SWE Pittsburgh News
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- Section Achievements
- SWE Pittsburgh has expanded!
- SWE Pittsburgh Mission Awards FY22: Gold Award, Best Practice - Professional Development, Best Practice - SWE Resource Promotion, Best Practice - Global & Multicultural
- WE Local Award FY22: Outstanding Outreach Event
- SWE Pittsburgh Mission Awards FY21: Gold Award, Globalization Best Practice, Diversity & Inclusion Best Practice
- SWE Mission Awards FY20: Gold Award, SWE Resource Promotion
- Member Achievements
- Mary Zeis - Fellow Grade Award 2021
- Janise Kim - SWENext Global Innovator Award
- Kim Daloise - WE 2021 New ELiTE Award
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Section Achievements
SWE Pittsburgh has expanded!
SWE Professional sections are defined by zip code. On February 17, 2022, the SWE Board of Directors approved SWE Pittsburgh's motion to expand to Morgantown, WV. Before the motion, these members were considered Members at Large.
Why expand?
We look forward to having those in the Morgantown area be a welcome part of SWE Pittsburgh!
Why expand?
- We have long had a relationship with the West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown.
- Morgantown is only an hour away from downtown Pittsburgh!
- We've learned a lot through virtual programming during the pandemic. We intend to continue hybrid and virtual programming going forward, so our members farther away will still be able to stay highly involved with the Section.
We look forward to having those in the Morgantown area be a welcome part of SWE Pittsburgh!
SWE Pittsburgh is an award-winning Section three years in a row!!
"The Mission Awards recognize SWE groups that embody SWE core values and demonstrate continuous improvement and growth as they work to achieve the Society’s strategic goals."
SWE Pittsburgh is a recipient of the following SWE Mission Awards:
- Professional Gold
- Best Practice - Professional Development
- Best Practice - SWE Resource Promotion
- Best Practice - Global and Multicultural
SWE Pittsburgh Won a WE Local Award! |
"This award recognizes groups that plan and carry out a high-quality outreach event to inspire future engineers."
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SWE Pittsburgh’s submission featured two Virtual SWENext Networking events that were specifically designed together for high school girls. The objectives were to meet other STEM-minded girls and network with SWE members.
The “Zoom Networking for High School Girls” was run on November 17, 2020 during the fall semester and the “SWENext Speed Mentoring” was run on April 22, 2021 during the spring semester. 48 girls and 16 women engineers participated in these two events.
The “Zoom Networking for High School Girls” was run on November 17, 2020 during the fall semester and the “SWENext Speed Mentoring” was run on April 22, 2021 during the spring semester. 48 girls and 16 women engineers participated in these two events.
SWE Pittsburgh could not run award-winning events like this without our volunteer members. Thank you to the following members for being a part of these events: Lindsay Bonn, Rachel Upadhyay, Anita Jain, Deborah Mort, Deepika Devarajan, Erica Stevens, Jackie Welsh, Karen Levin, Mary Hall, Meaghan Shea, Mikayla Ferchaw, Paula Baker, Rebecca Rugh, Samantha Orlando, Sydney Sandidge, and Mary Zeis.
SWE Pittsburgh is an award-winning Section for FY21!
"The Mission Awards recognize SWE groups that embody SWE core values and demonstrate continuous improvement and growth as they work to achieve the Society’s strategic goals."
SWE Pittsburgh is a recipient of the following SWE Mission Awards:
- Globalization - Best Practice - Partnerships with Collegiates, Professionals, Industry and Academia
- Diversity & Inclusion - Best Practice - Mentoring
- Professional Gold
SWE Pittsburgh is an award-winning Section for FY20!
Thank you all for your efforts during FY20 to help our section excel.
Your combined efforts resulted in a Mission Gold Award from the Society! The Gold Award is the highest award that a section can receive.
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We also received the SWE Mission Award for Best Practice for SWE Resource Promotion for the SWE Leadership model webinar, the coffee chat on communication cues webinar, the use of the outreach toolkit, and the use of the vitality self-assessment to set next year's goals for our section.
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These awards recognize SWE groups that embody SWE core values and demonstrate continuous improvement and growth as they work to achieve the Society’s strategic goals. You can read more about Mission Awards on the Society's blog.
We are looking forward to continuing to provide excellent programming and a supportive community throughout FY21 and beyond!
We are looking forward to continuing to provide excellent programming and a supportive community throughout FY21 and beyond!
Member Achievements
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Mary Zeis - Fellow Grade Award 2021
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"...[A] SWE member who has achieved professional excellence, while also making substantive contributions towards advancing the objectives and goals of the Society.... [A] SWE member who has contributed significantly to the public’s awareness of engineering as a profession for women, and informing employers, the profession and the public of women’s contributions to the fields of engineering and/or engineering management."
- SWE FY21 Individual Awards Packet |
Mary Zeis was selected as the recipient of the SWE Fellow Grade. The Fellow Grade is an honor conferred on SWE members with at least 20 years of professional membership who have achieved professional excellence while also having continuous sustained service to the advancement of women in the engineering profession.
Mary was an R&D Associate Director for Procter & Gamble before retiring in 2009 after 31 years of service. Her career began as a process development engineer and then progressed up the management ladder. She had assignments of increasing responsibility in the Laundry, Dish Care, Oral Care, and Baby Care businesses.
