Thursday, June 22, 2017

Webinar Wednesdays at DTE Energy!

Webinar Wednesdays and DTE Energy Headquarters

We will be watching "Damaging Phrases Women Use in the Office” Webinar as a group and having a discussion about the topic.
 
Date: July 19th, 2017
Cost: Free
Location: DTE Energy HQ- 1 Energy Plaza, Detroit,Mi 48226
Parking: Free (see attached instructions)
Light dinner will be provided
Contact: Najwa Abouhassan at Najwa.Abouhassan@dteenergy.com
Please RSVP by 07/10/2017
 
6:00 pm DTE HR Welcome 
6:30 pm Webinar: "Damaging Phrases Women Use in the Office”
7:30-8:00 pm Discussion

Monday, June 19, 2017

Liberian Society of Women Engineers - Sponsors Needed

SWE at UM is planning our third annual trip to Liberia this August to host a two-week leadership camp with the Liberian Society of Women Engineers (L-SWE). This year, SWE at UM will be sending 5 Graduate students and 5 Undergraduate students to plan and run the leadership camp for over 40 Liberian women in engineering. The goals of this leadership camp are two-fold (i) to empower the Liberian and US women engineers with the skills, support, and inspiration necessary to becoming successful and well-rounded engineering professionals; and (ii) to strengthen the community of female engineers in Liberia by building cross-cultural partnerships among female engineering students and professionals resulting in a global network of women engineers. 

Our organization’s ability to continue to operate is due in large part to the generous support and donations from corporations who believe in our mission and goal to make sustainable and lasting global impact with counterparts in Liberia. At this point, we need to raise the last $15,000 by July 31st and are hoping to establish corporate sponsorship on the scale of $1,000-$5,000 to help cover the costs listed below:
·  Travel expenses for UM team 
·  Room and board for 40 Liberian participants and UM team
·  Cost of camp materials 
The following listed items are the benefits your company would receive if they sponsors the 2017 L-SWE camp:
·  Stronger relationship with organizations and the local community
·  Company representatives invited to the networking dinner in Monrovia on August 29th
·  Company advertisement
Check out these articles for more information and photos from the L-SWE SUCCESS Camp: National SWE blogEECS Department article2016 LSWE SUCCESS blog

If you have any further questions or would like to forward my contact information (Becca Cohn - cohnr@umich.edu) to your company, please feel free. 


P.S. We are always looking for professionals to participate in this camp. If you or someone at your work would like to be involved and potentially travel to Liberia for any and/or all of the duration of the camp, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

IEEE SEM Women in Engineering for an ice cream and coffee - Reminder



Since the first event went so well, we had to do a repeat!

 

Please join IEEE SEM Women in Engineering for an ice cream and coffee and an opportunity to meet other members of IEEE SEM WIE and SWE Detroit. One small scoop of ice cream or a small specialty coffee will be covered for members of either group.

 

Information is included below. Please contact Amanda Mohan (a2mohan@gmail.com) for any questions.  You can also register here to give us an idea of attendance: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/45583

 

We hope to see you there!

 

Location:

Farmhouse Coffee and Ice Cream

32644 Franklin Rd, Franklin, MI 48025


 

Date:

Sunday, June 25th, 2017

 

Time:

11:30a - 1:30p

 

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Royal Oak Book Club - June!


Event: Royal Oak Book Club
Date: Sunday, June 11 Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: Amici's Pizza, 3249 12 Mile Rd, Berkley, Michigan 48072
Cost: Year-End Event - SWE-DET pays for food
Parking: Free - located behind the restaurant
Point of contact: Irina Sullivan irina.n.sullivan@gmail.com

Other info: Discussing "A Study in Scarlet Women" by Sherry Thomas  Review of "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates Review by Irina Sullivan


I believe that mourning the outcome of the most recent presidential election, as well as, organizing and resisting a threatening political climate necessarily includes deepening our understanding of the problems before us. The issue, as I saw it on November 9th, was two-fold - I needed both, a way to articulate my despair and a thoughtful counsel on mining for energy and perseverance so that I can be of use to my community in the years ahead. And this is how I arrived at brilliant and, sadly, timeless writing of James Baldwin and his best modern literary incarnation, Ta-Nehisi Coates. Baldwin’s unwavering, steady dismantling of, what we nowadays often call, white privilege was recently brought to the top of mind by a fantastic film “I Am Not Your Negro” based on Baldwin’s work of the same name. Coates’ voice is just as steady, relentless, and unapologetic, with an additional personal gravity of writing “Between the World and Me” as a letter to his teenage son. In one of the most memorable passages Coates describes an encounter with a white woman, who pushed his, then 5-year-old, son out of the way in her rush to get off an escalator. Reading this, I gasped in horror and despair, because when you feel powerless to protect your own child, you, his sole provider and defender, his everything, what is there that’s left but the undeniable truth that they are as vulnerable to a racist, violent, and unjust world as you always knew you were. When the hopes of shielding them from the hate are thoroughly shattered, however, another hope must come along - a hope that they are more than strong to face whatever the world throws at them, and in this Coates' counsel is best.

 

Friday, June 2, 2017

Congratulations to the 2017 SWE Detroit scholarship winners!



Congratulations to the 2017 SWE Detroit scholarship winners!


 





Areli Cardenas, Imlay City High School


Beste Aydin, Bloomfield Hills High School