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Dallas SWE Scholarships – Apply Now / Volunteer to Review Applications

by Dallas SWE on in Announcements

Dallas SWE offers scholarships to graduating high school seniors and collegiate SWE leaders. Award amounts range from $250-$1000.

Qualified applicants for high school scholarships must attend a Dallas area / Region 10 school and plan to major in engineering. Applications for high school scholarships are due April 15.

Qualified applicants for the Annie Colaço collegiate SWE leader scholarships must be SWE members in good standing and attend a Dallas / Fort Worth college or university. Applications for collegiate scholarships are due April 30.  For more information and to apply, visit our Dallas SWE scholarship website: http://www.dallaswe.org/scholarships/

Please share this information with the young ladies in your life! We also need volunteers to review the increasing number of applications we receive each year. We have a great rubric set up and the entire evaluation process will only require a few hours out of your busy schedule over the 2-3 week evaluation period in late April. Please email Scholarship Committee Chair Lynn Mortensen if you are interested in helping us reward local students for their accomplishments! This is a great way to give back to SWE and pay it forward for the next generation of women engineers.

Member of the Month: Molly Sing

by Dallas SWE on in Membership Appreciation

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.

Molly Sing is a microelectromechanical system characterization engineer at Texas Instruments. She has her MS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and her BS in Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is currently working on her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the nonlinear control of microsystems at University of Texas at Dallas. Two tenets have served Molly well in her career, asking why until there is a physically relevant phenomena, and fostering communication between disciplines and roles. So far she has worked on silicon nanowires, phase change switches, aluminum nitride filters, MEMS variable capacitors, and MEMS spacial light modulators, in academia, national laboratories, and in industry.

Molly joined SWE in 2010 during graduate school at Purdue. She served as graduate student coordinator, running a program to connect undergraduates with graduate student mentors. She joined the Dallas professional section in 2015 and in this year participates on our Programs Committee where she has helped plan two of our monthly professional development meetings. She has also participated on several panels including the one on Industry Perspectives on Diversity in STEM at our recent College to Career Leadership Workshop. We love her enthusiasm for sharing her story with others! Outside of SWE she has volunteered for High Tech High Heels, UTD’s Young Women Investigators in Science and Engineering, and serves as the Dallas Alumni coordinator for Rose-Hulman.

“What I love about SWE is that we are stronger because we are together, we are stronger because we are different, and we are stronger because we can be honest with each other. What attracted me to SWE was a commitment to helping each other. Sometimes you need help, sometimes you can help others and SWE accommodates both.”

February Social Brunch – Coal Vines

by Dallas SWE on in Membership Appreciation

To celebrate Engineer’s Week in February we’ll host a social brunch at Coal Vines Prestonwood. We’ll network and socialize over some great food!

When: Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 11:00 am

Where: Coal Vines Prestonwood
5407 Belt Line Rd, Dallas, TX 75254

Cost: Registration is free, food and drinks are available for purchase by individuals.
Check out their brunch menu here.

Please RSVP by Noon Friday, February 24th so we can make an accurate head count!
Eventbrite - Dallas SWE February Social Brunch

Event Recap – DISD STEM EXPO

by Dallas SWE on in Outreach


On Saturday, February 4th Dallas SWE was a part of the Dallas ISD STEM EXPO, held at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center.  The STEM EXPO was an all-day event that focused on STEM-related careers and coursework.  K-12 DISD students and family members engaged in hands-on and interactive sessions that were provided by local colleges and universities, museums, engineering organizations, and STEM-focused organizations. The Dallas ISD STEM EXPO also included the district’s STEM competitions, showcases, and exhibits from students within Dallas ISD.  Dallas SWE had a booth to assist the students and parents in “building a circuit” and gave out information on Dallas SWE, SWENext and Design Your World. Check out highlight videos from the event here.

Thanks to the volunteers Kim Concillado, Stephen Scheramic, Rebecca Byford, Latischa Hanson and Samica Norman for their help at the event.

Event Recap: Collegiate to Career Leadership Workshop

by Dallas SWE on in Collegiate, Special Events
A partial group photo at the end of the day: lots of smiles!

The first College to Career Leadership Workshop hosted by SWE Dallas, NSBE DFW, and SHPE DFW was a great success! On Saturday, January 28, collegiates and professionals met at the lovely Meadows Conference Center in Dallas to network and get prepared for entering or re-entering the workforce.

Attendees had their choice of attending one of three sessions each hour, with a pizza lunch sponsored by State Farm and Texas Instruments. Two hours of resume review and interview training were held, as well as sessions with guest speakers including:

  • Alicia Morgan on Leading With Your Strengths and Values
  • Brianne Martin on Personal Branding
  • Lynn Mortensen on Changing Career Tracks from Technical to Managerial
  • Norman Tidmore on Dressing for Success
  • A panel talk on Industry Perspectives on Diversity in STEM Careers with Molly Sing and Zaineb Ahmad from SWE, Aniekan Inoyo and Dejanae White from NSBE, and Jacob Acosta from SHPE
Panel: Industry Perspectives on Diversity in STEM Careers

Feedback survey responses were overwhelmingly positive, especially from our collegiate attendees who really enjoyed meeting professionals and getting some perspectives on strategies for securing their first job, lessons learned from early career challenges, and potential career paths to consider. They also gave us some great ideas for future session topics.

Special thanks to our sponsors and, our event planning team, and our day-of volunteers who provided their expertise and mentoring to our local collegiate and professional attendees! Working together for our common goal of inspiring and equipping engineers to be successful in their careers has fostered some great multicultural partnerships. We look forward to future events of this kind!

DISD STEM EXPO – Feb 4

by Dallas SWE on in Outreach

Dallas SWE will be at the Dallas ISD STEM Expo this Saturday at Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center from 9am-3pm. Come out and visit us at our activity table and see all the other exciting exhibitors showcasing STEM careers and educational resources.

Thank you to our dedicated volunteers who will be representing Dallas SWE! We can’t do these activities without you.

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