Manufacturing Center to host fall meeting
The Center for High Performance Manufacturing (CHPM) at Virginia Tech will host its fall meeting on Nov. 10 and 11 at the Holiday Inn (formerly the Four Points Sheraton) in Blacksburg.
"If you need a helping hand to improve your operations, this two-day meeting is an excellent opportunity for those in the manufacturing community to observe the workings and work products of the CHPM through presentations," said Robert Taylor, interim director and research professor of Virginia Tech's Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
In addition to academic presentations, two distinguished keynote speakers from the manufacturing community will be present. Tim Baechle, manufacturing manager of General Electric, and Jim Talley, director of aircraft systems engineering of General Dynamics will speak. "They will shed valuable light on how their companies have used the latest technologies to improve their operations," Taylor said.
The state of Virginia launched CPHM in July of 2001, using its Commonwealth Technology Research Fund. Virginia Tech leads the center and James Madison University, the College of William and Mary, and Virginia State University participate.
CHPM works to help manufacturing firms research, develop, and implement new processes, methods, and technologies in order to stay competitive in today's dynamic manufacturing environment. Work is performed in wide variety of areas, ranging from supply chain design and flexible automation to rapid prototyping and low-cost composite manufacturing.
The meeting is open to the general public. There is no cost to attend but registration is required. For more information and to register, visit http://www.chpm.ise.vt.edu.
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become among the largest universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech's eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.
The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech is internationally recognized for its excellence in 14 engineering disciplines and computer science. The college's 5,600 undergraduates benefit from an innovative curriculum that provides a "hands-on, minds-on" approach to engineering education, complementing classroom instruction with two unique design-and-build facilities and a strong Cooperative Education Program. With more than 50 research centers and numerous laboratories, the college offers its 2,000 graduate students opportunities in advanced fields of study such as biomedical engineering, state-of-the-art microelectronics, and nanotechnology.
