[Themaintainers] Themaintainers Digest, Vol 12, Issue 2
Millen Paschich
millen at gridium.com
Thu Jan 26 20:17:46 EST 2017
Lee--Yes, in fact this reminds me of the EDF Climate Corp program (
http://edfclimatecorps.org/) where graduate student summer interns help
corporations lower energy use.
Just yesterday I was speaking to the Facilities Manager for a popular
consumer internet "unicorn" startup that rents hundreds of thousands of
square feet here in San Francisco across multiple buildings. This FM was
telling me about his desire to "set up my PMs" i.e. launch a preventive
maintenance program but had yet to find the time. The FM has been with the
company 14 months, and on average the org has hired 50 new people each
month over that time period.
- Millen
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Gridium <http://www.gridium.com/> | Modern software for data-driven
buildings
Direct: 415.638.9070
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> 1. Imaginary Projects for Making Maintainers: Engineering
> Education and an Ethics of Care (Lee Vinsel)
> 2. Re: Imaginary Projects for Making Maintainers: Engineering
> Education and an Ethics of Care (Evan Hepler-Smith)
> 3. Re: Imaginary Projects for Making Maintainers: Engineering
> Education and an Ethics of Care (Hugh Lester)
> 4. Re: Imaginary Projects for Making Maintainers: Engineering
> Education and an Ethics of Care (Melinda Hodkiewicz)
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 11:33:30 -0500
> From: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
> To: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: [Themaintainers] Imaginary Projects for Making Maintainers:
> Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
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> Dear Maintainers,
>
> Andy Russell and I are writing an essay for a forthcoming edited volume
> titled _Can Innovators Be Made?_. As its title "Making Maintainers"
> suggests, our essay argues that our education system should focus as much
> or more effort on making essential maintainers. In this essay, we are
> focusing particularly on college engineering education, for several
> reasons, including because it is close to our experiences at Stevens
> Institute of Technology and elsewhere and because engineering education has
> become a hotbed of innovation-speak.
>
> In one section of our essay, we point out that undergraduate engineering
> degrees often culminate in senior design projects, which in recent decades
> have become framed in terms of innovation. And YET, many (most?) engineers
> will go onto work in Maintainers-y positions that will have little or
> nothing to do with innovation but will instead be centered on keeping
> complex technological systems going.
>
> For this reason, it may make sense to have engineering students also work
> on maintenance projects. I have thought up a couple: one in which students
> would work with physical plant managers at their college campuses; another
> focused on maintaining/conserving wetlands. But I also imagined that people
> on this list would have great ideas, which is why I'm coming to you.
>
> What do you think?
>
> I'm happy to hear all kinds of thoughts, including "That's a *terrible*
> idea!!!" But I'm primarily looking for hypothetical maintenance projects
> for college seniors.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lee Vinsel
>
>
>
>
> --
> Assistant Professor and Director,
> Program on Science and Technology Studies
> College of Arts and Letters
> Stevens Institute of Technology
> Hoboken, NJ 07030
> leevinsel.com
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> From: Evan Hepler-Smith <evan.heplersmith at gmail.com>
> To: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>,
> themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Imaginary Projects for Making
> Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
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> Dear Lee and all,
>
> A fantastic idea. One thought, off the top of my head, for electrical
> engineers / software engineers / data scientists / connective media types:
> a lot of institutions have their own depositories for student and faculty
> publications and, often, for research data. Maybe a project in maintaining
> these depositories to make the stuff that goes into them more accessible
> for re-use, both in-house and by outside researchers, including metadata on
> methods and provenance needed for effective re-use, at minimal
> energy/environmental cost?
>
> It also occurs to me that you could turn the design project on its head by
> assigning students to study the specs for past projects that have been
> carried out locally (say, some aspect of their school's physical plant, as
> you suggest), look at current data on how it's running compared with the
> projections in the plans, and participate in maintenance / create a
> maintenance plan / revise the original design to take maintenance into
> account for some aspect of this project.
>
> All best,
> Evan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:33 AM Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Maintainers,
> >
> > Andy Russell and I are writing an essay for a forthcoming edited volume
> > titled _Can Innovators Be Made?_. As its title "Making Maintainers"
> > suggests, our essay argues that our education system should focus as much
> > or more effort on making essential maintainers. In this essay, we are
> > focusing particularly on college engineering education, for several
> > reasons, including because it is close to our experiences at Stevens
> > Institute of Technology and elsewhere and because engineering education
> has
> > become a hotbed of innovation-speak.
