When:
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Where:
Texas Instruments South Campus
8505 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75243
We’ve had a great fiscal year so far in 2016! We are looking forward to a great winter and spring as well, full of opportunities to learn, grow, reach out to our communities, and network with the local amazing engineers who are Dallas SWE members! Our leadership team has some great things planned: check them out on our Calendar and remember to get on our email list (check the right-hand sidebar of our website).
Check out the infographic below for some of SWE’s successes in 2016! W’re part of an organization of over 40k members with outstanding professional development resources, outreach tools, and exciting new programs. Looking back on the last year, there are a lot of reasons to be enthusiastic about the year to come. Happy New Year, Dallas SWE!
~Shelley Stracener, Dallas SWE FY17 President
The next Design Your World STEM Conference for Girls will take place on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at Southern Methodist University (SMU).Design Your World is a STEM-based conference for girls in grades K-12. The conference is held twice a year (Fall and Spring). The Chairperson coordinates the planning and execution of the conference and recruit and organize committee members and leads. Leads are needed for registration, media, parent/educator session, student activities, logistics, volunteers, opening/closing ceremony and food/t-shirt orders.
If you are interested in being part of the planning committee please let us know by emailing dallas.swe@gmail.com.
For more information on DYW visit http://www.designyourworld.org!
On December 8, members of our Outreach Committee attended the UT Dallas BEST Robotics UIL Division Championship at Frisco Arena, sharing information about SWE Next and talking to parents and students about what it’s like being an engineer! They also met some engineering professionals who weren’t aware of Dallas SWE and talked to them about our upcoming activities and opportunities to join in the fun. Stay tuned to your email and social media for upcoming opportunities to join our Outreach Committee in their activities!
With our Member of the Month program, Dallas SWE seeks to recognize some of our non-officer members whose technical contributions, leadership accomplishments, or SWE volunteer service are particularly noteworthy. If you would like to nominate a Dallas SWE member for his/her contributions, please email us.
This December, we feature Teri Cate as our Member of the Month! Teri Cate has a BS in Earth Science from the University of New Orleans and over 10 years of experience in the IT industry. She started in the founding company, Geophysical Service Inc., of Texas Instruments doing seismic data processing. Afterwards she moved to the Defense Business for several years and then the Corporate IT area of TI doing internal systems and application support for the facilities, environmental, and financial groups. This covered a wide range of areas from mainframe systems and client/server applications to PC Access tools and a website. Next, she focused on software quality assurance and has 12 years experience in this area which covers educational handheld devices and health care information systems.
Being customer focused, highly organized, and very detailed has helped Teri to manage projects, find solutions, and satisfy users. In her spare time, she designed and programmed a web site for the Texins Sailing Club in which she was a member for over 10 years. She is a lifetime member of the DFW Alliance of Technology and Women group and served on the Leadership Team for 8 years. She was on the founding board and served for many years with the DFW QAA organization. Her interests are in science and technology and so she continues to look for volunteer opportunities with great 
organizations like Dallas SWE where there are STEM activities. She has been a devoted outreach event volunteer and is a regular attendee of Dallas SWE monthly professional development meetings.
“I have enjoyed being a member of the Dallas SWE because there are so many opportunities to help out like participating on the Nominating Committee and learning how to build circuits and then teaching the kids at the Perot Museum and the Frontiers of Flight Museum on Moon Day how to do it. At the professional development meetings, you meet some really wonderful professional women with a wide variety of work experience. All the officers are hard working people who want to accomplish the objectives of SWE for their members.”
Dallas SWE will support Dallas ISD at their Dallas ISD STEM EXPO, formerly called STEM Day. The STEM EXPO is a day-long event that focuses on STEM-related careers and coursework. Participants (DISD students and family members of all age groups) engage in hands-on and interactive sessions (provided by local colleges and universities, museums, engineering organizations, and STEM-focused organizations). The Dallas ISD STEM EXPO will also include the district’s STEM competitions, showcases, and exhibits from students within Dallas ISD. DISD is expecting 2,500 people to attend the Expo. Dallas SWE will have a booth to assist the students in “building a circuit” and to give out information on Dallas SWE and SWENext.
When: Saturday, February 4, 2017 from 9am-3p
Where: Dallas Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin Street, Dallas, TX 75202
Choose from 2 volunteer shifts: 8:30am – 12pm or 11:30am – 3pm
8 slots are available per shift.
Please register with us on Eventbrite and complete the Volunteer Orientation steps online by January 13!
