Message from SWE-D President Stacy Lueneburg

Hello SWE Members!
 
Hope you are having a wonderful summer.  If you are looking for a SWE event to participate in this summer please check out the information below for Motor City Maker Faire!  
 
Book Club: There will also still be our monthly Book club meetings in Royal Oak (next meeting July 21st)!  Check out the blog for more information:  http://swedetroit.blogspot.com/  
 
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If you are interested in holding a position with SWE-Detroit for FY14 we still have a few position left to fill:
* PD Monthly Event Planning Chair
* Professional Development Conference Co-Chair
* Girl's Engineering Exploration Co-Chair
* Electronics Communications Chair
Please contact Stacy Lueneburg @ sthayer.swe@gmail.com if you are interested.

Volunteers Needed - Motor City Maker Faire SWE-D Booth

Event: Motor City Maker Faire SWE-D Booth

Dates: July 27-28, 2013

Times: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Location: The Henry Ford, 20900 Oakwood Blvd, Dearborn, MI 48124-4088

Parking: Free

Point of contact: Ashley Prescott swemakerfaire@gmail.com

Other info:

http://www.makerfairedetroit.com/

http://www.thehenryford.org/makerfaire/

The Motor City Maker Faire is an annual DIY tech and crafting festival at the Henry Ford, now in its fourth year.  The exhibits range from goofy to useful: from a life-size game of Mousetrap, to do-it-yourself 3D prototyping - but either way there's a lot of science and engineering in evidence, and a great opportunity for SWE outreach.  Last year's SWE booth was a great success with lots of interest from kids, parents, and teachers.  Everyone had a great time making slime!  We're looking for volunteers to help again this year in the following areas:

Event Day Booth Volunteers: We are currently seeking volunteers to stay with the booth, explain and run science activities, and talk to kids (and their parents and teachers) about engineering. We will again be running a scavenger hunt through the Henry Ford, and offering a reprise of last year's popular slime-making activity.  We're also partnering with the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), who will have an adjacent booth.  Volunteers who work a three-hour shift will receive a wristband for free one-day admission to the Faire.  To sign up, send (1) your name, (2) your cell phone number, and (3) your available times to swemakerfaire@gmail.com.  Based on the response, we will work to coordinate the volunteer schedule so that we get good coverage of the booth during the busiest times.

Booth Co-Coordinator: If you're willing to spend a full day helping out at the Faire, we could use a volunteer co-coordinator to help distribute wristbands and make sure that volunteers find our booth and receive orientation.  If you're interested in getting more involved with the Maker Faire in future years, this is your gig!  This could be either Saturday or Sunday.

Programming Volunteers: Got ideas? Interested in developing exhibits and activities for Maker Faire?  Based on last year's interest, we are working on some materials especially for parents and teachers this year, and it'd be great to get a group of interested people together during the year to brainstorm how we can make SWE's presence bigger and better in 2014.

Finally, if you're an electronics or mechanical hobbyist, and you have something you've made that you'd like to show off under SWE's banner, please contact me!

Contact Ashley Prescott at swemakerfaire@gmail.com and let her know how you'd like to get involved!

HBR - New Research Shows Success Doesn't Make Women Less Likable

This article attempts to debunk the myth that as women move up in management, they are less likeable.

Event Reporting - COMPES Professional Development Conference

The Coalition of Minority Professional Engineering Societies (COMPES) held a professional development conference hosted by Nissan Technical Center on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The theme of the conference was “Thriving on Diversity”.

Keynote speaker, Carla Bailo, Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Nissan Americas, provided a warm welcome and set the stage for an open and enriched day of learning. Many participants wanted to know her secret of obtaining success as a married female engineer with four children.

Carla states that she expects a lot from her staff as well as her family and believes in the work ethic.  Carla provided this advice: “Always challenge the normal way of doing things to open up the door, and debate leads to the best decisions."  She encourages her team to talk and feels that diversity can bring about the best ideas because engineering is about creativity.

Nissan utilizes the strength of the global company in a localized way, using technology to the vantage point of having departments spread globally, which gives them presence and better success in the market. Nissan’s Research and Development has resided in Southeast Michigan for more than 20 years in their Farmington Hills location and is the headquarters for the Americas.

The benefits of the COMPES Professional Development Conference are a networking opportunity with an audience of 200 professionals representing various companies and industries, attending breakout sessions on technical and professional development topics, and accessing resources to aid in career planning and development with Kelly Services. The breakout sessions were well-developed and afforded the opportunity of participants to gain insight into maintaining technical strength, soft skill development, and understanding challenges of diversity in the workplace. Initial feedback from the conference attendees was that it was very well organized, highly professional, and very informative/helpful.

The Motivational Speaker, Glenn Carver, Author, Speaker, Ambassador of Attitude, Heat Ventures, LLC touched on the ways in which professionals can thrive in diversity. The Capstone Speaker, Greg Daniels, Senior Vice President Retired, U.S. Manufacturing Nissan North America, recapped the overall theme of the conference and provided participants with words of encouragement.

COMPES PDC includes: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and Society of Women Engineers (SWE). COMPES would like to thank their entire volunteer planning team including chairs: Sena Hermiz, Co-Lead COMPES for SWE, Diana Ortega, Co- Lead COMPES for SHPE, Felicia Ford, Co-Lead COMPES for NSBE, as well as these advisors: Jessica Mattis, Vice President of Professional Development for Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Dr. Alan Cooper.  We would like to thank the corporate sponsors: Platinum—Nissan and Yazaki North and Central America; Gold—Valeo and Chrysler; Silver--Consumers Energy, FANUC Robotics; Bronze--Denso International America, Mahle, General Motors; In-Kind Sponsors Kelly Services and ALC Hosted Telecommunications.  The internal Nissan planning team was of great support and contribution to the success of the event, and media sponsor GreeningDetroit contributed to this write-up.

