SWE will again be in charge of decorations for the COE End of Year Banquet and Ball (EoYBB) and volunteers are needed for the decorations committee. The tentative date for the EoYBB is 06/01. Please email swe[at]engr.ucr.edu if you are interested in helping out!

SWE flip-flops are available for $7 per pair. Please contact swe[at]engr.ucr.edu if you are interested.

Congratulations to the new 2006-2007 SWE at UCR officers!

• President: Christina "Zippy" Zapata czapa001[at]ucr.edu
• Vice President: Gabby "Turbo" Llanos gllan001[at]ucr.edu
• Secretary/Membership & Alumni Development: Helena "Brie" Chiang helchiang[at]gmail.com
• Treasurer: Su "Swe" Nwe snwe001[at]ucr.edu
• Historian: Sonia "Sony" Larios slari001[at]ucr.edu
• Outreach Coordinator: Lindsay "Izzy" Yee lyee002[at]ucr.edu
• Events and Social Chairs: Christine "Flower" Kwon ckwon006[at]ucr.edu and Bhavana "Banana" Sikka bsikk001[at]ucr.edu
• Professional Development: Nikki "10-96" Kinsinger nkins001[at]ucr.edu
• Webmaster: Andrea "Cheetah" Coba ecoba001[at]ucr.edu

SWE-UCR is making a CD of resumes for Xerox. Please send your resume to Christina ASAP; her email address is czapa001[at]ucr.edu
Format file name needs to be: FirstNameLastName_April2007

SWE T-shirts are $12 for non members and free for members. Come pick yours up!

The Society of Women Engineers National selected the UCR SWE student section to host their Wow! That's Engineering? outreach event in November 2007.  The event is designed to bring young girls together with female engineers to learn more about the field of engineering through interactive activities and discussions.  The selection process included a review of 22 applications from 19 professional sections, and 3 student sections across the nation.  Collaborators for the event will include SWE national, and the Orange County Professional Section to plan for the West Coast event.   The other two host sites selected were Atlanta and Minnesota.

Undergraduate Scholarship Information:
SWE-OC will award one Undergraduate Scholarship in the amount of $1,000. The minimum criteria for selection are as follows:
• Open to women only
• Student at:
o CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, UC Irvine, or UC Riverside
• Enrolled in an undergraduate degree program in an engineering field, such as Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
• GPA of 3.0 or higher
• Plans to pursue a career in an engineering field
The recipient of this scholarship will be announced at the SWE-OC recognition banquet typically held in May. Students are also encouraged to apply for SWE’s National scholarships, which are awarded during the annual National Conference (for more information visit www.swe.org).

Undergraduate Scholarship Application

Graduate Scholarship Application

APS/IBM RESEARCH INTERNSHIP FOR UNDERGRADUATE WOMEN
Information on the 2007 APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women is now available! These summer internships are salaried positions typically 10 weeks long, and include in addition a $2,500 grant, plus the opportunity to work with a mentor at one of three IBM research locations. Applications must be submitted by February 1, 2007.

Complete details on the program and how to apply are available at http://www.aps.org/programs/women/scholarships/index.cfm

• BCOE T-shirts for sale Designed by MEGSA
  The cost is $12 per shirt. $6 goes to SWE if you order through SWE!!
• SWE T-shirts
  Companies sponsoring are Altura Logos and Wei-Chuan Logos. We are trying to order the shirts during winter break, so they will be here in time for the conference.
  If you would like a shirt, email us with your name and shirt size. You can find the size chart here: http://customink.com/items/sizing/31000_lineup/standard.htm
  

The 5th annual Space Science and Engineering Day was a success! Please see the following for a full story and a few event photos:
2006 Space Science and Engineering Day

A full photo gallery will be posted soon!

• For only $20 a year, you can join SWE nationally as a Student Member!
• There are good benefits to joining including a fantastic network of women in engineering, you receive a SWE magazine, get discounts on conferences and there are great opportunities for professional development. Besides, it looks great on your resume and allows you to apply for scholarships.
• Please bring your $20 to the next SWE meeting and we will sign you up.
• You can also sign up anytime at http://www.swe.org
  

The Campus Safety Escort Service is safe and easy to use. The service is free!
There are four ways one can get an escort:

i. Pick up any red phone on campus that says Campus Safety Escort Service on it and it will automatically connect you to the Dispatcher Desk.
ii. Walk up to the Dispatcher Desk located inside Rivera Library and ask for an escort directly.
iii. Call the Dispatcher Desk at (951) 827-3772 and ask for an escort.
iv. If you see an escort on campus, just wave them down and they will walk you to your destination.

SWE cares about your safety!

