FY19 Membership Drive and Member Survey

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We are in the early bird membership renewal time frame, so until June 30, you can get a $5 discount on your FY19 annual membership. If you wish to renew please visit the www.swe.org Membership Portal and use offer code EBIRD!

In addition to the discount before July 1st, Dallas SWE members renewing before June 30 will also be entered into a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card!

Click here or a step by step guide on how to renew.

We hope you plan on renewing your membership. If you have any questions about your renewal or issues you would like to discuss, please feel free to reach out to dallas.swe@gmail.com.

Also, please take our Member Survey so we know how to better serve you next year!

Event Recap: End of Year Member Appreciation and Award Luncheon

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On Saturday, May 19, Dallas SWE members gathered at Maggiano’s in Dallas to celebrate the successes of FY18, recognize some of our outstanding volunteer leaders, and announce this year’s scholarship recipients! FY18 Dallas SWE President Shelley Stracener gave a “state of Dallas SWE” talk highlighting our successful professional development, outreach, membership appreciation, scholarship, and award programs from FY18. You can read a summary of these highlights in our FY18 Year In Review Newsletter!

Attendees enjoyed a 3-course luncheon of delicious salads, entrees, sides, and desserts served family-style. It was a great time to celebrate another great year of membership and leadership in Dallas SWE!

We’ll be on a bit of a hiatus over the summer as our leadership team transitions to the new fiscal year, but stay tuned for summer outreach opportunities and book club meetings. Thank you again to our wonderful members and volunteer leaders who make our organization possible!

Dallas SWE FY19 Leadership Team Elected

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We are pleased to announce that our FY19 leadership team has been elected via the election that ran May 1-30. Thanks to everyone who made their voices heard!

Your FY19 Dallas SWE Leadership Team:

  • President: Zaineb Ahmad
  • Executive Vice President: Amanda Alsbrook
  • Vice President of Membership: Shannon Cruise
  • Vice President of Outreach: Terriekka Cardenas
  • Treasurer: Liz Hainey (continuing year 2 of her term)
  • Secretary: Rana Karimi
  • Investment Committee Members: Liong So, Pam Duffy, Katie Mills, and Tram Trinh

Your new officers and Investment Committee members will start their terms on July 1, 2018, and we have a leadership transition meeting scheduled for July 14. They’ll be doing some preliminary planning for events throughout the next fiscal year, Stay tuned for your opportunity to fill out an important survey concerning what you’d like to see from Dallas SWE! Don’t forget to renew your membership for FY18 at www.swe.org.

Dallas SWE FY18 Nominating Committee
Shelley Stracener (Chair), Amber Scheurer, and Thi Dao (Members)

June Professional Development Event at Rockwell Collins

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Join Dallas SWE for our June Professional Development Speaker & Tour with the Rockwell Collins Women’s Forum

Date: Thursday, June 7, 2018

Time: 5:30-7:30 PM

Location: Rockwell Collins, 3200 East Renner Rd., Building 461, Richardson, TX 75082

Please join us for our final professional development event of FY18, partnering with Rockwell Collins’ Women’s Forum. Uche Maple, Rockwell Collins Senior Engineering Manager and Dallas SWE Executive Vice President, will speak on “Turning Obstacles into Opportunities.” We’ll also enjoy a site tour. Light refreshments will be provided.

Schedule:
5:30 – 6:00 Networking
6:00 – 6:45 Speaker
6:45- 7:30 Tour of the Facility

This event is open to SWE members and non-members. NOTE: Due to security restrictions, attendees must be US Citizens and provide a photo ID upon check-in. Please RSVP by Monday, June 4 to reserve your spot!

 

Speaker: Ucheonye J. Maple is a Sr. Systems Engineering Manager at Rockwell Collins, she held a variety of increasing responsible leadership positions with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU APL), General Dynamics and Raytheon. Her experience includes working on the manufacturing production floor, environmental testing and systems engineering. She did her undergraduate at Prairie View A&M and her Masters at Johns Hopkins University. She is the current Executive Vice President of Dallas SWE.

April Professional Development Event Recap

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On April 14, Dallas SWE hosted Nandika D’Souka to discuss “Strategies for True Inclusion: the World is in Your Workplace.” Nandika’s presentation explored the how the engineering workforce demographics of race, national origin, and cultural identity differ from the US Population at large. She explored cultural concepts proposed by Hoffstede and discussed how cultural heritage influences relationships, communications, and expectations, giving some examples from her own experience as an immigrant to the US and in her interactions with international students in academia. It was an enlightening discussion! Get Hofstede’s culture dimension model data here.

Attendees received book give-aways provided by Plaid for Women, an organization that seeks to support women by sharing their unique perspectives on topics ranging from business and motherhood, to health and inspiration. 

Dallas SWE FY18 Collegiate Scholarship Recipient

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2018 Dallas SWE Annie Colaço Scholarship Recipient – Collegiate Leaders

The Dallas Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is delighted to announce the recipient of the Annie Colaço Scholarship for local college students.

The scholarship is named in honor of Annie Colaço (1899-1991), the grandmother to SWE lifetime member Nandika D’Souza. Annie Colaço epitomized selfless service and lifelong learning, which is reflected in the SWE mission. Greeshma Nallapareddy has been selected for her personal achievements and leadership at the University of Texas Dallas. With this scholarship Dallas SWE wants to encourage collegiates to continue to provide selfless service and leadership to their SWE sections.

Dallas SWE is excited to recognize this outstanding SWE collegiate leaders and encourages each recipient to continue to be a SWE member upon graduation. The Society of Women Engineers, founded in 1950, is a not-for- profit educational and service organization. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.

There is no greater satisfaction than the feeling of success, of accomplishment, of completion, of having an impact. Dallas SWE hope that each recipient continues to look to the future, about the opportunity offered by success, and the responsibilities that success imposes. Dream! Imagine! Hope! Don’t fall short, because then you’ll never know what might have been.

 

Greeshma Nallapareddy – The University of Texas at Dallas

Greeshma just graduated from UTD this semester with a B.S. in Computer Science. She has been the President of the UTD SWE section for the last year and was previously the Vice President of Fundraising. She has been able to use her platform as a SWE member and officer to bring diverse companies to campus as well as take part in outreach events centered on young girls interested in STEM.

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