> >
> > In one section of our essay, we point out that undergraduate engineering
> > degrees often culminate in senior design projects, which in recent
> decades
> > have become framed in terms of innovation. And YET, many (most?)
> engineers
> > will go onto work in Maintainers-y positions that will have little or
> > nothing to do with innovation but will instead be centered on keeping
> > complex technological systems going.
> >
> > For this reason, it may make sense to have engineering students also work
> > on maintenance projects. I have thought up a couple: one in which
> students
> > would work with physical plant managers at their college campuses;
> another
> > focused on maintaining/conserving wetlands. But I also imagined that
> people
> > on this list would have great ideas, which is why I'm coming to you.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > I'm happy to hear all kinds of thoughts, including "That's a *terrible*
> > idea!!!" But I'm primarily looking for hypothetical maintenance projects
> > for college seniors.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Lee Vinsel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Assistant Professor and Director,
> > Program on Science and Technology Studies
> > College of Arts and Letters
> > Stevens Institute of Technology
> > Hoboken, NJ 07030
> > leevinsel.com
> > Twitter: @STS_News
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:10:52 -0500
> From: Hugh Lester <hugh_lester at ymail.com>
> To: Evan Hepler-Smith <evan.heplersmith at gmail.com>
> Cc: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>,
> themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Imaginary Projects for Making
> Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
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> Everyone:
>
> I really like Evan's second suggestion. Diagnostics comes into play.
> (Pirsig's wonderful passage comes to mind.)
>
> Hugh
>
> hlester at stevens.edu
> 714-234-5374 mobile
>
> > On Jan 26, 2017, at 11:57 AM, Evan Hepler-Smith <
> evan.heplersmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Lee and all,
> >
> > A fantastic idea. One thought, off the top of my head, for electrical
> engineers / software engineers / data scientists / connective media types:
> a lot of institutions have their own depositories for student and faculty
> publications and, often, for research data. Maybe a project in maintaining
> these depositories to make the stuff that goes into them more accessible
> for re-use, both in-house and by outside researchers, including metadata on
> methods and provenance needed for effective re-use, at minimal
> energy/environmental cost?
> >
> > It also occurs to me that you could turn the design project on its head
> by assigning students to study the specs for past projects that have been
> carried out locally (say, some aspect of their school's physical plant, as
> you suggest), look at current data on how it's running compared with the
> projections in the plans, and participate in maintenance / create a
> maintenance plan / revise the original design to take maintenance into
> account for some aspect of this project.
> >
> > All best,
> > Evan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:33 AM Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Dear Maintainers,
> >>
> >> Andy Russell and I are writing an essay for a forthcoming edited volume
> titled _Can Innovators Be Made?_. As its title "Making Maintainers"
> suggests, our essay argues that our education system should focus as much
> or more effort on making essential maintainers. In this essay, we are
> focusing particularly on college engineering education, for several
> reasons, including because it is close to our experiences at Stevens
> Institute of Technology and elsewhere and because engineering education has
> become a hotbed of innovation-speak.
> >>
> >> In one section of our essay, we point out that undergraduate
> engineering degrees often culminate in senior design projects, which in
> recent decades have become framed in terms of innovation. And YET, many
> (most?) engineers will go onto work in Maintainers-y positions that will
> have little or nothing to do with innovation but will instead be centered
> on keeping complex technological systems going.
> >>
> >> For this reason, it may make sense to have engineering students also
> work on maintenance projects. I have thought up a couple: one in which
> students would work with physical plant managers at their college campuses;
> another focused on maintaining/conserving wetlands. But I also imagined
> that people on this list would have great ideas, which is why I'm coming to
> you.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> I'm happy to hear all kinds of thoughts, including "That's a *terrible*
> idea!!!" But I'm primarily looking for hypothetical maintenance projects
> for college seniors.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Lee Vinsel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Assistant Professor and Director,
> >> Program on Science and Technology Studies
> >> College of Arts and Letters
> >> Stevens Institute of Technology
> >> Hoboken, NJ 07030
> >> leevinsel.com
> >> Twitter: @STS_News
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >>
> >> Themaintainers mailing list
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> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 06:07:03 +0800
> From: Melinda Hodkiewicz <melinda.hodkiewicz at uwa.edu.au>
> To: Lee Vinsel <lee.vinsel at gmail.com>,
> "themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu" <
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> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Imaginary Projects for Making
> Maintainers: Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
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> Dear Lee
> I?m racing to get on an airplane but felt I ought to respond now briefly
> and would be happy to extend this later.
