The FEF's College Industry Conference celebrates foundries, their operators, and their technology. It combines an annual meeting, an awards presentation, and a recruiting fair into a two-day program attended by executives, professors, and students — all with a common dedication to metalcasting research and development.
The 2004 CIC drew 222 industry professionals, faculty and staff from the FEF's 25 affiliated universities. Also in Chicago for the event were 101 student delegates, several of whom were awarded with scholarships for their achievemments. Ashland Specialty Chemicals vice president and general manager Mike Swartzlander chaired the 2004 CIC.
The FEF Annual Banquet was held at Chicago's Drake Hotel, November 11, and the foundation presented its most important annual awards at that event. The 2004 Foundry of the Year is Howmet Castings, in Whitehall, MI. The Supplier of the Year award was presented to American Colloid Co., Arlington Heights, IL. The 2004 FEF Society/Association of the Year is the AFS Detroit-Windsor Chapter.
FEF's highest honor, the annual E.J. Walsh Award, was presented to Professor Lifetime Patron, Dwight Barnhard of Superior Aluminum Castings, Independence, MO, and now an FEF Board member as Region 14 Chairman. At the banquet, students and industry attendees enjoyed internationally acclaimed speaker, Dan Clark (sponsored by Ashland Specialty Chemical).
A general meeting on November 12 featured a keynote address by Intermet Corp. v.p.-technical services Tom Prucha. A Q&A session followed, with a panel that included: Glenn Byczynski, senior materials scientist-Canadian Operations at Nemak, Windsor, ON, and an FEF scholar from the University of Windsor; Steve Renz, senior project engineer at Howmet Castings, Whitehall, MI, and an FEF scholar from Pittsburg State; and Daniel Twarog, president of the North American Die Casting Assn., and an FEF scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
During the Edward C. Hoenicke Memorial Luncheon after the session, the AFS/FEF Board Award of $6,000 was present to Western Michigan University FEF Key Professor, Sam Ramrattan.
On the afternoon of November 12, the students attending the FEF Industry Information Session met with representatives of 36 companies to gather ideas and establish conacts for future opportunities.
Next year's FEF CIC will take place November 10-12, 2005, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. For more information, contact the foundation at Tel. 847/705-8400, email [email protected]; or visit www.fefoffice.org
Students' Awards, ScholarshipsFEF presented its student awards and scholarships on November 13, totaling-$64,000. The winners of the awards are:George Booth - AFS Detroit-Windsor AFS-Saginaw Valley Scholarship AFS Southwestern Ohio Scholarship Clifford Chier-Badger Mining Corp. Ron & Glenn Birtwistle Mem. Scholarship Donald Brunner Schol.-ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Paul Carey Scholarship-Ashland Specialty John Deere Scholarship Tony & Elda Dorfmueller Scholarship Univ. Wm. E. Conway Schol.-Fairmount Minerals Richard Frazier Scholarship William M. Grimes Schol.-Gartland Foundry George Isaac Scholarship Burleigh Jacobs Scholarship-Grede James P. & Katherine Keating Scholarship Charles Marshall Mem. Scholarship Chico Modern Casting Partners Scholarship Chester V. Nass Memorial Scholarship Robert W. Reesman Mem. Scholarship Robert V. Wolf Mem. Scholarship John Svoboda Mem. Scholarship Keith D. Millis Scholarship Ron Ruddle Memorial Scholarship David Laine Scholarships |