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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Our sister SWE section at Southern Methodist University has hosted She Networks, She Wins for more than ten years and we are pleased to be a continuing partner in their success! This is SMU SWE’s biggest event with alumni, students and corporate sponsors getting together to network for the night. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served and parking is available in Binkley parking garage for $1/hour. Dress is business casual.
When: Tuesday, February 21, 2016, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Where: SMU, Lyle School of Engineering, 3145 Dyer St, Dallas Tx, 75225
Caruth Hall (4th Floor, Palmer Conference Center)
Campus Map
Cost: Free!
On Tuesday, January 17th, Texas Instruments hosted over 60 guests to dinner, presentations, and a tour at their headquarters in Dallas for the Dallas SWE January Professional Development Event. This was a great chance for employees from the TI Women’s Initiative Network and members of Dallas SWE to meet with one another.
The presentations began with an overview of TI, its diversity networks, products, and locations around the world from Fran Dillard, Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Next, Dallas SWE Secretary and TI employee Amber Scheurer introduced the guest speaker, Jeff Morroni. He is currently the Worldwide Director of Power Management R&D for Kilby Labs, the Texas Instruments corporate R&D group. Jeff explained some of the biggest trends in power management and how his organization is working to find solutions for the tough challenges that lie ahead. He did a great job of making the topic relatable and understandable to TI employees and Dallas SWE members alike.
Following Jeff’s presentation, Analog Staffing Manager Randy Wheeler spoke to the audience about careers at TI. Dallas SWE President Shelley Stracener gave an overview of local opportunities for professional development, community outreach, and award recognition through SWE. She also highlighted the success of this year’s SWE Achievement Award Winner, Stephanie Watts Butler, Ph.D., P.E., a Technology Innovation Architect at Texas Instruments. You can read more about her inspiring keynote speech at the WE16 Award Banquet in October in the most recent issue of SWE Magazine!
The presentations ended with an overview of the Innovation Center from Amber, and a self-guided tour of the 9 kiosks. Dallas SWE would also like to thank the additional members of the TI event planning team that helped make the event such a success: Kathy Glover, Rebecca Marshall, & Osman Khan.
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.
This January, we feature Terriekka Cardenas as our Member of the Month! Terriekka holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa and AAS in Computer-Aided Drafting and Design from Mountain View College. She is a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Yellow Belt. Because of her enjoyment in seeing inanimate objects come together to make something useful, she worked as an engineer in the manufacturing industry for over 13 years in varied capacities and department leadership roles. This included such companies as Valspar, Momentive Specialty Chemicals, PepsiCo, and Ecolab. In order to gain more flexibility and availability for her family, Terriekka recently dove head first into entrepreneurship and started her own consulting firm, Perceptive Engineering. The firm is a provider of consultancy services across design, new product development, process monitoring and other technical and project management business needs. Outreach and serving the community are very important to her. With her belief that no one should be denied exposure to STEM careers, she created the organization Full STEAM Ahead. She and other STEM professionals collaborate to facilitate workshops and classes surrounding various disciplines ad skills in a fun and engaging atmosphere. Students are shown how STEM is infused in their everyday lives. The primary focus is to target demographics of youth whom are grossly under exposed to the subject matter.
In 2008, Terriekka became the first African American woman to be employed as the Site Engineer in the US plant operations for the then Hexion Specialty Chemicals. She actively serves as the President of the Board of Directors for SimiDigi, Inc., a creator of simulated digital interactive workforce training . Additionally, she is the STEM Program Coordinator for Destiny World Children’s Ministry. She has also been a mentor for students participating in the Future City Competition, where her 2016 team received special awards in two categories.
“I have learned over the years that it is imperative to develop a solid network of support as a minority in the STEM workforce. Involvement in SWE on the collegiate level provided that for me. It was sort of a sisterhood, the one place where you weren’t the only girl. As a professional, being apart of Dallas SWE has shown me the importance of advocacy for young women and the impact of being present for them. I have derived so much personal and professional fulfillment serving as a part of the outreach committee for the chapter as it strives continually to remain an active pillar of the community. This organization personifies my belief wholeheartedly that once armed with knowledge, one can have a solid impact on the world around them and make effective changes right where they are, regardless of their age, gender, and socioeconomic background.”
On Saturday, January 7th, Dallas SWE hosted the first Social brunch of 2017 to ring in the new year with members and their friends! Twenty-five people attended the brunch at Henry’s Majestic in Uptown, filling up their heated patio, where they gave us a warm welcome and a special menu. Afterwards, several members and friends headed over to the Angelika Film Center in Dallas to watch Hidden Figures, a film about the incredible women computers at NASA who never got the recognition they deserved for their roles during the Space Race. Dallas SWE members were also invited to a pre-screening at the Angelika in November and we filled 40 spots during that event! Keep a lookout for more Dallas SWE member appreciation activities in the coming months.
The next Social Brunch is tentatively scheduled for Engineering week on Saturday, February 25!
When:
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Where:
Texas Instruments South Campus
8505 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75243
