DINNER MEETING WITH TECH TALK
Common Sense Engineering
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016
Time: 5:30 pm Social Hour: Fellowship and Networking
6:30 pm Dinner
7:30 Main Presentation
RESERVE at DaAliya@itothen.com or 616-465-0059
WITH MEAL CHOICE BY NOON MONDAY 4/4/16
Place: Holiday Inn Downtown Grand Rapids
310 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504 ▪ (616) 235-1995
Payment by cash or check at the door.
Cost: Members and Non-members $25.00
Students, retirees and unemployed $12.00
Speaker: Gary Casey, Creatively "Retired" Engineer, Author, Inventor
Menu: Your Choice of Roasted Pork Loin OR Stuffed Tilapia. All meals include salad, accompaniment, rolls, coffee or tea or lemonade, and key lime pie
FEATURE PRESENTATION: Have you ever thought that the typical design, development and manufacturing process was overburdened with irrelevant procedures while at the same time missing important features? The speaker's 45 years of experience of managing many such program has led him that conclusion. We'll pick the project development process and give some examples. One example is the program review – what is its intent and what does it accomplish? What is usually missing is a good dose of common sense, and this presentation gives a number of examples of how to use that good old-fashioned common sense that everyone has in the product development process. It won't be all-inclusive, but is intended to spark the imagination of the listener so they too, can apply common sense principles to engineering, manufacturing and quality processes.
SPEAKER BIO: Gary Casey has been actively involved in product development and manufacturing for all of his 45-year career. After growing up on a farm in Iowa and graduating with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University he joined General Motors. While there he created a number of electronic transmission and engine control systems, including the first closed loop carburetor emission system to meet the most stringent emission regulations. From there he went on to assume progressively greater responsibilities at Bendix Corporation, where he was responsible for a number of fuel injector innovations later purchased and implemented by Siemens. Later at Kavlico Corporation he was responsible for the design of their portfolio of pressure sensors and the associated manufacturing systems. Throughout, he has been a prolific inventor, acquiring 37 patents on a wide variety of mechanical and electro-mechanical devices. He is now semi-retired, consulting, writing books and spending time with the grandkids.
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Joint Meeting with ASM International West Michigan: May 26, Residential and Automotive Fire Investigations, with Dr. Elizabeth Buc, Fire and Materials Research Lab
Joint Meeting with ASM International West Michigan COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. Subsidized trip to the AIR ZOO in Kalamazoo on Saturday, June 4. Contact DaAliya@itothen.com for more info and please if you have kids in school, invite their science teacher to bring the class!