Program Fund
Please consider contributing to the Iron and Steel Preservation Program Fund. This fund was established to support projects, research, conferences and scholarships related to the repair, rehabilitation, and restoration of metals. The Lansing Community College Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation.
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(photo: Nathan Holth) Conference Emcee David Simmons, Ohio History Connection.
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(photo: Vern Mesler)
Dr. Connor, S-BRITE Center
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
Dr Connor, Purdue Bowen Lab
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
Jason Lloyd, Bowen Lab
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(photo: Vern Mesler)
Ryan Sherman (red hat),
Bowen Lab
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(photo: Vern Mesler)
Jeff Haynes, heat straightening demonstration, Bowen Lab
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
Kevin Whitford, braze welding demonstration, Bowen Lab
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
Jason Lloyd, rivet demonstration, Bowen Lab
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
FCAW demonstration,
Bowen Lab
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
Vern Mesler (left), Matt Hebdon
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
S-BRITE Center.
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(photo: Jessica Roy)
S-BRITE Center.
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(photo: Vern Mesler)
Braze welding
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(photo: Vern Mesler)
Jeff Haynes, Ivy Tech Workshop
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(photo: Jessica Roy) Kevin Whitford, Ivy Tech Workshop
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(photo: Elma Lee Moore)
Steve Gillig, Lincoln Electric, Ivy Tech Workshop
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(photo: Vern Mesler)
Roger Morrison (left), hands-on riveting, Ivy Tech Workshop
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(photo: Vern Mesler) LCC bus driver Eric Armbrustmacher
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Greetings,
Success is measured by many factors. For the Lansing Community College and Purdue ISP Conference and Workshop in May 2016, it was the staff and administrators at LCC, Purdue, and Ivy Tech Community College, along with a great cast of speakers and presenters, that contributed to a successful event.
Thanks to all those who worked to make the Lansing Community College and Purdue ISP Conference and Workshop a success and contributed to outstanding evaluations by the conference and workshop attendees. Whether or not you were able to attend, we hope you enjoy reading our re-cap of the ISP event through the presentations and photos in this newsletter.
Vern Mesler
Iron & Steel Preservation Coordinator
Lansing Community College
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Presentations at the ISP Conference
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Dr. Robert Connor opened the morning session of the ISP conference with an introduction, followed by presentations with a focus on the research of riveted structures. After a hardy lunch and a short bus trip, Dr. Connor and Jason Lloyd led the conference participants on tours of the Bowen Lab and the twenty two acre S-BRITE Center.
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| Robert J. Connor, Associate Prof. of Civil Engineering, Director S-BRITE Center |
Conference Presentations available in PDF format below
Quentin Collette (PDF available upon request)
Project Engineer, Sparks Engineering, Texas
Karl H. Frank
Chief Engineer, Hirschfeld Industries, Texas
Matthew H. Hebdon
Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Nels Raynor Bach Steel, Holt, Michigan
Frederick R. Rutz
University of Colorado, Denver
Ryan J. Sherman
PhD Candidate, Purdue University
Dan McCain (Presentation available upon request)
President of the Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal Association
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Purdue Bowen Lab, Tours
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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Purdue Bowen Lab (photo:Vern Mesler)
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A tour through Purdue's large cavernous Bowen Lab led by Dr. Robert Connor and Purdue students and staff was an impressive show on the first day of the Iron & Steel Preservation Conference. Large steel beams strapped in huge testing devices towered above the conference participants. Scattered about the floor of the lab were spent test samples, and
of special interest were the massive sections of the infamous failed I-35W Mississippi River Bridge from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Bowen Lab: section of the I-35W
Mississippi River Bridge from Minneapolis, Minnesota (photo: Jessica Roy)
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Purdue Bowen Lab, Demonstrations
Thursday, May 19, 2016
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Bill Eggleston demonstrates Flux Cored Arc Welding
(photo:Vern Mesler)
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Kevin Whitford demonstrates Braze Welding
(photo: Vern Mesler)
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S-BRITE Center Tour
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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As we stepped off the bus at
S-BRITE Center the view was striking. Above the Indiana horizon was a sharp blue cloud-scattered sky, below the horizon sitting on twenty two acres of land were large steel sections of bridges displayed on massive concrete piers: teaching tools, as Dr. Connor refers to them.
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Conference and Workshop attendees pose under the Indian Trail Bridge donated by Calhoun County, Michigan.
(top photo: Vern Mesler; bottom photo: Jessica Roy)
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Ivy Tech Community College
Location of Hands-On
Workshop, Friday, May 20, 2016
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James L Burkhart Jr., Ivy Tech Community College Lab Tech (photo: Vern Mesler)
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The Iron & Steel Preservation Workshop held at the School of Technology at Ivy Tech Community College was highly successful.
Aaron Baute, Dean of the
School of Applied Science and Engineering Technology, accommodated the LCC instructors and staff with the use of the welding lab and the services of a lab technician. Many thanks for the support from a fellow Community College.
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Scholarships awarded at the ISP event
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Iron & Steel Preservation Scholarship, Lansing Community College Foundation
James Whaley
Lansing Community College student and welding lab tech.
Aaron Kavanagh
Lansing Community College student and welding lab tech.
Zachary P. Liollio
College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina, majoring in Historic Preservation.
Pauline Miller Fund of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association
Tom Barrett
Ohio Department of Transportation.
Elma Lee Moore
Ohio Historic Bridge Association.
Mark Zimmerman
Seneca County Ohio Engineer.
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Jason B. Lloyd, P.E.
Research Engineer, S-BRITE Center
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Jason Lloyd was Lansing Community College's main contact at Purdue. Thanks for the professionalism shown in addressing the questions and requests asked by the LCC conference coordinators. Lloyd was especially helpful in working with the LCC welding staff in setting up demonstrations at the Purdue Bowen Lab.
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Left to right: Jason Lloyd, Roger Morrison and Bill Eggleston.
Jason Lloyd describes features of a plate girder from a 155 ft. main span plate girder of the Indianapolis, Indiana, Virginia Avenue Bridge (SB). Donated to the S-BRITE Center by the Indiana Transportation Department. (photo: Vern Mesler)
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Lansing Community College
ISP conference coordinator and staff
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From left to right: Vern Mesler, Kevin Whitford (W.E. Weld Studio, LLC), Jessica Roy, Roger Morrison, Jeff Haynes, and Bill Eggleston
(photo: friendly Lafayette citizen)
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Lansing Community College support staff
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Glenys Warner
Director of Lifelong Learning & Centralize Services,
Community Education & Workforce Development
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Marti Burnett
Project Manager/Learning Services,
Business & Community Institute
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Carolyn Dembowski
Continuing Education Coordinator
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Jessica Roy
Registration & Delivery, Logistic Support,
Business & Community Institute
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Tammy Gilroy
Project Management Specialist,
Business and Community Institute
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Cathy Clark
Administrative & Instructional Systems Specialist,
Business & Community Institute
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Lansing Community College Technical Careers Division
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Mark A. Cosgrove
Dean, Technical Careers
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Jim Lynch
Director,
Design & Construction Technologies
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Lansing Community College provided transportation to the conference and workshop events, with Eric Armbrustmacher as our driver
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photo: Vern Mesler)
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| Past Iron & Steel Preservation Newsletters |
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