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iNdustry news Ten MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (M.I.T.) female student teams were sent across the United States to share their experiences at MIT and to encourage girls to consider an engineering career. The two M.I.T. representatives chosen to visit Utah were Jacqueline (Jackie) Sly, a Mechanical/Oceanography Engineer from California and Vibhuti Agrawal, a Biological Engineer originally from India. Jackie and Vibhuti visited 670 female students from eleven junior and senior high schools. MIT’s purpose is to motivate future female generations about the opportunities, growth and demand for STEM careers. Their main topics included: •Women currently hold only 20% of engineering jobs •Companies are looking for more female engineers •Engineering students are not nerdy or geeky •You CAN get into M.I.T. and other engineering schools •M.I.T. is looking for students from a broad range of backgrounds, and will work with families and students to attend MIT. •Many interesting fields have engineering components, such as fashion design, medicine, sports, and architecture. An engineering degree can be combined with these and other specialties to give the graduate greater strength of background. The girls listening to the presentations were encouraged to take as many math and science courses as they possibly can. Jackie and Vibhuti emphasized that even if a student doesn’t get the highest grades in math and science, the determination to attend multiple STEM classes is important Jackie and Vibhuti also honored the Utah Chapter of the SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MATERIALS AND PROCESS ENGINEERING (SAMPE) with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology presentation during their monthly meeting in the USTAR Building at the University of Utah. Both women shared highlights about MIT’s Women’s Initiative. The SAMPE Foundation has provided funds to M.I.T. for several years in support of the Women’s Initiative. In summary, Jerome Berg, Utah SAMPE Chair and ATK Associate, exclaimed, “We are so fortunate to have two of the school districts in Utah selected for such a prestigious opportunity to be visited by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I would like to recognize all the hard work of Neil Hancey and JoAnn Matern, DATC Executive Foundation Director and Utah SAMPE Board Education Chair, for making this opportunity available to Utah students and industry representatives. Many of us remember how role models like Jackie and Vibhuti coached or encouraged us to pursue something we thought were not achievable. My thanks to M.I.T. for paving a pathway for future Utah Engineers.” For more information, contact: james.larson@datc/edu. NDT SOLUTIONS, INC. (NDTS) and DANATRONICS CORPORATION have reached a long term Distribution and Marketing agreement. This agreement gives NDTS rights to the complete line of Danatronics instruments, including the EHC-09 Series and UPG-07 Series of ultrasonic thickness gages, iFlaw™ ultrasonic flaw detector, EZ-Scan 4™ encoder, and ultrasonic transducers. NDT Solutions, Inc. (NDTS) is a forward thinking, leading edge Non-Destructive Testing solutions, sales and services company. They specialize in thinking outside the “Box” with innovative solutions to difficult inspection problems. NDTS offers the complete line of MAUS® automated C-scan systems, the revolutionary VACRS (VAcuum Couplant, delivery and Recovery System) and the FlawInspecta® high speed ultrasonic array inspection systems. NDTS sells the complete line of EC/NDT eddy current probes, IMTT remote field eddy current instruments, NDTS ultrasonic transducers as well as the entire line of SONOTECH ultrasonic couplants and Genesis robotic non-destructive inspection systems. Danatronics Corporation is a high technology company specializing in the field of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). Danatronics combines the experience of more than 50 years of NDT know-how in the areas of Ultrasonic transducers, thickness gages and flaw detectors as well as offerings in Halleffect thickness gages and video inspection equipment. For more information, visit: www.ndts.com. 48 GE AVIATION has signed an agreement with BOEING to provide inertial reference units for Boeing’s wideband phased array satellite communications systems for airborne mobile communications. “Tactical inertial navigation is an area of expertise for our team,” said George Kiefer, vice president and general manager of Avionics with GE Aviation. “The inertial reference unit delivers continuous navigation data required for nextgeneration satellite communication systems in stationary and moving vehicles and aircraft.” The inertial reference unit provides the technology to provide orientation and position utilizing Global Positioning System (GPS) data for a wide variety of land vehicle, airborne and seaborne applications for the purposes of surveillance, target acquisition, and satellite antenna pointing. The reference unit combines inertial data and GPS data to provide the user with high-accuracy continuous location, heading, pitch, and roll data in both stationary and moving vehicles. Boeing’s state-of-the-art Ka-band phased-array SATCOM antenna system allows customers to take advantage of the significant increase in bandwidth offered by next-generation Ka-band satellites to transport data between aircraft in flight and the ground network. Boeing developed these communications antenna technologies to improve the capability of platforms to remain networked while mobile. For more information, visit: http://www.geaviation.com/. SAMPE Journal, Volume 49, No. 3, May/June 2013 http://www.ndts.com http://www.geaviation.com/

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of SAMPE Journal - May/June 2013

SAMPE Journal - May/June 2013
Contents
President’s Message
Technical Director’s Corner
Mechanical Properties of Bio-Fibers for Composite Materials
SAMPE Journal Editorial Calender
Corporate Partners
Materials & Products
Welcome SAMPE’s Newest Members
SAMPE Proceedings
Resin Transfer Moulding of Composite Panels with Bio-Based Resins
Europe News & Views
SAMPE Europe’s SETEC 13 Wuppertal, Germany
Innovative and Sustainable Approaches to Enhance Fire Resistance of Cellulosic Fibers for Green Polymer Composites
Class of 2013-SAMPE Fellows
The SAMPE Foundation
SAMPE Tech 2013|Wichita, KS
SAMPE Tech 2014|Call for Papers
Industry News
Perspectives
SAMPE 2013|Long Beach
SAMPE 2013 Exhibitor Listing
SAMPE 2013 Show Floor
SAMPE 2013 Exhibitor Products & Services
Advertiser’s Index
Resource Center
Industry Events Calendar
Chapter Contacts

SAMPE Journal - May/June 2013