Aurora Borealis - MSU-Northern/NMC Alumni Newspaper
 
 
MSU-Northern Manufacturing Students Win First
Summer 2001
MSU-Northern's Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Club placed first in the nation's largest machining and manufacturing expo competition. Held March 26 at the Western Tool and Exposition Conference in the Los Angeles
 
Convention Center, a total of twelve schools competed against Northern, including Arizona State, Brigham Young, and San Diego State Universities. The club returned home with a trophy, certificate, and career enhancing technical software.

"Our project was a "revo-driver", SME club member Charles Fremin explained, "a bent shaft screwdriver with an interchangeable end that spins in the handle for quick operation and a "s" shaped adapter that fits any 1/4-inch hex shank screwdriver handle." Eleven club members attended the event, with judges ranking team projects according to creativity, complexity, design quality, manufacturability, teamwork, safety, and presentation.
Manufacturing Students
Left to Right: Byron Sirchia, Gina Dupler, Wayne Dancer,
John Aulsebrook, Charles Fremin, Sonja Aulsebrook, 
Andrew Johnson, Leslie Cheff.  Sitting: Dale Benjamin,
Not Pictured: advisor Cameron Worstell, Virgil Hawkinson, 
Jesse Jungst

Andrew Johnson said, "I think what set MSU-Northern apart from the competition was their teamwork and their ability to take their project from a simple concept to a finished product," Fremin added that "this means that they started with an idea and went through all aspects of the manufacturing process: design, prototype, market research, mass production, and packaging."

Summer 2001 Info, Disclaimer, Executive Council & Directors Aurora Borealis Home page Alumni Home page
Copyright © 2001 MSU-Northern
MSU-Northern * P.O. Box 7751 * Havre, MT  59501		 Last Update: 5-Jul-2001
Questions, comments or suggestions: alumni@msun.edu
MSU-Northern Home PageAlumni Home pageDisclaimer/Council/DirectorsBorealis Home pageAurora Borealis Home page