Dina Bertolini graduated in 2001 from Iowa State University with two bachelor degrees, one in Civil Engineering and another in Environmental Science.  She is currently employed at Westbrook Associated Engineers, Inc. She works within the Transportation Department and she has helped to also create an environmental specialty within the company. 

She has been involved with SWE since 1995.  Since graduating and moving to Wisconsin she has continued her enthusiast participation in SWE.  She has served as the sections secretary for two years.  Currently she is in her first year acting as president after completing two years in the position of Counsel of Representative for SWE-WI.  She is the University of Wisconsin – Platteville Collegiate Sections Counselor.  She is also in her second year as the Region H Collegiate Membership Coordinator.

Betty is serving as Vice President of SWE-WI for a second year.  She has held numerous SWE offices in the past at, such as Section Rep and President of the East Central Iowa (ECI) Section.   This year (FY07) Betty is also the SWE-Region H Secretary and a member of the National Bylaws Committee, the Leadership Coaching Committee (LCC) and the COR’s Environmental Scanning FIG (helping develop a new Big Hairy Audacious Goal for the Society).

In July of 2005, Betty ecstatically moved back to WI and currently works at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac as a Lead Quality Engineer, managing the quality department at plant 4 which machines gears and shafts for outboard engines. Prior to this she was employed at John Deere Engine Works as an Assembly Process Engineer and before that, worked at Square D Co. as a QE for circuit breakers.  She graduated from UW-Platteville with a BS in Industrial Engineering in 2000.

Betty is a cheesehead, born and raised in Wisconsin, and of course a huge Packers fan. She also loves Corvettes (which explains her email address when you see it.)  Her new favorite vacation destination is Alaska and she thinks everyone should visit.

Sarah Stepanski

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Sarah Stepanski works as a Quality Engineer at Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee, WI. She graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering from Marquette University where she served as SWE student section President. Sarah lives with her husband in New Berlin, WI.

Yiying Xiong

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Yiying Xiong holds a bachelor’s degree in Hydraulic Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) and a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Marquette University. After graduating from Marquette in 2002, she started her career at Mead & Hunt, Inc. as a water resources engineer. She loves being a consulting engineer and working on a great variety of engineering projects.  

Yiying’s involvement with SWE may be relatively short compared to many other members, but being a member since 2005 has been a great experience for her. She helped with the June professional development seminar at Johnson Creek and made many wonderful friends who are great to work with and fun to talk to. She is looking forward to her new role as a sectional representative and making SWE a family for all women engineers.

Section Representative Alternate

Barb was involved in the SWE student section as an undergrad at Marquette and became a professional member in 2004.  She is currently serving her second term on the Executive Council as the section secretary and is the SWE Counselor to Marquette University.  Barb graduated from Marquette in 2002 with a bachelor’s in civil engineering and in 2006 with her master’s in environmental engineering.  She currently works for Brown and Caldwell as an environmental engineer.

Gina Janke has been involved with SWE since 1986, starting as a student at Harvey Mudd College, California.  She was a member of the Los Angeles Section for 7 years.  She acted as the Job Bank Coordinator for 3 years in the Sacramento Valley Section.  Since joining the Wisconsin Section in 1997, she has participated as Public Relations Chair, Vice-President, and Secretary for this section.  Since July, 2000, she has served as the Section Treasurer. She looks forward to another term as the Section Treasurer, and to assist in programs to the benefit of our members.

Membership Chair

Susan is an active Life Member of SWE, and has held a variety of offices, most recently two years as SWE-WI President. Since graduation in 1984, Susan worked for Sikorsky Aircraft, a division of United Technologies Corporation, as a mechanical test engineer from 1984-1999 where she worked on various helicopter models and company process improvements.  She led UTC recruiting teams at several SWE National Conference Career Fairs while a member of the Hartford Section in Connecticut. In 1999 she moved to the Midwest where she was a member of the Minnesota Section for five years before moving to Eastern Wisconsin in 2004 and becoming a Wisconsin Section member. Susan has a passion for SWE and welcomes the challenge of answering your membership questions in FY’07!

Career Guidance Chair

Rita Murino

Hi my name is Rita Murino and I am this year’s Publicity Chair.  Last year I served as one of the Council of Representatives (CORs).  This year I hope to keep you all informed of the great activities SWE has to offer and also what great things our SWE members are doing.  My goal this year is to get SWE the good press it deserves.  Please let me know of anything that you are doing that stands for SWE to help others know what we are all about.  I will need help with this effort so please consider joining the Publicity Committee.  If you are interested send me an email at swe-wi-AT-swe.org. Thank you and let’s have a great year.

Andrea Cole Fyhrlund

Hi, I’m Andrea Cole Fyhrlund, and I’m the SWE-WI Newsletter Editor.  I’m an electrical engineer at Rockwell Automation in Mequon, WI, where I have been working for 11 years.  I spent 10 years in circuit board test engineering, creating in-circuit test equipment for verification of our circuit boards while they’re in production.  In June of ’06 I was fortunate enough to move into a Project Manager position in Rockwell’s “Lean 100” group.  This is a new program that Rockwell is developing, where we work on increasing our production efficiency by using Lean/Six Sigma tools.

I’ve been a member of SWE since I was a student at Michigan Technological University.  I have enjoyed SWE membership as a means for meeting and networking with other engineers.  It’s always interesting to hear what other engineers are doing in their careers.  I feel that there are excellent networking, leadership, and learning opportunities with SWE, and look forward to another great year!

Vanessa White

Vanessa became involved in SWE as a senior at UW-Milwaukee. She graduated in 2004 as an Electrical Engineer, at that time becoming a professional member through SWE-WI's student upgrade program. On hearing the WI Section had a need for website support, she felt her skills and experience would lend themselves well to the job. She is looking forward to many years of supporting SWE in this role.

Ann is the E-mail coordinator for SWE-WI.  She takes the information provided by Rita, the Publicity Chair, and sends out e-blasts.  Ann has been a member of SWE for about 15 years, yet is just now taking an active role in the organization.  Ann graduated from Purdue University in May 1994 in Mechanical Engineering and has since been working at Rockwell Automation.  Her current role is a Product Marketing Manager.  Ann’s goal for this coming year with SWE-WI is to provide clear and concise communications to all members to keep them informed about the organization and learn of opportunities to take advantage of.