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<strong>ASAE</strong> <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> ­ The Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and Biological Systems<br />

No. 29.<br />

2005<br />

Inside this issue...<br />

From the Chair 1<br />

March Meeting Review 2<br />

Award Winners 2<br />

Election Results 4<br />

<strong>Section</strong> News 4<br />

Scholarship Recipients 5<br />

Upcoming Events 8<br />

2005­2006 <strong>Section</strong> Officers 9<br />

Social Hour Sponsors 9<br />

From the Chair –Wow! This year has sure gone by<br />

fast! It seems like just yesterday we were planning<br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> activities for 2004­5.<br />

Looking back I think you will agree that our <strong>Section</strong><br />

has had a very successful and fun year. Here are<br />

some of the highlights:<br />

1) <strong>ASAE</strong> President Jerry Wille spoke at the Fall<br />

Meeting<br />

2) $1000 scholarships awarded to two college<br />

students in Agricultural Engineering related<br />

fields<br />

3) QC Elite Robotics team partially sponsored<br />

by our <strong>Section</strong> spoke at the Winter Meeting<br />

and later finished in 2 nd place in a regional<br />

competition in St Louis<br />

4) Continuing Education Seminar featured<br />

Richard Zultner of the QFD Institute<br />

5) Four new members joined our <strong>Section</strong> at the<br />

“Engineers on Ice”event at a QC Mallards<br />

game<br />

6) Twenty­four <strong>Section</strong> members received<br />

recognition for patents over the past year<br />

Spring<br />

7) <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> recognized as the<br />

“<strong>Section</strong> of the Year”by the <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

Engineering and Science Council<br />

8) QC <strong>Section</strong> Executive Committee member,<br />

Rusty Unterzuber, elected to the national<br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> Board of Trustees<br />

9) QC <strong>Section</strong> co­sponsored another successful<br />

AMC in Cedar Rapids, IA<br />

10) Thirty­five <strong>Section</strong> members toured the Cat<br />

Dozer factory in Peoria, IL<br />

None of these accomplishments would have been<br />

possible without your participation or without the<br />

help of my fellow Executive Committee members.<br />

So, I would like to extend my thanks to each one of<br />

you for your part in making this a great year for our<br />

<strong>Section</strong>. Your feedback is what enables us to<br />

continue to have meetings and activities of interest<br />

to our local members. So, please feel free to contact<br />

me or any of the officers with comments or<br />

suggestions.<br />

I would also like to extend my congratulations to<br />

those members elected as officers for the upcoming<br />

year. Shannon Brockmann will be taking over as<br />

Chair in June and I am confident that she will do a<br />

great job!<br />

As we look ahead to next year, I challenge you to<br />

continue to support your <strong>Section</strong> by not only<br />

attending meetings and activities but also by inviting<br />

potential members and guests. Our outreach to<br />

students and new members will continue to be major<br />

objectives of our <strong>Section</strong>. You can help by<br />

convincing your supervisors and colleagues of the<br />

value of participating in <strong>ASAE</strong> at the sectional,<br />

regional or national level.<br />

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Although our official meeting season is over, there<br />

are still some great opportunities to support <strong>ASAE</strong>.<br />

The ¼ Scale Tractor Competition will be held<br />

June 2­5 at the <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> Downs. Please make<br />

every effort to attend. If you would like to<br />

participate, please contact our <strong>Section</strong><br />

representative, Andrew Dochterman, at (309) 765­<br />

7120 or DochtermanAndrewC@JohnDeere.com.<br />

Also, don’t forget the <strong>ASAE</strong> National Meeting this<br />

summer in Tampa. It sounds like there will be a lot<br />

of great sessions and activities.<br />

Have a great summer and I look forward to seeing<br />

you at some of these upcoming events! ­ Steve<br />

Newbery, 2004­5 <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Chair<br />

