Willamette Valley Section - SWE eNews October 2018

Welcome to our SWE e-Newsletter where we’re compiling relevant announcements and information for you. If you have anything you’d like to include in a future e-Newsletter please contact Joani Curtis (joan.curtis@hp.com).

In this Newsletter

President's Note

President Amy Welter provides a welcome message for the first newsletter of the year. Find details here.

WV-SWE Professional Development Opportunities

We have an exciting range of professional development events lined up for this year. Please check below for details for our October and November events and mark your calendars.

• • Leadership: What does it take, really? - panel discussion on Oct 16, 2018.

  • Startup companies: The nuts and bolts - interactive session on Nov 6, 2018.

Click here to learn more.

Other Announcements and Opportunities

We have two additional announcements and opportunities.

• • Congratulations to Hannah Rolston for her award winning thesis.

  • Women's Word: Women's Work event at OSU on Oct 17, 2018.

See more here.

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President's Note

Welcome to another great year of SWE in the Willamette Valley! Our section has a great lineup of professional development and social events planned for the year, as well as many outreach opportunities. The professional development events include a panel on leadership, a startup companies panel, innovation in the Willamette Valley event, the popular annual Engineers Week Banquet, a panel of OSU researchers, and a tour of ATI. Outreach events include Girl Scout workshops and middle school STEM outreach. We continue to have lunch and dinner meet-and-greets, and will plan an evening or weekend social activity in the spring.

There are many ways to be involved in the section - attend one of these fantastic events, volunteer for an outreach program, or take on a leadership position. If you have an event you would like to see planned, whether that's professional development or outreach-based, please contact someone on the EC. Multiple members have suggested started an "Expanding Your Horizons" event for Corvallis, so if that is your passion, please let us know!

Finally, many of the executive committee officers will be stepping down after this fiscal year (next June). Please seriously consider stepping into an EC role so that our section can continue offering excellent programming year after year. The EC members will not be disappearing and will be around to offer guidance. We all need to rotate into and out of leadership positions as our personal and professional life evolves, and we hope that some of our members will take the reins to lead our section next year.

Yours in SWE,

Amy Welter

WVS-SWE President, FY18 & FY19

WV-SWE Professional Development Opportunities

We have an exciting range of professional development events lined up for this year. Please check below for details for our October and November events and mark your calendars.

Leadership: What does it take, really?

Join us for a panel discussion on leadership. Our panelists, leaders from industry and academia, will share their approaches to strategic leadership and what it takes to become a successful leader within the world of STEM, with a focus on women as leaders. The panelists will explore the importance of what you know, who you know, and how to present yourself.

When: October 16, 2018 from 5:30 - 6:30

Where: Learning Innovation Center (LInC) located on the Oregon State University Campus Learning Innovation Center at 165 SW Sackett Pl, Corvallis, OR in room 345 (third floor)

Startup companies: The nuts and bolts

Join us for an interactive session on the how and what of startup companies. Mark Lieberman, Chief Startup Officer and Director of the OSU Advantage Accelerator and Karl Mundorff Co Dir-OSU Venture Accelerator will provide an introduction to the idea funnel, entrepreneurial thinking, articulating a value proposition, and choosing a target market. This will be followed by an Q&A session, where we will be joined by local entrepreneurs Katie Pettinger and Jenn Akeroyd.

When: November 6, 2018 from 6 – 7 pm

Where: Metolious Room, Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute (ATAMI) located at 1110 NE Circle Blvd, Corvallis Oregon

Other Announcements and Opportunities

Congratulations to Hannah Rolston, PhD candidate at OSU working with Prof. Lewis Semprini. Hannah will be honored in New Orleans with a first place Master’s Thesis Award from AEESP (Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors), recognizing her contribution to the advancement of environmental science and engineering. Her thesis was titled, “Experimental Demonstration and Modeling of Aerobic Cometabolism of 1,4-Dioxane by Isobutane-Utilizing Microorganisms in Aquifer Microcosms”. Hannah participates in many of the WV-SWE professional activities, and is a leader of the OSU Graduate Student SWE group. We are happy to have her in our section!

Women's Word: Women's Work

Join us October 17th, 2018 from 4:00 to 6:00 and learn more about the history of women at Oregon State University at the "Women's Words / Women's Work: Spaces of community, change, tradition, resistance" exhibit opening and reception.

• • Treats, coffee, and exhibit tours 4:00-6:00.

  • Exhibit introduction and talk 5:00.

Explore the online exhibit component of the exhibit at http://bit.ly/osu150women. This exhibit was a collaborative project with the President's Commission on the Status of Women, and we thank them for their support!

Hope to see you there and please share this invitation with others – the more the merrier.

Tiah Edmunson-Morton

Special Collections and Archives Research Center