News

WE17 the largest conference for women engineers, was a huge success held in Austin, Texas! Yale SWE was honored to obtain 3 awards: collegiate gold award, best practices mentoring, and SWE resource promotion. Bridget Hegarty was chosen from a competitive pool of applicants to present her poster, in addition to giving updates and insight at our Region meeting.

During the 2017 High School Engineering Day, we helped students create customizable motion-sensing LED bracelets. We hope that students were able to gain confidence in their engineering skills through conquering intimidating tasks like wiring a breadboard and understanding Arduino code! 

We were honored to participate in a small group discussion with Ursula Burns, Chairman of the board and former CEO of Xerox Corporation. Ursula gave insightful and honest answers to questions surrounding the theme of “finding your path as a millennial engineer.” We loved getting to share this experience with the National Society of Black Engineers, the Yale League of Black Scientists, and FIRST Robotics alums!

We had a wonderful time at the 2017 SWE Region F Conference at UConn last Saturday! Big congratulations to Rita Matta on being awarded 1st place in the grad poster competition, as well as to the gradSWE eboard for winning an “Outstanding Communications Award”. We’re already pumped for WE17!

Etiquette Educator Robert Shutt returned to New Haven this year to teach engineering undergrads and grads about proper business etiquette. We were thrilled to learn how to “shine while you dine”!

Creating gingerbread houses was the perfect way to relax right before finals week. This undergrad and graduate event was a hit–check out some of the impressive gingerbread houses that were constructed!

We loved getting to work with high school students to build a “programmable garden”. The students programmed an arduino to automate the watering of a plant through a humidity sensor.