Oct 20, 2008
Our graduation ceremony was a great success last week! The AIM Indianapolis Fall 2008 Graduating Class was sent off in style by the staff, faculty, family and friends in attendance for the ceremonies.
Everyone was beaming with pride and a sense of accomplishment was in the air as our graduates walked across stage to receive their diplomas from the School Director, Eric Cook. And, we all had a chance to hear some wonderful words of encouragement and gratitude from our Student Speakers - Jason Moon and Tom Lumpkin.
On top of all that, two of our graduates had the opportunity for further blushing of cheeks when they were called back on stage to be recognized as with individual awards.
AIM Indianapolis awarded Jeremiah Cluxton and David McMillian as Outstanding Graduates in recognition of their continued commitment to academic excellence throughout their careers at AIM.
We hope you enjoy the online photo albums of our ceremonies last Friday! Please view them here:
AIM Graduation Ceremony Pictures
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Jun 23, 2008
Today was the beginning of a very busy week at AIM Indy. Of course, everyone knows about the upcoming Student Appreciation Day & Laugh Olympics on Thursday. And, most know of the recruiting visit on Wednesday from Midcoast Aviation / Savannah Air. And today was filled with activity with our semi-annual blood donation drive.
The AIM Indy campus was proud, if not a little woozy, for hosting a blood donation drive today in support of the Indiana Blood Center.
Our students, staff & faculty were overflowing with generosity today, and the technicians from IBC gladly took advantage of more than TWENTY donations!
On behalf of all the people who will benefit from those donations …
THANK YOU, AIM!!
Now, here is the really fun part … our regular photographer wasn’t able to find time in the schedule for taking any pictures. So, we handed the camera to our wonderful receptionist, Brandy Wilson. She was, let’s say … “creative” with her pictures of the blood mobile bus. Here are a couple of them (that were in focus):
Shannon’s new modeling career …
and, Brandy Wilson - our new Daredevil Receptionist!!
For more information about the Indiana Blood Center, please click here.
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May 14, 2008
The AIM Indianapolis Campus is excited to announce a class competition for our students. We will add a bit of fun and offer a challenging task for our classes with this competition. At the end of this academic module each class will be competing for bragging rights and … a pizza party!!
The challenge is to create a “fountain” by dropping Mentos candies into a bottle of soda. The class with the highest “fountain” will win! The idea was inspired by an episode of the Mythbusters television program on the Discovery Channel. The Mythbusters Episode Guide explains the show:
Episode 57: Mentos and Soda
Adam and Jamie are trying to figure out the theory behind the chaos when diet cola and mentos mix. Inspired by an internet phenomenon, the Mythbusters take on the controversy surrounding these fizzy fountains. Adam and Jamie pit soda against soda and candy against candy to find the perfect cocktail for their explosive exploits.
Following in Adam & Jamie’s footsteps, we will reproduce the “experiment”. Our students will work as classroom sized teams to develop, fabricate and demonstrate their designs for high spraying soda fountains.
The official rules for the competition are posted in every classroom. Here is a copy:
- You must use the soda provided by AIM
- You must use the Mentos provided by AIM
- All construction materials must be appropriated from within the building. Ken Stumpf, Mark Holloway and Milton Maung have “design” approval authority, please refer to them with questions / concerns / comments.
- Soda bottles must be stationary on the “launching pad” prior to, during and after launch.
- This is a class effort. All class members are encouraged to participate.
- The winning class will be the class that produces the highest spray of soda.
- The winning class with receive not only bragging rights, but also a pizza party on class finals day.
- The contest will be held at 1:00pm on Tuesday, June 10th for day students and at 5:15pm on Tuesday, June 10th for evening students.
We look forward to a fun event at the end of this module. Stay tuned for pictures / stories of the winning teams!
P.S. Here is a video clip of the “internet phenomenon” that inspired the original Mythbusters episode:
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May 12, 2008
The AIM Indianapolis campus is very excited to announce that our team has another new arrival this week. In addition to the new members of the Educational Department (see here for more), we are very happy to tell everyone about our newest addition to the Student Services staff.
Roger O’Banyon has joined our team in the role of Student Services Advisor. Roger will be working from the office adjacent to the computer lab (right next door to Amy in the Career Development Office). Please see the “Who’s Who” sidebar for Roger’s email address (on the right side of this webpage).
Roger brings three decades of experience to our team. Primarily he has been involved in social work for the last 31 years. He has developed a strong expertise in the field of helping others through his years of working as a resource management specialist. His past experience with both state and privately run offices has prepared him to meet the needs of our students as they work through the challenges of balancing life, work and school. Roger will play a very active role in the success stories of our students and graduates.
Roger’s new role with our team will be a great relief to Amy in the Career Services Office. Up to this time, Amy has juggled all the tasks associated with both Career and Student Services. Now, with Roger on the team, she will be able to focus more fully on the Career Services aspects of her office.
This means that Roger will be our “Full Time” Student Services Advisor. He will focus his energies on that department exclusively. As our Student Services Advisor, Roger is charged with supporting students’ pragmatic “life needs” while in school. Student Advisors enter a student’s life during orientation, helping them understand the resources and support system the school offers. They help students solve child care, transportation, and other pragmatic issues; and they work hard to help students carve out their schedules for study time.
