Young Professionals Annual Meeting Programming Committee brings you a series of co-sponsored workshops to prepare you to work and succeed in an industrial environment in partnership with Professional Development, Management divisions and Center for Innovation and Entrepreneuring Excellence. Following is the complete list of the workshops-
Monday, November 9: Career Planning: Would I Fit or be a Misfit? Understanding Organizational Culture. A Workshop for Students and Young Professionals
The Workshop has three basic parts:
- Establish key personal values which must be realized in a job.
- Explore applications of a tool or framework to assess the culture of an organization
- Compare Personal Values to an Organization Culture
In each part of the 2 hour session, concepts are introduced followed by structured exercises for small groups of participants to test the ideas, develop useful applications and personal action items.
The final design of the workshop is the result of the work of a 7 member diverse Project Team, interviews with student leaders, review with YPs, and a live “preview” with students. The evaluations were used to make appropriate improvements to the initial design.
Monday, November 9: Innovation from Beginning to End: Generating Ideas, Working with People, and Managing Projects
This workshop focuses upon managing R&D projects from beginning to end. Beginning refers to mental picture of an idea whereas end refers to solving the customers need and in the process generating profit for the organization. Using a case study, the speakers will delineate challenges involved at every stage of R&D project from a mental image of an idea to a profit making product. The talk also compares old paradigm of innovation management with the new proposed paradigm. The probability of success can be significantly improved using the new paradigm.
Tuesday, November 10: Applied Project Management Fundamentals
Project Management consists of many principles, skills, and tools that are essential for a chemical engineer to be successful in today's project-oriented workplace. This presentation will highlight the most essential principles, tools, and techniques. Covered will be the three most important keys to successful project management, how to more effectively communicate and work with people, and how to develop effective project objectives and prioritize them. Additionally, a brief overview of important planning tools will be provided. This presentation is highly application oriented, and will be useful to all potential and practicing project managers.
Tuesday, November 10: Innovation without Borders: The Challenges of Managing Innovation, IP, and Product Development with International Teams and Partners
This session is designed to help people prepare for international responsibility or assignments in other nations. A panel with significant international experience will discuss the challenges of managing innovation and IP across borders. Topics include unique aspects of innovation with Asian teams vs. US teams, facing uncertainty in legal protection and the rule of law, trade secret protection in other nations, international partnerships, etc
Tuesday, November 10: The Entrepreneurial Chemical Engineer
This live session will highlight the practical aspects of entrepreneurial efforts. It will deliver attendees tools and methods by which to organize and overcome challenges of starting up a business based upon chemical engineering technology. The presentations will be high energy and will follow a format to include take away tools from the presenters’ experiences in the entrepreneurial world.
Wednesday, November 11: Experiences in International Assignments
Want to know how to succeed as a young faculty? Learn more at the young faculty forum co-sponsored with the Education Division
Interested in International Assignments? Learn from a panel of experts sharing their Experiences in International Assignments
Conclude the YPC programming at the Catalysis and Pharmaceutical poster sessions
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