On 6/16/2012 9:46 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Dave<e...@dc9.tzo.com> wrote: > > >> The school was very unique in that they encouraged students to use the >> machines and the facilities after hours. They had a shop supervisor who >> was paid to stay late most weekday nights. Even the garage was >> available, so we could put our cars on the lifts to do repairs and >> modifications. When I wasn't chasing girls, I "lived" at school. :-) >> >> Dave >> >> > I expect those days are over everywhere now due to a tragic accident where > a Yale student had a fatal incident involving long hair and a lathe. > Around here, students have full access to a very nice shop, but they have > to have a funding source to use it. Deep pockets aren't a funding source, > they have to be spending money from a school budget. After the Yale > incident, they required us to tell the safety office about any rotating > machinery we had in our labs. I'm pretty disappointed about this whole > situation, a mechanical engineering school of any merit should have student > shops. > Eric > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > >
When I was in school they were pushing really hard to get women into the program plus back in those days some of the guys had fairly long hair also (even I had a lot more hair then than I do now!) Shop safety was very important. If you didn't have safety classes and your hair tied back they wouldn't let you close to the machines. We had to check in with the guy running the shop at the time to get cutters, bits, etc. Ties (we actually wore them sometimes) were not allowed around machines. The unfortunate fact is that stuff happens, and people sometimes die. They will get over that, but it might take a while unfortunately. Administrators seem to think that they can eliminate any chance of people getting hurt - but it is not possible. Machinery can be dangerous. I've been around a few industrial accidents where people have been killed. In hindsight they are always preventable. But people sometimes do the wrong things. >>a mechanical engineering school of any merit should have student shops. I agree. If they eliminate it and another school does not, then they will be at a disadvantage. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
