Wow...Iowa has a whole university to teach statue building? Impressive!!
I can imagine the team mascot..."Go Pigeons!! We will crap on you!"

Lloyd Duso
Plant Manager
Diamond-MT
(814) 535-3505
www.Diamond-mt.com


On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 8:41 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 <
> [log in to unmask]> 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
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
>