SWE Magazine is the award-winning publication of the Society of Women Engineers. SWE delivers vital and relevant content that provides insight, analysis, and solutions to workplace issues and current events affecting women in the engineering and STEM disciplines. Reaching more than 40,000 members, stakeholders and supporters, the magazine provides authoritative information on the status of and challenges for women in engineering. SWE Magazine also recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of women engineers past and present across a broad range of fields.

Our publishing cycle comprises two conventional print and digital issues along with three digital and print-on-demand issues.

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a not-for-profit educational and service organization that empowers women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as women engineers and leaders.

Awards & Recognition

SWE Magazine is not just a magazine for and about women in engineering fields. It is an award-winning publication, earning recognition from FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards and APEX, two of the leading international recognition programs in the publishing industry that honor excellence in editorial content and design across print and digital media.

Since receiving its first APEX in 1997, SWE Magazine staff, designers, and contributing writers have earned accolades each year in news and feature writing, cover and page design, editorial concepts, podcasts, and more.

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Editorial Staff and Contributors

Anne M. Perusek
Director of Editorial and Publications
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Carol Polakowski
Senior Editor
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Marsha Lynn Bragg
Associate Editor
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JoAnn Dickey Design
Art Direction and Production

Contributors
Christine Coolick
Sandra Guy
Marc Lefkowicz
Seabright McCabe

Karen Horting, CAE  |  Executive Director & CEO

SWE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President
Dayna Johnson, P.E.
GE Gas Power

President-elect
Alexis McKittrick, Ph.D.
U.S. Department of Energy

Secretary
Lisa Rimpf
Dürr Universal Inc.

Treasurer
Dianne Beever
Dell Technologies

Directors:

Barbara Brockett
Honeywell Aerospace (retired)

Kerrie Greenfelder, P.E.
Burns & McDonnell

Kalyani Mallela
Johnson & Johnson

Jennifer Morikawa
General Motors

Karen Ramsey-Idem, Ph.D.
Cummins Inc.

Speaker of the Senate
Cherie Cain
Collins Aerospace

Collegiate Director
Natalie Hahn
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

EDITORIAL BOARD

Sarvenaz Myslicki, Chair
American Express

Emily Ongstad, Ph.D., Chair-elect
MedImmune-AstraZeneca

Mary C. Verstraete, Ph.D., F.SWE, Past-chair
The University of Akron, Retired

Alina Bartley
Alvarez and Marsal

Ambika Dubey
Microsoft

Amanda Harrison
University of California, Santa Cruz

Sandra Hyland, Ph.D., F.SWE
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Kristen Lewis
Beckman Coulter

Kathryn Lockhart
Komatsu

Marcie Mathis
U.S. Navy

Pramita Mitra, Ph.D.
Ford Motor Co.

Renee Oats, Ph.D.
Morgan State University

Alexandra Tavasoli
University of Toronto

Michelle Wills
Kohler Co.

Rishelle Wimmer
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences

Nicole Woon
Microsoft

SWE RESEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Stephanie G. Adams, Ph.D.
Dean, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas

Carlotta M. Arthur, Ph.D.
Executive director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Caterina Cocchi, Ph.D.
Professor, physics, University of Oldenburg

Diane Foley
Senior director, information technology, Raytheon Co.

Gretchen Hein, Ph.D.
Senior lecturer, engineering fundamentals, Michigan Technological University

Karen J. Horton, P.E.
Professor, mechanical engineering technology, The University of Maine

Peter F. Meiksins, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Cleveland State University

Andresse St. Rose, Ed.D.
Director of educational research and evaluation, Education Development Center

Bevlee A. Watford, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor, engineering education, Virginia Tech

Rishelle Wimmer
Senior lecturer, information technology and systems management, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences

Roberta Rincon, Ph.D.
Associate director of research, Society of Women Engineers

Anne Perusek
Director of editorial and publications, Society of Women Engineers

SWE Podcasts

Tune in to Diverse: a SWE podcast that features compelling conversations and panel discussions highlighting the incredible thought leaders and personalities in our community and discover who they are at work, at home, and in between. Podcasts are available on SoundCloud, Apple, Spotify and IHeart Radio. Diverse is a project of the Society of Women Engineers and SWE Magazine.

SWE Magazine Archives

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Print-on-Demand

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