March Meeting Review The Annual Awards<br />

Banquet and Spouse/Guest Night was held at the<br />

Viking Club in Moline on March 29 th with over 70<br />

members and guests present. The meeting began<br />

with two concurrent technical sessions.<br />

In one tech session, Fabio Dotto, a Brazilian native<br />

currently working at John Deere Harvester Product<br />

Development, gave an overview of Brazilian<br />

agriculture. Part of his presentation focused on the<br />

evolution of farming in Brazil’s tropical region<br />

(Cerrados) that is located north of the Tropic of<br />

Capricorn. Primary crops that are grown in this area<br />

are soybeans, corn, and cotton. He spoke on the<br />

high potential this area has to expand agriculturally,<br />

but also stated that Brazil faces challenges in<br />

transporting the high volumes of grain from outside<br />

this area.<br />

The second speaker, Miles Keaton, of John Deere<br />

Seeding, gave a presentation on his experiences in<br />

Brazil during his recent 15 month expatriate<br />

assignment. He spoke on both work and social<br />

experiences. His presentation touched on<br />

similarities and differences that he observed in the<br />

Brazilian culture compared to the US culture.<br />

Politics, foods, and construction practices were just<br />

some of the topics that he spoke about. Miles and<br />

his family were able to participate in several of their<br />

town's celebrations that included Juninho (All<br />

Saints) and Carnival, as well as taking the<br />

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opportunity to visit vacation spots, such as Iguaçu<br />

