On Friday, 03/24/2017, I was involved with a team of engineers tasked to make business card paper grade from the paper machine in the department. I had no experience working with a paper machine and was a bit anxious to work on this project. However, this weakness also gave me the opportunity to learn from my resourceful team mates with lots of experience with commercial paper machines (I owe them pizza!!!!) from internships and co-ops. If you care to know, this is the oldest and largest paper machine available in all the paper science and engineering schools in the United States. This machine is installed in the basement of the department and used every other year for student projects. And so the team was made up of six undergraduate students, two graduate students and five operators who were directly involved in the paper run. The grade of paper we made for the run was a brown shade business card. The run was successful and lasted for five hours. I had lots of fun working with my team mates on this machine and lot of experience from this project too. I am eagerly looking forward to the next run on April 14, 2017. Attached are pictures of my teammates, professor for the course, operators and other stakeholders from the first run. Stay tuned for details from the next run!!!!!
Erik P. Nelson(Senior Paper Engineering student), Foreman for the run
Safety instructions from Mr.Raymond J. Appleby (Manager, Pilot Operations), operator for the run
Christopher Micheal Campbell (Senior Paper Engineering student), team member responsible for lab testing for the run
Sam Dudevski(in grey with paper and pencil) and Lucas Rogers(in white sleeves) (Senior Paper Engineering students), team members responsible for the dry end of the paper machine run giving out instructions to three of the operators.
Lucas Rogers looking satisfied from touching the rolled paper at the reel
Team members Cole Kerlin (left)and Jared Hackley(middle) (both senior paper engineering students) looking excited with their foreman
Dr.Klaus Dolle(left, Professor for the course) and Dr.Gary Scott( Department chairperson) having a good discussion behind the forming section. And Mr. William Seth (Owner, Seth color Resources LLC) monitoring the process.
Mr. Appleby working on a valve
Dr. Dolle(left) and Aziz(right) (Teaching Assistant for the course) having a discussion
Pictures taken by Helene Rainville, MPS Sustainable Engineering Management
Published by Paul Gyampoh, MPS Sustainable Engineering Management
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