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Images from chapter events, facility tours, and aviation manufacturing heritage.

Composite image: Top - technician leaning against C-17 aircraft landing gear; Bottom - C-17 aircraft exiting the Long Beach manufacturing hangar

Technician operating a large crane hook to lift an aircraft component on the assembly floor

Tim Engel, SME Chapter Chair, standing with an engineer in front of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Tim Engel and Dr. Shukla at the CSU Green Energy, Manufacturing, and Technology Expo 2023 with Cal State Fullerton backdrop

Technicians and engineers who worked on C-17 aircraft 0008 standing in front of the early production aircraft

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 undergoing tail engine maintenance

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in maintenance hangar with scaffolding around the tail section

Tim Engel being shown CNC machined parts during a manufacturing shop floor tour

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Recommended reading shared by our chapter board.

Branching Into the Next Era of Quality

By Danny Even Chen — Quality Progress (ASQ), March 2026

Explores how digitization and advanced technologies are reshaping the perception of quality, introducing a five-dimensional quality model and a dynamic quality intelligence model (DQIM) to help organizations evolve.

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