Contact: Maridith Geuder
High-speed machining, wear-resistant materials, rapid prototyping, and other manufacturing innovations will be among subjects of an Oct. 27 seminar sponsored by two state universities and a community college.
The 8 a.m.-4:15 p.m. event on East Mississippi Community College's Mayhew campus is sponsored by EMCC, in cooperation with Mississippi State University and Mississippi University for Women. Additional organizers include a number of local engineering societies.
EMCC-Mayhew is home to the Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence, a public-private partnership focusing on education, outreach and applied manufacturing research.
Graham Smith, a faculty member at Britain's Southampton Institute and an expert in advanced manufacturing technology, computer integrated manufacturing and engineering, will be keynote speaker. He will provide a European perspective of high-speed machining.
Also on the program are MSU mechanical engineering professors Ike Agba and John Berry, who were honored last year by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers for their research in high-speed machining.
Other presenters and their topics include:
--Gene Jackson of Southern Precision Co. of Irondale, Ala., use of high-speed machining;
--Christian Nelson of DTM Corp. in Austin, Texas, and William Fish of Oreck Inc. in Long Beach, rapid prototyping;
--Gordon Dill of North American Precision Casting in Columbus, advantages of investment casting.
--Michael Anderson of Falex Laboratories in Sugar Grove, Ill., and Richard Gundlach, Climax Research Services in Wixom, Mich., testing wear-resistant materials.
--Carol M. Shaw of the University of Dayton (Ohio) Center for Competitive Change and Alan Nethery, director of EMCC's Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence, technology change and the learning process.
For more information about the seminar, telephone (662) 243-2684.