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PRECONFERENCE TUTORIALS AND TRAINING

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

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COMPANION PROGRAM

1999 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3


Preconference Tutorials:
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Project Mastery: Deliverying the Best On Time and On Budget
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Sharpening Your Professional Communication Skills: Writing Action-Getting E-mail, Letters, Reports and Proposals
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	HTML and Web Page Construction
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Practical Career Planning and Job Search Techniques
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon	Effective Presentation Skills
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Communication Skills for Dealing with the Challenge of Conflict
Preconference Training:
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	GOLD Leaders Training
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.	New PACE Leaders' Training
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	PACE Leaders' Update
Conference Program
8:00am-6:00pm	Registration FOWLER
5:15pm-5:45pm	Mentor/Mentee Orientation REGENCY A
6:00pm-7:30pm	Reception GRAND HALL - UNION STATION
7:30pm-Open	Region and Division/Society Meetings REGION 1 - BRISBANE A; REGION 2 - BRISBANE B; REGION 3 - BRYAN A; REGION 4 - BRYAN B; REGION 5 - DUNCAN A; REGION 6 - DUNCAN B; DIVISION/SOCIETY - LATIMER AB
7:30pm-8:30pm	Companion Program Orientation REGENCY B
8:30pm-open	GOLD Hospitality Suite PARK SUITE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

6:30-8:00 a.m.	Breakfast REUNION EF
8:00-9:00 a.m.	Welcome/Overview of Program Keynote Address: The Changing Pace of Technology and Its Impact on Careers REUNION ABC
9:00-9:30 a.m.	Break REUNION FOYER / EXHIBIT AREA
	Track 1 – Skills: A Career Tool Box	Track 2 – Careers: Transitioning at Warp Speed	Track 3 – Management: Management Skills for Career Success	Track 4 – PACE: Growing with IEEE-USA	Track 5 - GOLD Skills: Secrets of Success—The Skills They Didn’t Teach You in College	Track 6 - GOLD Careers: Life in the Fast Lane--Driving Your Career
9:30-10:30 a.m.	Team Leadership – Anne Marlotte and Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	Engineering Career Vitality and Survivability in the Next Millennium – Joseph Kalasky and Shankar Lakhavani BRYAN	Career Management to Ensure Success for the New Millennium – John Hoschette BRISBANE	Effective Letter Writing for Grass-Roots Advocacy – Chris Brantley and Chris Currie DUNCAN	Effective Negotiations – Thomas Devine LATIMER	Movers and Shakers: Rocking the World Before It Rocks You – Erna Grasz REGENCY B
10:45-11:45 a.m.	Communication Skills for Today’s Managers – Cherie Fretwell and Jeany Roberts REGENCY B	Myers Briggs Personality Type Workshop – Anne Marlotte and Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	Managing Technology: The Fundamentals – Gus Gaynor LATIMER	Working With and Motivating Volunteers – Joseph Lillie and Ned Sauthoff BRISBANE	Laser Listening Skills: Hearing What People Mean – Maura Schreier-Fleming DUNCAN	Managing without Authority – Ernest Nielsen BRYAN
Noon-2:45 p.m.	Luncheon Keynote Panel: Executive Views of Engineering and Management Careers and Critical Aspects of Professional Development, (Panel) Cinda Voegtli, moderator Ken Okin, Peter DeLisle, Twila Hamilton, Judd Putnam REUNION EF
2:45-3:15 p.m.	Break REUNION FOYER / EXHIBIT AREA
	Track 1 – Skills	Track 2 – Careers	Track 3 – Management	Track 4 – PACE	Track 5 - GOLD Skills	Track 6 - GOLD Careers
3:15-4:15 p.m.	Leadership and Management Skills – A GOLD Perspective – Sean Lockhead DUNCAN	Myers Briggs Type and Change Workshop – Anne Marlotte and Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	Year 2000 Projects—The Final Phase – (Panel) Lee Stogner, Michael Jarboe and Rich Flaherty LATIMER	Improving the Image of Engineers through Membership in the Chamber of Commerce – LeEarl Bryant and Debbie Mrazek REGENCY B	Serious Creativity: Aerobics for the Mind – Maura Schreier-Fleming BRYAN	Designing Your Personal and Professional Future – Matt Ferrero, Denise Kaku, and Victoria Baugh BRISBANE
4:30-5:30 p.m.	Who Put the Dead in Deadline? (a.k.a. "How to Keep Your Editors Happy") – Patricia Lee BRYAN		Engineering Leadership – Peter DeLisle DUNCAN	Sloan Career Cornerstone Project / Outreach to Schools – Peter Wiesner and Barbara Stoler REGENCY B	Advancing Your Career – Sue Ellen Schlitzer LATIMER
5:30-7:00 p.m.	Precollege Reception SANFORD
7:00-9:00 p.m.	Old-fashioned Texas Hoedown (dinner, dancing, contests, and fun for all) GRAND HALL - UNION STATION

