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Dallas SWE FY19 Bylaws Vote

by Dallas SWE on in Announcements
Your voice matters! Please cast your vote below for our updated Dallas SWE Bylaws, now approved by the SWE Bylaws Committee. You must be a voting member of the Dallas SWE Professional Section and in good standing with the Society to vote: our Executive Council will verify each voter’s member status.

Voting starts September 11th and closes on October 11th.

Section Bylaws Amendments

The below updates are in response to a new professional section bylaws template published by SWE to implement Governance changes approved by the SWE Senate at WE17. The proposed Dallas SWE bylaws were approved by the SWE Bylaws Committee with a few updates from last spring’s version and are presented now to our section members for review. These amendments are considered approved after approval of 2/3 of the ballots received by the published deadline. Please send any questions to dallas.swe@gmail.com.

You can view our current bylaws here.

You can find the proposed bylaws amendments here.

Changes in the proposed bylaws are tracked from the Society’s Modifiable Bylaws Template, not our previous bylaws version, per the Bylaws Committee instructions. Changes are as follows:
  1. Removal of the Section Representative officer position and references to Region Council meetings per the SWE Senate approved Governance restructuring plan.
  2. Change of verbiage around voting / non-voting members of the Society to reference professional / collegiate membership types due to collegiates recently being granted voting member rights. The offices of President and Exec VP must be professional members.
  3. The line in our current bylaws in the Exec VP section concerning their responsibility to plan professional development events has been removed. This is a procedural instruction that is not in SWE’s template and is determined at-will by the section’s leadership: it should not reside in our bylaws.
  4. Modifications from SWE’s template that are specific to our section: filled in section name and number where appropriate, Treasurer term is 2 years instead of 1, Investment Committee members are elected by the membership and not appointed by the Section President, renamed VP to Exec VP, added VP of Membership and VP of Outreach and their respective responsibilities as they are in our current Bylaws.

Click here to cast your vote!

Register for our October Professional Development Event

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings

Join Dallas SWE for our October Professional Development Speaker from Engineers Without Borders where were will learn more about their great work from the Dallas Chapter President, Julie Jones.

Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit, humanitarian engineering organization. The mission of EWB-USA is to support community-driven development programs worldwide by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects, while creating transformative experiences and responsible leaders. This presentation will cover the history, mission, and model in which Engineers Without Borders – USA approaches and implements its projects with its partner communities. This presentation will also cover potable water project of the North Texas Professional Chapter in Culli Culli Alto, Bolivia.

Julie Jones co-founded the Northwest Arkansas EWB-USA Professional Chapter and the University of Arkansas EWB-USA Student Chapter in 2005, and she is now president of the North Texas Professional Chapter.  She was the Arkansas State Representative for the South Central Region of EWB-USA from 2005-2009, Vice President from 2009-2011, President 2011-2013 and she currently serves as Texas State Representative of the region.  

Julie attended the University of Arkansas where she received her B.S. in Civil Engineering and her M.S. in Civil Engineering, both with an emphasis in Environmental Engineering.  Her thesis was on Factors Affecting the Operation and Maintenance of Biosand Filters for Rainwater Treatment in Developing Countries. This research was done for filters in Zaragoza, Colombia in Amazon region.  

She holds a Professional Engineer License in Texas, and she works at Nathan D Maier Consulting Engineers, Inc. in Dallas for the Water Resources Division.  Julie has ten years experience as a design engineer. She has worked on projects for numerous municipalities including Dallas, Garland, Richardson and Irving.  She has worked on several large thoroughfare projects as the hydrology and hydraulics design engineer. These types of projects include roadway and guideway drainage, hydrology and hydraulics studies, and FEMA studies.  Julie specializes in the field of hydrology and hydraulics, and is also a Nationally Certified Floodplain Manager.

Date: Thursday October 11, 2018

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Olive Garden, 4240 Belt Line Rd, Addison, TX 75001

Cost: Free for SWE Members, $5 for non-members. Food available for purchase by the individual. 

This meeting is open to all, women, men, SWE members and non-members alike. Raffle prizes for some lucky winners!

 

Event Recap: FY19 Meet and Greet Bruncheon

by Dallas SWE on in Uncategorized

On Saturday, August 25, Dallas SWE had a great start to FY19 with about 20 members, non-members, and guests coming together for Brunch at Holy Grail Pub in Plano! Attendees mingled with new faces and returning friends as everyone enjoyed fantastic food and drinks. The new Dallas SWE Leadership Team welcomed in the new and exciting year ahead! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the event!

Stay tuned for future brunches and please join us for our next Professional Development event on Wednesday, September 12, where we will focus on Networking.

 

Event Recap: August Book Club

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings

On Sunday, August 19, SWE members and friends gathered at Corner Bakery Cafe in Dallas to discuss our most recent Book Club selection, Brick by Brick, How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry. The book outlines LEGO’s early success with their system of plastic bricks and themed sets, through their struggles in the late 90s and early 2000s where unbridled innovation projects and cultural shifts in children’s attention to video games nearly drove LEGO out of existence, and how LEGO turned things around by refocusing and streamlining their design and production efforts and embracing robotic and movie-themed toy sets.

Most of the group had fond memories of themselves and their families playing with LEGO during childhood and most of us were unaware of their past business struggles. A few attendees were surprised that we’d select such a business-centric book, but we found that gaining insight into the priorities of management vs. engineers will be valuable in our professional roles. It was interesting to read about how LEGO planned from the beginning to create bricks that are compatible with one another across their entire product portfolio, making collections infinitely extensible over decades of enjoyment. We also discussed how LEGO balanced the competing interests of parents (who buy the toys) and their children (the end-users).

Check out this book for yourself and stay tuned for announcements on the date, location, and book selection for our next Book Club meeting! Join our Goodreads group to add your own suggestions.

Dallas SWE September 2018 Professional Development Meeting & Webinar

by Dallas SWE on in Meetings

Join Dallas SWE for our September Professional Development Event! 

This month, Dallas SWE will be viewing and discussing the SWE Advance Learning Webinar Hot Trends in Networking. If you’re stuck in a rut or confused about next steps for getting ahead, this meeting is for you! This presentation will help guide you towards developing a robust and positive mindset around your ability to build relationships and is sure to spark an intriguing conversation between the participants. By the end of this presentation, you should be able to:

  • Manage the 3 key moments that happen over and over every time you meet someone.
  • Get more visible by talking about your talents . . . without bragging.
  • Attract mentors and sponsors who can help you advance your career.

Topic: Hot Trends in Networking by Lynne Waymon via SWE Advance

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Coffee House Cafe, 6150 Frankford Rd, Dallas, TX 75252

Cost: Free for SWE Members, $5 for non-members. Food available for purchase by the individual. 

 

 

 

This meeting is open to all, women, men, SWE members and non-members alike, with time to practice your networking skills. Raffle prizes for some lucky winners!

Reminder! Meet and Greet Bruncheon this Sunday!

by Dallas SWE on in Membership Appreciation, Special Events

It’s not too late to sign up for our bruncheon! Come out for a delicious brunch and fabulous networking to meet your FY19 Officers on Saturday, August 25th at 11:30am! We will be at Holy Grail Pub, located at 8240 Preston Rd #150, Plano, TX 75024.

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