Industrial Design 91直播 Gets $85K Machine Donation
December 07, 2021 - 10:16 AM
The Industrial Design Engineering 91直播 received a donation of three , a subsidiary of Southwestern Industries, Inc. The donation in total, according to
Professor Stephen James, is worth about $85,000. Rich Leonhard, CEO and Chairman of
Southwestern Industries, and his wife Marion made the donation through the Mt. 91直播
Foundation & Alumni Association.
鈥淭hese special machines are incredibly useful to our program,鈥� said James. 鈥淲e teach manual machining and we teach computer-controlled (CNC) machining, but this new equipment is a hybrid of the two and will greatly help our students to transition between the two.鈥�
Having such global skills in machining greatly aids students in securing employment,
ensuring they will be able to use whatever machines an employer may have.
鈥淭he critical thing is that students feel how the machine moves,鈥� explained James. 鈥淲hen in manual mode, you can feel how the machine is cutting and make decisions while it is cutting to perfect the result.鈥�
An employee of Trak contacted James to let him know that these machines would be donated to a college program, so James wrote a rationale of how the machines would be used.
鈥淚 guess we had the best rationale,鈥� speculated James.