SAE Engineering Presentation
May 13 @ 5:00 pm
May 2024 Event:
Landspeed Louise
Hosted By:
Date: Monday, May 13th
Time: 5:00PM
Location: Marquette University
About the Event:
Presentation: Landspeed Louise,
Featuring two members of the last American team to hold the Land Speed Record
- Louise Noeth asks “do fast women really need engineers?” Astronaut John Glenn used Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats as a landmark from space, but on earth amateur motorsports enthusiasts, have used the blistering hot flat pancake as a speed laboratory for more than a century. With their handcrafted cars, trucks and motorcycles, thousands of men and women have hosted pageants of power each summer since 1949. Every single one came looking for the answer to the same question: “How fast will to go?” The decades of effort have made them the fastest people on earth reaching speeds more than 500MPH. On the salt, people find the limits of their courage, they learn what daring greatly is all about, and understand why a Bonneville Salt Flats speed record is an internationally respected pedigree. People who race on the salt flats become a family bound together by speed – a powerful force that erases ethnic, economic, political, and religious barriers: They are land speed racers. The evening presentation shines a spectacular spotlight on how some 350 women (ages 16 to 80) designed, built and/or set more than 1,000 land speed records.
Guest Speakers:
- Louise Ann Noeth is a journalist’s journalist, a well-versed professional writer and photographer, whose passion for land speed racing with a 458-mile-per-hour world land speed record. She was born in Chicago and has the pugnacity and energy of the Windy City itself. “I’m a kid from the south side of Chicago whose parents were first generation born in the USA and whose grandparents came from the ‘old country,’ looking for a better life.
- Pete Farnsworth, co- designer and constructor of the Blue Flame Rocket Car, the last American car to hold the Land Speed Record.
- Kenny McCarthy, de facto crew chief of the Blue Flame Rocket Car, which remains the fastest American designed, built, and campaigned hot rod in history.
Event Agenda:
Registration Fees:
- Registration: 5:00-5:30pm
- Networking: 5:00-6:00pm
- Dinner: 6:00-6:45pm
- Presentation Q&A: 6:45-8:45pm
- SAE Members / Spouses: $30.00
- Retirees: $25.00
- Guests / Non Member: $40.00
- Students: $10.00
Registration:
Registration Deadline: May 3rd, 12:00pm (Noon)
Maximum Attendance: 60
Ways to Register:
•By phone: Garrett Herning –856-313-0581
•By email: Garrett Herning –sae@c2cintegration.com
•Online:
Parking Instructions:
Park in the 16th street visitor parking structure, which is building #55 on the map.
– You will then walk ~1 block to Engineering Hall, building #34 on the map.
– Parking vouchers will be handed out to get out the structure for free
https://www.marquette.edu/campus-map/marquette-map.pdf
