Florida Institute of Technology - Ad Astra Yearbook (Melbourne, FL)

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Electrical And Computer Engineering Coordination Committee The Electrical and Computer Engineering Coordination Committee continues to help improve the quality of education in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Their main function is to improve the interactions between the students, faculty and department. The student representatives work directly with the department head. The student representatives are Margo Blair (Assistance Secretary), Terri Brinkman, Lisa Coleman, Piadine Qeier (Vice President), Rick Marks, Tamara Morton, Salim Pittalwala, Rhody Schnieder, Greg Vence, Vikram Verma (President). American Society Of Mechanical Engineers The members are B.Abdel Hamid, R. Biebesheimer, T. Blalock, R. Campanelli, M. Cowden, Y. Chia, M. Davis, D. Dean, J. Dupper, C. Eteman-Moghadam, B. Gilbert, C. Hellsten, B. Ho-Yen, T. Howard, R. Intveld, J. Johannesson, E. Julles, C. Kelly (Secretary), B. Kissel, D. Kube, T. Lai, J. Laibe, D. Leduc, S. Lee, S. Leitgeb, T. Leonard, R. Lin, W. Luciani (Vice Chairman), M. NacDon- ald, T. MacEnka, S. MacKenzie, A. Matos, P. McMorris, J. Morris, R. Heunlist, P. Pattani, U. Ramasami, Q. Rojas, V. Russo, D. Savage, R. Shepherd, B. Simmons, B. Smith, R. Tasker, M. Thibodeau, V. Upadhye, F. Wehbe, Q. Woods, S. Yeo. The purpose of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers is to promote technical expertise and a sense of ethics in those engineers interested in the mechanical engineering field. Among the activities held this year the A.S.M.E. has held a field trip to Cape Kennedy Space Center and the Ocean Spray Fruit Processing Plant in Vero Beach, speakers from the A.S.M.E. Regional Office and the Space Studies Institute. The A.S.M.E, also promotes the purchase of equipment for the Mechanical Engineering department having recently purchased a printer for the Computer Aided Design Lab. The Mini- Baja auto race competition is another project. 143

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Association For Computing Machinery The members are James AUiss (President), Joseph Bauer, Thomas Blome, Dirksen Bussiere, Trank Cardoze, Andrew Diaz, Antonio Femandex, Tim Qoodhue, Jaishri Qopaiji (Secretary Trea- surer), James Qreeg, James Greene, Jace Qreenman, Krishnan Iyer (Vice president), Charles Johnson, Michael Karamanolis, Arun Krishnamurthy, Stephanos Maminakis, John McMey, Alexo- poulos Mihail, Rahesh Mody, riaushad Mulji, Ravi narayanaswamy, Roy Outerbridge, James Perry, William Pives, Hatem El Shebaaly, Alex Soya, Apostolos Spanakaras, Joe Stemlicht, Cynthia Thome. The Association for Computing Machinery serves as a source of information for all computer oriented students and serves only to further knowledge and open minds to new ideas. It is open to all students at F.l.T. and meets once a week. Meetings may be for organization, projects, or lectures. Members are students with a desire to leam more, to get a head start on the others, and ACM gives them that chance. The purpose of the Society of Physics Students is the promotion of physics and research directed at all majors. Speakers, films, field trips, and an annual picnic are the main activities that members of the club enjoy. Membership information may be obtained in the Physics Space Science department. A subscription to Physics Today is included in the national membership fee. The society is aflRliated with Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society. Society Of Physics Students 142

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Rifle Team The Rifle Team competes nationally and last year three of the five shooters placed in the top ten in the national competition. The team competes with 22-caliber match rifles. At 50 feet, 40 shots are taken at a target the size of a silver dollar in prone, kneeling and standing positions. The positions are uncomfortable and awkard to the be- ginner, but with practice, become nat- ural and support the gun with the least amount of strain. The team has had some drawbacks the past couple of years, first they lost all their schol- arships two years ago, now they are not on the F.l.T. PiCAA roster and the rifie range has been taken for other uses. But they still love the spirit of competition. The members are Scott Crawford, John Crosbie, Eric QestI, Doug Qoller, Mark Homan, John Jones, Jay Langley, Tim Moeske, Kent Smith, Bob Voelkers. 144