Madeline provides the editorial content, photos, and design for the Salem High School Alumni Association newsletter, which is published twice a year and mailed to 10,000 alumni.
The Summer-Fall 2019 edition of the newsletter features two retired U.S. generals who both graduated from Salem High School in 1977 and went on to serve with distinction. Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert Ruark now leads the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation. Air Force Major General Jay G. Santee is vice president of Strategic Space Operations at The Aerospace Corporation.
The two-week practicum combines high-level technical instruction with practical approaches to energy challenges. For instance, one of the class activities last summer used soda cans to build photovoltaic cells for residential solar energy systems.
Several $1,500 stipends are available for two-year college faculty and high school teachers to attend the program. Applications will be accepted from February 15 to May 15. The program will be offered from June 13 to 24 at Missoula College in Missoula, Montana, and from June 27 to July 8 at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, Montana. The Blackfeet Nation, which the college serves, is located at the gateway to Glacier National Park.
Students at the 2015 Sustainable Energy Practicum with the devices they made with readily available materials.
Three building trades instructors from Blackfeet Community College have been involved in the program this past year, according to Bradley Layton, an associate professor in the Applied Computing and Engineering Technology Department at Missoula College and principal investigator of the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education project that includes the practicum. “We’ve been involving them as much as we can,” he said of the tribal college’s faculty.
The two weeks of instruction in classrooms, labs, and outdoor settings are open to educators from tribal colleges, community colleges, and high schools; students from Blackfeet Community College and Montana high schools; and students from around the nation who are enrolled in Missoula College’s online energy technology degree program. The required practicum for the online associate degree is the two-week sustainable energy course and a one-week circuits lab course. Program graduates include technicians and individuals who work on sustainable energy policies for their employers.
He and a staff machinist at the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, worked together to design a bicycle-style hand brake that is level with Kimmel’s lap as he sits in his wheelchair. With this innovation Kimmel and other manufacturing technicians with limited mobility do not have to stretch from their wheelchair seats past moving spindles and blades to shut off the milling equipment. Dalton Relich, the machinist and technical assistant at HERL, said brakes on mills have been above the shoulders of standing operators for hundreds of years.
“That is actually why I jumped into the program so wholeheartedly—is because the difficulties I encountered while I was going through the program, working in the machine shop, I was able to sit down behind the computer and draw up and design different technologies to assist myself and maybe even future participants,” Kimmel said.
information technology (IT), an associate in applied science in IT-networking; and a bachelor of technology in information assurance and forensics. The day after graduation he went to work as a systems administrator at the college in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Now as associate vice president of Technology Services there, he supports “home-growing” the IT staff. Nine of the 11-member technology services employees are graduates of the OSU Institute of Technology.
Madeline provides the editorial content, photos, and design for the Salem High School Alumni Association newsletter, which is published twice a year and mailed to 10,000 alumni.
bicycle-style hand brake that is level with Kimmel’s lap as he sits in his wheelchair. With this innovation Kimmel and other manufacturing technicians with limited mobility do not have to stretch from their wheelchair seats past moving spindles and blades to shut off the milling equipment. Dalton Relich, the machinist and technical assistant at HERL, said brakes on mills have been above the shoulders of standing operators for hundreds of years.