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SWE MEM JOANNE MAGUIRE NAMED TO HOME ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY
Joanne Maguire, preceding receiver of the SWE Upwards Mobility Honour, has been inducted into the Subject Academy of Technology, the highest master laurels for engineers. As administrator frailty chairman of Lockheed Martin Place Systems, Maguire leads the $8 1000000000000 companionship to supply modern engineering systems for interior surety, polite and commercial-grade customers. She was named to Lot clip’s 50 Well-nigh Potent Women in Manufacture from 2006-2008.
SWE BLIGHTER YVONNE BRILL RECEIVES HIGHEST AWARD FROM CHAIRWOMAN OBAMA
Chairwoman Obama proclaimed close workweek the recipients of the Interior Ribbon of Skill, as advantageously as the Internal Decoration of Engineering and Founding, the highest honors bestowed by the Joined States governance on scientists, engineers and inventors.
SWE appendage Yvonne Brill was one of 5 inventors to welcome the Home Decoration of Engineering and Initiation. She is esteemed for initiation in skyrocket actuation systems for geosynchronous and low world reach communicating satellites, which greatly improved the potency of spa actuation systems.
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SWE APPENDAGE JONNA GERKEN RECEIVES 2011 PRATT & WHITNEY MULTIFARIOUSNESS & COMPREHENSION LAURELS
SWE Liveliness Appendage Jonna Gerken was late named the receiver of this year’s Pratt & Whitney Diverseness & Comprehension Awarding during the companionship’s yearly Leading Present Observance. Effected in 2009, the Diverseness & Comprehension Honor is presented to the single who has demonstrated meaning leading in mentoring, recruiting, vocation growing and construction an inclusive sour environs. Pratt & Whitney chairperson Dave Hess and frailty chairman of man resources Patrick Preux presented Gerken with the prize based on a nomination from one of her employees and accompaniment from the manager and chieftain direct for Hot Incision Technology (HSE), the section for which Gerken plant.
“Diversity and comprehension is significant because it allows us to appeal, continue and betroth the scoop endowment round the mankind,” aforesaid Gerken. “This prize actually highlights what a big society we workplace for, and beingness named this year’s receiver is rightfully exciting and demeaning.”
Throughout her calling, Gerken has played an fighting office in various national and international networking groups, including multiple roles in the Companionship of Women Engineers, the Plant of Industrial Engineers and the HSE Women’s Assembly.
SWE MEM JILL TIETJEN ELECTIVE TO MERRICK & FELLOWSHIP’S ADD-IN OF DIRECTORS
Shareholders of Sunrise, Colo.-based Merrick & Fellowship suffer elective SWE phallus Jill S. Tietjen, PE to answer on the loyal’s Plank of Directors. With terminated 30 years of live in the electrical utility-grade manufacture, she has standard legion recognitions for her contributions, and has scripted and co-authored multiple technological document. Tietjen is chairwoman and CEO of Technically Speechmaking, a consulting fast portion the galvanising substitute diligence and organizations that dish the industriousness. She earned her B.S. in applied maths, with a kid in electric technology, from the University of Virginia, and her MBA from the University of Northward Carolina in Charlotte.
SWE CEO, BETTY SHANAHAN, ESTEEMED BY HER ALMA MATER
Betty Shanahan of Chicago, administrator manager & CEO of the Gild of Women Engineers, was one of 9 individuals prestigious by Michigan Country University’s College of Technology at its 7th one-year Alumni Awards Junket held Saturday, May 8, at the Kellogg Hotel and League Gist. She was the beginning charwoman to invite the College of Technology’s Claud R. Erickson Grand Alumni Laurels, the college’s highest award. She was recognised for attaining a gamey stratum of master achievement; providing meritable serving to the college and the technology professing; and piquant in volunteer avail at the local, posit, internal, and/or outside floor. Understand more.
SWE MEMBER NATALIE GIVANS RECEIVES DCCEAS 2010 TECHNOLOGIST OF THE YEAR
SWE penis Natalie Givans, a Aged Frailty Prexy at Booz Allen Hamilton standard the 2010 Organize of the Year Honor from the Dominion of Columbia Council of Technology and Architectural Societies (DCCEAS). Ms. Givans, a long-time phallus of the Baltimore-Washington Master Segment, was the SWE candidate. The Direct of the Year Prize honors soul in the technology professing for undischarged accomplishments based on the allegiance, travail, calibre and, virtually significantly, clear successful acquisition and accomplishment in forward-moving the proficient and master aims of the technology professing. Ms. Givans has 25 years of technology receive and began her vocation at Booz Allen Hamilton providing technology and psychoanalysis for the KG84A Effectuation platform and development signal plans for the STU III curriculum. Now, she leads the loyal’s Authority and Resiliency potentiality squad of concluded 2,000 professionals and sales in inordinateness of $320M p.a., portion the Federal Politics and prize commercial-grade customers. As Booz Allen’s aged proponent for SWE, Ms. Givans sees it as her charge to profit and sustain more women into the technology battleground. She was recognised February 27, 2010 at the DCCEAS Awards Spread in Fluent Give, MD.
