SHPE Sacramento Professionals - News & Announcements: September 2010
Arianna Raymundo
News & Announcements: September 2010
Saludos SHPE Sacramento Family and Friends! The chapter board is very enthusiastic about the start of this 2010-2011 SHPE year. Coming off of a well-attended kickoff meeting and great turnout at the annual Fall welcome BBQ, we are moving forward very strong. We hope the benefits that a SHPE membership provides allows you to develop into a more well-rounded professional, inspire you to new heights in your career, and provide you with opportunities to give back. We have some great events coming up this month, but we always welcome your feedback and suggestions. Read on for more information. Thanks!
Big Crush Harvest Festival - Amador County
Please join us for a great day of wine tasting in Amador County. Last year, twelve SHPE members & friends attended the Big Crush Harvest Festival. By popular demand, we will be returning to this event on Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, from 10am - 4pm. We will have two pick-up locations available and will be departing Sacramento at 8:45am. The Evite was sent out earlier last week to the SHPE Sacramento group; please view the Evite for more details and to RSVP for the event. Tickets for the event are $35 the day of the event and can be purchased at our first wine-stop. To find out more information on the winery events at the Big Crush, click here. For more information, you may also contact Mario at mcar...@sacramento-shpe.org.
Bomba Blast Resume & Interview Skills Workshop
This is the fourth year that the SHPE Sacramento Professional Chapter will host the annual Region 1 Bomba Blast on Saturday, October 16th, 2010, from 8:30am - 12:00pm, at Drexel University in Old Sacramento. The Bomba Blast is a region-wide event where SHPE Professional Chapters invite their local SHPE student chapters and present on resume writing skills and effective interviewing techniques. This event is held before the SHPE National Conference in order to prepare students for meeting with corporate representatives at the conference and for marketing themselves at career fairs and in interviews. Volunteers are needed for Bomba Blast, specifically for the Mock Interview Sessions. We expect to have 30+ students! If you love to reach out, this is the event for you. Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information and to volunteer, contact Nick at nbr...@sacramento-shpe.org.
SHPE National Conference
The SHPE Conference will be taking place Thursday, October 27th - Sunday, October 31st in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the professional program beginning on Thursday, October 28th. The professional tracks are better than ever, with at least one to be perfect for you. The great professional program ensures you will continue to develop the skills to help your career and provide the opportunity to earn credits toward professional certification. For more information, visit www.shpe.org/shpe2010.
SHPE Membership Drive & Special Election
Have you paid your 2010-2010 SHPE professional membership?? The SHPE professional member fee is $45, with the majority of your contribution coming back to your SHPE Sacramento chapter. Visit www.oneshpe.shpe.org to renew or to sign up. Pass the word to your colleagues and friends.
The Special Election for the K-12 Outreach Coordinator position and the University Liason Outreach Coordinator position is coming up. You must be a paid member to submit a ballot.
If you are interested in either position, please submit a nomination to mcar...@sacramento-shpe.org by October 1st, 2010. Ballots will be sent out October 4th.
Upcoming Events
We hope you can join us for the following October events. Visit our SHPE Sacramento website for our complete Fall/Winter calendar.
Sat 10/2/10—Big Crush Harvest Festival
Wine Tasting ~ Networking
POC: Mario Carreon, mcar...@sacramento-shpe.org
Fri 10/8/10—Noche de Ciencias
CSUS SHPE student chapter will be hosting their annual Family Science Night. If you or your child would like to participate, or if you would like to help out with the STEM event, contact the SHPE CSUS President.
POC: Josh Iniguez, sacshpe....@gmail.com
Sat 10/16/10—Bomba Blast Resume & Mock Interview Workshop
Resume presentation to SHPE students ~ Mock Interview seesions ~ Volunteers Needed
POC: Nick Bruque, nbr...@sacramento-shpe.org
Wed 11/3/10—SHPE Sacramento General Meeting
General Meetings held every 1st Wednesday on even months.
