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2009-2010 Executive Board










Position

See below for Bio/Contact Info

President

Carrie Ballester

Vice President

Stephanie Elyar

COR Representative

Leslie Miller

COR Representative

Shanna Pendleton

Senate (1 year term)

Kate Cicchino

Treasurer

Angelique Linares

Secretary

Christin Chiemingo

 

  Membership Services and Community Outreach
Position
Click for Bio/Contact Info
Website Coordinator

Christin Chiemingo

By-laws Coordinator

Kate Cicchino

Communications

Elizabeth Tyson

Advertising

Marisa McGourty

Professional Development

Nashay McKoy

Career Fair Chair

Christin Chiemingo

Certificate of Merit (COM)

Marie Aloia

Community Service

Natalie Gatchalian













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)

Leslie Miller

Princeton University (SWE Rep)

Shanna Pendleton  and 
Angelique Linares

Rowan University

Jennifer Kadlowec 
and 

Linda Head

856-256-5344
and
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's Bios

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Bio coming soon!

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Rachel Algier

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Bio coming soon!


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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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Christin Chiemingo

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Christin graduated from Rutgers University School of Engineering in 2007 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. She currently works in the Power Unit of URS Washignton Division in Princeton, NJ.

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Stephanie Elyar

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Stephanie joined SWE in 2004 while attending The College of New Jersey. While at TCNJ, she served as President from 2005-2008. She graduated in May, 2008 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, she joined the SWE New Jersey section and is currently the Vice President. She works at URS Washington Division as a mechanical engineer doing power plant design. Her hobbies include cooking, cake decorating, and traveling.

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Natalie Gatchalian

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Natalie was a member of SWE when she attended New Jersey Institute of Technology. She graduated with a B.S. Chemical Engineering degree in January 2006. After college, she became the External Communications Secretary of the SWE Baltimore Washington Section from 2006 to 2007. She moved back to NJ in 2008 and joined SWE NJ as Professional Development Chair. Now she is in the Community Service Chair. She works at Exxon Mobil Research and Engineering in Clinton as a Project Engineer of the Research Development and Support Services division.  

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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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Angelique Linares

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LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/aclinares


Angelique is currently the SWE NJ Treasurer; this will be her second year in the position. She is also currently finishing her masters degree at Stevens Institute of Technology in Maritime Systems and Ocean Engineering. She went to Rutgers University for her undergraduate education and has had a little over three years experience in working with environmental engineers and scientists. She has also had numerous reserach experiences in the field of marine microbiology and ecology. Outside of work, she also loves to swim, dancing, lying on the beach somewhere, playing video games on her Xbox 360, and cheering on the Dallas Cowboys.

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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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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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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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Shanna Pendleton

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Shanna graduated from Drexel University in 2003 with a BS in Civil and a BS in Architectural engineering and recently completed her MS in Engineering Management. She was an active member of Drexel's chapter of SWE holding various positions from 2000-2003. Currently, Shanna is a Structural Engineer at Washington Division of URS in Princeton, NJ. When she is not too busy with the hustle and bustle of work, Shanna enjoys tennis, skiing, golfing, sailing and coaching her company softball team.

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Elizabeth Tyson

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Elizabeth Tyson is a process engineer in the Refinery Technology group at Lummus Technology, a CBI company in Bloomfield, NJ. She has been with Lummus since March 2002 but recently moved from their Houston office to New Jersey in April 2008. Her focus is the design of fluidized catalytic crackers, hydrotreaters, and a new solid acid alkylation process. Her work with these technologies has taken her to around the world as technical support.
 
Elizabeth graduated from Rice University in 2000 with a Bachelors of Science in chemical engineering and completed her Masters of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001.
 
Elizabeth was first introduced to the Society of Women Engineers through her Rice student chapter. After graduating, she became involved again through the Houston Area professional SWE chapter. Until her recent move, Elizabeth served as Scholarship Chair for the Houston Area SWE chapter. She is now Communications Chair for SWE NJ.


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