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If you are interested in volunteering for any open positions or just want to get more involved, please contact Leslie Miller.  View Job Descriptions.

2008-2009 Executive Board

 

Position
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Phone

President

Leslie Miller

 

Vice President

Carrie Ballester

 

Section Representative 

Marie Aloia

973-538-4216

Section Representative 

Kate Cicchino

Treasurer

Angelique Linares

 

Secretary

Vaneeta Shah

 

 Membership Services and Community Outreach

Position
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Website Coordinator

Chandana Thammana and

Christin Chiemingo

By-laws Coordinator

Membership

Loraine Huchler

Event Locator

Rachel Nowicki

Communications
Elizabeth Tyson

Advertising

Marisa McGourty

Professional Development

Natalie Gatchalian

Career Fair Chair
Christin Chiemingo

Certificate of Merit (COM)

Rachel Algier

Community Service / Brand Chair

Shanna Pendleton

College Counselors

University

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Phone

College of New Jersey

Rosalie Phalen

609-750-1574

Fairleigh Dickinson

Dr. Gloria Reinish

201-692-2345

NJIT

Talina Knox

 

NJIT (SWE Rep) Angelika Franz  

Princeton University (SWE Rep)

Shanna Pendleton and

Angelique Linares

 

Rowan University

Jennifer Kadlowec

Linda Head

856-256-5344

856-256-5335

Rutgers University 732-445-2687 ext 19

Rutgers University (SWE Rep)

Loraine Huchler

609-896-4457 

Stevens Institute of Technology

Nicole DiDonato

 

 

 

 

Officer Bio's

Leslie Miller

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Leslie joined SWE in 2003 while attending Michigan State University.  While at MSU, she served as the Great Lakes Conference Chair and President.  She graduated in May, 2005 with a degree in Materials Science Engineering with specializations in both Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering.  After graduation, she joined the SWE Detroit Section before moving to the SWE New Jersey section.  Since then, she has been the 2007 Region E Conference Chair and is currently the President.  She works at Stryker Orthopaedics as a manufacturing engineer in the Advanced Operations team and is currently obtaining her MBA from the University of Liverpool in England.  Her hobbies include ballroom dancing, scrap booking and cake decorating.

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Carrie Ballester

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Carrie has been a member of the Society of Women Engineers since joining as a student member of The College of New Jersey SWE in 2000. During college, she served as section Secretary for 2 years, Vice President, and President.  In May 2004, Carrie received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and that September she began a graduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania.  She graduated in August 2005 with an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a biomechanics specialization.  In October 2005 she began working at Lockheed Martin in the mechanical engineering group.  Since becoming a professional member of New Jersey SWE, Carrie has held positions as the Programming Co-Chair and now Vice President.  She also served on the 2007 Region E Conference Committee.  She is currently pursuing a M.S. in Program Management at Stevens Institute of Technology on a part-time basis through the Lockheed Educational Assistance Program.  Outside of work Carrie enjoys running, dancing, and traveling. 

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Kate Cicchino

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I grew up in Alma , Michigan and attended college at Kettering University in Flint , Michigan .  I graduated in September 2003 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.  While attending Kettering I co-oped for Rapistan Systems, a conveyor manufacturer in Grand Rapids , Michigan and started my career in material Handling.  After graduation I moved to Cincinnati , Ohio and worked as a project engineer for Intelligrated, another conveyor manufacturer.  After about a year and a half I followed my fiancé to New Jersey and went to work for my current employer, Key Handling Systems.  I am currently a Project Engineer for Key Handling Systems and we manufacture 24 Volt Motorized Roller conveyors, primarily for The United States Postal Service.  I was President of SWE-NJ 2005-2007 and have recently taken on the role as our second COR rep.

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Marie Aloia

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Bio coming soon!

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Angelique Linares

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Bio coming soon!

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Loraine Huchler

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Loraine Huchler is the founder and president of an engineering consulting organization, MarTech Systems, Inc., a firm that provides consulting services to optimize the water and energy circuits in influent, steam, cooling and waste water systems in manufacturing and commercial facilities.  Her first book, Operating Practices for Industrial Water Management, Influent Water Systems, was released in September 2007.  Ms Huchler has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. She is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey and has qualified as a Certified Management Consultant. Ms Huchler is the correspondence chair for SWE-NJ and serves as the Counselor for the student SWE section at Rutgers University.

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Rachel Nowicki

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Rachel graduated from Lehigh University in May 2007 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. She currently works for Hess Corporation as a Project Engineer. During college she previously served two SWE Positions: Treasurer (2005-2006) and President (2006-2007).

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Marisa

Marisa McGourty

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Marisa recently became involved in SWE and is currently the advertising chair.    She received a BS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1987 where she specialized in control systems and, an MS in Technology Management from Steven Institute of Technology in 1992.  Marisa has worked in the Pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years for companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Hoffmann LaRoche. She is currently a Senior Engineer at Glatt Air Techniques, a solid dosage equipment manufacturer in Ramsey, NJ.

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Chandana Thammana

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Chandana is currently SWE-NJ Website Coordinator. She has been involved in the NJ section of SWE for about 3 yrs and previously served at Vice President of the section from 2006-2007. She has a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. As an undergrad Chandana was actively involved in the Rochester section of SWE and served as Co-President during her sophomore year. Chandana currently works at ImClone Systems in the Process Development Purification group. In her spare time she enjoys practicing yoga, traveling internationally, listening to music, reading, exploring NYC and of course working on the SWE website!

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Rachel Algier

 

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Certificate of Merit Chair

 

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