MEC Club’s Reverse Engineering Workshop – Come out!

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Reverse Engineering Workshop!

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Hosted by, Lassonde’s MEC – Mechanical Engineering Club (click to find us on facebook)!

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Lassonde! It’s true, we are approaching the time once again for exams, the end of the semester and the year. It’s been a long one so we’re going to have one more event that will be fun AND use some of the things we’ve learned in class!

Join us after your classes on Thurs March 21st as we do experimentation in reverse engineering!!  It’s a free event, you get to play work with cool, old-school devices (disposable cameras, VCRS and other great finds) from our friendly local Value Village and break them apart – strategically of course.    Throughout, we’ll look at design aspects, functionality and importance of components. Come disassemble, tinker and see how things work!

 

MEC Club will provide all necessary equipment and  to keep up the energy!

 

Open to all York students – so come alone, come with your friends or bring your whole class!

Signup here – want to be sure we have enough electronic devices and pizza for everyone!

 

The MEC – Mechanical Engineering Club is York U’s official chapter of CSME (Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering). If you’re interested in joining the club, come out as well to sign up for this and next year 🙂

 

Looking forward to it and seeing you there!

Arslan Javed

MEC Club President

 

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Event Details

What: Reverse Engineering Event

Date: Thursday March 23rd

Time: 5:00pm

Where: Bergeron 125

Who: All York students

Food: Yes! Pizza for all

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Presented by Mechanical Engineering Club – York University’s official chapter of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)

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CSA Group – National Academic Challenge 2017 – deadline to submit intention 31st March!

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National Academic Challenge

Do you have ideas about how to create a better, safer and more sustainable world? Want to be creative and challenge the status quo? Then Canadian Standards Association wants to hear from you.

The CSA Group is dedicated to safety, social good and sustainability through standards’ development, training and advisory solutions and certification services.

Challenge finalists will be selected to attend the CSA Group Annual Conference. Projects will be presented to CSA members and senior management who will vote on the winning presentation.

For more information about qualification guidelines and the application process, click here.

The deadline to submit your intent to participate is March 31, 2017. Following deadlines can be found here.

 

CSA Group Academic Challenge 2017-v5

 

Industry Tour Series visits: CSA Group, Corporate Head Office

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CSA Group – Tour

Taking advantage of the week long break from classes that is Reading Week, the Chair in Design Engineering planned the 3rd installment of the Engineering Industry Tour Series. Bright and early, Thursday February 23rd, 2017, the group went off to the CSA Group – Toronto Head Office.

The group got arrived with excitement to greeting and welcome by Karyn Ferguson. From there, the spent the day meeting and talking with various engineers of the facilities, touring the site and seeing of the products tested and experiments being run by the company.

Another success in what will hopefully be a continual project – the Engineering Industry Tour Series of by the Chair in Design Engineering!

 

CSA Group visit Thur Feb 23, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAR@YorkU’s first seminar…a success! Dr. Chandra Veer Singh on “Multiscale Modeling of Materials for Transportation and Energy Applications”

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Congratulations to Dr. Alex Czekanski, Associate Professor, Chair in Design Engineering for Innovation AND Founder/Director of CAR@YorkU on the successful completion of it the new centre’s first event.

CAR@YorkU – Centre for Automotive Research at York University, is York University’s Centre for Automotive Research at the Lassonde School of Engineering.

For the first event of the newly founded centre, Dr. Czekanski invited a guest lecturer to give a casual seminar open to all to both Faculty and students. Professor Chandra Veer Singh, from University of Toronto arrived on a bright sunny Friday morning to the Bergeron Centre and gave a rather interesting and energetic talk about what it is his research covers, what he and research group are working on through “Multi-scale Modeling of Materials for Transportation and Energy Applications”

Again, congratulations to the CAR@YorkU on it’s first event, to Professor Chandra for sharing his work and giving well-thought out inspiring responses to the graduate and PhD students’ questions and comments.

Some images from Prof Singh’s seminar

CAR @ YorkU March 17 2017

 

Click here for a few snapshots of the talk.

 

 

 

What have we been up to this past year…..

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YURT – YorkU Rover Team Recruitment!

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Attention, Attention students:

The York Rover Team is looking for students passionate about mechanical engineering!!

 

Volunteers will refine and build a mechanical rover designed to search for extraterrestrial life.

Students of all levels and educational backgrounds are welcome.

 

Join the YURT Facebook Page OR email Jamie at jamiesen@gmail.com for more information

Industry Tour Series visits: Magna Closures, International

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Following the first tour of the Engineering Industry Tour Series, iniatited by Associate Professor and Chair in Design Engineering for Innovation Alex Czekanski, on Friday October 28, a group of twenty went for a full day visit to Magna Closures, International in Newmarket, Ontario.

On the bus, just moments after departing from York’s Keele campus, our group of twenty, including 15 mechanical engineering undergraduate students and 5 graduates students were greeted at Magna Closures by some early snow and HR Supervisor Nancy Stafford. The day begin assuredly with an overview of the company, what they specialize in, their global reach and what it is done at their Newmarket branch. Our group was split into to smaller groups each assigned a current co-op participant as personal guide. This was a great opportunity as students in each of their tour groups were able to talk with and ask questions about Magna Closures and Magna’s co-op program from currently working co-op students. This gave many great insight as to what to expect from Magna as a co-op employer should they apply and be accepted to work there.

Magna facilities are massive and it was a welcome treat after walking their premises to be treated to lunch with the added bonus of our lunch groups being paired with engineers, presently working at the facility. Getting to speak with engineers in small groups gave attendees an alternate perspective, of Magna as a job, career and long-term place of employment. Learning about the paper requirements as well as abstract requirements to be a successfully employed at Magna and in the industry.

 

Magna Closures visit Fri Oct 28, 2016

 

 

We would like to thank Magna Closures International and every single person who participated in making our visit to Newmarket branch memorable and enjoyable. We look forward to continuing this program in Spring 2017 keeping students connected to the fluctuations in the field and the field aware of the increasingly advanced graduates.

Industry Tour Series visits: Salga Associates

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During the Fall 2016 Co-curricular days, a small group of undergraduate mechanical engineering students had a opportunity to visit a local manufacturing plant, Salga Associates, the North York branch of ABC Group, Inc in North York only a stones throw from Keele Campus.

A new initiative by Chair in Design Engineering for Innovation, Associate Professor Alex Czekanski, the Engineering Industry Tour Series is prompted to be a series of guided visits to plants and facilities specializing in all fields of engineering around the GTA for undergraduate and graduate students. Professor Czekanski previous experience/career in the industry gave him the idea for the benefit and need for such a program connecting students with practicing professionals and the current industry ”

Accompanied by Liz Cook, of the Lassonde Co-op Program, Roger Carrick, Designer-in-Residence and Minha Ha, Education Researcher turned Engineering Education PhD student, a group of 14 undergraduate mechanical engineering students ventured early on a rainy Thursday morning to ABC Group.  The group met first all together with the company president and a few of his executives. After a nice introduction to each of the execs and our students, the group was broken up to tour the plant and facilities in action.

At the end, the group returned for a nice closing and reflection upon the tour with some more execs and sepcialist, some Q&A, some ABC Group swag and a bucket full of chocolate and candy.

 

All in all, a very successful day and first iteration of the Chair in Design Engineering’s Industry Tour Series. On to the next one!

 

Salga Associates visit Oct 27 2016