Hello SWE CRS Community! I hope you are having a wonderful spring! As the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers” and I think we are all looking forward to less rain and more sun so we can enjoy the flowers and spring! May is somewhat of a transitional month. It is a month of graduation where high schoolers and collegians culminate that chapter of their lives and look toward the next era with excitement. It is a month where the unofficial start of summer acts as a gateway to vacations, outdoor activities, and more time with family and friends. For SWE, May marks the last month of heavy activity before the end of the fiscal year and our election season. We have some professional development and outreach activities this month that culminate and incredible year of new relationships built, aspiring engineers reached, and inclusive opportunities provided. I encourage you to reach outside

your comfort zone and talk to someone new or try something different. I am sure we all have a story about how reaching outside our comfort zone has led to something amazing. We are also holding SWE CRS Elections this month. Our amazing Nominating Committee Chair, Wendy Obenauf, has sent out election information to all members via email. I highly encourage you to take the time to review each candidate and vote in this year’s election for our FY18 executive board. More information about voting is included in this newsletter. This transitional month can be very exciting as it provides new opportunities to think about that next chapter in our lives. Please take the time to vote and enable the next leaders for our section, attend a different event and meet some new people, and be prepared for that transitional time whenever it may come. Have a wonderful May and I hope to see you at an event soon!

NEWSLETTER May 2017

President’s Column

President's Column……1 Event Recap…………..2-3 Announcements……..3-4 FY18 Board Election.5-12 Upcoming M&G……….13 Collegiate Corner…….14 CRS Board FY17………15

In This Issue:

SWE CRS Newsletter Editor

Federica Bogani J002.Newsletter@

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Please send articles, ideas and info for future

newsletters. Comments and feedback are also

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Stephanie Salas-Snyder FY17 SWE Columbia River Section President

A big thank you to all participants and volunteers at SWE events in April. Outreach: Salt Water Powered Robot Demo

This event was held on April 25th Grant Watts Elementary School in Scappoose, and involved 27 3rd graders students, 17 girls, 10 boys. The purpose of the event was to encourage students to choose STEM fields.

The Salt-Powered Robot uses surprisingly simple ingredients to make an aluminum-air (oxygen) battery to operate a tiny electric motor on a small robot that you build. It takes only a few minutes to snap together the robot components and assemble the battery. After making a super saturated solution of salt and water, you draw a few drops into a pipette and squeeze them through the battery lid. Slide the battery into the battery holder and the robot zips across the floor.

Students mentioned to their teachers that this is their favorite activity of the year!!

SWE Region Update

At the Region conference held in February, there was a Region Meeting where your Regional representatives spoke about updates to SWE at the Society level. One of the changes that we wanted to alert our members to is the dissolution of the Regions. We still will have one more year with this current structure, but changes are happening already with all sections only having one regional representative in FY18 (we typically have one representative per 100 members), and through proposals of how to dissolve the Region funds. Proposals for using the funds were shared in this meeting, and the proposal with the most traction was to create a new scholarship at the Society level. This would be an option to utilize the majority of the funds, with certain, specific monies being directed to improvement of the ABJ training in the Fall (as certain dollars are earmarked for exact uses.). As these proposals gain traction and move through the steps of approval, we will give you an update on if/how this could impact you and our section as a whole. Thank you for your patience and continued support during this time of transition SWE Outreach in our community!

Event Recap

Professional Development: Boeing Portland Technical Tour On April 27th, the Professional Development committee hosted a technical tour of Boeing’s Portland location. Over 20 engineers toured the site, which serves as Boeing’s Center of Excellence for complex machining, gear systems, and flight controls. While on the tour, people were able to observe some of the largest profile milling machines in the world, a friction stir-weld demo of titanium, and view the benefits of using a laser scanning coordinate measuring machine to validate dimensions on large parts. Following the tour, people gathered at McMenamins Edgefield Black Rabbit bar for further networking. Many thanks to Ann Simmons for arranging the tour and the other women of Boeing who helped as tour guides! ***Many thanks to Ann Simmons and Kristen Brastad for organizing the tour!***

