IDEHREHD DEM Friday, February 1, 2008 Sabbina Abbasova (left) checks Seth Hummel's (right) ID card before allowing him to enter the Junker Center, as part of an effort by the Junker Center to deny non-Behrend personnell access to the facility Behrend school of engineering named a Haas Technical Education Center Bv Matthew Schwahenbauer assistant news editor nijsS3S7<« psu.cdu Penn State Behrend engineering students now have access to five state-of-the-art Haas computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools, thanks to the School of Engineering being named a Haas Technical Education Center. The accreditation comes from Haas Automation Inc., one of the largest CNC machine tool builders on the planet, based in Oxnard. Calif. The School of Engineering being designated a Haas Technical Education Center not only supplies engineering students with five state-of-the-art machines, but gives Behrend students eligibility to apply for scholarships, internships and career placement programs from Haas. "Haas selected the School of Engineering based upon its nationally accredited programs, the number and quality of its students, Contents News 1-3 Entertainment 6 Opinion 4 Student Life 7 Humor 5 Music 8 Sports 9-10 A Penn State Behrend Student Publication and its progressive manufacturing laboratory facilities,” said Ken Fisher, professor of engineering and associate director of the school of engineering. “As a result of the agreement, the School of Engineering has five state-of-the-art Haas CNC machine tools available for teach ing and applied research, and the machines will be replaced regularly so that students and faculty are always working with the most current technology.” Haas Automation, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Gene Haas to man ufacture machine tools. The company designed the first fully automat ic programmable collet indexer, a machine which positions parts for machining with high accuracy. Since then, Haas has expanded its product line to include rotary tables, CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes, rotary indexers, and machine tool accessories. In order to maintain cost competitiveness with foreign machine suppliers, Haas employs the use of “lights-out" flexible man Find out who received awards at the SGA awards ceremony on page 6. ufacturing systems, and robotic loaders which streamline production. The company is housed in a 1,000,000 square loot facility in Oxnard California, the largest and most modern machine tool manu facturing facility in the United States. Haas Automation is the second largest machine tool builder in the world, second only to the Shcny ana Machine Tool Group, located in China. Haas ships more CNC machines than any other machine tool manufacturer in the world, and has sold more than 53.000 rotary products and 72.000 CNC machines to date. See Jess Carlson’s superbowl XLII preview on page 10. Vol. LIV No. XVIII See SCHOOL OF EXGIXEFRIXG on r ,n>e o
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