The Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE) goals are to promote mass properties engineering as a specialized discipline and to provide a means for those interested in mass properties engineering to work together to further their professional goals. Since it's inception in 1939, the SAWE has grown to include 22 chapters located in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Central Europe, India, and the United Kingdom and has members from over 22 countries. The Society promotes technical interchange between its members through international and regional conferences, the Weight Engineering Journal, specialized training, technical papers and a growing number of professional publications.

74th International Conference on Mass Properties Engineering

2015-2016 SAWE International Elections

March 1, 2015

SAWE Vote

2015-2016 SAWE International Elections are now open. Voting ends April 15, 2015. Click the link below to vote online.

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If you are asked for a Token Number, enter your SAWE Member Number. Your SAWE Member Number is will be in the voter email sent to all current members or on the mailing label of the Conference Announcement and Officer Candidate material (US Members see important note below). For more information on where to find your SAWE Member Number, click here.

Members also have the option to vote by mail. Click here to download voting form and mailing instructions.

  

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Weight Engineering - Winter 2014-2015

WEIGHT ENGINEERING
SAWE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WEIGHT ENGINEERING
Volume 74 - Winter 2014-2015 - No. 2


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Articles

Boeing F-15 SIlent Eagle Demonstrator Makes First Flight
Dreams of the Past by Norbert Carraway
The Gyrauto:1935 courtesy of Brian Wiegand
The SAWE Is Now ANSI Accredited
SAWE POWER 2014
Hardware-Based Non-Optimum Factors for Launch Vehicle Structural Design by Chauncey Wu and Jeff Cerro
Inflatable Antenna for Cubesat: Design, Fabrication, Deployment, and Test by Alessandra Babuscia

Other

In Memorium – Charles Robert Wanker
SAWE Corporate Partners
Index of Advertisers
SAWE Ed Payne Award Winners
SAWE Society Heritage
Chapter Reports

  

To download the PDF version of the Winter 2014-2015 Weight Engineering Journal, please click here. Log-in to your membership account is required. For more information about how to setup or access your membership account, please view our Frequently Asked Questions.

Nominations Desired for Honorary Fellow, Fellow, Richard Boynton Lifetime Achievement Award, and Ed Payne Award

February 9, 2015

SAWE Awards

Nominations for Honorary Fellow, Fellow, Richard Boynton Lifetime Achievement Award, and Ed Payne Award (for Outstanding Young Engineer) are due March 1, 2015.  Chapter Directors are responsible to canvas their chapter membership for members worthy of these awards and to submit but individual members may also make submissions.  These prestigious awards designate an elite group of contributors to the SAWE and the field of mass properties engineering.  

Thanks for helping the SAWE recognize some of the people who have worked to maintain our status as the professional Weights Engineering society to belong to.

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2015 SAWE Scholarship Program Applications

February 1, 2015

IT IS ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM APPLICATION TIME!!!

SaweScholarship

Each year the Society of Allied Weight Engineers, Inc. sponsors the SAWE Scholarship Program.

Applicants must be children* or grandchildren (age 25 and under) of members of the SAWE worldwide who have a minimum of one year of membership as of the application deadline date. Children of deceased members are also eligible.

*For purposes of this program, children are defined as natural and legally adopted children or stepchildren of members.

Applicants must be high school seniors or graduates who plan to enroll or students who are already enrolled in a full-time undergraduate course of study at an accredited four- year college or university.

Call for Papers and Instructions to Authors

The SAWE is actively soliciting papers and presentations for the following Regional and International Conferences.

The SAWE is now ANSI Accredited

August 10, 2014

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 The SAWE is now ANSI Accredited

The Society of Allied Weight Engineers is very pleased to announce that it is now an Accredited Standards Developer (ASD) as administered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  We were officially provided that status in July of this year [2014]. This means that our society can create standards which will be distributed as ANSI/SAWE Standards.  As ANSI is a member body of the International Standards Organization (ISO), SAWE Standards can also be considered for ISO accreditation during their development process.  To understand the SAWE process required to create an ANSI standard see the freely available publication, Technical Overview document TO-2, “SAWE Procedures as an Accredited Standards Developer with the  American National Standards Institute” https://www.sawe.org/technical/rp/TO2.  The SAWE Standards and Practices Committee hopes that this achievement provides our members and sponsors increased membership value, and stands ready to work with you in advancing the field of Mass Properties Engineering through generation of quality ANSI/SAWE standards.

Updated - SAWE Response to FAA Advisory Circular (AC) 120-27E

FAA

June 16, 2014

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published draft Advisory Circular (AC) 120-27F “Aircraft Weight & Balance Control” for comment on November 7, 2013.  We, the Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE), responded in the FAA open period in January 2014 by volunteering to lead an industry solution in the establishment of standard crew, passenger, and baggage weights, and respectfully submitted a response to the FAA.  

On June 11, 2014, SAWE learned that the FAA will be updating the draft AC120-27F to use …“the latest NHANES Data for standard <passenger> weights, the other options will also still remain the same.  Once the changes have been completed it will go out for public comment again.”.

No further details were stated.  So stay tuned for another version of AC120-27F in the near future.