SAE Update - April 2020 - 27

MEMBER BENEFITS

SAE Mentor Program

What's New

Featured Mentor:
Graham Conway
Southwest Research Institute

SAE Career Counselor Series
SAE teams up with executive leadership
coach Alyson Lyon to discuss challenges in
the workplace and possible solutions in the
SAE Career Counselor Series (connection.
sae.org/career-counselor). In the past year,
SAE has created four new episodes: Career
Advancement with SAE; Relationship
Building; Collaboration; and a bonus
episode, Collaboration and SAE Collegiate
Design Series Competitions (CDS).

As a native of the United
Kingdom, Graham Conway can
offer advice on "taking the
jump and working in another
country," among other things. The Principle
Engineer at Southwest Research Institute
(SWRI) also says he has insights on the
following "soft" areas:
*	 The automotive industry
*	 Furthering education
*	 Resume writing
*	 Technical sales
*	 Project management
*	Leadership
*	 Getting a foot in the door
He was educated in the UK, obtaining his Ph.D.
in combustion modelling from the University
of Leeds.
He has been an SAE Member since 2015 and
joined SWRI in that same year. Prior to joining
SWRI, he worked at Jaguar Land Rover
(Senior Engineer, June 2014 - June 2015) and
SAIC (Powertrain Simulation Engineer,
September 2012 - June 2014).
His areas of technical expertise are fuels and
energy sources; power and propulsion; tests
and testing; vehicles and performance.
Conway is also a member of IMEchE and won
that organization's Award for Best Individual
Project in 2008.
Learn more about the SAE Mentor Program or
sign up as a mentor/mentee here.

UPDATE

Women in Engineering Mentor Mixer
Join SAE and your fellow women
engineers for our next mentor mixer May
7-8 in Member Connection. In a field that
is made up on average of 10% women, it
can be difficult finding a mentor or peer
to turn to for guidance. But here, we will
have four to five women who will be
available during business hours of both
days to answer your questions and
discuss the workplace environment.
Come prepared with your questions and/
or experiences as a woman in the
engineering field. Remember, you need to
sign up for the Member Connection as
either a mentor or mentee to participate.
Technical paper competition winners
selected
Congratulations to the four winners of the
2020 Student/Young Professional Tech
Paper Competition! The top two students
are George Koutsakis, Ph.D. student at
University of Wisconsin, and Erika Ziraldo,
Ph.D. student at University of Guelph. The
top two young professionals are Dhaval
Lodaya, Senior Project Engineer at
Gamma Technologies LLC, and Dario
Lopez-Pintor, post-doctoral researcher
with Sandia National Laboratories.

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