Gregory Wright, Assistant Power Plant Superintendent, Harry S. Truman Power Plant, provided 18 UMKC MSPE student chapter engineering students from the UMKC School of Computing and Engineering and their invited guests a comprehensive tour of the Harry S. Truman Dam and Power Plant in Warsaw MO. Harry S. Truman Dam has six turbines and controls two smaller hydro-electric dams power production via remote control. Leaving UMKC at 7:30 am on Oct. 25, 2010, the students and their guests arrived Warsaw MO at 10 am and were met a the gate by Gregory Wright. The tour started with displays on how hydro-electric power is produced and then students were provided access to much of the entire facility, including the “no picture” control room where UMKC engineering student Taya Upkes was given the priviledge of “starting up” turbine number 5 and bringing it up to full power production. The one hour scheduled tour, turned to two and one half hours, as students asked many questions and utilized this learning experience to the maximum. The tour was followed with lunch at Warsaw’s Maxine’s Restaurant and then a return drive back to UMKC.
Matthew Parish, Madhurima Poddar and Kevin Wisniewski – team UMKCPLUSPLUS – competed in the 24 hour competition – IEEExtreme 4.0. IEEExtreme involved teams from all of the world with 971 registered teams, 756 of which submitted at least one problem. There were a total of 17 problems in the competition with new problems released throughout the night. Out of the 17 problems, our team successfully solved 6 problems placing us 283rd out of 971 teams giving us a ranking in the top 38th percentile. This is a great achievement especially for our first year competing in IEEEXtreme! We are very proud of these three students who endured a grueling 24 hour competition from October 22 to 23, Friday 7p.m. to Saturday 7 p.m.
Students from UMKC and SCE participated in the Robot Dance, Monday night September 27th at 6:00 pm at the UMKC Stanley Durwood Stadium. Three of the SCE students are from the UMKC Robotics Team. To commemorate and celebrate UMKC Libaries’ new book robot, the Student Government Association, lead by the Student Government President, Klassie Alcine, organized a run at the world’s record for the most people doing the robot dance together at the same place and time.