The Student Services Advisor maintains lists of agencies to refer students who may have childcare, domestic violence, alcohol/drug abuse issues. The Student Services Advisors also can guide the students to outside agencies that can assist the student with personal financial planning advising.
When necessary, the Student Advisor can call on the School Director or School Director designee to help coach students to succeed. All of these staff members work together to ensure that students remember the importance of the commitment they made to come to school and to problem-solve through issues that stand in their way of success.
Please join us in welcoming Roger to our campus. We look forward to his contributions to our team and our students’ and graduates’ success stories.
Welcome Aboard, Roger!!
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May 6, 2008
Today several students from the AIM Indianapolis Campus participated in a field trip to a local aviation maintenance company. Due to the sensitive nature of the work being completed there (military contracts and proprietary methods of engineering / fabrication) we were only able to snap a single group photo taken in front of ACE’s twenty foot(!!) autoclave (seen below).
Photographs aside, the guided tour was a huge success! The tour took place at Applied Composites Engineering (ACE). The AIM Indianapolis campus has a long time relationship with ACE. Several AIM students have gained valuable industry experience working at ACE during their academic careers at AIM. After graduation many of those students have continued on with ACE as graduates (and fully licensed AMT’s) in new and more challenging roles. And, Wayne Purcell (Vice President of Customer Relations) has served on the AIM Indianapolis Program Advisory Committee for several years.
Today’s tour was conducted by Richard Sohnle (Production Manager) for all of the AIM students who are currently taking the Aircraft Composites Structures class. Richard was quite articulate as he pointed out and explained all of the “real world” applications of the theories and practices being learned in the classroom by our students.
James Jackson (Instructor - Composites Class) commented that having an opportunity to see, on a commercial scale, the materials and processes used in the industry was wonderful for further solidifying the students’ understanding of aircraft composites.
The AIM Indy campus is deeply grateful to the entire team at Applied Composites Engineering for inviting our students to witness the absolute cutting edge in aviation and aerospace composites technology. We appreciate the warm welcome we received and all of us who attended were very impressed with the knowledge, professionalism and graciousness of the entire ACE staff.
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For more about Applied Composites Engineering, please visit their website at:
http://appliedcomposites.com
Applied has expertise in several composite processes. Prepreg, Wet Lay, Compression molding, Bladder Molding, metal bond, post fabrication, assembly and painting. With two 5 axis CNC’s for tool and part machining we can provide a complete component assembly.
Our Core competency is Preg-preg, Autoclave cure and final assembly. We are very experience in tight dimensional toleranced components that require process and product engineering to attain these values. Typical materials of use are; Fibers of; Carbon, Kevlar, Fiberglass, Ceramic.
Resing Systems; Epoxy, Phenolic, BMI to 450f.
Core Sytems; Nomex and aluminum honeycomb, foam cores, syntactic epoxies.
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May 6, 2008
The AIM Indianapolis Campus is happy to have recently received an email from one of our alumni. Joe Jasper, a November 2007 graduate, wrote to Amy Money in the Career Services Office (see email below).
The picture below is from Joe’s graduation ceremony. Joe was honored as an Outstanding Graduate by the AIM staff & faculty. Also, notably, Joe was able to have ALL his FAA Certification Exams paid for by the school because he achieved Director’s List for ALL academic modules while in school at the AIM Indy campus (Director’s List = Perfect Attendance + Honor Roll).
After graduation, Joe accepted a position with Gulfstream Aerospace in Savanna, GA. Joe is working with the avionics division at Gulfstream with his combination of A&P certification and extensive background in electronics.
The staff and faculty of AIM are proud to be associated with such a successful and professional alumni as Joe Jasper. We sincerely thank him for sending along this great email update about his experienced since entering the aviation maintenance / avionics industry and look forward to hearing more from him soon!
(Mike Newman, Joe Jasper, Mark Holloway)
EMAIL
Subject: Gulfstream and Savannah
From: Joe Jasper
To: Amy Money
Date: 4/21/2008
Hi Amy,
Just wanted to let you know how much I’m enjoying working at Gulfstream and living in Savannah. Mitch placed me in the service center working on existing customer’s aircraft, which has been extremely interesting and rewarding. I’ve worked on just about every model they produce and have received friendly and patient guidance making the transition. My avionics duties often include sitting in the cockpits running ops checks which as a private pilot I find exciting and interesting. I’ve performed an abundance of various tasks in all sections of the aircraft and am learning quickly but the paperwork and computer maintenance recording is actually the most challenging aspect.
As for Savannah, the weather has been pleasant, the people here are very sociable and friendly, the food is great and there are lots of pretty women. It’s still a little chilly for the beach yet but I’ve already made a visit to Venice, Florida to visit with my sister and nieces and enjoyed the beach, went motor boating and kayaked with the alligators.
I’ve recently switched to the weekend nights schedule which requires three 12 hour shifts from Friday night through Sunday night. The beauty of this is that I get paid 40 hours for 36 hours of duty plus a 15% increase in pay, giving me four days off during the week.
My shift is about to start so I better go.
Thanks again for your friendship and support, I’ll e-mail again when I’ve got more info.
Best regards,
Joe Jasper
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