LOL - that is just spell check helping me out. Same issue as "bear versus
bare" hands..............
Dave
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Douglas Pauls <
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> The first question I would ask is where is this Iowa Statue University you
> speak of. Must be one of the half-fractional Iowa Universities.
>
> Doug Pauls
> Principal Materials and Process Engineer
> Rockwell Collins
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 7:03 AM David Hillman <david.hillman@
> rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>
>> The Question:
>> This element is one of the Rare Earth Elements (REEs) so like most of the
>> rare earths, it forms trivalent ions with fluorescent properties and is
>> used as phosphors in various applications. Researchers at Iowa Statue
>> University/Ames Laboratory are using compounds containing this
>> element investigating its giant magnetocaloric effect for magnetic
>> refrigeration near room temperature, which could provide significant
>> efficiency and environmental advantages over conventional refrigeration
>> methods. This element is also used in nuclear marine propulsion systems as
>> a burnable poison. What element is being described?
>>
>>
>>
>> The winner of the quiz will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for
>> the week.
>>
>>
>> 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
>> Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing
>> Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
>> Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
>> Week 58 Leland Woodall
>> Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
>> Week 60 Leland Woodall
>> Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
>> Week 62 Leland Woodall!
>> Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
>> Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
>> Week 63 Tom Granat
>> Week 64 George Wenger
>>
>> Week 65 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
>> - Since the boys are probably tired from all the work George made them
>> do,
>> they can join me for the week at Sunset Beach on the Monterrey Bay. Pure
>> relaxation on vacation. Maybe they can convince the local raccoons to stay
>> out of my camp. We’ll have some great games of Cards Against Humanity with
>> them.
>>
>> Week 66 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
>> - Good timing. We just purchased another oven and I can use the help
>> getting ready to take delivery
>>
>> Week 66 Leland Woodall
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>> Week 67 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
>> - While I am on leave, guys can spend whole week trying to tidy my
>> desktop...hope they can finish before I'm back!
>>
>> Week 68 James Head
>> - It appears that Clumpy and Kloumpios brought the rain with them after
>> we've had several weeks of dry and hot weather. I've been keeping them
>> busy
>> all week with some Orcad layout work with a brief excursion to take my two
>> year old daughter to Mini Professors to learn about friction whilst
>> constructing a hover craft out of an old CD, balloon and the top of a
>> washing up liquid bottle. I caught them trying to violate the second law
>> of
>> thermodynamics but managed to stop them in time before they could give
>> Louise bad ideas.
>>
>> Week 69 ????
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
>> Dave Hillman
>> Rockwell Collins
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