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Valley Views A Bi-Monthly Publication for the SWE Sacramento Valley Section
December 2016 – January 2017
Society of Women Engineers Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 Sacramento Valley Section Page 1
In this issue Regional Update ...................................................... 2
New Member Profile ............................................... 3
Talina Barajas ...................................................... 3
SWE Community News ........................................... 4
Holiday Meeting .................................................. 4
SWE SVS Outreach Google Form ......................... 4
SWE SVS Educational Outreach Opportunities ... 4
FY 2016-17 Officer Roster ....................................... 5
Business & Events Calendar .................................... 6
Upcoming Events USING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO ACHIEVE MORE WITH LESS Saturday, January 14th, 9-11 AM Michael Baker International 2729 Prospect Park Drive, Suite 220 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 Long-time SWE SVS member, Carmen Lee, will present on "Using Emotional Intelligence to Achieve More with Less" on January 14th 2017. Carmen will be catering her presentation to YOUR needs. Please fill out a short survey here to help guide the presentation. FILL OUT SURVEY & RSVP BY JANUARY 6TH. SWE SVS leaders will provide a homemade brunch for your enjoyment.
Carmen helps professionals who are inundated with multiple responsibilities boost their emotional intelligence and sharpen their mind so that they can achieve their full potential. She coaches clients on how to manage stress effectively, increase productivity, adopt a more positive attitude, improve communication, and manage conflicts. To learn more about Carmen, see http://www.carmenklee.com/pages/about-life-solutions
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Regional Update By Paula McDonald
Urgent: the WE Local San Jose conference registration is open and space is limited to 400! All Region A members should have received an email from SWE headquarters with an active link to register. The conference will be held February 24-26, 2017 at the San Jose Marriott, with technical tours being offered one day prior on February 23, 2016. For more information, visit welocal.swe.org or email [email protected].
Life’s Variable, SWE is Your Constant: I was pleased and privileged to represent our Section in Philadelphia, where our annual conference broke all previous records and expectations with over 11,000 attendees! Development sessions were robust and addressed a wide range of common issues and goals across our membership. Personally, I enjoyed attending sessions on mid-career level issues and experiences.
A Region A meeting was held in Philadelphia during the annual conference. As a reminder, the Region A Facebook page is helpful for the most current and detailed information on events, or also our region website: http://regiona.swe.org/.
Some Pass-downs:
x Region Award nominations are due December 15, 2016, and will be presented at WeLocal in February. The Region Awards process is designed to reflect similar evaluation criteria as the
National awards. Please contact me if you are interested in submitting an award nomination.
x SWE Star Photo Contest: photos are due May 31st, 2017. Let’s get creative and get some fun photos of our SWE Star at our events! Email to [email protected]
x A region social event has been planned for May 19-21st in Sonoma; a house there has been rented to attend local wine tasting. More details to follow soon…
x Governance: Pearl Yamaguchi gave an overview of the latest plans for the restructuring effort. It is planned to dissolve the Regions by the end of FY18. SWE membership is now over 35,000 members, worldwide!
As we drive on through this busy time of year that manages to hit us from every possible direction and holiday season, I want to wish everyone peace and glad tidings! Thank you for all you do in SWE and your careers to drive our mission forward. We have so much to be proud of and thankful for.
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New Member Profile TALINA BARAJAS
Talina Barajas received her BS in Civil Engineering in 2008 from Cal Poly Pomona and her MS in Architectural Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2013. After earning her BS, she had a 1-year internship with Riverside County Transportation & Land Management Agency. She was involved in a local construction project to replace the Miles Avenue Bridge in Indio, which she especially enjoyed because it was right behind the house where she grew up. Talina's masters thesis weighed the financial and environmental benefits of higher performance structures, which go beyond the required standards and are designed to sustain bigger earthquakes. She looked at a new building at California State University East Bay and redesigned it from top to bottom based on existing code and then again using more extensive requirements. She compared the financial estimates and carbon footprints of each design. She concluded that the higher performance design was more expensive but the expected life for that material (steel rather than concrete) was worth the investment; the structure would last longer and have a smaller carbon
footprint. After completing her MS coursework in June 2012, Talina went to work as a design engineer for Stork Wolf & Associates, a structural engineering firm specializing in small commercial buildings and high-end residential structures. After a little more than a year, she moved to Alta Vista Solutions in Sacramento, where she worked on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and high speed rail projects in California, Colorado and Wyoming. In September 2016, Talina started a new job at Unico Engineering as a project engineer working on Construction Package 4 of the California High Speed Rail project. This is the southernmost segment, with the first 3 segments already under construction. Talina is currently in the verification and validation phase of the project, which involves intense quality control to make sure the specifications comply with all the requirements. Once construction begins in March 2017, she will be in the field to oversee the work. Talina wasn’t involved much in SWE in college, but now as a professional, something kept nagging at her to get involved and give back to the community. She taught a course in the spring of 2015 in Sacramento State’s Civil Engineering Dept., and she mentors at the local high school through CREATE Mentor. She also took part in the recent SWE SVS speed mentoring event at Sac State, which she learned about on our website. She said she definitely wants to help more with the SWE SVS Outreach Program. In her spare time, Talina enjoys reading, competitive power lifting, and gardening. Welcome to SWE Sac Valley, Talina!
