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Important Member Notice for Bylaws Amendment Now Available!

By |2025-01-13T07:59:00-05:00January 13th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

In accordance with the The Society of Women Engineers Bylaws, Article XIII – AMENDMENT, this proposed bylaws amendment is being presented to the membership. The SWE Board of Directors will vote on these changes following the 45-day notice period. The amendment proposal contains the rationale and pro/con considerations. B2520: Amend SWE Bylaws – Absolve Non-Strategic... [...]

Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater

By |2025-01-12T08:09:08-05:00January 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest round moons. Analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have destroyed Mimas entirely. The huge crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about [...]

An Evening Sky Full of Planets

By |2025-01-11T08:09:06-05:00January 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Only Mercury is missing from a Solar System parade of planets in this early evening skyscape. Rising nearly opposite the Sun, bright Mars is at the far left. The other naked-eye planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus, can also be spotted, with the the position of too-faint Uranus and Neptune marked [...]

Supernova Remnants Big and Small

By |2025-01-08T08:09:14-05:00January 8th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What happens after a star explodes? A huge fireball of hot gas shoots out in all directions. When this gas slams into the existing interstellar medium, it heats up so much it glows. Two different supernova remnants (SNRs) are visible in the featured image, taken at the Oukaïmeden Observatory in [...]

SWE Bengaluru Affiliate and Wabtec Corporation Bring AI to Life: Highlights from the AI in Engineering Summit

By |2025-01-07T17:13:00-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: Uncategorized|

From inspiring keynotes to forward-looking panel discussions, find out what leaders are saying about the future of AI in engineering. Source

A New Year’s Aurora and SAR Arc

By |2025-01-07T08:09:06-05:00January 7th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day It was a new year, and the sky was doubly red. The new year meant that the Earth had returned to its usual place in its orbit on January 1, a place a few days before its closest approach to the Sun. The first of the two red skyglows, on [...]

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