Valley Views A Bi-Monthly Publication for the
SWE Sacramento Valley Section
April – May 2015
Society of Women Engineers April – May 2015 Sacramento Valley Section Page 1
In this issue New Member Profiles .................................................. 2
Chelsea Gillis ............................................................. 2
Elisabeth Johnson ..................................................... 2
SWE Community News ................................................ 3
SWE Sac Valley Seeks Leaders for Fiscal Year
2015/2016 ................................................................ 3
Y.E.S! Event ............................................................... 5
SWE SVS Educational Outreach Opportunities ........ 6
Raising High Speed Rail Awareness .......................... 7
A Woman Electrical Engineer from Iraq ................... 8
Get your Scholarship Fundraiser & Awards Dinner
Tickets Now! ............................................................. 9
Playing Hide and Seek .............................................. 9
Come to the Scholarship Fundraising & Awards
Dinner Event. .......................................................... 10
A Big Thank You to Our Financial Donors to Date! 10
Officer Roster ............................................................. 11
Business & Events Calendar ....................................... 12
Upcoming Events
Scholarship Fundraiser and Awards Dinner
April 30, 2015, 5:30 – 8 PM
Blue Prynt Restaurant, H & 11th Street, Sacramento
Contact: Amy Terrell, [email protected]
See attached flyers and article on page 9.
RSVP by April 24 to reserve your spot.
Volunteers Needed for Elected Officer Positions
April 30, 2015
Election Ballots in Mail
May 8, 2015
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June 5, 2015
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engineering services. Elisabeth works in areas relating
to regulatory compliance, assisting clients with Spill
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plans, hazardous waste tank assessments to certify
the tanks’ integrity, stormwater pollution prevention,
and implementation of Best Management
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application permitting for reclamation and irrigation
districts, who supply irrigation water to farmers. A
project that she particularly enjoyed was assessing
sediment loads in stormwater detention ponds for a
municipal client. Using a small fishing boat and sonar
device, Elisabeth and other staff made transects
across the ponds to collect water depth
measurements. These measurements were used
along with as‐built drawings to map the pond’s bottom surface and the areas of sediment
buildup. Elisabeth was a SWE member during college
and was the 2011‐12 Chapter President. She wisely
signed up for SWE’s Collegiate to Career membership
and got her first professional year free. She’s already attended her first Sac Valley event, the Quarterly
Lunch in downtown Sacramento. In her spare time,
Elisabeth loves outdoor activities, including hiking,
swimming, canoeing, and gardening. She also wants
to get back into sewing, which she’s done a lot in the past. Welcome to SWE Sac Valley, Elisabeth!
SWE Community News
SWE Sac Valley Seeks Leaders for Fiscal Year 2015/2016
You’ve seen them every year. If not yet, you will if you
stick around. One is coming soon. It’s the ballot for 2015‐16 Sacramento Valley Section officers, including
President, Vice‐President, Section Representative, and
Treasurer. Would you like to run for one of these or
coordinate a program or event? We want to inspire
you to join the SWE SVS leadership and see YOUR
name on the ballot!
To be recognized by the SWE mother ship, our Section
needs to hold an election each year for the four
offices in blue above. This means mailing you the
ballot, you returning it, and concluding the election
before June 30. These four primary officer positions
are described on the list below.
Besides those elected positions, there are many other
positions (also on the list below) where volunteers
lead the Section’s programs and events. These
activities all have the goal of furthering SWE’s mission,
in particular to inform young women, their parents,
counselors and the public in general about the
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qualifications and achievements of women engineers
and the opportunities open to them, and to support
women engineers in their careers.
Many hands make it all happen, and we need your
hands in the mix. We have quite a few committed
volunteers already on board, as you’ll see below. This is a really safe crowd with which to try out new things
and enhance your leadership skills. There are a lot of
experienced SWEsters who can help you with
direction and guidance. Go on, pick a position and run
with it! Notify Wendy Cohen of any interest in the
elected positions by 30 April at [email protected].
