Tickets will be $22.00 per person which will entitle us to visit two (2) ventures. These ventures will be: (a) Greenfield Village and (b) Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Reservations are recommended for the factory tour a couple of weeks in advance. We plan to reserve the 10:30am tour which leaves the remainder of the day to do as we please at the Village. Tours run every half hour, with the last one starting at 2:30pm. The Section must purchase tickets before reservations are made.

Individuals need not be a Toledo Section IEEE member to attend.

The entire group does not have to attend the same activities. If some prefer to visit the Village and the Henry Ford Museum they can do so: any combination of two events is included in the price.

Please let us know if you have interest in a rescheduling of this this event by calling Tom Papademos at work (313-202-7654) during 8-5 hours, home after 7:00pm at (419-885-1430), by e-mail to: tom.papademos@akahn.com or by using the on-line form below.

We will meet at the wind farm along U.S. 6 near the intersection of U.S. 6 and Tontogony Road, west of Bowling Green.

The wind farm which now consists of four 1.8 megawatt turbines is owned and operated by a cooperative agreement between Amp Ohio and Green Mountain Energy of Texas. Amp Ohio and Green Mountain placed the third and fourth turbines in service in November, 2004. The output of this farm is delivered wholesale to the Bowling Green Electric Department. The Bowling Green Electric Distribution Division operates a 69/12 KV system. The system consists of 20 overhead and 1.5 underground miles of 69 Kv lines and 110 miles of 12 Kv lines. Bowling Green’s sub-transmission system serves five substations with a capacity of 218,000 KVA

Our host for the evening will be the Public Utilities Director for the City of Bowling Green, Mr. Daryl Stockburger.

Please make reservations by May 16th with Steve Root by phone at (419) 436-3119, by e-mail at slrootpe@ieee.org or use the on-line reservation form (link below).

Technical Society of Toledo (TST) 2005 Main Event

Speaker: Warren McCrimmon, Seaport Director of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority

Join the crew of TST at an after work rendezvous aboard the Sandpiper Canal boat at Jefferson and Water Street in downtown Toledo. Guests and Spouses welcome! Early registrations are encouraged as there is limited space. Boarding will begin at 5:45 PM.

Price: $30 per person (Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres provided)
Contact: Sheri Wray at 419-530-3436
Deadline: RSVP by April 29, 2005

Italian buffet dinner - $15.00

Reservations required by 12:00 noon on Monday, 25 April, to Rick Molyet by phone at 419-530-8183, by e-mail to rmolyet@eecs.utoledo.edu or by using the on-line reservation form below.

Following the Columbia accident, an Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) was formed to study the accident and make recommendations to improve safety of the Space Transportation System (STS).

Several teams of engineers, scientists, technicians and managers were also formed to respond to and implement the CAIB’s recommendations.

Our presentation concentrates on the role of the External Tank (ET), the backbone of the shuttle systems, describing its “simple but complex” foam insulation. It provides an understanding of how the accident happened, details of the investigation and re-design carried out to reduce the risk of foam loss, and steps NASA has taken to permit a safe Return to Flight sometime in the near future.

Dr. Beins recently retired from NASA where he worked in the Systems Analysis Department at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He was part of the team from the NASA Centers at Kennedy, Marshall, Johnson, and Michoud, along with counterparts from Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, who worked to identify the likely cause of the foam separation, physical reasons for foam loss, and methods and testing that could demonstrate how to prevent this type of accident from happening again.

Come see the home of the newest Jeep, the Liberty, as it is being built. This tour, originally scheduled for January, 2003, is the sequel to our March, 2000 tour of Cherokee production at the Toledo Jeep Assembly Plant.

Daimler Chrysler has recently lifted their moratorium on public tours of their North American production facilities, and is eager to show off one of their newest assembly plants. The Jeep plant will provide safety goggles to all attending the tour. Due to the length of the tour and the size of the plant, Jeep suggests we wear comfortable walking shoes.

Please make reservations by March 11th by phone to: Steve Root at (419) 436-3119, by e-mail to slrootpe@ieee.org or by clicking on the link to our on-line reservation form below.

Due to the size of the group the Jeep plant can accomodate, the tour is limited to the first 30 reservations. The March, 2000 tour was one of our best attended tours in recent memory. Please make your reservations early!

Daimler Chrysler reserves the right to screen tour participants based on corporate affiliation. .

Additional instructions, such as parking and gate access will be made available as the tour approaches.

The MCO-Mercy Center for Creative Education is a research and development facility for design and creation of advanced technology to enhance medical student learning through application of innovative, technology-supported teaching modalities. Two of three programs housed in the center are:
(a) the Center for Creative Instruction, a research and development area that designs and creates advanced technology for education and
(b) the Clinical Skills Center, providing for training and assessment of students and residents in graduate medical education training programs. Live and "virtual" environments with simulated or real patients are configured within the space to permit testing for professional competence.

McGraw-Hill, one of the nation’s largest college textbook publishers, is partnering with MCO to develop a CD-ROM for college anatomy courses, and company officials said they were stunned at the level of technology in the lab.

In order to provide Center management with information on the number of guides required please follow the link below to an on-line reservation form.

The MCO-Mercy Center for Creative Education is located at the east end of MCO's mall. The center is connected to the Paul W. Block Health Science Building via an enclosed walkway to the north; its main entrance is oriented East of the Block Health Science Building loop drop-off.