Benefits of being a SWE member

Building Skills in your career
There are opportunities to plan meetings and career guidance events. If you present a paper at the National Conference, you will gain visibility for yourself and your company. Being active in a professional organization can show your manager that you have the initiative to take on more responsibility.

Experience of other members
Meeting women from other companies and even reading about the careers of successful members in the SWE Magazine can provide you with role-models. within our section, you can receive advice and even first-hand testimony on issues like getting promoted, sexual harrassment, etc.

Networking
SWE offers many opportunites for gaining contacts at large and small companies. When you consider all the mergers, spin-offs, and divestitures that have ocurred in the past few years, a network is a necessity.

Effect on your career
A positive one when you need to make a career change. Besides our local section, there are nationwide resources to help your job search. Send in your information to the SWE resume database, or use the job-hunting service from the web page. The annual Career Fair at the National convention is another great place to find a job.

Fun
Every month it's fun to get together with SWE friends, but some meetings are planned for more socializing such as our summer picnic and holiday socials.

Community
The SWE plans activities thoughout the year that benefit the community.

Information
You can add to your business knowledge with topics like "Technical Presentations" and "Dress for Success"

Time For yourself
Don't you deserve a night out every once in a while? At our meetings, you can converse with a peer group that is hard to find at work or in the neighborhood.

Support
As women engineers we can feel isolated in the workplace. SWE gives you feeling of belonging, with members to reassure you that you can survive the sports and car talk.

When you join SWE as a member of the national organization, you are automatically a member of a section. The section to which you are assigned is dependent upon your home address. SWE membership is open to all women and men engineering students, engineers in all disciplines, and non-engineers with equivalent engineering experience.

Fees
Annual Membership Dues are due June 30, 2007.

Grades of Membership:
Collegiate Members : $20
Recent Grads: $20 after grad, $50 for 2nd year!
Professional Membership: $100
Joint with NSBE OR SHPE: $130 (new members) or $110 (for renewing members)
Lifetime Membership : $2,000
Retired: $50
Associate: $100
Affiliate: $100

Corporate Memberships are also available. For online renewals: www.swe.org/renew

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