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FY04 Issue 4 December 2003/January 2004

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January Meeting Society of Manufacturing Engineers Meeting & Tour at Springfield Science Museum
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January 20 Springfield Science Museum Meeting & Tour LASIK Eye Surgery – What you need to know Women in Engineering, Girl Scout/UCONN Event National Engineer’s Week SWE-CT 50-Year Anniversary Gala SWE Region F Conference at WPI 20th Annual Certificate of Merit Awards Reception SWE National Conference Milwaukee, Wisconsin

When: Tuesday, January 20 6 to 8 p.m. Where: Springfield Science Museum See directions attached RSVP: Jonna Gerken (JonnaCG@aol.com) Richard Sanderson will conduct a tour of the Observatory and Planetarium discussing history and construction. He will open the observatory if the sky is clear to look at some planets. The moon will be new so that will not be visible. If the sky is cloudy he will do an extended program on the night sky during winter. We will meet in the Tolman Auditorium and have refreshments. February Meeting Is LASIK For You? When: Wednesday, February 4th 6 p.m. Where: Metropolitan District Training Center Room B (See directions attached) RSVP: Sherisse Hughes at (860) 843-2093 or srhughes@eba-d.com by 5 p.m. on Monday, February 2nd Have you ever wondered if LASIK is for you? What are the risks and benefits? Will I never have to wear glasses again? Dr. Daniel Petashnick of Manchester Ophthalmology will answer those questions any many more. If you have any questions to submit in advance, which will allow for a thorough reply, send them to Sherisse Hughes at srhughes@eba-d.com. Refreshments will be served. Daniel Petashnick is a board certified general ophthalmologist with fellowship training in the cornea. Dr. Petashnick trained at Brown University for residency and at the Mayo Clinic for a fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery. He has practiced in Manchester, CT for eight years. Dr. Petashnick offers the most advanced refractive surgery procedures available, including LADARVISION and WAVE FRONT (custom cornea) technologies. 1

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2004 SWE Region F Conference
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The 2004 SWE Region F Conference will be April 3-4, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Campus Center in Worcester, MA. The conference will be on Saturday, April 3, 2004, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and will feature workshops, inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and a career fair. On Sunday, April 4, Region F will hold its annual business meeting from 8:00 AM to noon. Here is agenda:        a sample of the topics that will be included on the Navigating your Career in the New Century The Project Management Test Drive Starting a Small Business Interpersonal Communication Skills Self Discipline for Self Care Business Etiquette and Interview Skills Resume Writing

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Panel Discussion on Work/Life Balance Panel Discussion on Attracting and Retaining Women Engineers Keynote: The Transition from Engineer to Leader

college to receive an engineering education during a time when female students were not readily accepted in the field. We are working on locating other past CT Section Presidents to invite to the event including Cynthia Pruett, who organized our successful auctions that raised enough funds to initialize our scholarship award program in 1984 and Marie Quintana, who was also one of the founding members of SWE-NESS, the third section formed in our state. We are personally inviting many of the SWE National Board of Directors to attend our event. If their schedule permits we expect SWE CEO Betty Shanahan and Region F Director Bernice Brody as distinguished guests. SWE-CT encourages all the SWE Sections in our Region F to accept our open invitation to attend this exciting event and join us to share in the celebration of our accomplishments. Through an array of sights and sounds, the 50 th Anniversary Gala event will provide an opportunity to recall SWE-CT’s rich history and explore the bright possibilities for our future in supporting women in engineering. For further event details and ticket order information visit the SWE-CT website at: http://www.geocities.com/swe_conn/ or contact the SWE-CT Secretary at e-mail: micki.metsopoulos@swe.org.

Stay tuned! More information on speakers, accommodations, and registration will be available soon! If you would like to volunteer for the 2004 Conference Committee, please email Ronni_J_Cavener@raytheon.com or erin@loalegg.com.

Albany ASCE Mohawk-Hudson Section Annual Dinner
SWE Member, Ms. Patricia Galloway, P.E., F.ASCE who was inducted as the first woman president of the ASCE will be the keynote speaker at Albany American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Mohawk-Hudson Section’s annual dinner on May 7, 2004 in Albany, NY. More details on arrangements will be coming soon. This is a significant event in our area – and a wonderful opportunity to network with our colleagues in ASCE – and our joint SWE-ASCE members!

