The 5th NFPA Educator/Industry
Summit: A Successful and Powerful Combination
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 The NFPA 2007 Educator/Industry Summit held August 21-22, at the Westin Chicago North Shore brought together 16 top universities and technical schools represented by 50+ students and faculty together with fluid power industry leaders to explore new ideas and learn from presentations and interactive dialogues.
As an attendee of this event, you will find links on this page to the presentations you heard along with a few extra features. One of these extra links will take you to a summary of the comments received from your thoughtful dinner roundtables on the question of
whether fluid power should pursue its own four-year university degree. For those of you who will to continue this discussion, we encourage you to log on to
Hydraulics
and Pneumatics magazine's Fluid Power Forums on this important subject. The link is also provided below.
We also appreciate all attendees’ support and feedback. All Summit participants should have already received a link to an electronic survey evaluation form. If not, you may complete it now using this
link.
Thank you for your support of NFPA and the fluid power industry!
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NFPA 2007 Educator/Industry Summit Presentations and Related Links
“A Solution to a Problem of National Proportions”
Richard Blais of Project Lead the Way
“Sustaining Your Future Workforce”
Marla Robinson, Mohawk College
“The Future of Fluid Power Technology”
Sohan Uppal, Eaton Corporation (retired)
“Fluid Power in Universities: Should There be a Degree”
Link to Compilation of Roundtable Discussion Remarks
Hydraulics and Pneumatics magazine Fluid Power Forum
Special Research Presentations
“Real World Application of Novel Position Feedback Technology for Fluid Power
Cylinders”
Professor Wayne Book and Haihong Zhu, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
“Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Rod Seals”
Professor Richard Salant and Bo Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Zero-Leak O-Rings Using Smart Materials”
Professor Barney Klamecki, University of Minnesota
List of Research Abstracts—All Participants:
Notice/Disclaimer
Materials included on this web page are for use by attendees of the 2007 NFPA Educator/Industry Summit and are not for reproduction and/or redistribution, in whole or in part, without written permission of the National Fluid Power Association. Anyone desiring to publish information contained on this web page must obtain each individual speaker’s permission. |
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