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Friday, November 7 Technical Plenary Session — Women Engineers as Change Agents Sponsored by Dell Inc. and Intel Corporation the University of Michigan, a M.S.E. from Stanford University in electrical engineering, and has been with Intel for 11 years. Susan R. Landahl is senior vice president, Operations Support, Exelon Nuclear. She is responsible for Exelon Nuclear’s performance in these organizations: Outage Services; Training; Emergency Preparedness; Security; Chemistry; Radiation Protection; Operations; Maintenance; Work Control; and Industrial Safety for the Exelon Nuclear fleet, providing industry-best governance and oversight for these areas. Her previous role was as LaSalle Site vice president, in which she was responsible for all operations of the facility, and led a team of approximately 700 employees. Landahl joined Exelon as a corporate manager, became plant manager at LaSalle Station, and assumed the position of LaSalle Site vice president in 2005. Prior to joining Exelon, she was a senior reactor operator at Boston Edison Company. She received a B.S. in nuclear engineering/fission reactor technology and a M.S. in nuclear engineering/ health physics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition, Landahl earned her senior reactor operating license. Chris Stubbs is senior director of Corporate Facilities Services at Genentech, responsible for maintenance and site engineering at the South San Francisco facility. Her key focus areas include integrating risk-based maintenance principles and practices across the enterprise to achieve and sustain Class A certification, and then move the organization forward to world-class status. In 1993 she received the national Black Engineer of the Year Award. Prior to joining Genentech, she worked at Merck and Company, Inc. for 22 years, in various capacities such as engineering, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and business administration. Active in NSBE, she participates on their Board of Corporate Affiliates. She also serves on the student development committee of ISPE and is a member of SWE. Stubbs has an A.S. from Trident Technical College and a B.S. from Howard University, both in chemical engineering. Barbara Haney, panel moderator, is Fab 68 program manager for Intel Corporation. In this role, she is the program manager for Intel’s first wafer fabrication plant in Asia, currently under construction in Dalian, People’s Republic of China. She manages the schedule and budget for this $2.5 billion investment, which will start production in 2010. Previously, she was responsible for worldwide capacity and management of excess equipment across Intel’s locations. She joined Intel in 1987 and has held multiple positions in several wafer fabrication plants, including manufacturing manager, process engineering manager, and industrial engineering manager. Prior to Intel, Haney was a manufacturing engineer at IBM in Vimercate, Italy, and Tucson, Ariz. She is a B.S.I.E. graduate of Purdue University, and is a graduate of the coop engineering program. She is the sponsor for Intel’s relationship with SWE and represents Intel on the Arizona State University Provost’s Advisory Council. SWE CONFERENCE 2008 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Hyatt Regency Baltimore, Constellation A-B Continental Breakfast Provided Engineering leaders recognize that innovation, globalization, technology, new markets, economic drivers, and even new career opportunities require embracing change. Moreover, unique skill sets are needed to motivate peers, direct reports, customers, and suppliers to successfully drive change within organizations. Learn from leading women executives who have instituted or leveraged change to bring success to their organizations and themselves. Denise Garner is the vice president of R&D, Specialty Products, at The Clorox Company. She manages a diverse portfolio of products and some familiar consumer brands ranging from foods, charcoal, cat litter, auto care, and water filtration. Garner also leads innovation cross-functionally for the division, leading Technology and Consumer Discovery to develop and drive the growth pipeline. Prior to her current position, she was director of new business R&D for the Home Care Division. Garner has been with The Clorox Company for 20 years, working in numerous categories. She began her career in product development at Kraft Foods after graduating from the University of California, Davis with a master’s in food science. She holds a B.S. in agribusiness from Arizona State University. Emily Graffeo was named senior manager, Minivan Program Management at Chrysler in 2003. She is responsible for all business aspects of the Chrysler minivan programs. She most recently was responsible for managing the development of the new minivans. Her work and academic background include senior manager in program management; business group manager; manufacturing process and manufacturing planning manager; and various positions in product engineering. Graffeo received her master’s in business administration and bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Auburn University. She currently serves on the M.B.A. advisory board for Auburn University. Amber Huffman is a principal engineer in the Storage Technologies Group at Intel where her responsibilities include storage performance and architecture. Her current projects concentrate on architectural definition and product development for the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA storage interfaces. Huffman serves as the chairperson of the NVMHCI Workgroup and the ONFI technical team; the technical editor for the Serial ATA specification; and as the chairperson of the AHCI Workgroup that defines the programming interface for Serial ATA. She has been awarded 10 patents in storage architecture. Huffman holds a B.S.E. in computer engineering from 135

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SWE - Conference 2008 Contents President’s Note View from the Executive Suite Editor’s Page Readers’ Forum ICWES14 Women of Courage Engineering’s Grand Challenges — What’s Your Pick? Diversity from the Ground Up Membership Information & Calendar A&B FY08 Membership Meeting Minutes Engineering World Point of View Career Toolbox Bookshelf SWE Smiles SWE Scrapbook Conference Sponsors and Program Overview Corporate Partnership Council Thursday Conference Program Friday Conference Program Saturday Conference Program Corporate Members Opportunity Index

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