Turbine Technologies' staff returned from New York this week following a product delivery and training visit. The Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering faculty and staff, from the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point, welcomed our group onto campus for the commissioning of their new TurboGenTM training system", stated company President, Mike Kutrieb.
The Chetek, WI designed and manufactured device allows Army cadets and future officers to gain valuable experience in the operation and analysis of energy related topics, along with data acquisition techniques and analysis.
First start up of the jet engine electrical generator at West Point
Austin Bitney, a process automation technician with the company mentioned that “The campus is awe-inspiring and the history of West Point dates back to our countries founding. Generals, astronauts and even U.S. Presidents are alumni. Two American Presidents have been graduates of the US Military Academy- Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight David Eisenhower. The President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, was also a West Point Graduate. I was excited and a little nervous to present my portion of the training. I focused my presentation on methods of gathering and storing operational system data”.
Briefing Room at USMA West Point, NY discussing Turbine Technologies' TurboGen product
Tom Kutrieb, responsible for product manufacturing and deliveries, mentioned that “Austin is a 2023 Chetek-Weyerhaeuser high school graduate and an academic honors graduate of CVTC’s Automation Engineering Technology program. He recently joined Turbine Technologies and I’m extremely impressed with his abilities and work ethic. Austin and I were talking on the flight home and had a laugh when we realized that all three on the trip are Chetek graduates, but only about 40 years apart. This delivery is a milestone in that we now have product at the U.S. Air Force Academy, the United States Naval Academy, both East and West Coast Maritime academies and now with the United States Military Academy at West Point”.
Austin Bitney, a Turbine Technologies' process automation technician, touring West Point and overlooking the scenic Hudson River