Society Of Women Engineers Puns

Hi

This is very frank question. I am sorry in advance if this offends anyone.

I am a Masters of Science Student in Mechanical engineering. I am looking for internship opportunities and came across virtual career fair that's being hosted my SWE.

So far I had really bad experience with virtual fairs (People not responding, Server crashing or really bad connections etc.).

So now I am bit concerned about paying for this Fair. Summer and Fall semesters been really bad financially for me and I do not want to fork out money if it's not going to help me land a job.

So, Anyone out here who had attended previous fairs, how was it? was fair helpful?

Thanks in advance!

i remember hearing about SWE from a handful of girls i got to meet at the MAE building on a tour a couple of months ago but just got an email invite from the org this morning. i'd love to hear anyone's experiences with this org - how helpful was it in supporting you through engineering? in making friends? how long did you stick around for? i have family in my ear telling me that i should switch to "a major suited for girls" :( and am likely going to be home this fall so i would love to have a support network :)

I've asked this to AskScience like, 3-4 times in the last ten years and it never gets any traction.

Fuck those snobs.

I'm calling in the big guns now.

The scenario is as stated:

There are no more women, and humanity's facing the end of the road. Can the men rally and win the race against time to save the species with just their X and Y chromosomes?

Round 1: All current women convert irreversibly into Men. Society responds with shock, but for the most part governments keep control and cool their shit over it and work together. We've got all the brainpower of current humanity and a race from now until everybody alive ages out to create new women

Round 2: All current women disappear in a rapture-style event, and society for the most part catches on quickly to pull their shit together peacefully to pool international resources to create new women/develop sustainable single-sex test tube reproduction.

Round 3: The women again disappear in a rapture-style event. Current political actors will scramble to continue with their own interests, getting along/profiteering/having conflict as much as such an event could cause in a chaotic-realistic scenario, while allocating resources to engineer the females/single-sex reproduction likely stems from the developed world's governments. The chaos that would ensue from losing all the women is cranked on High and we see doomsdayers/terrorism turned up to 11, compared to the relatively harmonious scientific Hail Mary of Rounds 1 and 2.

Does anyone know when and where the society women engineers meets? I cant find anything online.

I want to go to the SWE 19 conference in Anaheim, CA this year; however, it’s a little expensive. Therefore, I was wondering if it’s worth the extra pocket money to attend the career fair?

What advantages does it give you (both in the career fair and workshops)? What connections did you earn? What were the biggest takeaways?

I'm ASU SWE's Online Representative and I'm looking for online engineering students interested in taking advantage of the resources we provide and are looking to grow their professional network.

You can check out some of our resources here https://swe.engineering.asu.edu/

and please DM me for any queries and/or if you are interested in joining the ASU SWE Slack page - where all the wealth of ASU SWE knowledge and community is at your fingertips!

Our first meeting is Wednesday the 18th at 6 pm in baskin 330, we are going to go over our plans for this quarter and play an engineering trivia game with prizes! We will also have food. Everyone is welcome, not just women and not just engineering students.

Find out more at our Facebook page

In a lot of species, females are burdened with pregnancy and child care whereas males are burdened with providing for women and children.

In these species, it is the female members who are socially dominant. They decide who mates and as a result they set the rules for the males of that species.

For example, male penguins are the ones who go out and and put themselves in danger so that the female penguins can be protected. They also go out and get presents for female penguins, something you find in humans as well.

Well imagine if one day all the male penguins got together and established a system to get all of these goods and resources for all the female penguins.

They would be "in charge" of that system, but it would exist for the benefit of female penguins. And if it didn't work, the female penguins would stop mating until all the male penguins got their "shit" together and fixed it.

So who really has power in that situation? Who is considered to be more valuable? And who is really in charge, or socially dominant?

Imagine having so much power that you don't even have to dictate the how, the who, or even the what. You simply have to demonstrate your own satisfaction, approval, or disapproval. And everyone else has to scramble to make you happy, without even knowing what it is that you want.

Power follows the gender that reproduces. The fact that males are usually stronger does not indicate that they are dominant. It indicates that they have to be stronger in order to play by the rules set up by the females of the species.