Falls in nearby Argentina. Miles offered these<br />

suggestions for success in an international<br />

assignment: (1) be prepared, (2) be flexible, (3)<br />

expect the unexpected, (4) learn the local language<br />

and customs, (5) set and strive for specific<br />

objectives and (6) keep your documents in order!<br />

In the other tech session, Craig Timmerman of John<br />

Deere Davenport described the development and<br />

features of the D Series motor graders while Jill<br />

Hanus of the John Deere Product Engineering<br />

Center in Waterloo described the development and<br />

features of the 5025 series tractors.<br />

The after­dinner speaker, <strong>Section</strong> Member Travis<br />

(Rusty) Unterzuber, Deere & Company Engineering<br />

Standards, discussed parallels between being<br />

competitive in racing and succeeding in your<br />

profession. Drawing on over 20 years of racing<br />

experience, Rusty’s “Keys to Success”included: (1)<br />

COMMITMENT (2) Plan ­> Organize ­> Execute ­<br />

> Evaluate ­> Plan … (3) The difference (between<br />

success and mediocrity) is in the details. (4) $ can be<br />

traded for time until you run out of time! (4) Be<br />

there early and often (5) You’re not in this alone!<br />

(networks are important) (6) Use the rules and<br />

existing technology to your advantage (7) Be<br />

flexible and (8) INTEGRITY –play fair! Photos<br />

from the March meeting are included as a separate<br />

file at the <strong>Section</strong> web site.<br />

Award Winners –The following <strong>Section</strong> members<br />

were recognized at the March meeting:<br />

25 year members: Ronald Birr<br />

Richard Clark<br />

Jerry Duncan<br />

Kevin Ehrecke<br />

Wendell Hunt<br />

David Lienemann<br />

Dennis Roe<br />

Jerry Sandau<br />

Paul Schuck<br />

Travis (Rusty) Unterzuber<br />

Don Yarbrough<br />

40 year members: Roger Curry


Thomas Hitzhusen<br />

George Oelschlaeger<br />

Paul Thornbloom<br />

Robert Wismer<br />

60+ year members: Milton Hedquist (61 years)<br />

Robert Roth (61 years)<br />

Etlar Henningsen (62 years)<br />

Arnold Skromme (64 years)<br />

Donald Kuska (66 years)<br />

Patents (recipients in alphabetical order):<br />

Klaus Becker ­ Multifunction Latch for a Combine<br />

Robert Bennett ­ Hydraulic Hose Holder for an<br />

Agricultural Implement<br />

Daniel Burke ­ Automatic Control Initiation for a<br />

Harvester<br />

Bruce Coers ­ Automatic Control Initiation for a<br />

Harvester<br />

Chad Dow ­ Grain Compartment Cleanout<br />

Arrangement<br />

Sheldon Grywacheski ­ Front Chaffer and Cleaning<br />

Fan<br />

William Guske ­ Feed Conveyor/Rock Trap and<br />

Header Drive for an Agricultural Combine<br />

Matthew Hagen – (1) Easily Adjustable Double<br />

Eliminator, (2) Removable Seed Tray for a Seed<br />

Meter<br />

Miles Keaton – (1) Furrow Opener/Closer in an<br />

Agricultural Machine, (2) Seed Metering System for<br />

Use in a Seeding Machine<br />

Donald Landphair ­ Pneumatic Coupler for an Ag<br />

Seeding Machine<br />

Dwight Lemke ­ Unloader Control for a Combined<br />

Cotton Harvester and Module Builder and Method<br />

of Operation of the Same<br />

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Nathan Mariman –(1) Pneumatic Coupler for an Ag<br />

Seeding Machine, (2) Drive Element for Gearbox<br />

Output, (3) Removable Seed Tray for a Seed Meter<br />

Robert Matousek –(1) Unitary Blow Molded Cover<br />

Panel for a Threshing Region of an Agricultural<br />

Combine, (2) Crop Residue Flow Guide with Flow­<br />

Through Capability for a Rotary Crop Residue<br />

Spreader of an Agricultural Combine, (3) Side<br />

Swing Hitch for an Agricultural Combine, (4)<br />

Shroud for the Infeed Impeller of a Rotary Combine<br />

Scott McCartney ­ Pneumatic Coupler for an Ag<br />

Seeding Machine<br />

Corey Neumann ­ Combine Harvester Grain Tank<br />

Cover<br />

Jeffrey Payne ­ Front Chaffer and Cleaning Fan<br />

Michael Pearson ­ Duct Support and Transition<br />

Structure for a Harvester<br />

Terence Pickett – (1) Automatic Wind­Drift<br />

Compensation System for Agricultural Sprayers, (2)<br />

Automatic Mass­Flow Sensor Calibration for a<br />

Yield Monitor, (3) Direct Modification of DGPS<br />

Information with Inertial Measurement Data<br />

Dennis Roe ­ Reverser Control for a Combine<br />

Kevin Schwinn ­ Method of Operation of a Sieve<br />

Adjustment Control System for an Agricultural<br />

Combine<br />

Alan Sheidler ­ Cooling Package for Agricultural<br />

Combine<br />

Mark Sommer ­ System and Method for Electronic<br />

Collection of Data on an Agricultural Input<br />

Nathaniel Stephens ­ Combine Harvester Grain Tank<br />

Cover<br />

Joseph Teijido ­ Reverser Control for a Combine<br />

Bradley Watts ­ Multifunction Latch for a Combine


Deere’s customers. He has been granted 4 patents<br />

related to seeding equipment.<br />

Election Results –The officers elected to serve for<br />

the 2005­2006 <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> year are:<br />

Shannon Brockmann –Chair (elected in 2004)<br />

Chad Yagow –Chair­Elect<br />

Steve Newbery –Past Chair<br />

Janet Maas –Secretary<br />

Kyle Jahn –Treasurer<br />

Steve Juhasz –Nominating Committee<br />

Eric Viall –Nominating Committee<br />

Scott Wilcox –Nominating Committee<br />

He has been an active member of the community<br />

including Junior Achievement, <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> Chamber<br />

of Commerce Career Day, an English instructor at<br />

the Fisk Language School in Horizontina, Brasil and<br />

a volunteer at the Memorial Heights United<br />

Methodist Church in Rock Island.<br />

Miles is a Past Chair of the <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> and<br />

holds a B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Engineering<br />

from Kansas State University and is currently<br />

working on his MBA from the University of<br />

Chicago. He lives in Port Byron, Illinois with his<br />

wife, Cortney, and their two daughters.<br />

<strong>Section</strong> News – A <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> member and<br />

the <strong>Section</strong> itself were honored at the National<br />

Engineers Week Banquet held by the <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

