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Brampton campui students faculty busy inventing Do you want to acquire next fall a uniquely produced electronic garage door opener Do you want try running your car on propane gas instead of These two totalizers are being looked into by Sheridan Technology division Brampton campus both by students and faculty You can even see on campus the garage door but without the opener In operation and the spanking new American Motors car engine on which experiments will be made with propane The garage door opener explains Dave Olive Director of the Technology Division is a menu pilot run There are already on the market of course electronic door openers for garages whereby the driver shouts Open sesame pushes a button on a thing in the car and presto the garage door rises to admit the car This instructional scheme is devised to simulate a manufacturing company says Don Browning He Park Roy Adams Tom and even George draughting and Ray McAfee Business are the faculty involved working on the enterprise with electronic and mechanical tech nology students Second year students are attending to the creation of manufacturing facilities designing the tooling required and laying out plant facilities The staff act as consultants The simulation encompasses designers manufecturing and plant managers quality control marketing like an operating company setup Not all divisions of the mock ersatz company are equally off the ground The mechanical stage has been completed The electronic aspects are in the breadboard stage A breadboard in the Jargon of this supertrade is an electric lashup of components to determine if a device Is going to work or not The company and consultants are working to a deadline at the end of this term That Includes doing the costing and the students getting from McAfee information on financing and patents It not Just a nutsandbolts operation says Browning The Intention Is to manufacture 10 of the door openers starting In September These would be sold internally In the college A third undertaking now in progress In the Technology division is in conjunction with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind Roy Adams is the genius behind this enterprise It to be a device for people who have only about per cent sight but who can read if the image is big enough A method similar to that being devised at Sheridan has been evolved in the U but it a very expensive Basically Its a closedcircuit television setup that Adams and some students are working on The TV camera will focus on a printed page and be so motorized that the camera will be able to move along with a line of print or even one word at a time and project the word or line on the TV monitor screen Possibly one word could occupy the whole screen There will be pushbutton controls for focussing and magnification and controls to com pensate for a reader astigmatism The students have done much of the work and a prototype has been developed that proved the principle is right The prototype Is not yet motordriven Roy Adams and Co have applied for a Canada Council grant to finance continuation of this project Mechanical student Dave check out an American Motors 231 cubic men engine used m performance tests carried out propane fuel American Motors donated engine to Sheridans Technology Division for the project Mechanical program Sheridan is preparing to launch its Mechanical Technician program in September Proposals now in their final farm are for a twoyear program geared essentially to the needs of Peel end Halton A recent survey of industry in this area confirmed the need for mechanical technicians The field Is wide open but the college will concentrate initially at least on production operations and facilities and maintenance Industry also needs persons with technical knowhow for sales and customer service The program builds on the basic engineering sciences but requires less mathematical skill than the wellestablished year program The student receives handson training concentrating on the practical application of the principles What job could a graduate expect to land Some will work as quality control technicians others as testing technicians and still others as technical repre sentatives or maintenance technicians bettered he cmM rate taw of DM cat After fci fct tat erfgtaal