2017 Issue

5 6 Featured Speaker of the Engineers Week 2017 Banquet - Martin Frey 7 E-Week — Dream Big 8 Governor’s Declaration 9 Chairman’s Message 10 UEC 2017 Award Winners 12 UEC Scholarship Winners 16 UEC 2017 Award Nominees 24 2017 Utah Engineers Council Banquet 28 Utah Women and STEM 32 Avalanche Risk Management Lessons Learned for Systems Engineers Aftermath of an avalanche [Utah Avalanche Center] 34 The Rebirth of Helper 37 U tah A dvanced M aterials and M anufacturing I nitiative : Building on Utah’s Long History in Advanced Materials 40 Labor Force Participation Among Utah Women 44 Utah Engineers Council Roster 57 Building Tomorrow: The ASHRAE Story 60 3D Laser Scanning and BIM, Going Together Like Baseball and Hot Dogs… 62 M onument G ames Troubles in Syracuse City (Gateway to Antelope Island) 66 How Orbital ATK is Building the Future Using Lessons Learned from the Past 74 USTAR: Technology-Based Economic Development In Utah This journal is an annual publication of the Utah En- gineers Council. The Utah Engineers Council Journal is produced for and by the engineering community in Utah. Copies are provided to each member of the 15 societies that make up the UEC, other Utah engineers, high school students and counselors, members of the Utah Legislature, and interested corporate enti- ties. The UEC invites your interest, participation and feedback in this endeavor. Contributions and adver- tisements for future issues are welcome. Statements or opinions expressed by contributors are not neces- sarily those of the UEC, its member societies, or the Publisher. Likewise, advertisements in the journal are not to be considered an endorsement of the product or service advertised. Any editorial published in the Utah Engineers Council Journal should not to be taken as legal advice; specifically any editorial coming from a law firm. The authors, the UEC and the Publisher en- courage all readers to seek appropriate legal counsel as to the application of the law, as it pertains to their individual activities and circumstances. The Utah Engineers Council Journal is published by The newsLINK Group, LLC, a Utah company. A copy of the Utah Engineers Council Journal is available on the UEC website. © 2017. All rights reserved. 1 UTAH ENGINEERS COUNCIL 5298 W. Coley Circle West Valley City, UT 84120 www.utahengineerscouncil.org EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2016-2017 Chair: Charlie Vono (AIAA) Vice-Chair: Jed Lyman (ASPE) Treasurer: Max Gandy (ASHRAE) Executive Secretary: Susan R. Merrill FIRST PAST CHAIR: Brian Warner (ACEC) SECOND PAST CHAIR: Robert Kesler, P.E. (ACEC)