Engineering and Science Council (QCESC) on 25<br />

February at the John Deere Pavilion (see<br />

http://www.<strong>qcesc</strong>.org/Eng%20Award%202005.htm<br />

for more details).<br />

<strong>Section</strong> Member Miles Keaton was recognized as<br />

the QCESC Junior Engineer of the Year.<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Chair Steve Newbery (on<br />

the right) receives the QCESC Society of the<br />

Year Award on behalf of the <strong>Section</strong>.<br />

Miles Keaton<br />

Miles is employed at the John Deere Seeding Group<br />

as a Product Program Manager. Miles is an<br />

innovative engineer with worldwide engineering<br />

experience including a 14 month assignment at John<br />

Deere’s Horizontina, Brasil facility. His seeding<br />

technology improvements have significantly<br />

improved planter precision and productivity for John<br />

The <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> was also selected as the<br />

QCESC’s Society of the Year. The <strong>Section</strong>’s<br />

outreach programs in such areas as support of<br />

scholarships, the QC Elite robotics team and the<br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> ¼ Scale Tractor Design Contest and the<br />

AMC were cited as examples of the <strong>Section</strong>’s<br />

outreach to others.<br />

The May issue of <strong>ASAE</strong>’s Resource magazine had<br />

articles on the QCESC’s recognition of Miles<br />

Keaton and the <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong>.<br />

Congratulations to <strong>Section</strong> Member and Past Chair<br />

Rusty Unterzuber on his election to the <strong>ASAE</strong><br />

Board of Trustees. Rusty will start a two year term<br />

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of office at this year’s Annual International Meeting<br />

in Tampa.<br />

The <strong>Section</strong> received a note of thanks from the local<br />

QC Elite FIRST robotics team for our financial<br />

support this past year. The team placed second in<br />

the St. Louis regional out of 44 teams and won the<br />

Daimler/Chrysler Team Spirit Award. At the<br />

Chicago regional, they placed 5 th out of 37 teams<br />

and won the Xerox Creativity Award. See<br />

http://www.qcelite.com/ for more details.<br />

As of May 9 th , The <strong>Section</strong> had a checking account<br />

balance of $ 914.47, a savings account balance of $<br />

8,801.86 and a certificate of deposit for $ 2,055.34.<br />

Scholarship Recipients –This year, the <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />

<strong>Section</strong> increased its scholarship amount from $ 750<br />

to $ 1,000 and again awarded two scholarships.<br />

Brian Peters (an Iowa State junior from Clinton,<br />

Iowa) and Bethany Frew (an Ohio State sophomore<br />

from Carrollton, Ohio) were chosen as the recipients<br />

and recognized at the March meeting. Each<br />

submitted an essay with their scholarship<br />

applications which follow:<br />

Brian Peters<br />

“I believe that the foundation of every successful<br />

person begins with leadership. Without leadership in<br />

today’s society, nothing happens. I believe that it is<br />

important to take initiative, and to strive to achieve<br />

the next level. One of my main career goals is to<br />

become an influential leader within the agricultural<br />

industry, and to also set an example for future<br />

generations. Organizations like the American<br />

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Society of Agricultural Engineers have played a vital<br />

