National Resources [HT]

You may be wondering what SWE does as a National organization? Why should you pay $20 a year to be a SWE member when you’re just involved in your section? Well, SWE has a lot of power, respect, and resources as a National Organization, more than you can imagine. Did you know SWE was founded nearly 60 years ago, in 1950? It’s a huge network of women engineers focused on making engineering a desirable career for women through outreach, awards and recognition, scholarships, training, Conferences, webinars on everything you could imagine, and an online career center.

I’m writing this post from the SWE National Conference in Baltimore. The SWE National Conference is every year around November, and more than 5000 SWE members attend. It’s amazing to see so many female engineers and have an opportunity to get to know them and their stories. There is also a huge career fair of companies who are excited to interview and hire you for summer internships or jobs after graduation. You can attend sessions on leadership, technology, and outreach, take tours of nearby companies, and attend meetings where you can learn about this amazing organization. You can also get to know your RCR’s, RCNE’s, and hear the SWE President speak. You get a much better feel for how SWE works as a national organization.

Be sure to explore SWE Communities, SWE Outreach, SWE Outreach, and our Region’s website.

Thanks, and have a great semester!
-Katie

What is SWE Communities anyways?

SWE Communities is a cross between Facebook and file-sharing, where you can go to find other SWE members that have something in common with you. This can range from being on the same national committee to sharing a love of autocross. To log on to SWE Communities, go to SWE Communities and log in with your username and password. You can share files, find out what’s going on in a committee, and, most importantly, join the Region F SWE Community to find all the documents that you’ll need, including Annual Reports, Financial Reports, and the SWE Bylaws template. To join a community, log in and then search for Region F, and join! Once you’re in a community (any community), you can adjust the notification settings, and have e-mails sent to yourself at different times depending on how important the information is to you. For example, I adjusted my notification settings so that when Sharon posts a new Document, I’ll get an e-mail within a day. You could change this to within an hour, week, month, etc., depending on when you’d like to be notified. To do this, click the “Notifications” link to the right of the title in any community.

How to Change your SWE User ID [How]

How do I change my username so it’s not a random number so that people can recognize me on SWE Communities?

1. Log onto the SWE Home Page.
2. Click “SWE Member Data Services“.
3. Under “Membership Management”, choose “Profile Update“.
4. Login with your current info.
5. Scroll down and update your User ID to something more descriptive. Also, enter your password.
6. Scroll to the bottom and click “Save and Close”- All done!