GradSWE Upcoming Events

Useful Software Seminar

TBA

This seminar introduces various software packages that are useful in graduate engineering and thesis-writing, such as reference management software and the different types of programs you can write your thesis in. Not all advisors give software advice or even know all the available options - pick your software early and deliberately to avoid extra work later! Held by Nicole Jackson, MS, a GradSWE committee member and current PhD student. She has experience with different aspects of thesis-writing, figure preparation, as well as data analysis.

The Five Types of Advisors and How to Work with Them

April 10, 4-5 PM, 1005 MRL

Psychologist Greg Lambeth has outlined five types of advisors through experience with speaking to graduate students. This seminar explains the basic five advisors and how you can work with yours. Sign up online! Greg Lambeth is a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois and has worked at the University of Illinois Counseling Center since 1994. He has a strong interest in providing outreach and clinical services to graduate students and established a liaison between the Counseling Center and the Graduate College in 1996. Dr. Lambeth received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and he completed his internship at the University of Missouri Counseling Center in 1993.

Presentation Practice

April 29, 3-5 PM, 1003 MRL

If you're going to a conference soon and want a chance to go through your talk uninterrupted in front of an audience and get feedback on the presentation - not the content - take this opportunity to practice! If you applied for jobs and have to give a job talk on your research - iron out the kinks before you fly out! Practice makes perfect - simply bring your laptop and we'll have a projector, a conference room, and an audience. Sign up online!

Annual Graduate Banquet

April 22, 6-8 PM, The Colonial Room, Illini Union

The keynote speaker at the 2nd Annual GradSWE Banquet is Linda Katehi, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Provost Katehi is a SWE member and has a PhD in electrical engineering from UCLA. She will be speaking about five skillsets to develop in a bad economy. Melanie Loots, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, will also be speaking about the impact of the recession on graduate students still in school. Melanie received her PhD in organometallic chemistry from Princeton in 1979 and currently serves as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Reseach. Last year, over 60 women graduate engineers, faculty, and top-level Graduate College administrators attended. Join us for a night of relaxing, networking and professional development! Space is limited. If you would like to attend, please sign up online.

Graduation Celebration

Getting your bachelor's degree, Master's degree, or completing your PhD thesis is a major life milestone, and SWE would like to congratulate those who will reach one this May. The journey to graduation is long and never easy. If you are graduating or know a SWEster who is graduating, join us in celebrating our May graduates! With finals and the deposit deadline within sight, take a night to gather energy for the final stretch with dinner and gifts from SWE. Graduates and friends, sign up online!

Elizabeth Blankenship from the multiple award-winning Central Illinois professional section will also be there to answer questions about professional SWE membership and to hold a membership upgrade raffle. This is a great opportunity for those graduates who are interested in continuing to be involved with SWE to make it happen.

Networking Dinner

May 21, 6-7PM, Lailai Wok

402 E. Green Street, Champaign, IL 61820

(217) 328-1888

 

Connect with old and new graduate women acquaintances at this networking dinner. Better than the Graduate College mixers, because we have a full dinner and other women engineers who understand your frustration with the oscilloscope that's on the fritz. Dinner paid for by SWE! Space is limited - sign up online.

Summer Potluck

June 23, 6-7 PM, Crystal Lake Park

 

Come out and enjoy the warm summer night with old and new acquaintances in GradSWE. Bring a simple dish for others to enjoy and sample others' cuisines. Our diversity can make this an exciting sampling of cooking from around the world - please bring a dish from a cooking tradition that you're comfortable with! Our members come from east and west, north and south - you can't order what all of us can cook in any restaurant.

End-of-Year Report Meeting

Late June

 

The SWE fiscal year 2009 ends June 30. Teresa will report to the committee on the past fiscal year - activities, attendance, and lessons learned. At the end of the meeting, Teresa will step down as committee chair and the chair-elect will assume the leadership of the committee.