role in letting me demonstrate my leadership<br />

potential. By serving as past <strong>ASAE</strong> Vice President<br />

last year, I have been able to take my leadership<br />

role to the next level. My most recent leadership<br />

experience was this past fall when I became involved<br />

in Engineers Week 2004. These leadership positions<br />

have allowed me to expand my horizons, and have<br />

given me valuable experience for the years ahead.<br />

The goals of <strong>ASAE</strong> truly lie within that of an<br />

engineer who possesses superb character and<br />

excellent leadership skills. This is why <strong>ASAE</strong> has<br />

developed into such a great organization. The<br />

success of this organization truly belongs to the<br />

variety of talented and influential members who<br />

know what it takes to be successful.<br />

In addition to leadership, I want to also apply my<br />

knowledge of science and engineering to improve<br />

the agricultural industry. Currently I am a junior and<br />

am specializing in the power and machinery option<br />

of Agricultural Engineering. This past summer I<br />

experienced my first engineering related job at<br />

Archer Daniels Midland, an agricultural corn<br />

processing plant in Clinton, IA. As an engineering<br />

intern, I was given a lot of responsibility which I<br />

really enjoyed. My major project for the summer<br />

included testing fiber dewatering machines to see if<br />

there was room for efficiency improvements by<br />

decreasing exiting feed moistures. While working at<br />

ADM on that project, I figured out that engineering<br />

certainly was the right major and career pathway for<br />

me. I felt a sense of passion and dedication toward<br />

the engineering profession, which I believe will carry<br />

on into my full­time career. After returning to<br />

school in the fall, I found out that a lot of the basic<br />

engineering principles that I had learned carried on<br />

into the classroom. This has led to me having more<br />

interest in my engineering classes, and has also<br />

allowed me to relate the information learned in class<br />

to the engineering profession. One of my main<br />

career goals in life is to be able to contribute to the<br />

field of agriculture as well as society as a whole. By<br />

making agricultural machines more efficient or by<br />

designing the next generation of combines to harvest<br />

crops, I will ultimately be able to contribute to the<br />

field of agriculture. Doing this will certainly yield<br />

success.


