Welcome to Fall 2013 Engineering Club

We hope everyone has had a great summer!  We would like to welcome new members and alumni to our first Engineering Club meeting on Friday, August 23, at 2:00 pm, in Building 19 room 42 (engineering study room in the basement).

 The agenda for our very first meeting is the following:

I. Introduction (in Building 19 room 42)
          - A few words from our club president, Chris Gervang, on the purpose of the club
          - members will introduce themselves and state their intended major
          - Receive welcome packet
          - eat pizza     

II. Scavenger Hunt (around campus)

          -  members will go around the campus looking for clues and answering questions

                    - the clues are in neon colors

III. Picture Time (in Building 19 room 42)

          - members will take a picture of themselves or draw a picture 

          - on the picture, write name and a word or a sentence describer

IV. Presentation (at MakerSpace in Library Building 9)

          - presentation of each resource in welcome packet

          - show engineering club website

          - members subscribe to website

          - discuss committee and future projects

V. Closing (at Makerspace in Library Building 9)

          - questions and answers

     
We hope to see you all at the first meeting!

June 1 Jazz on the Hill

Jazz on the Hill is returning to CSM after 9 years, and the CSM Engineering Club will be there. Come and learn how to use Sketch-up to draw your design, and how to use the 3D printer or CNC mill to make it.

Location: Meet in 19-042
When: 10:30 am, Saturday, June 1, 2013

February 1 Meeting Preview

We will try to invite one of our possible guest speakers: Peter (manager of the demolition crew and civil engineer) or Tim (materials engineer).

If the guest speaker cannot make it to our meeting, we will be in the computer lab upstairs (room 19-124) learning how to use SolidWorks.  Please come to the engineering study room first (room 19-042), then we will go to the lab as a group.

Janurary 25 Meeting Summary

Congratulations to our club officers!  Our final club officers are shown below:

                              Co-Presidents: Chris, Justin

                              Co-vise Presidents: Jason, Jonathan

                              Co-Secretaries: Nicholas, Zita

                              Co-ICC Representatives: Daniel, Ivonne

In addition, our president Justin gave us a brief lecture on how a 3D printer works (see diagram below).



1) SolidWorks/Inventor

You draw out your design or mold of an object in either SolidWorks, which is available on the computers in the computer lab (room 19-124), or Inventor, which is available for download as a student version (http://students.autodesk.com/).  Justin recommends you use Inventor because he is more familiar with that software and thus can answer your questions more effectively; but, SolidWorks is fine as well.  When you are done with your design, please save it as a .stl file.

2) ReplicatorG

You import your .stl file to ReplicatorG, a software that allows you to set the origin, scale, definition, and the orientation of your object.  ReplicatorG then exports the information to G-code, a machine language that tells the print nozzle of the printer where to go in a coordinate system.

3) 3D Printer

Lastly, the 3D printer prints out your object, according to the G-code given, by placing consecutive layers of plastic.

We are thinking of doing the following projects with the 3D printer:
- design a case for Arduino
- make club rings
- create rubber band propelled boats
- build towers that can support a weight on top
- enter a design competition on instructables (http://www.instructables.com/contest/up2013/?show=ENTER) We can win a 3D printer!