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SWE Community News HOLIDAY MEETING
On December 1st, local SWE members and friends met at Café Ettore’s for dinner and dessert to celebrate the holidays. It was a great mix of familiar and new faces. Back row, Left to Right: Lorraine Larsen-Hallock, Jane Numazu, Serena Carbajal, Chelsea Spier, high school sophomore Claire, Chelsea Gillis, and Amy Terrell. Front row, Left to Right, Wendy Cohen, and Christine Rice.
SWE SVS OUTREACH GOOGLE FORM SWE-SVS has developed a new tool for members to express their specific interest in educational outreach and to sign up for specific outreach email requests / notification. Thanks to Chelsea Gillis, an interactive Google Form has been placed on the SWE-SVS website so members can show their interest in helping with a variety of outreach opportunities throughout each year. Please check out our new tool at Outreach Volunteer Signup located at
https://goo.gl/forms/a3cy23hXQciVkmsy1
and sign up for your areas of interest. We would love to hear your ideas for improvement on our new tool.
If you have any questions or comments please contact the Outreach Coordinator, Lorraine Larsen-Hallock.
SWE SVS EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES The 2016-2017 school year has started and the Sacramento City Unified School District, School of Engineering and Science (SES) has identified the following specific needs which you or your company / employer can assist with this school year.
1. 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. Weekly schedules are generally posted at https://goo.gl/3C4c9L. For inquiries or interest in becoming a mentor, please contact Patrick Wong at [email protected]; ph# (916)323-1505 or contact Jacquie Scinto at [email protected]; (530) 913-7756 (cell); (916) 433-2960 (SES).
2. Friday Speaker Series guest speakers are needed throughout the school year. Students gather in the career center to listen to the guest speaker presentation regarding their career or particular industry sector. There is generally one speaker for each date. The guest speaker talks consist of a 10-15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute Q&A. Presentations may include PowerPoint, video, and/or show & tell objects. Related industry swag is acceptable and enjoyable for students. You can find the Friday Speaker Series dates on the SES web site school calendar:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed
?src=seshs.org_pvmq1e9dpe72p0bcckufhpl4kk
@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Lo
s_Angeles.
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For inquiries or interest in being a guest speaker please contact Patrick Bohman at Patrick-
[email protected]; (916) 623-5620 (cell); (916) 433-2960 ext. 1021 (office).
3. Robotics Program Support. The SES robotics program is in desperate need of sponsors and/or donors for materials / supplies and funding to support each team. 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).
4. Science Fair Judges: SES has tentatively scheduled the Middle School (7th and 8th grades) science fair for March 15, 2017. If you are interested in signing up to be a judge at either fair, please contact Patrick Wong at [email protected] ; ph# (916) 323-1505.
5. Job Shadow or Intern Opportunities: SES is interested in connecting high school students with industry related job shadowing and / or student intern opportunities. If your company / workplace is interested in hosting a student for this opportunity please contact the SWE-SVS Outreach Coordinator, Lorraine Larsen-Hallock.
For information about the School of Engineering and Science go to http://www.schoolofengineeringandsciences.org/.
If you have any questions you may also contact Lorraine Larsen-Hallock, SWE-SVS outreach coordinator and member liaison to SES, at [email protected] or (530) 677-1973. Please inform Lorraine if you sign up for any outreach activities so she can track SWE-SVS participation.
Thank you for supporting the young women & men who will follow your footsteps into the engineering field!
FY 2016-17 Officer Roster President Chelsea Gillis [email protected]
Vice President Alexis Brown [email protected]
Treasurer Natalie Muradian [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 Yarima Poveda Selection Coordinator [email protected]
Scholarship Serena Carbajal Event Coordinator [email protected]
Outreach Lorraine Larsen-Hallock Coordinator [email protected]
Membership Wendy Cohen Coordinator (530) 908-7518 [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]
Event Alexis Brown Coordinator [email protected]
Mentoring Program Mitra Hooshangi & Coordinators Courtney Thomas [email protected]
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Business & Events CalendarFiscal Year 2016-2017
Dates of Meetings/Events are subject to change
Date/ Time Event Location Coordinator
June 20, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM Annual Planning Meeting
Michael Baker International 2729 Prospect Park Dr., Suite 220 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Chelsea Gillis [email protected]
July 21, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM Social Hour House Kitchen and Bar
555 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA Christine Rice [email protected]
September 27, 2016 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Speed Mentoring Event with Sac State
Sacramento State University Union 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819
Chelsea Gillis [email protected]
October 4, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM Social Hour
Bella Bru Cafe 4680 Natomas Blvd, Ste 100, Sacramento, CA
Alexis Brown [email protected]
November 10, 2016 6:00 PM EWB Fundraiser Blue Prynt Restaurant & Bar
815 11th Street, Sacramento, CA Kayla Salazar [email protected]
December 1, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 PM Holiday Meeting Café Ettore
2376 Fair Oaks Blvd, Sacramento, CA Chelsea Gillis [email protected]
January 14, 2017 9 – 11 AM
Using Emotional Intelligence to Achieve More With Less
Michael Baker International 2729 Prospect Park Dr., Suite 220 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Alexis Brown [email protected]
January 15, 2016 Newsletter Articles DUE Send Week of February 1, 2015
Christine Rice [email protected]
