Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Purdue Student Chapter
Call Out
02/03/2009
Meet Us
• Faculty advisor:
– Professor: Bradley C. Harriger, CMfgE, MFET
• President:
– Vukica Jovanovic
• Vice President:
– Dustin Wise
• Treasurer:
– Brandon Taylor
http://www.getinvolved.purdue.edu/
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~sme
SME: 75 years
• Founded in 1932 with 33 members
– originally named the Society of Tool Engineers
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A year later, it was renamed
– the American Society of Tool Engineers
• It finally became
– SME in 1969
SME: Where Manufacturing Comes Together
• SME:http://www.sme.org
– the world's leading professional society
– advancing manufacturing knowledge and
– annually influencing more than
• half a million manufacturing practitioners
SME Global
• Headquartered in Michigan
– the Society has members in
• more than 70 countries and
– represents manufacturing practitioners
• across all industries
Member Benefits
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Communities
Publications
Expositions
Professional development resources
SME Jobs Connection
Technical Community Network
Automated Manufacturing & Assembly
Forming & Fabricating
Industrial Laser
Machining & Material Removal
Manufacturing Education & Research
Plastics, Composites & Coatings
Product & Process Design and Management
Rapid Technologies & Additive Manufacturing
SME Forums
• http://forums.sme.org/
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SME Lean Certification Discussions
Robotics & Motion Control Tech Group
Simulation Tech Group
Forming & Fabricating General Discussions
Cutting Tools & Tooling …
Communities: Local Chapter
• More than 200 senior chapters
– represent small regional areas
• 200 Student chapters worldwide
• All SME members
– automatically become members
– in the nearest chapter when they join
• Lafayette Chapter 268
Industry Focus Areas
• Find out what people in these industries are doing
and connect with your peers and colleagues:
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Aerospace & Defense
Medical
Motorsports
Oil & Gas
Workforce Development
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Lifelong learning programs
Certification and skills assessment
Technical resources
Publications
Industry expertise through the members
Professional Development
• Training:
– Webinars
• Feb 19 2009:
• Transition from Rapid Prototyping to Direct Manufacturing
– Course Catalog
Technical Information & Publications
• One of the world's largest publishers of
– manufacturing-related technical information
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– industry news
• Produces
– hundreds of DVDs and
– interactive CD training programs
– on various manufacturing topics
Purdue Chapter Activities
• This cartoon, showing a machine that helps a numbskull become an
engineer, was drawn for Purdue students by Rube Goldberg in the
early '50s.
• According to Goldberg: Seal balances ball and applauds self, causing
string to start one-man band. Co-ed, hearing music, does Charleston,
kicking over oil lamp and burning string, dropping basketball on switch,
which starts atomic machine, lifting numbskull so he can crib answers
and become a successful engineer. (Rube Goldberg is a trademark of
Rube Goldberg Inc.)
Rube Goldberg Competition
• Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg,
– college students compete to
• design a machine that uses
– the most complex process
• to complete a simple task
– put a stamp on an envelope
– screw in a light bulb
– make a cup of coffee
– in 20 or more steps
The 2005 Rube Goldberg Team (2nd Place Finish)
The 2005 Rube Goldberg Team (2nd Place Finish)
The 2004 Rube Goldberg Team (National Champs)
The 2004 Rube Goldberg Team (National Champs)
How To Join
• Fill out the membership form
• onetime $10 initiation fee – Purdue chapter
• $ 20 for national SME chapter
Thank You!