Here’s who keeps our Section headed towards its goals:
President. Lead us around, hold a meeting early in the
year to start planning the annual calendar of events,
hold quarterly business meetings, interact with other
SWE leaders to manage SWE business, keep us on our
toes and connected with the SWE mother ship, and
write a President’s Column every other month for the
newsletter. Thank you, Lyndsey Croghan, for being
President for the past two years.
Vice President. Close teammate with the President. A
President without a VP is in a difficult place. The VP
works in partnership with the President, and together
they run the “business end” of the Section.
Treasurer. Handle the finances, prepare financial
reports, and ensure Section funds are spent in a
fiscally sound manner. Thank you, Vyomini Upadhyay,
for being Treasurer the last two years.
Section Representative. Interface with SWE folks at
the Regional level, share word of our Section with
other Sections, and bring ideas and policies of our
Region back to us. Paula McDonald has served as
Section Rep for many years and is willing to continue
but offers it up to anyone else who is interested in the
bigger picture of SWE, if one of you would like to give
it a whirl.
Scholarship Selection Coordinator. Work starts
around January. Notify schools that the application
window is open, invite our members to be application
reviewers, receive and distribute the applications to
the reviewers, select the winners, make their day, and
introduce them at our annual awards dinner and
fundraising event. Job is over May or June. Thank you,
Sarah Christian, for being our Scholarship Selection
Coordinator this year.
Scholarship Fundraiser Co‐Coordinators. This is a
partner position for two people. Start around
October, select a date, place and theme for the event,
prepare a flyer, and solicit membership to write
letters asking for donations for scholarships, silent
auction items and raffle prizes. Thank you, Amy
Terrell and Wendy Cohen, for organizing the 2014 and
2015 fundraisers. They have kept good records for
these events and would be happy to pass the task on
to new folks for 2016.
Website Administrator. Keep our Section website
updated. Our website was recently standardized with
a format provided by the SWE mother ship. It’s now very easy for any amateur to follow the directions and
get things posted and updated. Learn a new trick and
help out the Section at the same time. Many thanks to
Lyndsey Croghan and Amy Terrell for completely
revamping the website, making it functional and up‐
to‐date as well as visually appealing.
Newsletter Editor. Compile and copy edit the
bimonthly newsletter using member submittals and
other sources, lay out the newsletter to be visually
appealing and informative, and prepare cover email
to transmit the newsletter to the membership. Thank
you, Christine Rice, for taking on the task the last
couple of years of handling our newsletter! Christine
is rewarded when you send her an article and any
other item of interest to our members. Write
something, thrill her to pieces. Contact her at
[email protected] and send newsletter contributions
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supplies and funding to support each team.
Competition fees alone for each team are about
$4,000 this year. Specific lists of materials and funding
needs are available but too lengthy to include in this
newsletter. Therefore, please contact Lorraine Larsen‐
Hallock and she will forward the lists to you. If you or
your company would like to help sponsor the robotics
program, please contact Patrick Bohman at Patrick-
[email protected]; (916) 623‐5620 (cell); (916) 433‐
2960 ext. 1021 (office).
Senior Project Mentors are needed for one‐on‐one
student mentoring and/or video conferencing. Dates:
September through May on days and times
determined by students and mentor. At least one
initial in‐person meeting with student is necessary
prior to use of video conferencing. A list of the senior
projects can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uYqlI3C0TgdKovHTt
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in becoming a mentor, please contact Jacquie Scinto
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Science Fair Project Mentoring and Judging:
Sutterville Elementary School will be having its 5th
grade science fair on Wednesday, April 29th from
6pm‐8pm and requests volunteer judges to help with
the event, which has about 30 projects. Please go to:
http://goo.gl/forms/BcClb2HRXS to sign up if you are
interested in being a judge on April 29th. This link:
(schedule) provides additional information regarding
the Sutterville Science Fair project schedule. Please
contact Krysty Emery ([email protected]) for
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Lorraine Larsen‐Hallock, SWE‐SVS Outreach
Coordinator and SWE Liaison to SES, at l.larsen-
[email protected] or (530) 677‐1973.
