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January Member of the Month: Sree Kanuri

Congrats to Sree Kanuri, Dallas SWE’s January Member of the Month!

Sree Kanuri has more than 10+ years of experience in product development with a focus in developing smart automation solutions that enable the customers with increased uptime and productivity. Throughout her career, she has worked on solving a variety of problems by combining her experience and education in Technology, Manufacturing and Business. Sree currently manages the “PC as a service” portfolio at Dell Technologies and played a key role in launching the Apex Managed Device Service offer that provides small & medium business customers with a turnkey subscription to PC life cycle management and IT operations. She is passionate about developing and launching zero-to-one products. She has worked on about nine different new product launches so far. “I love going from nothing to something and seeing it take off,” she says.

Prior to this, Sree Kanuri worked at Overhead Door where she enabled the company to enter a $300M market segment by leading the design and development of a full line of Smart Automatic Access Systems from concept ideation to mass production. These products provide real time intelligence, remote connectivity and preventive/predictive maintenance thereby enabling the customers with improved productivity and longevity in the cold storage, manufacturing & warehousing industries. Her technical expertise enabled her to achieve 3 patents in the field of smart materials and manufacturing. Her work is presented at International Trade Shows (NADA and IDA) and International Symposiums (SAMPE). For her exemplary leadership, Sree is recognized as the high potential leader of the company. Sree holds an MBA from University of Texas at Austin and a master’s in mechanical engineering from Florida State University.

Sree Kanuri was invited as a judge to many national and international business awards including Stevie, Globee and International Business Excellence Awards. Sree is very passionate about customer success and always strives to bring the right solution to the market. Her clients really like her enthusiasm to build innovative solutions and rely heavily on her technical and management expertise for their business needs. Sree is an active volunteer of Society for women engineers and Women in Product. She mentored several young engineers as a part of Society of Women Engineers and Dell intern programs. She served as the judge for SWE scholarship and emerging leader awards committee. She served as the chair of Product management club and American Society for Mechanical Engineers during her graduate and undergraduate years. Sree lives in Dallas, TX with her husband and her 5 year old son.

SWE Awards Nomination Applications are open!

The annual SWE Award Program is now open and accepting nominations! SWE strives to advance and honor the contributions of women at all stages of their careers, as well as recognize the successes of SWE members, individuals, allies, and employers who enhance the engineering profession through contributions to industry, education, and the community.

Each year, Dallas SWE supports recognizing our talented members in these prestigious awards. If you’d like to nominate yourself, please respond to this email so that Dallas SWE may support you in the nomination process. The SWE Awards Program offers 33 different awards. Check out the packet for detailed requirements and instructions: https://swe.org/awards/swe-awards-program/

The nomination deadline for the SWE Awards Program is March 1, 11:59 p.m. CT. Awards will be presented at the WE24 Annual Conference Oct. 24-26.

SWE’s 2024 Congressional Outreach Days

Want to go to Washington, D.C., to advocate for women in engineering and technology on behalf of SWE HQ? Save March 20-21 on your calendars and join fellow SWE members from across the United States in our nation’s capital to advocate for persistence of women and those underrepresented in STEM. Learn more about SWE’s public policy efforts and stay tuned for more details: https://swe.org/public-policy/

Volunteer at Spring Design Your World!

Is your New Years Resolution to volunteer more in the community? Are you passionate about STEM Outreach? Do you have ideas for fun STEM activities for 6th – 10th grade students?

Join Dallas SWE and The Vickery Meadow Youth Development Foundation for our Spring Design Your World Outreach Event on March 2nd from 9am – 3pm! Volunteer to guide students as they explore STEM through hands-on activities and learn about college preparation. All volunteers must be 18 or older. Volunteer Sign-Up is at the link below and will close on February 5th.

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Attend a WE Local Conference in 2024 with Dallas SWE!

Registration is open for the WE Local conferences for 2024! WE Local conferences take place around the world and are organized by SWE to bring together participants in all stages of their collegiate and professional journey. The conferences create space for engineers and partners to connect through professional development sessions, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, and more. Below are the conference locations in North America for 2024.

1) Las Vegas, NV, U.S.: February 23-24, 2024

2) Baltimore, MD, U.S.: March 1-2, 2024

3) Wichita, KS, U.S.: March 15-16, 2024

Learn more here!

Fill out our survey here to let us know if you plan on attending.

Dallas SWE is proud to have a few speakers lined up for Vegas and Wichita!

February Outreach: Coppell SWE Panel

Join Dallas SWE and Coppell High School SWE for our February Outreach Event on Saturday, February 3rd from 10-11:30am! Share your engineering journey with high school students as a panelist! Coppell will moderate the panel and starter questions/panel format will be provided to you ahead of time. If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up before January 20th. All engineering disciplines are welcome, but they are particularly interested in aerospace, chemical, electrical, computer, and biomedical engineering. Additional details will be communicated closer to the event date.

The event will take place at Coppell High School: 185 W Parkway Blvd, Coppell, TX 75019. Panelists should plan to arrive by 9:45am.

Volunteer sign-ups close on January 24th and selected panelists will be notified on Jan 25th.

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