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Society of Women Engineers

SWE
Floor 4, Table E
About Society of Women Engineers

Join SWE-UCLA for professional development in STEM, scholarship opportunities, networking, and community outreach. We welcome undergraduate students of all years, backgrounds, and genders! We highly encourage students to become involved in SWE by applying to the various committees to plan and attend events that promote opportunities for networking with companies, promoting diversity and inclusion in the field of STEM, and creating lifelong connections with other members of SWE.


Major events that our club hosts include: EWI (an evening of networking over dinner with company professionals and a private career fair), Mental Health Awareness Week, Mentorship with Industry, Wow! That’s Engineering Day (an all day event showing young girls fun STEM projects), QWER Hacks (hackathon to promote LGBTQ+ diversity in STEM), national SWE conferences, Professional Development workshops and much more.

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Committees:
Advocacy: Mental Health Awareness Week, Engineers for Professional Inclusion Conference
Mentorship: Mentorship programs with undergraduates, graduates and industry
Outreach: WOW! That’s Engineering Day, Women in Engineering Stayover Program
EWI: Evening with Industry, Professional Development workshops (ie. resume workshop, interview workshop)
Technical: QWER Hacks, Technical Workshops (ie. web/app development, technical interview prep, engineering ethics, collabs with other engineering orgs)
Web Dev: EWI portal, member login portal, redesigning current SWE website
Internal Affairs: SWE Speed Dating, Linkedin Headshots, Virtual Committee Socials (Paint nights, Game Nights, etc)

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First Meeting:
Our first fall general meeting will be October 8th, 2020 from 6-8PM PST via zoom at the link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3094160500. We will go over what is SWE, how to get involved with SWE, how to apply to committees with a Q&A with the board at the end.

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The presentation will be recorded and an additional Q&A will be hosted for other time zones on October 9th, 2020 and 9-10AM PST. We highly recommend you watch the recorded presentation on October 8th before coming for the additional Q&A the following day.

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Contact Info:
Please contact Jackie Sun at studentrelations.swe.ucla@gmail.com for any questions.