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1999 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
PRECONFERENCE TUTORIALS
Friday, September 3
(CEUs offered as indicated)
Project Mastery: Delivering the Best On Time and On Budget
(8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
0.8 CEU
An IEEE Engineering Management Society Workshop
Presenters: Cinda Voegtli, President, IEEE Engineering Management Society; and Michael
Aucoin, P.E., Texas A&M University; Vice President for Education, Engineering
Management Society
"Project Mastery" is a unique and effective program for project managers and
project team members to learn the skills and attitudes critical to project success.
Increasingly, organizations rely upon successful completion of projects for
organizational success. But, do you find that sometimes your project work can be
frustrating? Do you find yourself with the following challenges, but unsure of the best
way to handle them?
- Missed deadlines.
- Budget overruns.
- Specification creep.
- Too many distractions.
- Ineffective meetings.
This tutorial was designed to respond to these and other challenges. The tutorial will
consist of time-proven strategies for mastering project work and management. In this
dynamic tutorial, you will:
- Learn the secrets of successful projects.
- Enhance project team motivation.
- Apply concepts immediately to projects in progress.
- Learn how to impress customers.
- Develop effective team communications and meetings.
- Master attitudes to overcome project problems and surprises.
The content of the tutorial includes the following Seven-Point Comprehensive Project
Mastery Program:
- Orientation to Projects.
- Project Planning.
- Project Execution.
- Taking Care of the Customer.
- Projects are about People.
- Managing the Process.
- Faster, Better, Cheaper.
Come with your questions and concerns; they'll be addressed during the course. Come
expecting high energy, high content, and high involvement; you'll get it. But most of all,
come expecting to learn attitudes and skills you can immediately apply in your project
work!
Please join us so that we can help you master project management techniques to make
your project work successful and more personally satisfying to you.
Sharpening Your Professional Communication Skills: Writing Action-Getting E-mail,
Letters, Reports and Proposals
(8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
0.8 CEU
An IEEE Professional Communication Society Workshop
Presenters: Ron Blicq and Lisa Moretto, Senior Consultants, RGI International
Strong written communication skills are an essential component of every engineer's
expertise. This tutorial will provide you with proven techniques that will help you start
writing more quickly, organize your thoughts more effectively, and produce firm, coherent
letters, reports and proposals that evoke a positive response from your readers. There
will be plenty of hands-on practice, two course leaders to ensure maximum interaction, and
opportunities to obtain personal advice about your writing.
When you sit down at your computer to write, do you have difficulty getting started,
organizing your information, identifying and focusing on key issues? When you finish, do
you feel unsure that what you have written is satisfactory? If your answer is
"yes" to any of these questions, then this tutorial is for you. In one day you
will become a more confident, persuasive, and effective writer.
By the end of the tutorial you will be able to:
- Identify primary information and focus readers' attention on it;
- Start writing more readily and continue writing more easily;
- Separate important information from less relevant details;
- Present information in a coherent, readily understood sequence;
- Write convincingly and persuasively;
- Eliminate wordiness from your writing; and
- Write e-mail, letters, reports, and proposals that consistently achieve the intended
impact.
The tutorial will be presented by Ron Blicq and Lisa Moretto, both members of the IEEE
Professional Communication Society Education Committee. They have presented courses in
technical communication for organizations in the United States, Canada, and Europe,
including Hewlett-Packard Limited, Glenayre Technical Services, State of New York Tech
Prep Program, the University of Western Ontario modular Masters in Engineering program,
the Mayo Clinic Graduate School, and the Popov Society in Moscow. They are senior
consultants with RGI International (www.rgi-intl.com),
co-authors of four books on technical communication, including the IEEE Press book Writing
Reports to Get Results, and writer/producers of six educational video programs on the
same subject.
HTML and Web Page Construction
(8 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
0.8 CEU
Presenters: Charles Rubenstein, Ph.D., Director of Technology Resources, Pratt
Institute School of Information and Library Science; and Jaron Rubenstein, Director of
Technology, Logicept Corporation
The objective of this tutorial is to provide participants with the basic background and
tools necessary to construct and test Web pages. No prior programming experience is
required, but familiarity with text editors, the Internet, and Web/home page structure
would be helpful. This is an IBM-PC-based Windows 95 tutorial, but experienced Macintosh
users will be able to use the overall concepts for Web page construction using similar
tools.
The tutorial will include a brief review of the history of the Internet, the basics of
online access and dialup techniques using Netcom's Netcomplete software, installing
Netscape's Navigator, and accessing online resources. There will be an overview of the
fundamentals of the World Wide Web's magical HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and the use
of HTML and text editors such as Netscape's Composer and Microsoft's FrontPage to create
home pages.