A message to SWE members from Cindy Kwong of Broadcom Corporation:

My name is Cindy Kwong and I am a University Relations Recruiter for Broadcom Corporation. I found SWE on UCR's website and would like to see how we can work together. We will be at the UCR Engineering Career Fair on Wednesday, October 25th recruiting for engineers for our Irvine headquarters as well as our 40+ locations around the world .  We have full-time and internship opportunities regularly and I wanted to know if I can send it to you so that it could be forwarded to your members.

A little about Broadcom:

Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated technologies and products which support our core mission: "Connecting Everything."TM Using proprietary technologies and advanced design and methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete system-on-a-chip solutions and related hardware and software applications for every major broadband communications market. We are not a software company. However, software is used to actualize the product. Our diverse product portfolio includes, but is not limited to solutions for digital and satellite cable set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways; high–speed transmission and switching for local metropolitan and wide area networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and SystemI/OTM server solutions.

For more information about our company and our new products, please visit our website at: www.broadcom.com

Enginuity Hall, a new residential hall living experience for engineering students, will be launched this coming fall.  We have 54 slots in Pentland Hills.  Currently 39 slots are filled; we'd like to fill the remaining slots with women.

Please help us encourage more women engineers to participate in the new engineering residence hall community, particularly if you are participating in orientation/outreach activities this summer!

Please refer any interested women engineers to the following link and letter from Tara Brown:
http://www.housing.ucr.edu/indexsub.php?content=housing/residence.html#special
Letter to incoming women engineers from Tara Brown

The Bourns College of Engineering End of Year Awards and Recognition Banquet and Ball was held 06/02/2006, and SWE-UCR won the "Outstanding Outreach Event" for the college for the second year in a row!

Several SWE officers were also individually recognized:

• Special Leadership Council Chair's awards: Lindsay Yee, Marie Donnelly, Jean Wang, Shimkiri Syiem
• Marie Donnelly (SWE-UCR Vice President) was recognized for receiving the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering Award and a fellowship at Cornell
• Shim Syiem (SWE-UCR Outreach Coordinator) was recognized for winning a Xerox scholarship. Congratulations to them!
• Lindsay Yee, Nikki Kinsinger, Shashwati Kasetty, David Keith and Megan Nix were inducted as 2006-2007 Leadership Council Officers

The College of Engineering End of Year Banquet and Ball will be Friday, June 3, at 6pm, and more information can be found on the Leadership Council site: http://www.engr.ucr.edu/~coelc

SWE will be co-hosting this event, and will be responsible for decorations. If you would like to volunteer to be a part of the decorations committee, please email swe[at]engr.ucr.edu!

Congratulations to the new 2006-2007 SWE at UCR officers!

• President - Lindsay Yee lyee002[at]student.ucr.edu
• Vice President - Nichola (Nikki) Kinsinger nkins001[at]student.ucr.edu
• Secretary - Andrea Coba ecoba001[at]student.ucr.edu
• Treasurer - Christina Zapata czapa001[at]student.ucr.edu
• Historians - Sonia Larios slari001[at]ucr.edu and Sally Pederson spede001[at]student.ucr.edu
• Outreach Coordinator - Gabby Llanos gllan001[at]ucr.edu
• Events Coordinators - Joshua Yaghoubian jyagh001[at]ucr.edu and Christine Lim clim003[at]student.ucr.edu
• Webmasters- Megan Nix mnix001[at]ucr.edu and David Keith dckeith[at]gmail.com

From the College of Engineering Leadership Council:

Congratulations to the following COE student organizations for winning Winter club awards:

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Tau Beta Pi (TBP)

This award signifies that these clubs displayed an exemplary amount of activity, organization, responsibility, and communication with the COELC during Winter Quarter. Each club's officers will be rewarded for their outstanding efforts, and please join us in congratulating them!

Congratulations to SWE-UCR for another outstanding outreach event! From the COE news page:

"Representatives from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) teamed with the Bourns College of Engineering chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and the Riverside Astronomical Society to offer an afternoon of fun hands-on learning activities and presentations ranging from JPL space missions to rewarding careers in engineering...Dean Reza Abbaschian and UCR Chancellor France Córdova attended the event, and shared their enthusiasm for science and engineering with a large crowd of elementary and middle school girls and boys. Attendance was estimated at close to 1,000. Although the majority were Girl Scouts, many in their colorful uniforms, children of UCR faculty and staff were also invited to participate. The day was made possible through funding provided by Xerox Corporation."

Event stories and photos:
http://www.inthenews.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=10354
http://www.engr.ucr.edu/NewsSystem/2005.shtml
http://www.engr.ucr.edu/NewsSystem/eventphotos/127.shtml