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EVENING WITH INDUSTRY
Internal Director: Khanh Tran | External Director: Lillian Gonick
Contact: ewi.swe.ucla@gmail.com
Evening with Industry (EWI) is one of the largest student-run networking events at UCLA attracting around 40 companies and 300 students annually. The three part event includes a networking hour, dinner with a few company representatives, and a private career fair. Additionally, the committee plans and hosts professional development workshops to help UCLA engineering students put their best foot forward!
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MENTORSHIP
Mentorship Director: Deanna Pham
Contact: mentorship.swe.ucla@gmail.com
The Mentorship Committee coordinates a variety of mentorship programs and events with the goal of connecting SWE members with each other as well as professional mentors in academia and industry! Mentorship also hosts several professional, career and networking events and panels.
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DEV
Dev Directors: Shahd Abouhussein, Lavender Hwang
Contact: webmaster.swe.ucla@gmail.com
SWE’s Dev Team works on redesigning and updating the SWE UCLA website and websites for our other flagship events, such as EWI and EPIC. The team also developing other projects to enhance our team’s technical skills. The dev team is currently working on SWE Glassdoor, a community-based career preparation platform, and most recently developed algorithms for mentor-mentee matching and EWI table sorting.
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ADVOCACY
Advocacy Director: Anvitha Mattapalli
Contact: advocacy.swe.ucla@gmail.com
SWE Advocacy is dedicated to fostering a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment within the UCLA School of Engineering, empowering all engineering students to reach their full potential as engineers and leaders. In addition to initiatives like I Look Like an Engineer and Mental Health Awareness Week, this committee organizes the flagship event Engineers for Professional Inclusion Conference (EPIC), where students, industry professionals, and academics from diverse backgrounds engage in meaningful discussions about diversity and collaborate on actionable solutions to improve inclusion in engineering.
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TECHNICAL
Internal Director: Nikita Senthil | External Director: Aruushi Kaur
Contact: teamtech.swe.ucla@gmail.com
SWE-UCLA Technical Committee aims to provide people more opportunities to develop technical skills while feeling supported throughout their learning. This committee plans and hosts workshops to teach important tech industry skills. They also organize QWER Hacks, an LGBTQ+ inclusive Hackathon, with the goal of bringing more awareness and support for the queer community in STEM.
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INTERNAL AFFAIRS
Student Relations Director: Lara Marie Go | Internal Vice President: Evelyn Cho
Contact: studentrelations.swe.ucla@gmail.com
The Internal Affairs Committee works to strengthen the bonds between SWE members by hosting various inter-committee and member socials and contributes to our growing community of empowerment. This committee plans SWE general events, including networking events with professors and company representatives and LinkedIn headshots, as well as inter-committee social events, such as boba socials, hiking socials, and paint nights.
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OUTREACH
Internal Director: Gabriella Perez | External Director: Nikitha Ambatipudi
Contact: outreach.swe.ucla@gmail.com
The Outreach Committee focuses on exposing elementary, middle, and high-school girls to engineering. They host several keystone events including Hi Engineer! for local middle and high-school students, the Women in Engineering Stay-over Program (ESP) for newly admitted UCLA women engineers, and Project Scientist!
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GRADSWE
Alumni Relations Director: Himani Jha
Contact: alumnirelations.swe.ucla@gmail.com
The SWE @ UCLA Lobbying Committee works to advocate for women engineers through school-wide, state, and federal government. Throughout the year we organize events centered on providing intersectional support to women engineers. We hope to engage UCLA and the greater community in activism and inspire collective action. In addition, our lobbying team travels to Washington D.C. each spring for the opportunity to further their advocacy directly with government representatives.
SWE FAMILIES
Student Relations Director: Lara Marie Go
Contact: studentrelations.swe.ucla@gmail.com
SWE welcomes all ages, genders, and majors to participate in SWE Families, a program that matches SWE members together for fun social events and bonding throughout the year.
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LOBBYING
Lobbying Director: Jana Saadeh
Contact: lobbying.swe.ucla@gmail.com
The SWE @ UCLA Lobbying Committee works to advocate for women engineers through school-wide, state, and federal government. Throughout the year we organize events centered on providing intersectional support to women engineers. We hope to engage UCLA and the greater community in activism and inspire collective action. In addition, our lobbying team travels to Washington D.C. each spring for the opportunity to further their advocacy directly with government representatives.