Posted on January 28, 2012 by nywie

This WiE site is the website for the IEEE New York Section Affinity group. In a city like New York there must be many women engineers, but the sad fact is that the NY Section WiE has less than fifty active members. We plan to change that starting in 2012. Our goal is to double that number as soon as we can. A little known fact is that student members of the IEEE are automatically a member of any affinity group. But… we would like students to become active members of our group. It is a great place to start working on your professional network, meet with possible mentors. You don’t have to wait until you get a job to start making a difference in the world.

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WiE February 2012 newsletter

Posted on March 25, 2012 by nywie

The global WiE newsletter for Februart 2012 is out and can be accessed at the membership services website. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on … Continue reading →

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Awards for Region 1 WiE members

Posted on January 24, 2012 by nywie

The 2011  Member and Geographic Activities awards are out, and two New York Section WiE members are recognized in the Region 1 Area:

The Leadership Award goes to Darlene E. Rivera (Region 1) New York Section who received the award “For innovative, influential leadership, encouraging member engagement and development in the New York Section”

The GOLD Achievement Award goes to Balvinder Blah (Region 1) New York Section. She received the award for her …”extraordinary contributions to GOLD, student activities, and section- and chapter-level activities that encourage and engage the next generation of IEEE members and leaders.”

NY WiE also congratulates Holly M. Cyrus (Region 2) Southern New Jersey Section, who received an Achievement Award “For outstanding leadership and continued inspiration toward the establishment of Women in Engineering (WIE) affinity groups within IEEE, and creating a robust, engaged member environment by integrating WIE within the Southern New Jersey Section.”

NY WiE congratulates all IEEE members, throughout the world who received an award as well.

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Is IEEE Spectrum selling out women?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by nywie

As often happens, after posting “what’s wrong with pink legos” (see sidebar), the subject showed up regularly in my mind’s carousel, and as I am looking at the front cover of the January 2012 issue of IEEE Spectrum showing an image leading to the feature article “Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton” it hits me right between the eyes. Ah, I think — pretty, pink — there must be a great story attached to this. And indeed there is a great story, however, even though Tamara gets another full page frontal exposure inside the article that is the last we see or hear about her. I have to say that on the IEEE  spectrum website Tamara does get a bit more exposure – a video of her photo shoot – which hopefully for her will lead to a new career in modeling, but again… So on to the Ekso Bionics website that has great content, but alas — there are no women in the leadership section. However, the good news is they are looking for electrical and control engineers. So women engineers, spruce up your cv and apply.

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