In March 2023, our meeting featured Angela Berry, P.E., Traffic Safety and Vision Zero Manager at the Charlotte Department of Transportation.

Topic: Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvements in Charlotte

Date and Time: Monday, March 13th @ 6 pm via Zoom.

Description: Over the past ten years, our city has seen explosive population growth, adding close to 200,000 more drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists to our streets, paths, and intersections. Charlotte has responded by creating a variety of safe ways for people to move around the city and connect with each other by upgrading intersections, adding more bike lanes, and building additional sidewalks.

Across the globe, Vision Zero is saving and protecting lives. Vision Zero started in Sweden in 1997. It’s a strategy to eliminate all traffic-related deaths and severe injuries while increasing safety, health, and mobility for all. Vision Zero focuses on how people naturally behave. People make mistakes but mistakes should not be fatal.

In this session, we’ll learn more about Vision Zero from Angela Berry, P.E., Traffic Safety and Vision Zero Manager at the Charlotte Department of Transportation.

In February 2023, our meeting featured Kimberley Parsons!

Topic: What Every Leader Should Know to Catalyze Higher Team Performance

Description:

In today’s complex organizational environments, interdependent teamwork is not just desirable, but essential. Effective team-based collaboration drives agility, resilience, and adaptability, as well as employee satisfaction, engagement, and morale. This combination is what yields exceptional and consistent results.

Yet for many leaders, the challenge of managing the intricate dynamics of teams—on top of their other leadership responsibilities—can be daunting and overwhelming.

In this session, we’ll cut through that complexity to make the basics of teaming practical and accessible. Grounded in more than 25 years of theory and practice, you’ll learn a time-tested approach that distills team functioning into four interrelated dimensions, with concrete guidance you can implement right away to improve team performance.

In this interactive session, you’ll develop a new understanding of:

– The four key dimensions of team functioning, and how to maximize your team’s specific strengths and opportunities in each dimension

– What you need in your leadership role to catalyze team high performance

– Common “hot spots” that can make or break team functioning, and the corresponding team leadership behaviors you can cultivate to overcome them

Join us for our November 2022 Section Meeting!

We’ll be joined by Charlotte Water’s Nicole Bartlett who will discuss the Stowe Regional Water Resource Recovery Facility in northwest Mecklenburg County. Meeting Date and Time: Monday, November 14th from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST via Zoom. Members will receive an email invite with the Zoom link. See you there!

Join us for our 2022-23 Kick-Off Meeting!

We’re looking forward to meeting and reconnecting with Charlotte-Metrolina SWE members! At this meeting, you’ll meet our current leadership, learn about opportunities within our section, and share your ideas about what you’d like to see us accomplish this year. Meeting Date and Time: Monday, October 3rd from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST via Zoom. Members will receive an email invite with the Zoom link. See you there!

Meet Charlotte SWE member and Cargill Senior Plant Engineer, Latefa McFadden, at UNC Charlotte’s ENGAGE Co-Op Networking Event on Monday, September 26, 2022 from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM.

In this fourth annual iteration of this event, the University Career Center and Diversity Programs in the Williams States Lee College of Engineering invites valued Co-Op employer partners to conduct speed networking conversations with Co-Op eligible students.

UNCC markets this event to freshman, sophomore, and junior level students from various under-represented populations to learn more about Co-Op and internship programs offered by engineering firms.