Aluminum Induction Furnace Donated to Cal Poly Pomona.In July, Mike Dickens, Induction Technology Corp., Adelanto, California Adelanto is a city in San Bernardino County, California about 9 miles northwest of Victorville. The population was 18,130 at the 2000 census. The name Adelanto is Spanish for progress or advance , built and donated an $18,000 220-lb induction furnace An induction furnace is an electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of a conductive medium (usually a metal) in a crucible around which water-cooled magnetic coils are wound. for melting aluminum to the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State Univ., Pomona, California Pomona is a city in Los Angeles County, California, at the western edge of the Pomona Valley branch of the Inland Empire region since nearly the entire city is physically located east of the San Jose/Puente Hills. . With the installation of this furnace, which replaces Cal Poly Pomona's gas-fired cousin as the foundry laboratory's main furnace, research can be conducted at the school to compare induction melting to natural gas melting. The new furnace is quieter, cleaner and more versatile, according to Dickens, and its 220-lb capacity crucible allows for the manufacturing of larger molds. Cal Poly Pomona, which, according to the "Inland Valley Daily Bulletin,' produces one of every 14 engineers in California, is one of 29 Foundry Education Foundation schools working with AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System . This year, in addition to his regular engineering courses, Professor George Matulich will offer casting courses for fine arts students. |
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