As SWE members, your resume may be placed in this book at no or a reduced cost. This activity is an excellent opportunity to encourage SWE awareness and grow your student SWE Section membership for all engineering students, regardless of gender, discipline, etc. Students, particularly freshmen who have their High School experiences fresh in their minds, are often enthusiastic about meeting with high school students to discuss careers in engineering. It's a popular campus SWE activity and great for the high schoolers who respond enthusiastically to engineering pep talks delivered by someone in their peer group. Student Sections have discovered that meetings with company representatives are quite popular especially if the company provides pizza or refreshments.
Companies are interested in participating for a variety of reasons.
Students are interested in attending for informational and networking reasons. Also, these activities are relatively easy to set up. F. Membership Processing Processing of potential, new and current members is the responsibility of the Membership Supervisor at SWE Headquarters. Timely processing of the required paperwork is essential in making a good impression. Although the application itself is self explanatory, it is important that the general membership understand that it is the responsibility of every member to help recruit new members.