The Society of Women Engineers has bestowed awards on three Sandia National Laboratories employees. Senior scientist Tina Nenoff received the society’s highest honor, the Achievement Award, chemical engineer Yuliya Preger received a Rising Technical Contributor Award and researcher Nedra Bonal received a Patent Recognition Award. The society bestows awards annually to professionals, collegiates and groups…
Society of Women Engineers names Chicago native Dayna Johnson as 2023 President
The Society of Women Engineers has named Dayna Johnson, P.E. for GE Gas Power Chicago, as the 2022-2023 SWE President. Johnson is the Emerging Technology Programs and Operations Leader at GE Gas Power. She joined GE in 2012 as a commercial manager, leading large teams through the bidding process to develop proposals for high-voltage electrical substations.…
September 2018 Issue: Mission Possible: Sending bearings into space
Telling the stories of women engineers My alma mater, Georgia Tech, is known as an engineering school. When I was in college a couple of decades ago, we didn’t have many nonengineering degrees even offered. If you decided you didn’t want to go the engineering route, you could go into business or architecture, but there…
Engineering for Change president received prestigious award
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) congratulate the 2013 Kenneth Andrew Roe Award recipient, Noha S. El-Ghobashy, President of Engineering for Change, LLC (E4C). El-Ghobashy is being recognized for her work bringing multi-disciplinary engineering solutions to underserved communities across the world. “SWE nominated Noha for this award