Society Of Women Engineers

The Society of Women Engineers is a national organization that was established at Lehigh in 1975. In the Lehigh section, we function on what we consider to be a three pillar system: outreach, professional development, and social. We host many outreach events to help destigmatize women in STEM both within Lehigh and in the surrounding communities. We largely do this through our Mountaintop Makers event, where we host middle schoolers from the Bethlehem community at Lehigh to perform experiments, answer their questions about engineering majors, and organize engineering faculty members and professionals to speak with the students. Within our professional development pillar, we host networking events with various companies such as Lutron and Merck, in addition to hosting resume building workshops, mock interviews, and LinkedIn workshops. We also co-host the Women and Non-Binary in STEM Dinner with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, in which undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff, and STEM professionals alike join together for an evening of discussion and networking followed by a keynote speaker or panel. Our last focus is on social events, with the goal of bringing our Lehigh women engineers closer together. We host a variety of events, including movie nights, cookie decorating, fall picnics, metal rose making, and more.