Chapter S016
Faculty Advisor: Dr Simin Nasseri
Chair: Adam Bevins
Secretary: Brad Caudill
Treasurer: Darryl Garland
Fundraising and marketing officers: Matthew Fisher, Diego Pinilla and Yasmine Jonaidi
Check this Slide show to know more about our chapter!
Latest news:
SME @ SPSU:
Welcome to the cyber home of the SPSU Student chapter of the Greater Atlanta area SME. Please read this page and feel free to contact us if you have any questions or an interest in joining our membership. Memberships can be renewed or started online at www.sme.org.
The main purpose of the club is to introduce SPSU students to the local SME community.
In the Greater Atlanta area we have the Atlanta Chapter, and also Georgia Southern
and the Georgia Tech Student chapters.
Meetings with the Atlanta Chapter are typically held on the third Tuesday of the
month. Local student chapter meetings will be posted on this website and around the
Q Buildings.
Being a member of the club is not a requirement, although it is encouraged. Everyone is encouraged to stop by one of our meetings or "field trips."
Thank you, Simin Nasseri
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is the world’s leading professional society supporting manufacturing education. Through its member programs, publications, expositions, and professional development resources, SME promotes an increased awareness of manufacturing engineering and helps keep manufacturing professionals up to date on leading trends and technologies. Visit www.sme.org.
„Chapter Activities:
The SME student chapter arranges the Lockheed Tour every semester.This tour is always a big hit and usually there are 50 attendees to the tour. Every
single one enjoys the tour!
In last visits, many MET students, students from Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
at SPSU, other SPSU students, staff and faculty members and members of the SME Atlanta
senior chapter visited the C-130 J / F-22 production lines.
Lockheed is impressed with the response so they have been interested in doing tours
every semester. Stay tuned for our next tour and check the facebook page.
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Did you know...
Only SME members can download free technical papers from our library of over 17,000! .
Only SME members can, at no charge, seek answers to technical questions or find information needed by contacting our on-staff librarian.
As a member, you receive reduced prices when purchasing SME's vast collection of leading publications in manufacturing. Here's a free video program from our METV page.
As a member, you learn from peers sharing your same technical interests by joining a Technical Community. Reap the benefits of having access to a collective knowledge of professionals in your specialized manufacturing niche—worldwide.
Only SME members can search and download free back issue articles from Manufacturing Engineering magazine, the foremost authority in manufacturing. Just enter a keyword into our search box and then click on Magazine/Journal articles.
Your SME membership entitles you to free access to keynote papers of several previous CIRP General Assemblies as well as papers presented by a number of the CIRP Scientific and Technical Committees.
To apply for this exam, read the following information carefully:
Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT)
Earning the CMfgT demonstrates your competence in the fundamentals of manufacturing.
It requires a minimum of 4 years combined manufacturing-related education and/or work
experience.
With an SME Certification, you earn the following benefits:
About SME CMfgT Certification:
The CMfgT exam takes maximum three hours and consists of 130 questions covering subjects
including math, applied science, design, materials, manufacturing processes, manufacturing
management, manufacturing economics, quality control, computer applications, and automation.
It is an open-book examination.
Examination Fees (for students*):
(Remember that it will be cheaper if you become a member, since you only pay $20 for
SME membership)
(*) To qualify for Student Certification prices, you must presently be enrolled for
six or more credit hours at an academic institution.
What you should do every time the exam is set up:
From left: Jeff Wolfe (former chair), Albert Cousins (former secretary) and Michael Buchanan (former treasurer). Click on the picture to see a larger size.
Sep 2008: The SME student chapter was awarded a $5,000 Education Grant from the SME Education Foundation. MET students joined SME chapter for an opening meeting and celebration on Wed Sep 10th. Many students attended this meeting and enjoyed the free pizzas and sodas. Some faculty members talked about various issues like the importance of joining SME, becoming SME officers, taking manufacturing technologist exam, SME tours, etc.
From left: Jim Dyal (former chair), Kelly Gray (former secretary and then chair), Simin Nasseri (SME advisor) and Trent Phillips (former treasurer and then secretary).
4 students from SPSU's MET program took the SME Certified Manufacturing Technologist Exam on Dec 1st 2007 and passed this exam.
They are:
Joseph Bruce Hooper
Kenneth Barra
Zdenka Knezevic
Frank Gifford
SME chapter at SPSU Congratulates these students and wishes them well in their future careers!
2006- 2007:
Plant Tours:
NYpro
Ameristeel
Competitions:
Oct. 31st 2006, hosted at the 2006 Fabtech International and AWS Welding Show: The
competition entailed designing and constructing a catapult-like mechanism in a three
hour time span. Teams were given a trebuchet kit package as well as extra materials
to build the most effective device. The catapults were judged on overall design, distance
achieved when firing, and accuracy when firing.
Shows:
The first FEBTECH International & AWS Welding Show to take place in the Southeast
recently concluded at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center after 3 full days of
impressive crowds and bustling exhibits. The show represented the largest showcase
of metal forming, fabricating, tube & pipe and welding equipment and technology in
North America this year.
2005:
Plant Tours:
Panoz Auto -Plant Tour– May 10
Welding Services
Ameristeel
Ford Motor Company
Continuing Education:
Lean Manufacturing Webinar at SPSU Student Center Theater (with SME Atlanta Sr. Chapter)
Meetings & Community Events:
Joint Meeting with GSPE – Capt Cartwright presentation on C-5 modernization
Organizational meeting – Donuts and Modern Marvels
Atlanta Toothpick Bridge Competition at Fernbank Science Center (Community Service)
2004:
The Atlanta Chapter hosted a special showing of an SME seminar on Lean and Beyond for the Small Shop - Tools for Survival and Profitability, produced at the Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, it was shown via a web hook-up at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Research Center.
SME members in North Georgia have a special opportunity to tour one of the premier breweries in the Southeast, the ANHEUSER-BUSCH CARTERSVILLE BREWERY. Make your plans today! Still the newest brewery in the Anheuser-Busch family, it is now a little over ten years old and occupies nearly a million square feet. It has doubled in capacity since its beginnings and now turns out 7.8 million barrels per year, covering brands like Budweiser, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Bud Ice Light, Bud Dry, Busch, Busch Light, Busch Ice, Hurricane Malt Liquor, King Cobra Malt Liquor, Michelob, Michelob Light, Michelob Ultra, Michelob AmberBock, Natural Light, Natural Ice, and Tequiza. This brewery serves Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina, with approximately 210 truck loads per day. This plant has for eight years been named Georgia Plant of the Year for superior Biological Waste Treatment by the Georgia Water & Pollution Control Association, Inc. Their “treatment plant employs a state-of-the-art system that removes pollutants and creates methane gas that is used as a fuel source,” says plant manager, Steve McDaniel.