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Meet a Fluid Power Scholarship Winner—Trevor Burke
Programs like the Fluid Power Scholarships are made possible in part by the generous support of industry volunteers as well as NFPA Education and Technology Foundation and Pascal Society donors. The NFPA Education and Technology Foundation has awarded $2,000 scholarships to students pursuing fluid power technology fields of study. Here’s one of the winners, Trevor Burke. He is attending…
Read MoreNew NFPA Fluid Power Challenge Site Launches
I was moderately upset when Instagram recently changed its format. This social media site has been a friend to me and it hurts to see an old friend that you love so much change! You will not mind the change at all when you see the new Fluid Power Challenge website. Part of our continued…
Read More2016 NFPA Foundation Report Presentation Available
by Eric Lanke NFPA CEO I re-recorded the NFPA Foundation Report presentation I gave at the NFPA Annual Conference on March 11, 2016, at the La Cantera Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas, on the assumption that NFPA members not able to attend the event would be interested in hearing about what our Foundation has accomplished…
Read MoreNFPA Foundation Grants Bring Fluid Power To Classrooms
Jane Suminski has more patience than anyone I know. She teaches science to sixth, seventh and eighth graders at Humboldt Park School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Each trimester she teaches an elective science class on engineering and fluid power to about thirty students. This year, Jane applied for and received a grant from the NFPA Foundation…
Read MoreFluid Power Industry Receives Research Updates at IEC Summit
Hosted by Professor Monika Ivantysynova from Purdue University’s Maha Lab, the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power’s (CCEFP) Industry Engagement Committee (IEC) met during the first week of June to hear about the progress of sponsored research projects. This was a great opportunity for the 40+ IEC committee members to learn about the progress…
Read MoreNFPA Foundation Supports Chainless Challenge Team – Hands On Experience for Students
NFPA Education and Technology Foundation awarded a teaching grant to support a team of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that exposed them to fluid power design, applications and technology through a capstone design project that required them to develop a fluid powered bicycle to compete in the Parker Hannifin sponsored Chainless Challenge.…
Read MoreNFPA 2015 Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament — REGISTRATION OPEN
The 2015 NFPA Foundation Invitational Golf Tournament Registration is OPEN so dust off those golf clubs and get ready. Scheduled for Monday, August 10, the tournament will again be held at Chevy Chase Country Club in Wheeling, IL. This beautifully maintained public course is located on Milwaukee Avenue and only a five minute drive from…
Read MoreCCEFP Director Presents “Hydraulic Transmissions for Wind Power” at Vanderbilt Seminar Series
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]rofessor and Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) Director, Kim A. Stelson, hosted by Eric Barth, CCEFP Co-Deputy Director and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, a CCEFP university, was the invited guest speaker at Vanderbilt’s Mechanical Engineering Departmental Seminar. Over 50 engineering faculty and graduate students attended. It is a standard…
Read MoreNew Video Showcases Impact of NFPA Foundation Programs
By Eric Lanke NFPA CEO Please follow this link to watch a 4-minute video we premiered a few weeks ago at the 2015 NFPA Annual Conference in San Diego. Through the generous support of our many donors, our Foundation has been doing some amazing work in helping our industry meet its pressing workforce development…
Read MoreNew Video Showcases Impact of NFPA Foundation Programs
By Eric Lanke NFPA CEO Please follow this link to watch a 4-minute video we premiered a few weeks ago at the 2015 NFPA Annual Conference in San Diego. Through the generous support of our many donors, our Foundation has been doing some amazing work in helping our industry meet its pressing workforce development…
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