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• May Membership Meeting:Two presentations on: Ivanpah Solar Tower Design & Small Modular Reactors

  • When
    21 May 2013
  •  
    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    5255 Westview Drive, Frederick, MD 21703
  • Registered
    7 attendees

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  Bechtel Power is pleased to host the May meeting of the

  Society of Women Engineers Baltimore-Washington Section

  Please join us for an enjoyable and informative evening.

  Tuesday, May 21, 2013

  Bechtel Conference Room (BP2-2A6)

  5:30 p.m. – Social

  6:00 p.m. – Buffet Dinner

  6:30 p.m. – Presentations

  "What It Takes to Harness the Sun: Ivanpah Solar Tower Design"

  Speaker: Kristin Santamont

  “Small Modular Reactors: Big Ideas Come in Small Packages”

  Speaker: Megan Brown

  A buffet dinner will be provided at no cost to attendees.

  Address is 5255 Westview Drive, Frederick, MD 21703

   

  Kristin's Bio:

  Ms. Santamont is currently the Civil Engineering Group Supervisor for the Erbil Combined Cycle Power Project. Since joining Bechtel in 2004, she has worked on multiple power projects, with most of her experience focused on steel work processes, including extensive work with the 3D steel model environment and building information modeling. Kristin has performed detailed structural steel design and detailed connection design for multiple projects. Her steel experience also includes managing large steel purchase orders for both Sammis AQCS and Ivanpah projects, and work as part of the Central Steel Engineering Group, collaborating to further improve the Bechtel Power steel work process. Most recently, Kristin was the engineer of record for all Bechtel structural designs for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating project, overseeing all structural designs, including the Ivanpah tower structural design, steel connection design, wind tunnel testing and tuned mass damper incorporation. Kristin has a BS in Civil Engineering and a MS in Structural Engineering, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer in California.

   

  Megans Bio: Ms. Brown started at Bechtel in 2011, and since then has been working in the licensing group on the Generation mPower SMR project.  Megan is active in the Bechtel Young Generation in Nuclear Group, where she serves as the Vice President of Professional Development and Communications and is also a member of the Women in Nuclear group.  She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Nuclear Engineering.

   

  Questions: Please contact Kristin Moreno, Kristin.moreno@feapc.com

   

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• AIAA/SWE Luncheon with Dr. Sandra Magnus

  • When
    11 Jul 2013
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    River's Edge Conference Center, NAS Patuxent River MD
  • Registered
    Nobody

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  This will be a joint event, co-sponsored by the Baltimore-Washington Section of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) National Capital Section Southern Maryland Chapter.

   

  SWE-BWS and AIAA are pleased to welcome guest speaker Dr. Sandra Magnus, current AIAA Executive Director and former NASA Astronaut. See Dr. Magnus' bio at:

  https://www.aiaa.org/uploadedFiles/About_AIAA/Goveranance/SandraMagnusBiography_AIAADec2012.pdf

   

   

  Cost: $18 for AIAA & SWE members. $20 for all other non-members.

   

  Menu: Event will feature a plated Lunch.

  Entrée choices:

  1.  Grilled Breast of Chicken (with Pineapple Salsa)

  2.  Grilled Flank Steak (marinated, sliced and served with mushroom burgundy sauce)

  3. Vegetarian Plate - Eggplant Roulade (breaded eggplant stuffed with ricotta cheese & topped with marinara sauce) 

   

  IMPORTANT SECURITY INFO.:

  1. This event is only open to base guests who are U.S. Citizens. This event is NOT open to any possible base guests who are foreign national.

  2.  Foreign national who already have base access to NAS Patuxent River (currently work on the base) may attend.

  3. Those driving/traveling together must submit the names of ALL those in their group.

  4. Guests requiring base access for this event must approach base gates #1 or #2, show picture ID, and be checked against approved access list. Will then be directed to River's Edge Conference Center.

   

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• WE13 Annual Conference

  • Start
    24 Oct 2013
  •  
  • End
    26 Oct 2013
  • Location
    Baltimore, Maryland

  

  Registration and the housing room blocks for WE13 are now open. Please visit the official WE13 website at http://we13.swe.org/ for more information or to register to attend.

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• Discover Engineering Family Day at the National Building Museum

  • When
    22 Feb 2014
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW Washington, DC 20001

  

   

  Click here to register to volunteer on SWEeter Futures!

   

  Be part of the fun and volunteer for a fun day atthe National Building Museum during Engineers Week!!

   

  What is Family Day @ National Building Museum? The annual Washington DC Engineering Family Day is enjoyed by over six thousand visitors to the National Building Museum every February.  The festival features dozens of hands-on  activities provided by local engineering chapters and national organizations.  Every year at the start of Engineer's Week, the impressive main hall of the National Building Museum is taken over by thousands of children of all ages experiencing the excitement of engineering, not to mention slime. 

   

  The National Building Museum and the National Engineers Week Foundation invite you to debunk the myths of engineering and discover how professional engineers turn an idea into reality.  Celebrate National Engineers Week by participating in this free, hands-on and fun-filled festival! 

   

  Discover Engineering Family Day is a FREE, drop-in program. Program and activities are most appropriate for children ages 5 to 13 with adult supervision. Registration is not required.

   

  What do you do as a volunteer?  SWE BWS partners with Alche, to run the slime making stations! It is the most popular event at Family Day every year - everyone loves slime!

   

  Slime Making - Each child gets to see how to make slime and understand chemistry! They each get to pick their own color and this gross stuff is a HUGE hit!!

   

  Volunteer Opportunities:
  All Day (9:00am - 5:00pm)
  9:00am-11:00am
  11:00am - 1:00pm

  1:00pm - 3:00pm

  3:00pm - 5:00pm

   

  Food: breakfast (donuts), lunch (pizza) and drinks throughout the day for all volunteers.

   

  Arrival: The National Building Museum is located at 401 F Street NW, between 4th and 5th Streets, across the street from the Judiciary Square Metro (Red Line). Wheelchair access is available through the G Street entrance.

   

  Parking in the area is limited - Ride Metro - another way engineers make our lives easier!

   

  Event details can also be found at: http://eweekdcfamilyday.org/

   

  Questions? Contact Natalie Bryner at nataliebryner@gmail.com

   

   

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• USA Science & Engineerin​g Festival

  • Start
    25 Apr 2014
  •  
  • End
    27 Apr 2014
  • Location
    Walter E. Washington Convention Center
  • Registered
    Nobody

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