News & Events

Save the Date for Fall DYW!

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Save the Date for our annual Design Your World!
Dallas SWE is pleased to announce that our next Design Your World STEM Conference will be held  Saturday, November 10th at SMU! Details on activities, volunteers, registration, partner organizations, and sponsors will be announced in the coming weeks as we plan for another exciting day of learning and fun!
Please sign up for DYW email updates or follow our Facebook or Twitter accounts to get the latest information on our events. We’ll be posting more details and a call for volunteers in the coming weeks!
Sponsor Information:

If you or your employer would like to donate to this event, sponsor an activity, or contribute materials or giveaways, please visit the DYW Sponsor page. Thanks for helping make Design Your World an award-winning outreach event for girls and adults alike! Please review the sponsorship letter and form and follow the instructions.

SWE Brunch Social – October 20th

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Can’t make it to Minneapolis for WE18? Brunch with your fellow Dallas SWEsters instead!

Join us on Saturday, October 20th at Whiskey Cake in Plano. Come out for a delicious brunch, great social time, and as always, excellent networking as we dive into the fall.

September Professional Development Event Recap

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On Wednesday, September 12th, we had a great turnout at Coffee House Cafe in North Dallas for our viewing of the SWE Advance Learning Webinar Hot Trends in Networking. The evening kicked off with a chance to practice networking with a quick introduction game that had everyone up out of their seat and making connections! When the game wrapped up, the webinar was presented as everyone ate their delicious dinner. Since great information was given throughout the webinar, it was occasionally paused, so attendees could practice the presented skills. Once completed, the group continued with a discussion on the importance of networking and mentoring. Many women shared personal examples of how these skills impacted their careers and helped them to succeed. Be sure to join us next month, on October 11 at the Addison Olive Garden, as we learn more about Engineers Without Borders and the great work the local chapter is carrying out locally and abroad!

Come join us at our next Professional Development event. We will learn more about Engineers Without Borders from the Dallas Chapter President, Julie Jones.

Date: Thursday October 11, 2018

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Olive Garden, 4240 Belt Line Rd, Addison, TX 75001

Dallas SWE FY19 Bylaws Vote

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Your voice matters! Please cast your vote below for our updated Dallas SWE Bylaws, now approved by the SWE Bylaws Committee. You must be a voting member of the Dallas SWE Professional Section and in good standing with the Society to vote: our Executive Council will verify each voter’s member status.

Voting starts September 11th and closes on October 11th.

Section Bylaws Amendments

The below updates are in response to a new professional section bylaws template published by SWE to implement Governance changes approved by the SWE Senate at WE17. The proposed Dallas SWE bylaws were approved by the SWE Bylaws Committee with a few updates from last spring’s version and are presented now to our section members for review. These amendments are considered approved after approval of 2/3 of the ballots received by the published deadline. Please send any questions to dallas.swe@gmail.com.

You can view our current bylaws here.

You can find the proposed bylaws amendments here.

Changes in the proposed bylaws are tracked from the Society’s Modifiable Bylaws Template, not our previous bylaws version, per the Bylaws Committee instructions. Changes are as follows:
  1. Removal of the Section Representative officer position and references to Region Council meetings per the SWE Senate approved Governance restructuring plan.
  2. Change of verbiage around voting / non-voting members of the Society to reference professional / collegiate membership types due to collegiates recently being granted voting member rights. The offices of President and Exec VP must be professional members.
  3. The line in our current bylaws in the Exec VP section concerning their responsibility to plan professional development events has been removed. This is a procedural instruction that is not in SWE’s template and is determined at-will by the section’s leadership: it should not reside in our bylaws.
  4. Modifications from SWE’s template that are specific to our section: filled in section name and number where appropriate, Treasurer term is 2 years instead of 1, Investment Committee members are elected by the membership and not appointed by the Section President, renamed VP to Exec VP, added VP of Membership and VP of Outreach and their respective responsibilities as they are in our current Bylaws.

Click here to cast your vote!

Register for our October Professional Development Event

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Join Dallas SWE for our October Professional Development Speaker from Engineers Without Borders where were will learn more about their great work from the Dallas Chapter President, Julie Jones.

Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit, humanitarian engineering organization. The mission of EWB-USA is to support community-driven development programs worldwide by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects, while creating transformative experiences and responsible leaders. This presentation will cover the history, mission, and model in which Engineers Without Borders – USA approaches and implements its projects with its partner communities. This presentation will also cover potable water project of the North Texas Professional Chapter in Culli Culli Alto, Bolivia.

Julie Jones co-founded the Northwest Arkansas EWB-USA Professional Chapter and the University of Arkansas EWB-USA Student Chapter in 2005, and she is now president of the North Texas Professional Chapter.  She was the Arkansas State Representative for the South Central Region of EWB-USA from 2005-2009, Vice President from 2009-2011, President 2011-2013 and she currently serves as Texas State Representative of the region.  

Julie attended the University of Arkansas where she received her B.S. in Civil Engineering and her M.S. in Civil Engineering, both with an emphasis in Environmental Engineering.  Her thesis was on Factors Affecting the Operation and Maintenance of Biosand Filters for Rainwater Treatment in Developing Countries. This research was done for filters in Zaragoza, Colombia in Amazon region.  

She holds a Professional Engineer License in Texas, and she works at Nathan D Maier Consulting Engineers, Inc. in Dallas for the Water Resources Division.  Julie has ten years experience as a design engineer. She has worked on projects for numerous municipalities including Dallas, Garland, Richardson and Irving.  She has worked on several large thoroughfare projects as the hydrology and hydraulics design engineer. These types of projects include roadway and guideway drainage, hydrology and hydraulics studies, and FEMA studies.  Julie specializes in the field of hydrology and hydraulics, and is also a Nationally Certified Floodplain Manager.

Date: Thursday October 11, 2018

Time: 6:00-8:00 PM

Location: Olive Garden, 4240 Belt Line Rd, Addison, TX 75001

Cost: Free for SWE Members, $5 for non-members. Food available for purchase by the individual. 

This meeting is open to all, women, men, SWE members and non-members alike. Raffle prizes for some lucky winners!

 

Event Recap: FY19 Meet and Greet Bruncheon

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On Saturday, August 25, Dallas SWE had a great start to FY19 with about 20 members, non-members, and guests coming together for Brunch at Holy Grail Pub in Plano! Attendees mingled with new faces and returning friends as everyone enjoyed fantastic food and drinks. The new Dallas SWE Leadership Team welcomed in the new and exciting year ahead! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the event!

Stay tuned for future brunches and please join us for our next Professional Development event on Wednesday, September 12, where we will focus on Networking.

 

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