POC: Mario Carreon, mcar...@sacramento-shpe.org
Past Events
Kickoff Meeting: Thanks to all who came out for our Kickoff Meeting at Centro’s Cocina Mexicana in Midtown Sacramento on Wednesday, September 1st. We had 20+ SHPE members and friends attend, as well as many new faces. We had a great power networking session in the midst of some great appetizers and drinks, and unveiled our Fall calendar and informed everyone about the the chapter's goals for the year. To our returning members, thank you for your continued support and welcome back! To our new members, welcome to the SHPE Family!
SHPE Familia BBQ: We had a great turnout at our annual SHPE Sacramento Familia BBQ on Saturday, September 18th. The SHPE Sacramento professionals welcomed SHPE students from Sacramento State, University of the Pacific and Yuba City College. We enjoyed delicious carne asada and chicken tacos accompanied by amazing sides, as well as some great volleyball matches. Thanks to all who attended and helped make this event a big success!
Career Opportunities
The US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, has multiple openings for supervisory-level engineers (CE/ME/EE). Please visit USAJOBS for more information.
Intel has a co-op opportunity for a Software (SW) student position. Clik on this link http://sacramento.geebo.com/jobs-online/information-technology/37763793.
If your agency is hiring, let us know. We will advertise opportunities on our SHPE Sacramento website.
SHPE Scholarship
Earlier this year, we awarded our first two SHPE Sacramento Scholarships. The two deserving students will be entering school very soon and putting the scholarship to great use as they pursue their engineering degrees. You can make a difference all year long by visiting the SHPE Sacramento webpage at www.sacramento-shpe.org to make a contribution to the SHPE Sacramento Scholarship Fund. Thank you for your support!
*This month we're featuring one of our inaugural scholarship recipients, Alejandra Aguilar, a Biomedical Engineering major at University of the Pacific (UOP), in Stockton, California. Below, Alejandra, in her own words, shares her insight on being a Latina pursuing a career in engineering, her transition to college life, the role SHPE has played at UOP, etc.
"I came to the University of the Pacific in the Fall of 2008 as a freshman full of mixed emotions but I was ready to experience college and a sense of freedom. The transition to college was not quite as easy I had imagined because I was trying to get accustomed to the new pressures and demands at UOP. I knew I would have to study much harder and longer hours than I did in high school. Also, because I am a Latina majoring in engineering, that sometimes made me feel unfitted to my major as a result of not knowing many other Latina engineer majors like myself.
When the current Fall semester began, it was obvious that I was one of the few females in my math and engineering classes, not to mention the only Latina. It has felt a bit intimidating at times being around so many males, many of whom are Caucasion.
I became involved with our Pacific SHPE student chapter at the beginning of my freshman year and until now the majority of the members were juniors and seniors; I was the youngest member in the group. Now, four of them are pursuing master degrees in engineering at Pacific [UOP]. I always knew I wanted to pursue a masters, but actually knowing them and receiving their encouragement reinforced my decision to apply to grad school last spring. This week I received my acceptance letter to the graduate program and I will begin in the summer of 2011. If I had not become invovled with SHPE, I believe it would've been more difficult for me to meet the 'older' SHPE students and I wouldn't have known that some of them were pursuing graduate degrees. Our SHPE familia on campus has had an amazing influence on me and I know that they will all go on to accomplish great things in their engineering fields.
Being selected as a recipient for the first ever SHPE Sacramento scholarship was an honor for me, and as we all know, any scholarship received by any student helps a lot with the rising costs of higher education. I offer my sincerest thanks to SHPE Sacramento Professionals for your generosity. I hope one day in the near future, I’ll be able to help engineering-bound students as you have helped me."
Contact Us
If you have any suggestions or questions, please email Mario Carreon, Chapter President, at mcar...@sacramento-shpe.org.
***You can also stay in touch with SHPE Sacramento on the SHPE Sacramento website (www.sacramento-shpe.org), Facebook (SHPE Sacramento) and LinkedIn.***
Thanks!!
SHPE Sacramento