SWE-Hartford Career Guidance SWE CT 50-Year Anniversary Gala Event
The SWE Connecticut Section (SWE-CT), chartered in March 1954, is honoring our 50th Anniversary with an event scheduled for Saturday March 20, 2004. “50Years of Breaking Barriers” is the theme for the Anniversary Gala event to be held at Fairfield University in the Charles F. Dolan School of Business Dining Room located in Fairfield, CT (Building 37 on Campus Map: http://www.fairfield.edu/about/map.htm). The event features a luncheon reception, distinguished speakers and guests; and will showcase visual displays highlighting the last five decades of our SWE-CT history. The presentation of our Section’s 2004 Jean R. Beers Scholarship awards to local college female students will be a highlight of the afternoon festivities. The Keynote speaker will be Alma Martinez Fallon, FY04 SWE National President and Manager of Planning and Manufacturing Engineering for the Structural Fabrication and Assembly Division at Northrop Grumman Newport News. President Fallon is recognized as one of America’s leading minority women in technology by Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology magazine. She will share her career path as well as her vision of SWE National goals and strategic priorities. Evelyn Fowler, SWE-CT 1st Section President, is the featured speaker who will talk about our Section’s history. She organized the first SWE-CT section meeting that was hosted at her home. Ms. Fowler is also distinguished as one of the founding members of SWE that attended the first organized meeting for the Society at Camp Green, the Engineering Camp of Cooper Union in New Jersey. She will talk about her experiences with the grass roots start up of SWE and her struggle to attend 2 SWE-Hartford Career Guidance chairperson: Karen Swartz can be contacted via e-mail: kswartz@geiconsultants.com We are always looking for volunteers. Please consider contributing your time to a worthy cause and making a local impact in your community!!! Please e-mail Karen Swartz at the address above if you are an engineer or scientist interested in working with local students. There are many different opportunities to work with students of all ages. What do engineers do? Have you ever wondered what it is that engineers actually do from day to day? SWE-Hartford can tell you! We are pleased to announce a new resource library that is available for the use of area schools and students. The library contains books, magazines, CDs, VHS videotapes, and guidance brochures, all about engineering. All materials may be borrowed for 1 week. The library is being stored by Karen Swartz, the Career Guidance chair for SWE-Hartford. Please contact Karen directly via the e-mail address above to find out more details about what is available and to borrow any of the materials. Teachers – School Visits If you are a teacher and would like to arrange for a member of SWE to give a presentation to your interested science or math class please contact Karen Swartz via the e-mail address above. Certificate of Merit Award Program SWE-Hartford’s Certificate of Merit Award program celebrates 20 years! SWE recognizes the importance of basic math and sciences as the building blocks of engineering, so every spring for the last 20 years we have presented awards to area high school students in recognition of achievements in math and

science. The students and their families that attend represent approximately 40 high schools in Hartford CT, Springfield MA, and surrounding areas. There is a panel discussion with several engineers describing how they got into the engineering field, what a typical day is like, and what they love about their jobs. After the award presentation there is the opportunity to interact directly with the SWE members and engineers from the panel. 2004 will be the first year of our expanded program in which we invite middle school or high school students who may be interested in engineering to attend the event even if they are not an award recipient. Our goal is to provide a forum for talented students to get the inside scoop on engineering before they go off to college so they might put some serious consideration into engineering as a career. If you are a student and would like to attend, please e-mail Karen Swartz via the email address above. Space is limited so RSVP is a must.

