Join Wichita SWE at our kickoff meeting! Come meet other members and learn about our section and what we have in store for this year. Door prize drawing for anyone that attends and a raffle to support the scholarship fund.
Invite your friends and coworkers. Download the flyer here. SWE Kick-Off FY12
This year’s General Meetings will be held the second Monday of each month to discuss our goals, plans, and direction. Formerly known as EC (executive committee) meetings, the overall intent of these meetings is to discuss broad issues of interest to the membership. Detailed planning will be left to the assigned committees, meeting leaders, or EC. Anyone is welcome to attend and provide input! Meetings will be held at Panera Bread at Central & Hillside from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. To add an item to the agenda contact Allison (wichitaswe@gmail.com)
Finals season is here again and so are our efforts to reward the Wichita State Collegiate section for another semester well done with food and giveaways. Help SWE fuel them for hours of studying and hard work at…The Annual Stop Day Pizza Party.
Two lucky graduating seniors will win an upgrade to professional membership in SWE.
Place: Old Chicago, Old Town (300 North Mead St.)
Date: May 10, 2011
Time: 5:30 pm
Cost: $10 per person for non-members and Professional Section members, WSU Collegiate Section members free, everyone buys their own drinks.
John Pilla, Heidi McNary, Chad Henneke, Ron Brown, Vicki Johnson, Dave Brant, Lea Anderson
Our January meeting was co-sponsored with the Wichita State University section. It was a panel featuring 6 Wichita company executives discussing choosing leadership paths for career growth, and expectations for collegiate new hires. Questions from the audience were moderated by our own Region I Senator, Vicki Johnson. Over 50 attendees listened to the advice offered by the executives. One theme touched on by the panelists was the importance of teamwork and working well with others. A piece of advice from the evening that applies at all levels of your career is to “declare a major” and then work on the skills you need to get to that next point in your career.
Join the Society of Women Engineers and area executives for a panel discussion about expectations for collegiate new hires and choosing the leadership path for career growth.
Panelists are
Ron Brown, President, Dudley Williams and Associates
Chad Henneke, Wichita Site Leader, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
John Pilla, Sr. Vice President/General Manager, Propulsion Segment, Spirit Aerosystems
Dave Brant, Sr. Vice President, Product Engineering, Cessna Aircraft Company
Heidi McNary, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation
Lea Anderson, E-4B Chief Engineer, The Boeing Company
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Location: Regents Room (Rm 203) in the Rhatigan Student Center at WSU
Cost: Free for collegiate members, $5 for professional members and $10 for non-members. Light snacks will be provided.
Attire: Business
RSVP to allison.terry@swe.org by January 20. A confirmation will be sent upon receipt of RSVP.
There will be time reserved for questions from the audience. If you have a question you would like to submit in advance, send it to allison.terry@swe.org.
The first meeting of the year was a wine tasting. Roger Fowler and Merle brought a selection of wines for us to sample and review. He also taught us some very interesting facts about the history of making wine. Since then I have been inspired to cook more with wine. It was a fun time to try new wines and connect with other SWE members.
What: Our friends at National Association of Women In Construction (NAWIC) invite SWE to accompany them on their tour of the new WATC National Center for Aviation Training.
2012 Society of Women Engineers Wichita Area Section I05 PO Box 1096 Wichita, KS 67201 E-mail: Wichita@swe.org
This non-profit organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
What: Wichita SWE kickoff meeting
