Committee Chair

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Peg Goter  

Margaret (Peg) Pickering Goter earned her BSME from Western New England College in 1982 and joined the Naval Undersea Warfare Center as a mechanical design engineer for submarine-launched torpedoes. Over a 16 year career with NUWC, Peg worked in a number of different areas including hardware design and failure analysis for the MK 48 and MK 46 torpedo programs, in-water test coordination for design developments, mission failure analysis for the ADCAP torpedo, torpedo simulations and tactics evaluation for surface ships to evade enemy torpedoes. Special assignments included travel to the Arctic Circle, Japan and two years living in Hawaii. Peg joined SWE NESS a few years after the group was chartered, and served as Secretary, Section Representative, Newsletter Editor and 2 years as President in 1998 and 1999.

In 1999, Peg left the workforce after the birth of her daughter. While NUWC has many family-friendly work options available base-wide, the individual department heads may choose whether to offer such options on a case-by-case basis, and the heavyweight torpedo department was not offering part-time options at that time. Peg’s involvement with SWE has also been minimal for these past ten years, though she did help by proofreading the NESS newsletter.

In addition to raising her daughter, Peg is solely responsible for oversight of her mother, who is in the early stages of dementia. Peg also has 2 adult children through marriage, with 3 grandchildren and another on the way. Peg is a Master Gardener through URI’s Cooperative Extension and used her knowledge of computers to help them transition their records to an online volunteer-tracking system called Volgistics. Peg has also recently volunteered to oversee the SWE NESS Website, and appreciates the opportunity to expand her technical skills in the field of website design and maintenance. .