Volunteer Opportunity with High School Physics Students!

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George Hademenos, Physics Teacher at Richardson High School, has developed an 8-week Project-Based Learning program for his students titled Using Physics to Drive Action on Sustainable Development Goals. Six of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be featured and you can learn more about the potential project topics here.

Volunteer Engineers will occasionally provide guidance to the student groups from now until December 10 and help them propose solutions or alternate approaches as issues arise. Scheduling is flexible! An estimated 2-3 question sessions per volunteer lasting less than 30 minutes each are anticipated. Mr. Hademenos will be coordinating communication between volunteers and students, which will primarily be over Zoom and email. This is a great opportunity to directly impact students and help inspire them to make STEM a part of their future! Details on the student project requirements can be found here. For more information or to volunteer, please contact George Hademenos at George.Hademenos@risd.org and let him know you heard about the opportunity through Dallas SWE!

Dallas SWE October Member of the Month: Meena Nagappan

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Congratulations to Meena Nagappan, Dallas SWE’s October Member of the Month!

Meena is an Electrical Engineer at Raytheon Technologies in Dallas, Texas. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering in 2020. Meena was involved with the Women in Engineering branch of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in college for three years, and volunteered for her SWE chapter in university throughout her undergraduate career. This is her first year with Dallas SWE on the Membership Committee.

SWE has been a big part of Meena’s life since high school – from encouraging her to accept UCLA to receiving a couple of job offers! Now she believes it is time to give back to the community that gave so much to her. Since she recently moved to Dallas from LA, she would like to grow her network and meet more people in the area! By joining the ranks of Dallas SWE, Meena hopes to encourage, support, and have fun with fellow women engineers and give back to the community as much as she can.

Dallas SWE Kickoff Meeting

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Join us for our kickoff event on Saturday, October 9th! We will be networking and playing board games to get to know each other better. This event will be hosted both in person and virtually so everyone can be comfortable. Masks will be required for our in person group.

Register for this event below or at Eventbrite.

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Support Dallas SWE as part of North Texas Giving Day!

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Support Dallas SWE by donating during North Texas Giving Day!

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Any amount helps, and all donations help Dallas SWE qualify to win additional funding from the Communities Foundation of Texas.

Dallas SWE also greatly benefits from matching corporate donations. If your company matches non-profit donations, please take a moment to fill out the relevant form to help out Dallas SWE.

North Texas Giving Day is a great opportunity to help make sure our section is well-funded to support all of our great programs, including professional development, youth outreach, collegiate section support, networking events, scholarships, and more.

** You can donate any time STARTING NOW all the way through midnight on Sept. 23! **

All donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Dallas SWE is a 501c(3) non-profit organization.

September Member of the Month: Gopika Sajit

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Congratulations to Gopika Sajit, Dallas SWE’s September Member of the Month!

Gopika is a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Emerson in Sherman, TX. She completed her Mechanical Engineering B.S. at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015. Gopika has been involved with SWE since college and has also been actively involved in Women in STEM, Emerson’s company-wide program that focuses on professional development and social networking for current employees and outreach activities for the community. For Women in STEM, she has hosted internal resume workshops, STEM activities on Kid’s day and panel discussions with inspiring women at local community college.

Her first job out of college was working at Emerson in Houston as an Application Engineer, creating proposals for metering skids. She wanted moved back to Dallas, so she transferred to Emerson in Sherman as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer for a plant that assembles Fisher valves and instrumentation. One of her favorite things about her job is doing digital process improvement projects and her proudest accomplishments so far has been completing her Lean Six Sigma Green belt and Blue Prism Developer certifications. She is also a citizen developer at her plant for the Intelligent Automation program and has taught over 150 global employees on how to use Microsoft’s Power applications such as Power BI.

Gopika loves to read and travel. Her favorite books are the Harry Potter series and her most memorable trips have so far has been to Ireland and Japan.

“One thing I learned from SWE is to say YES to opportunities even if you hesitate. I am fortunate enough to say I love my job because of those opportunities that have opened up.”

Gopika Sajit

Register for WE21 and Join SWEsters in Indianapolis

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Registration for WE21 at Indianapolis, IN from October 21-23 is now open! You can find out more and register here. Check out a few of our recaps too. Here are the summaries from WE18 which was in-person and SWE’s first fully virtual conference in WE20.

Let us know if you’re going by filling out the Dallas SWE Conference Coordination survey. If you’re interested, we can help you find roommates, share rides to the conference center from the airport, and put you on the Dallas SWE Slack WE21 Channel, so we can keep in touch while there! If you have questions about WE21 or travel coordination, please email us at dallas.swe@gmail.com.

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