Gresham Smith is excited to announce that Hydraulics Practice Leader Rachel Westerfield, P.E., CFM, is speaking at the 2024 National Hydraulic Engineering Conference at Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Aug. 29.
Westerfield will speak to this year’s theme, which is “Riding the Waves of Innovation: Sustainable Solutions in Hydraulic Engineering for a Dynamic Future.” Below is a summary of her presentation.
The KISS Method – Keep It Simple and Sustainable – for Hydraulic Engineers
Presented by Senior Engineer Rachel Westerfield, P.E., CFM
Thursday, Aug. 29 | 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Hydraulic designs shouldn’t be overly complex, and the infrastructure we recommend shouldn’t be difficult to maintain. Ingenuity doesn’t equate to writing a thesis for your design. Sometimes ingenuity is simply learning to follow a new path, a more efficient path, or the latest and greatest path (a.k.a. tools at our fingertips provided by some of the brightest minds in our field of study). KISS or Keep It Simple and Sustainable is the key to developing accurate and reliable hydraulic designs for our transportation network.
