SAE Southern
California Section
Outstanding resource for people involved in all aspects of the vehicle mobility industry in and around the Southern California, as far north as San Luis Obispo and as far south as Orange County.
About SAE SoCal
SAE is the leader in connecting and educating mobility professionals to enable safe, clean, and accessible mobility solutions. We promote education in automotive and aerospace technologies for today’s and future engineers.
Ways you can get involved:
Develop valuable career skills that will benefit you on the job through a leadership role
Offer a tour or event at your facility
Suggest ideas for future events or meeting topics
Connect with engineering students and young professionals in your region
Get Involved!
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Are you a local member and not getting SoCal Section notices? If so, please e-mail us your contact info at info@saesocal.org.
Past Event Highlights
On May 14th at a Southern California Raytheon location SAE SoCal hosted a technical presentation on Airborn Radar and the Application to Other Industries. Speaker Michael Valdovinos presented the fundamentals of pulse radars and their application in airborne radar system that track targets and create precise imagery. He also offered further insight on how the application in other industries has stemmed from the radar applications in airborne systems.
Do you have an event suggestion for SAE SoCal?
Members are invited to propose speakers or topics for presentation as an official SAE SoCal event.
To propose a speaker or topic, please copy the form in the link below to a Word document, fill it in with your name as the contact party and email it to: info@saesocal.org.
The Governing Board will review proposals and select those of greatest benefit the membership.
Mark Miller, Communications Vice Chair
SAE International, Southern California Section
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SAE International, Southern California Section
SHORT FORM – EVENT PLANNING
To propose an event for the SAE SoCal Section, fill in this form. Include any information available at this time, such as Topic, Speaker, Company and Location.
Proposed Event & Speaker
Proposed Event Date: __________________________
Proposed Title/Topic: __________________________
Proposed Speaker(s): __________________________
Proposed Meeting Site: __________________________
Your name and contact information
Name: __________________________
Email: __________________________
Phone: __________________________
Member Highlight
In Memorium: John Mason, Ph.D.
Our good friend, Dr. John Mason, passed away on June 3, 2019.
Dr. Mason was a tireless supporter of SAE serving twice as SAE International president as well as filling numerous roles in our SoCal SAE Section, most recently as secretary of the governing board. John was very interested in mentoring and guiding young people throughout his career. In the recent past he helped develop and taught a unique A World in Motion module on electricity for several years at the Monroe Middle School. He was also very active in the Section’s Mac Short College Engineering Presentation Competition.
Outside his SAE activities, John met with several retired Garrett employees for coffee on Thursday mornings to discuss engineering topics such as electric and autonomous vehicles, carbon sequestration, black holes, and the design of trebuchets.
His vast experience and wise guidance was very helpful to the Section governing board and the local engineering community, and he was a premiere ambassador for the Section’s activities. We will all miss him.
In John’s memory, donations can be made to the SAE Foundation (www.sae.org/donate).
LA Times Obituary
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 27 at the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance, CA from 1 to 3 pm.
Announcements
Because of the new GDRP regulations, many of our members are no longer receiving communications about their local SAE section’s activities. You now are required to ‘opt in’ to receive the section communications. If you are not currently receiving any information about your local section this is why. To fix this, all you need to do is update your preferences. Please see the below steps on how to do that.
Your local section works hard to put on local events for it’s members. Please be on the look out for any opportunity that would interest you and attend!
How to Receive Section Emails:
Step 1: Log on to www.sae.org
Step 2: Log in to MySAE
Step3: Go to Communication Preference and click edit
Step 4: Click ‘Agree’ for the email line