Yankee Steam Up
Saturday, October 1st
New England Steam & Wireless Museum
1300 Frenchtown Road, East Greenwich, RI
Come see New England’s largest steam-up boiler, antique steam engines and boilers, and take a tour of the wireless museum. The Steam-Up only happens once a year! So come on down and enjoy the steam and compressed-air full-scale models in action! Sue Anderson plans on attending… if you would like to meet up with other SWE people, please email her . For more information, check out their website.
SWE National Conference
October 13-15th 2011
McCormick Place – Chicago, IL
Raise the heights of innovation with more than 5,000 women engineers and technologists at the WE11 Conference, October 13-15 in Chicago. Whether you are an experienced professional or a collegian looking to start your career, you can:
- Participate in valuable professional development sessions
- Network with other engineering professionals and students
- Find your dream job at the Career Fair, featuring more than 200 companies, government agencies and universities
- Experience Chicago through numerous technical and sight-seeing tours
- Enjoy exciting plenaries, keynote speakers and awards banquets, including Celebrate SWE!
- Relax in the Lava Lounge, where you can read inspiring stories of SWE women and share your own
Learn about the benefits of attending as a professional and as a collegian.
Executive Council Meeting #3
Thursday, October 20th at 6:30 PM
Attend Audio-Conference via SKYPE
Your Home or Remote Location
Topics on the agenda include a recap of October’s Annual Conference and planning for November Badge Workshops. Contact Beth Lavoie by 19 October if you if you want to SKYPE and to let her know you are connecting into the meeting. The meeting starts at 6:30 PM, try to log in by 6:20 PM so we can start on time. If you don’t have access to SKYPE, but you still want to participate… contact Beth… and we can arrange you to join the meeting with someone close by!
URI SWE Collegiate Banquet
Monday, October 24th at 5:00 PM
URI University Club
The URI Collegiate Section is excited to invite all interested NESS Members to a banquet on October 24th. The section officers will give presentations about this year’s plans, and exciting guest speakers are currently being scheduled.
All NESS Professional members are invited to this dinner. Click on invitation shown here to see details. RSVP by October 18th to rhodyswe@gmail.com.
SWE Junior Girl Scout Badge Workshop
Saturday, November 5th 1:00 to 4:00
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Discover the world of engineering! Earn your Society of Women Engineers patch in this hands-on workshop led by members of SWE-NESS and Cadets from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Do you see engineering in your future? Come find out! Badge is included in registration fee. SWE-NESS can use your help to run these stations and inspire a young girl in the math and science field. Please contact Kimberly McLean by 29 October if you are interested in helping at the workshop.
Fee: $5.00 girls $2.00 adults
Executive Council Meeting #4
Thursday, November 17th at 6:30 PM
Attend Audio-Conference via SKYPE
Your Home or Remote Location
Topics on the agenda are currently under consideration. Contact Beth Lavoie by 16 November if you if you want to SKYPE and to let her know you are connecting into the meeting. Meeting starts at 6:30 PM, try to log in by 6:20 PM so we can start on time. If you don’t have access to SKYPE, but you still want to participate… contact Beth… and we can arrange you to join the meeting with someone close by!
Engineering Your Tomorrow SWE Badge Workshop
Saturday, November 19th at 9:00 AM
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Professionals are asked to help the URI Collegiate Section students in running the hands-on activity stations for these fun Junior Girl Scout badge workshops. The Society of Women Engineers badge is a GS Council’s Own badge with lots of engineering activities! Stations include Mechanical Engineering: rolling toys, Electrical Engineering: flashlight circuit, Civil Engineering: newspaper towers, Materials Engineering: egg bungee design, Mechanical Engineering: simple machines. Please contact Sue Anderson by 6 November if you are interested in helping at the URI workshop and the station where you would like to help.
We’ve heard from URI-SWE Advisor that the descendent of Elsie Eaves, who is donating his great-aunt’s work desk to URI SWE, will be at the October 24th dinner event. Elsie Eaves graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from University of Colorado in 1920 and was the first female member of ASCE and an early member of SWE.
URI-SWE is hoping that this FREE dinner event (funded by generous sponsors)will be a great opportunity for professionals and collegiates to mingle and enjoy dinner together.