The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is a nonprofit educational and service organization that empowers women to succeed and advance in the field of engineering and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions as engineers and leaders. The objectives for the Society were adopted when the society was founded in 1950 and are still applicable today:
Inform young women, their parents, counselors, and the general public, of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and the opportunities open to them.
Assist women in readying themselves for a return to active work after temporary retirement.
Serve as a center of information on women in engineering.
Encourage women engineers to attain high levels of education and professional achievement.
SWE Boston News
Sold Out: Robotics Course
Feb08
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Boston Professional Section is excited to offer a Robotics Course featuring Scribbler:
A new 8 week Robotics Course is being offered by SWE Boston for girls in grades 6 thru 8. The course will focus on programming basic behaviors using a programming language called Python. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language that is quickly taking the lead as one of the most popular programming languages in the world. The students will learn to use Python to program a scribbler robot to do basic behaviors - like draw a triangle and solve a maze.
Click here for more details about this course.
This event is SOLD OUT. Please email swebos@sweboston.org to be added to the waiting list.
Upcoming Event: Social Networking Event - Eritrean/Ethiopian Brunch
Feb11
SWE Boston's international brunch series continues this February! This month features authentic Eritrean/Ethiopian cuisine at Asmara Restuarant in Cambridge. Following Ethiopian tradition, we will be eating with our fingers!
Ethiopian cuisine is known for its injera bread, a large sourdough flat bread that is torn into pieces and used to pick up bites of vegetable and meat dishes. These dishes are often spicy and usually in the form of wat (or wot), a thick stew. If you have not tried Ethiopian cuisine before, please join us to experience something very different and satisfying with Ethiopia's flavorful food and colorful culture.
This casual networking brunch is limited to 20 due to space limitations at the restaurant, so please RSVP early. There is no registration fee to attend; it is a pay for your own meal event. Please RSVP by Thursday at noon so that we can make table reservations. Hope to see you there!
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2012 Time: 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Location: Asmara Restaurant
739 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139 RSVP by: Thursday, February 9, 2012
To register for this event:
If you have questions, please contact Yun Cheng at yuncheng89@gmail.com. Check the SWE Boston Facebook page for upcoming information about ride shares. Parking is recommended at Green Street Parking Garage at a rate of $1.50/hr: http://tinyurl.com/7leg9y8. Metered street parking is also available, or else take the red line T to Central Square stop.
Upcoming Event: February Professional Development Meeting
Feb16
The Top Ten Financial Challenges Facing Women Today
Join us for an informative presentation about the top financial challenges facing women today, ranging from family to career and life changes. Everyone will learn something here! We are pleased to welcome SWE-Boston member Lisa Svensson, CFA from Merrill Lynch, who brings a unique perspective to this topic with her background in engineering and a largely technical client base. This event is graciously being hosted by EMC's Women's Leadership Forum (WLF).
The book tells the true story of Phillippe Petit's high-wire walk between the twin towers (at a height of 1,368 ft) of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, on August 7th, 1974. While some may consider the actual act of walking across the high-wire to be the extraordinary part of this story, engineers may be astonished at the amount of planning and ingenuity that were required to pull off this "artistic crime of the century". Petit spent six years planning it, during which he learned everything he could about the buildings and even created a scale model of the towers. The design had to account for such problems as the swaying of the towers because of wind and how to rig the 450 pound steel cable across the 200 foot gap between the towers.
In celebration of Phillippe Petit, the book club meeting will also include an optional French wine tasting. Come join us and toast to this amazing engineering feat!
Date: Sunday, February 26, 2012
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Member Home in Billerica (Location & directions will be sent to registrants prior to the event.)
Upcoming Event: Engineering Fun Day with Big for a Day
Mar11
SWE Boston is sponsoring a day of engineering fun for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Big For a Day program. Volunteers are needed to help Little Sisters from the Boston-Cambridge area and their Big Sisters learn what engineering is all about through hands-on activities.
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m. - noon Location: Microsoft NERD Center
1 Memorial Drive #1
Cambridge, MA 02142 Directions:http://tinyurl.com/yjav6e5
Funding for this event generously provided by the ExxonMobil Foundation
Upcoming Events: Professional Development Meetings
Save the date for the upcoming Professional Development meetings:
Wednesday, March 21st
Cambridge, Ma
Sponsor: Google
Thursday, April 12th
Wilmington, Ma
Sponsor: Texton
Joint Meeting with AiChE
Past Event: Celebrate Women in STEM
Dec11
Catherine "Cady" Coleman is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and MIT, a chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a current NASA astronaut, who just got back from a 6 month stint on the International Space Station. On December 11th, she graciously spent a Sunday afternoon with students and parents sharing her inspirational story and answering all sorts of entertaining and interesting questions. Thank you, Dr. Coleman!
Region F News
Region F Conference
Mar03 04
Registration is open! The conference is coming up on March 3 at MIT and registration is now open. Please visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?binid=1&bevaID=224871 to register or visit the Region Conference website at http://swe.mit.edu/regionfconference/ for more information on the sessions and tours that will be presented. Even if you are not able to attend the conference, please join us for dinner at the MIT Museum which includes networking, a cash bar and seated dinner. And continue a great SWEekend by volunteering at a Girl Scout outreach event on Sunday morning. Early bird registration ends February 10.
National News
SWE National Conference - WE11
Oct13 14 15
"Raise the heights of innovation with more than 5,000 women engineers and technologists at the WE11 Conference, October 13-15 in Chicago."
The ladies of the Boston section and Tufts section meet for breakfast on Friday morning of the conference:
Pictured:
Back row (from left) : Rachel Lind (Tufts ES '12), Ashley Martin (Tufts CE '13), Denise Nguyen (Tufts EE '13), Nicole Levasseur (Tufts EE '12), Denise Griffin (Boston), Phyllis Doig (Boston), Sarah Chmielewski (Boston)
Front row: Rebecca Olsen (Tufts ChemE '12), Brianna Cilley (Tufts ENVE '12), Misaki Nozawa (Tufts BME '13), Emily Anderson (Tufts ENVE '12), Sadaf Qazi (Boston), Euridice Oware (Boston), Jorun Jones (Sarah's Chmielewski's Mother)
This was an amazing event! Check out more pictures on Facebook
SWE National Conference - WE12
Nov08 09 10
It's never too early to start planning for next year's National Conference in Houston, Texas, November 8th thru 10th!
SWE Boston's international brunch series continues this February! This month features authentic Eritrean/Ethiopian cuisine at Asmara Restuarant in Cambridge. Following Ethiopian tradition, we will be eating with our fingers!
SWE Boston is sponsoring a day of engineering fun for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Big For a Day program. Volunteers are needed to help Little Sisters from the Boston-Cambridge area and their Big Sisters learn what engineering is all about through hands-on activities.
Pictured:
Back row (from left) : Rachel Lind (Tufts ES '12), Ashley Martin (Tufts CE '13), Denise Nguyen (Tufts EE '13), Nicole Levasseur (Tufts EE '12), Denise Griffin (Boston), Phyllis Doig (Boston), Sarah Chmielewski (Boston)
Front row: Rebecca Olsen (Tufts ChemE '12), Brianna Cilley (Tufts ENVE '12), Misaki Nozawa (Tufts BME '13), Emily Anderson (Tufts ENVE '12), Sadaf Qazi (Boston), Euridice Oware (Boston), Jorun Jones (Sarah's Chmielewski's Mother)
Updated: January 21, 2012
