Society of Women Engineers - United States Military Academy (SWE USMA)

10/01/2020

Today SWE hosted the first "Coffee with Colleagues" of the year! Cadets and faculty enjoyed morning coffee and donuts. Then, MAJ Razon gave an interesting talk on how simulation was used to support R-Day Operations.

04/15/2020

Congratulations to Kalista Schauer, a member of SWE who has just been named as a Goldwater Scholar!

Kalista is a Physics Major and Photonics Minor. She began conducting research during her yearling year with a project titled “Energy conditions for a quantized scalar field in the presence of an external, time-dependent Mamaev-Trunov potential.” Kalista is now working on a joint USMA-Army Research Labs project titled “Optical buffering in a bottle microresonator on an optical fiber,” as well as another project titled “Photonics Integrated Circuit”. She has completed summer internships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Army Research Labs. Kalista is the captain of the parliamentary debate team, a CRLA peer tutor, a member of the Society of Women Engineers, and a volunteer for STEM outreach and diversity inclusion programs. Kalista will pursue a Master of Science in Physics and eventually a Ph.D. in Particle Physics.
(C: West Point Graduate Scholarship Program)

12/02/2019

Last Saturday on 24 November, the Society of Women Engineers took a trip to New York City to visit the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath)! They got to ride bikes with square wheels that had surprisingly smooth rides, and they also spent a lot of time solving math puzzles.

Following the visit to the museum, the cadets went up the Empire State Building and got to see some awesome views of the city.

11/15/2019

On November 13, SWE members gathered for our Coffee with Colleagues event. During this monthly gatherings, SWE members enjoy coffee and facilitated discussion over a pertinent topic. This month, CDT Kalista Schauer facilitated a discussion over choosing majors and pursuing academic opportunities within departments.

10/09/2019

Last Wednesday, SWE provided a great start to a study day by gathering at Trophy point for breakfast!

08/27/2019

Club Night was a success thanks to our dedicated volunteers. The club now has 60 members!

05/12/2019

Congratulations to the 14 members of the Cadet Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers for earning the right to wear the SWE Club Patch on their cadet jackets. These members have been the core of our chapter during the 2019 Academic Year.

04/19/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEeTLopLkEo

Close your eyes and picture and engineer. You probably weren't envisioning Debbie Sterling. Debbie Sterling is an engineer and founder of GoldieBlox, a toy c...

04/14/2019

Watch interviews with Julie Jackson, Terry Land, Suzanne Singer, Vanessa Tolosa, and Monique Warren from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in ...

04/09/2019

Women comprise about one fifth of engineers in the United States, earning 20 percent of engineering bachelor’s degrees and 23 percent of doctorates, according to the National Science Foundation.

Women leave the workforce faster than men, with only 30 percent of women with engineering bachelor’s degrees still working in engineering 20 years later.

Read the article to learn more.

Engineering is a heavily male-dominated field, as a result the lack of women speakers at engineering conferences comes as no surprise.

04/09/2019

Powerful words by a Coach McGraw. She hit the nail on the head when she said "People hire people who look like them and that's a problem."