Congratulations to Linda Cross, EI, as she becomes as a full member of the Medical Device subcommittee of the ASME Codes & Standards Committee for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (PVHO). This is part of the KES volunteering program. Linda’s expertise as a biological engineer has proven her value to this international life-safety group. Linda is the youngest member in ASME PVHO‘s history and a 2014 LSU graduate. Here she is pictured with company president Krista Kemper, who became ASME PVHO’s first woman member in 2010. Krista has transitioned to being a “contributing member” due to management duties as well as to make room for Linda within the ASME and ANSI policy limits on how many members can be from the same company. Krista can still attend meetings and participate in the work, but she is no longer a voting member like Linda.
Linda Cross, EI (KES, USA), Guy Richards (Blanson Acrylics, UK), and KES company president Krista Wohlfeil. As chair of the Medical Devices subcommittee for the ASME Codes & Standards Committee for Pressure Vessels for Human Occupancy (PVHOs), Guy welcomes Linda as a full member of the Medical Device subcommittee.
It turns out that the day ASME PVHO made Linda Cross, EI the youngest member in this Codes & Standards Committee’s history, it was on International Women in Engineering Day. Linda worked for over a year to earn her place on the PVHO Codes & Standards Committee, where she is not only the company’s representative in Medical Devices, but is also Bart Kemper’s alternate for General Requirements, Design, Diving Systems, Viewports, Submersibles, and Tunneling. She has to keep up with all the subcommittees not just to contribute technically, but also to take the place of the company’s Principal Engineer, Bart Kemper, if he cannot make a vote or a meeting. It is very fitting the votes confirming her memberships to these subcommittees occurred on International Women in Engineering Day.
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