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Ethics Seminar by
MSoE
Meets PE Ethics Training Requirement
- Date: 10:30AM to 1:30PM Thursday, November 7, 2013
- Speaker: Blake Wentz of MSoE
- Location: Promega BioPharmaceutical Technology Center
Room Number: 122
5445 E Cheryl Pkwy
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
RESERVATION
is REQUIRED -- Class size is limited. Sign Up HERE
Topic:
Engineering Ethics (Course Outline)
1.) Introduction to Ethics 2.) Ethics vs. Legal Concerns 3.)
Engineering Ethical Standards (NSPE Code of Ethics)
4.) Examples of Ethical Situations 5.) Role Play Scenario
6.) Ethics as it relates to business development strategies
7.) Conclusions/Recommendations
Biography: Mr. Wentz has a
Bachelor's degree in Business and a Master's degree in Engineering
from the University of Nebraska. He owned and operated his
family's mechanical contracting business, Wentz Plumbing and
Heating, in Lincoln, NE for five years before becoming a college
professor. He has been a professor at the Milwaukee School of
Engineering for 8 years and was named the Program Director of
Construction Management at the beginning of 2008. He is the
faculty advisor for the Mechanical Contractors Association of
America (MCAA) Student Chapter, whose competition teams have
qualified for the National Finals five of the last seven years,
winning the National Title in 2011. Mr. Wentz was named the
Educator of the Year for 2008 by Wisconsin Builder Magazine, was
the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC) National Educator of
the Year in 2010 and was named National Educator of the Year for
the MCAA in 2011. He is also involved in consulting activities and
has been an expert witness for construction legal disputes as well
as being a keynote speaker for various organizations and is an
instructor for the AGC of Wisconsin's Leadership and Business
Management program, teaching the ethics component of that course.
Mr. Wentz is a co-author of a textbook on Construction and
Engineering Law that will be released in 2013 in which he authored
the ethics chapter of the book.
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Wind Turbine
Tour
- Date: 9:45AM to 3:30PM, October 28, 2013
- Place: Board Motor coach in front of Engineering Hall,
1415 Engineering Drive, Madison
Parking is available in Lot 17 adjacent to Engineering Hall
- To sign up for this tour, click
here.
For more information, please contact Mitch
Bradt at bradt@wisc.edu
Located in the in the towns of Eden and Empire, in Fond du Lac
County, Wisconsin, the Cedar
Ridge Wind Farm began commercial operation in December 2008.
Cedar Ridge is Alliant Energy subsidiary Wisconsin Power and Light
Company’s (WPL) first owned and operated wind facility. This
power plant is comprised on 41 Vestas V-82 (Type 1) 1.65 MW
generators--with a total rated capacity of 68 MW. The windfarm
balance-of-plant includes an S&C D-STATCOM for grid regulation
compliance. We will visit both the turbines and the substation.
Note: You must wear
closed-toe shoes (i.e. no sandals) and boots are recommended. If
you own a hard-hat, please bring it. Alliant does have hard hats
on site, but we are expecting a bigger group than normal.
Itinerary
9:45 am Gather at Bus
and depart
11:30 arrive at Cedar Ridge; Visit substation, maintenance
building, and erected turbine,
13:00 leave Cedar Ridge, head to lunch
13:30 Lunch location TBD
14:30 depart for UW
15:30 arrive back at UW Madison
Thanks
to Steven Apfelbaum and Jason
Carlson of Applied
Ecological Services for their excellent talk on September
19th. Steven discussed a wide variety of projects they had
worked on while Jason discussed in detail the instrumentation and
processing of the data. Click on the thumbnail to the left for a
composite of pictures from the talk.