Calendar
Upcoming Events
April 26, 2008 - Discover Engineering Program on Maryland Day During this event, Maryland High School students participate in an Annual Saturday Program consisting of speakers and lab experiments to explore and learn about the different engineering disciplines. We really need volunteers so please block off your calendars from 8am-1pm and email Ewhyms@umd.edu to help out!
Past Events This Semester- Thanks to all who participated!
February 16th, 2008 (Satuday): WIE Dream Conference! Nearly 400 students will be coming to UMD for several workshops, forums, demonstrations, and discussions that will introduce them to the wonderful world of engineering! This year, SWE has the opportunity to host 2 panels for students and parents, and is currently looking for interested members to come and help out. The student panel will be held from 10:15am-12:00pm, and the parent panel from 1:30-3:00pm. If you are interested in volunteering for either event, or wish to help out at the Information Fair held at 12:30-2:00pm, please e-mail Fran Lee at franlee@umd.edu with your contact info. Volunteers will be provided with lunch and SWE stars will be awarded, so come out and help if you can!
February 20, 2008 (Wednesday)- 5:30pm: E-Week W.L. Gore Presentation! W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. is an engineering company that sells innovative products into a variety of industries from aerospace to medical devices to chemical processing. To learn more about the industries Gore serves visit www.gore.com. Associates from this company are coming to give a presentation looking at communication broken into three aspects: verbal, non verbal, and tone. We will explore the impact of communication on those we work with and discuss how raising awareness can heighten our ability to communicate more effectively.
February 29th, 2008 (Friday &
Leap Year day!) - 7 Hour day trip The proposed agenda for
this trip from WL Gore & Associates is below: 1) Travel from UMD campus to WL Gore & Associates - 1.5 hours
2) We'll take you to one of our conference rooms, introduce
ourselves to all of the students, and give a brief overview of the daily
agenda - 0.5 hours
3) Capability Center Tour - We'll over some history of our
company, give you an overview of all the materials we make, and show you
all of our products - 1.5 hours
4) Lunch - 1 hour
5) Travel to one of our manufacturing facilities for our Fabrics
Division - We'll give you a tour of the plant where you'll see some of
our processing equipment, labs where we test our materials (including
our famous "Rain Room"), and while you're walking through the facility
you can get an idea of the "office environment" at that facility. - 1.5
hours
6) Travel back to College Park - 1.5 hours
Please email Rachel Emmel (remmel@umd.edu) by February 10th if you are interested in going on this trip!
March 7-9, 2008:
SWE Regional Conference
Interested in
learning more about SWE at the national level? Want to have the
opportunity to come and meet other members from around our region? Then
come and join your SWE officers in Richmond, Virginia for the 2008 SWE
Regional Conference! Presently, we are looking for interested members to
come and join us on this three day event, where we will have the
opportunity to attend workshops, panels, and career fairs, while
interacting with other national members. If interested, please e-mail
Chapter President Rachel Emmel at
remmel@umd.edu
by midnight on Thursday, February 7th for priority consideration. Please
note that interested participants must be national members in order to
attend, and able to leave UMD by 12pm on March 7th. Please visit
http://www.swe-richmond.org/page2.html
for more information!
March 13th, 2008 - 6-8pm: Corporate Networking Mixer Sponsored by BAE Systems
Bring your resumes! BAE is searching for students interested in co-ops, internships, and full time positions. Dinner will be provided and dress is business casual. Event held in the Jeong Kim Engineering building!
March 25, 2008 - 5:30pm: UMD Women's Basketball Game! SWE will provide dinner in the lounge and then we will head over to Comcast to cheer on the Lady Terps together!!
April 2rd, 2008 - 6:00pm: Registration Discussions & Dinner in SWE Lounge
We will be having dinner and discussing courses for registration. We usually break everyone up into majors so younger members can ask juniors and seniors for advice on which classes to take and which teachers they would recommend. Also, a demo on how to use Venus and OurUMD will be presented! We strongly recommend that freshman and sophomores attend! POTBELLY SANDWICHES and COOKIES will be served.
April 16, 2008 - 5:00pm: Northrop Grumman and a Sweet End to the Semester! Northrop Grumman will be giving a presentation on how to best transition from school into the work environment (full time, internships, and co-ops will all be discussed!) Come to this meeting to learn how to make a great impression at your summer internship or full time job! Of course, dinner will be provided. We will also have officer elections, a special dessert, and a goodbye ceremony for our senior officers. Come to bid them farewell and to welcome your newly elected officers for the 2008-2009 school year!
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