Improving Student Relationships with the SAE Professional Section

1. Improving Student Relationships with the SAE Professional Section

2. Ideal sAE Section for Supporting STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Presenters: Nerissa Hanson John Morris Randy Hoffman Drew Boyer Tim Patek Jim Ryan

3. AGENDA A World In Motion (AWIM) F1 in Schools Collegiate Design Series Section Meetings Promoting Student Projects Student Night Hosting Events Section Board Career Development Other Student Support Social Media Engagement Future Student Support Best Practices

5. A World In Motion (AWIM) • How can we promote this initiative?? • What alliances can we as Professionals form? How can we help? • Distribute Fliers and Announcements at Section Meetings • Promote at Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) based Conferences • Connect the Classrooms with Engineers to help Teach the Projects

6. SAE F1 in Schools • Actions that the SAE Section can take to Encourage F1 in Schools • Promotions in Section Correspondence and at Events • Market to High School Administration/Faculty • Sponsor Assistance • Social Media Promotion • Competition Judging • Inclusion at Student Night

7. SAE Collegiate Design Series • How does/can your Section use this Tool to Support the Students becoming Engineers? • Student Night Support • Social Media Support of their Projects • Advice from Engineers • Project Management, Presentations, and Reports • Project Engineering • Sponsor Solicitation

8. SAE Section Meetings • What can we do to Tailor Parts of the SAE Section Meetings to Engage the Students • Tours • Family Meetings • Discount Admissions for Students • Student help at the Meetings • Student Networking Night • Networking with Professionals at Meetings • High School Engineering Expos • Manufacturer Involvement • Fabrication and Materials

9. Student Display Opportunities • How Encourage the Students to Show Off What They Engineered and Built • Community Opportunities • Partnering with Race Tracks • Free Display Space at Auto Shows • Student help at the Meetings • Car shows • Displays at Section Meetings

10. Student Night Meetings • Milwaukee and Texas Section Experiences • Time Frame Selected by Students Sections • Event Locations Rotated Among Schools • Design Series Involvement • Meeting Planning • Student Night Admission Prices • Section Member Participation • Student Cooperation for Transportation • Displays at Student Night Meetings • Tours of Host School • Student Presentations • Grading Criteria • Judges • Distribution of Earmarked Funds

11. Hosting SAE Student Design Series Events • How Hosting SAE Collegiate Design Series Events can Encourage Student Participation • SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge • Baja SAE • SAE Aero Design • Formula SAE • SAE Supermileage • F1 in Schools Regionals • Partnership with New Venues

12. How section board member positions can influence student involvement • SAE Section Board of Directors Involvement • Chairman of Student Activities • Professional Standards • Student Section Continuity • Student to Professional Transition Manager • Student Representation at Board Meetings • Social Media Manager involvement in connecting Student pages together and interacting with Student postings/activities

13. Career Development • Do we need to Support Student Career Development?? • Do we have a HR Professional that we can call on to Lead this Initiative? • Section Board Position? • Resume/Interview Workshops • HR Representatives at Section Meetings • Shadowing • Advice from Board Members to Students that Help them as they Start their Career

14. Other Student Support • Section Support of Student Sections can Take Non Traditional Forms • Hosting Students at Local Races • Testing Facilities for Their Projects • Discounts for Events • Facilitate Logistics for Student Displays • Website Promotion of the Students • Social Media for Promotion • Displays at Section Meetings

15. Social Media Engagement with Student Sections, Competitions, and Competition Teams • Social Media Engagement to Student Sections • Encourage and coach student sections to create central Facebook pages • Find student pages and “like” them with the chapter page • Monitor student pages and provide encouraging comments to student activities and photos • Share section events to student pages • Promote appropriate student design competition activities through the section page to encourage student interaction

16. Future Student Support • Brainstorming for Ways to Involve the Students • Name 3 Things We Could Do That Have Not Been Discussed • ____________________________________ • ____________________________________ • ____________________________________

17. Best Practices • What we • think is Best

18. Best Practices • What we • think is Best

19. Best Practices • What we • think is Best

20. Best Practices • What we think is Best • This Starts With a Healthy Section • Professional Member Involvement • Team Work • Communication • What is the Mission? • Long Term Financial Planning • Promote Continuity with Good Documentation Your Pictures Here

21. Questions • WE CANNOT SOLVE - Albert Einstein - • OUR PROBLEMS WITH • THE SAME THINKING • WE USED WHEN • WE CREATED THEM