Posts Tagged ‘education’
Fluid Power Action Challenge Turns 11
This year marks the 11th year of the NFPA Fluid Power Action Challenge and together with NFPA, members, and educations partners, there have been over 100 events, introducing over 10,000 students to fluid power technology and careers in the industry. The Action Challenge is a design-and-build competition where students learn about hydraulic and pneumatic technologies,…
Read MoreNFPA Research Supplement Update: Understanding the Transient Nature of Wind Turbine Response
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO I recently attended the June 2019 Summit of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) at Purdue University. This was the second of two meetings in our last fiscal year where the fluid power research projects supported by our new NFPA Research Supplement Program were presented. In…
Read MoreNFPA Research Supplement Update: Modeling & Optimization of Trajectory-Based HCCI Combustion
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO I recently attended the June 2019 Summit of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) at Purdue University. This was the second of two meetings in our last fiscal year where the fluid power research projects supported by our new NFPA Research Supplement Program were presented. In…
Read MoreNFPA Research Supplement Update: Efficient, Compact, and Smooth Variable Propulsion Motor
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO I recently attended the June 2019 Summit of the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) at Purdue University. This was the second of two meetings in our last fiscal year where the fluid power research projects supported by our new NFPA Research Supplement Program were presented. In…
Read MoreRegistration Now Open for the NFPA Executive Leadership Program
Registration is now open for the 2020/21 cohort of the NFPA Executive Leadership Program, presented in collaboration with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Registration for this cohort will close December 31, 2019. The program consists of a series of six full-day education sessions over the course of 18 months and is designed to…
Read MoreKomatsu Triples Action Challenge Event Size in Second Year
Komatsu hosted its second annual Fluid Power Action Challenge at the Rocky Grove Volunteer Fire Department. This year, the event tripled in size with 72 student competitors. In addition the Action Challenge activities, Famic Technology provided participating students with an interactive demonstration unit of a Komatsu excavator on both the workshop and challenge days. The…
Read MoreWojanis Hosts 9th Annual Fluid Power Action Challenge
In their 9th year supporting the Action Challenge, Wojanis hosted 40 students at Carlynton Junior High School in Pennsylvania. The NFPA Fluid Power Action Challenge is an educational program designed to get students hands-on exposure to scientific concepts in a competition format that makes learning and problem-solving both fun and engaging. Middle school students learn…
Read MoreMessage from the 2019-20 NFPA Board Chair
NFPA Continues to Strengthen the Fluid Power Industry by John L. Stenz, Chairman & CEO, FORCE America, Inc. The NFPA Board of Directors gathered in late June 2019 for its annual retreat to review NFPA’s performance over the past fiscal year and to make strategic decisions for moving the association forward into the…
Read MoreNFPA Is Helping to Create More Fluid Power-Educated University Graduates
By Eric Lanke NFPA President/CEO At our recent Annual Conference in Laguna Beach, California, I shared the key ways NFPA is fulfilling its mission to strengthen the fluid power industry. In this, the fifth and final NFPA News post in this series, I’d like to share some of the things I said regarding NFPA’s…
Read MoreNFPA Executive Leadership Program Coming Soon
Together with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, NFPA is launching the NFPA Executive Leadership Program, a series of six full-day leadership sessions tailored specifically to the needs of the fluid power industry. The sessions will take place over the course of 18 months, and the first session in the series will take…
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