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SWE Member Benefits
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- Building Skills in Your Career
- SWE offers opportunities to plan meetings and career
guidance events. If you present a paper at the National Conference or volunteer through section activities, you will gain visibility for yourself and your company. Being active in a
professional organization can show your manager
that you have the initiative to take on more responsibility.
- Experience of Other Members
- Meeting women
from other companies and even reading about the careers
of successful members in the SWE Magazine can provide
you with role-models. Within our section, you can
receive advice and even first-hand testimony on
issues like getting promoted, sexual harassment, etc.
- Networking
- SWE offers many opportunities
for gaining contacts at large and small companies.
When you consider all the mergers, spin-offs, and
divestitures that have occurred in the past few years,
a network is a necessity.
- Effect on Your Career
- SWE can have a positive effect on your career especially when you need to make a career change. Besides our local section, there are nationwide resources to help your
job search. Send in your information to the SWE resume
database, or use the job-hunting service from the web
page. The annual Career Fair, held at the National
Conference, is another great place to find a job.
- Fun
- Every month it’s fun to get together with SWE friends. While some meetings are technical, SWE also coordinates events simply for socializing.
- Community
- The SWE Lowcountry section
plans activities throughout the year that benefit the
community.
- Information
- You can add to your business
knowledge with topics like "Technical Presentations" and "Dress for Success"
- Time For Yourself
- Don't you deserve a night
out every once in a while? At our meetings, you can
converse with a peer group that is hard to find at
work or in the neighborhood. Spend less time worrying about annual dues and become a Lifetime member with a one-time fee of $2,000. Annual dues are then waived for the rest of your life.
- Support
- As women engineers we can feel
isolated in the workplace. SWE gives you feeling
of belonging, with members to reassure you that
you can survive the sports and car talk.
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When you join SWE as a member of the national organization,
you are automatically a member of a section. The section to which
you are assigned is dependent upon your home address. SWE membership
is open to all women and men engineering students, engineers
in all disciplines, and non-engineers with equivalent
engineering experience.
Here is a sampling of the SWE membership fees. For more information about the membership grades, please check out the
National SWE Membership web page.
- New Professional membership dues are $120 which includes the SWE magazine. Each year after that is $100.
- Student Upgrade dues (graduated within past 12 mos.) are $20
- Student Upgrade dues (graduated within past 24 mos.) are $50
- Retired/Unemployed dues are $50
- Lifetime membership dues are $2000
- Reduced dues are available for members who submit membership application after January 1 and before June 30th of the fiscal year
The fiscal year of SWE is from July 1 through June 30.
