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Annual Campaign 

Many corporations and individuals have already contributed (see list).

Choose how to make your pledge today!

• Print out a pledge card and fax or mail;
• Fill out the online pledge card; or
• Send your pledge in an e-mail to foundation@agma.org

We appreciate your support! The Annual Campaign is an important source of funds for the Foundation. These funds are used for the Foundation's research grant program and workforce education program, as well as the Foundation's operating expenses.

Recent Foundation Projects Include:

Scholarship for a Graduate Student with Gear Technology Focus

The Foundation just awarded its first academic scholarship to a student whose research is focused on improving the life and reliability of wind turbine gearboxes, simulating real-world loading conditions and evaluating the stresses and motions, with the goal of improving the gearbox's efficiency and reliability.

Video-based Online Advanced Gearing Course

By making the "Detailed Gear Design" seminar, study guide and certification test available online, the Foundation is helping to provide advanced entineering training to those who are unable to travel to seminar locations. This new online seminar is anticipated to be available online in September 2010.

Grant to Gear Research Institute to Publish Information on Diagnosing "Ghost Tones"

In 2008, the Foundation granted $59,000 to the Gear Research Instutite at Penn State to document how to compute transmission-error patterns on tooth working surfaces that are the cause of unacceptable transmission-error tones (a.k.a. "phantom" or "ghost" noise), thereby enabling manufacturing-source diagnosis of such tones, and commensurate accuracy specifications. The book will include a complete description of the proven computer-numerically-controlled gear measurement methodology required to accomplish the above, as well as numerous examples of successful implementation of this technology. Free progress reports on this current grant are available at this link.

General support for the Foundation through the Annual Campaign is vital to the survival and operation of the Foundation, since AGMA membership dues do not cover operating expenses for the AGMA Foundation.

Contributions or gifts made to the AGMA Foundation, a Section 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code, are considered charitable contributions for U.S. federal income tax purposes.