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1 st General Meeting Presenting:

1 st General Meeting Presenting:. Overview. Officers Ice Breaker What is SWE? How to Join SWE News UH News Schlumberger. Officer Team 2014-2015. Career Fair Chair: Rachel Gamblin Career Fair Assistants: Debjani Chakravarty , Sterling Sammons

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  1. 1st General Meeting Presenting:

  2. Overview • Officers • Ice Breaker • What is SWE? • How to Join • SWE News • UH News • Schlumberger

  3. Officer Team 2014-2015 • Career Fair Chair: Rachel Gamblin • Career Fair Assistants: DebjaniChakravarty, Sterling Sammons • Co-Events Coordinators: Jasmine James, LyanaSalehuddin • Social Chair: Mah-ruck Muhammad • Outreach Chair: MondanaMerrikh • Graduate Community Chair: Jennifer Bradt • Graduate Community Assistant: BionkaEdmundson • President: Analicia Caylor • VP Internal: KyndallSemones • VP External: Hy Lai • Treasurer: Andrea Milam • Secretary: AdaezeChukwu • Membership Chair: Sylvia Palos • Financial Chair: Ali Siddique • Historian: ChinazaChukwu • Webmaster: Shehnil  Ali

  4. Ice Breaker

  5. What is SWE? • Mission: Stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity.

  6. Activities

  7. How to Join www.swe.org • Become a National Member: No Chapter Dues! • You have 3 Options:1. Collegiate - Do this if you have 2 year or less left in college ($20 per year)2. Joint - Do this if you plan to join AISES, NSBE, SHPE3. Collegiate to Career - Do this if you have 2 or more years left in college. It gives you automatic professional membership for a year ($50 one time fee during college)

  8. How to Join • Like our Facebook page: “UH Society of Women Engineers” https://www.facebook.com/UHSWE • Join our SWE-UH listserve • Go to: sweuh.wordpress.com • Click on GET INVOLVED • Click on JOIN OUR LISTSERV • Type the email you want to add • Click on Join SWE

  9. Become a member for FREE! Participate in the Schlumberger essay contest! 1. Sign up for SWE Membership-swe.org 2. Submit Schlumberger Essay 3. Submit confirmation email from contest to swe.uh.edu@gmail.com with your name and SWE membership number. Use S2S as subject, EX: Ali Siddique_S2S • GO TO: http://www.stilettostosteeltoes.com/ • Rewards: •  Reimbursed $20 SWE Membership fee 2014 • 5 points for doing the essay

  10. SWE Points! • 1 point per meeting • 1 point if you wear a shirt to the meeting • 4 points per volunteer event • 2 points per social or workshop attended • 1 point per committee meeting attended

  11. SWE T-shirt Design Contest • Design the next SWE shirt! • Must be unique design • Winner will receive: • Previous T-shirts-2 years • Green Collar SWE Polo • 2 of the new shirts! • Deadline is: 9/15/14!!! • Submit entries to: swe.uh.edu@gmail.com

  12. Resume Day & Info Sessions • Who • Halliburton, BP, Marathon Petroleum, OneSubsea, BASF, Enterprise • What • Resume Critiquefollowedby breakout info sessions • When • Tuesday, September 9th • Where • Resume Critique-Pit 4pm-7pm • Why • Prep for Career Fair! Gain insight, pointers and networking! Get valuable one on one time with company reps before Career fair! • Dress • Casual pants and SWE, NSBE, SHPE or UH shirt • Bring • 2 copies of resume!!! • RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-CKxOUzpAYj0j0AI_IdrbWo14GYcHCvIrcoFkA8LqlY/viewform

  13. Career Fair Kick-Off! • When •  Tuesday, Sept 16th. • Where • Engineering Pit • When • 6pm-8pm • Networking, Fashion Show 16

  14. GRADUATE STUDENTS this is forALLof you • What: SWEGrad Inaugural Mixer • When: Friday, September 26 from 4-6pm • Location: Pit, Engineering Building 1 • Bring Posters for display! • Food provided! • Company Reps Present: • DOW • ExxonMobile Chemical Company • GE (oil & Gas) • And MANY more!!! Contact:Swe.uh.graduate@gmail.com

  15. Pumpkin Painting Social! • Who: SWE • When: October 6th from 11am-1 pm • Where: W205 • Come out to paint a Halloween Pumpkin with some October themed snacks! • Interested? Fill out this poll: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YX4kZvprwADxenCmjeub1yk7evtC3fG0a0RrRRmwDCs/viewform

  16. SWE National Conference 2014 Los Angeles, CA October 23 - October 25

  17. Basics… • Where? • Los Angeles Convention Center • When? • Thursday, October 23 – Saturday, October 25 • Leave Houston Thursday @ 7:35 p.m. • Leave LA Saturday @ 5:35 p.m. • Why? • Speakers, workshops, career fair, networking, professional development, company events, LA, free stuff • What? • SWE covers flights, hotel, registration, airport & conference shuttles, breakfasts & group dinner

  18. Who can go? • About 10 spots available • Participant selection is based on the following: • Be a paid member of SWE • Your previous SWE participation (ranked by points earned last year) • Expected graduation date • Answers to the survey • Want to go? • Fill out the survey by midnight Thursday, Sept 4th! • **If selected, you must complete agreement and safety deposit by 5p.m. on Saturday, Sept 6th or your spot will go to the next person** • Participants are expected to attend a National Conference Meeting the week of October 13th, exact time and date are TBA

  19. Engineering Day • Outreach for middle school girls • Friday, November 7th, 9am – 1pm • Various engineering experiments and activities • Need current SWE members to take the online “Maximizing the Message Training” for SWE POINTS • http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/agilentkits • Choose ELECTRONIC MATCHING GAME, SOLAR ENERGY, AIRPLANES, or CATAPULT • If you would like to volunteer contact: mondanamerrikh@yahoo.com

  20. Launch into Engineering • Outreach for high school students • Our biggest outreach in the year! • Date is TBA (January) • Students will rotate in hands-on workshops • Workshops cover different engineering disciplines • Aiming for 150-200 students • Guest Speaker from Baker Hughes

  21. Launch into Engineering • Be a LEADER as part of the Committee: • Committee positions: • Volunteer Coordinator (1) • School Representative Coordinator (2) • Logistics Coordinator (1) • Activities Coordinator (1) • Email: mondanamerrikh@yahoo.com

  22. Habitat for Humanity • Who • Habitat for Humanity • When •  Wednesday September 10 from 6-7 PM  • Where • Agnes Arnold Hall Room 104 • Facebook: “Habitat for Humanity at UH”

  23. 2ND General Meeting • 2ND General Meeting • When: Ocotber 1th at 7 pm. • Location: TBD

  24. 3RD General Meeting • 3RD General Meeting • When: Ocotber 1th at 7 pm. • Location: TBD

  25. Welcome!

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