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About This Document: In an interview, Herbert B. Voelcker, Charles Lake Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus at Cornell Univerity, discussed his life and work in manufacturing research. Voelcker grew up in Tonawanda, notable because it's at the terminus of the Erie Canal. By the time he was 11 or 12, he was making his own gunpowder and small cannons. He loved steam engines. His father taught him how to build sailboats. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with very high grades, but the relationship with MIT was almost adversarial -- an exercise in survival. He was in the US Army for seven years, and resigned as a captain. The Army then decided he should be an electrical engineer, and sent him to graduate school at MIT to study electrical engineering. He's interested in variation control, which is central to all kinds of things. In mechanical design, dimensional variations are controlled through geometric tolerancing, which is an untidy technology.

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MASTERS OF MANUFACTURING: Herbert B. Voelcker

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MASTERS OF MANUFACTURING: Herbert B. Voelcker

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Manufacturing Engineering; Jul 2009; 143, 1; Docstoc

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