Mary joined SWE as a freshman in college in 1975 and was delighted to receive her 45-year member pin in 2020. Mary became a Life Member of SWE in 2006. Mary has been the Vice President for STEM Outreach for the SWE Pittsburgh section for seven years. She was the Chair of SWE’s Outreach Committee in FY16 and FY17. She was also the first Chair of SWE’s Student Programs (SWENext) Committee in FY20. Mary has personally participated in or led over 100 Outreach events since retiring. She is so thankful for the resources, colleagueship, and opportunities for service that SWE provides.
SWE Pittsburgh has three other members who have been recognized as SWE Fellows: Helen Patricia, Marilyn Reeder, and Mary Ann Walsh.
Mary was an R&D Associate Director for Procter & Gamble before retiring in 2009 after 31 years of service. Her career began as a process development engineer and then progressed up the management ladder. She had assignments of increasing responsibility in the Laundry, Dish Care, Oral Care, and Baby Care businesses.
Mary joined SWE as a freshman in college in 1975 and was delighted to receive her 45-year member pin in 2020. Mary became a Life Member of SWE in 2006. Mary has been the Vice President for STEM Outreach for the SWE Pittsburgh section for seven years. She was the Chair of SWE’s Outreach Committee in FY16 and FY17. She was also the first Chair of SWE’s Student Programs (SWENext) Committee in FY20. Mary has personally participated in or led over 100 Outreach events since retiring. She is so thankful for the resources, colleagueship, and opportunities for service that SWE provides.
SWE Pittsburgh has three other members who have been recognized as SWE Fellows: Helen Patricia, Marilyn Reeder, and Mary Ann Walsh.
Janise Kim - SWENext Global Innovator Award
Janise Kim, a 12th grader at Fox Chapel Area High School, has won the SWENext Global Innovator Award. This award is given to only 6 SWENext seniors each year. It recognizes the outstanding young women shaping the future of SWE by developing an engineering identity in themselves and others and volunteering in outreach initiatives.
Janise is a longstanding member of the Girls of Steel, an all-female First Robotics Competition team. She co-founded and developed the BuzzBandSM, a patent-pending vibration device that motivates youth with autism to exercise through tactile stimulation, which was selected as a Lemelson-MIT Inventeams Finalist. She also recruited and led a team in developing CITISYNC, a highly-accurate occupancy tracking system that employs deep learning-enabled computer vision to track the number of occupants within a facility at a specific time, for which they were selected to be the grand champions of the Governor’s STEM Competition.
Janise also designed and ran the virtual Mentorship 101 workshop for high school students that SWE Pittsburgh sponsored.
You can view Janise’s submission video here.
Janise is a longstanding member of the Girls of Steel, an all-female First Robotics Competition team. She co-founded and developed the BuzzBandSM, a patent-pending vibration device that motivates youth with autism to exercise through tactile stimulation, which was selected as a Lemelson-MIT Inventeams Finalist. She also recruited and led a team in developing CITISYNC, a highly-accurate occupancy tracking system that employs deep learning-enabled computer vision to track the number of occupants within a facility at a specific time, for which they were selected to be the grand champions of the Governor’s STEM Competition.
Janise also designed and ran the virtual Mentorship 101 workshop for high school students that SWE Pittsburgh sponsored.
You can view Janise’s submission video here.
Kim Daloise - WE Local 2021 New ELiTE Award
Congratulations to Kimberly Daloise who was selected to receive the SWE WE Local 2021 New ELiTE (Emerging Leader in Technology & Engineering) Award!
The WE Local New ELiTE Award honors women with less than 10 years of engineering experience who have demonstrated technical excellence and have strong SWE and community involvement. The application included a formal statement (<2500 words), a professional resume, a SWE resume, and three letters of support (from a work colleague, SWE colleague, and community involvement colleague).
Kim has a B.S. in Bioengineering and a minor in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh.
Upon graduation, she began working at Bayer as an Associate Quality Engineer at the Indianola plant. Over the last five years she has taken on assignments of increasing responsibility and is now a Project Quality Assurance Engineer at the Bayer O’Hara plant where she helps to bring in new products for manufacturing.
Kim has been involved with SWE since her freshman year at Pitt. During her senior year, she was Pitt SWE’s Treasurer. After joining our Pittsburgh professional section, Kim served as Treasurer for two years, President for three years, and is currently section Treasurer.
Since the 2021 WE Locals have been postponed until 2022, SWE will celebrate the receipt of the WE Local awards virtually. More details regarding method of recognition will be available later.
The WE Local New ELiTE Award honors women with less than 10 years of engineering experience who have demonstrated technical excellence and have strong SWE and community involvement. The application included a formal statement (<2500 words), a professional resume, a SWE resume, and three letters of support (from a work colleague, SWE colleague, and community involvement colleague).
Kim has a B.S. in Bioengineering and a minor in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh.
Upon graduation, she began working at Bayer as an Associate Quality Engineer at the Indianola plant. Over the last five years she has taken on assignments of increasing responsibility and is now a Project Quality Assurance Engineer at the Bayer O’Hara plant where she helps to bring in new products for manufacturing.
Kim has been involved with SWE since her freshman year at Pitt. During her senior year, she was Pitt SWE’s Treasurer. After joining our Pittsburgh professional section, Kim served as Treasurer for two years, President for three years, and is currently section Treasurer.
Since the 2021 WE Locals have been postponed until 2022, SWE will celebrate the receipt of the WE Local awards virtually. More details regarding method of recognition will be available later.
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