Hello! The USF chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is hosting a 5k fun run tomorrow at 9:00 am in the beautiful Holloway Park! Join us for a run, costume contest, and a SWEet raffle! All proceeds benefit STEM education and help us build a scholarship for an incoming engineering student!

Register here: https://www.active.com/lakeland-fl/running/distance-running-races/usf-swe-5k-fun-run-2017?int= Follow our Facebook page for important updates: http://www.Facebook.com/USFSWE5kFunRun

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013. 6:30-8:30pm 0110 EGR. Tickets are $5. Email swe.umd@gmail.com for a ticket, and mention that you heard about this on reddit for free food! All majors/genders welcome.

I've seen so many people -- especially on the Internet and on Reddit, but even IRL -- deride creative career paths/creativity-focused education as if everyone who is a "creative" is a valueless sap on society destined to be a starving artist, or a coffee shop writer, or a street musician, or a waiter-by-day/aspiring-actor-by-night. Some people have even said that creative fields should be discouraged. Cases in point.

I mean, I get it, STEM career paths are perceived to provide a more secure path to stable income than most creative career paths. But honestly it's not a guarantee. I would argue that instead of a more secure path, STEM simply provides a more structured path, and structure gives an impression of security, which may or may not be justified. In any field, you still need to put in the work and demonstrate a level of talent before you can progress, and in any field, the cream will still rise to the top and the crap will still sink into the toilet. Frankly, speaking as an engineer, if it wasn't for creatives, the vast majority of the work that scientists and engineers and mathematicians do would never get out into the world.

Everywhere you look, you're surrounded by the work of creatives. Never mind the obvious; everyone knows about books, music, and movies/television. I'm talking about things like cars, furniture, appliances, tools, devices, websites, computer programs, landscapes, entire buildings, etc. Every consumer product you've ever bought and/or used began development as concept art on an artist's page, and if that initial concept sucks, then no engineer can fix it. Entire companies derive almost all of their competitive value from their ability to create products that fundamentally perform the same objective function as their competitors, but are more attractive, feel better, sound better, etc. That's the work of creatives collaborating with engineers, not by engineers alone.

To put it more succinctly: the Blackberry was a phone designed by engineers, but the iPhone was a phone designed by artists. Which would you rather use?

Hell, let's forget the consumer world for a second. Anyone who has worked in a technical or scientific field can attest to the abs

Original Prompt by /u/AnOrdinaryNun

The woman cried. The nine months of joy, anticipation, and excitement were crushed by the harsh reality she now faced. She had hoped for this, planned for it, prayed for it. And after five generations if illegal experimentation, her mother had finally managed to crack the code and reverse the unnatural manipulation forced upon them. But from there it came down to luck, as it did with most genetic traits. Brown eyes or blue, dark hair or light, tall or short.

Male or female.

Her mother had two girls. Her sister had one. The woman was the lucky one. For the first time in nearly three hundred years, the world received upon its surface a beautiful baby boy. But the woman knew the child’s life would be quickly snuffed out were his presence on the earth ever made known. The cure had been discovered and now even proved, but the world as a whole was not yet ready for such a feat. Instead, it would need to be shared carefully with other like-minded young women who not only shared in the woman’s loathing of the hateful practices, but were willing to sacrifice everything to force a change. An underground movement, starting slowly, but gradually gaining momentum; growing into an unstoppable force that would one day topple the despots from their thrones and bring natural life back into the world.

But until then, there was the wilderness. A wilderness so vast that one child and his mother could hide simply because there were not enough people left on earth to search the entire expanse. And so the woman, held in the loving embrace of her mother and sister, cried. She cried for all the conversations they would never again have. She cried for all the hugs she would never again share with them. She cried for depriving them of the grandson and nephew they toiled so long for but would never see again. And she cried for the life she must now force upon that which she loved more than anything else in the world. A painful and brutal life. A life of hardship and toil. A solitary life. A life to be lived in fear because of a hate for a few who have long since reverted to dust.

When there were no more words to be said and no more tears to be shed, the woman hoisted her pack onto her shoulders and swaddled her precious infant into a sling at her breast, and gave herself to the wild.

Thirty-four years later

Amy was exhausted.