Tag: Engineering

FWA Assists with STEM in Scouting 2021

Posted by Frederick Ward Associates on October 28, 2021

Vincent Nohe, Prof. LS of FWA teamed up with David Moyle, Prof. LS from Wallace, Montgomery & Associates, James Brannon from Charles P. Johnson Associates, and former FWA employees Andy Whaley, PE, President at Essayons Engineering Services, and Evan Kelly, Prof. LS, Principal at Rock Run Surveying at the Baltimore Area Council of Boy Scouts Harford District Annual STEM in Scouting event held this October at the Harford County Equestrian Center in Bel Air. The event was conducted to teach the Boy Scout Surveying Merit Badge certification to twelve scouts eager to learn about the surveying profession.

FWA Attends the 2021 ABC Baltimore All-American Networking Event

Posted by Frederick Ward Associates on July 16, 2021

Team members attended the ABC Baltimore All-American Networking event, hosted by the Women in ABC Committee. The event was held at ABC’s new facility that houses their corporate offices and Construction Education Academy and was designed by FWA’s architects. Attendees enjoyed mingling, playing corn hole, and touring the new space while supporting the WABC Scholarship Fund.

FWA Hosts Scouts BSA Troop 1920 for Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

Posted by Frederick Ward Associates on February 25, 2020

February 20th was recognized by the National Society of Professional Engineers as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, in which schools and individuals were encouraged to engage and introduce girls to engineering and the world of STEM. At FWA, we took this opportunity to share our knowledge of engineering with local Scouts BSA Troop 1920, Harford County’s first all-female BSA troop.

After weeks of preparation by members of our engineering team, FWA opened its doors to the troop on the evening of the 20^th and FWA engineers, Veronika Pitonakova and Zashary Orengo, led a presentation focusing on “Girl Day”. The content of the presentation aligned with the requirements needed for the girls to obtain their engineering merit badge.

The troop was then divided into groups, each led by a FWA engineer. The groups designed micro bio-retention facilities by following a detail created by our engineers. The completed facilities went into a scale model depicting a developed site. In this case, the site consisted of a parking lot, commercial office building, landscaping, and three micro bio-retention facilities. The girls were then able to use water to create a 1, 10, and 100-year storm, each of which showed the results of the micro-bio’s filtering capability and ability to clean the water, post-runoff, from the site.

To learn more about inspiring today’s youth to discover engineering, please visit http://www.discovere.org/.