As usual with ASME events, the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) was a fun and successful conference. This year, the program agenda included many events and programs specifically targeted at early career engineers. ECE events started with the Innovation Showcase (
I-Show) on Friday, November 9th. Ten teams participated, and the winning team, Greensulate, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was announced at the I-Show Reception that evening. The Young Engineer Correspondents had their networking meeting that evening as well, followed by dinner and a night on the town in Seattle.
Saturday kicked off with the Invention to Venture workshop, and the Committee on Early Career Development (CECD). If you’re unfamiliar with the I2V (
I2V) concept, in brief, it’s an 8-hour mini-MBA boot camp workshop. The CECD (
CECD) deals with ECE programming, and their meeting focused on ECE events and services such as early career forums, early career technical conferences, ME Today, and early career development series.
Sunday events included the Early Career Forum and Career Fair (
Seattle ECF). The ECF theme was “How to Manage and Advance Your Career,” and included the following sessions:
- Effective Communication in the Workplace,
- What Path is Right For You...Technical or Management?
- Essential Conversations: Using Conversations with Your Manager to Jumpstart Your Career.
Following the ECF was the Career Fair. The Career Fair included companies such as Boeing, Toyota, FM Global, NCEES, Haskell Corporation, Schlumberger, Bechtel, Soloy Aviation Solutions, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Targeted Learning, among many others. Sunday also featured the Members and Students Luncheon, where several student and early career engineers were honored. Two of the honorees include Candice Bauer, the 2007 Old Guard Early Career Engineer Award Recipient, and Dan Hanna, the 2007 Charles T. Main Award Recipient.
Monday was the Early Career Development Series (
ECP). The ECDS was a five-session technical track featuring topics of interest to ECEs. The 2007 ECDS sessions were:
- Aerospace Design
- Engineering Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- The Federal R&D Budget and How it Affects the Engineering Profession
- Patents and Technology Licensing
- Utilization of Biomass Resources and Biofuel Technology
If you missed IMECE, many of the presentations will be posted on the affiliated website linked above.
And for your future planning, similar ECE programming will occur at the 2008 ASME Annual Meeting (
2008 AM) in Orlando, FL from June 7-11, 2008, and at the 2008 ASME IMECE (
2008 IMECE) in Boston, MA from November 2-6, 2008.
