Institute of Industrial Engineers
Chapter 71: Lancaster - Harrisburg
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Community Outreach
Every year, the Lancaster - Harrisburg
chapter participates in several community outreach events and programs.
Read on for more information.
Programs
The Capital Area Science and Engineering
Fair
(CASEF) is central
Pennsylvania's regional
program affiliated with the International Science and Engineering Fair.
Each year, 200 to 400 students in grades seven through twelve exhibit
projects in engineering, chemisty, physics, behavioral sciences,
environmental science, and biology. IIE gave out four awards this March
to exhibitors with industrial engineering themed projects:
Laura
Tringali of Hummelstown, PA
Grade 10 at Bishop McDevitt HS
Project
involved effective
methods for memorizing a random list of unassociated words to
achieve the
best recall over time. Creating a personal story was the best
method, versus creating a
fictional story, picture, or pneumonic device.
Annaliese
Drechsler of Carlisle,
PA
Grade 8 at Lamberton
Middle School
Project
involved using
different colored overlays and timing the reading of a story
to see which
one was fastest to read. Out of yellow, red, green, and blue, green was
best.
Aaron
Bloschichak of Mechanicsburg, PA
Grade 8 at St
Joseph School
Project showed
that by combining two neighboring curbside trash pickup piles into
one pile
saved a
significant amount of time and gasoline by the garbage
collectors.Very
well presented and used a lot of sound IE principles.
Thomas
Meinert of Palmyra, PA
Grade 7 at St Joan
of Arc
Project
involved measuring
temperature retention in four types of cups: Styrofoam, plastic,
ceramic
and stainless.
Stainless was best.
Upcoming Community Outreach Events
IIE Honors Local IE Majors!
It’s that
time of the year when
“senioritis” is
setting in for most college seniors. Unfortunately,
for the senior Industrial Engineering
majors of Elizabethtown
College, there is hardly any time to even think about this. This is
because the students are feverishly
working on their Senior Engineering Project, which is part of their
requirement
for graduation.
For all of
their hard work, the Lancaster – Harrisburg Chapter of IIE will
be
holding a dinner in the Seniors’ honor on Wednesday, April 29th. After
the dinner the students will present
their projects, with interesting topics ranging from ‘Optimizing
Operations of
a Pre-treatment facility’ to ‘The Use of Minitab to Determine the
Source of
Product Defect at a Local Company’ to ‘The IIE Arena National
Competition’. All IIE members are not
only invited, but encouraged to come to this exciting evening!
Location:
Elizabethtown College
1 Alpha Dr.
Elizabethtown,
Pa
Social Hour: 5:00 –
6:00pm in Masters Mineral Gallery (Esbenshade Hall/Masters Center)
Dinner: 6:00 –
7:00pm in the M&M Mars Room in Leffler Chapel
Presentations: 7:00 –
8:00pm
Visit the Elizabethtown College website for a campus map here.
Cost:
Free for IIE members
$15 for non-members
Please RSVP to Kaitlin Hartzell at communityoutreach@iie71.org
by
4/10/2009
Past Community Outreach Events
Engineers Week is coming up in February, and we
need
volunteers again to help with our hands-on demonstrations and
activities at Whitaker Center. We are looking for Industrial
Engineering volunteers to help teach area school children about the
efficiencies of repetition and the basic concepts of Lean
Manufacturing. We have a couple of board games that demonstrate
these
ideas, we just need volunteers to help man the table in two-hour
increments. Please contact Sue Benjamin at 717-534-6512 if you
can
help out, or if you have any questions.
Schedule:
Saturday, February 14, 2009 : 10:00am -
4:00pm
Sunday, February 15, 2009 : 12:00pm -
4:00pm
Monday, February 16, 2009 : 10:00am -
4:00pm