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FY16 Welcome and Upcoming Events

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Get ready for another great year in Dallas SWE! We have some exciting events planned for you this year: check out these upcoming opportunities to get involved. Our regular meetings will continue to be on the third Tuesday of each month with rare exceptions.

Renew Your SWE Membership!

First and foremost, if you have not renewed your SWE Membership for FY16, what are you waiting for??  Your SWE Membership gives you access to a library of free webinars, a fabulous career center, discounts on conference registration fees, and a wealth of resources, support, and affinity groups! You’ve missed the early bird discounts, but you have until SEPTEMBER 30 before you are considered a lapsed member and fall off our roster. Don’t delay, renew today! If you have questions about SWE membership, contact us at dallas.swe@gmail.com.

August Younger Members Brunch

Join our group of recent graduates, early career engineers, and young at heart for a social brunch at The Dream Cafe in Addison. Dallas has attracted a high number of young professionals in recent years and they love making new friends, so help us welcome them to the area!

When: Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 11am
Where: The Dream Cafe, ‪Village on the Parkway, 5100 Belt Line Road, Ste. 732, Dallas, TX
Cost: Registration is FREE, just order your own refreshments! Please RSVP here to let us know you’ll join us!

Membership Event at Lennox International

On August 31, Lennox International will host an event where they will encourage their employees to join SWE by sponsiring their SWE memberships! We are very excited to share with them all the benefits of a membership in the Society of Women Engineers.

September Professional Development Meeting

Mark your calendars for our September meeting with our friends at High Tech High Heels! This event is tentatively planned for our regular meeting date, September 15, so mark your calendars and stay tuned for details.

SWE Annual Conference – October 22-24 in Nashville, TN

We15Make your plans to join us in Nashville for We15, the Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference! It’s an exhilarating time of learning, networking, and celebrating the successes of the last fiscal year while looking forward at the exciting things SWE has in store for FY16. You’ll meet over 8,000 attendees, choose from hundreds of workshops and sessions including formal CEU training, visit local engineering and tourist sites, and a experience a huge career fair with over 300 companies from every industry and discipline. Registration is open so make your reservations! They are experiencing higher than expected volume of hotel reservations, so check back frequently if you can’t find any available now, or let us know if you want to share a room.

Congratulations, SWE Award Recipients!

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Three of our members were selected as Society of Women Engineers award recipients for FY15! Their awards will be presented at the We15 Conference Award Banquet in Nashville, TN in October. Please join us in congratulating them for their technical and SWE community contributions!

Shelley Stracener – Distinguished New Engineer

Nandika Anne D’Souza, P.E., Ph.D. – Distinguished Engineering Educator 

Kate Van Dellen – Distinguished New Engineer

 

 

Event Recap: Capital One Corporate Spotlight

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C1_Core_2CG_RGB 300dpiDallas SWE kicked off the beginning of our new year with the annual Capital One Corporate Spotlight event. On Tuesday, July 14, Capital One graciously hosted the members of Dallas SWE at their new Capital One Conference Center at their Plano campus and provided delicious heavy appetizers and drinks for the evening. Capital One has been a sponsor of Dallas SWE for several years, including our award winning outreach event, Design Your World.

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Dalia Soliman-Powers

The event started off with a meet and greet of Capital One employees and the members and guests of Dallas SWE. Dalia Soliman-Powers, Vice President of Technology, spoke to the 40+ attendees of her road to engineering, the twists and turns in her career path, and the positive influence she hopes to leave on her daughter and her daughter’s peers. Dalia highlighted the importance work-life balance, by taking pride in your work without losing your sense of self. She reminded all in attendance of the worth of women serving in technical roles and the skills they bring to the table. Dalia noted the importance of diversity in an organization, not only limited to gender, but also ethnicities, education, and life experience.

Following Dalia’s talk, Jennifer Phillips and Michele Rufus, from Capital One’s Diversity Recruiting, further highlighted the importance of diversity and inclusion at Capital One and any successful business, organization, and team. Purvi Patel and Tabitha Hill rounded off the night by speaking of opportunities in technology at Capital One.

