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December Tour to
Iberdrola Renewables Wind Farm
Thursday, December 15th, 1:00 PM EST
Van Wert OH
Board member Jim Delaney has set up a tour of Van Wert’s Iberdrola Renewables wind farm (www.iberdrolarenewables.us). We will meet at their facility in VanWert for a tour then have a presentation and Q&A session afterward. If you are interested in attending please contact Jim Delaney (484-8104 or ) to confirm attendance as we’re hoping to carpool and provide Iberdrola an estimated head count of participants.
November Open House
PHD, Inc. & Yahama Robotics Open House
Saturday, November 12th, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
9030 Clubridge Drive, Fort Wayne, IN 46809
PHD (www.phdinc.com) has invited the FWEC membership to attend their open house. The open house is open to all FWEC members as well as any other interested persons. The open house will showcase two of PHD’s Fort Wayne facilities that design, develop, engineer, and manufacture a range of actuators, grippers, and accessories for industrial automation solutions.
Guided tours as well as door prizes and a light lunch will be provided by PHD.
November Tour to
Blackstone Laboratories
Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 PM EST
416 East Pettit Avenue, Fort Wayne, IN 46806
Founded in 1985 Blackstone Laboratories (www.blackstone-labs.com) is an industry leader in oil analysis. They analyze all types of oil from engines, aircraft, and industrial equipment. Oil analysis is a good tool to use for predicting maintenance; problems can generally be found long before they are a cause of failure, allowing repairs to be made without extensive downtime.
Blackstone Labs will be providing pizza, pop, and Mad Anthony’s beer, so please bring you appetite as well as your interest to this tour.
Blackstone is located close to the corner of Pettit Ave. and Lafayette St. across from Southgate Plaza. If you take Lafayette St. to Pettit Ave., turn East and Blackstone is the first big blue building on the right. Parking is either behind the lab or in Tire Barn’s lot.
Volunteers needed!
Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire - Powered by TekVenture
FWEC board member Jim Delaney is looking to assist TekVenture in finding volunteers to work at the Regional Maker Faire. The event is October 1st & 2nd with set up on Friday September 30th.
The following Maker Fair Event time slots available on Saturday & Sunday are:
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM, 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, or 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Following Maker Faire tear down time slots available on Sunday are:
6:30PM - 8:30 PM
If interested or available to volunteer please contact Jim at JimD3130@aol.com
September 22 - Fox Island County Park: The September FWEC tour will be hosted by the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society (fortwayneastronomicalsociety.com). We will have a “star party” where society members will assist us in observing interesting objects in the September sky. Please note: this tour is weather dependent; if it’s too cloudy we won’t be able to see anything. Fox Island can accommodate ~40 vehicles, there is another lot in front of the nature center that has a paved sidewalk that connects to that observatory, but it isn’t lighted, so remember that when the tour is over it will be dark.
Fox Island County Park
7324 Yohne Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46809
Thursday, September 22nd, 7:30 P.M. EDT
Rescheduled for Thursday September 29th at 7:30
Due to the size of the FWEC membership for this tour the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society will be accepting donations for this tour. The recommended donation is $1. Please show them that the FWEC supports science and engineering in our area and be generous with the tour donation.
We are trying to get an informal head count to the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society. If attending please RSVP to Ryan Stark at FortWayneEngineersClub@yahoo.com.
The Fort Wayne Astronomical Society is a not-for-profit organization, incorporated in 1959, for the purpose of public education in Astronomy and related sciences. The Society conducts public observing sessions at its observatory every clear Saturday evening, from April through November, conducted by trained and experienced Society members. Public observing starts 1-hour after sunset and continues for two hours. The Society observatory was started in 1961 and completed and opened to the public in 1963. It was located north of Fort Wayne, on DuPont Road. Creeping light pollution from street and security lights caused skies to become less than desirable and in 1978, it was moved to Fox Island County Park.
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June 23 - Post Office Tour: The 2nd June tour will be at 10AM at the main post office. The main Post Office is located at 1501 South Clinton Street, just south of down town. Please park in the main parking lot and meet in the lobby. INFO: We will get a behind-the-scenes look at how letters and packages are sorted. NOTE: This tour is limited to 20 people, so if you are interested in attending please contact Ryan Stark, 260-456-0809, or Contact Us.
