SWE Greatland Board Kick-Off: Part 2

SWE Greatland Board met again today to continue their previous board meeting. We just have so much to discuss and plan for the upcoming year! Today we discussed professional development workshop topics, social lunches, outreach activities, charity walks/runs, community involvement, publicity, collegiate sections, conferences, national reporting, and succession planning. To review our meeting minutes, click here. Please contact any of our officers if you if have any suggestions, questions, or feedback. We would love to hear from you!

SWE Greatland Board Kick-Off: Part 1

SWE Greatland had their first FY12 board meeting today. We discussed the budget, initiating the scholarships again this year, membership, future board meetings, meeting topics, and technical tours. A poll recently went out to the section and we have incorporated everyone's feedback for our FY12 events. Look for our future email updates for information, time, and dates! We hope to have an exciting SWE year!

SWE Greatland Social Lunch

SWE Greatland had their first social lunch of FY12 at Doriolas today. It was great to get together and catch up with everyone and hear what they've been doing this past summer. We hope to see you all again in future socal lunches and meetings. Stay tuned!

SWE Greatland Update 8-12-11

See what's going on in SWE Greatland World...SWE Greatland Update 8-12-11.

Welcome New Committee Chair: Katie Johnson

Welcome to SWE FY12! Your dedicated board and committee chairs have committed to serving another year of SWE. To learn more about your officers, click here. We would also like to welcome an additional committee chair this year, Katie Johnson. Katie is our new Continuing Development Chairperson.

Katie (Katherine) Johnson was born and raised in Anchorage Alaska. While pursuing a degree in mathematics in Indiana she decided that she ultimately wanted to live in Alaska. When she graduated from Purdue in December 2003 she returned to Fairbanks to see what could be done with her education. After teaching 8th grade for a year she decided to return to college to obtain a second degree. In 2006 she went back to school at the University Alaska Fairbanks to obtain a second bachelors in mechanical engineering. While there she tutored students in developmental math, was the Chair of the student chapter of ASME, and a member of SWE and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. After graduating in May 2008 she worked for a year on the Denali gas pipeline project studying and monitoring temperature data before coming on board with Michael Baker Jr. as an E.I.T. in June 2009.

Katie will be in charge of coordinating our Saturday professional development workshop and helping out with our monthly meeting topics. If you are interested in being on her committee, you can contact her by email.

We Need Your Comments: Region J By-Law Changes

Comment Away! Please comment here or send comments to chmielowskil@eeiteam.com by August 29, 2011.

Region J needs to submit updated bylaws to the Society Secretary in order to remain in compliance with Society policies. Our current bylaws are out of date and have mandatory changes that need to be made per the updated Society Bylaws. The following link is to an updated version of our bylaws in accordance with FY 12 SWE REgion Bylaws template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UelLY9rUGqzCbUWGZl4xT4KkaxTccotODR4BtJl4dy0/edit?hl=en_US

The new bylaws will be voted on at WE11.

SWE Greatland Update 8-4-11

Time flies! SWE FY12 is already here! There are several ways you can stay in the loop, volunteer, and hear what's going on in the community: get on our mailing list to receive our electronic updates, "Like" us on Facebook, and check out our SWE Greatland Calendar. See what's going on this year so far...SWE Greatland Update 8-4-11.