I believe that diversification is also an essential<br />

quality to incorporate into today’s work. By<br />

combining your ideas with engineers with different<br />

views and different backgrounds, one can<br />

accomplish so much more. <strong>ASAE</strong> is a unique<br />

organization that conveniently lets me network with<br />

other engineers around the globe, and is definitely an<br />

organization that I am truly proud to be a part of. In<br />

the years ahead, I want to obtain professional<br />

licensure so that I can feel that sense of<br />

accomplishment and respect toward the profession.<br />

By combining my leadership and engineering skills<br />

with others, I believe that I can make a difference in<br />

the agricultural industry.”<br />

A scholarship recipient the last two years as well,<br />

Brian wrote the following note of thanks: “Once<br />

again, I really would like to thank you for the nice<br />

scholarship. The money will come in very handy<br />

when paying for books, tuition, etc. I really<br />

appreciate your generosity and investment in my<br />

future. <strong>ASAE</strong> is one of the few organizations that<br />

strives to make a difference in its young member's<br />

lives. I am so glad to be a part of the <strong>ASAE</strong><br />

organization.<br />

The <strong>ASAE</strong> club at Iowa State is staying very active.<br />

We are planning on heading down to Kentucky this<br />

Thursday (March 31 st ) for a conference with a<br />

variety of other ag engineering schools. Hopefully<br />

that will be a great experience!<br />

In addition, school is going by extremely fast. Won't<br />

be long and it will be summer break. I have an<br />

internship lined up with Kuhn Knight, Inc. in<br />

Brodhead, Wisconsin for the summer. They<br />

manufacture industrial manure spreaders and feed<br />

wagons. It is a product test engineering position so I<br />

am looking forward to that.<br />

Once again, thank you for the nice reward! I really<br />

appreciate your help.”<br />

Bethany Frew<br />

“I love baking. I have been experimenting in the<br />

kitchen since I was old enough to reach the table. I<br />

remember one time when I was helping my mom<br />

make date pinwheel cookies, and we couldn’t get<br />

the dough and date filling rolls to maintain their<br />

cylindrical shape. The dough logs were becoming<br />

deformed in the process of transferring them to the<br />

cookie sheet for refrigeration. It was during this<br />

dough dilemma that I had my first wave of<br />

engineering brilliance. I quickly devised a method to<br />

transfer the dough logs while maintaining their<br />

appropriate shape and the cookie crisis was<br />

resolved. My engineering ingenuity saved the day,<br />

and I was from then on known in my household as<br />

“The Cookie Engineer”.<br />

Long before I even knew of the Department of<br />

Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering<br />

(FABE) at The Ohio Sate University, I had declared<br />

my future occupation to be a “Cookie Engineer”. It<br />

was either a coincidence of irony or fate that I<br />

stumbled across this department during a college<br />

visit to OSU while I was in high school. I<br />

immediately knew that this was the place for me,<br />

and I believed that food engineering would allow me<br />

to accomplish my childhood destiny of becoming a<br />

cookie engineer. Since that time, I have only further<br />

confirmed my initial impression that the FABE<br />

program was the perfect fit for my interests and<br />

abilities. However, I have come to realize that<br />

cookie engineering is not my true calling in life;<br />

instead, I am focusing on biological engineering with<br />

either an emphasis in the environment or<br />

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iotechnology. As a farm girl from the rolling hills<br />

of eastern Ohio, I have developed a passion for<br />

agriculture and the environment. Naturally, I<br />

wanted to remain connected with my agricultural<br />

roots through a career in this field, but I had been<br />

discouraged with the lack of challenging math and<br />

science courses required for most agricultural<br />

majors. It was for this reason that I was so attracted<br />

to food, agricultural, and biological engineering; not<br />

only did it offer the agricultural background with<br />

engineering application that I desired, but it coupled<br />

this with a curriculum rich in math and science<br />

courses. The most exciting part of becoming a<br />

biological engineer is the opportunity to become a<br />

future leader in making a difference by improving<br />

our environment, agriculture, and/or the lives of<br />

others. I have found a perfect home in the FABE<br />

department, which is allowing me to achieve my<br />

goal— as well as the <strong>ASAE</strong>’s goal— of becoming a<br />

biological engineer to progress the application of<br />

science and engineering to agriculture and biological<br />

systems.<br />

During my first year at OSU, I became a member of<br />

the <strong>ASAE</strong> Bio­Environmental Design Team<br />

(BEDT). I was immediately interested in the project<br />

of designing and building a microbial fuel cell to<br />

produce electricity. The design was based on a<br />

redox reaction where anaerobic bacteria in the anode<br />

were able to generate electricity through their<br />

metabolic pathways. The team earned second place<br />

in the <strong>ASAE</strong> Student Design Team Competition at<br />

the 2004 National Conference and is now preparing<br />

to travel to Washington D. C. this May to present<br />

the project as part of an EPA P3 Grant.<br />

Additionally, the team will compete in the 2005<br />

National <strong>ASAE</strong> Student Design Team Competition.<br />

The success of the microbial fuel cell project has not<br />

only taught me a great deal about this topic and<br />

allowed me to gain hands­on experience, but it is<br />

also giving me the opportunity to perform my<br />

undergraduate honors thesis research during part of<br />

this summer. For this project, I am planning to build<br />

upon the progress of the microbial fuel cell to<br />

further the advances of this exciting new technology.<br />

One of my current goals is to graduate with<br />

distinction and honors with at least a 3.80 GPA. By<br />

completing this honors thesis project, I will be able<br />

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to graduate with distinction. The College of<br />

