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James E. Hertel, P.E.

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Professor of Practice


Office:  104 C  Dillman Hall
Phone:  (906) 487-3046
Email:   jehertel@mtu.edu
Degrees:

    - B.S. Mechanical Engineering

                          Marquette University, 1973
    - M.S. Paper Chemistry
                          Institute of Paper Chemistry (Lawrence University), 1975
    - M.S. Mechanical Engineering
                          University of Washington, 1980

"When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be."   Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907)
Courses Taught:

    - ENG1101 (Engineering Analysis and Problem Solving)

    - ENG1102 (Engineering Modeling and Design)

    - ENG2120 (Statics and Mechanics of Materials)

     - UN4500 (Technological Entrepreneurship)

     - ENT2950 - ENT4960 (Enterprise)

Mr. Hertel comes to teaching following 25 years of engineering practice developing high-speed, automated machinery. Courses taught at tech include Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Fundamentals and Technological Entrepreneurship. He also advises the Automotive Systems Enterprise and the MTU Sailing Club/Team. His research background includes Fiber Physics and Instrument Failure Detection in Partially Observable Systems. In his spare time, Mr. Hertel enjoys skiing, sailboat racing and bluegrass music.   (resume/vitae)

Current Course Links:

  -  ASE Syllabus
  


    - Report Guidelines
    - Brewing 101
   => Presentation Rubric 
    -  A-size drawing format (inch) 
    -  A-size drawing format (mm) 
  More Links:
    ASME's Professional Practice site --- great resource for business and engineering
    SAE's Database/Digital Library
 SuperMileageChallenge 
    MTU's HPV Challenge
   MTU's Sailing Club
    Onigaming Yacht Club 
    NOAA Graphic Wind Forecast
    Northshore Inline Marathon

 
 
 To Install UG NX-3 (warning, typically takes 1 - 2 hrs ... not an easy install)

  1. Start at:  http://www.eecn.mtu.edu/resources/info/ugnx.html  to setup virtual drive for UG install.

  2.  Follow instructions ... pdf file   --- helps to print this out.

NOTES:
  • You need to be online with MTU and a full-time student in good standing in order to run.
  • You must be running Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 4) or Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 1 or higher).  It must be Professional edition and NOT the Home edition or Media Center.
  •  If you can mount the L: drive as instructed, it might be quicker to copy files and
    folders to your local C: drive and install from there.
  • If you cannot connect to the L: drive through VPN from your personal computer, you can connect from another computer, copy files and folders from the L: drive onto a CD, and use the CD to load the software onto your personal computer --- but you will still need to be connected to the web in order to run.
       
Good luck --- UG is a very powerful modeler. 
UGNX Slides
These are slides from 1101/1102 that might be useful for getting started or review . For true UGNX tutorials, use the NX-3 Cast Library

Department of Engineering Fundamentals
Dillman Hall, 1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI-49931-1295
Phone : 906-487-3057
Fax :  906-487-1620
Email : Tina at cmsarazi@mtu.edu

A division of the Michigan Technological University College of Engineering.
Last updated on 08/10/2005 ehgroth.

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