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Behrend school of engineering named a Haas Technical Education Center
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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,
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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
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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.
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