2010 SWE Region G Conference
Working Together for a Brighter Future
SWE Region G Conference
Lexington, Kentucky
March 5-7, 2010
Conference Hotel: Griffin Gate Marriott
Lexington Convention Center and Visitor's Bureau.
Book your room today! Call (800) 228-9290 and ask for the Society of Women Engineers room block or register online. The booking deadline has been extended to February 26. (SWE rate was $99.00/night)
Conference Registration
SWE Regional Conference Career Fair Exhibitors
AEP
Navy
National Welding Center
Lexmark
Bechtel Parsons
Kroger
Eon-US
Gray Construction
Carnegie Mellon University grad school
2010 SWE Region G Conference - Tour Descriptions
Lyric Theater Tour (Limit 15)
University of Kentucky Medical Center Tour (Limit 20)
Kentucky Horse Park
Woodford Reserve Distillery
2010 Society of Women Engineers Ohio Valley Region G Conference
Sessions
Bucking the Balance Myth, Seize the Right Day
Speaker: Karla Tankersley is a logistics and supply chain professional with experience with The Kroger Co., The Gap Inc and General Motors. Karla has a Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Cincinnati. She is also a freelance writer, blogger and community volunteer. She resides with her family in Cincinnati, Ohio
Topic: Take charge of your own career path by thinking "when" not the "if". This workshop will help you forecast and plan your career map. This will help you to see your open possibilities for the future.
Girls STEM Collaborative Model
Speaker: Sue Scheff is Coordinator and Advisor for the Appalachian & Minority Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics Major Program (AMSTEMM) at the University of Kentucky. She is also Chair of the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative, a statewide initiative to increase girls interest in STEM careers. She has spent many years in higher education as a program director and academic advisor in the science and engineering fields both in Southern California and in Kentucky. From 1991 - 2005, she directed the Women in Engineering Program in the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1983 and has completed some graduate work higher education.
Topic: The Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative is based upon a model developed by the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP). The model is structured to bring organizations together to compare needs and resources, share information, and to expand STEM-related opportunities for girls. These organizations represent K-12 education, higher education, government, professional organizations, business, and community-based organizations. While numerous organizations provide valuable activities and support services related to motivating and supporting girls’ interest STEM, these efforts are largely uncoordinated. The Collaborative will provide opportunities for girl-serving STEM providers in Kentucky to meet or reconnect, learn about each other’s work, and develop ways to work together to better serve girls and young women in STEM. This workshop will provide an overview of the progress made in Kentucky by the Collaborative in educating girls of the benefits of science and engineering careers.
RLC
Speaker: Deb MacKay - Deb works at Lexmark, where she is the vice president of Research and Development for the Imaging Solutions Division. She holds a bachelors degree in Engineering (majored in Biomedical and Electrical) from Duke University and an MBA from UK. She has been involved with SWE for many years, as a section COR Rep, section president, and section Career Guidance Chair, Region Lieutenant Governor and Region Leadership Coach.
Topic: Effective Communication This interactive SWE Leadership Coaching module addresses effective and ineffective communication habits, active listening, and electronic communication etiquette.
Women Inventors
Speaker: Cindy MurpCindy Murphy is the fearless leader of MurphyIP LLC – a women-owned intellectual property firm located in Cleveland, Ohio and specializing in the preparation and prosecution of patents. She is a Mechanical Engineer (Georgia Tech 1982), a Professional Engineer (Ohio 1988), an Attorney (Ohio 1988), and a registered Patent Attorney (USPTO 1988). Cindy is Outreach Chair for the Northeast Ohio section and thoroughly enjoys any and all SWE events!
Speaker: Anne Marie Murphy is Cindy’s daughter and a third grader at Laurel School in Cleveland Ohio. She is very smart, especially in math and science, and wants to be an engineer when she grows up – just like her mom! This is Anne Marie’s first SWE regional conference although she has attended several outreach events with her mother.
Topic: Women Inventors - 200+ years of patent shoes and patented inventions.
This presentation enthusiastically celebrates women inventors and their significant contributions to American history. Women pursuing engineering degrees may be a relatively new career path, but women have been engineers for centuries. And you will be pleasantly surprised as just how many of these inventions do not fall into the Suzy-Homemaker category and are still in use today (e.g., underwater lamps, signal flares, ambulances, paper-making processes, ship armor, inflators, bearings, engines, locomotives, railroad tracks, pumps, pipes, life rafts, dishwashers, fire escapes, dams, elevator safety stops, medical syringes, street cleaners, windshield wipers, mufflers, furnaces, overflow alarms, hoists, bricks, anti-reflection coatings, spread-spectrum-communication technology, torpedoes, computer compilers, leukemia treatments, petroleum-refining methods, ScotchGard®, Nystatin™, blood sampling systems, word processors, urinalysis techniques, magnetic tapes, linear discriminators, Kevlar®, microwave signal generators, wrinkle-free cottons, switchboards, image enhancement equipment, optical detection devices, cataract surgery, stem-cell isolation, etc.).
Financial Safeguarding for SWE Sections Speaker
Speaker : Betty Shanahan
Betty Shanahan is the executive director and CEO for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Betty is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and has held numerous section and national volunteer positions, including the 1995 national conference co-chair and chair of the Conference Management Committee. She is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Society of Association Executives.
Topic: Highly encouraged for all section presidents and treasurers. Information for leaders regarding treasurer responsibilities, safeguarding procedures, financial report forms, new IRS filing requirements and federal tax exemption. Come and learn about the new guidelines and get all your questions answered.
SWE Government Relations and Public Policy Update
Speaker: Betty Shanahan
Betty Shanahan is the executive director and CEO for the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Betty is a Fellow Life Member of SWE and has held numerous section and national volunteer positions, including the 1995 national conference co-chair and chair of the Conference Management Committee. She is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Society of Association Executives.
Topic: SWE's Government Relations and Public Policy committee engages in efforts to inform the federal government of issues relevant to women engineers, to ensure that legislation and policy initiatives help to create a supportive educational and work environment. Come hear about current activities and learn how you can use your influence with your elected representatives to support SWE's work.
Career Management in Difficult Economic Circumstances
Speaker info: Karla Tankersley is a logistics and supply chain professional with experience with The Kroger Co., The Gap Inc and General Motors. Karla has a Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Cincinnati. She is also a freelance writer, blogger and community volunteer. She resides with her family in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Engineering the Future
Navy
Finance
Speaker: Anne Bolton-Solomon Smith Barney
Topic: Top 10 Financial Moves/suggestions
E. On US
Speaker: Caryl Pfeiffer
Collegiate Based
School/Life Balance
Panelist: Jennifer Karnes-confirmed
Panelist: Amanda King
Panelist: Rebecca Murphy
Topics: There are women who enjoy complete and balanced lives; involved on campus, a challenging course load, great friends, a frequently used gym membership, plus 8 hours of sleep a night. The rest of us are still trying to figure it out! Join us for a panel discussion on balancing a social life with an engineering degree.
Some of the topics we'll discuss are:
- How your priorities, purpose, and identity translate into time spent at school and home. Setting realistic expectations for different stages of your life.
- Establishing boundaries between your school and home lives.
- Strategies for stepping back when your sanity demands it, without derailing your career.
"I gave you my resume, now what?"
Panelist: Megan Boone
Panelist: Jennifer Karnes-Toyota
Panelist: Renea McClure-E. On US
Krista Williams – Lexmark
International Experience
Speaker: Ilka Balk is the Director of Cooperative Education and International Programs at the University of Kentucky’s College of Engineering. The Cooperative Education Program at UK is a voluntary program, serving about 200-250 engineering students a year.
Ever thought that because you choose to be an engineer that meant you couldn’t have a study abroad experience like your other friends. That myth is about to be busted wide open. Come learn how you can study abroad and get a great internship or co-op experience, take classes you need to stay on track and still graduate on time.
Digital Village
Speaker Dr Ken Clavert
Topic: : The basic idea is to show the research that will be going on in the Digital Village, and then show how the building itself is intended to support the educational and research mission of the university. This will include: a brief overview of LEED certification and what it means to this building, a description of the photovoltaic installation that will go on the roof of the building, and a description of the energy monitoring and management systems that will be in the building. Then we will have a brief interactive period where we ask for suggestions from the attendees about what they think would be interesting ways to show off these features of the building.
CLCC
Speaker: Tabitha Voytek is a graduate student in Physics at Carnegie Mellon University, currently in the first year of the Ph.D. program after graduating in May 2009 with a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of the Pacific. Tabitha is mainly engaged in coursework at this time, but has begun working with Dr. Jeff Peterson, who does observational cosmology, looking at the 21 cm emission line of neutral hydrogen at high redshift to better understand the early universe. An active SWE member since 2004, including holding several section officer postions, Tabitha is currently the Collegiate Leadership Coaching Committee (CLCC) Region G Team Lead and a member of the Carnegie Mellon University SWE section.
Topic: Building Teams
This workshop, provided by the SWE Collegiate Leadership Coaching Committee, is all about how members can build and maintain better teams, both inside and outside of the SWE environment. In particular, the workshop discusses the phases of developing a team, team strategies, effective team traits and how to develop the team in the future. The workshop specifically looks at the cycle of team building using forming, storming, norming and performing.