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SWBR News 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 Virginia Tech and resides in Rochester. q Architecture from

Two SWBR Interior Designers Earn NCIDQ Certification

SWBR announced that interior designers Megan installations. She received an Smith and Candace Gonnella have completed all the Associate of applied science from required exams to receive their Monroe Community College, and National Council for Interior a bachelor of fine arts in interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) design and a certificate in historic certification. NCIDQ certification is preservation and restoration from the industry's recognized standard Villa Maria College. of an interior designer’s proficiency and responsibility to protect public Gonnella is responsible for design health, safety and welfare, as well concepts, presentation boards, as exhibit mastery of aesthetic monitoring current sustainable considerations and commitment to the profession. Candace Gonnella products and trends, and space planning for the firm’s key clients. Megan Smith In addition to developing design She also managed the major interior renovation of SWBR’s Rochester office in concepts and finish plans, Smith 2018. She received her bachelor of science in interior is responsible for managing small interior projects, architecture and design from Mercyhurst University. q including client presentations, budgeting and supervising

What's News 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 emphasizes graphics to understand, learn, and explore design. Materials with MATLAB and Octave by P. Venkataraman The idea for this book, the organization, and the flow of content is 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 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. 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 It is an OER resource and released under

computational support through MATLAB/Octave. The traditional The web site for the book is: approach for engineering content is emphasized and is rigorously https://sites.google.com/site/essentialmechanics/home supported through graphics and analysis. Prior knowledge of MATLAB is not necessary. Instructions for its use in context is The book can be downloaded here: provided and explained. It takes advantage of the numerical, https://sites.google.com/site/essentialmechanics/downloads 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

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The book should be useful to the students and many professional engineers in your area.

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