The beginning of the year typically starts with goal setting, career planning and feedback. Providing feedback can bring on a multitude of thoughts and feelings, join Dallas SWE virtually on Wednesday, February 23rd at 7:30 PM as we discuss how to give and receive feedback in the workplace! We will watch a short TedTalk by LeeAnn Renninger, PhD on how to give great feedback, followed by a time of discussion and networking.
The Dallas SWE book club will be meeting virtually to discuss the current book selection, “The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness” by Ichiro Kishimi. Please RSVP to the link below if you would like to join! Also, if you have not been added to the Dallas SWE Book Club slack channel, please email Rana at rana.m.karimi@gmail.com.
We need YOUR HELP at the next Design Your World STEM Conference for Girls! Please help us as we bring back our award-winning program, Design Your World!
This event will be held in collaboration with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, at the STEM Center of Excellence on Saturday, March 19th.
Volunteers are needed to prepare for the conference and for specific activities on the day of the event. Please sign up to volunteer here!
You may sign up for multiple roles, as long as the job duties and times do not overlap.
WE Local is back for 2022! WE Local conferences are organized by SWE to bring together participants in all stages of their collegiate and professional journey. The conferences create space for engineers, technologists, and partners to connect through professional development sessions, inspirational speakers, networking opportunities, and more. There are 3 domestic conferences and 2 international ones schedule between February and May. Please see here for more details.
WE Local registration and housing for Albuquerque are now open! Early bird registration for the conference is just $175. You can register here. The conference will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton. The program is still being finalized but promises to be a great lineup of speakers and topics.
If you plan to attend any WE Local and would like help connecting with other Dallas SWE members also attending, please email dallas.swe@gmail.com.
The Future City Competition – sponsored by DiscoverE (National Engineers Week) – inspires young students about engineering by challenging them to solve the real-world problems associated with building a livable city of the future. Through a series of fun, hands-on applications, student teams will apply the principles of every branch of engineering to address their future cities’ issues. This year’s theme is “Waste-Free Future.” More than 50 schools are working hard on their city concepts and their solutions for eliminating waste and pollution from future cities. You can get more information and to sign up to volunteer here.
Congratulations to Ashton McCary, Dallas SWE’s December 2021 Member of the Month!
Ashton is a native to Dallas graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas with a BS degree in Chemistry. She worked at Raytheon Technologies for nine years as a materials process engineer and a failure analysis chemist. Her responsibilities included performing root cause investigations of material and chemical related product failures.
While at Raytheon, Ashton also served on the Raytheon Women’s Network leadership team starting in 2018. In these roles, she worked on a team with several amazing ladies to promote women in STEM by putting on lunch & learns, networking events, and organizing volunteer work for young girls interested in STEM. This is when Ashton first became introduced to the Society of Women Engineers. Raytheon collaborated with the Society of Women Engineers by providing volunteers for Design Your World which she attended.
Ashton recently left Raytheon in order to explore a career change to patent law. It is also around this time Ashton officially joined the Society of Women Engineers. She is currently engaged with the outreach committee to plan a collaborative event with The Girl Scouts for this year’s Design Your World.
Ashton quotes, “I am impressed by the encouragement, positivity, knowledge and passion among the members of Dallas SWE and feel honored to be a member! The Dallas SWE president heard my desire to pursue patent law and immediately connected me with another woman in the field. The VP of Outreach takes every opportunity she can to encourage and recognize other members. The members of Dallas SWE are consistently warm and welcoming!”
