This year’s SWE Annual Conference was held in Los Angeles, California from October 22nd to 25th. It truly captured the essence of its theme, “A Global Exchange for Change.”
Rockwell Collins Booth at Career Fair
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This year's Annual Conference, entitled Make Connections, Make History, was held in Baltimore, MD from October 24th-26th. SWE-ECI was able to send 5 members of it's core board to the conference this year.  Students working on their Lunar Landers at Invent It. Build It. This year Rebecca Reck, SWE-ECI’s Section Representative, was recognized as one of SWE’s New Faces of Engineering Award, and was featured in in the Winter 2013 issue of SWE Magazine. This award recognizes the accomplishments of early–career engineers, highlighting the breadth of possibilities an engineering career offers, and at the same time, putting a youthful face on the profession.
What a conference this year! WE12, the 61st annual conference for Women Engineers, was held in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center November 7 through 11. Record-breaking attendence was recorded: a total of 6,400 attendees!  Rockwell Women Touring Houston Facility during WE12 Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Deputy Director of NASA’s Johnson Space center, will discuss “launches, landings, and other spaceflight milestones that have shaped her career and life” during her keynote address at the WE12 Annual Conference this November in Houston.
To kick off FY13 the leadership of SWE-ECI held two Strategic Planning Sessions. The purpose of these meetings was to bring current SWE members and interested potential SWE members within the East Central Iowa Section together to clearly define how SWE-ECI can best provide value to the members of the section and to the community in FY13.
SWE-ECI members Bernadine Splettstoeszer and Rebecca Reck have each had one session proposal accepted for the WE12 Annual Conference. They will present their sessions this November in Houston.
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