One Last Milestone

With a flight to visit family last weekend, I celebrated not only the last planned flight of the year, but also the filling up of my first logbook. I hinted around that I needed a new logbook for Christmas but apparently Santa missed it. I blogged previously about passing the 1000 hour mark and 2012 was another good year for flying. In fact...

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Updated Tornado Alley Service Instruction

Cirrus just published Service Advisory 11-03R1 notifying our fleet of an updated Tornado Alley Service Bulletin 12-02 for recommended inspection of engine driven fuel pumps on turbonormalized SR22 aircraft.The initial Service Bulletin was published in 2011, and I had a blog post about it then. Tornado alley has superceded their original...

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Construction Update

It wasn't long ago that Max Grey broke ground at MRCTC (July 16th) at began constructing IRE's new home. Max Grey has done a lot of damage in the past 6 months, putting up new trusses in the clean lab to reinforce the ceiling against the snow, and building the frame of the new IRE building. Here are some photos showing their work:New...

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End of year poetry

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End of the semester

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Finish StrongThe end of the semester is close and I’ve heard students in other programs talk about how their semesters are winding down. My second semester at IRE began fast and continued ramping up without any indication that it will slow down before I fly off the semester’s cliff (different from the financial one.) If the constantly running Ricoh printer/copier at IRE is any indication, everyone else is just as busy. I use...

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IRE "Splash" Video

The students and faculty at Iron Range Engineering wanted to treat our ABET accreditation group to a opening video to set the stage for our program. The goal was to capture the students of IRE working in their element. All of the students in the video list their name, city, and generation. The video was a big hit with all of our visitors, and allowed us to show them right off the bat what a dynamic program we have here...

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Minnesota Power VisitSeven Iron Range Engineering students visited the Minnesota Power Boswell Energy Center located in Cohasset, MN to complete a deep learning activity for thermodynamics. Ron Ulseth led the group on a tour through Unit 4 to track the entire thermodynamic process. The tour consisted of locating the condensers and following the condensate pipe through the different feedwater heaters located throughout the plant....

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Oil Refinery Tour

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New equipment soon to arrive in IRE lab

With our new building reaching completion we are anticipating the new lab, and all of the equipment that will be in it next semester. With this new equipment being available to use, the constructing and manufacturing of projects and experiments will be able to be done in-house. Our lab supervisor is currently in a week-long training and will...

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Job Search

The main reason why anyone goes to college is to get a job when they graduate. Here at IRE, the faculty assisted us in this process by having all the students submit a job search package which included a cover letter and resume. These documents were reviewed by the faculty and the students were given feedback with suggestions for improvement. The students were then called for mock phone interviews, from these interviews students...

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The President’s Volunteer Service Award

This is first year that Iron Range Engineering has become a certified organization for The President’s Volunteer Service Award. Students can now be recognized for their service by their nation.  Each student at Iron Range Engineering is asked to complete 10-15 service hours a semester. However, students that volunteer 100 hours or more will now be recognized for their dedication with an awa...

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Century College Recruiting

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Construction Update

The expansion that is scheduled to be completed before Spring Semester is coming along rather nicely and is looking good. The walls are up and the brick siding has started to go up as well.For the last few days the smell of fresh tar being put on the roof has filled the area around the new construction, and the windows...

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