Bree Cooper, an engineer at Shuck Britson, Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa, is a structural engineer on several high profile projects in both the private and public sector.

Cooper’s work includes the Hall of Fame Building at the University of Iowa. She has also participated in several bridge projects in the Des Moines area.

Cindy Ellis, an engineer at Superior Plumbing and Heating, Inc. in Anchorage, Alaska, designs heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and plumbing systems for commercial buildings.

As a Design Engineer in the Technical Services department, Ellis works closely with the sheet metal workers, plumbers, maintenance department, and administration within the company to ensure the projects are completed successfully and followed up with satisfaction by the owner. She also acts as the webmaster for her company. 

Deborah Holden, a reservoir engineer at ExxonMobil Production Company in Houston, Texas, determines the most economic way to manage on-shore gas and oil production.

Holden supported field operations in ten gas fields in the Texas panhandle, Oklahoma, and Kansas including the Hugoton Gas Field, ExxonMobil’s largest domestic on-shore gas property. Currently, she supports the Salt Creek Field in west Texas, ExxonMobil’s largest domestic on-shore oil property. Holden works closely with geologists, evaluating logs and 3-D seismic to find locations to drill new wells. She seeks ways to mitigate field decline or to improve production through wellbore stimulations, recompletions, and profile modifications. Holden works closely with the field personnel on well work and to manage water and CO2 injection to optimize the tertiary recovery from the field.

Chrisma Jackson, a mechanical systems engineer at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, currently works in the Surety Design Engineering department working on safety and security of nuclear weapons.

After joining Sandia, Jackson participated in the Weapon Intern Program, a highly intensive two year fast track program to train "the next generation of weaponeers." She later participated in software upgrades to the B2 bomber and developed the design of containers for the safe transfer/storage of weapons and nuclear material. 

Christine Kruse, an engineer at Merrick & Company in Aurora, Colorado, is responsible for site design that supports new buildings. Site design includes water, gas, storm and sanitary line sizing and routing, grading, drainage, sidewalks and parking areas.

Kruse worked on the civil site design for the NORAD/Space Command Headquarters Campus at Peterson Air Force Base, the Mobilization and Training Equipment Site Facility at Fort Carson; at seven U.S. Post Offices constructed in Colorado in the past 4 years; and the Poisonous Plants Research Laboratory in Logan, Utah. Kruse assisted in the site, grading, utility and drainage design. She also mentors college students during their summer internships at Merrick. 

Tina Read, an engineer at Alban Engine Power Systems, in Elkridge, Maryland, manages power generator installation projects for customers with critical power needs.

As a project engineer, Read manages multi-million dollar projects for customers with critical power needs such as Verizon Wireless, America Online, and many Maryland hospitals including the University of Maryland Medical System shock trauma center and Holy Cross Hospital. Read now manages multi-million dollar projects, installing power generators for companies whose customers depend on them for reliable service. 

Dena Richardson, a product and design engineer at TRW in Redondo Beach, California, has been involved in every stage of satellite design. 

Richardson has had varied experiences as a summer research fellow at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and as a summer intern at The Boeing Company. She has been involved in every stage of satellite design from initial concept to tracking of spare parts. Currently she designs satellite antennas for Northrup Grumman. 

Amy Samuelson, an engineer at Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana, helps communities analyze and improve their drinking water facilities and processes.

Samuelson works with communities to evaluate alternative drinking water treatment technologies for the removal of dissolved organic contaminants from surface water supplies. She has also evaluated the use of ultraviolet and membrane technologies to develop disinfections strategies to comply with upcoming regulations and provide additional protection against microbial contamination.

Jennifer Morreale-Walck, an engineer at ExxonMobil in New Orleans, Louisiana, works as a Materials and Corrosion Engineer on oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Morreale-Walck’s work involves failure analysis, materials selection, and technical justifications for the programs her work group provides. 

Ann Wiser, an engineer at Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey, is the Lead Mechanical Engineer for the National Weather Radar Program.

Wiser is responsible for the two-year design and current installation of a phased array radar site in Norman, Oklahoma. The radar uses current Navy ship technology and creates earlier tornado warnings.

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