SWE Excom Meeting – May 22, 2007

A. Who will be here over the summer?

-Suki

-Kara

-Natalie

-Tami

-Adrianne- going to frosh camp also

B. End of 06-07 year SWE events

1. Senior dinner- dinner for graduating seniors

-sent out an email to gauge interest

-or maybe a social at lunch to honor seniors

-possible dates- Sunday night?

2. End of year “SWE social”

3. A survey sent out to the people asking them how to improve SWE, what kind of questions to ask?

C. New t-shirts

1. Ideas for new design

- designs from the conference

- ask friends for t-shirt design over the summer

2. Want them before new school year

D. Website (Jessica)

1. Update the look

2. Put up recent info & pix from recent events

-pics from Dress for Success

-Introduce a girl to Engineering Day

3. Want this up before new school year

E. 07-08 year SWE events

1. Frosh camp- Adrianne, perhaps wear a pin, promoting and getting prefrosh join

2. Club fair

a. SWE & frosh mentoring sign up, get people to sign up to be mentored

3. Possible ice cream social-beginning of the fall, during rotation, although it can be way too hectic

4. School-wide “Dress for Success”

a. Yvonne wants to start a committee to get a larger campus-wide Dress for Success event during the fall career fair. Anyone interested in being on that committee? Spamming SWE list also

5. First term general meeting- within the first 3 weeks of school

6. Frosh mentoring

a. Frosh propaganda- stuff their mailbox and have emails

7. SWE National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee (Oct. 25-27, 2007)

-most likely no interest because during school and around midterms week

8. SWE Regional Conference in Pasadena (Jan. 25-27, 2008)

- at the Sheraton, everyone should be able to come

9. “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day”

- third week of Feb.

10. SWE’s “Dress for Success”

-have the Dress for Success before the spring career fair, try to get it on a Friday so people won’t have to miss class

F. Ideas for SWE events

1. Girl Scouts wants to do a joint event with SWE- think about maybe one event for them on campus (campus tour, etc), and give them mentors from college students (much like the freshman mentoring program)

2. faculty lunches/socials- Karen from the alumni center

Funding for these events- where should we be getting the donations for the future?

3. Female undergrad socials

4. Events with Women’s Center

5. Arrange for socials with professor to create a bigger networking system