IMG_2889A very special thank you to Melissa Sanderson at Capital One for organizing the event with Dallas SWE and our wonderful speakers! All opportunities at Capital One can be found at their job site:

 

 

If you’re interested in a career at Capital One, here’s how you can apply:

  1. Before the SWE event in July, search for open positions at capitalonecareers.com.
  2. Apply for available roles and sign up for job alerts.
  3. Email Capital One the job title and reference code for each job so we can keep track of your application DiversityRecruting@capitalone.com.
  4. Capital One will make efforts to have hiring managers available at the SWE Dallas event.

The next Dallas SWE Professional Development meeting will be held in September at Lockheed Martin in Grand Prairie. Meeting details to follow, so check back often.

Have you renewed your SWE membership for FY16? If not, please do so before the September 30 deadline by visiting the SWE Membership Page.

~ Zaineb Ahmad, Dallas SWE VP of Membership

Event Recap: Moon Day 2015

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On July 18, Dallas SWE partnered with Fort Worth SWE to reach out to attendees of Moon Day at the Frontiers of Flight Museum! This is a great event to celebrate the anniversary of the first Moon landing with guest speakers, scientists, and engineers from across the aerospace industry.  We showed students how to build electronic circuits with resistors, potentiometers, LEDs and buzzers. Fort Worth SWE brought their aluminum foil boat station where kids constructed a vessel from one sheet of aluminum foil, then tested it in a tub of water to see how many washer weights it could hold before sinking. Hint: surface area is an important consideration! We had a lot of fun, thanks to the Frontiers of Flight Museum for another spectacular event, and thanks to Fort Worth SWE for joining us! Check out the photos below!

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How many washers can your aluminum foil boat hold before sinking?
How many washers can your aluminum foil boat hold before sinking?
Teaching students how to make electronic circuits!
Teaching students how to make electronic circuits!

Member Survey and Call for Committee Participation

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You may have noticed that our webpage has gotten a bit of a face lift recently! The Society of Women Engineers underwent a rebranding process for FY16 so we have updated our graphics accordingly. We’re excited about the new, modern logo and for what SWE has in store for this new fiscal year!

What do you want to see from Dallas SWE this year? There are three ways you can help us make the most of our organization! Your feedback is important to us!

  • Fill out our Member Survey based on your interactions with Dallas SWE in FY15. Even if you didn’t attend any events in FY15, we want to know how we can better serve you! If you filled out a paper survey at our end of year celebration at the Coffee House in June, there’s no need to duplicate your answers on the online survey.
  • Attend our FY16 planning meeting on July 25! Please register on Eventbrite and fill out the Medhost facilities form and email to dallas.swe@gmail.com by Wednesday, July 22.
  • Become a Committee Member or Chair! We are an all-volunteer organization and need YOUR help to make Dallas SWE great! Please email us at dallas.swe@gmail.com if you’re interested in helping on any of our committees. You’ll gain leadership skills and build relationships with our great officers and volunteer networks!

Last but not least, we want to remind you that registration for the WE15 SWE Annual Conference in Nashville, TN is now OPEN! Visit the WE15 website to reserve housing, sign up to be a volunteer, or claim your spot by registering. You don’t want to miss this exhilarating conference with over 8,000 attendees and hundreds of professional development, technical, and keynote speaker sessions from every type of engineer and every type of career. Check it out!

July 25 – Officer Transition and FY16 Planning Meeting

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lightbulbandgroupInterested in contributing to the strategic planning of Dallas SWE activities for FY16? Come join the Officer Transition and FY16 Planning Session on July 25!  It’s a SWE New Year which means new connections and new opportunities for you to improve your leadership skills and give back to our community.

When: Saturday, July 25, 2015
Officers and Leadership Team Planning Session from 10am-2pm
General Member Feedback Session 2pm-3pm
Where: MEDHOST, Inc., 6100 West Plano Parkway #3100, Plano, TX 75093

Please fill out this form and send to dallas.swe@gmail.com by Wednesday, July 22.
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