Drexeluniversity Society ofwomenengineers summer 2015 edition Letter from the president Hello SWE members and supporters! Thank you for a great summer term, full of fun and well-attended summer term events! While other universities were on break, we were hard at work at Drexel, studying for our classes or working at our co-op jobs. Over the summer, like university students, Drexel SWE remains an active organization. We like to take advantage of the nice summer weather with fun activities such as kickball socials and intramural beach volley- ball. In order to keep better track of members, we instituted new membership guidelines at the university level, in addition to national member- ship through the society of women engineers (drexelswe.com/membership). These Drexel guidelines allow members to demonstrate their involvement by being recognized on the active members list, which will be posted on our web- site. Often, friends and employers ask myself or other officers if we know students with SWE listed on their resume. The active member list will allow us to answer that question accurately and support our active members. To learn more about active membership, attend one of our general body meetings hosted each term or stop by during our office hours on Friday from 12:45 to 1:45pm. Connect with uS! 1 Inside this issue... Letter from the President Senior Send Off Networking Wellness Professional Development Outreach Miscellaneous: EvoHax Sponsors & Executive Board 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 Look out for our next newsletter ! Drexel Society of Women Engineers [email protected]@drexelswe drexelswe
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Drexeluniversity Societyofwomenengineers
summer 2015 edition
Letter from the presidentHello SWE members and supporters!Thank you for a great summer term, full of fun and well-attended summer term events! While other universities were on break, we were hard at work at Drexel, studying for our classes or working at our co-op jobs. Over the summer, like university students, Drexel SWE remains an active organization. We like to take advantage of the nice summer weather with fun activities such as kickball socials and intramural beach volley-ball. In order to keep better track of members, we instituted new membership guidelines at the university level, in addition to national member-ship through the society of women engineers (drexelswe.com/membership). These Drexel guidelines allow members to demonstrate their involvement by being recognized on the active members list, which will be posted on our web-site. Often, friends and employers ask myself or other officers if we know students with SWE
listed on their resume. The active member list will allow us to answer that question accurately and support our active members. To learn more about active membership, attend one of our general body meetings hosted each term or stop by during our office hours on Friday from 12:45 to 1:45pm.
Connect with uS!
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Inside this issue...Letter from the President Senior Send OffNetworkingWellnessProfessional DevelopmentOutreachMiscellaneous: EvoHaxSponsors & Executive Board
Membership really made an impact this term by holding organized and successful monthly Gen-eral Body Meetings. Here we all munched on pizza (vegan pizza too!) and at the last meeting, officers provided other snacks like chips, hummus, vegetables, and sweets! Next term we have more funding for GBMs, so we’ll have an even greater bounty to offer each month. At the GBMs, we caught up on events, reminded mem-bers of events to come, but most importantly, we held activities that got all members interact-ing and bonding. One activity had to do with testing each group's accumulated knowledge of SWE, engineering, songs, and women in histo-ry. Others were about inspirations and the things we have in common. We are all passion-ate, capable, and determined engineers in train-ing, but there is so much more to all of us that we can appreciate in one another, and possibly even connect with.
Membership also teamed up with wellness to host the first Kickball & Ice cream Social. This was a great event that allowed many members to get to know each other and just play! We played a couple fun rounds of kickball then munched at the ice cream bar full of toppings, different flavors, and even fruit bars. We had a great active member turn out for summer term and are looking forward to even more food, fun, and friends at the events for fall term!
This summer term the Networking Committee has been planning and preparing the Freshman and Alumni Mentorship Programs set to begin in Fall 2015. The Freshman Mentorship Pro-gram started in the Fall 2013 in order to pro-vide female freshman engineers with an upper-classman Drexel student to guide them through their first year of the fast-paced and hard-core curriculum of the Drexel engineering majors. This summer we had two mentor training sessions in which we led interesting discussions on the importance of a committed and inspira-tional mentor.
This year we have twenty-three knowledgable and excited mentors to guide our incoming freshman. In addition, we will begin construct-ing an Alumni tab on the Drexel SWE website with information on our distinguished alumni. The purpose of this program is to provide Drexel SWE members with the opportunity to connect with alumni who have excelled in their careers in industry, research, and academia.
