RCR Update #4 – Election Results

Hello Region G Presidents!!  

I am pleased to announce the results of our FY10 Regional Collegiate Representative (RCR) & Regional Collegiate Newsletter Editor (RCNE) Elections!  

Congratulations to Rebecca Murphy of Ohio State for being elected RCR and to Poojitha Ennamuri of Carnegie Mellon for being elected as RCNE! I have full confidence in both of these ladies and I am sure Region G will make great strides over the next year because of them. During the next few months Karin the RCNE and I will be helping them to transition into the role, which will officially begin on July 1st.  

It’s getting close to that time again…. so please have a safe and wonderful Spring Break 09 wherever you end up!! This year is a mission trip to Costa Rica for me… woot woot!!   Thanks everybody!  

-Britney

RCR Update #3 – Bylaws Info

Hello All,

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I have the following information to pass along to you from Laura Gimpelson which should help clarify the bylaws process. Please continue to ask questions of myself, Karin, Jessica Rannow, or Laura as you work through this process.

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Thanks!

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Laura’s Info

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1.    Sections that only insert the section number and name into the template can hold a section vote to approve the bylaws and then forward the approved bylaws to the national secretary after inserting the following footer “Section GXXX Approved Bylaws mm/dd/yyyy”.  The national secretary will handle the final processing step and notify the bylaws committee chair when the bylaws have been posted on the SWE Governance document webpage.

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2.    If the section changes any part of the bylaws template even to add school required language, then send the draft to bylaws-chair@swe.org.  Do not hold an approval vote!!!  If the bylaws committee has comments, the section will need to address the comments and receive the committee’s approval before the section can approve the draft bylaws.
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Britney Marie Thompson
Society of Women Engineers
Region G Collegiate Representative
University of Kentucky
606-305-9777
rcr-g@swe.org

RCR Update #2 – Region Conference Wrap-Up

Hello Region G Presidents!

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Regional Conference 2009 at the University of Akron was a great success! I am glad that so many of you were able to come and participate. I hope you found it very informative, inspiring, and enjoyable.

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I encourage you to check out the Outstanding Collegiate Section award information on the SWE website and start compiling your data. Every section is capable of winning an award, no matter how small or large. Give yourself a great reason to go to the banquet at National Conference in California… win an award! This award packet is due May 31st.

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Every collegiate section must submit at least a first draft of bylaws by May 31st or there will be consequences such as rebate withholding initiated. With that said… don’t fret! Most of you will be able to make the necessary edits to the templates in only a few minutes. Then, simply put them to a vote for approval by your section and send them off to bylaws-chair@swe.org with your section name and number in the file name.

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The ’standard collegiate bylaws’ template is what most of you need to use, where you will only have to insert your section identification and a few other changes. There are only 4 main officers listed, but you probably don’t need to add others since they typically are ‘director of _____’ or something like that. Also note that you can’t have two of any officer, such as two Vice Presidents. However, I believe it is permissible to have Vice President of ABC and Vice President of XYZ, as long as ABC doesn’t equal XYZ. Don’t quote me on that, you’ll have to ask the committee chair or something.

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The ‘collegiate section bylaws 2′ document contains an explanation of how to go about making large changes to the bylaws template. (It might also be a useful read for those doing only the standard changes.) For instance, if your school has different requirements than SWE, you might need to start a dialogue with the bylaws committee in order to work up a set of bylaws they will agree to.  SWE Communities also has several examples of finished bylaws and other information if you’d like to check that out.

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Please put these bylaws on your agenda to wrap up quickly. There are only a handful of our sections who have started the process, even fewer who have completed.

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If you have questions about either the conference presentation or the bylaws, email me and I’ll do my best to get you an answer!

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Have a lovely week!

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–Britney Marie Thompson
Society of Women Engineers
Region G Collegiate Representative
University of Kentucky
606-305-9777
rcr-g@swe.org

RCR Update #1

Hello Everybody! I am honored to be representing you guys for FY09 as the Regional Collegiate Representative for the Glamorous Girls of Region G! I am currently a senior in mechanical engineering at the University of Kentucky, planning on graduating in December 2009. I’m not really sure what I’ll be doing after that, but I guess I’ll figure that out in due time.

It seems as though classes just started yesterday, but we are already approaching the midterm… time flies! I hope each of you are having a successful fall with your SWE sections, and please feel free to approach me about any issues or questions you might have. The more communication we have amongst our sections will make us stronger individually and together as a region. Before National Conference in early November, I’d like to have a couple of conference calls with the section presidents so we can chat about how things are going and share some ideas. Be on the lookout for information about that!

Speaking of National Conference… who’s excited?? (ME!) In case you’ve been hiding under a rock… or a textbook… it is in Baltimore from November 6^th-8^th this year. I hope you all have registered by now, but if not I’d recommend doing it quickly! Student pre-registration closes October 17^th, and after that you’ll pay quite a chunk more. It always serves to jazz up everybody about engineering and careers and SWE in general, and personally I’ll be ready for that. I hope to see many of you on Thursday afternoon at the Region meetings, but for those of you not in town yet, come find me and say hi!

Once again, I hope all is well with everyone. Drop me a line sometime if you have anything at all you need to discuss and I’ll do my best to help you out!

God bless you all!

Britney Thompson

FY09 RCR – Region G