Meet the Founders

Thanks for coming out to our first "Meet the Founders" event. We had a great time at Ra Sushi catching up on old times and meeting new sisters! A special thanks to Sree (alpha) for initiating the dinner, Angela (RFD) for attending, and Sharon (alpha) for helping us get our start as the Upsilon Chapter. Thank you, thank you, thank you to EVERYONE who celebrated with us. We missed everyone that could not be with us tonight and hope we will see you at the next event. Can you believe it has been 7 years since the alpha class first got together and began this journey? (Pictured L-R: back Carolina, Jessica, Mandy, Rachel, Elizabeth, Victoria, Charlese, Sharon, Karina, middle Avanthi, Gloria, Monica, Angela front Angela, Sree, Trishia)

Pictured below: Sharon (alpha) Jessica (beta) Sree (alpha) Trishia (alpha)

Sister Home for the Holiday

Our long distance sister, Kara, returned to Houston for the holidays. Welcome home Kara. (L-R Carolina, Trishia, Mari, Rachel, Kara, Elizabeth)

Reliant Fundraiser

Recently some of the ladies of PSR and a few of our brothers from Triangle spend a Sunday morning working the parking lots at a Houston Texans game! We were a little scared and were not sure what to expect but it turned out to be pretty fun! We even had a mini competition about who collected the most parking tags. I believe Emilie won after collecting over 650, followed by Jimmy who was right under that amount! After we enjoyed a parking lot picnic of our own!

Nu Class Induction

Recently, we inducted our NU-est class for the Upsilon Chapter!! Congratulations to all the new candidates and we are excited to see what the coming semesters bring with you guys. The Nu class inductees include:

Chrissy Dillon

Mechanical Engineering

Jessica Liberatore

Mechanical Engineering

Azizah Mohamed

Mechanical Engineering

Lilian Rodriguez

Biomedical Engineering

Top: Mandy, Rebecca, Jessica, Elizabeth, Emilie, Carmel

Bottom: Lilian, Chrissy, Azizah

Rush Fall 2011

The ladies of Phi Sigma Rho have been busy this fall semester recruiting new members and having a blast! Although, we are a sorority of engineers we always make a little time to have some fun. The activities for this semester included a make your own t-shirt day, tailgating with Triangle, a BBQ at the technology college, bowling and pool with Triangle, dinner with all the ladies and a pool Party!

Although Rush is now over for fall, we are always looking for new members! Please refer to the contact info section if you have any questions or would like to attend the Spring 2012 Rush!

2011 Family Reunion

Alumnae and Active Sisters reunited this Saturday, September 10, at Hermann Park to celebrate 5 years of sisterhood. I hope everyone had a great time at the event. I wanted to thank everyone who was able to attend, especially Carolina, Charlese, Cody, and Carmel for helping me set up in the blazing heat! You all rock.

If you are interested in becoming an active alumnae, we are starting up an alumnae chapter of Phi Sigma Rho! Get in touch with me for more information. We are already planning some "domestic" crafting nights for us to relax and catch up! Hope to see each one of you in the near future. Take care, miss you, and don't be such strangers.

Idaho Summer Internship

This past summer, I temporarily relocated to Lewison, Idaho to do a summer internship with the Kiewit Energy and Kiewit Northwest District. They worked under the contractor Fluor and Esso to dissasemble modules for transportation to the Kearl Oil Sands Project in Calgary, Alberta. Therefore, we started out with a perfectly assembled module, took out the pipe spools, the electrical components, and the permanent steel to make it ready for transportation.

I worked as an office engineer to create daily reports, owner reports, and sponsor reports. As a field engineer, I worked with the crews to safely and efficiently weld on splice plates and stubs onto the modules.

In my free time, I traveled to Seattle, Washington and hung out with my friends, participated in a mud run, and traveled to British Columbia for a youth Bible camp.

Top - Me in front of a Tadano Crane

Right - A Building Module Pick with 2 cranes

Bottom - Me in the Seattle Survivor Mud Run
(I am wearing the blue cap)