The Executive Council meets the first Monday of each month at the RES offices.

Meet our FY10 Executive Council

President:Courtney Reich

Vice President: Athena Visel

Vice President: Dara Lubin

Treasurer: Susan Aurand
BS Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University
MS Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester
Sue has been active in the Rochester SWE Section for the past 12 years. She has held several leadership positions in the section including president, vice president, secretary, membership committee chair, newsletter editor, and now treasurer. She has enjoyed meeting and working with other women engineers while planning meetings and events for SWE. She is currently employed as a mechanical engineer at Xerox working in product development of high speed digital production presses. Her family consists of a very supportive husband and two future engineers ages 5 and 2.

Secretary: Pam Knausz

Council of Representatives: Mary Barker Steblein
B.S. Civil Engineering degree from Lafayette College
Mary has been a member of the Society of Women Engineers since 1996. As a member of her college section, she participated in outreach and educational programs with local schools. Upon graduation, she worked for URS Corporation for nine years and has recently joined LaBella Associates, P.C. Since joining the Rochester Section, she has participated in many outreach, technical, and social events and has served in the following capacities: Section Secretary, Section Treasurer, Section Representative, Section President, and as a member of the Section’s 25th Anniversary Committee. She has attended multiple National and Region E conferences in the past six years and actively participated on the Executive Board, at Regional Meetings, with the RIT student section as their Counselor, and at the National level as the chair of the COR Communications Committee.

Awards Chair: Carol Richardson

Membership Chair: Lisa Norwood