Opportunities to get involve with COMPES abound. You can check out the upcoming events for the three organizations on the right-hand side of this blog.

    

Business Insider - Google HR Boss Explains Why GPA and Most Interviews Are Useless

This article provides a a fascinating perspective about the effectiveness of the traditional hiring process.

Upcoming Event - Networking Lunch

Event: Networking Lunch 
Date: June 21, 2013
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Bravo Restaurant, 18900 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, MI 48126
Parking: Parking lot
Cost: Everyone pays for themselves
Point of contact: Lisa Perazza Lmperazza@yahoo.com

Other info:
http://www.bravoitalian.com/index.html

Please RSVP by June 20.

Enjoy socializing with fellow SWE members. All are welcome, and feel free to bring friends!

SWE-D Member Frenae Smith awarded ESD Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year

Please pass on your congratulations to SWE-D member Frenae Smith.  

http://ww2.esd.org/EVENTS/2013/2013-06-27-AnnualDinner.htm

Her bio is below:

Frenae Smith is a graduate of Wayne State University and has a BS in Chemical Engineering and Material Science and an MS in Chemical Engineering and Project Management.  She is employed at DTE Energy in Detroit, MI, where she is a subject matter expert in Fuels Quality and a Principle Supervisor in Codes and Standards.  In August of 2009, she led her Laboratory in becoming the first energy lab in the United States to receive The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) ISO 17025.

Frenae's success can be attributed to her involvement in the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) as a pre-college student in the 1990's.

She served a two-year term as the NSBE Detroit Alumni Extension Chair and Regional Chair.  Today, Frenae functions as the Alumni Advisor for Wayne State's NSBE Chapter.  In ESD, Frenae is a past Affiliate Council Secretary, a member of the Young Engineers' Council, a Future City Judge, and recently a table captain for the ESD Annual Fundraising Breakfast.  She also belongs to other organizations such as the American Gas Association, Midwest Energy Association, SWE-Detroit, DTE Energy's Emerging Leaders Network and the Women's Leadership Forum.  She helps mentor and foster the growth of young Girl Scouts in southeastern Michigan, acting as a motivational speaker and helping with science badging.  Frenae is active with the United Way and Junior Achievement Job Shadowing Program, where she coordinates approx. 75 teenagers a year at an on-site career day at DTE Energy.  She was recently awarded the Southeastern Michigan Quiet Hero Award at the 15th Annual Ford Freedom Awards on May 10 for her continued work with encouraging underrepresented minorities to pursue STEM education.

Her future plans include earning her Professional Engineering license and a doctoral degree from Wayne State in the Global Executive Track Program in Industrial Engineering.  

Frenae believes that God has given her a life that is a working model in progress.  She strives to live by the words of Malcolm X: "Education is your passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."

$400 Needed in < 2 Weeks to Meet 2013 Goal for SWE-D Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship Project

Status: Need $400 out of $2500 goal for Fiscal Year 2013  

Still need: $9,053 to meet final program goal of $25,000 for endowed scholarship.

With approximately 2 weeks to go for FY13, we need support to meet our third year’s goal. If you know any of the past SWE Detroit Presidents, please help us communicate to them. We have found that they, like many of you, are super busy and can miss the posts and emails. So if you see them at work or outside, please tell them what you have read on the blog.

To donate online: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=234155 and enter Past President Scholarship in the designation box.

To donate via check: mail the check to Society of Women Engineers – Detroit, PO Box 2978, Southfield, MI 48037

Thank you Past Presidents, Members, and friends of SWE Detroit who have donated so far (updated as of 3/24/13):

Diamond

Laurie Ramsay

Sapphire Level

Sarah Kirkish

Jessica Mattis

Jennifer Morikawa

Lisa Purvis

Brooke Voto

Emerald Level

Janice T. Ford

Judy Jbara

Cindy Hodges

Marie (Demos) Kardasis

Cathi Kohn

Irene Sharpe

Quartz Level

Anna Bradford

Jennifer (Darnell) Briggs

Andy Chen (In Honor of Jennifer Morikawa)

Diana Cernis

Alison Holmes

Silvia Karlsson

Lydia Lazurenko

Stacy (Thayer) Lueneburg

Tina Lonski (In Honor of Jennifer Darnell)

Kristin Ramey

Dawn Tilbury

T. Rowe Price (Company Match in honor of Janice Ford)

Birgit Sorgenfrei

Special thanks to the following for pledging to contribute for each year of the program:

Silvia Karlsson

Catherine Kohn

Jennifer Morikawa

Laurie Ramsay

Irene Sharpe

“Missing” Past Presidents:

Years of Service	Name
1952 – 1954	M. Ann Lawrence
1954 – 1956	Elise H. McGough (Passed Away 2005)
1956 – 1957	Geneva Van Horn
1958 - 1960, 1961 - 1962, 1964 - 1965	Marjorie Easterbrook
1962 – 1964	Mary G. Sohler
1965 - 1968, 1976 - 1977, 1977 - 1978	Ann O. Fletcher (Passed Away 2010)
1968 - 1969, 1969 – 1970	Stella Berbynuk (Passed Away 1997)
1970 - 1971, 1971 – 1972	Helma Fuhrmann
1972 – 1973	Eva Michalski Quinn
1973 – 1974	Beverly Bush
1974 - 1976	Janet Hall