Engineering has a point­based program with a<br />

minimum point value that must be met in order to<br />

graduate with honors. I am currently on track to<br />

reach this value, as well as to graduate with at least<br />

a 3.80 GPA.<br />

Additionally, the BEDT has recently started a new<br />

project to design and build a stream table to simulate<br />

stream morphology and erosion and to demonstrate<br />

the importance of water quality and stream and<br />

waterway preservation, restoration and protection.<br />

As a co­leader of this project and the new treasurer<br />

of the BEDT, I am enjoying these positions of<br />

leadership and desire to become a leader of the<br />

entire BEDT and an officer in the <strong>ASAE</strong> OSU<br />

student chapter.<br />

I have always wanted to travel abroad, and I will be<br />

accomplishing this goal this coming summer when I<br />

study abroad for six weeks in the Czech Republic. I<br />

chose this trip because it is through the College of<br />

Agriculture, as I wanted to be able to broaden my<br />

horizons while focusing on this industry. I am<br />

excited for this opportunity, and I am looking<br />

forward to the adventure of experiencing another<br />

culture for six weeks.<br />

I currently am working for Randall Reeder, P.E. and<br />

an agricultural engineering professor within the<br />

FABE department. I am working on a National<br />

Science Foundation grant to attract more females<br />

and minorities to engineering through 4­H. As a<br />

past 4­H member and strong advocate for women in<br />

engineering, I am honored to be a part of this<br />

project. Among other information, we have found<br />

that girls in particular are attracted to biological<br />

engineering. As a result, it is especially exciting to<br />

be able to help plan activities for a national series of<br />

4­H engineering project books that involve<br />

biological engineering in hopes of attracting even<br />

more students to this profession. Additionally, I<br />

have been researching soil conservation practices as<br />

part of another project, and I have been learning a<br />

great deal about this area. It is rewarding to have a<br />

job where I am constantly learning and improving<br />

engineering in the areas of agriculture, the<br />

environment, and biology.


Next summer, I am planning to complete an<br />

internship in a biological engineering position. I am<br />

hoping that this experience will help me decide if<br />

environmental or genetic/biotechnology engineering<br />

is a better fit for me. After graduation, I plan to<br />

earn my masters degree in an area of specialization<br />

within biological engineering and then proceed to<br />

enter the workforce in an industry or research<br />

position.<br />

Outside of engineering, I have many interests. One<br />

of these is music. I have been playing the piano for<br />

13 years, and I have made it a goal to play for the<br />

church I attend after graduation. I am active in the<br />

Mosaic church at OSU, and I plan to continue my<br />

involvement in this church during my remaining time<br />

at OSU.<br />

Although I am no longer aspiring to become a<br />

cookie engineer, I am striving to use my interests<br />

and abilities to become an engineer that will make a<br />

difference and improve the environment and/or<br />

biotechnology. I am confident that I will be<br />

successful in my pursuit, and I look forward to my<br />

continued journey toward achieving this and all of<br />

my other goals.”<br />

Bethany wrote the following note of thanks: “Thank<br />

you for sponsoring the scholarships for two college<br />

students studying agricultural engineering or related<br />

majors. I am honored to be one of the recipients for<br />

the 2005­2006 school year, and I appreciate your<br />

generosity in providing this financial aid. I am a<br />

second­year biological engineering major at The<br />

Ohio State University, where I am very involved in<br />

the Bio­Environmental Student Design Team<br />

through OSU’s student chapter of the <strong>ASAE</strong>. I can<br />

assure you that this scholarship will be put to the<br />

utmost use, as I am a dedicated engineering student<br />

who upholds a high academic standard. Please<br />

accept my apology for not being present at your<br />

meeting, but I hope you are having a successful<br />

gathering. Once again, thank you for your support,<br />

and I look forward to my continued involvement in<br />

the <strong>ASAE</strong>.”<br />

Upcoming Events ­ Check the <strong>Section</strong>’s web site at<br />

http://www.<strong>qcesc</strong>.org/<strong>ASAE</strong> for the most recent<br />

information on the <strong>Section</strong> and the following events:<br />

June 3­5, 2005<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> members are invited to<br />

participate in the annual Pork Chop Dinner held on<br />

Friday, June 3 as part of the <strong>ASAE</strong> ¼ Scale Tractor<br />

Design Competition –see separate notice posted on<br />

the <strong>Section</strong> web site at http://www.<strong>qcesc</strong>.org/<strong>ASAE</strong><br />

or included with this issue for more details on this<br />

year’s competition. Note the main tractor pull<br />

competition will be held on Saturday evening (June<br />

4) and Sunday morning (June 5).<br />

June 27­ July 2, 2005<br />

John Deere Collectors Center “Reunion on the<br />

River”including the annual auction and Plow <strong>City</strong><br />

Farm Toy Show See<br />

http://www.deere.com/en_US/attractions/reunion/in<br />

dex.html<br />

July 14­16, 2005<br />

John Deere Two­Cylinder Expo XV, Peosta,<br />

Iowa (just west of Dubuque). See http://www.2­<br />

cylinder.net/events.htm<br />

July 17­20, 2005<br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> Annual International Meeting, Tampa,<br />