The tutorial will continue with an overview of the next generation of Web programming
tools beyond HTML: CGI (Common Gateway Interface), Java, Dynamic HTML, VRML, and more. The
session will conclude with examples of the concepts involved in using these newer tools to
add functionality and to fine tune and enhance your Web pages.
Reverse engineering of actual Web pages will be used throughout the tutorial to
evaluate how pages are constructed. Case study techniques will be used to guide you in
setting up your own Web page using templates and simple cut-and-paste methods to create
your pages. Before you leave, you will have an opportunity to create a working Web page.
Each attendee will receive a complete set of overheads, an IEEE Volunteer's Web Page
Construction Kit (including copies of appropriate IEEE-approved templates on floppy disk,
along with copyright and IEEE logo use forms and recommended approval policies), and links
to suggested Web resource locations. These will permit IEEE entities to jump-start the
publishing of their own Web pages and have them linked to the IEEE Web page through the
new IEEE Entity Web Hosting (EWH) Project.
Each attendee will also receive a complimentary copy of Netcom Netcomplete software and
of David Peal's text Access the Internet.
Effective Presentation Skills
(8 a.m. - noon)
0.4 CEU
An IEEE Engineering Management Society Workshop
Presenter: Peter Rosselli, Effective Training Associates
"Presentation Skills" is a skill-building session for technical professionals
who are called upon to make formal or informal presentations. The most persuasive
presenters deliver their ideas clearly and demonstrate confidence and enthusiasm.
You will learn how to:
- Conquer "stage fright;
- Use effective eye contact, gestures, movement, and pausing;
- Create an organized and focused message;
- Optimize opening and closing statements;
- Make key information memorable;
- Maintain listener interest;
- Generate energy, emotion, and enthusiasm;
- Use humor, quotes, analogies, date, and facts effectively;
- Create and use visual aids; and
- Use notes skillfully.
Communication Skills for Dealing with the Challenge of Conflict
(1 p.m. - 5 p.m.)
0.4 CEU
An IEEE Engineering Management Society Workshop
Presenter: Peter Rosselli, Effective Training Associates
In this tutorial you will learn ways to deal productively with conflict using the ART
Response Model and the DNA listener profile tools. Whether you are communicating with a
particularly difficult person or group, the issue you are addressing is highly charged, or
varying points of view are deeply entrenched, your business effectiveness and personal
sanity depend on how you handle conflict.
You will learn how to:
- Uncover and understand the perspective of the person with whom you're in conflict;
- Ask the right questions to unravel resistance and objections;
- Demonstrate connective listening;
- Incorporate language and examples that the listener can relate to;
- Clarify your own point of view nondefensively;
- Defuse hostility;
- Keep the conversation positive and action oriented; and
- Create a sense of openness behaviorally.
Practical Career Planning and Job Search Techniques
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.)
0.6 CEU
This one-day workshop was developed by the IEEE-USA Employment Assistance Committee and
the IEEE-USA Career Maintenance & Development Committee to help members approaching
career transitions. It provides modules on planning and maintaining a career; exploring
the various avenues (such as the Web and job fairs) to find job openings; developing
networking skills; what salary to expect; and conducting successful interviews and
negotiations. Attendance will be limited to the first 50 registrants.
New PACE Leaders' Training
(1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Presenters: Lee Stogner, Chair, PACE Regional Activities Committee, and Edward Wong,
Chair, PACE Divisional Activities Committee
Training for first and second-year PACE leaders in Sections and Societies, including
the structure of the IEEE, IEEE-USA, and the PACE Network; the role of the PACE Chair;
resources available to PACE Chairs; and types of PACE activities that can be undertaken.
PACE Leaders' Update
(3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Presenters: Lee Stogner, Chair, PACE Regional Activities Committee, and Edward Wong,
Chair, PACE Divisional Activities Committee
During the second half of the New PACE Leaders' Training, more experienced PACE leaders
will join the session to contribute their expertise and ideas and be updated on the PACE
Regional and Divisional Strategic Plans for 1998.
GOLD Leaders Training: Warming Up the GOLD
(1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Chair: Ray Findlay, Past Chair, IEEE Region 7
As a teaser for a GOLD Leadership Conference in 2000, the GOLD Committee has set aside
for GOLD participants a half-day tutorial. It will include several aspects of the
"soft skills" young engineers need in their profession. For a first time GOLD
attendee, it will be an ideal way to get an idea of what the content of the more detailed
sessions in the 1999 Professional Development Conference will bring. In this way, it will
help you pick sessions on the following days. For "experienced" GOLD attendees,
it will show the direction in which we aim for 2000. We invite all GOLD members to attend
this half-day preconference tutorial. And maybe one of the best reasons to do so: it's
free!
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