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Current Photos of FEP Graduates
You older FEPs might remember this slogan, with the field engineer wearing a hard hat. It was dropped around 1980, as we recall.
Notice the motto inside the logo: ANYTIME.. ANYWHERE! Boy was that true. Guatemala floods, Saudi sands, Viet Nam War! We were sent anywhere there was a turbine-generator set being installed or overhauled. And no hazardous duty pay either!
Later they dropped the name in favor of just the letters:
What's in a name?
The GE division was called Installation and Service Engineering. Clients referred to us as those “I&SE guys,” probably not even knowing what the acronym stood for or caring.
I&SE and the Apparatus Service Division (ASD) merged in 1982 and adopted these new acronyms:
DAESO: Domestic Apparatus and Engineering Services Operation
IAESO: International Apparatus and Engineering Services Operation
Most of us who worked internationally still referred to the organization as: GETSCO
This was short General Electric Technical Services Company. We were known as GETSCO field engineers (pronounced JETS-KO).
Field Engineer's Tools - Remember these?
2. Did you get issued a Simpson 260 A-V-O meter by I&SE or GETSCO? This was long before DVM like a Fluke 8086.
3. Did you use a reed tachometer to measure turbine speed? Did you use it to check turbine overspeed?
4. Did you ever use a hand-held vibration meter like a IRD- 210? Or perhaps a IRD-320 that had a tuneable filter and switch to select mils or inches/sec?
5. Do you remember how many threads to the inch micrometers have? How many mils does the spindle travel outward for a one revolution?
6. Ever own a Starrett "Last Word" dial indicator? They came in a red box. What town in Massachusetts are Starrett tools (still) manufactured?
7. What did "closed end overtravel" mean in valve stroke calibrations? Which direction does a dial indicator turn when you push it into the body of the device? CW or CCW?
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most useful, from FEDC
Denise Palumbo has an update on Electrical FEP
FEP Industrial Systems, Power Delivery
and
FEP Industrial Systems, Drives & Controls
Some of the program is presented at the "ELC"(what we once knew as the FEDC), and some of it presented in Salem VA.
The programs fall under the management of Matt Chamberlin who also manages the Energy Services Training programs (FEP Mechanical, Controls, Service Shop, Generator, and Wind).
The new building expansion is scheduled to begin some time this Spring, the exact date is somewhat of a mystery. We are preparing (as I write this e-mail) to begin yet another FEP class inspection on the Delmarva unit. How many more, not sure? I will keep you posted.
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So what's in a name, you ask?
* Field Engineering Development Center (FEDC, 1974-1982)
* Traning and Development Center (1982 - ?)
* Power Systems University (sometime in the 1990s)
* Energy Learning Center (2005 - Present)
It will always be known as the **FEDC** to purists!
FEP Celebrates 40 years in 2006
Remember these relics?
The green leather cover with globe on the front and N,S,E,W lines to give a 3-D effect.
Mine was dated May 25, 1970. The Gas Turbine was section four of the series. Did you scribble notes and copy TIL notes into the blank pages to save on carrying extra paper?
No CD's or Zip Discs back then.
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