Recent Ferris Graduate Presents at National Engineering Education Conference
BIG RAPIDS - A leading manufacturing design software company, Dassault
Systémes, has asked 2009 Manufacturing Technology graduate Ben Hovorka
(Plymouth) to present on their behalf at the American Society for Engineering
Education annual conference in Austin, Texas, June 15-17.
Dave Livingstone of engineering.com recommended
Hovorka after he won first place for his poster presentation at the COE 2009
Annual PLM Conference & Technifair in Seattle (formerly the CATIA Operators
Exchange). He was one of 10 students nationally to present at the conference on
a current CATIA Modeling project that they had developed.
“Participation at
COE and other conferences, like the ASEE, helps expose industry to the quality
of the Manufacturing Program at Ferris,” said David Borck, assistant
professor of Manufacturing Tooling Technology at Ferris State University. “I feel Ben’s success has a lot to do with the way he
approaches his projects and the input he has had from all his instructors which
reflects the quality of our program.”
Hovorka said many of his competitors had
submissions that were more of a product design or analysis where his was the
process to produce the product. “The judges were impressed with the
documentation involved and to the degree that we take itin our process.”
Since graduating in May, Hovorka has been busy
updating his presentation to include what was learned by the process designed
and interviewing for employment. Attending and presenting at these conferences
is a showcase for him and the strength of the
manufacturing programs at Ferris to a variety of industries.
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