Kristine McCaffrey, P.E. Receives the Society of Women Engineers' 2004 Distinguished New Engineer Award.CHICAGO -- Kristine McCaffrey is recognized at SWE's annual conference for outstanding leadership and professional growth in her engineering career and volunteer activities. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE SWE Sweden SWE Society of Women Engineers SWE Snow Water Equivalent (snowpack measure) SWE Software Engineer SWE Society of Wine Educators (Washington, DC) SWE Solar Wind Experiment ) today announced Kristine McCaffrey, project manager for the Calleguas Municipal Water District, recipient of the 2004 SWE Distinguished New Engineer Award for her contributions to water resources management, for mentoring future engineers and for exceptional support of the Society of Women Engineers. As project manager for the Calleguas Municipal Water District, McCaffrey is responsible for managing a variety of water infrastructure design and construction projects. McCaffrey has served as staff engineer, project engineer and project manager on a variety of water and wastewater infrastructure Water and wastewater infrastructure is a generic term to describe public works, piping and plant facilities that treat and distribute drinking water taken from the environment and deliver it for use to a community and also the cycle that manages and treats the wastewater that come planning and design projects. Her areas of focus include the security and vulnerability of water systems, grant and loan funding for water and wastewater projects and water resources. "Kristine McCaffrey leads by example," says Vi Brown, president of the Society of Women Engineers. "As a student and as a professional engineer, she has proven that through hard work and dedication to our profession and community, we can achieve great things." McCaffrey also has experience in preparing water resources studies, including groundwater management plans, groundwater master plans and water supply alternative studies. She has executed water resource studies for several districts and cities in California There are 478 incorporated cities in California, 22 of which are styled "Town of (Name)" instead of "City of (Name)." They are arranged in alphabetical order, with the "towns" marked '*'. Under California law (see, e.g. . McCaffrey joined SWE as a student at MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . After graduating she moved to Orange County, where she became an active member in the Orange County Section, during a transitional time for the section. She served as secretary, SpaceCampership Chair and president. During her presidency, the section experienced a significant increase in membership. In 2000 McCaffrey moved to Ventura County. In 2001 after learning that there was not a SWE section within feasible distance, McCaffrey began reactivating the San Buenaventura
"Her most notable abilities include a high level of intelligence, sound common sense, excellent communication skills and strength of character," says Susan Mulligan mul·li·gan n. A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. [Probably from the name Mulligan.] Noun 1. , manager of engineering at Calleguas Municipal Water District. "Her common sense allows her to go beyond textbook engineering and make sound day-to-day decisions with a solid understanding of the implications of those decisions." McCaffrey has participated in the online mentoring program MentorNet as well as through Big Sisters of Orange County. She is a registered civil engineer in California and possesses a Grade 3 water treatment plant operator's license. McCaffrey earned two B.S. degrees in planning and environmental engineering sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, (MIT) in 1996. The Distinguished New Engineer Award will be formally presented Friday night, October 15 at the Society of Women Engineers' National Conference Awards Banquet in Milwaukee, Wis adv. 1. Certainly; really; indeed. v. t. 1. To think; to suppose; to imagine; - used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. . The National Conference, "Engineers Leading Change," is being held at Milwaukee's Midwest Airlines Center The Midwest Airlines Center (formerly Midwest Express Center) is a convention and exhibition center located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The center is part of a greater complex of buildings which includes the U.S. on October 14-16. The more than 3,000 attendees include professionals from every discipline of the engineering profession and a large number of engineering students and educators. The 2005 Conference is scheduled for November 3-5, in Anaheim, Calif. About SWE The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a non-profit educational and service organization. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration aspiration /as·pi·ra·tion/ (as?pi-ra´shun) 1. the drawing of a foreign substance, such as the gastric contents, into the respiratory tract during inhalation. 2. for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations aspirations npl → aspiraciones fpl (= ambition); ambición f aspirations npl (= hopes, ambition) → aspirations fpl and receive the recognition and credit for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders. For more information about the Society please visit www.swe.org or call (312) 596-5223. |
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