About

About SAWE

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Who We Are

The Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE) is a non-profit international organization of Mass Properties specialists whose mission is:

  • to promote the Mass Properties discipline by ensuring knowledge transfer
  • to provide a medium for exchanging recommended practices based on experience and innovation
  • to foster technical excellence and superior quality in mass properties prediction, control, and validation.

Regular chapter meetings, regional and international conferences, plus an extensive array of technical papers, reference books, industry standards and training curriculum provide mass properties engineers and industry the opportunity to learn, collaborate, create, and broaden the capability of each mass properties engineer, their organization or program.

The Society is organized into 20 chapters with members from across the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and China.

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Original 1941 SAWE Logo

HISTORY

SAWE was originally organized as the Society of Aeronautical Weight Engineers in 1939 in Los Angeles, California, and was incorporated as a nonprofit organization April 2, 1941. As membership grew to include engineers associated with shipbuilding, land transportation, and other allied industries and technologies, the Society name was changed on January 1, 1973 to the Society of Allied Weight Engineers, Inc.

Early Yearbook

A very interesting history of our society is described in one of our early yearbooks.  (Click on the image to open the document.)  We are forever indebted to the Charter Members of SAWE listed in the yearbook who attended the original meetings in 1939, and were instrumental in the founding of our organization.

Our Leadership Team

Our current leadership team is shown below. Feel free to reach out to any of our executives with any questions about SAWE.

President

Jason Booth

The Boeing Company
president@sawe.org

Jason Booth - President

Executive Director

Bill Boze

Society of Allied Weight Engineers, Inc.
bill.boze@sawe.org

Bill Boze - Executive Director

Executive Vice President

Chris Wandell

Northrop Grumman Corporation
executivevp@sawe.org

Chris Wandell - Executive Vice President

Senior Vice President

Karla Gregg

Northrop Grumman Corporation
seniorvp@sawe.org

Karla Gregg - Senior Vice President

VP - Publications

Aleni Burcham

United States Air Force
publications@sawe.org

Aleni Burcham - Vice President Publications

VP - Training

Darren Gamble

Spirit AeroSystems (Europe)
sawetraining@sawe.org

Darren Gamble - VP Training

VP - Technical

Amanda Cutright

NASA Langley Research Center
technical@sawe.org

Amanda Cutright - VP Technical

VP - Certification

Dirk Petersen

Society of Allied Weight Engineers, Inc.
cmpe@sawe.org

Dirk Petersen - VP Certification

VP - Vendor Relations

Clint Stephenson

The Boeing Company
vendor@sawe.org

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VP - Information Technology

Greg Ray

The Boeing Company
webmaster@sawe.org

Greg Ray Boeing

VP - Standards & Practices

Nick Thies

Northrop Grumman Corporation
standards@sawe.org

Nick Theis - Vice President Standard and Practices

VP - Academic Affairs

Ali Elham

University of Southampton, UK
academic.committee@sawe.org

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