Two full days of Career Enhancement and Networking for Early Career Engineers

2-Day/Program Agenda
(See below)

Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605

Registration: Advance $150 (member), $200 (non-member), Onsite: $175 (member) $225 (non-member) 
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 Registeration 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

Sponsors:

• ECD-1: Management Skills for Engineers (Panel Session)
  7:45 AM - 9:15 AM
  
  In today’s ever changing community of engineering, it is essential to be a well rounded engineer. Early career engineers (ECEs) must not only possess strong technical skills, but also solid management skills in order to advance in their careers. This session will provide ECEs with an introduction to the skills they need to improve their performance from a management viewpoint, and involve a review of management skills including leadership, communication, motivation, and management fundamentals.
  
  
• ECD-2: Tools for Advocacy and the Early Career Engineer (Panel Session)
  11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
  
  This session focuses on educating engineers to give back to society through groups such as Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST). It will elaborate how Early Career Engineers (ECEs) can be more than an engineer, but also be ambassadors to the profession through volunteerism. Methods for ECEs to get involved in giving back to their profession through undertaking issues that improve the quality of life, in conjunction with groups such as EWB, will be discussed.
  
  
• ECD-3: Technology, Innovation, & Competitiveness – a Global Challenge (Panel Session)
  9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
  
  This session of the Early Career Development Track will look at the steps made to strengthen the United States’ role in technology, innovation, and competitiveness. The panel will be multidisciplinary and represent industry and government as well as both the American and international perspective. Attendees will learn about their role in American Innovation and how they can influence the future of the United States at a local level – whether in the U.S. or abroad.
  
  
• ECD-4: Incident at Morales - An Engineering Ethics Story (Workshop Session)
  2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  
  In 2003, the National Institute for Engineering Ethics and Texas Tech University’s Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism produced the video “Incident at Morales – An Engineering Ethics Story” and associated training materials through an NSF grant. “Incident” involves various issues faced by a company that wants to quickly build a plant to develop a new chemical product to gain an edge over competition. Ethical issues include technical, environmental, financial and safety problems.  Attendees will learn about how ethics affects their careers and some of the unexpected areas that ethics issues appear.  Attendees will receive 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs).
  
  
• ECD-5: The Future of Energy in the 21st Century (Panel Session)
  3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
  
  Panelists will discuss what engineers, within 10 years out of college, should know about the sustainability of the energy supply in the U.S. and abroad, how this can affect the career path of an engineer, and what kind of public policy they should contribute to in order to meet the ASME policy to “Maintain a balanced fuel mix for power generation in the United States that makes the best use of coal, natural gas, nuclear power, hydroelectric power, and renewable energy.”