Thank you for supporting the young women & men
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Raising High Speed Rail Awareness
By David M. Schwegel, PE
The June 2010 U.S. High Speed Rail Association
(USHSR) (www.ushsr.com) Los Angeles Conference
included a session on “Women in High Speed Rail”
featuring Becky Johnson (Siemens), Jo Linda
Thompson (Association for California High Speed
Trains), and Ashley Hand (Rail LA), underscoring the
importance of women in delivering High Speed Rail
(HSR) projects nationwide. Such projects offer
opportunities for engineers across multiple
disciplines. It is important for engineers to
understand: (1) why America is not on board, (2) what
efforts California is taking to get America on board,
and (3) what the local engineering community can do
to raise awareness.
In the 1950s, Southern Pacific Railroad (SPRR) deemed
connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco via HSR “an
excellent idea”. In 1964, Japan launched the world’s
first HSR system, the Shinkansen. Many nations
followed suit. Yet 51 years later, America is still not on
board due to: (1) “The Parties Versus The People”
(Mickey Edwards), (2) “The Koch Brothers Exposed”
(Robert Greenwald), and (3) spending priorities. At
$600.4 billion annually, America leads the world in
defense spending, the same as the next ranked 14
nations combined. The USHSR (www.ushsr.com)
advocates for a $20 billion annual investment in HSR,
which is only 12 days worth of defense spending.
California is one of several states charting a more HSR
friendly course for America. In November 2008, voters
approved Proposition 1A, The High Speed Passenger
Train Bond Act. In July 2012, the Assembly (51‐27) and
Senate (21‐19) approved $2.7 billion to match the
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Officer Roster President Lyndsey Croghan
[email protected] Vice OPEN President Contact Lyndsey Croghan Treasurer Vyomini Upadhyay (916) 876-6677 [email protected] Section Rep Paula McDonald (916) 832-0019 [email protected] CSUS Lynne Koropp Counselor [email protected] UCD Linda N. Finley Counselor (916) 557-7411 [email protected]
Scholarship Sarah Christian Selection Coordinator [email protected] Scholarship Amy Terrell Event Co-Coordinator [email protected] Outreach Lorraine Larsen-Hallock Coordinator [email protected] Membership Wendy Cohen Coordinator (530) 756-7518 [email protected] Newsletter Christine Rice Editor (530) 559-4506 [email protected] Web Site Amy Terrell Administrator [email protected] Y.E.S! Heather Sheridan Coordinator (209) 986-5656 [email protected]
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Society of Women Engineers April – May 2015 Sacramento Valley Section Page 12
Business & Events CalendarFiscal Year 2014‐2015
Dates of Meetings/Events are subject to change
Date/ Time Event Location Coordinator
June 5, 2015 Election Ballot Postmark Deadline
N/A Wendy Cohen [email protected]
May 15, 2015 Newsletter Articles DUE Send Week of June 1, 2015
Christine Rice [email protected]
May 8, 2015 Election Ballots in Mail N/A Wendy Cohen [email protected]
April 30, 2015 5:30 – 8PM
Scholarship Fundraiser and Awards Dinner
Blue Prynt Restaurant, 815 11th Street, Sac.
