January newsletter is out:
Within it, the technical meeting announcement for the Hydrogen Vehicle Fire Safety tech meeting, January 17, 6:00 PM. Please join us and speaker Peter Sunderland as we tackle this topical issue, by registering for the event at this link:
https://www.saebritishcolumbia.org/p/event-registration.html
In case you've missed it, the December newsletter has gone out:
https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=be4ca7013fe9fbde5a15ceabd&id=6c1cf6ac89
As always, you can access these from the Newsletter archive (tab above).
The next speaker's topic is sure to be interesting, with the December 13 Future Fuel technical event, as mentioned in a previous post. Be sure not to miss it!
Also, please note the calendar has had to change recently, so if you had subscribed to our past calendar and it is no longer working, please go over to the Events Calendar tab and subscribe to the new one. We had to make a change for a back end platform tweak.
ADD SAE NW's MEETING TO YOUR CALENDAR: https://sae.webex.com/sae/j.php?MTID=md019d5f0acf0900c77ab102c8fec9d07
SAE NW Technical event: Engineering Challenges of Placing Light Rail across a Floating Bridge with John Sleavin, Deputy Executive Director of Design Engineering and Construction Management at Sound Transit is on Dec 7 at 5PM PST.
Running light rail over a floating bridge has never been done before anywhere in the world. Sound Transit will be the first agency to ever do this. Installing light rail across the flexing, twisting I‑90 Lake Washington Floating Bridge presented a host of unique engineering challenges including weight limitations, ensuring electric-powered trains could travel safely across a large body of water, and more. We’ll cover a few of them and go into detail on how they placed light rail tracks from the fixed bridge to the floating bridge across eight transition joints, each of which had to accommodate six degrees of movement. We’ll trace the engineering challenges from early concept, through design, testing, and installation. John Sleavin’s engineering career includes an impressive array of transportation projects, including several in Malaysia, Singapore, and Portland. In Seattle, the projects he’s been involved with are almost the history of major engineering projects within the region. They include Link Light Rail in Tacoma, the South Lake Union Streetcar, Sounder Commuter Rail between Seattle and Tacoma, the original Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, construction of the light rail segment from downtown to the airport including Beacon Hill tunnels, the University and Northgate Link Extensions, and the 14-mile East Link Extension which includes the I‑90 Floating Bridge. Currently John oversees Link Extensions to the Tacoma Dome, West Seattle, Ballard, and Everett, and Operations and Maintenance Facilities North and South.
Our next free online event on "Fueling Our Future Transportation Needs" is on Dec 13, 6PM-7:30PM. Register now and join us! https://www.saebritishcolumbia.org/p/event-registration.html
ADD THIS MEETING TO YOUR CALENDAR:
https://sae.webex.com/sae/j.php?MTID=m99f5c0823e9edfdcb92dafbba1fd8ad0
SAE NW Technical event: Seattle’s Clean Transportation Electrification Blueprint with Andrea Pratt, Climate and Transportation Advisor for the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Sustainability & Environment on Nov 16, 2021, 5 PM Pacific.
Seattle’s Transportation Electrification Blueprint is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive citywide plan that outlines how the City will move toward a clean and equitable transportation system to reduce climate emissions and air pollution, increase electric mobility options, and create a pipeline of green jobs and workforce diversity. The result of this collective, multi-departmental effort is a 2030 vision for Seattle’s electrified future and outlines concrete actions City departments will take over the next two years that will make progress towards those goals.
Andrea Pratt manages the citywide transportation electrification program and works to advance policy, pilots, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and pushing market transformation to electrify everything that moves people, goods and services. Her efforts are centered on racial equity and environmental justice. She coordinated and authored Seattle’s Transportation Electrification Blueprint:
Registration is now open for November 22 hybrid and electric vehicle technical event:
register.saebritishcolumbia.org
Dr. Mohamed Zaher will be our guest speaker for the meeting, discussing "what every automotive engineer needs to know" with regards to electric and highly-electrified vehicles.
This and more can be found in the November newsletter.
We hope to see you there!