Florida.<br />

See<br />

http://www.asae.org/meetings/am2005/index.htm<br />

August 26­28, 2005<br />

Half Century of Progress II, Rantoul, Illinois.<br />

See antique farm equipment at work! See<br />

http://www.halfcenturyofprogress.com<br />

August 27­28, 2005<br />

Antique Tractor Show, Village of East<br />

Davenport.<br />

See<br />

http://www.villageofeastdavenport.com/text/events.<br />

htm#tractorshow<br />

August 30 –September 1, 2005<br />

Farm Progress Show, Decatur, Illinois. See<br />

http://www.farmprogressshow.com/ME2/Audiences<br />

/Default.asp<br />

October 25, 2005 (tentative)<br />

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<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Fall Meeting<br />

January 15­17, 2006<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> Farm Equipment Show, QCCA Expo<br />

Center, Rock Island. See<br />

http://www.qccaexpocenter.com/farm.html<br />

January 24, 2006 (tentative)<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Winter Meeting<br />

February 12­15, 2006<br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> Agricultural Equipment Technology<br />

Conference, Louisville, Kentucky<br />

February 21, 2006 (tentative)<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Continuing Education<br />

Seminar<br />

March 28, 2006 (tentative)<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Annual Meeting<br />

April 18, 2006 (tentative)<br />

<strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Spring Tour<br />

May 1­3, 2006<br />

Agricultural Machinery Conference, Crowne<br />

Plaza Five Seasons Hotel, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. See<br />

http://www.amc­online.org/<br />

<strong>ASAE</strong> <strong>Quad</strong> <strong>City</strong> <strong>Section</strong> Officers 2005­2006<br />

Chair:<br />

Shannon Brockmann<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

Ph. 309­748­2233 FAX 309­765­2002<br />

BrockmannShannonR@JohnDeere.com<br />

Chair­Elect:<br />

Chad Yagow<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

Ph. 309­765­2157 FAX 309­765­2206<br />

YagowJohnL@JohnDeere.com<br />

Past Chair:<br />

Steve Newbery<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

Ph. 309­748­2012 FAX 309­765­2002<br />

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NewberySteven@JohnDeere.com<br />

Secretary:<br />

Janet Maas<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

Ph. 309­748­2013 FAX 309­765­2002<br />

MaasJanetR@JohnDeere.com<br />

Treasurer:<br />

Kyle Jahn<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

JahnKyleP@JohnDeere.com<br />

Nominating Committee:<br />

Steve Juhasz<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

Ph. 309­765­2004<br />

JuhaszSteveM@JohnDeere.com<br />

Eric Viall<br />

John Deere Seeding<br />

Ph. 309­765­7122 FAX 309­748­7603<br />

ViallEricN@JohnDeere.com<br />

Scott Wilcox<br />

John Deere Harvester Works<br />

Ph. (309) 765­2111<br />

WilcoxScottR@JohnDeere.com<br />

Social Hour Sponsors ­ The following social hour<br />

sponsors generously provided the beverages for the<br />

social hours at our meetings this year:<br />

Aetna Bearing Company<br />

Carlisle Power Transmission Products<br />

Chicago Rawhide<br />

Clarkson Company<br />

Delta Rubber Company<br />

Don Dye Company<br />

Drives Incorporated<br />

Eaton Corporation<br />

Firestone Agricultural Tire Company<br />

Gates Corporation<br />

Grammer Inc.<br />

H & H Sales<br />

Henkel Loctite Corporation<br />

INA USA Corporation<br />

Lord Corporation<br />

Metal­Tech Manufacturing Inc.<br />

Peer Bearing Company<br />

Raybestos Products Company<br />

Sears Seating


Superior Gearbox Company<br />

The Timken Corporation<br />

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