Amy Terrell [email protected]
April 30, 2015
Volunteers needed for Elected Officer Positions
N/A Wendy Cohen [email protected]
March 14, 2015 8 AM – 3 PM
YES! Event 6601 Elvas Avenue, Sacramento
Heather Sheridan [email protected]
March 13, 2015 11:30 AM
Quarterly Lunch Vallejo’s Restaurant, 1100 O Street, Sacramento
Mary Frederick [email protected]
February 20‐22, 2015 Region A Conference University of the Pacific http://sjvs.swe.org/2015‐region‐a‐conference.html
February 5, 2015 6:30 PM
Meet and Greet Hot Italian, 1627 16th St Sacramento
Wendy Cohen [email protected]
December 16, 2014 12:00 PM
Scholarship Planning Meeting
Conference Call,11020 Sun Center Drive, Ste 200, Rancho Cordova
Amy Terrell [email protected]
December 4, 2014 6:00 PM
Holiday Meeting/Dinner Café Ettore, 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd
Lyndsey Croghan [email protected]
November 13, 2014 12:00 PM
Y.E.S. Planning Meeting Conference Call
Heather Sheridan [email protected]
November 7, 2014 12:00 PM
Quarterly Lunch Dot Island Grill 516 Second Street, Davis
Wendy Cohen [email protected]
November 5, 2014 12:00 PM
Business Meeting Conference Call Lyndsey Croghan [email protected]
October 23‐25, 2014 SWE National Conference Los Angeles, CA Please visit: http://we14.swe.org/
October 19, 2014 9:00 AM
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
Police Officers Memorial
Statue Wendy Cohen [email protected]
October 11, 2014 Expanding Your Horizons (EYH)
CSUS University Union
Lynne Koropp [email protected]
October 9, 2014 7:00 PM
SVS, UCD, CSUS joint ice cream social
Gunther’s Ice Cream2801 Franklin Blvd Sacramento
Lyndsey Croghan [email protected]
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Date/ Time Event Location Coordinator
September 18, 2014 Scholarship Planning Meeting
McKinley Park Amy Terrell [email protected]
September 12, 2014 12:00 PM
Quarterly Lunch SoHo Sushi3101 Zinfandel Dr, #124 Rancho Cordova
Amy Terrell [email protected]
The Society of Women Engineers is a 501 (c)(3) organization.
PO Box 4084 Davis, CA 95617 Email [email protected] http://svs.swe.org
Society of Women Engineers - Sacramento Valley Section
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER Thursday April 30, 2015
RAFFLE PRIZES and SILENT AUCTION ITEMS (more to come!)
Raffle Tickets: $1 each, 6 for $5, 14 for $10, 30 for $20
To Purchase Tickets or Obtain Tickets to Sell: Contact Wendy Cohen, [email protected]
Raffle Prizes $100 CASH
Rubio’s $25 Catering Gift Certificate
Movie Theater Gift Cards
B Street Theater Tickets
Sacramento Zoo Family Pass
Dried Fruit Basket
Cheese Variety Basket
Crocker Art Museum Family Passes
Wine Basket
Travel Mugs, Water Bottles, Hats
Silent Auction Items
Case of Wine
REI Day Pack
Ikea Work Lamps (set of 4)
Movie Theater Gift Cards
Black Chasm Cave Walk Tour Family Pass
California Academy of Sciences (4 tickets)
Handmade Stoneware Mugs (two 14-oz cobalt blue mugs by Jill Van Zanten)
Robert Mondavi Wine
Sacramento History Museum Family Membership
All proceeds will benefit the section’s Scholarship Fund to assist local area college students with their engineering and computer science aspirations.
Society of Women Engineers Sacramento Valley Section
Scholarship Fundraising Dinner & Scholarship Awards Ceremony 30 April 2015 Thursday 5:30 - 8:00
$30
Blue Prynt Restaurant ‘H’ & 11th Streets, free parking next to CalEPA building
For tickets, donations, silent auction contributions, questions . . .
contact Amy Terrell (916) [email protected]
RSVP by 24 April 2015
The Society of Women Engineers is a 501 (c)(3) organization
PO Box 4084, Davis, CA 95617 Email [email protected] http://svs.swe.org
All proceeds will benefit the section’s Scholarship Fund to help local area college students with their engineering and computer science studies.
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