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Welcome to our SWE e-Newsletter where we’re compiling relevant announcements and information for you. If you have anything you’d like to include in a future e-Newsletter please contact Joani Curtis (joan.curtis@hp.com).
In this Newsletter
SWE 2018 Engineer's Week Banquet
Registration is now open for the 2018 Engineer's Week banquet. Held on Monday, February 26, 2018, at 6:00pm at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon. Click here to learn more.
Scholarships
Final call to apply for the three WVS-SWE Scholarships applications, due January 24, 2018. As the application window is closing we also need volunteers to help review submissions. Find details here.
Informal Gatherings
Mark your calendars to mingle with your fellow SWE members on January 19 (lunch) & February 8 (after hours). More details here.
OSU Fermentation Sciences Tour
WVS-SWE has arranged for a tour of the OSU Fermentation Sciences Department on Saturday, February 1, 2018. Learn more about this opportunity, including how to RSVP here.
WE Local is coming to Portland
WE Local is a regional SWE conference coming to Portland April 6-8, learn more and how you can participate here.
Facebook Page
Did you know that Willamette Valley SWE has a Facebook Page? Please like the page to get updates on events! We will endeavor to keep it updated with current events and interesting SWE articles. Check it out: Willamette Valley SWE Facebook Page
Volunteer Opportunities
Girl Scouts Science in Action Workshop – January 20, 2018
Contact: Dana Algaier (dana.algaier@hp.com)
Reviewing Scholarship Applications – January / February 2018
Contact: Debbi Friedrichsen (wvs.swescholarshipchair@gmail.com)
Learn more here.
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SWE 2018 Engineer's Week Banquet
The Willamette Valley Section of the Society of Women Engineers is sponsoring the 19th Annual Willamette Valley Engineers Week Banquet on February 26, 2018. For over 50 years, Engineers Week has helped to promote awareness of the engineering profession and to encourage young people to consider careers in engineering. In support of these objectives, we invite you, your colleagues, and your guests to attend this year's banquet. We are excited to host Michael Foss, a senior manager for Logistics Optimization, Compliance, and Controls at Amazon Transportation Services. Michael is responsible for leading global logistics optimization. In this role he provides leadership to new launch sites and to ensure operations and activities are conducted safely, ethically, and with the highest level of integrity.
The banquet will be held in the Cascade Ballroom at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the Oregon State University Campus in Corvallis, Oregon. There will be a networking hour at 5:00 p.m. with a cash bar. Dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m. Local student recipients of SWE awards will also be honored. We hope that you can join us to celebrate the many contributions made by engineers to our community! We ask that you also consider sponsoring student attendees and/or a table of professionals and students.
Registrations must be completed online and received by Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Tickets are $45 per person or $360 for a table of eight. Register online at https://tinyurl.com/2018ENGWK.
WVS-SWE Scholarship Announcement
Volunteers - With the application window closing we need help in reviewing submissions! Please contact Debbi Friedrichsen (wvs.swescholarshipchair@gmail.com) for details on what is needed and how to volunteer
Reminder - WVS-SWE awards three $1250 scholarships awarded based on academic achievement, school/community involvement, and work experience. Applications are due January 24th, 2018 via the WVS-SWE website: https://goo.gl/aLzbJ9.
MAIL: Society of Women Engineers—Willamette Valley Section
PO Box 576, Corvallis, OR
97339-0576
Attention: Scholarship Chair
Informal SWE Gatherings
Please mark your calendars for the next two WV-SWE informal gatherings:
Friday, January 19th – noon – lunch at Kimhoa’s in the shopping center at Kings and Circle Blvd.
Thursday, February 8th, 5:00 – 6:30 (or so) – McMenamins on Monroe
Come and bring a friend! Doodle polls will be set up in advance of each event. (You only need to respond if you plan to attend.)
SWE-WVS Tour: OSU Fermentation Sciences Department
The Willamette Valley Section has arranged to tour Oregon State University Fermentation Sciences Department, located in Corvallis, Oregon. During this tour, we will learn about the science of fermenting beverages (beer and wine) as well as fermenting cheese from the experts. Dr. Lisbeth Goddik will lead the tour of the creamery. Dr. Thomas Shellhammer and his research group will give us a tour of the pilot research brewery, and Dr. James Osborne and his research group will give us a tour of the research winery.
Dr. Goddik is a Professor in Food Science & Technology. She holds two professorships: the Paul & Sandra Arbuthnot Professorship and the ODI-Bodyfelt Professorship. Her research program is based on the Dairy Processing Extension Program. It offers the opportunity to provide an in-depth investigation of specific challenges facing the dairy industry.
Dr. Shellhammer is the Nor’Wester Professor of Fermentation Science and is an internationally recognized expert in hops chemistry. His lab studies the contribution of hops to beer flavor, foam and physical & flavor stability. During the 2008-2009 academic year he conducted research and taught brewing science at the Technical University of Berlin as a Fulbright Scholar and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Since 2007 he has served on the Board of Examiners for the Institute of Brewing and Distilling in London, England.
Dr. Osborne is an associate professor and Enology Extension Specialist in the Food Science and Technology. His expertise and research interests include Wine Microbiology - Malolactic fermentation; Microbial spoilage of wine; Wine yeast-bacteria interactions; Problematic alcoholic and malolactic fermentations; Acetaldehyde metabolism by malolactic bacteria and its enological consequences.
When: Saturday, February 3, 2018 from 10 am – 1 pm Where: Oregon State University, Wiegand Hall Cost: FREE to SWE members; $10 for non-members RSVP by Thursday, February 1, 2018 to Yelda Turkan (yelda.turkan@oregonstate.edu).
WE Local PDX
Date: April 6-8th, 2018
https://welocal.swe.org/portland/
Registration has opened for the WE Local Portland Conference! Our WVS-SWE Section will not be hosting a professional development event in April. Instead, we encourage you to attend the WE Local PDX Conference.
Registration Deadlines
Early Bird: Thursday, March 8, 2018
Regular: Thursday, March 22, 2018
Career Fair Only: Thursday, March 29, 2018
WE Achieve Awards Ceremony Only: Thursday March 22, 2018
There are opportunities to be involved in WE Local PDX beyond as a general attendee. These include:
being a conference speaker
volunteering for the conference
sponsoring the conference with your company (we have specific Portland SWE contacts if your company is interested)
Please see the conference website for details on how to get involved with WE Local PDX!
Volunteer Opportunities
Girl Scouts:
SWE will be hosting a 'Science in Action' workshop on January 20th at the HP Corvallis site. Volunteers are needed to help set up and work with the girls. Please contact Dana Algaier (dana.algaier@hp.com) to volunteer or for more information.
Scholarship Review Committee:
We need help reviewing applications for the WVS-SWE Scholarship. Please contact Debbi Friedrichsen (wvs.swescholarshipchair@gmail.com) to volunteer or for more information.
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