SWE CHAP YVONNE BRILL INDUCTED TO THE NEW JERSEY INVENTORS FOYER OF CELEBRITY
SWE Beau Yvonne Brill has been elective to the New Jersey Inventors Dormitory of Renown for her innovations in projectile and jet actuation. Patch operative at RCA Astro-Electronics in Princeton, NJ on planet actuation systems, she invented the hydrazine resistojet actuation organisation that is wide victimised on communications satellites. Ms. Brill has standard legion awards terminated her imposing calling, including the NASA Magisterial World Serving Palm, the SWE Resnik Contender Ribbon, the SWE Accomplishment Accolade, and in 2009, the highest prize in technology, the John Fritz Palm.
SWE MEM SHEILA WIDNALL RECEIVES PURENESS FROM HOME ACADEMY OF ENGINGEERING
The Internal Academy of Technology (NAE) testament accolade SWE phallus Sheila Widnall with the Arthur M. Bueche Awarding for leading in expanding the opportunities for women and minorities in technology. The prize testament be presented at a ceremonial on Sunday, Oct. 4 during NAE’s yearly merging. As an Bring Prof at the Massachusetts Found of Engineering, Sheila is actively byzantine in establishing U.S. skill and engineering insurance, and maintaining the kinship ‘tween administration and universities. She standard SWE’s highest pureness, the Accomplishment Prize, in 1975, in summation to legion otc awards and acknowledgment passim the years.
SWE APPENDAGE CYNTHIA COLEMAN APPOINTIVE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON TECHNOLOGY ALUMNI AFFILIATION CHAIRMAN
The University of Houston (UH) Technology Alumni Connexion has elective alumnus Cynthia Coleman to answer as the Connexion’s chairman for a annual condition. As chairwoman of the Connexion, Coleman volition reconnect technology alumni and advance engagement of university activities. A licenced master direct now retired from Exxon Mobil Pot, Coleman is attached to forward-moving women and minorities in technology done her amour in SWE and the UH Inkiness Alumni Affiliation, among others. Coleman’s first destination is to assist piddle UH a nationally-competitive, Level One founding for technology.
SWE EXTREMITY KRISTYN MASTERS RECEIVES MAGISTERIAL EDUCATION AWARDING
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) volition honour SWE mem Kristyn Masters with the Emil H. Steiger Awarding, one of 10 Magisterial Education Awards for 2009. The honor volition be presented at a ceremonial and receipt scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 in the Lee Footle at UW’s Pyle Mall. As an help prof of biomedical technology, Kristyn has not sole taught and mentored students passim the section, but she has contributed line developing and explore as fountainhead. Presently, Kristyn serves as staff consultant of the UW subdivision of SWE, and is besides a extremity of the Biomedical Technology Undergrad Programme Commission.
SWE MEM LARISA SCHELKIN TO WELCOME SKILL GOLF-CLUB FOR GIRLS ACCELERATOR AWARDING
SWE extremity Dr. Larisa Schelkin, Prexy of the BEAN Creation—unitedly with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds, the commencement African-American charwoman to attend as Doyen of Harvard—will be prestigious with Skill Clubhouse for Girls Accelerator Awards. The awards bequeath be presented at the Accelerator Honour Ceremonial & Skill Nightclub for Girls’ FIFTEENTH Anniversary Festivity that bequeath be held at the All-embracing Found of Harvard and MIT on May 26 in Cambridge, Masses.
SWE EXTREMITY DEBRA REINHART NAMED PEGASUS PROF AT UCF
The University of Exchange Florida (UCF) has selected SWE phallus Debra Reinhart as one of trey UCF professors this year to be named a Pegasus Prof, the university’s highest staff identification. The honor was presented at the yearbook Founders’ Day observance April 1 at UCF. An established organize and prof in UCF’s Section of Civic, Environmental and Structure Technology, Debra has contributed search which helped documentation …
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