June 16 - Tin Caps: June 16 is set for the Home Run Porch at the Tin Caps Stadium with Thirsty Thursday and fireworks. A $25 fee will entitle you to food from 1 hour before the first pitch (7:05) to one half hour after, $1 beer, and fireworks following the game. Please call or email to get on the list – we need a final count two weeks before the game. Contact Ryan Stark, 260-456-0809 or Contact Us.
May 26 - Parker Sporlan A tour has been arranged by Elizabeth Garr for the 26th at Parker Sporlan in New Haven near 24 and 469 with the tour to begin at 6:30 PM. This will be a tour of Parker Sporlan’s manufacturing where they make refrigeration valve parts. The tour and presentation will be preceded by a short presentation by someone from TekVenture on the upcoming Fort Wayne Regional Maker Faire (Powered by TekVenture.) to be held at Headwater’s Park on October 1st and 2nd.
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 TekVenture Announces Chain Reaction Challenge 4
April 30, 2011
(Event Flier)
“To Infinity and Beyond” is the theme for the Fourth-Annual Chain Reaction Challenge brought to you by TekVenture, the not-for-profit organization planning to build a public art and technology laboratory in the near-downtown Fort Wayne area.
On Saturday April 30, 2011, teams of up to 6 people will again assemble in the Great Hall of the Allen County Public Library downtown in order to put their ingenuity to the test. Teams will join their individual “Links” to form Fort Wayne’s Fourth-Annual Community Chain Reaction.
New this year is the addition of a three-foot novice-size entry for those new to the Challenge.
People of all ages are welcome to participate either by forming a team or by coming to view these one-of-a-kind contraptions combining creativity, imagination, teamwork, and just plain fun.
To encourage participation, all are invited to attend a free informational workshop at the downtown library on Saturday, March 19 - from 2pm - 4pm. A sample link will be demonstrated and construction ideas discussed.
A minimal $20 advance registration fee for a team of four up to $30 for a team of six must accompany registration forms. Space is limited to 20 Links so teams must register early!
Awards will be given to the teams with the most complex Link in the Chain, the Link using the most recycled objects, and the People’s Choice Award, among others.
Last spring, TekVenture brought you "Building a Better Mousetrap" at the Downtown Allen County Public Library with the Third Annual Chain Reaction Challenge. Ten locally-built, elaborately complicated, award-winning machines linked to, then triggered, Purdue University’s Rube Goldberg machine. Teams comprised of home school students, families, business people, and friends were joined by a crowd of over 500 to celebrate creative tinkering!
The TekVenture Chain Reaction Challenge is a continuing "coming out party" for TekVenture and we ask the public to help us make it a reality. Contributions of time, materials, and sponsorship are being sought in order to offer the Chain Reaction Challenge at a minimum cost to participants.
We again challenge the community to help us build TekVenture, a destination for programming like the Chain Reaction Challenge, and for people who want to engage tools, materials, media and mentors to give form to their great ideas and make things!
Visit www.TekVenture.org to learn more about TekVenture, Inc., to register a team for the TekVenture Chain Reaction Challenge 4, to sponsor, or to get involved in some other way.
For more information contact:
Jane Applegate
P.O. Box 9145
Fort Wayne, IN 46809
(260) 484-0042
just.jane@TekVenture.org
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Tour of the Memorial Coliseum
WHERE: Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
WHEN: Thursday April 21st @ 6:15 PM. - Meet at the ticket office
INFORMATION: Gene Languell, facilities manager, will be giving the FWEC a tour of the Memorial Coliseum. The tour of the facilities will include a look at the expo centers, suites, video control room, and in particular the boiler room and ice room. Note: the Komets have a playoff game the night before the tour and one the following (if necessary) so the ice plant may be in operation. There aren't any videos of the roof raising or of the floor changeovers but Gene will do his best to explain them and answer any questions that we may have. The tour is expected to last roughly 2 hours.
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April Tour: GM FW Assembly Plant (rescheduled tour).
