Hydrogen Fire Safety slides ready!

Peter B. Sunderland's slides from his previous talk last month are now available for download here: http://media.saebritishcolumbia.org/slides/mn220117.pdf

Thank you Peter for the engaging talk and members for fostering a great discussion!

 

SAE NW Technical event: Crowley Electric Autonomous Tug Boat "eWolf"

SAE NW Technical event: Feb 8th, 7 PM PST Crowley Electric Autonomous Tug Boat "eWolf" presented by Coulston Van Gundy. 

Add this meeting to your calendar (Cannot add from mobile devices): https://sae.webex.com/sae/j.php?MTID=md34a8a0539a3e0782062f42f3ad53354 

Coulston Van Gundy is vice president of construction and engineering and leads Crowley’s vessel design and engineering, construction management and project engineering teams. Most recently, Van Gundy was instrumental in the design of the all-electric tugboat platform to be used first in the U.S., the eWolf, Crowley’s zero-emission ship assist and escort tug currently under construction. Van Gundy holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with a U.S. Coast Guard license from the California Maritime Academy, where he also later earned a master’s degree in transportation and engineering management in 2016.

Portable Electric Job Posting: Controls and Firmware Engineers

 

https://portable-electric.com/careers/

Job Posting: Portable Electric is hiring a Controls Engineer and Firmware Engineer to develop and support their line of portable power systems. They are a Vancouver-based cleantech equipment manufacturer, connecting teams to clean power all over the globe. PE designs, builds, rents and sells VOLTstack® Power Stations – industrial grade, robust, clean energy alternatives to traditional gas and diesel generators that provide instant power whenever and wherever it’s needed. PE is actively providing clean energy to the film, events, and construction industries and mobile EV chargers in Western Canada, while rapidly integrating into new markets throughout North America and around the world.

 

Hydrogen Vehicle Fire Safety tech meeting announcement

January newsletter is out:

http://eepurl.com/hRqR-z

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

December newsletter, and change to calendar back end

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.

SAE NW Technical event: Engineering Challenges of Placing Light Rail across a Floating Bridge

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.

 

OPEN REGISTRATION: "Fueling Our Future Transporation Needs" technical meeting

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

Our guest speaker will be William (Bill) Chamberlin. Conventional petroleum-based transportation fuels have undesirable impacts on health, the environment, and geopolitics. Advances in fuels, and power/storage systems may address issues that are concerning without sacrificing mobility expectations. Bill Chamberlin will draw on his 30+ years in R&D and participation in alternative fuel developments to highlight some of the obstacles to progressing these advances to reality. The current desire to move away from the hazards of current fossil fuels will not be a success if it results in exchanging known problems for new ones. Previous efforts to develop alternatives can highlight some of the issues that need to be considered for a successful transition. Some examples of the areas that will be discussed are safety, cost, and resource supply. 

Brief Biography  (William Chamberlin) 

MS, BA Chemistry, Miami U. (Ohio).  Thirty four years R&D at Lubrizol developing lubricants for advanced power plants and alternative fuels; retired (to consultant) 2004.  Fellow Society of Automotive Engineers, 2003 Outstanding Chemist of Year Award (Northeastern Ohio Am. Chem. Soc. Section); 19 publications, 2 book entries, 15 U.S. Patents