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January Lunch Meeting - Panel Discussion: Women in Engineering & Architecture

  • 09 Jan 2020
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Byron's Southend, 101 W. Worthington Avenue, Suite 110 Charlotte, NC 28203
  • 144

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Panel Discussion:

Women in Engineering & Architecture

                

(1 PDH Credit will be offered)

Learning Objectives:  

A panel of 4 women will discuss their experiences in the engineering and architecture industry while answering questions from the attendees.

Please submit questions prior to the meeting to:

benjamin.coy@rmf.com    

Speaker Bio's:     

Jana Hartenstine:

Jana is an Associate Principal with the architecture firm Watson Tate Savory. She has practice in Charlotte for 25 years and her career has focused primarily on higher education projects in the Carolina's, Virginia and Maryland. Jana is a past City of Charlotte Commissioner and committee chair for Women in Architecture.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of AIA Charlotte. If she’d have chosen to be a mechanical engineer, she would have been a third generation HVAC engineer, but she thinks she got enough of her mom’s DNA to shift her to a more artistic side of the technical professions. 

Bonnie Spalding

Bonnie Spalding is an Account Executive for HVAC and Controls at Johnson Controls, serving owner customers in the Charlotte market. She is a degreed Mechanical Engineer (UNCC) and LEED AP.Prior to JCI, she was with Duke Energy for 5 years providing corporate engineering support for the nuclear fleet’s HVAC and compressed air systems. Bonnie spent over 15 years in various roles of increasing responsibility at Ingersoll Rand primarily in Compressed Air before joining Trane in 2014. At the Rental Division, she applied temporary HVAC and power solutions for emergency and planned work in North America for 5 years before being promoted to product manager. During her 5 years as Trane’s Service Products Manager for chiller upgrades and retrofits, she worked with all vintages of Trane chillers finding ways to improve efficiency, increase reliability and modernize them.

Linda Thurman

Linda Thurman has over 25 years working with clients in the information technology sector, the engineering profession and in the higher ed environment. Since 2004, she has been the Director of Student Professional Development and Employer Relations for UNC Charlotte’s Lee College of Engineering. Linda is finishing her 10th year as the public board member for the NC Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors. She assisted with starting up the WiMfg (Women in Manufacturing‐North Carolina Chapter) and is a member of national WiMfg. She has partnered with SME (national) on several occasions to promote manufacturing as a viable and first choice career for women and to increase diversity among executive and corporate leadership.

Teresa White

Teresa White is an Electrical Designer for RMF Engineering, Inc., a 300-person multi-discipline consulting engineering firm headquartered in Baltimore, MD.  She has been in the industry for over 25 years; 22 of those years are with RMF.  Ms. White started working with RMF in Baltimore and later transferred to North Carolina to open the Charlotte office.  Her experience has been applied to various institutional building designs as well as marketing in the industry. 


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