Check out this Wichita Eagle article featuring Allison Wright and her patent pending inspection device:
http://www.kansas.com/2013/05/23/2814840/spirits-shadowworks-a-technology.html
(There’s a picture with Kodi Caster in it too!)
Archive for the ‘Section News’ Category
SWE Member’s Patent Featured in the Paper
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013New Members!
Sunday, May 12th, 2013Welcome to our new members this month:
Kristen Aberle
Alexis Buzzi
Luann Delgado
Dana Henry
Jennifer Ledbetter
Debbie Scamahorn
Be sure to meet them at future meetings.
2013 Festival of Trees
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013Sadly, Goodwill has cancelled the 2013 Festival of Trees. Wichita SWE will still decorate a tree and we will give it to a local organization for their enjoyment. If you have an idea of a location for our tree to go or have a tree to donate for us to use, please send an email to wichitaswe@gmail.com and we hope to see you at our June Ornament Build Day!
Seeking items for scholarship fund raffles
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013The Society of Women Engineers Wichita Section will once again be raising money for our scholarship fund at our annual banquet by awarding baskets of prizes to lucky raffle winners. We are seeking businesses and individuals to donate goods and services for the baskets.
The scholarship is awarded to a female engineering student at Wichita State University. This year’s banquet will be held Tuesday, May 21st and donations must be received by Tuesday, May 14th.
To donate an item to our prize baskets, please send your item in along with your name and the estimated value of the item for tax purposes. We are a 501(c)(3) organization and donations are tax deductible.
Mailing address:
Society of Women Engineers
Wichita Area Section
I005 PO Box 1096
Wichita, KS 67201
Donations can also be brought to our planning meeting on May 8 at Oeno Wine Bar in Old Town from 6-7 PM.
New Members
Sunday, April 14th, 2013Welcome to our new members this month:
Ladell Papacek
Angela Forrest
Be sure to meet them at future meetings.
FY14 Slate of Officers
Sunday, April 14th, 2013The Nominating Committee has presented the following slate of officers for FY14:
President – Michelle Boehm
Vice President – Lili Solorzano
Secretary – Bonnie Johnson
Treasurer – Katie Henderson
Section Representative – Allison Wright
Alternate Section Representative – Sara Campbell
If you have any questions or are interested in one of these offices you may contact Jennifer.
Survey to help local Grad Student
Sunday, April 14th, 2013Please fill out the following survey to help a local Grad student with her research:
This survey normally takes about 10 minutes to complete and it has 19 experiential questions.
This survey is for academic research to fulfill a requirement of an Industrial Engineering master thesis with the aim to develop a “Cultivate a Community of Practice (CoP)” scale. It will help contribute to better understanding and sustainability of a knowledge transfer network as well as enhance an organization’s ability to streamline problem-solving synergy.
The Wichita Chapter of SWE meets the criteria as a well developed community of practice (CoP). A CoP is a network of motivated people (Community) bound together with a shared common interest or issue (Domain) who routinely collaborate to share expertise, to produce artifacts (Practice) and to increase know-how that aligns with a vision (Purpose).
In a CoP, learning is through social interaction and participation around subject matter experts. The theory of a CoP has been evaluated through field observation but its complex learning phenomena required conformity through quantitative measurement. The theoretical variables of a CoP such as trust, expectation, learning and etc. are not readily observable. Hence, a survey is used to extract the qualitative attributes of a CoP.
Thank you very much for your time!
“Purse-nal” Finance Meeting Summary
Saturday, April 13th, 2013The March professional development meeting on personal finance was a big success. A big thank you to Robert Morris and Chris Trumble from Morgan Stanley for their informative presentation. Cassie Schroeder was the lucky winner of the Coach purse!
WSU SWE Mentoring Program – Call for Participation!
Sunday, March 17th, 2013Wichita SWE is kicking off a mentoring program for the Wichita State section of SWE! Please respond to the following surveys to apply to be a mentor (as a professional) or mentee (as a WSU member of SWE). Wichita SWE will host a kick-off event in April, based upon responses to time availability in the survey. Questions about the program can be sent to wichitaswecounselor@gmail.com
Additional program details and expectations can be found in the linked PowerPoint presentation: WSU-SWE-MentorProgram
Call for Officer Nominations FY14
Saturday, March 16th, 2013Are you interesting in running for section office? The nominating committee is developing the slate for FY14 elections.
If you have an interest in serving as an officer or committee chair or would like to nominate someone, please contact either Jennifer Marshall, Cassie Schroeder, or Deana Fitzsimmons by Friday March 29th.
A description of all positions is at:
http://wichitaswe.org/about/officers.php
