Membership,
As most meetings throughout the world are remote in these pandemic-affected times, this opens up a lot of opportunities, local and afar, for cross-boundary events. In this light, here's an announcement for a technical event from SAE Detroit Section February 23, for the 2021 Nissan Rogue:
https://www.sae-detroit.org/event-details/?id=330
If you're available, do consider registering and attending!
The February newsletter is up:
And within it, the registration link for the February 22 autonomous vehicle technical meeting:
register.saebritishcolumbia.org
As we've mentioned before, this is a unique and exciting year for technical meeting topics, so do take advantage of our unprecedented access to industry leader speakers.
A friendly reminder to everyone that we will be hosting Dr. Herman Tang next week for a talk about Vehicle Assembly Manufacturing - Operations, Management and Development, on Monday, January 25, 6:00 PM. Please register your attendance at the following link:
register.saebritishcolumbia.org
We have many exciting talks coming up so we hope to see you at this one!
Happy new year to our membership and all.
Below is a link to the January 2021 newsletter, which includes the registration link for the January 25 tech meeting:
http://media.saebritishcolumbia.org/newsletter/SAE%20BC%20Newsletter%20-%20January%202021.pdf
The pandemic restrictions has had the unexpected effect of really opening up our selection of available speakers, as we now do things virtually and have access to all of North America and beyond. Hoping to see all of you at some point throughout this exciting technical meetings season!
The November newsletter is posted:
http://media.saebritishcolumbia.org/newsletter/SAE%20BC%20Newsletter%20-%20Nov%202020.pdf
Within it is the announcement for the Lightweighting technical meeting event coming up right away. See you online!
SAE BC will be hosting our 1st virtual technical meeting on Nov 23 at 6 pm. We are excited to hear from Gregory Peterson, CTO of Moon Wind Enterprises on the "Paradigm Shifts in Transportation Architecture and the Role of Lightweight Design".
Mr. Peterson is a lightweight automotive expert with experience from Pontiac, CPC Advanced Vehicle Engineering, Daimler Chrysler SRT, and Lotus Engineering. He holds 14 patents and authored over 50 technical papers which documented a 30 % lighter Lotus vehicle and assisted in defining the US 2025 fuel economy standards. His presentation will discuss major shifts in the automotive industry and review a detailed lightweight design. We look forward to an interactive meeting with questions that will challenge our participants.
Register now @ register.saebritishcolumbia.org!
The full abstract and biography is here: https://www.sae.org/participate/membership/collegiate-chapters/industrial-lecture-program?tab=3
The latest newsletter has been posted, including the invitation to the Student Night event:
http://media.saebritishcolumbia.org/newsletter/SAE%20BC%20Newsletter%20-%20Oct%202020.pdf
Please remember that the entire archive of newsletters can be accessed from the Newsletters tab.
