Who Are We?
About
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a not-for-profit educational and service organization. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.
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
- Demonstrate the value of diversity
Objectives
- Inform young women, their parents, counselors and the public in general of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers open to them
- Assist women engineers in readying themselves for a return to active work after temporary retirement
- Serve as a center of information on women in engineering
- Encourage women engineers to attain high levels of educational and professional achievement
Key Issues
- Leadership
- Provide opportunities for members to develop leadership
and management skills to enable them to achieve their maximum potential
and further their their ability to attain increasingly important positions
of responsibility
- Education
- Provide programs to encourage girls and women to
enter engineer and encourage members to attain high levels of achievement
in their fields.
- Visibility
- Increase visibility of SWE and its progams to
members, the technical community and the general public.
- Diversity
- Develop programs to encourage and sustain increase
participation in the fields of science and engineering reflective of
our diverse population.
- Resources
- Increase the Society's resources for the purpose
of supporting high quality programs and services to meet its goals.
SWE Lowcountry Section History
Check out the Newsletter link for anything after Jan 2010. We put everything in our newsletter now!
Jan 2010: Happy New Year!
- Lowcountry SWEsters and family walk the Cooper River Bridge.
- Mr. Ken Dilks presents "Those awful technical documents that engineers have to write".
Dec 2009: Second Annual Holiday Party. Professionals and collegiates enjoyed food and beverage at Sticky's of Mt. Pleasant.
Nov 2009: Lowcountry SWE published their first newsletter.
Oct 2009: FY10 Officer elections were held.
Sept 2009: The Citadel Collegiate Section hosted a luncheon for the professional. Welcome back to class!
Aug 2009: Nancy Birkedahl presented "Four Generations in the Work Place."
July 2009: Began our partnership with Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina for coaching and mentoring of FIRST LEGO League Robotics Teams. We also had an evening social, Happy Hour.
June 2009: SWE National Board of Directors approved Lowcountry Section Charter 6-12-09
March 2009: Guest speaker, Mr. Harley Wattrick, Director of Analysis & Testing, Force Protection Inc
February 2009: First Career Advancement Training, “10 Laws of Conversation and Effective Collaboration”
December 2008: First Annual Holiday Party
November 2008: Conducted regularly monthly meeting with first guest speaker
- Jennet Robinson Alterman, Executive Director, Center for Women, in Charleston
- We also established our first relationship with the Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina, Director, Ms. Lesley Robinson
October 2008: Participated in Susan G. Komen, Race for a Cure
September 2008: Officers worked on draft of petition to charter with National
August 2008: Officers were elected and committees were formed
June 2008: First interest meeting was conducted
