Dave,
We have two new SPI's being installed and validated next week, so I'm sure we can use the help.
I hope they are brushed up on statistics and Minitab, as a whole lot of number crunching will be going on!
Steven E Herring
Director of Engineering
Pennatronics Corp
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Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer
Here is the Element Quiz Answer:
The Question:
This element is not found in its pure state in nature yet its the third most abundant element found in the Earth's crust. The largest piece of this element (2.8kg) ever cast at that time, is part of the Washington Monument. The statue of Anteros in Piccadilly Circus, London. This element has thousands of commercial applications. Which element is being described?
The Answer:
The element is Aluminum (Al). In the Earth's crust, aluminium is the most abundant (8.3% by mass) metallic element and the third most abundant of all elements (after oxygen and silicon). The pyramid capstone on the Washington Monument is an aluminum casting and the statue of Anteros is one of the first statues ever cast from aluminum. Aluminum is used everywhere in our lives today.
The winner of the quiz is Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp, and he will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week.
The EQAB reviewed Doug's submission of Statuium and has disqualified his response (yes, I know everyone is shocked). There is only one element that has been shown to have a +9 oxidation state and that is Iridium. A team led by Mingfei Zhou at Fudan University in China have successfully formed the [IrO4]+ cation in the gas phase using pulsed-laser vaporization in 2014. A review of the literature shows no other documented +9 oxidation cases. Additionally, the Washington Monument capstone is well documented as aluminum and not statuium. And finally the Cabo de Hornos Administration commune authorities had no record of the existence of a former land bridge per a request by the EQAB (they actually asked EQAB to repeat the request twice).
So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
Past Quiz winners/tasks:
Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
Week 3 John Burke
Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
Week 8 Leland Woodall
Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 13 No Quiz, Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 16 John Maxwell Week 17 Leland Woodall Week 18 Leland Woodall Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 20 Robert Kondner Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 28 Leland Woodall Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 30 Leland Woodall Week 31 Leland Woodall Week 32 Steve Gregory Week 33 Leland Woodall Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem Week 38 Leland Woodall Week 38 Tom Carroll Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 40 Leland Woodall Week 41 Tom Carroll Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 43 Joyce Koo Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components Week 45 Leland Woodall Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose Week 49 Leland Woodall Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital Week 52 Leland Woodall Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 54 Leland Woodall
- We recently bought some new 3D AOI equipment, and the guys are assisting me with the disposition of questionable calls made by our associates. I should have known they were well-versed in IPC-A-610 acceptability criteria. They hadn't made me aware of this in the past, and then told me
it was because I'd never asked... Shame on me, right?
Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing
- Clumpy and Kloumpios will arrive just in time to help with some spring cleaning outside. Can't wait for this winter to be gone. You are probably dealing with Winter Storm Xanto right now, good luck with that. I hope it misses New York City as it moves east. Please have them bring the tiller attachment for their John Deere so they can easily turn the soil in the front flower bed. After the boys get done with the yard work they can relax on the deck with some nice IPA and go fishing in the canal out back. I know they enjoyed that last time they visited.
Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
- I picked the boys from Ben Gurion Airport after a 24 hr delay. I shall let them to overcome the Jet Lag, but tomorrow they are going to work hard at my labs. I hope they will enjoy their stay
Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
- assisted with ????
I hope everyone has a awesome week!
Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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