Congratulations to Dallas SWE’s January Member of the Month, Claire Jordan!
Claire Jordan is a recent graduate of Arizona State University. She received her BSE in Mechanical Engineering in Spring 2019 and her MS in Mechanical Engineering in Spring of 2020. In September, Claire started a full time job at Texas Instruments as an Equipment Engineer, working in manufacturing. Throughout her time in college, Claire was very involved with SWE at ASU. She held officer positions as External Relations Officer, Treasurer, and Vice President. She contributed to SWE ASU’s mentorship program, conference efforts, GradSWE initiative, and Nominating Committee. She was also involved in Tau Beta Pi, Fulton Ambassadors, engineering tutoring, and engineering career mentoring. Claire loves engineering and sharing that love with others. During her graduate program, Claire spearheaded several initiatives to get graduate students more involved on campus, both in recruiting students to ASU and in professional organizations like SWE and TBP. She also got a chance to work with the professional engineering outreach team, leading multiple remote camps for K-12 students over the summer.
All of her involvement in college taught Claire the importance of networking and putting herself out there to try new things. As a result of this, Claire was awarded the IMPACT award through the Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. She received this award twice, earning the opportunity to sit on stage and be recognized during the engineering graduation ceremonies as one of 10 awardees each time. While 2020 may have looked a lot different than she had hoped, Claire keeps pushing her career forward and moved out to Dallas in September to start her first engineering job.
Claire loves her new job and is very excited to start her career at TI. She interned at TI for two summers, once in Dallas and once in Maine. There she learned how to work in a clean room, troubleshoot problems she was seeing on equipment, and design and implement solutions to solve recurring issues. These internships taught her that there was a lot more to being an engineer than just math, and she fell in love with the TI culture and with Texas.
Thanks to SWE, her internships, and the many people and organizations who supported her along the way, Claire has easily transitioned into her new role and getting involved with SWE as a professional member was a clear next step. She currently serves on the Society Bylaws Committee and the Dallas SWE Membership Committee. Thanks to her experience leading virtual summer camps, she also coordinates online logistics as part of the Design Your World Outreach Committee.
Claire is so excited to be in Dallas and can’t wait to continue her professional journey in the years to come.
“Being a good engineer is about using your engineering toolbox to solve problems of all shapes and sizes. Thanks to my involvement in SWE, I understand that often, that toolbox includes people too. I’ve met so many amazing people and had so many wonderful mentors along the way, and I cannot thank them enough. Thanks to my amazing support network, I have been able to start a career, even in a year when everything seemed bleak”
Claire Jordan
