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Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290

Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290. 1. Welcome! Please find your seat on the new seating chart-”A-Haf” in footer, page 1! 2. Sign the attendance roster as it progresses from back to front of the room—down seat “columns,” not across “rows.”

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Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290

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  1. Global Engineering Professional Seminar ME 290 1. Welcome! Please find your seat on the new seating chart-”A-Haf” in footer, page 1! 2. Sign the attendance roster as it progresses from back to front of the room—down seat “columns,” not across “rows.” 3. If you need materials from last week, please print from website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM/

  2. Global Engineering Professional SeminarME 290 Week 2: August 30, 2012Agenda: “Engineering Term Abroad,” Heather Lidrbauch, Introductions, Seminar overview,Writing Sample (last 15 minutes)

  3. Introductions • Seminar Instructor: Dianne Atkinson, Ph.D. • Office: ME 3003B, enter via ME 3003, Main Bldg. • Hours: 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri. Email: dla@purdue.edu • Seminar TA’s: Kaitlyn Dalton & Rachel Grossman

  4. Announcement—1 of 2 survey assignments begins tomorrow! • Please complete the ME School International Experience survey—one of our Global Seminar assignments! • Begins tomorrow, Friday, August 30 • Complete by following Friday, September 7 • Takes less than 30 minutes on-line • Link will be posted on MECOM and also emailed to you tomorrow!

  5. ME 290 Seminar Objectives • Global Engineering Professional Issues—encourage literacy about the global issues important to the global professional engineering. • International opportunities–provide information about opportunities in the Purdue BSME program and beyond. • Global Communications—develop skills for working across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. • Professional Ethics—develop a foundation useful in making ethical decisions in the professional workplace.

  6. Textbook • Fareed Zakaria’s • Post-American • World, Release 2.0 • Available in PB, in bookstores, and Amazon.com • The focus is NOT on a decline here in the U.S., but on the rise of the rest!

  7. Text is “read on your own” • Each quiz covers about 100 pages • Q1 over Chapters 1, 2, 3 • Q2 over Chapters 4, 5 • Q3 over Chapters 6, 7 • Each week note recommendations for progress posted on website & see study questions over assigned pages.

  8. Course Policies • Participate, contribute to professional community • Complete 12 Seminars for credit—make-ups are available. • Assignments total 100 points.

  9. Points! • Text/quizzes (30%) • Cultural center visit, survey, picture, attendance (55%) • Profile—posted on NSF GlobalHUB (15%)

  10. ME 290 Course Webpage • Course webpage—begin at ME School Homepage: • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME • https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM • Select ME 290 on left side menu

  11. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME

  12. https://engineering.purdue.edu/MECOM

  13. Course Schedule • Begin with technical and professional seminars • “On your own” reading (Zakaria), quiz points • Complete major work, “Global Professional Profile,” by Week 11

  14. Special Events • Purdue BSME Alum Doug Fields, Apple VP, visits Tuesday evening, September 11, bonus points (3)! • Supplemental Seminars—postedevery week, see link on MECOM, available for make-up points

  15. Professional engineering—Look back to achievements… • http://www.greatachievements.org/

  16. Professional engineering--Look forward to challenges… • Examine the National Academy of Engineering’s “Grand Challenges” • http://engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.asp

  17. Your Semester Six? • Engineering Term Abroad-CHINA! • Unique among all Purdue Engineering SJTU Gate • Open to all ME’s in good standing for Semester 6 courses • Class-size group, flying to Shanghai the first week in January 2014, starting classes same as Purdue —in China! 2014 will be the 6th year for this program! • Costs same as West Lafayette (includes air-fare), all classes count (credit transfers), no delay in graduation, go with 40 friends! • Heather Lidrbauch, ETA Alum, visiting with us today!

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