>
> 1. You are correct, engineering undergrad design projects in my
> experience (and I have been a client and mentor for them here at UWA in
> mech, elec and compsci) do not explicitly cover thinking about through life
> support including maintenance.
>
>
>
> 2. The reason for this is that most academic engineering faculty do
> not have formal maintenance training or experience. Maintenance is absent
> or only superficially covered in most engineering curriculum.
>
>
>
> 3. If we tell students to consider maintenance in their project
> without giving them the appropriate training then we could do more harm
> than good. It?s like telling you to clean your teeth but not having an
> understanding of when to do it, why to do it and how to do it, where the
> answers to that are all these questions developed in a structured way with
> a repeatable process.
>
>
> 4. I teach maintenance as part of the ?risk reliability and safety?
> unit here at UWA. It is a relatively new unit, only 3 years old and taught
> to all engineers regardless of discipline.
>
>
>
> 5. Here is a recent email from a student who got vac work recently
> with Chevron ?This semester I was a student in the unit GENG5507 (Risk,
> Reliability and Safety) that you lectured. I just wanted to give you some
> feedback and thank you for the work you put in. I started my vacation work
> with Chevron on Monday and I?m based in their Reliability and Integrity
> unit for Wheatstone. Everybody in the team was really impressed that I had
> previous exposure to concepts such as SIL, RCA, FMEA, failure modes,
> bathtub curves, white/black boxes, RCM matrix, HAZID, Causal trees, etc.
> Pretty much everything I learnt in GENG5507 is what I?m using in practice.
> It saved them a lot of time when they were explaining the scopes I?d be
> responsible for and also made me look great in the first week I started.
> I?m really glad I took the unit this year and it?s by far the most useful
> unit with regards to the vacation work I?m doing. Thanks again for your
> work.? I put this in because it is full of
> acronyms that mean nothing to the outside world but are integral to an
> understanding of maintenance. Engineering schools struggle to find
> academics to teach these concepts and struggle to make room in an already
> crowded curriculum to put them in.
>
>
>
> 6. As a minimum to include any section on maintenance in a design
> project, students would have to know how to use correctly an RCM tree, see
> attached.
>
> If you and the others would like I can offer a couple of things. First, I
> have some recordings of between 6-10 minutes each that explain maintenance
> theory. They are used in my class as pre-work (the class is taught in
> flipped learning mode to about 350 students). I could post them on Dropbox.
> Second. I am happy to run a workshop on this at Maintainers II if there is
> interest.
>
> Hope this helps the discussion
> Best wishes
> Melinda
>
>
>
>
>
> From: themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu [mailto:themaintainers-
> bounces at lists.stevens.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Vinsel
> Sent: Friday, 27 January 2017 12:34 AM
> To: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: [Themaintainers] Imaginary Projects for Making Maintainers:
> Engineering Education and an Ethics of Care
>
> Dear Maintainers,
> Andy Russell and I are writing an essay for a forthcoming edited volume
> titled _Can Innovators Be Made?_. As its title "Making Maintainers"
> suggests, our essay argues that our education system should focus as much
> or more effort on making essential maintainers. In this essay, we are
> focusing particularly on college engineering education, for several
> reasons, including because it is close to our experiences at Stevens
> Institute of Technology and elsewhere and because engineering education has
> become a hotbed of innovation-speak.
> In one section of our essay, we point out that undergraduate engineering
> degrees often culminate in senior design projects, which in recent decades
> have become framed in terms of innovation. And YET, many (most?) engineers
> will go onto work in Maintainers-y positions that will have little or
> nothing to do with innovation but will instead be centered on keeping
> complex technological systems going.
> For this reason, it may make sense to have engineering students also work
> on maintenance projects. I have thought up a couple: one in which students
> would work with physical plant managers at their college campuses; another
> focused on maintaining/conserving wetlands. But I also imagined that people
> on this list would have great ideas, which is why I'm coming to you.
> What do you think?
> I'm happy to hear all kinds of thoughts, including "That's a *terrible*
> idea!!!" But I'm primarily looking for hypothetical maintenance projects
> for college seniors.
> Thanks!
> Lee Vinsel
>
>
>
>
> --
> Assistant Professor and Director,
> Program on Science and Technology Studies
> College of Arts and Letters
> Stevens Institute of Technology
> Hoboken, NJ 07030
> leevinsel.com<http://leevinsel.com>
> Twitter: @STS_News
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