News & Events
Grapefest Social Event – Sept 15
A very fun event is coming up this weekend that you don’t want to miss! Join us for an informal SWE social event this Friday, September 15th at 7PM in Grapevine for Grapefest. General admission is $8 which can be purchased online or at the event.
https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/grapefest/
Let us know that you’re coming! Reach our VP of Membership, Amanda Posadas at (214) 458-6220 or our Membership committee chair, Shannon Cruise at (440)364-3432. We’ll be at the Wine Stomping area at Main St. and Wall St.
Additional information: if you want to go earlier than 7PM, just know that entrance before 5PM is free!
Sept 19 Professional Development Meeting – Sheri Jenkinson
Join us for our first Professional Development meeting of FY18! The topic will be:
Is Solving for Gender Diversity the Answer to a Larger Economic Challenge?
When: Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 5:30-7:30 PM
We’ll start with a half hour of networking and ordering food (available for purchase by the individual), then a few SWE announcements, and finally a presentation by our guest speaker Sheri Jenkinson! This meeting is open to all (men and women, SWE members and non-members alike), and children are also welcome (at your discretion, child care is not provided).
Where: Coffee House Cafe, 6150 Frankford Rd, Dallas, TX 75252
Speaker Profile: Sheri Jenkinson
Sheri Jenkinson is a Catalyst for Culture Change, an Activator of Big Ideas and a Champion for Equity through Technology. She is the Founder and CEO of WATT (Women Advancing Technology Together) International. Her entrepreneurial journey began with a goal of addressing engagement, resilience and interdependence challenges in corporate culture. This led her to become a coach and an organizational change management consultant. Her recent research findings around gender diversity and the gaps in workforce capacity and skill sets are now taking her down the path of organizational design, team optimization and development of sustainable cultures.
Prior to founding WATT, Sheri played key roles in developing innovative technologies, creating profitable business strategies and building key relationships with C-level partners and customers for large corporations and startups, including Verizon, VeriSign, Capgemini and River Logic. The networks and applications that she has worked with have changed our everyday lives as consumers, including digital telephony, mobile gaming & commerce, and interactive TV.
Sheri earned her ACC coaching credentials through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She is on the Board of the DFW American Marketing Association, leading the CMO Advisory Council and has a B.S. in Business Logistics from Penn State and an M.B.A. in International Marketing from the University of Dallas.
This past January, she was privileged to travel to Bangladesh to help bridge the Digital and Cultural Divide by starting a new computer lab at the local elementary school, which included internet connectivity for the entire village.
North Texas Giving Day – Sept 14
For the past several years, Dallas SWE has participated in North Texas Giving Day and raised nearly $3,000! Those donations help us fund high school senior scholarships, collegiate SWE leader scholarships, and our award-winning outreach event series, Design Your World STEM Conference for Girls, held twice a year since 2012. THANK YOU to our past donors!
Dallas SWE also holds monthly professional development events for women engineers in our area, supports multiple outreach events hosted by local museums and schools, and develops mentoring relationships with collegiates at UT Dallas, SMU, UNT, and Collin College. We’re very excited to continue these programs but we want to do more! We are an all-volunteer 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization so your donation is tax deductible.
Mark your calendars and please consider donating to Dallas SWE for North Texas Giving Day!
Thank you for your support!
Member of the Month: Tripat Baweja
With our Member of the Month program, Dallas SWE seeks to recognize some of our non-officer members whose technical contributions, leadership accomplishments, or SWE volunteer service are particularly noteworthy. If you would like to nominate a Dallas SWE member for his/her contributions, please email us.
Our August Member of the Month is Tripat Baweja! Tripat is the Discipline Lead and engineering faculty for the Electronic Technology program at Collin College. She is also the Faculty Advisor for the Collin College SWE section. Tripat started her career at Bell Northern Research as a design engineer after graduating from Arizona State University. Later, she moved into academia to foster her love for teaching and raise her family.
Tripat was one of the three people instrumental in establishing the collegiate section of SWE at Collin College, in 2013. Despite facing the challenges of a being at two-year college, she smoothed over the process of membership recruitment, student involvement, and officer transitions over last three short years and quick turnaround of students. With a very small engineering student body, Collin College SWE currently enjoys a membership of +40 paid members and over 200 participants on the college portal.
Tripat has organized various outreach programs including resume workshops, mock interviews, company tours, and company presentations for Collin students and robotics summer camps for area middle school students. She actively collaborates with Collin Robotics Club and Collin North Texas ISSA Collegiate chapter to provide wide array of experiences and industry exposure to Collin students. Under her leadership, three of the four presidents of Collin College SWE have been selected as SWE Future Leaders, providing inspiration to other members. Tripat has been awarded Engaged Faculty Award (2015-2016) and Vision Award (2016-2017) by Collin College for her engagement with the Collin students and contributions to the advancement of the engineering program.
“I’ve always been very passionate about advancing education, especially STEM education among young girls and women. SWE has opened a unique door for me to reach out to this larger group and equipped me with tools to help encourage my students to experience engineering and technology. SWE has also made a tremendous impact on my professional and personal growth. I am proud to be a Dallas SWE member!”
~Tripat Baweja
SWE Merchandise – Now Available for Online Purchase
Want a SWE polo shirt, mouse pad, or vinyl sticker but can’t make it to one of our meetings? We’re now offering online sales of our SWE branded merchandise! Proceeds help us fund professional development and outreach event costs, and your promotion of the SWE brand is a great way to start conversations about what your SWE membership means to you.
All online payments are processed via your Paypal account or debit/credit card. Please contact us at dallas.swe@gmail.com if you wish to purchase multiple items where shipping consolidation would be warranted.
