Get Involved!

SWE-Boston is entirely run by members like yourself who help us plan programs, reach out to the community, and perform the general administrative duties that keep SWE-Boston in business. Volunteering in SWE-Boston is a great way to build professional skills: team leadership, meeting planning, presentation and facilitation, and negotiating are just some areas you can gain expertise. Several of the positions give a great deal of visibility and networking opportunities. There are jobs ranging from a few hours one time to an ongoing commitment. Many of the positions do not involve attending any meetings and can be done on your own time. And besides just helping out SWE, volunteering is a great way to meet other SWE members and to have a lot of fun! Contact the names given below for more information on any of these volunteer opportunities.

Additionally, if you have ideas about new projects that SWE could start or an area you'd like to help out with that isn't listed here, please contact us at swebos@sweboston.org

Professional Development Committee
Career Guidance Committee
Membership Committee
SWE Collegiate Counselors
Open Positions

Our Our Professional Development programs include notable speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and joint events with other engineering societies. Your involvement in the committee will help you to develop leadership skills and gain visibility within SWE, your company, and the community. You can participate in the following ways:

1. Be a speaker coordinator for one of our monthly meetings

2. Suggest a speaker who might be a good fit to address SWE Boston

3. Be a location coordinator for a meeting by making arrangements for the meal and meeting location

4. Be an overall coordinator and create the meeting notice as well as oversee the speaker & location coordinator's tasks

5. Work with your employer to host or sponsor a meeting

6. Help at the registration table at a meeting

There are positions ranging from a few hours one time to 2-4 hours per month; the Professional Development Committee would love your help! For more information, contact Lori Amara.

The K-12 Outreach Committee coordinates programs concerning career guidance that inform women, their families, guidance counselors, and the public in general, of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and the opportunities open to them. Current programs include Mentoring, Girl Scout Badge Workshops, School Outreach, Speakers Bureau, Informational Interviewing, Job Shadow, Merit Certificates, Scholarships, and Science Fair Judging. You can help out on this committee by helping to plan an outreach event, mentoring students via email, participating in job shadow or informational interviewing, speaking to students about engineering, mailing letters to guidance counselors, judging a science fair, and in countless other ways. For more information, contact K-12 Outreach VP Bryn Dews.

Every Student Section must have a SWE Counselor. The Counselor acts as a source of information about SWE and its goals, as a liaison between industry and the Student Section, and as a role model and source of moral support. Counselor responsibilities include reviewing the Section’s annual and financial reports, attending Student Section meetings from time to time, and being on call to answer questions as they arise. The time commitment for this job depends on the Student Section, but it is not more than a few hours per month. If you are interested, please send a message to webmaster@sweboston.org.

Sections without a counselor: Umass Dartmouth

If you are interested in volunteering or if you would like to get involved in your own way (create your own), please send a message to swebos@sweboston.org.

Awards
Chair duties include disseminating information on the national SWE awards to the SWE-Boston membership and encouraging participation in this recognition program.

Corporate Relations
Initial point of contact for business and industry for SWE Boston.

Fundraising
Chair duties include interacting with corporate sponsors to raise funds for Career Guidance and Professional Development activities.

SWE Boutique Coordinator
The SWE Boutique Coordinator coordinates SWE-Boston's fundraising efforts, which include fundraising with area corporations, selling SWE logo items, and planning fundraising events.

Girl Scout Badge Workshops
Chair duties include working with one of the local girl scout councils to plan a workshop for Girl Scouts to earn a Science related badge. The chair also recruits workshop chairs and event volunteers.

Membership
The membership committee is in charge of recruiting and welcoming new members, handling membership administration, and meeting the many needs of our members. Some of the activities they sponsor include membership drives, welcome activities for new members, charity and community service events, and social events (hikes, wine tastings, golf outings). The membership committee is also in charge of the email list, mailing list, and web site.

Regional Networking Events
The Regional Networking Events coordinator focuses on organizing collective gatherings situated at the varying regions within the Boston area and those that focus on topics that help SWE members draw from the experiences of other members.

Tellers
Two tellers who are not on the ballot are appointed by the EC to assist with counting the ballots in the yearly election.