University of Miami Society of Women Engineers: Future SWE


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Core Values

  • Professionalism:  We conduct our activities in a businesslike manner, demonstrating and demanding the highest standards of quality
  • Integrity : We aspire to the highest level of ethical behavior as evidenced by honesty and dignity in our personal and professional relationships and responsibilities.
  • Respect : We acknowledge gender, ethnic, cultural, age,  and other difference, and strive to respect the added values they bring.
  • Mutual Support : We provide an organization that fosters the development of a professional network and the growth of personal friendships


    • Strategic Planning

  • Leadership/Professional Development: SWE will provide opportunities for women to attain, enhance, and demonstrate leadership, professional, and technical excellence that results in career aspiration, advancement, achievement and satisfaction.
  • Inclusiveness/Diversity: SWE will embrace and promote the value and power of diversity in specialties, age, race, ethnicity, language, gender identity, sexual orientation, and interests.
  • Knowledge Source : SWE will share its acquired knowledge and promote programs that bridge the gaps in recruitment, professional development, and retention of women in engineering.
  • Education/Outreach : SWE will inspire girls and women from diverse backgrounds and life stages to aspire to engineering for meaningful and rewarding careers

    You can uphold these same core values and strategic priorities in your high schools with your own SWE section through the Future SWE program.


    Reach out!

    With a SWE section at your high school, you can perform community service activities as a group.  Many high school students are required to earn community service hours, and what better way to do it than earn them in an interesting way with people you know?  (For example, you could do something like Habitat for Humanity, if you're interested in the Civil/Architectural side of things, or in a hospital if you're more Biomedical.)

    You could also tutor people in math and science subjects.  You could find high schools, middle schools, or even elementary schools who could use a little help and give them a hand.


    Inform yourselves about engineering!

    The University of Miami SWE section is here to help you with this, but in the end, you have to do research too.  And never keep this information exclusively to yourselves.  Spread the good word.  You may reach out to someone who had never considered engineering an option, and will then realize it's their perfect future.


    Work together!

    Have you ever heard of synergy?  Synergy refers to the concept that a whole may become greater than the sum of its parts.  By working together, you could create an effect of synergy.  You will be able to do so much more together than you could by yourselves, and this goes on an individual and section level.  Communicate and organize within your own sections, and reach out to each other and see what you can do!  Organize activities,  field trips, etc.


    Build momentum!

    This is only the beginning.  FSWE was started last semester, and is already impacting three high schools in Miami-Dade!  Just to clarify, you are to run your SWE section on your own, like a miniature of what is going on at the collegiate level.


    Whatever you do, always rise to your full potential.  The sky is the limit, and the world is yours.