For more information on how to join either of these programs, please contact the Networking Committee at [email protected].
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kickball & ice cream social
Winners of the GBM activity
Kickball & Ice Cream Social attendeed
Networking
Professional development catered to co-op interview season with Students in SWE Dis-cussing Co-op (SSweDC), a round table discus-sion. Our turnout represented students from freshman to senior across all engineering disci-plines. The women enjoyed snacks and each other’s company as stories of co-op and inter-view experiences. Topics including challenging interview questions, things to consider with accepting job offers, and successes/struggles in the workplace. It was the ultimate opportunity for co-op newcomers to pick the brains of veter-ans, and for all to learn about the amazing proj-ects their colleagues have contributed to. Later, we transitioned our focus to improving our online presence with a LinkedIn workshop hosted by Andrea Rincon and Kaitlin Lumpkin in SCDC, to discuss the B-side opportunities and tools of LinkedIn. Topics included appro-priate techniques for connecting with acquain-tances, utilizing search functions to find school alumni, finding groups to join, contributing to those groups’ discussions to propel your own career development, and searching for job opportunities from available postings. After the presentation, they offered an informal Q&A session and an opportunity to take professional headshots for their profiles, of which many took advantage.
The wellness committee partnered up with the membership committee to put together a fun and tasty bonding event. It was the Kickball & Ice cream Social! SWE members joined in for a few friendly games of kickball on Buckley Field while taking breaks to make and enjoy an ice cream sundae. We even had frozen fruit bars for those who wanted a healthier option. We look forward to doing a social like this every term. We started a new type of event involving volun-teering and mental wellness called Fridays with Furry Friends. We took the subway to a dog shelter in Northern Liberties, Saved Me, that is in need of as much help as they can get. SWE
members walked and played with all different types of dogs at the shelter. Going on walks with the dogs and spending time with them helped SWE members forget about school for a little and have some mental relaxation. While SWe members were benefiting, so was the dog shel-ter!
Wellness also had an intramural volleyball team during summer term in the co-ed league which included male and female SWE members/sup-porters! We had a fun time on the beach volley-ball courts and we even won our first playoff game.
The most exciting wellness event was definitely the FinalSWEek Massage event. Three massage therapists came and gave free massages to SWE members right before the start of finals week. We had high attendance and great feedback from everyone about the massages so we plan on doing them every finals week!3
professional development:
wellnessdog shelter visit
Visiting the dog shelter
finalsweek massages
The outreach committee hosted an outdoor social for incoming freshmen engineers in the Drexel Summer Delta program on Sunday, August 9.
These freshmen from diverse backgrounds were able to relax and talk with upperclassmen about academics and life at Drexel.
Volunteers from SWE, along with mechanical engineers from ASME and electrical engineers from IEEE, were on hand to help. At Buckley Green, we provided hoagies and other goodies for dinner plus lots of activity supplies like a giant Jenga set, volleyballs, and cornhole to keep everyone entertained. In addition, the freshmen and the volunteers participated in a classic potato sack race. ASME also brought their mini golf hole, which many enjoyed throughout the early evening. Both the fresh-men and volunteers had fun at the beginning of another busy week.
During the summer quarter, Drexel SWE officers organized a fun camping retreat to Rickett’s Glenn, which is about three hours away from center city Philadelphia. The retreat was a 3 day outing where officers got to know each other better and unwind from exams, assignments, or the stress of co-op life. S’mores and a barbeque were enjoyed along with a warming campfire. The officers also got a nice muscle burn after hiking around the beautiful 8 mile long trails with gorgeous waterfall sights! The offiers set two tents in which they slept, instead of using the lodges.
It was a very fun weekend, and one that all officers agreed to have again in the future, possibly at another location.
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FinalSWEek Massages
Outreach
Summer Diversity BBQ
miscellaneousofficer retreat to rickett’s glenn
Retreat Selfie!
A Special Thank you to all of our sponsors!Drexel University Society of Women Engineers would like to thank the following
organziations for their support over the last academic term!
Your contributions help us inspire women in engineering!