Thursday, April 14th at 6:15 PM
12200 Lafayette Center Rd, Roanoke, IN Directions: Take Highway 24 to Roanoke, and then left on Lafayette Center Road to the plant (on the left). Or from I-69 take 96B to Lafayette Center Rd, the plant will be on the right. (pre-approval required for the tour) Info: The Fort Wayne Assembly Plant recently upgraded to built ¾ ton pick-up trucks – previously built only ½ ton trucks. The plant tour will include the assembly line and will be assisted by plant manager, Mike Glinski. Try to make this tour, especially if you haven’t seen it before. This tour will be limited to 50 participants, if we receive more than 50 replies we will limit to FWEC members only. A Safety video will be viewed first at 6:15 PM – don’t be late. Get your reservations in quickly – this will be a very popular tour. PS Dress code; pants/jeans, flat shoes - no open toe or heeled shoes allowed in GM. Expect to be walking – at least a mile – on cement. No children under 12 years of age. Call 260-456-0809 or Contact Us.
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March Tour: Geothermal Project at Indiana Tech
Thursday, March 24, 2011, at 7 PM, at the Andorfer Conference Room 207
The March presentation will be a follow-up of the Indiana Tech geothermal installation and will include a tour of the control building with all of its new enhancements. The evening will begin with a presentation in room 207 of the Andorfer Commons building and then a tour which will also cover the Geothermal installation at the Indiana Tech/Uytengsu Center (formerly Seitz Building.) Speakers will include Terry Thornsberry from Veridian Design, Mike Lubbehusen, Primary Engineering, and David Aschliman of Indiana Tech. This presentation and tour is being organized by board member, Jack Phlipot. We will also have a presentation from the TekVenture group on the Chain Reaction Challenge event which is in its forth year and is held at the downtown Public Library. A short video of last year’s event will be shown and will illustrate the individual links and how they come together to make up the Chain Reaction – each link (similar to a Rube Goldberg device) triggers the next until all links have operated. A work shop is scheduled for March 19 at the Library and the event is April 30.
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February Presentation: Fort Wayne’s Storm Water/CSO project
Thursday, February 24, 7 pm at City County Building, Omni Room, 2nd floor
The city’s efforts in dealing with combined sewers and meeting EPA requirements will be the topic of our February activity. Kelly Bajic, P.E. Project Engineer, City of Fort Wayne, Utility Engineering will be doing the presentation on the city’ sewer project, on-going and future addressing reduction of combined sewer overflows (CSO's) into the river to bring the city into compliance with EPA requirements under the Clean Water Act. The presentation will be held at the Omni Room on the second floor of the City County building. Take the escalators to the second floor and turn left, the room is the first on the right. The parking garage on the north side of the building is open after 6PM and will be free for all attendees.
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The Fort Wayne City Utilities CSO Long-Term Control Plan presentation will include: Overview of the CSO Long-Term Control Plan; Critical Milestones within the Long-Term Control Plan (combined collection system projects); Floatables Control; Partial separation projects; Satellite Storage; Satellite Disinfection; Morton Street Reroute; Wayne & St. Mary’s Parallel Interceptor; LTCP Projects & Studies; Projects; Design; Bidding; Completed to Date (Including construction photos); Subbasin Preliminary Engineering Studies (PER); Flow Metering; Smoke testing & manhole inspection; Sewer modeling; Recommendations.
Also in attendance and helping to answer questions will be Wendy Reust, head of the Sewer Engineering Group. Kelly and Wendy are both very interested in this project and anxious to share their work with our group.
January 2011 Maplecrest Road Project
The Maplecrest Road extension project presentation will be on the design and engineering challenges of this major road extension over the Maumee River , three roadways, and a railroad yard to align with Adams Center Road. Our presenter is being arranged by Kyle Winling, Project Manager and Eric Vanhoven who both oversee the project. We will meet in room #207 in the Andorfer Commons at Indiana tech at 6:30 for some socializing and meeting the speaker and then settle in for a presentation starting at 7. Andorfer Commons faces Washington and there’s easy parking in front right off Washington Blvd. Click Here to view photos and video from the event.
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