May Professional Development Event

Microsoft on SURFACE HUB: The innovative collaboration tool from Microsoft

Talk by Pratima G.N. Rao, Ph.D., Senior Materials Engineer

Date & Time: Monday, May 22, 2017 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (PDT) Location: Community Center, The Beaverton Building, 5th Floor Mayors Office, 2725 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton, OR 97076

Announcements

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Downtown, May Wed May 10th at 11:45 am

Bamboo Sushi, 404 SW 12th Avenue

Come check out the world's first certified sustainable sushi

restaurant! Big menu with non-sushi options available as well.

RSVP to Melinda Holtzman mjholtzman@comcast.net

Gresham, May

Wed May 31 at 11:30 am Gresham Black Bear Diner,

105 NE Burnside Road, Gresham, OR, 97030, (503)

489-5476 Please RSVP To Ann

Simmons ann.e.simmons@boeing.com

South I-5, May

Fri May 19th,

Pieology Pizzaria, 7663 SW Nyberg St, Tualatin, OR 97062

(503) 692-3773

Downtown Meet & Greet Photo Courtesy: Nicole Zimmerman

Upcoming Meet and Greets

Vancouver, May

Mon May 15 at 12:00 pm Eastland Sushi & Asian

Cuisine, 16519 SE Mcgillivray Blvd,

Vancouver, WA 98683

South I-5, June

Fri June 16th, Zoup!

8729 SW Jack Burns Blvd,

Wilsonville, OR 97070, (503) 404-0123

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Want to know about our Collegiate sections and their happenings? This is where you find out about them and how you can help! Every month we will be featuring updates and happenings from our collegiate sections so you can find out more about our SWE Collegiate sections.

Collegiate Corner

BOARD MEMBERS Position FY17 Officer Email President Stephanie Salas-Snyder J002.President@gmail.com President-Elect Sireesha Akula J002.Pres.Elect@gmail.com Secretary Carina Hahn J002.Secretary@gmail.com Treasurer Nicole Woodman J002.treasurer@gmail.com Tatiana Jamison J002.treasurer@gmail.com Section Rep 1 Joy Marsalla J002.SectionRep@gmail.com Section Rep 2 Indu Kalyanaraman J002.SectionRep @gmail.com VP of PD Anna Mathew J002.VP.PD@gmail.com Nikita Tiwari J002.VP.PD@gmail.com VP of Outreach Jill Murfin J002.VP.Outreach@gmail.com Priyanka Dobriyal J002.VP.Outreach@gmail.com VP of Collegiate Relations Corey Castelow J002.VP.Coll.Relations@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Federica Bogani J002.Newsletter@gmail.com Webmaster Brianna LaBarge J002.Webmaster@gmail.com Membership Chair Marisa Demull J002.Membership@gmail.com Scholarship Chair Jennifer Bly J002.Scholarship@gmail.com

Data Officer Coral Jean Cotterell J002.Database@gmail.com Bylaws Chair J002.Bylaws@gmail.com Nomination Chair Wendy Obenauf J002.Nominations@gmail.com Social Chair J002.Social@gmail.com Meet & Greet Coordinators Hillsboro Shelley Welke J002-Beav-Hills-M-G@gmail.com Gresham Ann Simmons J002-Gresham-M-G@gmail.com Downtown Portland Melinda Holtzman J002-Downtown-M-G@gmail.com South I-5 Laura Ken Kramer J002-I5-South-M-G@gmail.com Vancouver Jennifer Kootstra J002-Vancouver-M-G@gmail.com Collegiate Section Counselors University of Portland Catherine Myers J002-UP-Counselor@gmail.com Portland State University Nicole Woodman J002-PSU-Counselor@gmail.com George Fox University Jessica McMullan J002-GF-Counselor@gmail.com OIT-Wilsonville Pratima Rao J002-OIT-WV-Counselor@gmail.com Food Bank Coordinator East Side Kari Nichols J002-Food-Bank-Coord@gmail.com

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