The collegiate sections that are within the Chicago Regional Section's boundaries include:
Illinois Institute of Technology
Northern Illinois University
Northwestern University
Olivet Nazarene University
Purdue University - Northwest
St. Mary's College
University of Chicago - Illinois
University of Notre Dame
Valparaiso University
Oakton Community College
University of Chicago
College of DuPage
Need Funds? Try creating a sponsorship packet! Need Membership? Identify and proclaim the purpose of your organization. Get ideas from best practices of other collegiate sections.
Need support for your section? Contact your Leadership Coach! The SWE Leadership Coaching Committee (LCC) coaches our SWE leadership to maximize the potential of all of our sections. The LCC focuses on reaching out to all collegiate and professional sections to promote and foster leadership and section vitality. Your section's assigned leadership coach should reach out to you early in the school year. If you haven't heard from her or have any questions, please reach out to LCC-Chair@swe.org
Future City Competition for 7th and 8th graders. - The National Engineers Week Future City Competition provides a fun and exciting educational program for seventh- and eighth-grade students that combine a stimulating engineering challenge with a "hands-on" application to present their vision of a city of the future. Engineering skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving are used in conjunction with an engineer-mentor and teacher's guidance. Girls are equally represented both as participants and top winners in this competition
