Young Engineering Professionals of Puget Sound (YEPPS) Present the Fourth Annual Multi-Engineering Society Event

"Top innovations of 2011 and beyond -- a cross-section of engineering's most recent contributions to society"

Speakers from each participating society shared their discipline's innovation in an exciting format: 10 slides in 5 minutes, with no more than 5 words per slide!

Speakers (with email address link and slides as PDF):

• Dr. Diana Talley, Boeing Research & Technology, "Innovative R&D Aerospace Vehicles from 2011"
• Tamas Bencsik, PE, Mechanical Engineer - Hargis Engineers, "Job Creation and Energy Conservation"
• Todd Morton, Materials & Process Engineer - Boeing, "Titanium extraction advances and the market that steers it"
• Vincent Martinez, Director of Research, Architecture 2030, "The Building Sector: Approaching 2030"
• Brian Court, The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP; Architect, "Bullitt Center"
• Robert Baxter, Structural Engineer, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, "Minimising Building Damage in Earthquakes"
• Dr. Daniel Schwartz, Chair, University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering; Boeing-Sutter Professor, "In the trenches of tech innovation"
• Amy Thatcher, Water Resource Engineer, "Tunnel boring machines in Seattle"
• Eleanor Nick Kirtley, The Glosten Associates, "SNAME Marine Vessel Environmental Performance Assessment"
• Sergio H. Sanchez, Plastics Engineer, Thermoplastics & Interiors, The Boeing Company, "Top Innovations of 2011 - Plastics Industry"
• Stephanie Meyn, Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition, "Waste-derived fuels and biojet"
• Aaron VanDyke, EnerG2, "Innovative Energy Storage Materials"

Thanks to Drew McUsic (AIChE) for organizing and moderating this year's event.

Thanks to the following society members for recruiting speakers and introducing them along with information about their society:

• Alessandra Carreon, Richard Garrett, Myer Harrell, Joann Ware -- Cascadia GBC
• John Morris, Diana Chan -- ASM International
• Alan Burt (also provided audio equipment!), Matthew Roe, Kathi Shoemake -- ASHRAE
• Steve Rybolt -- AWMA
• Sergio Sanchez -- SPE
• Natalie Low -- SEAW
• Eleanor Nick Kirtley -- SNAME
• Scott Shapiro -- AIAA
• David Wishnick, Drew McUsic, Alessandra Carreon, Margaret Donegan-Ryan -- AIChE
• Jared Nakamoto, Rhiannon Parmelee, Amanda Shellenberger -- ASCE
• Anthony Nguyen -- SAMPE
• Sarah Nowakowski, April Shen -- SEBA
• Curtis Lu, Jason Hall -- IEEE

Participating societies: