Governor’s Update: Region G Leadership Summit

To:          Region G Members

From:      Mary Ann Walsh, Govenor, Region G

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REGISTER for the Region G Leadership Summit
Saturday – May 30, 2009
Athens, Ohio
Ohio University and Holiday Inn Express

Region G is hosting our 2^nd annual Leadership Training Summit on Saturday, May 30, 2009!  The local host for the weekend is Ohio University and the OU Collegiate SWE Section.

The weekend is targeted to all SWE officers and leaders: Section president, Section vice president, Treasurer, Secretary, Section committee chair, Section committee member, Region Officer, Council Representative (COR), Region Collegiate Representative (RCR), Region Collegiate Newsletter Editor (RCNE), Newsletter, Senators, Webmaster, Counselor to Collegiate section, Advisor to Collegiate section, National and Section Committee members.  Registration for the training summit is now OPEN.  Registration is unlimited and Region G will also sponsor the hotel for up to 4 members from each section in Region G (collegiate and professional) to attend this Leadership training weekend!  Section presidents should coordinate which 4 members from the section will receive the sponsored hotel accommodations.

Please register to attend the training by May 23:

via the attached spreadsheet and email to Mary Ann Walsh or Deb MacKay or via Survey Monkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Kvdxf2ENuJnSi4_2b8T57iag_3d_3d

Please complete Hotel Accommodations by May 8, 2009:

If you are traveling from greater than 3 hours driving distance to Athens, OH and will be arriving on Friday, the region will reimburse you for maximum of 2 nights at the hotel.

All others, with exception of those who live in Athens, OH, will be reimbursed for maximum of one night.  You are requested to share a hotel room.  Reimbursement will be at ½ the hotel room cost for professional members and at ¼ cost for collegiate members.

You must reserve your hotel accommodations directly through the hotel by May 8, 2009.  You will be responsible for any cancellation fees and other charges to the room.

Holiday Inn Express 11 East Park Drive
Athens, Ohio 45701
Phone:  740-592-4640

SWE rate is $65.00/room (+12.75% tax).
The hotel will allow up to 4 names to be listed for the room.

Program :

The program will be listed on the websites and will include training and working sessions covering: SWE officer duties, reporting to SWE, awards and applications, tactical and strategic plans, SWE Region G policy making, Region G website development, and SWE national conference readiness.  Saturday Training will begin around 8:00 am and finish around 4:30 pm.  The weekend also provides the opportunity for all SWE officers and leaders to learn from each other and share best practices; your participation will make the weekend a success.

See the Region G website; Region G Blog and SWE Community, Region G Goings for details and information updates.

Thank you,
Mary Ann Walsh, Governor, Region G

Governor’s Update – Region G Leadership Summit Survey

If you haven’t already done so, please fill out the survey to help us determine the date of the Leadership Summit for Region G next May!!!

If you HAVE already completed the survey, great!  One of the dates listed on the survey was over Memorial Day weekend, so if you need to change your “vote”, please email your changes to Mary Ann at her email address.

Here is the link to the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=TutUVihOHX7IUMOMkdISCA_3d_3d

-Mary Ann

Governor’s Update – SWE Business from WE’08

Notes from Region G Meeting, November 6:

* Council Passed Region G budget

* Region G has a SWE Community: Region G Going’s http://communities.swe.org/COP/RegionGGoings/

* Powerpoint slides from the meeting are posted on the community!

* A lot of other information from SWE conference and meeting, Region business, etc is on Region G Goings under various headings…

* Region G has a Blog at http://regiong.wordpress.com/

Notes from COR Meeting November 8, 2009

Passed several Bylaws changes, including:

The Council of Representatives is changed to the SWE Senate. Each Region will have 2 professional Senators, with no more than one from a section or MALs. The professional Senators will be elected by the voting members of the region. A region may elect an alternate Senator. A professional-member Senator will serve a two-year term.

Each Region will have one collegiate Senator, elected in the same manner as the RCR and RCNE are currently elected. A collegiate Senator will serve a 1-year term.

COR Governance Committee

As a result of the approved change to a SWE Senate, the Governance committee is meeting (phone call) on Monday evening, November 17. They will be determining the details for the election process for the professional, international, and collegiate representatives to the Senate.

Region Council

It is noted that the Region council remains the same as defined in the Region bylaws. A region Senator will not serve as a voting member of the Region council.

CONTINUATION OF REGION G BUSINESS FROM SWE08 CONFERENCE MEETING ON NOVEMBER 6, IN BALTIMORE:

Region G Nominating Committee – the nominating committee is waiting for instructions from COR and the Governance committee before sending out their call for nominations. This is delaying the call which was expected to go out this week.

The positions of governor, lt. governor, and Senate will be open for nominations. The governor is placed on the national SWE ballot and is elected by the members of the region. The Lt. Governor is elected by the Region council. The election process for Senators is being decided, most likely scenario is that Senators will probably also be placed on the national ballot, the same as the governor, as s/he is also elected by the voting members of the Region.

Region G Awards Program

Region G members Laura Iannacci/Deputy Chair CLC and Mary Ann Walsh/governor have drafted a Region G Awards and Recognition Program. This is on the Region G Going’s Community.

Region G Travel Grant Program

Region G members Judy Simmons/Treasurer and Mary Ann Walsh/governor have drafted a travel grant program. This is posted on the Region G Going’s Community.

Governor’s Update – Region G Awards and Participation at National SWE’08 Conference

Celebrate SWE

Congratulations to the SWE members who participated in a wonderful rendition of the Glamorous ENGINEERs from Region G! Some photos can be found on Facebook. Special acknowledgments go to Penn State – lyrics, University of Kentucky – awesome dance moves, University of Akron – props and costumes, and to all who participated.

It was great fun and I hear we are already excited about and planning for next year’s Celebrate SWE!

SME bowl

Thanks to the team of collegiate members who represented Region G !!!

Awards – Congratulations to the following sections in Region G:

Outstanding Collegiate Section – Silver Awards went to:

University of Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania State University

University of Cincinnati

Membership Retention Award

Large Section – Ohio State University

Undergraduate Collegiate Poster Competition

Laura DeWalt, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, 2nd place

Ten SWE Scholarship Recipients within Region G:

• Kathryn Olesnavage, Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical Eng, Soph.

• Emily Griffin, Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Eng, Freshman

• Faith Bazley, Case Western Reserve University, Biomedical Eng, Junior

• Danielle Grage, University of Cincinnati, Aerospace Eng, Junior

• Shelli Jones, University of Cincinnati, Chemical Eng, Senior

• Racquel Redwood, University of Cincinnati, Biomedical Eng, Soph.

• Michelle Sing, Case Western Reserve University, Polymer Science and Eng, Sophomore

• Stephanie Momich, University of Pittsburgh, Industrial Eng, Sophomore

• Karin Bodnar, University of Akron, Electrical Eng, Junior

• Angela Holmen, Carnegie Mellon University, Chemical Eng, Graduate

The section and region awards are now listed on the national website:

http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=747&Itemid=42

Please take a look at the winners and I suggest researching the websites of the sections and regions who did receive awards and get ideas on how to improve our Region G sections, so that we can win more awards!  Also, note that the majority of the awards are for collegiate sections, so we need to encourage and help our collegiate sections to apply.  Pay attention to those awards where an award was not given to all three – large, medium, small sections – this means that not enough applications were received.  I encourage you to keep up the good work in Region G and plan to apply next year.

Mary Ann

Governor Update #1

Greetings Region G members,

The SWE 09 National Conference, November 6-8, 2008, Baltimore, MD is less than one month away! If you are attending the conference, please read specific information in Part A.  Part B has important information for everyone.

A. Attend SWE09 NATIONAL CONFERENCE

1. Please plan to attend the Region G business meeting at National Conference:
Thursday, Nov 6
1 to 5 pm
Sheraton Hotel, Camden room 1
Professional discussion will begin first, followed by joint, and collegiate discussions.

2. Your representative to the SWE Council of Representatives will be meeting and voting on several very important bylaws changes – there are 22 proposed changes to SWE national bylaws!  Volumes of public information are available on SWE communities under COR and Bylaws communities.  All (and only) SWE members can log on to SWE communities.  Please logon and join these communities, read the material, and voice your opinion to your COR representative or to governor-g@swe.org.

The two Council business meetings will be held on Thursday 11/6 from 10am-12:45pm and on Saturday 11/8 from 12-5pm.  COR and RCR are required to attend.  Non-representatives are permitted to sit in the back of the room and observe the meeting.  This allows interested SWE members to learn how COR operates.

3. Conference attire is business casual.  Career fair is business attire. Awards Banquet will be held on Friday evening.  Dress is formal.

4. Celebrate SWE! Awards ceremony is on Saturday evening.  This year, the event is taking more of a formal awards’ banquet atmosphere.  Along with the usual presentation of individual and section awards, SWE has moved the presentation of the Distinguished New Engineer Awards to Saturday, at Celebrate SWE.  Attire will be dress to formal.

As in the past couple of years, all regions, including region G, are preparing a skit/presentation for that evening.  If needed, those participating in skits will change attire prior to their skit.

5. ACTION: Region G needs to get an estimate of the number of region members who will attend several events at conference, so that Region G can plan for adequate seating.  Please send an email to governor-g@swe.org (I prefer that your section president please compile the information into single spreadsheet to email).

Name of Attendee
Section
SWE role
Attend Region G business meeting  YES/no
Attend Celebrate SWE!                     YES/no

B. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL REGION G

1. Please remember to exercise your right to vote by voting in the US National elections on Tuesday, Nov 4. (if you will be at the conference on Nov 4, remember to obtain an absentee ballot or check your if locality has a location for early voting.)

2. Even if you are not attending the conference, the proposed changes to SWE Bylaws affect all SWE members and your feedback is welcome. (See #2 above to readd more and voice your opinion.)

3. Region G information is located on the region G website (in the process of being updated), and in SWE Communities, Region G Goings. For privacy and security reasons, most of the information is in SWE Communities.  Only SWE members have access to SWE Communities; thus, personal contact information and sensitive region business in SWE Communities can be viewed only by SWE members.  Due to the privacy issue, Region G is cautious about posts, links, and information, unless you send your information to us for posting, we will not post it.  Thus, Region G relies on YOU to provide comments, corrections, news, photos, and things to post on the internet – please send items to governor-g@swe.org .  The more you provide, the more up-to-date these will become.  In SWE Communities, you can even post directly, yourself, no need to email to governor.

4. This year Region G elects governor and lieutenant governor for FY10 – FT12 term.  We will be seeking candidates for these roles.

5. Mark your calendar for the Region G 2009 Conference and Career Fair
Shattering the Sky’s Limit
Friday February 27 – March 1, 2009
Akron, OH hosted by the University of Akron and Northeast Ohio SWE sections.