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Event Recap: FY15 End of Year Celebration

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings

What a great year it has been in Dallas SWE! As we wind down FY15, take a breath, and gear up for FY16, we took some time Tuesday, June 23 to recognize the accomplishments and service of our officers and volunteer members in the last fiscal year. Check out our Year In Review Newsletter!

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Each FY15 Officer, Committee Chair, and Board of Trustees member was recognized for her contributions to the success of our growing section.  Dallas SWE is an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization and everyone on the section leadership team gives some of her free time, using her talents for the benefit of our members and our community. We truly appreciate everything they do!  There were also several special awards that were given by our Section President, Barbara Read:

  • Lori Wiltz received the Work / Life Integration Award for her work on the Programs Committee, heading up a professional development and industry tour event at Halliburton (her employer), and for recruiting volunteers to help with our signature STEM event, Design Your World!
  • Shelley Stracener received the Distinguished New Engineer Award for her efforts to communicate with Dallas SWE’s membership and the public through this website and social media accounts, for handling event registration and communications for Design Your World, and her dedication to the office of Section Representative for FY15.
  • Lynn Mortensen (who unfortunately could not attend) was recognized with the STEM Advocate Award for her work as Conference Coordinator for one Design Your World event and Volunteer Coordinator for both FY15 DYW events, and for her commitment to building relationships with our local Independent School Districts and their various STEM outreach programs.

We also recognized our new and renewing Scholarship Recipients for the coming academic year. Thanks to our Scholarship Committee for reviewing the record number of applications this year!

If you missed our celebration, please join us for the member feedback portion of our officer transition meeting July 25 (details to follow in a later post). We want to hear from you on what you’d like to see from Dallas SWE in FY16!  We’ll be updating our website in the coming week to roll over to FY16, but until then please congratulate our incoming FY16 Officers when you see them at one of our upcoming events!

If you are interested in being a chair or member of one of our committees, please contact us at dallas.swe@gmail.com. We will be so excited for you to join our team and make Dallas SWE the best it can be!!

Here's to a great FY16 in Dallas SWE!!!
Here’s to a great FY16 in Dallas SWE!!!

Volunteers Needed: Moon Day Outreach – July 18

by Dallas SWE on in Outreach

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Join us and Fort Worth SWE Saturday, July 18 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum for some fun STEM activities in celebration of Moon Day! Space traveler Anousheh Ansari will be a guest speaker: she’s been a guest of our Design Your World program in the past and is an inspirational role model!

If you would like tovolunteer to help us inspire the next generation of engineers, please email us at dallas.swe@gmail.com to let us know! You don’t have to stay the whole day: an hour or two will do. We need your help to make this a great event for all the visitors to the museum!

Social Science at Perot with Fort Worth SWE

by Dallas SWE on in Special Events
Dallas and Fort Worth SWE members at Perot's Social Science.
Dallas and Fort Worth SWE members at Perot’s Social Science.

On Friday evening, June 19, Dallas SWE met Fort Worth SWE at the Perot Museum for their quarterly Social Science event! It was a lively evening of libations and learning as the 21-and-up attendees made their way through the exhibit halls. Many of us had never been to the Perot Museum so we stuck with the several floors of history and science exhibits, but Social Science also offers special guest speakers and films at each event.

 

Tickets sell out quickly so next time we announce this joint event be sure to save your spot quickly! Check out some more photos from the evening in the gallery below.

Interactive water molecule display.
View from the iconic escalator to the 4th floor.
Part of the group playing a game about how to extend your lifespan!
Interactive display that uses a camera and rotating tiles to replicate the image of people standing in front of a screen.
Robots!
Photo booth outside the museum.

Dallas SWE End of Year Celebration!

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings

CelebrateIt’s time to celebrate the end of SWE FY15 and the start of FY16. Please join us in welcoming our incoming officers, thanking our outgoing officers, and recognizing the individuals who received awards and scholarships in our section at our End of the Year Celebration!

When: June 23rd, 2015, 6:00PM-8:00PM
Where: Coffee House Cafe, 6150 Frankford Rd, Dallas, TX 75252
Cost: FREE!  Food and drinks will be available for individual purchase during the event.
RSVP: Please let us know you’re coming via Eventbrite!

Don’t forget to renew your SWE Membership for FY16! Earlybird rates apply through June 30, 2015. Visit the SWE Membership page to renew today!

Summer upcoming events to put on your calendar:

  • June 19th – Social Science event with Fort Worth SWE at the Perot Museum
  • July 14th – Dallas SWE Networking Event Sponsored by Capital One in Plano
  • July 18th – Moon Day Outreach with Fort Worth SWE at Frontiers of Flight Museum
  • July TBD – Dallas SWE Younger Members Brunch (June brunch has been cancelled)

 

TAMU Commerce (50 miles east of McKinney) Seeking SWE Sponsor

by Dallas SWE on in Collegiate

TAMU Commerce, located 50 miles east of McKinney, is interested in starting a SWE Collegiate Interest Group or Section. In order do that they need a professional member from a professional section to be a sponsor/mentor! TAMU Commerce has two ABET undergraduate degrees, Industrial Engineering & Construction Engineering. More details on the school can be found here.

You’d be the SWE cheerleader, providing enthusiasm & motivation to the group leaders & members! Recent collegiate leadership experience would be a bonus, but is not necessary.

“The Sponsor will act as the official reporting conduit to the Society on all matters relating to the CIG (including contact, financial and activities information). The Sponsor also has the flexibility to determine the level & frequency of communication required by the CIG.” – SWE CIG Roles & Responsibilities Procedure

Please contact dallas.swe@gmail.com if you are interested or if you have any questions!

Event Recap: Networking Event with Dallas SWE, NSBE, and SHPE DFW

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings, Special Events

We successfully held our first, and most certainly not last, SWE/SHPE/NSBE joint mixer.  Not only did we mingle among the other minority engineering professional organizations but we had a panel talk with representatives from each organization.

From left to right, Chris Lewis (NSBE), moderator Barbara Read (Dallas SWE), Ashley Dunn (Dallas SWE), and Brianne Martin (SHPE DFW)
From left to right: Chris Lewis (NSBE), moderator Barbara Read (SWE), Ashley Dunn (SWE), and Brianne Martin (SHPE)

The panel members were asked questions on how they handle various issues and situations they have faced as minorities in engineering.  There were also great answers regarding how companies can keep Millenials, females, and minorities at in their organizations and how to help them thrive.  Thank you Ashley Dunn from SWE, Christopher Lewis from NSBE, and Brianne Martin from SHPE for being our panel and Barbara Reed from SWE for moderating.After the panel our sponsor American Airlines discussed Engineering at American.

We got some great feedback from attendees on how we can help each other serve our local communities and promote diversity in engineering in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  We look forward to more interaction and collaboration with SHPE and NSBE in the future!

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