Stuff You Don’t Learn in Engineering School:Skills for Success in the Real World
(A Four-Hour Professional Development Workshop)
Event co-sponsors: ASME New Haven, ASME Hartford, and IEEE Connecticut
Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Location:
Connecticut Room on the 1st floor of Memorial Hall at Central Connecticut State University. Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the Student Center.
Campus map is available here.
Description of the event:
Do you feel your engineering education fully prepared you for the real
world? Are you able to cope with non-technical issues like dealing with
clients and the public? Do you know how you’ll react to more
responsibilities in the future? Can you deal with difficult people? Do
you need to develop better writing, speaking and listening skills that
will help you advance in your career? Are you afraid that things will
change faster than you can learn them, thereby making you less
competitive in your field?Drawing from these and other concerns, Carl Selinger’s “Stuff You Don’t
Learn in Engineering School” provides straightforward, practical skills
to acquaint young engineers – indeed, all professionals -- with
important non-technical issues, discussing them in plain English and
offering many effective actions. These skills include making decisions,
setting priorities, running meetings, speaking, writing and listening
better, leading teams, dealing with stress and having fun, and
understanding themselves and others. (The information you'll learn at
this workshop is much of the same information contained in Carl's 4-hour
video series, available from IEEE for $280!)For more information, see http://www.carlselinger.com/seminars.html .
Registration fees before April 1st:
Student: $10
Member of ASME or IEEE: $45
Non-member: $120Registration fees after April 1st:
Student: $12
Member of ASME or IEEE: $54
Non-member: $144
Ask about our group discount rates!RSVP to Beth Bennett (beth.bennett@yale.edu) and indicate whether you
are a student, a member of ASME, a member of IEEE, or a non-member.
After RSVPing, you will receive information regarding where to send your
registration fee. You must send your registration fee within 7 days
after RSVPing.
Biographical sketch of the speaker:
Carl Selinger is an independent consultant helping aviation and
transportation organizations with business strategy and applying new
technologies. Carl gives professional development seminars – including
his unique “Stuff You Don’t Learn in Engineering School” – to teach the
non-technical soft skills that are important to be effective in the real
world. He is a globally-published author whose book and articles appear
widely.
Selinger's forty-year career spans aviation, transportation planning and
strategic business planning, mainly during his 31-year career with The
Port Authority of NY & NJ. Leaving as Manager, Aviation Business
Development, Carl developed business, concessions and technology
initiatives to improve services and increase revenues at Kennedy,
LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports, one of the world's largest
airport systems. His motto: "Ideas are always welcomed!"Carl is a frequent guest speaker, and facilitates strategic planning
sessions, focus groups and "Synectics" brainstorming sessions. His
seminar, "Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School," has helped
several thousand engineers and other professionals over the past decade
learn non-technical soft skills -- like decision-making, setting
priorities and managing time, negotiating, teamwork, running meetings,
and writing and speaking better -- to be more effective and happier
persons. His book "Stuff You Don’t Learn in Engineering School: Skills
for Success in the Real World" has been published by Wiley-IEEE Press.Carl holds civil and transportation engineering degrees from Cooper
Union, Yale University, and Polytechnic University. More information
about Carl Selinger is available at his website: www.carlselinger.com.
