IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine - June 2013 - 5

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New Year,
New Objectives
Focusing on four main goals in 2013

The start of any new term heralds reflections on past achievements interwoven
with hopes for the future. In 2012, IEEE
Women in Engineering (WIE) established
a strong Facebook presence, created an
inspiring video, launched eye-catching
posters, published an inspiring eBook,
supported several conference partnerships, added 41 new affinity groups (to
bring the worldwide total to 414), and
reached over 14,700 total members.
These accomplishments were made possible by an engaged, vibrant community of
volunteers led by Chair Ramalatha Marimuthu. I am grateful for their legacy and
thank them for their volunteer service.
For 2013, I hope to focus on four
main objectives: 1) communication with
our more than 14,700 members through
our award-winning, professional IEEE
Women in Engineering Magazine and
social media campaigns (e.g., Facebook);
2) engagement with industry to provide
enhanced member benefits with conferences to celebrate and highlight WIE
(e.g., WIE special events at existing IEEE
conferences); 3) outreach through our
more than 400 affinity groups to encourage young girls to pursue engineering
and to engage current IEEE members by
providing learning opportunities, networking, and support; and 4) fundraising

vibrant, engaged, thoughtful, impressive, active group of volunteers in fulfilling the WIE mission to inspire, engage,
encourage, and empower IEEE women
worldwide.
By way of introduction, let me share
with you a set of corollaries that I created
once upon a time to meet a Toastmasters' speech objective. In the 1680s Newton developed three laws of motion that
define how the world works on a macroscopic (large, universal) scale. Around
2005, I defined three corollaries (definito endow the Frances Hugle Scholarship
tion: a natural conclusion or result,
(US$100,000 goal).
I look forward to the opporan immediate consequence, or
easily drawn conclusion).
tunities to meet with memSince then, I have refined
bers from around the world
these corollaries slightly
as we jointly strive to fuland have found that they
fill WIE's goal to inspire
capture some of my guidand enable WIE members
ing philosophy. These corolto surpass/realize their full
laries introduce me and my
potential for the benefit of
leadership style. Additionally,
humanity. Thank you for the
Nita Patel
I hope they challenge you to
honor to serve as your 2013
join our volunteer efforts to positively
IEEE WIE chair. If you have suggestions
impact the IEEE WIE community
on how we can grow our membership,
One more note: these interpretations
execute our programs, and effectively
are not technically accurate and the
serve our members, please share your
engineer part of me recoils at my manipideas and thoughts with me.
ulation of Newton's laws. However, the
philosophical part of me is fine because
philosophies are not clearly black and
-Nita Patel
white. Feel free to e-mail me to correct
nita.patel@ieee.org
all my technical mistakes. I would love
to hear from you.

Newton's Three Laws

Newton's First Law of Motion

Relating Patel's corollaries
Hello, IEEE Women in Engineering
(WIE) members. I am excited to serve
as your 2013 IEEE WIE chair. This role
provides me the unique honor to lead a

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MWIE.2013.2249992

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MWIE.2013.2251761

Date of publication: 8 May 2013

June 2013

Original Latin: Lex I: Corpus omne
perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel
movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi
quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur
statum illum mutare.
English Translation: Law I: Every
body persists in its state of being at rest
or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled
to change its state by force impressed.

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