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

6:30-8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
	Track 1 – Skills: A Career Tool Box	Track 2 - Careers: Transitioning at Warp Speed	Track 3 – Management: Management Skills for Career Success	Track 4 – PACE: Growing with IEEE-USA	Track 5 - GOLD Skills: Secrets of Success--The Skills They Didn't Teach You in College	Track 6 - GOLD Careers: Life in the Fast Lane--Driving Your Career
8:00-9:00 a.m.	Business Presentation Skills: An Overview – Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	The Engineering Career Development Team: A Case Study – J. Paul Holcomb REGENCY B	Engineering Interpersonal Effectiveness - Peter DeLisle BRISBANE	On-line Professional Development: Where Do We Go From Here – Barbara Stoler and Peter Wiesner BRYAN	The Web of Office Politics—as Seen by the Spider and the Fly -- panel, Bob Krause, moderator LATIMER	Conflict Management in a Technical Environment – Ernest Nielsen DUNCAN
9:15-10:15 a.m.	The Secrets of Persuasion: Understanding Personality Styles to Increase Business Effectiveness – Maura Schreier-Fleming BRYAN	Teleworking – Bob Krause LATIMER	The Case of the Vanishing Employees: Retaining and Motivating Great Workers – Anne Marlotte and Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	Student Career Development Activities – Julie Gaevert, Loren Lacy, and Jim Watson REGENCY B	Financial Planning for Engineers – Theresa Leister DUNCAN	Dare to Be Different: True Leadership Happens at All Levels – Erna Grasz BRISBANE
10:15-10:45 a.m.	Break REUNION FOYER / EXHIBIT AREA
10:45-11:45 a.m.	Tools for a Long and Successful Career – Irwin Weitman REGENCY B	Counter-intuitive Skills for Dealing with Internal and External Clients – John Davis and Sheldon Loar COTTON BOWL	EMS: A Resource for Your Career – Cinda Voegtli BRYAN	Build Your Section’s Education Program: CEUs and Other Resources – Peter Wiesner LATIMER	Financial Planning – cont’d. DUNCAN	Dare to Be Different – cont’d BRISBANE
Noon-2:45 p.m.	Luncheon Candidates Forum—Candidates for 2000 IEEE President-Elect / IEEE-USA President-Elect, J. Hollis Hart, moderator, Ray Findlay, Pete Moreley, Edward Parrish, and Joel Snyder / Michael Andrews and Ned Sauthoff REUNION EF
2:45-3:15 p.m.	Break REUNION FOYER / EXHIBIT AREA
	Track 1 - Skills	Track 2 – Careers	Track 3 – Management	Track 4 – PACE		Tracks 5 and 6 – GOLD
3:15-4:15 p.m.	Keeping Our Customers Coming Back: Customer Satisfaction from Superior Selling Skills – Maura Schreier-Fleming BRYAN	The Mechanics of Mentoring – Cherie Fretwell and Jeany Roberts LATIMER	Delegating for Diehards: Working Together to Get Things Done – Anne Marlotte and Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	New Members: A Win-Win Proposition – Jim Leonard and William Hunter REGENCY B	Professional Development In a Technical Environment –Edward Wong and panel DUNCAN	GOLD Wrap-up - Shelly Born and Gina Daugherty BRISBANE
4:30-5:30 p.m.	Region 1 Meeting - Ronald Tabroff COTTON BOWL \| Region 2 Meeting - James Burghart BRISBANE \| Region 3 Meeting - Donald Hill BRYAN \| Region 4 Meeting - Robert Dawson DUNCAN \| Region 5 Meeting - David Pierce LATIMER \| Region 6 Meeting - Paul Willis REGENCY A \| Division/Society Meeting - Edward Wong REGENCY B
6:00-6:30 p.m. 6:30-7:30 p.m. 7:30-9:30 p.m.	Awards Reception REUNION E FOYER Awards Ceremony REUNION GH Awards Banquet REUNION EF

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

6:30-8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
	Track 1 – Skills: A Career Tool Box	Track 2 – Careers: Transitioning at Warp Speed	Track 3 – Management: Management Skills for Career Success	Track 4 – PACE: Growing with the IEEE	Track 5 – Gold Skills: Secrets of Success—The Skills They Didn’t Teach you in College	Track 6 – GOLD Careers: Life in the Fast Lane—Driving Your Career
8:00-9:00 a.m.	Networking Skills for Technical Entrepreneurs: All You Ever Wanted to Know but were Afraid to Ask—Debbie Mrazek BRISBANE	The Attitude Virus: Over-coming Negativity in the Workplace—Ann Marlotte and Patrice Ventura COTTON BOWL	Managing Projects with Integrity - Erna Grasz BRYAN	Distribution Options for Retirement Plans—Theresa Leister DUNCAN	Communication: Presentation Skills and the Value of Practice—Larry Chasteen and Bob Pitts REGENCY B	It’s a Matter of Scale: Working for Yourself— T. J. Talley LATIMER
9:15-10:15 a.m.	Developing and Maintaining a Competitive Career—Marie Snidow and Barbara Moore BRYAN	Public Awareness of Engineering: Much More Than Prestige —Tom Price BRISBANE	Organizational Ethics and Diversity—Verlan Fondren and Jane LeClair REGENCY A	IEEE Financial Advantage Focus Group Workshop—Mirelle White LATIMER	Business Etiquette—Anne Marlotte COTTON BOWL	GOLD Volunteer Leadership Training— Sean Haynes and J. Hollis Hart DUNCAN
10:15-10:45 a.m.	Break REUNION FOYER / EXHIBIT AREA
10:45-11:45 a.m.	ISSUES FORUM - Joseph Lillie, moderator REUNION ABC

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