Heather Chan
Heather is a Software Engineer who has been an active member for six years. She joined SWE in the second week of her freshman year in college. She enjoys volunteering, working with kids, shopping, exercising, listening to music, watching movies, chatting, and hanging out with friends.
Mission Statement
To stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity.
Goals and Objectives
Inform young women, their parents, counselors, and the general public, of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and the opportunities open to them.
Assist women in readying themselves for a return to active work after temporary retirement.
Serve as a center of information on women in engineering.
Encourage women engineers to attain high levels of education and professional achievement.
Upcoming Meeting
Speaker:
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham - Professor of CS, Director of the Cyber Security Research Center
Topic:
Data Mining for Malicious Code Detection and Security Applications
Data mining is the process of posing queries and extracting patterns, often previously unknown from large quantities of data using pattern matching or other reasoning techniques. Data mining has many applications in security including for national security as well as for cyber security. Dr Thuraisingham's work in information security and information management has resulted in over 70 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers and workshops, and three US patents.
Help Put a Face on Dallas SWE
The website now has a new feature: Meet a Member. On each page under the menu, a SWE member's picture will be displayed along with a couple of sentences about the member. If you would like to participate, please email the webmaster a picture of yourself and what you would like to say. Thanks!
