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SWBR's Caitlin Ellis Earns LEED Green Associate SWBR’s project architect, Caitlin R. Ellis, AIA, has earned her LEED Green Associate accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council. This LEED credential denotes proficiency in today’s sustainable design, construction and operations standards. Professionals who earn a LEED credential showcase knowledge, experience and credibility in the green building marketplace. As a Project Architect, Ellis assists teams throughout the design process on many of the firm’s K-12 and higher education projects. She’s a thoughtful designer, passionate about making buildings that function better, look great, and contain touches of personality that are truly unique to the occupants and their use of the building. Caitlin R. Ellis, AIA
Ellis has been with SWBR for more than five years, earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech and resides in Rochester. q
Two SWBR Interior Designers Earn NCIDQ Certification SWBR announced that interior designers Megan Smith and Candace Gonnella have completed all the required exams to receive their National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) certification. NCIDQ certification is the industry's recognized standard of an interior designer’s proficiency and responsibility to protect public health, safety and welfare, as well as exhibit mastery of aesthetic considerations and commitment to the profession. Megan Smith
In addition to developing design concepts and finish plans, Smith is responsible for managing small interior projects, including client presentations, budgeting and supervising
installations. She received an Associate of applied science from Monroe Community College, and a bachelor of fine arts in interior design and a certificate in historic preservation and restoration from Villa Maria College. Gonnella is responsible for design concepts, presentation boards, monitoring current sustainable products and trends, and space Candace Gonnella planning for the firm’s key clients. She also managed the major interior renovation of SWBR’s Rochester office in 2018. She received her bachelor of science in interior architecture and design from Mercyhurst University. q
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Announcement of a free, full featured e-book with interactive code integrated with engineering analysis by P. Venkararaman, retired academic from RIT
The book is: Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave by P. Venkataraman
Description: Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave combines two core engineering science courses - “Statics” and “Strength of Materials” - in mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering. It weaves together various essential topics from Statics and Strength of Materials to allow discussing structural design from the very beginning. The traditional content of these courses are reordered to make it convenient to cover rigid body equilibrium and extend it to deformable body mechanics. The e-book covers the most useful topics from both courses with computational support through MATLAB/Octave. The traditional approach for engineering content is emphasized and is rigorously supported through graphics and analysis. Prior knowledge of MATLAB is not necessary. Instructions for its use in context is provided and explained. It takes advantage of the numerical, symbolic, and graphical capability of MATLAB for effective problem solving. This computational ability provides a natural procedure for What if? exploration that is important for design. The book also professional firms employee news what's news
emphasizes graphics to understand, learn, and explore design. The idea for this book, the organization, and the flow of content is original and new. The integration of computation, and the marriage of analytical and computational skills is a new valuable experience provided by this e-book. Most importantly the book is very interactive with respect to the code as it appears along with the analysis. It is a free, full featured e-book with interactive code integrated with engineering analysis. It is an OER resource and released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The web site for the book is: https://sites.google.com/site/essentialmechanics/home The book can be downloaded here: https://sites.google.com/site/essentialmechanics/downloads The book should be useful to the students and many professional engineers in your area. FEBRUARY 2020 The ROCHESTER ENGINEER | 33
