A Career Enhancement and Networking Program for the Early Career Engineers

1-Day/Program Agenda
Sunday, November 5, 2006, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Presentations/Panel Discussion/Career Fair

Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605

Registration: Advance $25, Onsite $30
^{(ECF Underwritten by ASME and its sponsors)}

Advance Registration – Win $200!
Register by November 1, 2006 and be entered into a drawing to win a $200 American Express Gift Card. The gift card will be announced and awarded at the Early Career Forum on Sunday, November 5, 2006. The winner must be present to win.
Advance Registration closes November 1, 2006.

Program Moderator
Julie Maupin, E.I.T, Engineer, Gas Technology Institute

Presentations/Panel Discussion
8:00am - 1:30pm

• Leaders and Their Teachable Points of View (Keynote Address)
  Joseph Ahearn, Senior Vice President, Human Capital Initiative, CH2M HILL
  
  This presentation emphasizes our singular and collective professional mission to create a great “whole life” for those we serve, those we serve with and ultimately ourselves. Learn about leadership in the context of Major forces at play in the world, Drivers of our profession, Instruments of National Power, Global Engineering missions. In addition, learn about Core values, Concepts, Competence, Character, Culture, Competing values framework as a platform from which your individual professional life planning is enabled.
  
  
• Envisioning the Future of Engineering
  Todd Allen, Manager International Internship Programs, Global University Recruitment Team, Johnson & Johnson
  
  This workshop is an exercise of visioning the possibilities and a dialogue on how best to re-invent the Profession, in order to attract the best engineering talent and inspire future leaders to carry the torch. The workshop will develop new mental constructs of how to think about Diversity, review research on which talent outreach strategies work well, and engage the participant in seeing the future of engineering vicariously through the eyes of early career engineers and other professionals.
  
  
• What can I do with my Engineering Degree? (Panel Discussion)
  Jeff Dinski, BSME, MBA Student, Harvard Business School
  ^{(former writer/producer for NBC, ESPN, MSNBC)}
  Larry Dickinson, Ph.D., Founding Principal, 3F, LLC
  Laura Wojcik, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Director, Packer Engineering
  
  Now that you have your engineering degree or maybe you want to make a change in your career path – what are you going to do now? How will you make the transition? Will you practice traditional engineering or will you go a non-traditional route like bio- med, entertainment, etc. Meet three successful engineers that took different routes in their careers. Learn how they did it. They will present their personal stories and have open discussion with you to answer any questions you may have about your career choices and options.
  

Early Career Forum: Engineering Career Fair
1:30pm - 5:00pm

Get expert advice and practical solutions for your career at the Early Career Forum: Engineering Career Fair.  Industry representatives will be on hand to meet with you to discuss opportunities at their companies, new technologies, and interesting career paths. Recruiters from area graduate schools and other organizations that advocate engineering professionalism will be on hand to discuss how you can maximize your career. Be sure to have your resumes and be ready to absorb all the different opportunities available to engineers to enhance your career.

> List of Career Fair Exhibitors

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