In Memory Of…
MUNGER, Mary V. Mary V. Munger, of West Hartford, died Wednesday (January 7, 2004). Born in East Hartford, June 23, 1918, daughter of the late Allyn R. and Emily D. Munger. She was predeceased by her brother, Allyn M. Munger, PhD. Miss Munger, graduated with honors from St. Joseph College in West Hartford, with a B.A. in Mathematics in June 1939. From 1939-1941 she was a substitute teacher in the Hartford schools and from 1941-1945 a Teacher in the Hartford schools. In March 1945, she was employed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as a computer assistant, then from 1946-1950 an engineering assistant, from 1950-55 an Engineer and from 1955-60 a Senior Systems Engineer in Sound and from 1945-60 most of her time was spent on measurement and analysis of aircraft engine noise. From 1953 on she concentrated on jet engines, including both model and full scale data. Some time was spent on the writing of technical reports and editing of reports and presentations by others. From 19601969 she served as a Senior Engineer in the Engine Performance Analysis Group dealing with specification requirements, control requirements and production engine performance. In 1969, she was promoted to Assistant Project Engineer in the performance group and continued in that field. From 1971-76 she worked in East Hartford preparing for and following data from a Government Products Division engine, the F-100. From 197678, worked for the Government Products division in East Hartford, still covering the performance of the production of F100 engines. In 1978 Miss Munger became a Supervisor for Engine Performance, Trend Analysis, Quality Assurance in the Manufacturing Division of Pratt & Whitney. She followed performance of military production engines and calibration of production test stands and requirements for automatic data reduction, she retired is June 1983. Miss Munger became a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in 1955 and became a Senior member in 1961. In 1982, she was made a Fellow of the Society, a life member in 1994 and named Pioneer. She was Director from the Hartford Section from 195658, and became President of Hartford Section from 1958-60 and was section representative from Hartford for a number of years. Miss Munger was a member of the SWE Executive Committee (Director) from 1961-63 and Chair of the National Bylaws Committee from 1958-60, and 1961-80, trustee from 1975-90, Secretary of Board of Trustees 1978-80, Treasurer 1980-1988. She was a member of several Nominating Committees, and CoChair of the SWE conventions in Hartford in 1970 and 1986. She was President of the Connecticut Joint Federation of Engineering and Technical Societies 1979-81 (first woman) and a public member of the Connecticut Board of Optician Examiners 1987-1995. She was listed in several editions of Who's Who of American Women. Miss Munger was President of St. Joseph College Alumnae Assoc. and Trustee of the college from 1974-1978, and received a Distinguished Alumna Award in 1979. She was the Chair of the Alumnae Planned Giving Committee in 1984 and the Chair of the First Decade Alumnae Committee Capital Campaign; Secretary of the McAuley Resident Assoc., from 1992-1994 and Vice President from 1994-1996. For 56 years, Miss Munger was a member of the Ruth Wyllys Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Hartford. Miss Munger was also an active member 3

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The SWE Hartford News is always looking for new and interesting material for it’s pages. If you have something you think would be of interest to the membership or would like to see included, email Liz Garypie (newsletter editor) at Egarypie@sikorsky.com.

National Engineers Week 22-28 February 2004
National Engineers Week (EWeek) was founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. It is always celebrated at the time of George Washington's birthday. Our nation's first president was a military engineer and a land surveyor. The mission then, and now, is to increase public awareness and appreciation of the engineering profession. The 2004 Theme: Connecting the World to Engineering Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, now in its fourth year, is slated for February 26, 2004. Girl Day encourages engineers – particularly women engineers – to make the world of engineering come alive for young females. Since its inception, an estimated one million girls have experienced engineering firsthand each year, with more than 110 organizations participating in 2003. Programs ranged from 20 girls working with members of the National Society of Black Engineers' North Carolina State University chapter to 3,000 girls reached by the NY State Dept. of Transportation in Poughkeepsie. Visit: www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.shtml. SWE members are encouraged to get involved by organizing and participating in EWeek programs and events. A wealth of resources is available on the Web to aid in the effort. Bookmark the official EWeek website – www.eweek.org – and consult it frequently for ideas, tips and resources.

of Zonta International for many years. Miss Munger was a successful investor. Friends may call at St. Mary Chapel, 2021 Albany Ave., West Hartford, Monday, January 12, from 9-10 a.m. The Funeral Liturgy will be celebrated in St Mary Chapel, Monday at 10 a.m. Burial will be in the family plot at Mount St. Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Joseph College, 1678 Asylum Ave., West Hartford, CT 06107. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Ahern, Inc.

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Directions to Springfield Science Museum
From the North – Interstate 91 South to Exit 7. Turn left at the 2nd traffic light onto State Street; proceed for three blocks. From the South – Take Interstate 91 North to Exit 4. Stay on Columbus Avenue to State Street (3rd traffic light). Turn right, proceed for three blocks. From the East – Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit 6 (I-291). Exit at Dwight Street (Exit 2B), turn left. Follow Dwight to State Street (9th light). Turn left. From the West – Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit 4, Interstate 91 South and follow I-91 South to Exit 7. Turn left at the 2nd traffic light onto State Street; proceed for three blocks. Take the first left past the Main Library onto Elliot Street, then left again onto Edwards Street to the Museums lots about 1/2 way down the block.

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