• to complete a simple task
• put a stamp on an envelope
• screw in a light bulb
• make a cup of coffee
• in 20 or more steps

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The 2005 Rube Goldberg Team (2nd Place Finish)
The 2005 Rube Goldberg Team (2nd Place Finish)
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The 2004 Rube Goldberg Team (National Champs)
The 2004 Rube Goldberg Team (National Champs)
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How To Join

• Fill out the membership form
• onetime 10 initiation fee Purdue chapter
• 20 for national SME chapter

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Thank You!